• Total Market Cap: $2.67 trillion
  
  

• BTC Dominance: 62.95% ($1.68 trillion)
  
  

• Stablecoin Market Cap: $234.4 billion (+0.47% over 7 days)
  
  

• USDT Dominance: 61.85%
  
  

• BTC Price: $85,107 (sideways trend)
  
  

• ETH Price: $1,603 (sideways trend)
  
  

• Top Gainers (7D) from CoinMarketCap Top 200:
  
  

• CORE: +29.36%
  
  

• RAY: +23.51%
  
  

• DEEP: +41.51%
  
  

• T: +36.69%
  
  

• ETF Flows (U.S.):
  
  

• BTC Spot ETF Net Inflow: $13.9 million
  
  

• ETH Spot ETF Net Outflow: $32.3 million
  
  

• Fear & Greed Index (April 19): 32
  
  

• Sentiment: 1 day Neutral, 6 days Fear
  
  

Market Outlook

• Stablecoins continued to expand in supply
  
  

• BTC spot ETFs showed minor inflows, while ETH spot ETFs had net outflows
  
  

• The U.S. is using tariff hikes to strengthen its trade position – limited short-term impact on crypto markets expected
  
  

• BTC and ETH prices moved within narrow ranges; the market is in a recovery phase but still influenced by fear
  
  

• DXY has fallen below 100, gold prices hit new highs, signalling strong risk-off sentiment.
  
  

• Fed rate cut probability for May is now at 9.1%, lower than last week.
  
  

• Market may bottom out between April and May. BTC likely to range between $80K–$90K

Weekly Highlights

1. April 14: Jupiter co-founder meow tweeted a product and governance roadmap rollout in the coming months
   
   

2. April 15: Per PeckShield, KiloEx (a perpetual DEX) was hacked, losing ~$7.5M across Base, opBNB, and BNB Chain.
   
   

3. April 15: OpenSea launched Solana token trading in closed testing on OS2. NFT trading to follow soon.
   
   

4. April 15: Circle’s euro stablecoin, EURC, hit a record-high supply amid trade tensions and USD weakness
   
   

5. April 15: U.S. Digital Assets Task Force Director Bo Hines suggested using tariff revenue to buy Bitcoin
   
   

6. April 15: ZKsync exploit led to unauthorized minting of 111 million ZK tokens from the airdrop admin account
   
   

7. April 17: The SEC released details for its third Crypto Policy Roundtable on April 25, focusing on custodianship issues
   
   

8. April 16: MANTRA responded to OM token crash, clarified no team sell-offs, and all OM allocations remain locked
   
   

9. April 17: Fed Chair Powell acknowledged crypto’s growing legitimacy and emphasized the need for stablecoin regulation
   
   

10. April 16: Raydium launched LaunchLab for token creation, raising 85 SOL with immediate liquidity on its AMM
    
    

11. April 18: On-chain analyst Ember flagged that Blur transferred 23.8M unlocked BLUR (~$2.3M) to Coinbase Prime

Macro Updates

1. April 14: SEC delayed decision on allowing staking for Grayscale’s ETHE
   
   

2. April 14: Japan’s 20-year bond yield rose to 2.435%, the highest since 2004
   
   

3. April 17: Powell noted that rising unemployment and inflation could pose future policy dilemmas
   
   

4. April 18: ECB cuts rates by 25 bps, seventh time in the past year – decision was unanimous.
   
   

5. April 18: Trump expressed optimism about reaching a tariff deal with China "within 3 to 4 weeks"