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Nakamoto, a Bitcoin treasury company, sold 284 BTC on March 31 to cover operating expenses, a move disclosed in the Q1 financial report released on May 14, reflecting rising financial pressure. According to the report, the company’s Q1 revenue increased by 500% year-over-year, but it also recorded a net loss of $238.8 million. The document states: "The company sold 284 bitcoins on March 31 to pay operating expenses," confirming it has begun tapping into its bitcoin reserves to maintain liquidity. More than $102 million of this quarter’s loss came from mark-to-market losses on its 5,058 BTC reserves, mainly due to a roughly 23% drop in bitcoin price during the quarter. After this sale, Nakamoto’s ranking among publicly disclosed bitcoin holders fell to 20th place (according to BitcoinTreasuries.Net data). This move also highlights the divergence in bitcoin treasury strategies among companies. On one hand, Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, continues to accumulate, currently holding over 843,000 BTC; on the other hand, some small and mid-sized companies have been forced to use reserves to sustain operations amid market volatility. Looking at the broader trend, most enterprise-level BTC holders (except Strategy and Metaplanet) have significantly slowed their accumulation recently, with some even reducing holdings. For example, The Genius Group sold all 84 BTC in February to repay debt. Additionally, to address financial pressure and stabilize its stock price, Nakamoto shareholders approved a reverse stock split plan on May 8, ranging from 1-for-20 to 1-for-50. Its current holdings are slightly below ProCap Financial’s (5,457 BTC).

David Hoffman, co-founder of Bankless and a long-time supporter of Ethereum, is reportedly liquidating all his personal holdings of $ETH and shifting his focus to some altcoins that have recently performed strongly. The assets he mentioned include: • Zcash ($ZEC) • Hyperliquid ($HYPE) • Venice Token ($VVV) • NEAR Protocol ($NEAR) He refers to these projects as the "survivors" in the current market cycle, believing they have the potential to continue surviving and developing amid a highly volatile market environment. Notably, following the spread of these remarks, several of the mentioned tokens saw significant price increases, sparking further market attention on capital rotation and narrative-driven rallies. However, from a trading perspective, such emotion- and narrative-driven rallies often carry higher risks. In the crypto market, short-term FOMO can drive prices up quickly but can also lead to rapid declines once funds exit. In other words, the "survivor narrative" may strengthen market sentiment but does not equate to long-term trend sustainability.

$SOL welcomes a heavyweight institutional narrative upgrade 🚀 Europe's largest asset management company Amundi (managing assets over €2.4 trillion) officially launches the Solana UCITS fund SAFO, providing traditional financial capital with a compliant new channel to access SOL. This is not an ordinary “crypto fund,” but a standardized financial product that can be directly included in pension funds, family offices, and institutional accounts 👀 The core significance is clear: Solana is moving further from being a “crypto asset” to a “mainstream investment target.” However, the market price is still under pressure, oscillating repeatedly between $87–$93, with multiple failed attempts to break the upper resistance. If such European compliant funds start to flow in continuously in the future, it could become an important catalyst to break the range ⚡

$JTO suddenly surged over 30% in the Solana ecosystem 🚀 This rally is mainly driven by sentiment from STKE's latest financial report — this Solana infrastructure company announced a new strategy shifting from "pure staking" to "middleware + transaction layer services." The market interpretation is straightforward: They are not just holding SOL, but building a fee-based revenue system + transaction execution infrastructure 👀 At the same time, STKE holds over 52,000 JTO and continues to expand cross-chain, privacy execution, and liquid staking businesses, which indirectly strengthens $JTO's market narrative. Although the company is still operating at a loss, the market is more focused on its "sustainable cash flow model" being built on Solana. In simple terms: This JTO surge is not just pure speculation; it’s more like a capital revaluation driven by the overall Solana infrastructure upgrade story ⚡

Moonwell has officially migrated its governance center to the Ethereum mainnet 👀 With the passing of proposal MIP-X58, Moonwell's governance system will no longer rely on Moonbeam but will fully operate on the ETH mainnet. This also means: Users who want to participate in $WELL governance voting will need to bridge their tokens to Ethereum. Although the transaction fees will be higher, the project clearly values Ethereum's network effects, institutional recognition, and long-term ecological impact ⚡ In simple terms, Moonwell is gradually shifting from a "small ecosystem play" towards mainstream DeFi infrastructure 🚀

$TAO surged over 10% 🚀 After Bittensor gained significant exposure at the Proof of Pitch event held at the Louvre, market sentiment has clearly heated up, with trading volume soaring 85% to $250 million. At the same time, the futures market has started aggressively increasing positions, with long capital continuously flowing in, and open interest rising to $365 million 👀 However, there is currently some profit-taking pressure, as some holders begin transferring TAO to exchanges in preparation to sell. In the short term, around $288 remains a key resistance level. If it breaks through successfully, the rally may continue; but if it fails to break through, the price will most likely enter a consolidation phase ⚡

$LINK on-chain activity suddenly explodes 🚀 The number of active Chainlink addresses surged over 90 times in just one day, jumping from the usual around 3,000 directly to over 280,000, indicating rapid growth in on-chain usage. At the same time, LINK reserves on Binance have been continuously decreasing, with about 500,000 LINK withdrawn in the past two weeks, showing clear signs of long-term holding in the market 👀 Simply put: On-chain demand is increasing, while sellable supply on exchanges is decreasing. If this trend continues, $LINK is very likely to enter a supply-demand imbalance phase, further driving the price up ⚡

The market is increasingly clearly entering a “risk-on” mode 👀 A large number of contract traders are frantically increasing their long positions on $SOL, $DOGE, and $XRP. Even though BTC has fallen below $78K, altcoin capital sentiment remains very hot. Especially, the perpetual contracts for Solana continue to heat up, but currently most of the trading volume is actually taken by Hyperliquid, with a market share exceeding 66% ⚡ This also indicates that the Solana ecosystem is desperately competing for the derivatives market, because the capital flow and fees here are far more intense than in the spot market. But it’s important to note — when the market’s long positions become too crowded, a sudden price drop can easily trigger a “Long Squeeze” chain liquidation risk 📉

$PRL surged over 160% 🚀 With BTC and ETH consolidating, high-risk funds in the market are frantically flowing into small-cap tokens, just to chase higher volatility and faster returns. However, this rally is almost without fundamental support, more like a typical speculative capital rotation 👀 Currently, the market still follows a “Bitcoin-first” structure, with BTC dominance close to 60%, and the ETH/BTC exchange rate also falling to the year's low. This means that tokens like $PRL that have skyrocketed, while eye-catching in the short term, also come with extremely high volatility and rapid correction risks ⚠️

$BCH plummeted to $348, dropping nearly 25% within 24 hours, with over $660 million liquidated across the market 📉 After the key support level of $387 was broken, panic quickly spread throughout the market, leading to massive liquidations of leveraged long positions. Interestingly, while short-term funds are fleeing frantically, some long-term BTC holders are quietly accumulating at the lows 👀 If $BCH fails to reclaim $387, the market may continue to test lower support levels.