Brent Crude Oil Surges Above $107, Largest Single-hour Liquidation in Crypto History

PEPE OG whale Deltacorpse.eth(@Deltacorp24), who bought $PEPE at a $2M market cap, spent $100.2K to buy 21.2M $BULL and locked it.

On April 29th, per Hyperinsight monitoring, Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded short-term to roughly $77,700, hitting the support-resistance level from its first significant pullback on the 27th. A whale on the Hyperliquid platform—with an address starting with 0x8ca—opened a 9x leveraged short position on BTC with a size of $13 million, at an average entry price of $77,627. This could signal an attempt to catch the rebound’s peak and bet on a price drop around this level. Address: 0x8ca341db4a455dec932ed6a29b16e75fa06ac22d

Bybit to List MegaETH (MEGA) on Spot Trading Platform on April 29, Official Sources Confirm MEGA is the native token of MegaETH, a high-performance real-time Ethereum Layer 2 solution that targets sub-millisecond latency and over 100,000 TPS.

On April 29th, data from BitcoinTreasuries.NET shows Vanguard Group’s Total Stock Market Index Fund—with $12 trillion in assets under management (AUM)—has increased its stake in Bitcoin treasury firm Strive (ticker: ASST) by 276,200 shares. That brings the fund’s total holdings to 1.72 million shares, valued at approximately $25.2 million.

By April 30, markets had fully priced in a Fed pause, shifting focus to a critical question: Is the Fed now open to active rate hikes again? That’s why long-term U.S. Treasury yields have recently neared 5%, with traders increasingly betting on declines in long-duration bonds. Over the past two years, the Fed framed energy, tariff, and supply chain shocks as “one-off inflation.” Even amid oil price volatility, markets expected an eventual return to rate cuts. But as the Middle East conflict enters its third month and Brent crude has risen ~50% since the outbreak, the Fed is publicly asking: If one-off shocks keep recurring, can they still be called “one-off”? The real risk tonight isn’t an immediate rate hike—it’s whether Powell will formally acknowledge that high oil prices and supply chain snags are feeding into core inflation. If the Fed embraces this logic, the “prolonged high rates” narrative will retake center stage. Adding to the stakes: This could be Powell’s final FOM

Tron's active addresses reached 76.09M in April, a 46.72% increase from March, and transactions reached 290.85M, a 53.76% increase from March.