Daily Market Update 07/03

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Our Pick of Today’s Top News Articles

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

• 72.5 Ξ Fidenza #172

• 68.68 Ξ BAYC #3868

• 1.54 ₿ TwelveFold #446

🎉 Notable Mints

🫳 Top Drops This Week (Eastern):

🔊 Top Volume:

• BAYC (3.08k Ξ) | floor of 29.1 Ξ (9% ▽)

• MAYC (1.93k Ξ) | floor of 5.17 Ξ (8% ▽)

• Azuki (1.58k Ξ) | floor of 6 Ξ (7% ▽)

💨 Top Sales:

• Wooonen (966) | floor of 0.013 Ξ (26% ▽)

• Azuki Elementals (630) | floor of 0.86 Ξ (7% ▽)

• BEANZ (589) | floor of 0.39 Ξ (5% ▲)

🫰 Biggest Winners:

• 627EEA | floor of 0.018 Ξ (92% ▲)

• 6529 Gradient | floor of 21.5 Ξ (54% ▲)

• Alpha Gardeners Pass | floor of 0.85 Ξ (25% ▲)

In other news…

📰 Top Headlines:

Web3

• Dior announces its upcoming B33 NFC-integrated sneakers but doesn't mention "NFTs"

• Lacoste reveals its UNDW3 Card, a dynamic NFT offering unique opportunities

• Pudgy Penguins announces it will have a booth at SanDiego Comic Con 2023

• Autonomous AI artist Botto generated its first large edition to close 6529's Memes SZN 3

• British pop star and former One Direction band member Harry Styles utilized the EVNTZ app to create blockchain-based rewards for fans

Blockchain

• Binance burned 2.65B $LUNC

• SMG research team demonstrates how easy it is to "censor" ETH transactions

Finance

• Celsius approved to liquidate altcoin holdings to BTC and ETH starting July 1

• CME ETH options open interest hits an ATH at $254M

• Logan Paul has yet to refund CryptoZoo buyers after allegedly committing $1.8M six months ago

• Poly Network attacker issues billions of tokens, mostly worthless due to lack of liquidity

Government

• SEC says recent BTC ETF filings, including BlackRock's, are inadequate and not clear enough

• A New HK task force dedicated to promoting Web3 development

• Kraken was ordered by judge to provide info on accounts with over $20k in trading activity annually from 2016 to 2020

Business

• Ubisoft reveals its next Web3 game, "Champions Tactics," built on the Oasys blockchain

Legal

• SEC will present a response to Coinbase's legal defense on July 13

• Bittrex follows Coinbase in challenging the SEC's authority to regulate crypto as securities unless explicitly granted by Congress