🇺🇸📝 USA - trade balance (Apr) = -$55.9 billion (expected -$56.2 billion / previously -$56.6 billion) #macro

🇺🇸📝 USA - ADP Nonfarm Employment (week) = +29k (expected - / previous +35.7k) #macro

🇯🇵🏦 #JPY Japan’s Three Megabanks Target Joint Stablecoin Launch in FY2026 According to Nikkei, Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui, and Mizuho plan to jointly issue a fiat-backed stablecoin by fiscal year 2026. The banks will establish a consortium to advance commercialization efforts following a pilot conducted with Japan’s Financial Services Agency. #stablecoin

📊🤔 Just 21% of 2026 ICOs are Now Trading Above Sale Price Tough market conditions made it hard for new tokens to sustain early traction, with only 21% of 2026 launches above the sale price. One standout pattern: 6 out of 13 best-performing launches came through Binance Wallet.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🤖 An AI agent can buy a tokenized bond What it cannot prove today is whether it was authorized to act on behalf of the investor buying it. Our team recently introduced the Regulated Agent Mandate Standard (RAMS), submitted as ERC-8226. The objective is simple: Enable AI agents to interact with tokenized regulated assets without bypassing the compliance requirements that govern financial markets. RAMS introduces a compliance delegation layer for tokenized assets, allowing a verified principal to grant an AI agent scoped, time-bounded, and financially capped authority through a machine-readable mandate. As AI agents begin interacting with tokenized funds, bonds, private credit, real estate, and other regulated instruments, identity alone is not enough. Markets also need a standardized way to verify authority. In our latest article, CRO Ludovico Rossi, explains: ⏺ Why agentic finance requires a mandate layer. ⏺ How RAMS works alongside tokenized asset standards. ⏺ The open design questions the industry still needs to solve. AI agents can execute transactions. Regulated finance still needs to know who authorized them. 🔜 Read the full article 🔖 Follow Brickken on: Website | Twitter | Announcements | Discord | TikTok | Youtube | Instagram

🧑‍💻 #STRK #ZK Starknet is implementing a ZK privacy layer for balances and transfers.

⚠️ Артур Хейс предупреждает о рисках на рынке ИИ, указывая на возможный "лопающийся" пузырь в связи с тремя крупными IPO (SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI) и растущими ценами на нефть. По его мнению, после обрушения пузыря Биткоин может упасть, а затем снова вырасти, так как последствия этого события могут запустить новый цикл ликвидности. 🌐 Наши ссылки | Торгуем на Bybit | Торгуем на BingX | Торгуем на Polymarket

🇺🇸📊 Wintermute said the recent #BTC decline was driven mainly by U.S. institutional selling and ETF outflows rather than Strategy’s sale of 32 #BTC. The firm added that capital inflows have yet to return, making it too early to call a market bottom, though some long-term investors have started accumulating at current levels. #etf

🕵️ BlackRock deposited 3,966 $BTC ($244.4M) into Coinbase.

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💰 #BTC #ETH The Startup That’s Dressing Up Crypto for Wall Street Raises $175 Million in a Round Led by A16Z Crypto, Paradigm, and Ribbit Capital: Fortune