Crypto Daybook Americas: All Eyes on Jobs, Fed as Bitcoin Prepares for Breakout Rally

By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)

Markets look bullish up of the jobs study owed aboriginal Friday, with bitcoin (BTC) rising toward $97,000 aft stocks roseate for an eighth consecutive time connected Thursday. That gave the S&P 500 its longest rally since August arsenic investors grew much assured that commercialized tensions betwixt Washington and Beijing are cooling.

Still, the CoinDesk 20 (CD20) scale is small changed implicit the past 24 hours with the driblet successful first-quarter GDP pointing to economical strain from the commercialized war. While traders are present betting the Federal Reserve could chopped interest-rates 4 times this twelvemonth — 1 much than they'd priced successful earlier the reciprocal tariffs were announced — idiosyncratic depletion expenditures (PCE), the Fed's preferred measurement of ostentation came successful supra forecasts, which limits the cardinal bank's country for easing, said James Butterfill, the caput of probe astatine CoinShares.

Today's payrolls information remains a “critical portion of the puzzle,” helium said.

“When the Fed yet decides to chopped rates, it is apt to bash truthful successful a knee-jerk and forceful mode — reacting to a important deterioration successful economical conditions alternatively than being proactive. Such a melodramatic argumentation displacement could enactment arsenic a catalyst for a important breakout rally successful bitcoin, arsenic investors question alternate stores of worth amid assertive monetary easing,” Butterfill said.

That argumentation displacement could align with bitcoin’s humanities performance. Since 2013, the cryptocurrency has seen an mean summation of 7.52% successful May, according to CoinGlass data. And it's not alone: ether (ETH), which has been importantly underperforming BTC, has posted an mean summation of 27.3% successful May since 2016, the best-performing period for the Ethereum blockchain's token.

“Investor assurance is gradually returning to crypto markets pursuing a volatile commencement to the year, with April seeing a rebound crossed majors arsenic tariff-driven macro fears eased,” said Vijay Chetty, CEO of Eclipse. Growing regulatory clarity is an “underappreciated catalyst that volition acceptable the signifier for broader organization usage cases,” Chetty added. Stay alert!

What to Watch

• Crypto:
  • May 5, 3 a.m.: IOTA’s Rebased web upgrade starts. Rebased moves IOTA to a caller network, boosting capableness to arsenic galore arsenic 50,000 transactions per second, offering staking rewards of 10%-15% a twelvemonth and adding enactment for MoveVM astute contracts.
  • May 5, 11 a.m.: The Crescendo web upgrade goes unrecorded connected the Kaspa (KAS) mainnet. This upgrade boosts the network’s show by expanding the artifact accumulation complaint to 10 blocks per 2nd from 1 artifact per second.
  • May 6: Casper Network (CSPR) launches its 2.0 mainnet upgrade, introducing faster transactions, enhanced astute contracts, and improved staking features to boost endeavor adoption.
  • May 7, 6:05 a.m.: The Pectra hard fork web upgrade volition get activated connected the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet astatine epoch 364032. Pectra combines 2 large components: the Prague execution furniture hard fork and the Electra statement furniture upgrade.
• Macro
  • May 2, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases April employment data.
    • Nonfarm Payrolls Est. 130K vs. Prev. 228K
    • Unemployment Rate Est. 4.2% vs. Prev. 4.2%
  • May 2, 9 a.m.: S&P Global releases Brazil April purchasing managers’ scale (PMI) data.
    • Manufacturing PMI Prev. 51.8
  • May 2, 11 a.m.: S&P Global releases Mexico April purchasing managers’ scale (PMI) data.
    • Manufacturing PMI Prev. 46.5
  • May 5, 9:45 a.m.: S&P Global releases (Final) U.S. April purchasing managers’ scale (PMI) data.
    • Composite PMI Est. 51.2 vs. Prev. 53.5
    • Services PMI Est. 51.4 vs. Prev. 54.4
  • May 5, 10:00 a.m.: Institute for Supply Management (ISM) releases U.S. April economical enactment data.
    • Services PMI Est. 50.6 vs. Prev. 50.8
• Earnings (Estimates based connected FactSet data)
  • May 6: Cipher Mining (CIFR), pre-market, $-0.07
  • May 8: Coinbase Global (COIN), post-market, $2.08
  • May 8: Hut 8 (HUT), pre-market
  • May 8: MARA Holdings (MARA), post-market

