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Crypto Daybook Americas: Bitcoin Traders Look to CPI as BONK Cheers Memecoin Issuance
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
Crypto bulls are taking a breather, leaving bitcoin BTC in stasis near $103,000 ahead of the U.S. April inflation data, due at 8:30 a.m.
With U.S.-China trade tensions easing, markets are, for now, optimistic about a softer-than-expected inflation print, potentially stirring up calls for Fed interest-rate cuts.
This resulting risk-on sentiment could push bitcoin to new highs and accelerate the ongoing rotation of funds into alternative cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin dominance rate, or the largest cryptocurrency’s share of total crypto market cap, has slipped 63% from 65%, indicating growing interest beyond bitcoin.
An important point to consider amid all this is that bitcoin has led swings in U.S. assets this year.
Notably, bitcoin peaked above $109,000 in January, weeks before the Nasdaq and dollar index reached their tops and entered bear markets, pricing the economic impact of rising trade tensions.
Similarly, BTC’s early April bottom at around $75,000 happened weeks before the selling in the dollar index climaxed near 92 in late April. Since then, the index has rebounded to 102, challenging its bearish trendline (see Technical Analysis).
This price action raises a compelling question: Is bitcoin evolving to be a leading indicator for U.S. assets, while being part of the U.S. exceptionalism story, as CoinDesk noted in March? If yes, then days of tracking Nasdaq for cues on the next possible move in BTC are past. Stay alert!
What to Watch
- Crypto:
- May 14: Neo (NEO) mainnet will undergo a hard fork network upgrade (version 3.8.0) at block height 7,300,000.
- May 14: Expected launch date for VanEck Onchain Economy ETF (ticker: NODE).
- May 16, 9:30 a.m.: Galaxy Digital Inc.’s Class A shares are set to begin trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol GLXY.
- May 19: CME Group is expected to launch its cash-settled XRP futures.
- May 19: Coinbase Global (COIN) will replace Discover Financial Services (DFS) in the S&P 500, effective before the opening of trading.
- Macro
- May 13, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases April consumer price inflation data.
- Core Inflation Rate MoM Est. 0.3% vs. Prev. 0.1%
- Core Inflation Rate YoY Est. 2.8% vs. Prev. 2.8%
- Inflation Rate MoM Est. 0.3% vs. Prev. -0.1%
- Inflation Rate YoY Est. 2.4% vs. Prev. 2.4%
- May 14, 3 p.m.: Argentina’s National Institute of Statistics and Census releases April inflation data.
- Inflation Rate MoM Prev. 3.7%
- Inflation Rate YoY Prev. 55.9%
- May 15, 8 a.m.: The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics releases March retail sales data.
- Retail Sales MoM Prev. 0.5%
- Retail Sales YoY Prev. 1.5%
- May 15, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases April producer price inflation data.
- Core PPI MoM Est. 0.3% vs. Prev. -0.1%
- Core PPI YoY Est. 3.1% vs. Prev. 3.3%
- PPI MoM Est. 0.2% vs. Prev. -0.4%
- PPI YoY Est. 2.5% vs. Prev. 2.7%
- May 15, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Census Bureau releases April retail sales data.
- Retail Sales MoM Est. 0% vs. Prev. 1.5%
- Retail Sales YoY Prev. 4.9%
- May 15, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Department of Labor releases unemployment insurance data for the week ended May 10.
- Initial Jobless Claims Est. 230K vs. Prev. 228K
- May 15, 8:40 a.m.: Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell will deliver a speech (“Framework Review”) in Washington. Livestream link.
- May 13, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases April consumer price inflation data.
- Earnings (Estimates based on FactSet data)
- May 13: Semler Scientific (SMLR), post-market
- May 14: Bitfarms (BITF), pre-market
- May 14: IREN (IREN), post-market
- May 15: Bit Digital (BTBT), post-market
- May 15: Bitdeer Technologies Group (BTDR), pre-market
- May 15: Fold Holdings (FLD), post-market
- May 15: KULR Technology Group (KULR), post-market
- May 28: NVIDIA (NVDA), post-market
Token Events
- Governance votes & calls
- May 15, 10 a.m.: Moca Network to host a Discord townhall session discussing network updates.
