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Roswell, New Mexico, has officially become the first U.S. city to establish a Bitcoin reserve. The city has received its first donation in the firstborn crypto, amounting to 3,050,323 satoshis, or about 0.0305 BTC. This donation is now the cornerstone of the “Roswell Strategic Bitcoin Reserve,” which will be managed by the city government. Roswell’s Strategic Reserve Notably, the city of Roswell received the first BTC donation on April 29, 2025. During this press, the 0.0305 BTC was worth roughly $2,845. The funds will serve as seed capital for the newly established Bitcoin reserve. According to the plan, the reserve…

Crypto tokens with ties to artificial intelligence (AI) are making a resurgence as Bitcoin helps drive a broader crypto market resurgence, after recovering from a local low of $75,000 and topping $95,000 in recent days. Multiple niche AI categories have jumped more than 40% in the last week, according to data from CoinGecko. That surge has been led by individual tokens like agent launchpad Virtuals Protocol’s VIRTUAL and AI agent protocol Eliza OS’s AI16Z token, which have jumped 123% and 89% to $1.43 and $0.298, respectively. However, the pair remain well off their all-time highs of $5.07 and $2.47, representing…

Michael Saylor, a co-founder and executive chairman of the Bitcoin-powered Strategy giant, has taken to his social media account to share a new take on the BTC network with his army of followers. “Bitcoin is a Newtonian network,” Saylor proclaims Saylor’s new idea is to compare the world’s flagship cryptocurrency with a Newtonian network. And he did so by publishing an AI-generated image of himself looking at the camera through an astrolabe. By comparing Bitcoin to a Newtonian network, Saylor likely suggests that Bitcoin works based on predictable and universal principles similar to those of Newtonian physics and it would…

The price of Bitcoin jumped above $95,000 on Friday—for the first time since February—as investors assessed whether U.S. President Donald Trump was making progress on trade negotiations with China, after he appeared to soften his rhetoric toward the nation earlier this week. The leading cryptocurrency was recently changing hands at $95,310, a nearly 2% increase over the past day, according to crypto data provider CoinGecko. Altcoins were mixed, with Ethereum rising 2% to $1,800, while XRP fell 0.7% to $2.20. Trump said on Friday morning that he’s spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping “many times” since unveiling sweeping tariffs on…

Web3 gaming network KAIA set a new benchmark in April, recording 22.8 million active users — a surge that now puts it in direct competition with The Open Network (TON). But on-chain data suggests the spike may be artificially inflated by widespread airdrop farming. Some of the most popular mini decentralized applications (mini dApps) on KAIA — including Frog Defense, Kyuzo’s Friends, and Darkstar — each attracted over 1 million users last month. These games are central to KAIA’s growth narrative, especially as the platform seeks to bring Web3 gaming into the mainstream across Asia. Designed for mobile-first users, KAIA…

Grayscale, the leading cryptocurrency asset manager, has launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that offers exposure to publicly traded companies that hold Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, as part of their reserves. The Bitcoin Adopters ETF (BCOR) covers global companies from developed or emerging markets across various industries, meaning that it is sector-agnostic. The aim of the investment product is to give investors an opportunity to gain indirect exposure to Bitcoin via equity stakes in public companies. In order to qualify for being included in the ETF, a company is supposed to own at least 100 coins in its corporate treasury.…

Stocks ended the week on a strong note, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite posting solid gains despite ongoing uncertainty around global trade. The S&P 500 gained 0.5% to close the week, while the Nasdaq added 0.9%. However, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lagged behind other indices, recording a small 47-point, or 0.1%, decline. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, appeared to have boosted investor confidence after topping first-quarter earnings estimates. Notably, revenue of $90.23 billion and earnings per share of $2.81 beat estimates of $89.12 billion and $2.01 per share, respectively. Tesla surged nearly 10% as investors seemed to turn…

XRP’s trading activity has recently experienced a significant surge, fueled by a substantial inflow of “hot capital,” representing short-term investments. Data from blockchain analytics platform Glassnode indicates that XRP’s hot capital jumped from $0.92 billion on April 20th to $2.17 billion by April 28th, a remarkable 134.9% increase in just over a week. Surge in Short-Term Investment This dramatic rise in hot capital signals renewed interest from short-term traders and speculators, leading to increased trading volumes. However, it’s important to note that despite this recent surge, XRP’s hot capital remains below its previous peak of $7.66 billion recorded in December…

This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. To be clear, Satoshi never actually coded a poker game into the Bitcoin client. Bitcoin’s creator did, however, include the graphic user interface for a poker lobby in the first version. Satoshi removed the code in the very next commit. Erik Voorhees made up for it and then some with SatoshiDice. The service launched around this time in 2012 as a provably fair Bitcoin betting game that mostly ran onchain. Players would directly send bitcoin to one of many “1dice” vanity addresses, each with their own…

Ozean partners with BounceBit to expand real-world asset access through PortUSD integration. BounceBit integrates PortUSD into its RWA Vaults to offer yield from real economic activity. Clearpool’s Ozean project aims to streamline RWA adoption with Optimism’s Superchain support. Clearpool’s new blockchain project, Ozean, is advancing real-world asset (RWA) integration in decentralized finance (DeFi) through a new collaboration with BounceBit. Ozean announced that PortUSD, its RWA token offering, will be incorporated into BounceBit’s RWA Vaults. BounceBit, a CeDeFi infrastructure provider with over $500 million in unincentivized Total Value Locked (TVL), will add PortUSD to its yield-generating products. This move will offer…