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If you’ve been wondering where the newsletter’s been the last couple weeks…
Yeah, I disappeared for a bit… all for good reason though.
Last month I married my co-founder and CCO, Instylus, the same person I originally de-rugged DGENZ with back in 2022. What started as fixing an abandoned NFT project somehow turned into us building a life together… and now here we are.
We took a week off for a honeymoon in the Florida Keys, then it’s been straight into real life chaos with immigration paperwork and getting everything sorted to make the move to Los Angeles.
So yeah… it’s been a hectic few weeks.
But things are finally settling down, and we’re back to business as usual from here on out.
And since we missed a couple issues… this week’s newsletter is completely free.
Everything that’s usually locked behind the DGENZ Insider subscription is all open.
No gatekeeping this week. Just wanted to give everyone a bit of a taste, and say that we appreciate you for sticking around while life was doing its thing behind the scenes.
Market Pulse
Bitcoin Pumped… But Something Feels Off
Bitcoin closed April up nearly 12 percent.
Sounds bullish, but zoom out and it’s only the second green month since September 2025.
And this rally happened while the world was on edge.
War tensions rising.
Oil ripping to $120.
Middle East chaos escalating.
Normally that kind of macro sends risk assets lower.
But $BTC ( ▼ 2.92% ) held up.
So what’s actually driving this move?
Demand Is There… But Not The Kind You Think
On the surface, demand looks strong.
ETF inflows stayed consistent.
Strategy loaded another $4.13B in Bitooin.
Derivatives traders kept piling in.
But here’s the catch.
Not all demand is bullish.
A big chunk of ETF buying right now is likely tied to cash and carry trades.
That’s institutions buying spot exposure while shorting CME futures to farm the spread.
Market neutral. No directional conviction.
Which explains why price can go up without real belief behind it.
This rally might be stronger on paper than it is underneath.
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Crypto Just Had Its Worst Month Ever For Hacks
While price was holding up, the industry got cooked behind the scenes.
April saw 29 hacks, the highest ever recorded in a single month with a total loss of $635M.
And it’s not just random exploits anymore. It’s evolving.
Most attacks are now targeting people, not just code.
Just this week, scammers were reported using AI generated images of women pretending to be at the XRP conference in Las Vegas in an attempt to catfish the attendees.
Social engineering. Insider access. Weak permissions.
The biggest hits of the month came down to simple failures:
Drift got drained for ~$285M because hackers compromised employees through social engineering.
As for Kelp DAO, the instance of the LayerZero crypto bridge the protocol relied on was configured to only require a single operator, which hackers exploited to steal ~$292 million.
Still “decentralized” on paper…
But not in reality.
And while these hacks counted for the majority value wise, the main weak point is still bugs in code, which was the cause of 83% of the attacks.
And AI is making things worse.
Hackers can now scan thousands of lines of code instantly.
Which means security is becoming one of the biggest narratives again.
And capital tends to flow away from weak infrastructure fast.
Crypto Is Quietly Becoming AI’s Payment Layer
While all of that is happening…
Another trend is building in the background.
MoonPay just launched a product that lets AI agents spend crypto in the real world.
Not theory. Not future talk. Actual execution.
AI could already manage wallets and execute trades, but now it spend money using stablecoins at any merchant that accepts Mastercard.
No pre-loading funds. No giving up custody. Just on-chain funds being used in real time.
And this is where things get interesting.
Because if AI starts transacting at scale…
You don’t need more humans in crypto.
You need more infrastructure.
Wallets. Stablecoins. Payment rails.
And the usage doesn’t grow linearly.
It grows at machine speed.
The Bottom Line
Right now the market is sending mixed signals.
Price looks strong
Demand is questionable
Security is under pressure
Infrastructure is evolving fast
This isn’t a clear trend market. It’s a transition phase.
Which means:
Don’t just watch price. Watch where the real adoption and capital flows are going.
Because that’s what leads the next move.
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Weekly Charts
Bitcoin Dominance
Alts have mostly gone nowhere the last few days.
A handful are moving, but the majority of the market is still just chopping, and actually picking the outperformers hasn’t been easy.
For me, nothing really changes until Bitcoin dominance hits its key level.
$BTCDOM has been slowly grinding higher, and the main area to watch is around that 5600 zone. That’s the level that’s been capping moves.
If dominance pushes into that resistance and gets rejected, that’s when we should finally see some proper rotation back into alts. Until then, expect more of the same.
Slow price action, selective moves, and a market that’s frustrating to trade.
Bitcoin
There are equal highs sitting around the $79.4K level, which is an obvious liquidity target.
If price pushes up, sweeps those highs, and then closes back below on the daily then I’ll be looking to short the move back down into the $75K region.
I still think we see one more blow off the top into the $84K region before the big crash but for now the play mentioned above is the one I’m waiting for.
Token of the Week
Ondo Finance - $ONDO
Ondo has been trading in this range since the beginning of February and has now even flipped the VWAPs on every timeframe which is usually a good sign of strength but since we are at resistance here without a daily close above yet I would rather just sit and wait for the range lows to be hit again before we look to enter.
Entry - $0.2502 - 40%
DCA - $0.243 - 60%
TP1 - $0.2691
TP2 - $0.291
TP3 - $0.3466
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