Daily Market Update 1/10

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SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

• New Activation! Lifetime Tier Key Holders get 30-Day Access to EAT!

• 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 CryptoPunks #1775

• 19.54 Ξ The Captainz #7132

• 0.7082 BTC Twelvefold by Yuga

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• 11:00 AM Meme Card #185: TX by Jaen

• 12:00 PM Ecosapiens: Polysapiens

• 01:00 PM Stuart Batchelor: Linea on Verse

• 01:00 PM Golan Levin: ‘Cytographia’ on ArtBlocks

• 01:00 PM HODLERS: Pixel Perfect

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• BAYC, floor of 23.6 Ξ (4% ▽)

• BEANZ, floor of 0.38 Ξ (13% ▽)

• MAYC, floor of 4.53 Ξ (6% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Mint Genesis NFT, floor of 0.008 Ξ (73% ▽)

• CALIVERSE Pioneer, floor of 0.38 Ξ (27% ▽)

• y00ts, floor of 0.55 Ξ (2% ▲)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• Wilder World, floor of 0.3 Ξ (74% ▲)

• MAX PAIN AND FRENS BY XCOPY, floor of 0.57 Ξ (59% ▲)

• Ether Avatar, floor of 0.18 Ξ (43% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

• Pixel Vault: BattlePlan officially goes live

• TON Foundation: confusing post on “Notcoin”; “… a Notcoin has no market value”, but will “soon launch a TON-based digital asset”

• Luke Dashjr, Proposal: to filter “spam” on Bitcoin (Ordinals) gets shut down; it was “inappropriately closed due to social attacks”

• Gary Gensler’s Post: alerting of compromised SEC account inscribed to Bitcoin

Crypto & Financial Markets:

• K33 Research, CME Open Interest: hits record $6.2B; investors may rotate for cheaper spot BTC ETFs as futures premium soars

• K33 Research, Spot BTC ETF: may boost price; flips on “sell the news” bias following last week’s liquidation cascade

• CryptoQuant, Bitcoin: miners increase sales amid high unrealized profits; price correction cannot be ruled out

• VanEck: spot Bitcoin ETF market share likely to be distributed, not a “winner-take-all” market

• 90% of Bitcoin: held in profit as price reaches $46k, up from 50% at start of last year

• ETH Surges: as attention rotates in expectation of potential ETH ETF

• $XAI: billed as a “layer-3” on Arbitrum; airdrop lands at $154M market cap

• PayPal $PYUSD: traded in third largest Curve liquidity pool

• Wintermute Report: reveals 400% rise in its OTC volume

• Japan Nikkei: extends to 33-year highs, crossing 34k mark in first since 1990

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

• EU Regulators: weighing Microsoft $10B OpenAI investment for antitrust ramifications, potential full-scale probe

Government, Policy & Regulation:

• US Senators: “express concern and request clarity” on SEC X hack

• NYS Comptroller Report: NY DFS relies on outdated data on VASP, recommends doing a better job, NY DFS rejects the audit findings

• UAE Fintech: investments soar 92% amid global 48% sink

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

• BlackRock, ARK 21Shares: follow competition, reduce proposed ETF fees

• BitGo: in-principle approval for Major Payment Institution in Singapore operations

• X Report: SEC did not employ basic security measures on its account when it was “compromised”