The Morning Minute (4.23) ⏰Top News: -Crypto majors rally 5-10% in breakout rally; BTC at $93,500 -BTC ETFs see $912M in inflows, highest since inauguration -Cantor teams with SoftBank and Tether for multi-billion BTC acquisition vehicle -Odds of Trump lowering tariffs on China by May rise to 71% on news of Xi meeting -Crypto AI tokens soar as leaders jump 30-40%+, outpace meme leaders 🌎 Macro Crypto and Memes -Crypto majors are up 5-10% in the biggest green day in months; BTC +6% at $93,500, ETH +10% at $1,800, XRP +8% at 2.126, SOL +8% at $152 -DEEP (+68%), IMX (+37%), SUI (+23%) and ENA (+15%) led alts -The Bitcoin ETFs saw $912M in inflows, smashing local highs and recording their highest amount since Jan 17 -Odds of Trump lowering tariffs on China soared on Polymarket after reports that he won’t play hardball and that Trump and Xi will meet in early May -Cantor is reportedly nearing a deal with SoftBank and Tether to form a $3B bitcoin acquisition vehicle -Trump Media finalized their agreement with to launch their “Made in America” crypto ETFs -Janover bought 88,164 Solana on Monday to bring its holding to $37M, along with changing their name to “DeFi Development Corporation” -The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) approved draft guidelines aimed at aligning blockchain data handling with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) -The SEC dropped its fraud case against Richard Heart, founder of HEX, PulseChain and PulseX In Memes -Memecoin leaders were very green up 10-25%; DOGE +11%, Shiba +8%, PEPE +12%, TRUMP +9%, BONK +20% & FARTCOIN +9% -BRETT (+35%) and PENGU (+32%) were notable top meme movers -TROLL was a top mover on Solana again, +160% to $24M -Pump Swap saw its highest volume day with $1.06B in volume on its protocol 💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker -Hyperliquid raked in the 2nd highest fees across chains on Tuesday with $1.5M, behind only Tron and ahead of Solana, Bitcoin and Ethereum -Fantasy Top introduced several new changes to the game including a new Clout feature rewarding other members of Crypto X, a new 4-week season, a changed reward structure and more -Myriad introduced a new badge on Abstract called “Myriad Grand Master” given to those who have wagered $500 on the Myriad platform -Analog raised $15M through a token sale to build interoperability tools like Firestarter for tokenizing real-world assets, and Arch raised $13M in a Series A to build permissionless financial rails for a BTC-denominated world 🤖 AI x Crypto -Overall market cap up 18% to $7.8B, leaders were mostly green -FARTCOIN (+10%), VIRTUAL (+34%), ai16z (+39%), FAI (-4%) and ALCH (+33%) -OPAIUM (+8,000%), AIOS (+400%), ZEREBRO (+150%) and DARK (+110%) led all notable movers -Fartcoin led mindshare with a 28% shard; ZEREBRO & AIXBT are top gainers 🚚 What is happening in NFTs? -ETH NFT leaders are mostly green; Punks +4% at 44 ETH, Pudgy +5% at 10.2, BAYC -4% at 13.5 ETH -Remnants (+9%) and Ringers (+9%) were other notable top movers -BTC NFT leaders were mixed with Taproot Wizards -3% at 0.17 BTC, Bitcoin Puppets +7%, NodeMonkes +15%, OMB -1%, Quantum Cats -10% -Abstract NFTs were mostly green with Captain and Co (+36%) and Bigpool (+9%) leading the way -The Nelk brothers have moved to dismiss a lawsuit alleging fraud tied to their Metacard NFT project