📈Coinmetrics: number of wallets with a balance > 0 BTC = record

the number of active wallets has been stable since the fall of 2021 - at the level of 500 thousand per day

​​📈Top 10 TVL on Terra Network

Anchor Protocol leads, followed by Lido, Astroport and Stader.

💰One of the largest electronics retailers in Europe Media-Markt will install cryptomats in its stores in Austria

https://www.kleinezeitung.at/wirtschaft/6128125/Zusammen-mit-Kurant_MediaMarkt-installiert-BitcoinAutomaten-in

❌Binance : Following the EU’s fifth package of restrictive measures against Russia, Binance is required to limit services for Russian nationals or natural persons residing in Russia, or legal entities established in Russia, that have crypto assets exceeding the value of 10,000 EUR. As such, we require you to complete your proof-of-address verification.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/4887e569afdf4b1e89e024371d3a49b9

💤 A dormant address containing 271 #BTC (11,434,362 USD) has just been activated after 7.7 years!

https://whale-alert.io/transaction/bitcoin/aa6fcf58c36516e57715f76d2a2dafb710c004b113b0ad925a14d7720d5b5d09

🙈Yuga Labs (Bored Apes Yacht Club) have confirmed that they will be launching the highly anticipated Otherside project on April 30th. APE Coin will be used for settlements

💰🔥USN stablecoin goes live on Near Protocol

A decentralized stablecoin called USN has launched today on Near Protocol, a scalable Layer 1 blockchain, according to statement shared by Near’s DeFi arm Proximity Labs. The stablecoin can be checked on Near's official blockchain explorer at this account address.

The launch confirms previous reporting by The Block that the stablecoin was in development. USN is a decentralized stablecoin similar to TerraUSD (UST) and Frax Finance (FRAX), which are soft-pegged to the US dollar but don’t hold dollar cash reserves. The USN stablecoin can be minted by depositing in NEAR tokens — the native crypto asset of the Near blockchain — as collateral. 

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/143275/usn-stablecoin-goes-live-on-near-protocol

💳Binance announces crypto card for Ukrainian refugees

The card will allow displaced Ukrainians to send and receive crypto payments and make transactions at retailers located in the European Economic Area

https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-announces-crypto-card-for-ukrainian-refugees?utm_source=Telegram&utm_medium=social

💰Coinbase will add support for Binance USD (BUSD) on the Ethereum network (ERC-20 token). Do not send this asset over other networks or your funds may be lost.
Inbound transfers for this asset are available on @Coinbase & @CoinbaseExch in the regions where trading is supported.

https://twitter.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1519026598669914119?t=R-7urMqVoRbuoxMvWEh_lg&s=19

☄️Ledger update: v.4.0.0 of the Cardano app is now available to download in Ledger Live

The app is compatible with smart contracts 🧠

https://twitter.com/Ledger_Support/status/1518927545751773184

✅New tokensale on CoinList - Ondo

Registrations are now open.

Registration Deadline:
May 9 at 12:00 UTC

Sale Begins:
May 12 at 17:00 UTC

The Ondo Finance Protocol (“Ondo”) is an open and decentralized investment bank. Ondo enables and facilitates connections between various stakeholders in the emerging DeFi ecosystem — including DAOs, institutional and retail.

https://sales.coinlist.co/ondo

🔥A red BTC $74K dot would bring the two lines together, or S&P $3800. Interesting times ahead

https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1520394990299529227?t=qb1iqtG-ikPSP4uw35UccQ&s=19

😱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