This is a daily technical analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole.For the past 12 weeks, gold (XAU) has outperformed bitcoin (BTC) in a race to draw bids, but this … [+1800 chars]

Monero has shown a long-term bullish shift with a golden crossover, breaking out of a consolidation pattern.

CoinDesk

Bitcoin To Soar Against Gold After Trendline Breakout, Monero Sees Golden Cross

Darknet markets are increasingly returning to bitcoin (BTC) as their primary cryptocurrency because of rising liquidity and accessibility challenges associated with privacy-focused coins like monero … [+2888 chars]

Privacy tokens have been suffocated as governments around the world fight darknet markets – so it's back to bitcoin for purchasers of illicit goods.

It's Back to Bitcoin for Darknet Markets After Monero's Binance Delisting: Chainalysis

Monero

We're excited to announce that XMR has been added to dYdX synthetic perpetuals! 

According to CoinMarketCap, dYdX has more trading volume than all other DEXs combined! 

https://dydx.exchange/blog/markets-19 

Monero Space Organizer

This is a huge milestone in Monero development.

COMIT Network just released Bitcoin <> Monero atomic swaps to mainnet. Today, users can swap Bitcoin and Monero without having to trust an intermediary or the counterparty.

COMIT's atomic swaps are a critical tool for private trading of Monero outside of exchanges.

Oh, and as a bonus it works with Tor. Because of course it does.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/nmtdpr/let_there_be_swap_on_mainnet/

Monero's price isn't the only metric on the rise. Checkout the other key ways Monero has been growing over the past year! 

https://www.getmonero.org/2021/04/24/this-year-in-monero.html

Monero Talk sits down with COMIT to discuss their work on Monero <> Bitcoin atomic swaps. This technology allows for trustless trading of both assets without requiring an exchange. 

"COMIT: Bitcoin-Monero Atomic Swaps are Near" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuZrtHNTixo 

COMIT is one of about 5 different groups working on implementing XMR <> BTC atomic swaps.

Dr. Daniel Kim's new keynote lecture "Behavioral Finance, Cryptocurrency Markets" premieres in about 45 minutes! 

https://youtu.be/REC5V7d3pqM 

In this TCV Summit keynote lecture from February 2021, Dr. Daniel Kim weaves together award-winning research from academic finance with case studies from both the legacy financial and cryptocurrency markets to examine the degree to which cryptocurrency markets achieve efficient price discovery.

The Monero community is calling on Elon Musk to add Monero payments for Tesla!

Monero is the cypherpunk currency defending your freedom. We will not stop on our mission to give people the money that they deserve.

If Monero is added, we will donate a new Model 3 to EACH of 3 charities selected by the community! #Tesla4XMR

We need the ENTIRE Monero community to help us share the word! Help us support a worthy project and worthy nonprofits!

https://monerotesla.com

Cake Wallet, a popular non-custodial wallet for Monero, now additionally supports Bitcoin! 

Only you hold your Monero and Bitcoin keys. Still open source. Easily exchange BTC/XMR (and others) in the app. Available for free in the iOS and Google Play stores. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/cakewallet/comments/lb2mpj/update_cake_wallet_version_410_now_with_bitcoin/