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CoinShares released a report showing that last week, global crypto asset ETPs recorded a net inflow of $117.8 million, marking the fifth consecutive week of net inflows, with a cumulative inflow of over $4 billion in five weeks and a total management scale of approximately $155 billion. However, the funding structure showed significant differentiation.The report pointed out that from Monday to Thursday, there was a total net outflow of $619 million, but on Friday, a single-day inflow of $737 million reversed the week to a net inflow, reflecting a significant rebound in market risk appetite before the weekend. From a regional perspective, net inflows in the U.S. market decreased to $47.5 million, a noticeable slowdown compared to the previous week's $1.1 billion; Germany and Canada recorded inflows of $43.8 million and $16 million, respectively, with European funds performing relatively steadily.In terms of assets, Bitcoin-related products led with a weekly inflow of $192.1 million, of which the U.S. spot ETF contributed approximately $162.8 million; Ethereum products, on the other hand, saw a net outflow of $81.6 million. Analysts believe that the number of participating assets has decreased from 9 to 4, indicating that market sentiment weakened significantly in the middle of the week, followed by a recovery.

According to an official announcement from Animoca Brands, the company announced that it will invest up to $10 million in teams building projects using its AI agent platform, Minds.Minds is a continuously running AI agent platform that allows users to deploy and manage "sovereign" AI agents without the need to operate local servers or manage hardware and software.

According to The Block, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz's crypto branch a16z crypto has completed fundraising for its fifth fund, totaling $2.2 billion. This fund is smaller than the record $4.5 billion raised for the fourth fund in 2022.a16z crypto communications partner Paul Cafiero stated that the company intends to return to a smaller fund size because "a shorter fundraising cycle allows us to keep up with the rapidly changing crypto trends." The previous fund sizes for a16z crypto were $2.2 billion for the third fund in 2021, $515 million for the second fund in 2020, and $350 million for the first fund in 2018.a16z crypto also announced the promotion of CTO Eddy Lazzarin to general partner (GP), making him the fourth general partner alongside Chris Dixon, Ali Yahya, and Guy Wuollet.a16z crypto noted that while the market is in a relatively calm phase, adoption signals are improving, pointing out that the use of stablecoins continues to grow, and the application of blockchain in capital markets is becoming increasingly widespread, including perpetual contracts for price discovery, prediction markets for information aggregation, and on-chain lending for stablecoin credit markets. The company also cited the GENIUS Act as an example of a clearer regulatory framework, maintaining a "hopeful and optimistic" attitude towards the Clarity Act passed this year. The fund will focus 100% on investments in the crypto space and will not expand into adjacent areas such as AI or robotics.a16z crypto has previously invested in projects such as Coinbase, Uniswap, Solana, Kalshi, Anchorage Digital, and Phantom. Other crypto venture capital firms have also been active recently, with Haun Ventures completing fundraising for its second fund of $1 billion earlier this week, Dragonfly recently completing its fourth fund of $650 million, and Paradigm reportedly seeking up to $1.5 billion for a broader fund, while Blockchain Capital is also raising approximately $700 million.

According to Forbes, SBF's early investment portfolio is being re-evaluated by the market, with some opinions suggesting that if he had not been imprisoned due to the FTX collapse, his venture capital layout could theoretically yield a wealth increase of up to about $100 billion.Before the FTX collapse, SBF had established an investment landscape covering several star companies, including Anthropic, SpaceX, Robinhood, and the AI programming tool Cursor, which was considered to have significant foresight.Industry insiders pointed out that he had bet on key tracks ahead of the AI wave, among which: Cursor recently reached a partnership with SpaceX, with a valuation potentially reaching $60 billion, and Anthropic's valuation is nearing $90 billion. Rory O'Driscoll, a partner at Scale Venture Partners, stated that SBF had laid out investments in several core AI companies before ChatGPT, "demonstrating a rare investment sensitivity." However, this "investment talent narrative" was ultimately completely altered by the FTX collapse.SBF is currently serving a 25-year sentence for misappropriating over $8 billion in customer funds. At his peak, his personal wealth reached about $24 billion, and he made it onto the Forbes 400 list. Today, his venture capital capabilities are intertwined with his history of financial crime, making him one of the most controversial cases in cryptocurrency history.

According to Cointelegraph, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that due to market conditions and the company's transition to an AI-native architecture, Coinbase is laying off about 14%.

Strategy will hold a conference call for the first quarter financial report of 2026 on May 6 at 5:00 Beijing time, covering first quarter financial performance, digital credit business development, and capital market strategy.Data shows that Strategy's Bitcoin holdings have increased from 555,450 coins during last year's first quarter financial report conference call to the current 818,334 coins.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Loracle.hl sold 556,700 HYPE at an average price of $41.16, earning $22.9 million, and currently holds only 95.8 HYPE.The current holdings of this address include: 708,200 HYPE ($32.5 million), with an unrealized loss of $1.756 million; 318.74 BTC ($25.7 million), with an unrealized gain of $727,000; 147,300 CL ($15.35 million), with an unrealized gain of $51,000; 33,400 BRENTOIL ($7.16 million), with an unrealized gain of $45,000; 374.66 PAXG ($1.7 million), with an unrealized loss of $271,000; and 13.53 million CHIP ($778,000), with an unrealized loss of $221,000.

According to the official announcement, Binance has released an important update regarding the price index calculation model for commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts. Starting from May 9, 2026, at 05:00 (UTC+8), Binance will adopt the order book EWMA price index calculation model to replace the fixed model for calculating the price index of commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts during daily maintenance, holidays, and weekends.The order book EWMA price index calculation model will be applied to all commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts, including XAUUSDT, XAGUSDT, XPTUSDT, XPDUSDT, COPPERUSDT, CLUSDT, BZUSDT, NATGASUSDT, and future commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts that will be listed on Binance.Equity-type TradFi perpetual contracts will continue to use the fixed model during daily maintenance, holidays, and weekends until further notice. If Binance adopts the order book EWMA price index calculation model, a separate announcement will be made.

