【Blockchain Briefing 0520】

I. Macroeconomic data:

1. US dollar index: closed down 0.012% at 104.49

2. Treasury prices: 10-year US Treasury yield closed at 4.422%. The 2-year US Treasury yield, which is most sensitive to the Fed's policy rate, finally closed at 4.837%

3. Gold price: closed up 1.6% at $2414.7/ounce

4. WTI crude oil: WTI crude oil finally closed up 0.81% at $79.46/barrel

5. Stock market: Dow Jones closed up 0.34%, S&P 500 up 0.12%, Nasdaq down 0.07%

6. USDCNY: 7.238

7. Rate hike expectations: According to the Fed's interest rate monitor, the probability of maintaining interest rates at 5.25-5.50 in June is 91.1%, and the probability of cutting interest rates to 5.00-5.25 is 8.9%.

8. Cryptocurrency: The overall market value fell by 1.36% to $2.39T, the 24-hour trading volume fell by 2.86% to $50.31B, and the stablecoin market value increased by 0.47% to 155.99B

9. ETH staking: The current staking amount is 32.15METH, and the staking rate is 26.73%

II. 9 ETF holdings data:

Updated on May 17:

9 ETFs added 3,743 $BTC (+US$251.56 million).#Grayscaleadded 397 $BTC (+US$26.7 million) and currently holds 288,895 $BTC (US$19.42 billion).#Blackrockadded 1,435 $BTC (+96.44 million USD) and currently holds 276,190 $BTC (18.56 billion USD).

III. Yesterday's macro news:

1. The helicopter carrying Iranian President Raisi had a hard landing accident (the initial cause was determined to be foggy weather). Iran's Vice President said he had established contact with the accident helicopter, but the signal was subsequently interrupted. Iranian military officials said the specific location of the helicopter has been determined.

2. Federal Reserve Board Member Bowman: Inflation will remain high for some time. If inflation stagnates or rebounds, he is willing to support the Fed to restart interest rate hikes.

3. The Federal Reserve plans to relax the proposed capital increase requirements for large banks.

4. Last Friday, the Bank of Japan maintained the scale of bond purchases at the same level as the previous operation.

5. The U.S. Department of Energy: Plans to purchase 3 million barrels of oil as strategic reserves.

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