Token Events

• Governance votes & calls
  • Compound DAO is voting connected moving 35,200 COMP (~$1.5 m) into a multisig harmless to trial selling covered calls connected COMP for USDC, lend that USDC successful Compound for other yield, past usage the returns to bargain backmost COMP and repeat—targeting astir 15 % yearly gain. Voting ends May 2.
  • May 5, 4 p.m.: Livepeer (LPT) to big a Treasury Talk session connected Discord.
• Unlocks
  • May 2: Ethena (ENA) to unlock 3.10% of its circulating proviso worthy $53.44 million.
  • May 7: Kaspa (KAS) to unlock 0.56% of its circulating proviso worthy $13.84 million.
  • May 9: Movement (MOVA) to unlock 2.04% of its circulating proviso worthy $9.85 million.
  • May 11: Solayer (LAYER) to unlock 12.87% of its circulating proviso worthy $79.71 million.
  • May 12: Aptos (APT) to unlock 1.82% of its circulating proviso worthy $62.09 million.
• Token Launches
  • May 2: Binance to delist Alpaca Finance (ALPACA), PlayDapp (PDA), Viberate (VIB), and Wing Finance (WING).
  • May 5: Sonic (S) to beryllium listed connected Kraken.

Conferences

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• May 6-7: Financial Times Digital Assets Summit (London)
• May 11-17: Canada Crypto Week (Toronto)
• May 12-13: Dubai FinTech Summit
• May 12-13: Filecoin (FIL) Developer Summit (Toronto)
• May 12-13: Latest successful DeFi Research (TLDR) Conference (New York)
• May 12-14: ACI’s 9th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum connected Fintech & Emerging Payment Systems (New York)
• May 13: Blockchain Futurist Conference (Toronto)
• May 13: ETHWomen (Toronto)
• May 14-16: CoinDesk's Consensus 2025 (Toronto)

Token Talk

By Shaurya Malwa

• Memecoin discussions are rising, portion involvement successful layer-1 and layer-2 tokens is declining, signaling a displacement toward speculative trading behavior, according to a Santiment report connected Thursday.
• Retail investors are embracing hype-driven buying, favoring short-term gains implicit fundamentals.
• Market timing whitethorn beryllium off, arsenic historically the champion altcoin introduction points hap erstwhile assemblage sentiment is debased — not erstwhile presumption similar "altseason" and "bull cycle" are trending, the study said.
• Mentions of “buying crypto” person spiked, particularly connected dips, suggesting wide eagerness and perchance premature confidence.
• Overconfident markets often look crisp corrections, particularly erstwhile traders expect nonstop gains.
• As May begins, it remains to beryllium seen if this altcoin surge is sustainable oregon simply different hype-driven blip.

Derivatives Positioning

• BTC's existent ascent appears structurally fragile, with a -$30 cardinal liquidity delta crossed the 1% bid publication contempt a 2.7% terms emergence since the commencement of the month, CoinGlass information show.
• This simplification successful top-of-book liquidity arsenic the terms climbs leaves a thinner bid publication with an expanding the hazard of slippage and volatility if momentum stalls.
• Liquidation heatmaps uncover sizable clusters astatine $97.6K ($67 million) and $96.1K ($58 million), reinforcing these zones arsenic imaginable inflection points for intraday, volatility-driven reversals oregon stop-driven extensions.
• Binance backing rates amusement a crisp divergence successful sentiment crossed large tokens, with APT, TON, UNI and XRP hitting +10.95% APR, portion USDE (-29.73%), BNB (-19.06%), and SUI (-10.26%) bespeak much intensive short-side pressure, Velo information shows.
• The attraction of elevated backing among ample caps indicates directional agelong bias, portion profoundly antagonistic rates successful prime altcoins suggest either event-driven shorts oregon systematic derisking.
• Open-interest (OI) rotation is flowing into low-cap, niche assets; with PUNDIX (+191%) and HAEDAL (+157%) starring 24-hour OI gains, according to Velo data. As unfastened involvement broadens out, marketplace sensitivity to catalysts whitethorn summation crossed debased to mid-cap tokens.

Market Movements

• BTC is up 2.27% from 4 p.m. ET Thursday astatine $96,817.27 (24hrs: +0.54%)
• ETH is up 1.48% astatine $1,822.64 (24hrs: -0.82%)
• CoinDesk 20 is up 1.39% astatine 2,781.37 (24hrs: -0.32%)
• Ether CESR Composite Staking Rate is down 9 bps astatine 2.958%
• BTC backing complaint is astatine -0.0093% (-10.2251% annualized) connected Binance

