Daily Market Update 11/27

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover Cool Cats Macy's Ballon, Square Enix Auction, $3M Bitcoin Fee, Q AI Breakthrough, and More.

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Top Stories

Cool Cats: joined Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with exclusive Blue Cat balloon

SBF: trades Mackerel for a haircut in Brooklyn Detention Center

Bitcoin sender: overpays record $3M+ transaction fee to send $2M in Bitcoin

Square Enix Symbiogenesis: auction to occur in three phases

$GBTC: JPMorgan foresees outflows upon potential ETF conversion approval

Q*, Q-Learning: AI breakthrough speculated to be involved in Altman’s firing; OpenAI has not confirmed

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NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:
🎉 Notable Mints (EST):
  • 11:00 AM Meme Card #171: ’Art Drop’ by DANA ULAMA

  • 12:00 PM Angels & Demons – Curated by CoCollectors on Ninfa

  • 01:00 PM Jiwa: ‘Axo’ on ArtBlocks

  • 02:00 PM Elevate Heart by Daniel Calderon Arenas

  • 06:00 PM 10101.art: ‘Turf War’ by Banksy

  • 08:00 PM BTC Machine X Bitcoin Wizards (ANTI-VIRUS)

⬆️ Top by Volume:
⬆️ Top by Sales:
🪅 Biggest Winners:
⛓️ NFT Vol. by Blockchain (7D):
  • ETH: $92.2M (36% ▲)

  • BTC: $62.9M (64% ▽)

  • SOL: $21.5M (20% ▲)

  • MATIC: $6.2M (26% ▽)

  • IMX: $5M (13% ▽)

🪙 Top Tokens:
  • BTC: $36,916 (1.6% ▽)

  • ETH: $2,018 (3% ▽)

  • BNB: $226 (2.8% ▽)

  • XRP: $0.603 (4.4% ▽)

  • SOL: $54.86 (5.1% ▽)

📊 Market Stats:
  • Global Crypto Market Cap: $1.36T

  • BTC Dominance: 52.63%

  • BTC OI: $9.6B

  • Fear & Greed: 66

💹 Indices (Futures):
  • DOW: $35,379 (0.2% ▽)

  • S&P500: $4,564 (0.1% ▽)

  • NASDAQ: $16,019 (0.1% ▽)

  • FTSE100: $9,378 (0.2% ▲)

  • HSI: $2,244 (0.1% ▽)

Other News

Web3
  • Sky Mavis: to allow holders of select Axie’s to monetize it’s IP in merch store, user generated content, businesses

  • PixelVault: to launch “BattlePlan!” in the next few weeks following play-testing phase

  • Bankless, BanklessDAO: to separate two entities, burn governance tokens held by Bankless

  • Unofficial Azuki DAO: rebrands to “Bean,” drops Zagabond lawsuit

  • Game Wallet: founder puts project on hold

  • Indexed Finance: plans reimbursement for 2021 exploit victims

  • KyberSwap: hacker offers $4.6M bounty for return of remaining funds

  • Nansen users: receive phishing emails following Sept. vendor breach

Blockchain
  • Cosmos Hub: passes proposal to decrease maximum inflation rate, founder Jae Kwon calls for hard fork, $ATOM slips

  • Antpool, Foundry: hashrate battle intensifies leading into halving, ETF

Finance
  • $GBTC: discount to NAV trades in single digits, first time since 2021

  • ARK Invest: sold 700k $GBTC shares in past month, holding 4.3M shares

  • Matr1x game studio: raises $10M for NFT mobile shooter

  • Farcana: secures strategic investment from Animoca Brands

  • Blast: TVL hits $535M; responds to concerns; Paradigm critisizes launch, doesn’t “endorse these kinds of tactics”

  • Robert Kiyosaki: “Get into gold, silver, Bitcoin now…. Before it’s too late”

  • Jim Cramer: “If you like Bitcoin, buy Bitcoin,” analysts joke “inverse Cramer”

Artificial Intelligence
  • HK: to use AI to fight superbugs, address antibiotic overprescription

Government
  • CA Governor: calls for statewide generative AI training

  • India: to set rules against deepfakes amid recent surges

  • Argentina’s Milei: shutting central bank is “non-negotiable”

  • Singapore: to restrict retail crypto speculation, new rules

  • UK regulator: advocates for asset managers to tokenize funds

Business
Legal
  • Tether, Bitfinex: drop opposition to NY FOIL request, not “wholesale release” of all documents

  • Terra’s Do Kwon: extradition approved by Montenegro court, final decision on US or South Korea for trial TBA

  • CZ: challenges US gov’t attempt to restrict travel before sentencing

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