Yesterday, the US Bitcoin spot ETF saw a net inflow of $223.3 million, while the Ethereum ETF experienced a net outflow of $75.9 million.

April 24 — Per Cointelegraph, ARK Invest’s Q1 report reveals Bitcoin held by “HODLers” jumped 69% from 2.13 million BTC to 3.6 million BTC — the highest level since 2020, even as the crypto’s price dropped 22%.

On April 24th, per HyperInsight monitoring (via https://t.me/HyperInsight), the "Silver Ironhead Air Force" whale—after a failed morning attempt to open a long position—has again opened significant BTC and ETH long positions in the past half hour, nearly exhausting the account’s entire margin. Simultaneously, larger-scale buy orders have been placed below current prices, with plans to gradually increase holdings. Specific positions and orders are as follows: - **20x leveraged BTC position**: Size = $10 million, average entry price = $77,592; additional $20 million buy orders placed at $75,800 and $76,900. - **20x leveraged ETH position**: Size = $15.3 million, average entry price = $2,303; additional $20 million buy orders placed across the $2,180–$2,270 range. If all 200 lower buy orders are filled, the total size of the two long positions will reach $65 million. Meanwhile, the composite average price for BTC is expected to fall to ~$76,764, and for ETH to ~$2,258. Address:

On April 24, Coinglass data shows that as Bitcoin saw a slight decline and traded within a narrow range, current funding rates for major centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) exchanges point to deepening bearish sentiment in the market. Specific funding rate details are available in the attached image. **BlockBeats Note**: Funding rates are fees set by crypto exchanges to align contract prices with underlying asset prices—typically applicable to perpetual contracts. This is a capital exchange mechanism between long and short traders; the trading platform does not collect this fee. It adjusts the cost or profit of traders holding contracts to ensure contract prices track underlying asset prices closely. **Funding Rate Reference**: - 0.01% = baseline rate - >0.01% = generally bullish market - <0.005% = generally bearish market

April 24: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced it will release 5.8 million kiloliters from its national oil reserves, with a portion of the reserves set to begin release on May 1 amid the Iran crisis.

April 24 Per CoinDesk, prediction market platforms have long claimed their products are financial instruments—not gambling—but Wisconsin disagrees. In a recent lawsuit targeting Kalshi, Coinbase, Polymarket, Robinhood and Crypto.com, the state cited the firms’ own marketing materials to label them unauthorized gambling sites. “Masking illegal activity behind a flimsy facade does not make it legal,” Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a Thursday statement. The core of the lawsuits is straightforward: Are the contracts regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as financial instruments, or classified as gambling activities subject to state gambling laws? The outcome will decide whether the fast-growing market is overseen by uniform federal rules or split among U.S. states, with regulation falling to local gambling bodies. The dispute is all but certain to end up before the Supreme Court.

Fox News reports: Nike said Thursday it will lay off roughly 1,400 employees across its global operations team. In a memo to staff, COO Venkatesh Alagirisamy noted the cuts will primarily hit Nike’s technology division—spanning North America, Asia and Europe—and represent less than 2% of the company’s global workforce. “This isn’t a new direction—it’s the next phase of work already in progress,” Alagirisamy wrote. The comments come as Nike restructures its business via a series of layoffs.