More mainstream crypto adoption amidst falling markets and a $Zcash reveal

This week in crypto

South Central Africa adopted BTC as legal tender, Telegram enabled free crypto transactions for its 550 million users, and the battle for free speech raged on.

Top Market Trends:

• Telegram is enabling free p2p crypto transactions for 550 million users via its chat service, starting with $TON.
• The first stablecoin mortgage sale was completed for $500,000 in USDC via USDC.homes and DeFi lending protocol, Teller.
• Bitcoin mining ban was passed by New York’s State Assembly, while Fort Worth became the first US city to mine Bitcoin.
• Central Africa Republic became the second country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022

Movers and Shakers

Top 7-day Gainers:

1. APE +53.73%
2. NEXO +47.90%
3. HEX +24.10%
4. LDN +18.89%
5. CVX +3.31%

Top 7-day Losers:

1. STG -36.96%
2. ZIL -24.14%
3. AXS -22.74%
4. WAVES -22.06%
5. NEAR -21.60%

Technical Summary

Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to a 1 month low mid week and rebounded past its long-term resistance level of $39,700.

• BTC was rejected at the $40k level.
• 14-day RSI is tracking toward 45.

BTC/USDT 14-Day RSI

Altcoins
Ethereum (ETH) experienced a choppy week with a modest pump midweek while most altcoins fell amid continued uncertainty and rising inflation.

• Ethereum briefly broke out of the $2,950 resistance level, down -4.35% for the week.
• ApeCoin (APE) was the sole top ten NFT coin to post a 7-day gain, up over 51%
• Tron (TRX) and Litecoin (LTC) hit quarterly lows, both losing billions in trading volume.

ETH-USDC 7-Day Chart

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Newsworthy:

• Layer-2 Rollup solution Optimism formed a DAO and announced an upcoming token launch with “season of airdrops.” Read more.
• Stripe payments giant will offer merchants a way to pay their users in crypto via USDC stablecoin.
• Edward Snowden revealed to Naomi Brockwell that he was the mysterious Zcash OG (aka John Dobbertin), who was part of the “trusted setup” ceremony that launched the privacy coin in 2016.
• Sandbox spent $1 million on Moonbirds and Moonbirds COO resigned a week after launching to start an NFT fund.

Let me understand this:

The former COO of Moonbirds and proof, who had inside info to the plans of the company moving forward… sweeps 200+ eth of Moonbirds after day 1 and then leaves the company to start his own fund 5 days later

Really?

— coughdrop.eth (@coughdropjones) April 25, 2022

Spotlight on: NEAR

Near Protocol (NEAR) is a Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain platform for building dApps and scaling blockchain throughput via sharding.

• $NEAR dominated Quadency trading volume in the last 7 days with 42% in the last 24 hours.
• On Thursday the 28th NEAR was trading at $12.54.

NEAR/USD 24-Hour

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