Welcome to this week’s AVA and crypto market update! This update covers news from 9 May-15 May 2025.

Crypto Market Update

The top stories from the broader market:

📉 Inflation Slows to Lowest in 4 Years: The latest inflation data was released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the Consumer Price Index growing at the slowest pace since February 2021 at a rate of 2.3% YoY in April 2025 (down from 2.4% YoY in March 2025). This fuelled $BTC and $ETH to continue their strong rallies this week.

🤝 US-China Temporary Tariff Deal: On Monday, the US and China agreed to temporarily lower the tariffs on Chinese imports from 145% to 30% and from 125% to 10% on US imports for 90 days from 14 May.

🕯 Coinbase to Trade on S&P 500 Next Week: After going public in 2021 via a direct listing, Coinbase is now set to begin trading on the S&P 500 next week — the first public crypto company to do so and a major milestone for the entire industry.

AVA Updates

In this week’s round-up of AVA news:

🏝 Travel Drop Winners: Congratulations to our 2 lucky Diamond members with NFT IDs #757 & #870, who won the Luxury Fiji Travel Drop!

🎁 Bonus Task Winners: Congratulations to Marianna, Nikolaos, and Alexandr for winning an extra $100 Travel Credits each by completing the Bonus Contributor Tasks!

💻 Job Opening: We’re hiring a new Lead Growth Contributor to join the team! View job

Weekly AVA Metrics

Below are the key $AVA metrics from the last 7 days:

💼 Total AVA holders (Travala + on-chain): 40,446 (+0.37%)

🤝 Total AVA Smart Program members: 63,771 (+1.59%)

🔒 Total AVA locked in the AVA Smart Program: 9,318,050 (-0.07%)

💰 AVA givebacks last 7 days: 29,118 AVA worth $19,678 (-30.43%)

🛍 Total saved via Smart discounts last 7 days: $6,184 (-25.86%)

✈️ Number of room nights & flights booked with AVA last 7 days: 98 (-47.31%)

💱 Dollar (USD) value of AVA travel bookings last 7 days: $31,646 (-59.52%)

Tune in next week for the latest news!

AVA Foundation

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