🇪🇺 EU. Retail sales (Mar): -1.2% (prog -0.1%; pre -0.8)

📊 In April, 60% (>$635M) of all NFT trades on Ethereum were fictitious.

🥳🏦 3 failed US banks had one auditor - KPMG. ft

📈 #ETH Ethereum active deposits hit an 8-month high.

📊 #PEPE #ETH Due to the PEPE hype, Ethereum gas fees have reached a yearly high. The average cost of a single transaction on Ethereum on May 4 exceeded $15.82.

📝 #BIT BitDAO proposes to merge the entire ecosystem into the current L2 Mantle network, the BIT token will be replaced by the Mantle token, and a new token design, exchange mechanism and exchange channel will be adopted. The existing governance and DAO will be called Mantle Governance.
bitdao.io

📊 Top 15 by market cap growth over the past 30 days

🥳 Gate Group received a VASP license in Italy.
prnewswire.com

👀 Address vitalik.eth translated 200 #ETH on Kraken.

🙋‍♂️ #BTC Ordinals are facing a new problem after a developer found a way to introduce a bug in the metadata.

The issue arose when a developer known as Supertestnet initiated a transaction that did not withdraw Satoshi but was considered valid on the Ordinals system. As a result, the numbering system that Ordinals uses for their inscriptions has been knocked down by one.
theblock.com

🇨🇳 #CBDC BNP Paribas China has announced the launch of a digital yuan wallet management platform. BNP Paribas China will partner with the state-owned commercial bank Bank of China to implement the project.
cryptonews.com

📊 Top 15 staking providers by total staking

🆕 Binance will list FLOKI (#FLOKI) and Pepe (#PEPE) in the Innovation Zone

⛏🤝 Stronghold Digital partnered with Canaloupe Digital (daughter of Canaan).
news.bitcoin.com

💰 #FLOKI +70% on Binance listing, #PEPE today +70%

📊 Monthly trading volume on the DEX fell by 51% in April

🚀 Today's leaders #PIP #UMA #ISP

🗣 #AI CEO OpenAI said the government needs to take action to regulate AI (industry).

🔛 Binance Futures will launch a USDⓈ-M #1000PEPE perpetual contract with up to 20X leverage.

🇺🇸 USA. Nonfarm Payrolls (Apr): 253k (prog 180k; pre 236k)

- Unemployment rate (Apr): 3.4% (prog 3.6%; pre 3.5%)