Daily Market Update 08/02

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Our Pick of Today’s Top News Articles

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

• 113.69 Ξ CryptoPunks #4593

• 31.00 Ξ The Captainz #5799

• 27.81 Ξ Doodles #8735

🎉 Notable Mints:

🔊 Top by Volume:

• BAYC, floor of 29.13 Ξ (0.07% ▲)

• MAYC, floor of 5.46 Ξ (3% ▽)

• DeGods, floor of 9.19 Ξ (6% ▲)

💨 Top by Sales:

• Punks2023, floor of 0.034 Ξ (65% ▲)

• Himalaya, floor of 0.008 Ξ (138% ▲)

• Haas X RENGA Racing, floor of 0.13 Ξ (31% ▽)

🫰 Biggest Winners:

• Winds Of Yawanawa By Yawanawa And Refik Anadol, floor of 3.2 Ξ (56% ▲)

• ASM Brains, floor of 0.35 Ξ (31% ▲)

• Mutant Garden Seeder, floor of 5.5 Ξ (31% ▲)

In other news…

📰 Top Headlines:

Web3

• Action sports brand Hurley leaps into NFTs through its Hurley Super Surfer™ Game

• The Ordinals team establishes a non-profit to support the ecosystem's development

• Winners of Kraken's promotional sweepstakes can pick an NFT to be on Williams Racing Formula 1 racecars

• Sorare releases a Cash Wallet feature so managers can trade player cards with FIAT

Blockchain

• Litecoin's third halving is complete, reducing the subsidy to 6.25 $LTC

• GameStop will end support for its NFT wallet on Nov 1, citing "regulatory uncertainty"

Finance

• MicroStrategy increased holdings by 467 BTC in July

• Six firms file applications for ETH futures ETFs

Government

• US Judge Jed Rakoff opposes previous Ripple ruling

• US defense bill could prove problematic for stablecoin issuers

• Kenyan Government suspends all Worldcoin activities in the country

Business

• Binance officially launches in Japan

• A Coinbase spokesperson said Armstrong's comments on SEC demanding the delisting of assets were taken out of context

Legal

• Judge allows Terraform Labs to serve FTX Trading and FTX US with subpoenas

• 3AC co-founder Kyle Davies submits documentation claiming he is no longer a US citizen, and was not "subjecting himself to, or accepting the jurisdiction of, the Courts in the United States."