According to Fortune, the crypto venture capital firm Ethereal Ventures has spoken out for the first time after nearly five years since its establishment. The venture capital firm was co-founded by Min Teo and Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin in 2021, and its two funds have a total size of approximately $150 million, having invested in over 80 early-stage projects, including EigenLayer.It is reported that Ethereal Ventures' first fund has performed well in terms of distributed capital return rate (DPI), while the second fund has currently deployed less than a quarter of its capital and still retains ample "dry powder."

According to Techfundingnews, AI law firm Moritz, co-founded by former OpenAI legal advisor Pamir Ehsas, announced the completion of a $9 million funding round, led by Y Combinator and 20VC, with participation from Urban Innovation Fund, Inception, and founders of several tech companies including Reddit, Dropbox, and Hugging Face.Moritz positions itself as an "AI-native law firm," offering fixed-price legal services, with most drafting and research work completed by artificial intelligence, followed by review and legal responsibility taken on by lawyers.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale deposited 3.117 million USDC into HyperLiquid after being silent for 6 months and placed an order to open a short position on ETH in the range of 2530 to 2670 dollars.

Crypto analyst Murphy stated that BTC is filling the gap left in its chip structure since 2024, with the recent chip concentration zone located around $78,000, where approximately 423,000 BTC have changed hands, indicating significant capital entering to form support.He pointed out that the trading volume in the $79,000 to $80,000 range has noticeably decreased, possibly due to proximity to integer levels and resistance, with some capital choosing to wait and see. There remains an unfilled chip gap in the $81,000 to $82,000 range, and it is expected that the price will oscillate and consolidate in this range before challenging higher areas once the chips have fully changed hands.Murphy emphasized that the chip concentration in the $83,000 to $84,000 range mainly stems from Coinbase organizing wallets and does not constitute real resistance. If BTC stabilizes above $82,000, the real pressure above will come from the chip concentration zone above $87,000.

According to FinanceFeeds, the HIP-4 event contract of Hyperliquid achieved a nominal trading volume of 6.05 million contracts on its first day, equivalent to over 6 million USD, setting a record for opening trading volume of such products.It is reported that HIP-4 is Hyperliquid's native event contract standard, allowing the creation of fully collateralized event market contracts based on specific outcomes.Data shows that the trading volume of this product on its first day accounted for approximately 0.7% of the total trading volume of related prediction markets.

According to Coinglass data, the current 8-hour average funding rate for ETH across the network is -0.0025%. Among the current mainstream exchanges, the rate on Binance is -0.0023%, OKX is -0.0018%, Bybit is 0.0051%, and Gate is -0.0107%.

According to Coinglass data, the current average funding rate for BTC across the network over 8 hours is -0.006%. Among the current mainstream exchanges, the rate on Binance is -0.0046%, OKX is 0.0037%, Bybit is 0.0002%, and Gate is -0.0133%.

According to Coinglass data, the current holdings of whales on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $4.151 billion, with long positions of $2.1 billion, accounting for 50.59% of the holdings, and short positions of $2.051 billion, accounting for 49.41%. The profit and loss for long positions is $65.7069 million, while for short positions it is -$92.1626 million.Among them, the whale address 0xa5b0..41 has taken a 15x leveraged long position on ETH at a price of $2265.48, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of $4.6645 million.

Sui posted on platform X that following the attack on Aftermath Finance last week, the Aftermath team has opened a claims page for affected users. If users have any questions, they can contact the Aftermath team via Discord or send a private message on platform X for inquiries.Aftermath Finance stated that refunds for affected users have been processed. When users connect to aftermath.finance next time, the system will prompt them to withdraw their balance from Aftermath Perps.

Grayscale stated that although advanced quantum computing poses a long-term potential threat to traditional cryptography and supports all mainstream blockchains in accelerating quantum-resistant upgrades, this is not the main driver behind the recent decline in Bitcoin prices.Grayscale observed that in recent months, Bitcoin has shown a synchronized trend with the stock prices of publicly traded companies focused on quantum computing. If quantum computing breakthroughs were to exert substantial pressure on Bitcoin, the stock prices of quantum computing companies should rise, but the opposite has actually occurred. Furthermore, since October of last year, the decline in Bitcoin and quantum computing stocks mainly reflects the overall derisking of growth assets triggered by market concerns over the impact of AI.Although Bitcoin's recent correlation with investor sentiment in cutting-edge technology assets like quantum computing has increased, this has not changed its value storage function in a diversified portfolio. Investors do not need to wait for blockchain to fully complete quantum-resistant upgrades to gain relevant exposure.

The Moscow Exchange will launch four cryptocurrency indices tracking SOL, XRP, TRX, and BNB starting May 13, with pricing data sourced from Binance (50%), Bybit (20%), OKX (15%), and Bitget (15%).The existing MOEXBTC and MOEXETH indices will also be updated every 15 seconds during trading hours. The exchange plans to expand its cryptocurrency benchmark indices to 10, with related tools available only to professional investors.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time May 4), the total net inflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs was $532 million.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was the Blackrock ETF IBIT, with a net inflow of $335 million for the day, bringing IBIT's historical total net inflow to $662 million.Next was the Fidelity ETF FBTC, with a net inflow of $185 million for the day, bringing FBTC's historical total net inflow to $11.267 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $106.436 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value compared to total Bitcoin market value) of 6.65%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $59.250 billion.