Yesterday In Crypto - May 19 2022

NFL Defensive End Alex Barrett Is Taking 100% Of His Salary In Bitcoin, FTX US launching zero-commission stock trading, Lonely Ape: the Tinder for NFT owners gets canceled, and much more...

May 19

🌐 GM or GN depending on what part of the planet you’re reading from. This is today’s edition of Yesterday In Crypto where we go over the most notable and interesting things in crypto over the last 24 hours.

Our goal is to give you a birdseye view of the crypto market and blockchain space in the past 24 hours without taking up hours of your time. You should make it through in less than 5 minutes.

📊 Crypto Market Stats

Market Cap: $1,301,802,841,324

BTC Dominance: 42.66%

24h Volume: $149,387,530,744

BTC/USDT on Binance [1D]

📊Total Orders: 1,416,755

📈Buy Orders: 692,626

📉Sell Orders: 724,129

🔥Buy Volume: 880.19M USDT

🔴Sell Volume: 876.08M USDT

Buyers in Control 🐮 (for now)

Chain - TVL Change Leaderboard(1 day)

Tron Change: +0% TVL: 4322M

BSC Change: --2% TVL: 8557M

Cronos Change: --3% TVL: 1780M

Ethereum Change: --3% TVL: 69661M

Arbitrum Change: --4% TVL: 1368M

Polygon Change: --4% TVL: 2697M

Solana Change: --6% TVL: 4180M

Fantom Change: --7% TVL: 1582M

📿 I Wear Your NFT (Coming Soon)

Do you remember the “I Wear Your Shirt” project years ago? It was before its time.
We were inspired by the idea and decided it would be a really cool way to showcase NFT projects so we are getting things ready for I Wear Your NFT. We know you are gonna love it.

🖼️ NFT Market Stats

📰 Trending Headlines

FTX US launching zero-commission stock trading

59 minutes ago via theblockcrypto.com➡️

Economist H. Dent predicts Bitcoin crash to $3k before shooting to ‘$500k in next global boom’

1 hour ago via finbold.com➡️

Celsius token is on ‘high alert’ as it falls more than 60% in May

1 hour ago via finbold.com➡️

Terra Network Will Be Reborn, According to Official Voting

2 hours ago via u.today➡️

Russia To Legalize Cryptocurrency As Form Of Payment, Minister Says

4 hours ago via bitcoinist.com➡️

🧵Crypto Tweets & Threads

Robinhood announces web3 wallet

Robinhood @RobinhoodApp

Trade and swap crypto with no network fees. A web3 wallet from us. Get early access: rbnhd.co/web3-wallet

A16z 2022 state of crypto report

a16z @a16z

Introducing a16z’s 2022 State of Crypto Report A lot has changed since we started investing in crypto nearly a decade ago. Here are 5 key takeaways from the a16z crypto web3 industry survey and data analysis by @DarenMatsuoka, @eddylazzarin, @cdixon & @rhhackett ⬇️

Summer of Bitcoin Announced

no bullshit bitcoin @nobsbitcoin

Summer of Bitcoin 2022 results announced - 83 students from 15 countries will contribute to 29 open-source bitcoin projects with 60 open-source bitcoin developers and designers as mentors - 20317 total applications

Summer of Bitcoin 2022 results announced!83 students from 15 countries will contribute to 29 open-source bitcoin projects.blog.summerofbitcoin.org

What are the Top 6 Profitable $FTM Wallets doing in the last 3 days?

Andeh #OnChain @0xLosingMoney

What are the Top 6 Profitable $FTM Wallets doing in the last 3 days? I am tracking these wallets to see how the pros are trading during this uncertain market 🙏 Criteria for the wallets below.. Scroll for a breakdown of each wallet 👇 Hint: ➼ 4/6 Bought $BOO (@SpookySwap) 👀

📈 Top Gainers/Losers in the Top 100

Gainers in Top 100 (24h) 📈

TerraUSD - $UST | 16.96% - $0.107

Axie Infinity - $AXS | 4.75% - $22.12

Chiliz - $CHZ | 3.09% - $0.122

Chain - $XCN | 2.71% - $0.0965

Neutrino USD - $USDN | 0.29% - $0.978

Losers in Top 100 (24h) 📉

Decentraland - $MANA | -10.31% - $1.07

Terra - $LUNA | -9.40% - $0.000170

Theta Fuel - $TFUEL | -8.96% - $0.0634

Polygon - $MATIC | -8.78% - $0.649

Helium - $HNT | -8.77% - $8.03

🔎 Trending Search on CG

1.) Unizen ($ZCX) | 595

2.) Terra ($LUNA) | 66

3.) TerraUSD ($UST) | 64

4.) Evmos ($EVMOS) | 152

5.) PolyDoge ($POLYDOGE) | 908

6.) STEPN ($GMT) | 77

7.) Oasis Network ($ROSE) | 170

📙 Must-Reads From Around The Web

Ripple Signs New Partnership With International Money Transfer Firm To Use XRP for Cross Border Payments
San Francisco-based payments company Ripple is partnering with a Lithuanian financial technology firm to facilitate cross-border money transfers.

NFL Defensive End Alex Barrett Is Taking 100% Of His Salary In Bitcoin
NFL player Alex Barrett from the San Francisco 49ers is taking his entire salary in bitcoin through a partnership with BTC payroll service provider Bitwage.

DeFi-ing exploits: New Chainalysis tool tracks stolen crypto across multiple chains Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has released a new tool to track transactions across decentralized finance protocols and multiple blockchains.

Lonely Ape: the Tinder for NFT owners gets canceled due to a "vastly uneven ratio of men to women" Horny Ape Yacht Club Dating App Turns Into Sad Sausage Fest, Gets Cancelled - we are sad to report that the Lonely Ape Dating Club was, surprisingly, a total sausage fest, and the whole thing has been binned.

😂 Meme or Funny

Happy Thursday! The best time to regroup and learn is during bear markets. Use these times to focus and learn things you might have dismissed or put on the back burner.

Long Live The Blockchain,

Cryptopher Columbus

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