MANTRA DAO Initiates Survey Vote to Solicit Feedback on Team Token Burn Execution

**April 29 – Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky has settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), per a court order issued by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on the same date.** Under the agreement: - Mashinsky is **permanently barred** from promoting any products or services used for depositing, exchanging, investing, or withdrawing assets. - A $4.72 billion judgment against him is imposed, though the vast majority of the amount is suspended. - He must pay $10 million to the FTC—this obligation can also be fulfilled by making an equal payment to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) via a forfeiture order in his criminal case. Should Mashinsky be found to have omitted or misrepresented assets in his financial disclosures, the FTC may move to lift the suspension, triggering immediate enforcement of the full $4.72 billion judgment. **Background**: In May 2025, Mashinsky was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of commodity fraud a

On April 29, Artemis Statistics reported that Hyperliquid’s 2025 revenue hit $8.57 billion. With just 11 employees, the team’s average annual revenue per person stood at $78 million—dwarfing AI unicorn Anthropic (which averages $4.4 million per employee) and Wall Street giant Jane Street (which averages $9.3 million per employee).

April 29 — Per HyperInsight monitoring (via https://t.me/HyperInsight), Brent Crude futures surged in U.S. premarket trading over the past hour, hitting a high of $108. Hyperliquid’s BRENTOIL is up 3% in the last 24 hours, essentially retraced to its pre-early-month drop level and erasing nearly a month’s worth of losses. A BRENTOIL short whale was liquidated in this rally: total liquidation value is $2.75M, with an approximate $250k loss. The short position was opened on April 24. Address: 0xcb731784d07ce807cbc836b8e37b51c6ebf661e1

On April 29th, CryptoQuant analyst Woominkyu noted that Bitcoin’s centralized exchange (CEX) net inflow hit 9,905 BTC on April 27th—marking the largest single-day net inflow in the past 30 days. This surge prevented Bitcoin’s price from effectively breaking through its resistance level. Woominkyu highlighted the most concerning signal: the CEX Whale Ratio skyrocketed to 0.707 on April 27th, its highest reading in over a week. This means the top 10 inflow transactions accounted for more than 70% of total deposits—clearly indicating whales are actively moving tokens to CEXs, likely to prepare for distribution. Woominkyu argues that the whale-dominated inflow, paired with rising CEX reserves, suggests “smart money” is gearing up to sell on rallies. Unless this inflow is quickly absorbed, the likelihood of a short-term retest of the $74,000–$75,000 support zone is rising significantly.

April 29 — President Trump and his core staff met with oil and gas industry executives at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the impact of the Iran war on the energy sector and other issues, per Axios.

April 29 data from Barchart shows current AI stock concentration has hit 41%—matching historical bubble peaks like the Nifty Fifty, Japan’s stock market, and the dot-com bubble’s pre-collapse high. A chart combining Bank of America Global Investment Strategy and Bloomberg data reveals the S&P 500’s weight in the top 10 AI companies has surged to 41%, mirroring classic market bubble cases in history. The most recent parallel: the 1995–2000 dot-com bubble, where tech stocks dominated the NASDAQ. The index jumped from ~750 in 1995 to a March 2000 peak of 5048 (a ~600% gain). Tech/internet-related weights in the S&P 500 rose sharply, with the market concentrated in a handful of high-growth tech giants. Many firms hit extreme P/E ratios—at one point, the NASDAQ’s overall P/E topped 200x. Post-March 2000, triggers like rising interest rates, missed earnings, and heavy insider selling sparked a collapse. The NASDAQ plunged 78–80% from its peak to ~1139 in October 2002, erasing all bu