- Unlocks
- May 13: WhiteBIT Coin (WBT) to unlock 27.41% of its circulating supply worth $1.2 billion.
- May 15: Starknet (STRK) to unlock 4.09% of its circulating supply worth $23.87 million.
- May 15: Sei (SEI) to unlock 1.09% of its circulating supply worth $14.91 million.
- May 16: Arbitrum (ARB) to unlock 1.95% of its circulating supply worth $39.06 million.
- Token Launches
- May 13: LOFI (LOFI) to list on Kraken.
- May 13: Cosmos Hub (ATOM) to list on Bitbank.
- May 13: Redacted (RDAC) to list on Binance Alpha.
- May 15: RIZE (RIZE) to list on Kraken.
- May 16: Galxe (GAL), Litentry (LIT), Mines of Dalarnia (DAR), Orion Protocol (ORN), and PARSIQ (PRQ) to be delisted from Coinbase.
Conferences
CoinDesk’s Consensus is taking place in Toronto on May 14-16. Use code DAYBOOK and save 15% on passes.
- Day 2 of 2: Dubai Fintech Summit
- Day 2 of 2: Filecoin (FIL) Developer Summit (Toronto)
- Day 2 of 2: Latest in DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference (New York)
- Day 2 of 2: ACI’s 9th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Fintech & Emerging Payment Systems (New York)
- May 13: Blockchain Futurist Conference (Toronto)
- May 13: ETHWomen (Toronto)
- May 14-16: CoinDesk’s Consensus 2025 (Toronto)
- May 19-25: Dutch Blockchain Week (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- May 20-22: Avalanche Summit London
- May 20-22: Seamless Middle East Fintech 2025 (Dubai)
- May 21-22: Crypto Expo Dubai
- May 21-22: Cryptoverse Conference (Warsaw, Poland)
Token Talk
By Shaurya Malwa
- Over 11,700 tokens were launched on LetsBONK.fun in the past 24 hours, nearly half the number created on Pump.fun during the same period — a sign of major user migration to the relatively new token-issuance platform on Solana.
- The platform generated 5,884 SOL in fees ($1.02 million) on Monday, pushing total fee revenue past 16,000 SOL ($2.78 million) since its late April launch, widely followed trader @theunipcs told CoinDesk in a Telegram message.
- LetsBONK.fun now controls 31% of the Solana memecoin launchpad market by volume, rapidly closing in on dominant players despite its relative youth.
- The total number of tokens created on LetsBONK.fun now exceeds 38,000, with the majority launched in the last few days.
- Many of the platform’s competitive features and catalysts have yet to go live, suggesting upside potential as planned tools and gamification roll out, @theunipcs pointed out in the X post.
- BONK prices are up more than 25% in the past week as LetsBONK’s metrics contributed to the momentum.
Derivatives Positioning
- Open interest in bitcoin perpetual futures listed on offshore exchanges dropped by $1 billion to $19 billion during the overnight BTC price pullback, which indicates that the weakness was led by profit taking. Ether data shows the same.
- Funding rates in BTC and ETH remain positive, indicating an overall bullish mood.
- BTC and ETH CME futures open interest in coin terms has jumped to the highest since early April, but the overall positioning remains light and well below the highs seen in December.
- On Deribit, BTC and ETH calls continue to trade at premiums to puts across multiple time frames, reflecting a bullish bias.
- On over-the-counter platform Paradigm, option flows have been mixed with call spreads lifted in ETH alongside put spreads in bitcoin.
