🚨BRENT #oil JUMPS 3% AFTER REPORT #iran NEGOTIATOR RESIGNS
Brent crude rose more than 3% after Israel’s N12 reported Iran’s lead negotiator with the U.S., Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, resigned over alleged IRGC interference.
The report remains unconfirmed, but markets are reacting to concerns Tehran could take a harder stance in talks with Washington.
⚡️ JUST IN: Pavel Durov saidb#Toncoin fees will drop 6× to 0.00039$TON per transaction, fixed regardless of network load, with plans for most transactions to become feeless soon.
"Market Movers: Tesla Beats, AI Capex Boom, Crypto Inflows Amid Iran Tensions"
Market Overview:
Tesla Q1: revenue $22.38B beat $22.3B est, EPS $0.41 beat $0.37, gross margin 21.1% (+478bps YoY). Deliveries 358K missed by 7.6K. FY capex raised to $25B+ from $20B and the stock gave back a 4% after-hours gain.
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon all report Q1 after the close today. Collective AI capex is running >$700B in 2026; the market is watching whether AI revenue is accelerating fast enough to justify the spend.
S&P 500 closed 7,137.90 +1.05% Wed on a record-close day led by semis, Nasdaq +1.6%. Rally faded in Thursday futures (-0.4%) after second-round US-Iran peace talks collapsed overnight.
Trump extended the Iran ceasefire 3-5 days but the peace talks collapsed Wed. Brent crude rose a fourth straight session to ~$101.73 (+3.3%). Trump warned 50% tariffs on China if it arms Iran.
IBM Q1: revenue $15.9B (+9% YoY, +6% constant currency), EPS $1.91 beat by 5.5%. Software +11%, Infrastructure +15% with IBM Z +51%. Guidance held; stock fell on the print.
AMD agreed to sell up to $60B of AI chips to Meta and let Meta take up to 10% of AMD. CoreWeave signed $14B of Meta compute. Anthropic's annual run rate topped $30B, up from $9B at end-2025.
Coinbase moved a New York prediction-markets lawsuit to federal court, setting up a sharper CFTC-vs-state-gambling jurisdiction fight. Legal chief Paul Grewal confirmed the removal Wed.
Crypto Updates:
Spot BTC ETFs logged a 5th straight day of net inflows on Apr 21 ($238M), the longest positive streak in weeks. BTC holding ~$78K. Crypto Fear & Greed Index recovered to 46 from 32 a day earlier.
GSR launched BESO on Nasdaq Apr 22, the first actively-managed US crypto ETF that holds BTC, ETH and SOL and pays staking rewards on the ETH and SOL sleeves. 1% management fee, weekly rebalancing.
CLARITY Act faces a hard Senate Banking markup deadline of Apr 25. Sen. Cynthia Lummis warned a miss pushes the bill to 2030 post-midterms. White House confirmed the stablecoin-yield compromise Apr 14.
Justin Sun sued World Liberty Financial in California federal court Apr 21, alleging the Trump-family-backed project blacklisted his wallet and froze ~$107M of his WLFI governance tokens.
Nium partnered with Coinbase Apr 21 to plug USDC into its cross-border payments rails across 190+ countries and 40+ licenses. Businesses can now settle in USDC or fiat at payout without prefunding.
Bitget launched preSPAX on Solana Apr 21, a tokenized pre-IPO exposure to SpaceX issued via Republic. The subscription sale broke $100M in commitments. Spot trading opened same day.
Kraken listed QCAD, a Canadian-dollar stablecoin from Stablecorp, giving Canadian traders a CAD-denominated settlement rail. Kraken operates in Canada as a registered restricted dealer.
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop.
• Installing Claude Desktop may silently add hidden system components • A “native messaging bridge” gets injected into multiple browsers • Even browsers you don’t use or that aren’t supported • Pre-authorizes extensions that can run in the background
• Users are NOT clearly informed about this • Raises serious privacy & security concerns
Critics say this looks like “spyware-like behavior,” not normal software
If true, this is a massive trust issue for Anthropic
NEWS: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team just won Purdue’s inaugural Neil Armstrong Space Prize, for their cutting-edge work on the Falcon 9 reusable two-stage rocket system.
The #SpaceX team is the first recipient of the international prize recognizing excellence over the past 10 years in space discovery, innovation and human achievement.
🚨#Tron ACTIVE ADDRESSES DROP 21% AS PRICE TESTS RESISTANCE
$TRX has rejected twice from the same resistance level in five days, despite strong-looking momentum.
Meanwhile, 7-day average active addresses fell 21% from 5.3M to under 4.2M between Feb. 7 and April 21, even as price rose about 20%, signaling weakening network participation beneath the rally.