Initial Jobless Claims in the US for the week ending April 18 came in at 214,000, in line with the expected 210,000.

April 23: Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn posted that Strategy’s current Bitcoin holdings have exceeded those of IBIT, the world’s largest Bitcoin ETF. Given its ongoing accumulation trend, Strategy is on track to surpass Satoshi Nakamoto within the next two years.

April 23 — Analyst Ali Charts noted in a post that ETH is currently testing a key level—one that’s historically separated bear markets from macro expansion phases. ETH is trading near its Realized Price (roughly $2,340), which reflects the average cost basis for all on-chain investors. Historically, in market recovery phases, the Realized Price has often served as a "sell wall": investors typically aim to break even when prices hit this mark. Once this level is successfully flipped to support, however, ETH usually enters a high-conviction expansion phase.

On April 23rd, ENS announced the upcoming launch of ENSv2—a new domain name infrastructure built for large-scale integration and subdomain extensions.

**Reppo Foundation Lands $20M Strategic Funding from Bolts Capital to Scale AI Training Data Infrastructure Tied to Prediction Markets** The Reppo Foundation announced Wednesday (April 23) it has secured a $20 million strategic funding commitment from Bolts Capital to advance protocol development and ecosystem expansion—with a focus on AI training data infrastructure centered on prediction markets. Reppo’s core mission is to turn human judgment into a verifiable, incentive-aligned data source via prediction markets, addressing the critical gap in high-quality data for AI training. The project is building a decentralized data network (Datanets) to process multimodal content (text, images, audio, video) and enable AI model training, evaluation, and fine-tuning. Reppo Labs Co-Founder RG noted prediction markets could hit $1 trillion in annual transaction volume by the end of the decade, expanding beyond sports and events to information and opinion markets. The platform has alread

April 23rd (CoinDesk) — Bitcoin analyst James Check noted that recent quantum computing advances have sparked fresh concerns about Bitcoin. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could theoretically break Bitcoin’s elliptic curve signatures, exposing public keys—especially for wallets from Bitcoin’s early Satoshi era. However, market data suggests even a worst-case selloff would be significant but manageable, not catastrophic. An estimated 1.7 million BTC sits in vulnerable Satoshi-era addresses, translating to ~$145 billion in potential sell pressure at current prices. But data tells a different story: - Long-term holders (155+ days) typically offload 10,000–30,000 BTC daily during bull markets; the full Satoshi-era supply would take just 2–3 months to liquidate at that pace. - During the recent bear market, over 2.3 million BTC changed hands in one quarter—more than the quantum “target supply”—without a systemic market collapse. - Monthly exchange inflows near 850,000 BTC,

On April 23rd, per Onchain Lens data, a whale opened a 20x leveraged long position on 17,257 ETH and 516.42 BTC—with the total position valued at roughly $40 million.