According to Coinglass data, CME's Bitcoin futures open interest decreased by 15% in the past 24 hours, now at 125,200 BTC. The total open interest across all platforms is currently about 484,400 BTC, with a 24-hour decrease of 4.6%.

According to Coinglass data, there were $368 million worth of liquidations across the entire network in the past 24 hours, including $317 million in long positions and $50.68 million in short positions. In addition, there were $108 million worth of liquidations in BTC and $105 million worth of liquidations in ETH.

According to Deribit data, nominal value of over 1.285 billion USD BTC options and over 954 million USD ETH options contracts will expire on Friday (May 3rd). The maximum pain point price for BTC is 64,000 USD and for ETH it is 3,050 USD.

On May 1st, it was reported that Bitcoin L2 BOB has integrated the modular blockchain Particle Network's account abstraction protocol BTC Connect to facilitate seamless use of any dApp on BOB by native BTC users. Users can sign transactions on BOB L2 using their native BTC wallet.

Data suggests that newer investors are behind Bitcoin’s sell-off, but sell-side exhaustion will eventually mark BTC’s price bottom.

Coinglass data shows that the current balance of Bitcoin wallets on Binance is 548,778.36, ranking first on CEX; there were 6249.36 incoming transactions in the past 24 hours and 15565.89 incoming transactions in the past 7 days. In addition, Coinbase Pro's Bitcoin wallet balance is 281,881.08, with 30451.49 outgoing transactions in the past 30 days.

The prospect of "higher and longer" interest rates is putting pressure on the cryptocurrency market, with Bitcoin experiencing its largest monthly decline since the collapse of SBF's FTX empire in November 2022. Bitcoin fell nearly 16% in April, and the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs launched in Hong Kong on Tuesday failed to provide momentum. Increasing evidence suggests that the Federal Reserve may signal a delay in interest rate cuts after this week's meeting. Chris Weston, research director at Pepperstone, said the recent rise in US Treasury yields and real interest rates is putting pressure on gold, Bitcoin, and the US stock market.

TradingView data shows that the Bitcoin-Yen (BTC/JPY) trading pair on Japanese cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer is trading at a premium of about 0.2% compared to the Bitcoin-US dollar price on Nasdaq-listed Coinbase (COIN). In recent weeks, mainstream cryptocurrencies have continued to show premiums when priced in yen, with the highest premium reaching 1.49% earlier this month, the highest since March 2020. This indicates that traders are diversifying their investments into alternative assets to avoid volatility in the yen.

Coinglass data shows that the nominal value of unclosed BTC option positions on the entire network is 17.83 billion US dollars, which is the lowest point since February 26; the nominal value of unclosed ETH option positions is 8.07 billion US dollars, which is the lowest point since February 25.

As monitored by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, James Fickel is still bullish on the ETH/BTC exchange rate: one hour ago, he borrowed 40 BTC (worth $2.51 million) from Aave and sold it for 806 ETH. Since the beginning of January this year, he has borrowed a total of 2,301 WBTC (worth $145 million) from Aave and sold it for 41,944 ETH. The cost of the ETH/BTC exchange rate is about 0.055.

Blockchain data tracking company Arkham has discovered a Bitcoin wallet address related to WisdomTree's ETP WBIT asset management company. WBIT holds 8,900 BTC in 134 wallets, worth approximately $579 million.

Glassnode's URPD indicator provides an in-depth understanding of the distribution of Bitcoin's unspent transaction outputs (UTXO) based on its creation price. Since February 28th, the price of Bitcoin has remained above $60,000, with only two brief dips below this level, one on March 5th and another from April 17th to 19th. Despite Bitcoin briefly breaking through $70,000 in March and April, the URPD indicator shows a large accumulation of supply between $60,000 and $65,000 - BTC transactions have been within this range for the past two weeks. According to Glassnode's data, as of April 26th, approximately 7% of the total supply is concentrated in this range.

An indicator measuring the profitability of Bitcoin mining is approaching the historical low point reached after the FTX collapse, indicating that miners will face difficult times in the future. According to the computing power index data, the hash price fell to $57 on Friday. This number represents the amount miners can earn per day from the computing power of 1 petahash per second. Shortly after the FTX crash in November 2022, its price reached a historical low of $55.After the Bitcoin halving on April 20th, the hash price immediately soared to $139 due to a series of activities surrounding the Rune protocol that caused transaction fees to skyrocket. According to CryptoQuant's data, this upward trend quickly reversed as fees fell back to pre-halving levels and mining difficulty increased.

Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), expressed doubts about the prospect of the Swiss central bank buying bitcoin at the annual shareholder meeting on Friday. Jordan pointed out that adding bitcoin to the Swiss National Bank's reserve assets (including gold, foreign currency, bonds and stocks) could have potential negative effects, such as increased carbon emissions. He then emphasized the energy consumption associated with bitcoin mining and trading. We have not yet decided to invest in bitcoin, and there are actually good reasons not to. Currency reserves are for international payments. They must be liquid. They must be sustainable, and we must be able to sell and buy them. Previously, crypto advocates had called for changes to Swiss legislation to allow cryptocurrencies to be included in national currency reserves.

Excitement is brewing in the heart of Asia as Hong Kong regulators pave the way for a new era of innovation with the recent approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This groundbreaking development underscores Hong Kong's commitment to becoming a regulated hub for Bitcoin. At the same time, the Bitcoin Conference is bringing the best and brightest Bitcoiners from around the world to Hong Kong for Bitcoin Asia.

Since the halving on Friday, Bitcoin's stock-to-flow ratio has exceeded that of gold.

The story of an anonymous developer who fixed a critical flaw in Bitcoin's code.

1.An Ethereum pre-mining address that has been dormant for 8.7 years has been activated, containing 197 ETH 2.Bitcoin block reward halving sparks bullish and skeptical opinion split3.A whale withdrew another 10,119 ETH from Binance4.MtGox claims form updated, may support compensation payment in BTC and BCH5.ZKasino transfers the 10,515 ETH deposited by the user to a multi-signature address and deposits it into Lido 6.Pre-Rune concept NFT Rune Doors is the project party for the deployment of Rune No. 97.More than 11,000 BTC flowed out of Coinbase Pro in the past 7 days8.Solana Ecosystem NFT Social Platform Only1 Completes $1.3 Million Strategic Financing, Led by Newman Group 9.friend.tech: V2 version has completed the audit and will be released on April 2910.Bitwise CEO: Wealth Manager Will Increase Its Bitcoin ETF Holdings

Bitcoin's most important economic mechanism, the halving, could legitimize Bitcoin as a store of value asset for the digital age, seeking more liquid assets than real estate or gold.

According to the latest data from Coinglass, ChainCatcher reports that 11,891.65 bitcoins have flowed out of Coinbase Pro's wallet in the past week, and as of now, the balance of Bitcoin in Coinbase Pro's wallet is 281,416.48 BTC. In the past 7 days, 1,367.26 bitcoins have flowed out of Binance's wallet.