Daily Market Update 1/08

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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:

• 14 Ξ Boo Bears #105

• 0.6775 BTC Ordinal Maxi Biz (OMB)

• 9.25 Ξ Azuki #369

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• 11:00 AM Meme Card #184: Trojan Horse by Martin Kozlowski

• 12:00 PM steganon: 'Dendrites' on Highlight

• 01:00 PM YOU ARE HERE by 0xShiroi

• Jan. 9 03:00 AM Bitcoin Cats

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• MAYC, floor of 4.93 Ξ (2% ▽)

• BAYC, floor of 25 Ξ (5% ▽)

• Azuki, floor of 7.6 Ξ (2% ▲)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Inka Blinks, floor of 0.022 Ξ (51% ▽)

• Rarity Jump Genesis, floor of 0.015 Ξ (26% ▽)

• BEANZ, floor of 0.55 Ξ (1% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• Atornauts, floor of 0.32 Ξ (94% ▲)

• Sofamon Seed, floor of 0.035 Ξ (77% ▲)

• E4C Rangers Gold Edition, floor of 0.6 Ξ (58% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

• OnChainMonkey: inscribed three 20 piece collections on Block 78 sats. using reinscription & parent-child

• Zengo Wallet: offering “on-chain bounty” from Jan. 9 to Jan. 24 with 10 $BTC winning reward

• Alchemy, Over 1M Smart Accounts: deployed since ERC-4337 launch, 53% in Q3 2023

• Synthetix Andromeda: reveals $SNX buyback & token burn

• Whales Market: announces Points Marketplace for trading various platform’s loyalty points

• Unknown Wallet: inscribes encrypted data to Bitcoin 1.5 $BTC

• MangoFarmSOL: drained funds & rug-pulled; developer “forced” to deploy memecoins

Crypto & Financial Markets:

• Solana Daily Transaction Volume: ticks over $40B, highest level in over a year

• SagaMonkes: airdropped to Solana Saga devices hit 6 $SOL

• ARK Invest: sells $20.6M $COIN shares, down to 10% portfolio weight

• BlackRock: expects spot Bitcoin ETF approval on Wed.

• Unknown Wallet: sends 26.9 $BTC to network’s Genesis wallet; “either Satoshi woke up, or someone burned $1.2M”

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

• Samsung New TVs: use AI for 8k upscaling, enhancing depth, sounds

• Lists of Artists Names: allegedly used for training Midjourney leaked, including Frida Kahlo, Walt Disney, & Yayoi Kusama

Government, Policy & Regulation:

• Australian Securities Regulator (ASIC): questioned over missing HyperVerse scam early signs; est. $1.3B consumer losses

• Bloomberg Analyst: claims SEC’s ETH futures ETF green-light “implicitly” nods ETH as a commodity

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

• SpaceX Execs: worry about Elon’s drug use after “cringeworthy” all-hands meeting

• Elon: rejects claims of drug use, “not even trace quantities” were found over three years of random drug tests

• Binance US: hires new chief compliance officer amid intense scrutiny

• BlackRock, VanEck, WisdomTree, others: amend filings, reduce fees

• Grayscale: shifts allocations in crypto funds; reduces $MATIC, adds $AVAX, $XRP

• Coinbase: plans acquisition to offer regulated derivatives in the EU

• Dave App: to buy back $100M stake from FTX for $71M

• DCG: completes repayment of all short-term loans from its bankrupt subsidiary Genesis

• US DOJ: reportedly prepares antitrust lawsuit against Apple for its Watch, iMessage, Pay services