Instead of old methods, some users are now using Bitcoin Ordinals, BRC-20 tokens and custom assets to hide profits and move funds between wallets.

In Italy, investigators reportedly uncovered a scheme where around €1M in undeclared profit was routed through Ordinals and BRC-20 activity before ending up back in a main BTC wallet.
The problem? Blockchain remembers everything.
Even the most complicated schemes still leave a digital trail that can be tracked years later.

Right below the old ATH. Again.
Same level. Same manipulation. Same shakeout.
Weak hands removed. DONE.
Stop losses wiped. DONE.
Liquidity swept. DONE.
This is exactly how it played out last time.
Now the real move begins.
Old ATH is the minimum target.

The manipulation is over.

Are you positioned?👀

US Threads is actively discussing reports about a proposed $1.7 billion fund using IRS taxpayer money to compensate January 6 Capitol riot participants and other Trump supporters.
The idea looks simple and cynical: “Fight for me and the state will reward you.”
People who broke the law and stormed the Capitol could now receive payments funded by the US budget.

Current burn rate — ~$11,500 per second.

This is increasing inflation fears, pushing oil prices higher and adding pressure on risk assets like BTC and altcoins.

At the same time, some investors are starting to view BTC as a hedge against endless money printing and war spending.

Feels like everyone got way too comfortable with this slow BTC grind lately.
For almost 2 months market been moving kinda boring compared to what crypto usually looks like, but honestly I dont think this calm lasts much longer.

Was checking CME gaps again and price still keeps reacting to them more often than people expect.
Right now closest ones are around 79k and 84.5k, but there are also big unfinished gaps much lower around 67k to 69k area sitting there like magnets.

What also weird is how almost nobody talks about two things anymore

Bitcoin volatility futures launching June 1 and Saylor starting to sound very different recently when talking about BTC strategy.

Feels like market quietly preparing for bigger moves while everyone arguing over tiny candles lol

Looks like the race for the first spot BNB ETF in the US is starting to heat up.
VanEck submitted its 5th amendment for the VanEck BNB ETF, planned to trade on Nasdaq under ticker VBNB if approved.

Grayscale also updated its filing the same day for its own product under ticker GBNB.
Interesting part is both funds still avoid staking for now, even tho they leave room to add it later.
Meanwhile Canary is pushing a staked TRX ETF model directly from the start.
Feels like the market slowly moving beyond just BTC and ETH ETFs now. Altcoin ETF season might be getting closer than most expected.

After reports about interest from ICE and CME, the platform stated that onchain futures bring more transparency and efficiency to the market, not more risks.
Hyperliquid operates 24/7 without weekend closures, while all trades are recorded fully onchain in real time, which is starting to make traditional exchanges nervous.
Supporters of the platform argue that suspicious activity and market manipulation are actually easier to track compared to traditional exchanges.

XRP just pushed above $1.54 for the first time in 2 months while network activity surged to the highest levels since March.
Active addresses reached 48,453 over the last 24 hours, the strongest reading since March 30. Network growth also accelerated sharply with 3,317 new addresses, the highest level since March 19.
Part of the rally is clearly driven by FOMO, but rising transaction activity gives the move stronger fundamentals than pure hype alone.
The more real users interact with the network, the stronger the long term valuation support becomes. As long as activity stays elevated, XRP may continue holding strength even if short term momentum cools down.

Santiment just recorded the biggest realized profit on Ethereum in the last 3 weeks, around $74.5M.

What makes this interesting is that ETH actually dropped around 5.5% over the past few days. But the explanation is pretty simple wallets that accumulated below $2,000 during February and March are still sitting in profit even after the pullback, so some holders started locking gains.

At the same time on-chain activity is picking up again. Around the $2,241 area ETH showed strong price compression, which often comes before heavier coin movement and local distribution phases.

Right now the mood across the market feels more cautious than bullish. Not panic yet, but also not the kind of structure that screams aggressive upside continuation.

We talked many times before that replacing the Federal Reserve chairman is one of the main bricks needed to start another wave of euphoria across the markets.

Today the US Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

There is now a very high chance he will officially become Fed Chair on May 14 and take office on May 15.

Why does this matter? Until now we had Jerome Powell, who constantly pushed back against Trump and stayed much closer to the Democrats.

Now a person is stepping in who is far more likely to support Trump’s economic interests. Trump’s main interest is obvious: cheaper money, lower interest rates and more liquidity flowing through the system.

In other words, creating conditions for another giant bubble across financial markets. Today inflation data came out hot again at 3.8% while the target remains 2%.

The main driver behind inflation right now is oil prices exploding because of the Iran war situation.

With inflation this high its unlikely the new Fed chair can instantly push rate cuts right after taking office.

Thats why the hope is indirect liquidity injections through financing programs, support facilities and other backdoor tools.

Funny enough, the current Fed has already been doing that lately and as a result we continue seeing stock indexes printing fresh all time highs.

Markets are already pricing in optimism around the new chairman, but this wont be an overnight process and rates probably wont get cut tomorrow.

My assumption is that global uncertainty slowly starts fading during summer and we get a chain of positive events that helps inflate another market bubble.

Right now only the first bricks for a parabolic move and sentiment reversal are being laid.

Fed change -> Clarity Act -> wars cooling down -> liquidity injections -> market euphoria

The first brick is already there.