Market Movements
- BTC is up 1.58% from 4 p.m. ET Monday at $103,469.13 (24hrs: -0.97%)
- ETH is up 1.22% at $2,485.45 (24hrs: -2.9%)
- CoinDesk 20 is up 1% at 3,244.61 (24hrs: -0.95%)
- Ether CESR Composite Staking Rate is down 7 bps at 3.17%
- BTC funding rate is at 0.0057% (6.219% annualized) on OKX
- DXY is down 0.22% at 101.56
- Gold is up 3.22% at $3,251.80/oz
- Silver is up 1.85% at $33.03/oz
- Nikkei 225 closed +1.43% at 38,183.26
- Hang Seng closed -1.87% at 23,108.27
- FTSE is unchanged at 8,605.82
- Euro Stoxx 50 is unchanged at 5,394.23
- DJIA closed on Monday +2.81% at 42,410.10
- S&P 500 closed +3.26% at 5,844.19
- Nasdaq closed +4.35% at 18,708.34
- S&P/TSX Composite Index closed +0.69% at 25,532.18
- S&P 40 Latin America closed unchanged at 2,578.53
- U.S. 10-year Treasury rate is down 2 bps at 4.46%
- E-mini S&P 500 futures are down 0.31% at 5846.75
- E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are down 0.41% at 20,862.75
- E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are down 0.11% at 42,445.00
Bitcoin Stats
- BTC Dominance: 62.95 (+0.51%)
- Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.02394 (-1.36%)
- Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 875 EH/s
- Hashprice (spot): $56.15
- Total Fees: 12.946 BTC / $1.33 million
- CME Futures Open Interest: 146,020 BTC
- BTC priced in gold: 31.7 oz
- BTC vs gold market cap: 9.98%
Technical Analysis
- The dollar index is probing the trendline that characterizes the sell-off from February highs.
- A breakout would confirm the end of the downtrend, potentially drawing momentum traders to market.
Crypto Equities
Strategy (MSTR): closed on Monday at $404.9 (-2.68%), up 1.07% at $409.22 in pre-market
Coinbase Global (COIN): closed at $207.22 (+3.96%), up 9.55% at $226.88
Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed at $28.39 (+6.37%)
MARA Holdings (MARA): closed at $15.95 (+1.21%), up 0.94% at $16.10
Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed at $8.7 (+2.59%), up 0.69% at $8.76
Core Scientific (CORZ): closed at $9.88 (+6.01%), up 1.92% at $10.07
CleanSpark (CLSK): closed at $9.62 (+4.57%), up 0.83% at $9.70
CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed at $16.34 (+5.08%)
Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed at $34.84 (+0.14%), down 0.46% at $34.68
Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed at $54.3 (+8.32%), down 10.22% at $48.75
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs:
- Daily net flows: $5.2 million
- Cumulative net flows: $41.13 billion
- Total BTC holdings ~ 1.17 million
Spot ETH ETFs
- Daily net flows: -$17.6 million
- Cumulative net flows: $2.47 billion
- Total ETH holdings ~ 3.45 million
Source: Farside Investors
Overnight Flows
Chart of the Day
- The market cap of stablecoin tether (USDT) has hit a record high of $150 billion, climbing 4% in less than a month.
- The ever-increasing supply could keep the market well supported on dips, if any.
While You Were Sleeping
- Bitcoin Crossing $2T in Market Cap Triggers Wave of New Buyers, but Key Players Tread Cautiously, On-Chain Data Show (CoinDesk): While first-time buyers are showing strong interest, momentum buyers remain weak, suggesting there’s potential for price consolidation.
- Hong Kong Crypto Investor Animoca Plans U.S. Listing as Trump Lures More Groups (Financial Times): Animoca, which has backed OpenSea, Kraken and Consensys, sees the crypto-friendly U.S. regulatory regime as a chance to pursue a listing in the country.
- Goldman Raises S&P 500 Targets on Lower Tariff, Recession Risks (Bloomberg): Strategists raised their 12-month target for the S&P 500 index to 6,500 from 6,200, citing easing recession and tariff risks. Higher duties could still erode corporate margins, they said.
- Investment Banks Lift China Growth Outlook After Surprise Trade Deal With U.S. (CNBC): UBS raised its 2025 China growth forecast to as high as 4% from 3.4%, while Nomura upgraded Chinese equities and trimmed Indian exposure in favor of China.
- EU Readies Capital Controls and Tariffs to Safeguard Russia Sanctions (Financial Times): Brussels is weighing alternative legal tools to renew sanctions on Russia beyond July if Hungary follows through on threats to veto an extension.
- Pump.fun Launches Revenue Sharing for Coin Creators in Push to Incentivize Long-Term Activity (CoinDesk): Pump.fun launched a revenue-sharing model that pays coin creators 5 basis points of trading volume, aiming to curb pump-and-dumps and reward credible developers with recurring income.
