Daily Market Update 11/21

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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:

• 110 Ξ Fidenza #456

• 85 Ξ Fidenza #525

• 72.5 Ξ Fidenza #670

🎉 Notable Mints (ET):

• 10:00 AM Nakamoto Archives

• 11:00 AM HODLERS: ESC by Adam Disbrow

• 12:00 PM Shadow War

• 12:00 PM Vince: ‘Solve-Un-Solve’ on Verse

• TBA FIATpass

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• BAYC, floor of 27.2 Ξ (4% ▽)

• MAYC, floor of 5 Ξ (10% ▽)

• Neo Tokyo Citizen, floor of 19.9 Ξ (54% ▲)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Scatter, floor of 0.03 Ξ (199% ▲)

• Sofa Maker, floor of 0.16 Ξ (6% ▲)

• Mocaverse Treasure Box - Lucky Neko, floor of 0.19 Ξ (50% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• Private Jet Pyjama Party, floor of 0.26 Ξ (83% ▲)

• Yogapetz, floor of 0.45 Ξ (64% ▲)

• Sketchbook A By William Mapan, floor of 8.5 Ξ (48% ▲)

Other News

Web3

• Ubisoft: bringing Rayman, 'Captain Laserhawk' NFT Avatars to The Sandbox

• FIAT, Zealy, Arbitrum: collab for the FIAT Pass today

• Bittrex Global: to wind down operations following regulatory challenges, cease trading by Dec. 4

Blockchain

• Phantom: launches “Cross-Chain Swapper” to simplify bridging between ETH, SOL

• Blast L2: partners with Blur for Season 3 rewards, offers yield for ETH and stablecoins, airdrop speculated

• dWallet: flags potential $1B vulnerability in validators hosted by InfStones; company disputes claims

• Avalanche ASC-20s: responsible for 95% of its daily on-chain transactions

Finance

• Wasabi, Flooring Protocol: partner for Fully-Collateralized Perpetual NFT Contracts on μ-tokens

• Cambodian digital bakong: expands to Alipay network, 83 million merchants worldwide

• Microsoft, Nvidia: stocks rally amid OpenAI CEO, team shuffle

Artificial Intelligence

• OpenAI: faces “intense discussions” as 90% of staff threaten to follow Altman to Microsoft

• Anthropic CEO: declined OpenAI merger and offer to replace Altman as CEO following OpenAI shakeup

• AutoGPT, Northeastern U., Microsoft Research: develop tool to monitor, prevent LLMs for harmful outputs

• AstraZeneca: pharma giant launches Evinova to use AI to optimize and speed up clinical trials

• Dfinity, SingularityNET: partner to bridge AI with blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized networks

Government

• Canadian regulator: seeking feedback on crypto-asset exposure disclosure requirements

• Tether: freezes $225M Feds say is tied to human trafficking

Business

• Celsius: to transition to Bitcoin mining company, ditches staking plans

• CoinDesk: acquired for undisclosed amount by Bullish headed by former NYSE president Tom Farley

• Ubisoft: halts ads on X (Twitter), joining others

Legal

• Customer lawsuit: claims Apple conspired to limit P2P payment options, block crypto technology on iOS apps, devices

• SEC: sues Kraken, alleging unregistered exchange, mixing user funds

• DOJ: seeks $4B from Binance to resolve company investigation, continue US operations

• Blockchain Association: files amicus brief in support of lifting Tornado Cash sanctions