Daily Market Update 1/05

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SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

• New Features! Delegate Wallet, Shift to Select, Custom Layouts

• New Raffles! Otherdeed #81766, KILLABEAR #513

⏳️ What’s Up Next:

• Mintify ERC721C Marketplace with Listing & Bidding XP

• Creator Leaderboard, Loot Boxes, & more teasers

🎟️ Active Raffles:

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

• 75 Ξ Ringers #522

• 75 Ξ Ringers #711

• 57 Ξ BAYC #9291

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• 11:00 AM Meme Card #183: TAP me if you can by 1dontknows

• 01:00 PM Rainscapes by tokenfox

• 05:00 PM ittybits by Jeremy.eth

• 11:00 PM 0009 x Redrum x Charlesai: ‘AI Meets Bitcoin’ on Bounce

• Jan. 6 10:00 PM TinFun

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• BAYC, floor of 26.2 Ξ (2% ▽)

• DeGods, floor of 3.34 Ξ (2% ▽)

• Pixelmon - Generation 1, floor of 1.51 Ξ (1% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Shishi, floor of 0.039 Ξ (61% ▽)

• CALIVERSE Pioneer, floor of 0.15 Ξ (11% ▲)

• Poglin: Nycra, floor of 0.13 Ξ (4% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• No More Liquidity: Genesis Pass, floor of 2.9 Ξ (423% ▲)

• Gazer - Abyss World, floor of 0.19 Ξ (116% ▲)

• Michelin 3xplorer Club, floor of 0.31 Ξ (48% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

• Saga: reveals claimers eligible for upcoming airdrop, “play-to-airdrop” event

• Solana $LFG: airdrops to ETH users who paid over $4,269 in gas; plans second round & grants program

Crypto & Financial Markets:

• Merit Circle, $BEAM: surges 36% as network transactions hit all-time highs

• $MEME, Binance Labs: announces investment in Memeland ecosystem token

• Bitwise Poll, Financial Advisors: are still skeptical SEC will approve Bitcoin ETF

• Ethereum L2 TVL: hits all-time high of $21.2B; 333% rise since Jan. 2023

• Arthur Hayes: predicts 20% - 40% Bitcoin retrace in March due to Fed’s Bank Term Funding Program ending

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

• Microsoft: to add dedicated AI key for Windows 11 keyboards following Copilot launch

• Nikon, Sony, Canon: joint initiative to certify real images by integrating metadata into photos taken by cameras

• Perplexity AI: building a generative “answer engine”; “not here to sell you another chatbot and alternative to ChatGPT”

Government, Policy & Regulation:

• Crypto X “Rumor Mill”: stirs up speculation of SEC ETF approval today

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

• Celsius: to unstake $466M $ETH as it begins “recalling and rebalancing assets” for distribution; accounts for a third of exit queue

• Marathon Digital: hashrate up 4%, all time record mined in a single month by any public Bitcoin mining company

• Grayscale, VanEck, ARK: register for trading on exchanges, contingent on SEC approval

• SEC: wants court overseeing Binance case to consider Terraforms ruling

• Huobi Korea: to shut down citing business difficulties, users can still withdraw