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Former Columbia Prez Armstrong Set To Return to Campus. Plus, GOP Senators Draw a Nuclear Red Line.
Back so soon? Columbia University announced last month that former president Katrina Armstrong would be taking a sabbatical following a disastrous deposition before the White House’s anti-Semitism task force. She was to “spend more time with her family.” But she’s apparently had enough: Armstrong is set to resume her role as CEO of Columbia’s medical center in June, sources familiar with the matter told our Aaron Sibarium and Eliana Johnson.
At the April deposition, Armstrong said she had “no specific memory” of anti-Israel activists calling for the destruction of Israel. Nor could she recall reports that Jewish students were spit on or that a faculty member described Jewish donors in class as “wealthy white capitalists” who “laundered” “blood money”—incidents documented in Columbia’s own anti-Semitism report.
“The end of her brief sabbatical comes at a delicate time for the university and could complicate Columbia’s efforts to prove to the Trump administration that it is taking anti-Semitism seriously,” Sibarium and Johnson write. “More than 80 anti-Israel protesters—including an employee of Columbia’s sister school, Barnard College—were arrested last week after they commandeered a campus library and injured two police officers.” Among those arrested were several students who had been permitted to return to campus following previous suspensions, highlighting “the university’s failure to expel activists who violate school rules.”
READ MORE: Columbia’s Armstrong to Return From Sabbatical as CEO of Medical Center
GOP senators draw red line: A trio of Republican lawmakers is calling for any Iran deal to mandate the complete dismantlement of the regime’s nuclear program. Sens. Katie Britt, Tom Cotton, and Lindsey Graham introduced a resolution last week that would require Iran to “forgo domestic uranium enrichment, the reprocessing of spent fuel, and the development or possession of any enrichment or reprocessing infrastructure or capacity,” our Adam Kredo reports.
“Despite the clear language from Republican senators, the executive branch has sent mixed signals about whether Iran will be permitted to continue enriching uranium as part of a revamped nuclear deal—perhaps the most contentious aspect of any agreement,” writes Kredo. President Donald Trump has said he hasn’t decided on the issue, while Vice President J.D. Vance has indicated the regime “can have civil nuclear power.”
As the White House deliberates over whether to let Iran continue enriching uranium, a recent deal between Iran and Moscow “has the potential to complicate things.” Russian president Vladimir Putin has “agreed to extend a line of credit to Tehran, begin building a new nuclear facility in the country, and expand ongoing work at the Bushehr plant.”
Free the gas stoves: The Trump administration on Monday announced it would scrap “dozens of energy efficiency regulations targeting common household appliances that the Biden administration issued as part of its climate agenda,” our Thomas Catenacci reports. The sweeping action will save consumers north of $11 billion and trim the U.S. Code of Regulations by more than 125,000 words.
The regulatory rollback will affect “rules restricting sales of certain types of gas-powered stoves and ovens in addition to microwaves, clothes washers, dishwashers, faucets, shower heads, and dehumidifiers,” Catenacci writes.
“It should not be the government’s place to decide what kind of appliances you or your restaurants or your businesses can buy,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the Free Beacon earlier this month. “Everybody wants clean air and wants to lower their energy costs and run their factories good as they can.”
“The big hand of government doesn’t actually help that process at all,” Wright added.
READ MORE: Free the Gas Stoves: Trump’s Energy Department Axes Dozens of Biden Appliance, Energy Regulations
Away from the Beacon:
- Jeh Johnson, who served as DHS secretary under Barack Obama, has been named co-chair of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees, the school announced last week. What could go wrong?
- Hamas on Monday released Edan Alexander, the last known American hostage in Gaza, following pressure from Trump and ahead of his visit to the Middle East.
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- According to Politico, a number of Democratic Party insiders are upset by Joe Biden’s attempts to return to the spotlight. “It’s time for Joe Biden to go away with all due respect and let the next generation of Democrats take the mantle,” Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha told the publication. Amanda Litman, who cofounded the progressive group Run for Something, said every Biden interview “drags us backwards and reminds people of the older generation of Democrats that got us into this mess.”
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