• DXY is down 0.51% astatine 99.74
• Gold is up 0.62% astatine $3,258.47/oz
• Silver is unchanged astatine $32.38/oz
• Nikkei 225 closed +1.04% astatine 36,830.69
• Hang Seng closed +1.74% astatine 22,504.68
• FTSE is up 0.75% astatine 8,560.68
• Euro Stoxx 50 is up 1.48% astatine 5,236.81
• DJIA closed connected Thursday +0.21% astatine 40,752.96
• S&P 500 closed +0.63% astatine 5,604.14
• Nasdaq closed +1.52% astatine 17,710.74
• S&P/TSX Composite Index closed -0.19% astatine 24,795.55
• S&P 40 Latin America closed -0.25% astatine 2,523.42
• U.S. 10-year Treasury complaint is up 8 bps astatine 4.23%
• E-mini S&P 500 futures are up 0.47% astatine 5,649.50
• E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 0.33% astatine 19,935.75
• E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are up 0.47% astatine 41,045.00

Bitcoin Stats

• BTC Dominance: 64.85 (+0.16%)
• Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.1886 (-1.0%)
• Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 847 EH/s
• Hashprice (spot): $49.98
• Total Fees: 5.51 BTC / $533,450.65
• CME Futures Open Interest: 141,430 BTC
• BTC priced successful gold: 29.8 oz
• BTC vs golden marketplace cap: 8.46%

Technical Analysis

• Ether has reclaimed its erstwhile plaything low, with the $1,750 level present acting arsenic a cardinal enactment zone.
• On the regular timeframe, terms enactment is compressing betwixt the 20- and 50-day exponential moving averages — a setup that often precedes a directional breakout.
• Assuming bitcoin remains successful consolidation adjacent its existent resistance, ether has country to propulsion higher, perchance retesting the anterior scope debased astir $2,100, which aligns with the 100-day EMA, adding further grounds for this arsenic a target.

Crypto Equities

• Strategy (MSTR): closed connected Thursday astatine $381.6 (+0.39%), up 1.37% astatine $386.82 successful pre-market
• Coinbase Global (COIN): closed astatine $201.3 (-0.78%), up 0.56% astatine $202.42
• Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed astatine $24.05 (+9.72%)
• MARA Holdings (MARA): closed astatine $14.05 (+5.09%), down 0.14% astatine $14.03
• Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed astatine $7.77 (+7.32%), down 1.93% astatine $7.62
• Core Scientific (CORZ): closed astatine $8.55 (+5.56%), up 0.58% astatine $8.60
• CleanSpark (CLSK): closed astatine $8.67 (+6.12%), up 0.69% astatine $8.73
• CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed astatine $14.59 (+6.65%)
• Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed astatine $33.33 (+3.09%)
• Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed astatine $40.38 (+3.43%), up 4.95% astatine $42.38

ETF Flows

Spot BTC ETFs:

• Daily nett flow: $422.5 million
• Cumulative nett flows: $39.53 billion
• Total BTC holdings ~ 1.15 million

Spot ETH ETFs

• Daily nett flows: $6.5 million
• Cumulative nett flows: $2.51 billion
• Total ETH holdings ~ 3.45 million

Source: Farside Investors

Overnight Flows

Chart of the Day

• Data from BitcoinCounterFlow comparing BTC's show from the bottommost of each of the past 3 cycles suggests the apical isn't successful yet.
• If past is immoderate guide, the existent trajectory astir time 700–800 implies we’re entering a signifier that could make into the steep rally seen successful anterior cycles.
• The smoother emergence this clip whitethorn beryllium a reflection of the accrued organization information successful the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

While You Were Sleeping

• Movement Labs Suspends Rushi Manche Amid Coinbase Delisting, Token-Dumping Scandal (CoinDesk): Co-founder Manche was suspended aft Coinbase delisted MOVE pursuing reports that a marketplace shaper tied to Web3Port dumped implicit 5% of the token’s supply, triggering a crash.
• China Is Considering Trade Talks With U.S., but It Has Conditions (The New York Times): China's Commerce Ministry said it won’t participate commercialized talks unless U.S. tariffs are dropped, calling their removal the lone mode to show sincerity and rebuild trust.
• Metaplanet Issues $25M Bonds to Buy More Bitcoin (CoinDesk): EVO FUND purchased 3.6 cardinal yen ($24.8 million) of zero-coupon indebtedness from Metaplanet, which intends to bargain much bitcoin aft precocious exceeding 5,000 BTC.
• UK’s FCA Seeks Public and Industry Views connected Crypto Regulation (CoinDesk): The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking feedback connected staking, lending, intermediaries and decentralized finance.
• How China Is Quietly Diversifying From US Treasuries (Financial Times): China is reallocating reserves into gold, mortgage-backed securities and assets managed successful places similar Hong Kong, reducing reliance connected dollar-denominated assets that could beryllium sanctioned oregon frozen.
• Eurozone Inflation Holds Above Target arsenic ECB Weighs Cuts (Bloomberg): Eurozone ostentation held dependable astatine 2.2% successful April, defying expectations of a slowdown, portion halfway ostentation jumped to 2.7%.

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