Trump Nominates New Chair of White House Council of Economic Advisers

April 22nd — Per Farside monitoring, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs registered a net inflow of $11.8 million yesterday (April 21st), with the following breakdown: - BlackRock IBIT: +$39.3 million - Fidelity FBTC: -$6.6 million - Bitwise BITB: -$12.7 million - ARK ARKB: -$14.5 million - VanEck HODL: -$4.3 million - Morgan Stanley MSBT: +$10.8 million - Grayscale GBTC: -$17.5 million - Grayscale Bitcoin Mini BTC: +$17.3 million U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs, by contrast, posted a net inflow of $43.4 million yesterday, with the breakdown below: - BlackRock ETHA: +$37 million - BlackRock ETHB: +$15.5 million - Fidelity FETH: -$2.9 million - Bitwise ETHW: +$2 million - Grayscale ETHE: -$12.1 million - Grayscale Ethereum Mini ETH: +$3.9 million

April 22 — Trump said in a social media post that Iran’s finances are on the brink of collapse. He claimed Iran needs to open the Strait of Hormuz urgently due to a severe financial shortage, with the country losing $500 million a day. Military and police personnel are also voicing complaints over unpaid wages.

On April 22, on-chain analyst AI Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reported that the contract whale "Set 10 Big Targets First" reopened a long position today, realizing a $1.226 million profit. The entry price was $75,731, with a total position of 717.491 BTC—valued at roughly $55.6 million.

On April 22nd, LookOnChain monitoring data shows that an address spent 1.9 ETH (worth approximately $3,941 at the time) to purchase 440.3 billion FLORK on April 18, 2023. After holding the tokens for over three years, the holdings are now valued at $352,000—but the address has been inactive for 976 days.

April 22 — On-chain analyst Yu Jin reports that capital outflows from Aave have persisted since the rsETH incident. Aave’s total value locked (TVL) has dropped from $485 billion to $307 billion, with roughly $15.1 billion exiting over the past 3.5 days — a nearly one-third decline. Performance across other major lending platforms has diverged: - Morpho’s TVL fell from $117 billion pre-incident to $102 billion, totaling outflows of ~$1.5 billion. - Spark’s SparkLend saw its TVL rise from $19 billion pre-incident to $32 billion, posting a countertrend gain of ~$1.3 billion. Spark has attracted some whales and institutional funds that withdrew from Aave, including Justin Sun and a whale that accumulated $5 billion during a February bottom this year.

On April 22, LookOnChain data reveals a trader has fully liquidated their 2.79 billion ASTEROID tokens, converting the holdings into 503 ETH (roughly $1.17 million) — netting a $1.17 million profit. With an initial cost of just $575, the trader secured an over 2000x return in only 5 days.