Daily Market Update 1/11

Top Stories

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:

• 65 Ξ Fidenza #819

• 240 SOL Mad Lads #4407

• 4 Ξ Axie Infinity

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• 11:00 AM Orkhan: ‘The Beginning and The End’ on SuperRare

• 01:00 PM Breakout by ChainVirus

• 04:00 PM Shadow Hats: The Shadows

• 06:30 PM BOUBOY: ‘Toxic Story’ on NiftyGateway

• 07:00 PM Persona by Rupture

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• Age Of Dino - Dinosty, floor of 1.16 Ξ (10% ▽)

• Moonbirds, floor of 1.06 Ξ (16% ▽)

• BAYC, floor of 22.5 Ξ (6% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• BEANZ, floor of 0.36 Ξ (5% ▽)

• Virtual Versions Genesis, floor of 0.095 Ξ (96% ▽)

• Azuki Elementals, floor of 0.6 Ξ (3% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• Loot (For Adventurers), floor of 0.69 Ξ (62% ▲)

• SeeDAO, floor of 1.4 Ξ (49% ▲)

• Sybil Samurai, floor of 0.13 Ξ (42% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

• SEC Chair Gensler: BTC ETF approval statement inscribed on Bitcoin

• OpenSea, Privy: launch email-only self-custody sign up option for simpler onboarding

• Franklin Templeton: adds Bitcoin Laser Eyes to logo for its X PFP

• Aave: votes to integrate $PYUSD into its ETH-based pool

• Vitalik: suggests raising ETH gas limit to 40M for network throughput, 33% increase

• Bitcoin ETFs: approved exactly 15 years after Hal Finney’s “Running Bitcoin” post

Crypto & Financial Markets:

• Cboe Global Markets: six spot Bitcoin ETFs to go live for trading today

• JPMorgan Dimon: remains opposed to Bitcoin despite his bank’s participation in BlackRock’s ETF

• Goldman Sachs, Spot Bitcoin ETF: to benefit institutional investors, increase protection, liquidity, tracking errors

• $WIF Buyer: $8.8M buys in three transactions, loses $5.7M to slippage

• Polymarket: more volume than OpenSea as traders bet on ETF odds

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

• Mixtal: only open-source model ranking in top 10 amongst proprietary models

• McAfee Project Mockingbird: 90% accurate in deepfake audio detection

• Voice Actors: “appalled” by SAG-AFTRA, Replica deal for making AI-powered versions of union members’ voices with consent, control, pay

Government, Policy & Regulation:

• WEF Annual Report: flags AI, quantum computing as new global risks

• SEC Comm’r Pierce on Bitcoin ETF: “We squandered a decade of opportunities to do our job”; hopeful for smoother future approvals

• ECB: to allocate over $700M to providers who build offline digital euro payments solutions

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

• Near Foundation: reducing team by 40%, treasury “remains strong”

• Circle Internet Financial (USDC): files for IPO, details TBA

• Ritual: decentralized AI platform onboards Arthur Hayes as advisor

• Tune.FM: $20M raise for artist-friendly Web3 streaming platform

• Twitch, Unity, Others: announce over 2,000 layoffs