📺 April ended with major gains across crypto, and traders have swung their outlooks bullish. In our freshly published This Week in Crypto market update, we look at the meme coin craze, how whales are responding, and plenty more top indicators.

🐳 This week, several cryptocurrencies have seen significant rises in whale transfers. These are the top 10, according to percentage increases among $500M+ marketcaps.

📌 1) Kucoin Shares $KCS

📌 2) USD Coin $USDC (On Avalanche)

📌 3) Staked Ethena $sENA

📌 4) Wrapped Bitcoin $WBTC (On Optimism)

📌 5) Uniswap $UNI (On Ethereum)

📌 6) Tether $USDT (On Avalanche)

📌 7) Optimism $OP

📌 8) Worldcoin $WLD (On Optimism)

📌 9) Curve $CRV (On Arbitrum)

📌 10) Floki $FLOKI (On Ethereum)

📊 Historically, the non-stablecoin assets on this list have a significantly higher likelihood of seeing reversals in price performance. Some may have good entry (or exit) points you can take advantage of.

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🗣️ The top trending topics driving crypto markets, according to social media discussion frequencies, are:

🇺🇸 Donald Trump: Trending due to multiple mentions of Eric Trump and President Donald Trump discussing the modern financial system and cryptocurrency. Eric Trump emphasizes the need for banks to adopt crypto or face extinction, highlighting Bitcoin as a solution to a broken financial system. Additionally, President Trump comments on the stock market and economic policies, linking his statements to crypto and tariffs.

💸 United States GDP: Trending due to the recent release of negative U.S. GDP data for Q1 2025, showing a contraction of -0.3%. This is the first negative GDP print in three years, raising concerns about a potential recession and economic slowdown. Discussions focus on the impact of tariffs, government spending cuts, and their effects on the economy, with significant attention from financial markets, policymakers, and investors. The negative GDP reading is influencing market sentiment and expectations for Federal Reserve policy.

🇦🇪 TOKEN2049 in Dubai: Trending due to its frequent mention in relation to the TOKEN2049 event held in Dubai, which is a major crypto and blockchain conference attracting over 15,000 global attendees and top crypto leaders. There is also significant news, such as the Trump Tower Dubai accepting cryptocurrency payments for luxury apartments. The event features keynotes, networking, and innovations in the crypto space, making Dubai a focal point for crypto developments and community engagement.

🧑‍💻 Here are crypto's top overall coins by notable development activity the past 30 days. Directional indicators represent each project's rank rise or fall since last month:

📈 1) iExec RLC $RLC 🥇

📉 2) Internet Computer $ICP 🥈

📉 3) Chainlink $LINK 🥉

📉 4) Starknet $STRK

➡️ 5) Cardano $ADA

📉 6) Optimism $OP

📈 7) Deepbook $DEEP

📈 8) Sui $SUI

📉 9) Ethereum $ETH

📈 10) zkSync $ZK

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💸 Gemini Dollar's level of supply on exchanges has skyrocketed from just under 48% to just over 62%, largely due to $6.6M worth of transfers around 7 hours ago from a whale, moving 10% of the entire $GUSD supply from a cold wallet to Gemini. Historically, stablecoin whale movement is a strong signal of planned purchases of traditional cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, or XRP.

This could be a strong sign of another breakout, assuming world economies stay relatively stable and retail traders don't get overly greedy as prices creep up. Monitor the biggest whale transfers to centralized exchanges, and sort by the largest value transactions, highest percentage of a coin's market cap, which are the most recent, and plenty more on this FREE Santiment dashboard.

📊 As Bitcoin has risen as high as $95.5K Monday, retail traders continue to show confidence in crypto markets. Across social media, mentions of higher BTC predictions are greatly exceeding mentions of lower BTC predictions.

Historically, bullish traders want to see most of the crypto community betting against crypto. After the major rally last week, this has shifted retail toward greed once again, with meme coins and other speculative assets being prioritized.