😱In case you missed it, the biggest whale on Fantom "Roosh" was about to get liquidated for over $50 million in FTM collateralized loans, crashing the entire network. Dr Liquid notified Lafa from Deus who emergency loaned Roosh money to cover for about a week.

Roosh deposits $50 million (used to be 90 million) in FTM to scream and borrows against this. He then buys alot of solid and deus and locks them for 4 years, becoming completely illiquid. The market dumps and he is about to get liquidated for 50 million bringing down the entire network until Dr liquid from liquid driver emergency contacts Lafa from deus to bridge him a loan.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FantomFoundation/comments/uesgyr/in_case_you_missed_it_the_biggest_whale_on_fantom/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

👀Fantom network is totally down atm ..

​🐳 The third largest bitcoin whale sold 1,500 bitcoins yesterday for $57.9 million, although shortly before that he bought this amount of BTC for $59.5 million

Thus, he recorded a loss of $1.6 million in three days.

🇮🇳Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced the parallel launch of three major educational initiatives to accelerate the education of Indian investors and students about the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem.

Primarily targeting student demographics in India, one of three educational initiatives launched by Binance includes launching the “Blockchain for Good” idea, a solution to make cryptocurrencies more accessible and inclusive for university students. There is a platform to come along.

https://www.sproutwired.com/binance-increases-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-awareness-among-indian-investors/

💳Bakkt and Global Payments Announce Strategic Alliance

As part of the agreement, Global Payments and Bakkt will collaborate on use cases starting with enabling cryptocurrency redemption in customer loyalty programs offered by bankcard clients, expanding its banking-as-a-service offerings to include consumer access to cryptocurrency, and ultimately leveraging issuing technologies for linking virtual, debit, credit and prepaid solutions. In addition, Bakkt will broadly partner with Global Payments on multinational merchant payments acceptance.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220501005058/en/Bakkt-and-Global-Payments-Announce-Strategic-Alliance

❌Coinbase will no longer publish a shortlist of assets it's considering listing, instead only publicizing new listings after a decision has been made.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong yesterday addressed concerns that traders have been taking advantage of the company’s listings process, writing in a blog post that the company will be adopting new policies and features in the coming months.

https://decrypt.co/99069/coinbase-changes-listing-policy-tokens-allegations-front-running

🇮🇳💰Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) will provide $500 million in funding for Indian startups as investor attention to the region steadily grows from year to year.

Last year was a worst May for Bitcoin in 10 years.. Hope this year is different 🤞

📈intoTheBlock: There has been a sharp increase in the activity of physicists in ADA - trades with volumes < 1M coins = +186% in the last 30 days

🔥USDD stablecoin launched on Tron ecosystem
Tutorial how to use it :

https://medium.com/@usddio/usdd-cross-chain-tutorial-8eb5f58f3089

✅ AMA Announcement - Animal Concerts:
On Friday 13 May at 15:00 UTC we will be hosting an AMA with Colin Fitzpatrick – CEO of Animal Concerts.
Venue: @Bulk_Republic
The four best questions will receive a reward of $100 in project tokens!
In order to participate you need to:
- Join the Animal Concerts chat
- Follow Animal Concerts Twitter
- Follow Bulk Twitter
- Join Bulk RePublic (RU) chat
and/or Bulk Nation chat (ENG)
Fill out the simple form.

Dear friends, due to technical reasons, the AMA with Colin Fitzpatrick, CEO of Animal Concerts has been rescheduled to Friday May 20th 15:00 UTC. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

💰Offline transaction in BTC using the Lightning network (no Visa, Mastercard and barcodes)
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Microstrategy CEO: "BTC is the future of money. Lightning is the future of payments"

✅ Ledger will launch its own browser extension

♦️Ledger is adding a browser extension on Safari called Ledger Connect that will allow users of Ledger hardware wallets to easily connect with Web 3 applications.

♦️The new feature will initially be compatible with the Ledger Nano X and iOS.

https://twitter.com/Ledger/status/1526640176730087424?t=UqV27IjGgugnoh_hXR26jg&s=19

💰 Andreessen Horowitz launches a $600 million gaming fund

◾️Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has raised $600 million to build the future of the gaming industry.

◾️A16z believes games infrastructure and technologies will be key building blocks of the metaverse, an opportunity that dwarfs the current $300 billion game industry itself.

◾️The team will also be investing in player communities. For example, social apps like Discord and Twitch were created for this purpose. Infrastructure will also be a key focus.

https://twitter.com/a16z/status/1526918779057348608?t=2Zwm-JMo-7oZemSVmbQ7Qw&s=19

Put/call ratio in BTC options = max for the year (people are short/hedged)

Fear is still in the extreme zone

Dear friends, due to technical reasons, the AMA with Colin Fitzpatrick, CEO of Animal Concerts has been rescheduled to Friday May 27th 15:00 UTC. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

🔥Ledger will be launching its own browser extension!

With Ledger Connect, you'll be able to easily & safety connect your Ledger accounts directly to Web3 apps via desktop or mobile – on the go.

https://twitter.com/Ledger/status/1526640176730087424?t=UYFBb1XOPzMbuIjDvRgxsQ&s=19

⚙️ You’re welcome to get acquainted with features recently integrated in our platform:

- Managed Sale request/cancel – Manual
Managed Sale – token sale delegation to the platform admins and the subsequent receipt of stable coins.

- Custom Info Field – Manual
Feature used to collect wallets from non-EVM blockchains.

- Distribution Calendar – Manual
Detailed information on each past and future token distribution – incl. %, cumulative %, tx hash.

💰Kaiko: composition of USDT and USDC reserves / collateral

📈 Santiment: wallets with balances of 1M - 10M XRP have been actively accumulating the coin since mid-May