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Daily Market Update 10/10
In Today's Market Update, We Cover NFL Alumni Association x Aventus, China Daily's $390k Offer, BitVM Whitepaper Bringing Smart Contracts to Bitcoin, GutterCatGang Takeover, and More.
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NFL Alumni Association partners with Aventus to create NFTs of former players who opt into the offering |
NFT Market Recap
💰️ Notable Sales:
1,055 Ξ Cryptoadz #4030
250 Ξ BAYC #3863
50 Ξ CryptoPunks #5792
🎉 Notable Mints:
⬆️ Top by Volume:
Winds Of Yawanawa By Yawanawa And Refik Anadol, floor of 5.75 Ξ (14% ▽)
Pudgy Penguins, floor of 5.15 Ξ (1% ▲)
⬆️ Top by Sales:
SchizoPosters, floor of 0.059 Ξ (37% ▽)
Nakamigos-CLOAKS, floor of 0.05 Ξ (12% ▲)
🪅 Biggest Winners:
Gutter Rats, floor of 0.13 Ξ (113% ▲)
Gutter Dogs, floor of 0.17 Ξ (110% ▲)
Gutter Cat Gang, floor of 0.8 Ξ (77% ▲)
⛓️ NFT Vol. by Blockchain:
🪙 Top Tokens:
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💹 Indices (Futures):
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Other News
Web3
NFL Alumni Association partners with Aventus to leverage the name, image, and likeness of retired players to create NFTs of those former players who opt into the offering
Refik Anadol’s Winds of Yawanawa began its reveal of tokens 1 - 100 alongside the launch of a portal for VR viewing, downloading high-res assets, ordering unique prints, and accessing HD content
GutterCatGang locks in an acquisition deal with @mauloadream to take over full control of Gutter Labs
China Daily is awarding $390k to a third-party contractor that can design it an NFT platform within its budget specifications
CrypToadz #4030 sold for 1,055 WETH, a likely unfortunate user-error
Crypto trading bot provider 3Commas is on “heightened alert” after some user’s accounts were compromised
FriendTech added 2FA to accounts for additional protection
Blockchain
Certik confirms the astrology-themed NFT project Lucky Star Currency exit scammed for over $1M
CertiK report suggests the FTX hacker could be using the SBF trial as a smokescreen, hoping the trial’s media attention provides cover for the illicit activity
Robin Linus’ BitVM whitepaper proposes a new way to bring off-chain smart contracts to Bitcoin without needing a soft fork; BitVM’s architecture is based on Ethereum’s optimistic rollups with fault proofs
Messari reports 61% of all ETH transactions occurred on L2 networks
Finance
Ethereum Foundation sold $2.76M ETH
Star Atlas’ SAGE Labs made up 15% of all Solana activity and surpassed Polygon’s network total on Sunday
Coinbase director Conor Grogan has flagged on-chain data that highlights massive USDT mints ordered by Alameda to profit off arbitrage trading
Artificial Intelligence
Researchers at Brown University discovered new vulnerabilities in ChatGPT-4 security settings by using less common languages like Zulu and Gaelic to bypass various restrictions
Microsoft VP of Research and Incubations says enlisting AI in medicine and longevity research will be a “net positive”
Cybersecurity firm Avast has called out an AI tool dubbed “LoveGPT” used to create fake profiles, interact, and scrape data
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia collaborated with two Chinese universities to create an Arabic-focused AI system
Government
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe kicks off its gold-backed digital token $ZiG on Oct. 5 as an official payment method
Business
Ripple CFO, Kristina Campbell, stepped down amid the SEC lawsuit for a comparable position at Maven Clinic; it is unclear if Campbell’s departure is related to regulatory scrutiny Ripple is facing
Bitstamp says it’s in talks to help three large European banks begin offering crypto services around Q1 of next year
Bitcoin ASIC manufacturer Bitmain has paused employee salary payments for Sept. and beyond, citing difficulty in achieving “net positive cash flow”
Unity CEO, John Riccitiello, departs after the company recently walked back its “runtime fee” following developer backlash
Legal
Judge Kaplan cautioned the defense’s repetitive cross-examination, saying "The goal here is not to set a record for the longest trial, it's to have the fairest trial.”
SBF is seeking permission to probe alleged involvement of FTX lawyers in the issuance of $200M in loans from Alameda approved by Gary Wang
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