Daily Market Update 11/17

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SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

• Earn XP through “Direct Minting” on Mintify

• Progressive raffle roll-outs throughout the SZN

• Increased Daily Seasonal XP Limit: 100 XP → 1,000 XP

• XPStore rewards entry limits; optimizing for overall fairness

🎟️ Active Raffles:

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

• 101.8 Ξ Autoglyphs #154

• 64 Ξ CryptoPunks #7194

• 58.3 Ξ BAYC #6203

🎉 Notable Mints (ET):

• 11:00 AM Meme Card #167: ‘all things fail’ by Toadswiback

• 12:00 PM Adorable Flux by FAR

• 12:30 PM Courtyard: Web3 Week of Thanks Chimpers

• 01:00 PM Luke Shannon: ‘Seating Arrangements’ on Tonic.xyz

• 01:30 PM Exhibition: ‘ON/OFF SCREEN’ on Vertical

• NOV 18 09:00 AM Marco Bonafe x Gruff: MASS ADOPTION

• NOV 18 10:00 AM AUTOMATA Exhibition in Rome

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• The Captainz, floor of 4.4 Ξ (7% ▽)

• L3E7 Worlds, floor of 2.1 Ξ (5% ▽)

• BAYC, floor of 29.6 Ξ (2% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Seekers Of Paragon, floor of 0.02 Ξ (102% ▲)

• PEPEMON TRADING CARDS, floor of 0.011 Ξ (175% ▲)

• Project AEON, floor of 0.18 Ξ (53% ▲)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• PROOF Pass, floor of 0.75 Ξ (25% ▲)

• Sofa Maker, floor of 0.17 Ξ (23% ▲)

• CryptoNinjaPartners, floor of 0.59 Ξ (11% ▲)

Other News

Web3

• Ubisoft: reveals upcoming Champions Tactics free mint, offers access to free in-game figurine mint

• Aurory: expands with "Seekers of Tokane," upcoming Epic Games Store launch

• Upland, Polemo Games: launch Polemo MetaFort minigames

• Cal Ripken Jr., Candy Digital: partner for digital collectibles of key moments in his career

• Vault: launches competitive Fantasy Record Labels

• FIAT: announces FIAT Pass airdrop on Nov. 21 for the public

• Animoca, Polygon, AWS: partner for “MoonRealm Express Accelerator” Web3 initiative

• Snoop Dogg: says he is "giving up smoke," Polymarket places bets

• Crypto games: hit 1M daily unique active wallets three times in Oct.

• Pyth: to airdrop 90k+ wallets across 27 blockchains $PYTH

Blockchain

• Delegate Cash: launches Delegate Market for trading delegate rights without counterparty risk

• Polygon PRC-20 $POLS: spikes network fees 1,000%

• Sushi, ZetaChain: test native Bitcoin DeFi swaps without wrapping

Finance

• Taproot Wizards: secures $7.5M in seed funding to "make bitcoin magical again"

• Bazooka Tango: secures $5M to continue building "Shardbound" TCG RPG launching on Immutable's upcoming zkEVM network

• Strike: launches Bitcoin purchases globally

• BlackRock: notes risks of negative impact posed by Tether, stablecoin market in ETF filing

Artificial Intelligence

• Meta: reveals Emu Video, Emu Edit for input-based video generation, image editing

Government

• IOSCO: releases crypto policy suggestions report for global approach

• CFTC commissioner: AI brings "great promise and great risk" in protecting financial stability

• Andrew Yang: public should know about blockchain use cases, "…what they see in the news is just Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX"

• Vivek Ramaswamy: crypto policy platform criticizing mixer sanctions, "…code is a form of speech and is protected by the First Amendment"

• IMF: optimistic that CBDCs could replace cash globally

Business

• CoinShares: secures option to buy Valkyrie's ETF unit to gain US foothold

• Aave Companies: rebrands to Avara

Legal

• FBI: arrests three in alleged $10M crypto laundering scheme

• US States: order GS Partners to halt operations, alleged defrauding of investors; Floyd Mayweather Jr., Roberto Carlos named as promoters