👻 Threading Daily — 30.04.2026 👻

🔖Macro
- UAE set to leave OPEC+
- US stocks fall from ATHs, oil back above $100
- US gas hits $4.18/gal, 4-year high
- Spotify stock crashes -14% on the day
- 2.3M tons of lithium found in Appalachia
- Trump tells aides to prep extended blockade
- NYC budget crisis "historic": Mamdani
- Korea passes UK as 8th biggest stock mkt
- Bloom Energy up 15%, smashes earnings
- Chinese EV beats Bugatti speed at 308mph
- 1/3 of new websites are AI-made

🔖Crypto News
- BTC top inflation hedge over gold: PTJ
- Block buys 114 BTC, holds 8,997 BTC
- ETH ICO whale moves $23M after 10y, x7000 profit
- Block buys 114 BTC, holds 8,997 BTC
- Bitmine adds 45K ETH ($103M) in 2hrs
- Bitmine stakes 112K ETH worth $260M
- Over $1T stablecoins moved this month
- BlackRock brings $2.5B BUIDL yield to OKX
- LayerZero pledges 10K ETH to DeFi United
- Pumpfun burns $370M, 50% rev to buyback
- HK warns of fake HSBC stablecoin tokens
- Alleged Robinhood insider shorted HOOD
- CFTC sues Wisconsin over prediction markets
- MegaETH launches terminal
- Solana is now a MegaETH L2 via the Wormhole Eigenlayer

🔖Alpha/Good Reads
- Pendle Will Win — Eli5
- Mapping the New Stack for Global Finance — a16z

🔖Raises
- Fortune Protocol (Seed), Prediction market liquidity infrastructure < Cogitent
- Belo (Series A) $14M, Digital wallet < Tether, TheVentureCity, Mindset
- Fence $20M, SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations < Galaxy, ParaFi, Crane
- Blockworks, Digital asset information platform < ParaFi, Coinbase, MoonPay, Flowdesk, Sfemion...
- Squads (Strategic) $18M, Smart account standard for SVM < Solana, Coinbase, Haun
- legend.trade (Seed) $3.5M, Telegram-based trading and matchmaking platforms < Electric, Amber, GSR

🔖Early Projects
- @Peptiderx_, Bio: Pure Peptide. Research. Discovery. Enhancement. peptiderx.io
- @biontNetwork, Bio: Bringing On-Chain Agents on @octra
- @Huntonarc, Bio: onchain treasure hunt, built on @arc

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