$BTC 🚨Jury selection opened on April 27 in federal court in Oakland, California, in the civil trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over the company’s transformation from a nonprofit research lab into a for-profit enterprise worth approximately $852 billion.#TetherFreezes$344MUSDTatUSLawEnforcementRequest
$BTC 🚨Strive Asset Management has raced from zero to 14,557 BTC in months, becoming the 9th‑largest public Bitcoin treasury and turning its balance sheet into a levered bet on #BTC .#BTCSurpasses$79K
$ETH 🚨Bitmine crossed 5 million #Ethereum tokens on April 27 after buying 101,901 ETH for approximately $236 million, making it the first company in history to hold more than 5 million ETH and the world’s largest corporate Ethereum treasury by a wide margin.#EthereumFoundationUnstakes$48.9MillionWorthofETH
$ETH 🚨Senator Thom Tillis lifted his blockade of Kevin Warsh’s Federal Reserve nomination on April 27 after the Department of Justice dropped its criminal investigation into current Fed Chair Jerome Powell, clearing the path for a Senate Banking Committee vote on Wednesday.#BTCSurpasses$79K
$BTC 🚨More than 120 crypto organizations including Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and Andreessen Horowitz sent a joint letter to the Senate Banking Committee on April 23 demanding an immediate CLARITY Act markup, as the bill’s end-of-May deadline tightens and prediction market odds fall below 50%.#SoldierChargedWithInsiderTradingonPolymarket
$BTC 🚨A White House-linked official has warned that failure to pass clear crypto rules in the United States could help China🇨🇳 gain ground in digital assets.#ShootingIncidentAtWhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner
$XRP 🚨Coinbase has filed with the #CFTC to activate Trade at Settlement for XRP futures on May 1, placing XRP alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, and crude oil as an asset institutional traders can execute at the official settlement price.#BinanceLaunchesGoldvs.BTCTradingCompetition
$PIPE 🚨Pi Network has confirmed it is an official sponsor of Consensus 2026 in Miami, with co-founders Nicolas Kokkalis and Chengdiao Fan each presenting at the event on May 7 and May 6 respectively, as the network simultaneously faces a mandatory April 27 deadline for all node operators to upgrade to Protocol 22.#KelpDAOExploitFreeze