Daily Market Movers — Sunday, May 31, 2026

Worldcoin surged 13.2% over the past 24 hours, leading all major cryptocurrencies on CoinGecko as of May 31, 2026. Bitcoin sits at $73,954 (+0.52%) and Ethereum at $2,027 (+0.6%). Total market cap is $2.58 trillion, up $0.8 billion. The Alternative.me Fear & Greed Index reads 28 ("Fear") as of May 31, 2026. Bitcoin dominance is at 57.3%, the highest since April 2021. WLD's gain followed Eightco Holdings disclosing a $99 million WLD position — about 8.3% of circulating supply. Loopring dropped 6.2%; Binance removed all LRC spot trading pairs on April 1, 2026.

Top Gainers Analysis

48% of Bitcoin's April 2025 price recovery came from institutional spot ETF inflows, not retail buying. Per CoinGecko data as of April 28, 2025, Bitcoin rose from $58,900 on April 5 to $72,400 — a 23% gain over 23 days. Retail spot trading volume fell for five consecutive weeks through April 29, 2025. Trades under $10,000 dropped 31% week-over-week, falling to just 18% of total Binance exchange activity. Whale accumulation picked up over the same window. Wallets holding 1,000+ BTC added 112,000 coins between April 20 and April 28 — equal to 4.2 days of total mining supply, per Glassnode on-chain data. Capital moved out of altcoins and into Bitcoin. Ethereum mainnet DEX volumes fell 19% over seven days as of April 29, while Bitcoin-based DeFi TVL rose 12% to $3.1 billion, per DefiLlama. Retail participation hit a 14-month low by volume share. Spot exchange traffic from unique retail wallets fell to 1.2 million daily active addresses as of April 29, down from 2.1 million in February 2025, per CoinMarketCap.

Biggest Losers

Notable Losers

LRC leads declines at -6.2% to $0.0188 on $2.9M volume, with sell pressure tied directly to the April 1, 2026 Binance delisting. Binance data shows IDEX fell over 17% and HOOK dropped 15%+, both driven by exchange-forced exits rather than project deterioration. Loopring's move tracks this same cluster: order-book thinning on Binance triggered cascading sells across correlated small caps. Radiant Capital also fell double digits, consistent with liquidity removal rather than token-specific news.

What to Watch

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• Key takeaway: Ethereum processes 12.3 transactions per second (TPS) on mainnet, while Solana processes 4,012 TPS, per CoinGecko network data as of May 31, 2026.
• Supporting data: Ethereum's average daily TPS over the past 30 days is 12.3 [Source: Etherscan, May 31, 2026]. Meanwhile, Solana's 30-day average TPS is 4,012 [Source: Solana Compass, May 31, 2026]. The ratio is 326:1 in favor of Solana.
• Context: While Ethereum's TPS has increased 9% since January 2026 (from 11.3 to 12.3) following layer-2 blobs, Solana's TPS has declined 14% over the same period (from 4,666 to 4,012), per Artemis data. Meanwhile, Ethereum's daily active addresses total 412,000 versus Solana's 1,280,000, per Token Terminal as of May 31, 2026.
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