Market volatility eases, US ETFs show net inflows, hinting at a rebound. DeFi, GameFi funding surges. BTC dip escalates losses, prompting oscillation. US inflation data pivotal.

In the current market, characterized by high volatility and rapid moves to the downside, reallocating capital towards assets demonstrating relative strength is key to continue being in the market.

Arweave's data from last week: The mainnet completed a total of 192,998,563 transactions, achieving 1.15 TiB of storage in a single week. This week, the storage cost is 0.748 AR/GiB, and there has been an increase of 1,274 on-chain addresses.

Recently, AO ecosystem has been growing by leaps and bounds, and PermaDAO has been attracting a steady stream of builders to contribute.

This report highlights key developments in the April public chain sector, including the impact of the Bitcoin Halving, market downturns, and advancements in TON and Base.

According to ChainArgos monitoring, on May 14th, Tether issued a total of 110 million USDT and redeemed 23 million USDT.

As monitored by HODL15Capital, the value of Bitcoin held by US Bitcoin ETFs is currently close to $60 billion. This week, a total of 2,667 Bitcoins were purchased. Grayscale GBTC is the only ETF with net outflows.

The latest data from cryptocurrency research and analysis company Kaiko shows that miners are facing huge selling pressure as Bitcoin mining revenue and transaction fees decline. Bitcoin miners' income mainly comes from two aspects: mining rewards and transaction fees. However, affected by the halving of Bitcoin rewards in April (block rewards dropped from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC), miners have to sell Bitcoin to pay for costs. Kaiko researchers pointed out in the report that the halving event usually prompts miners to sell BTC because the mining process requires a lot of expenses.

According to Kaiko Research, the correlation between Bitcoin (BTC) and stocks is increasing. After reaching a multi-year low of 0.01 in March, the 90-day correlation rose to 0.17 last week. Based on the company's research report on May 13th, the 90-day correlation between Bitcoin and stocks rose to 0.17 in the week of May 5th, higher than the multi-year low of 0.01 in March. The correlation between BTC and risk assets is lower than the high of 0.6 during the bull market.

According to Defi Llama data, there is approximately $48.05 million in on-chain liquidation volume for Ethereum around $2,778.