Daily Market Update 11/30

Top Stories

SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

• Earn XP through “Direct Minting” on Mintify

• “Snipe” and “Insane” gas mode presets for competitive trading

• Revealer 2.0, Blockaid integration, Custom Gas Presets, Site Actions

🎟️ Active Raffles:

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

• 140 Ξ BAYC #2130

• 138 Ξ BAYC #5847

• 101.8 Ξ Autoglyphs #337

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• 09:00 AM ANote Music Genesis NFT

• 12:00 PM BoDoggos x Courtyard: The Modern Collector’s Pack

• 01:00 PM Perils of Sēsē by All Seeing Seneca

• 01:00 PM DeltaSauce: ‘Views’ on BrainDrops

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• BAYC, floor of 29 Ξ (6% ▽)

• Moonbirds, floor of 1.9 Ξ (6% ▽)

• The Grapes, floor of 1.8 Ξ (46% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Grifterz, floor of 0.004 Ξ (58% ▽)

• Sprotoladys, floor of 0.03 Ξ (48% ▽)

• Paragon Riftwalkers, floor of 0.039 Ξ (24% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• LooksRare INFILTRATION, floor of 0.04 Ξ (300% ▲)

• ByteGANs, floor of 1 Ξ (141% ▲)

• Defimons Monsters, floor of 0.062 Ξ (123% ▲)

Other News

Web3

• Parallel: launches patch 0.24, new mechanics; sets stage for upcoming Season 5

• $IOTA: establishes IOTA Ecosystem DLT Foundation in Abu Dhabi; token jumps 40%

• $ALGO: expands India operations with NASSCOM partnership

• Inspect: closes funding round with notable Web3 VCs, angels for undisclosed amount

• Celsius: eligible users can withdraw 72.5% of crypto holdings

• Poloniex: to gradually resume withdrawals starting with $TRX following $100M hack

• Binance: to end support for BUSD in Dec., remaining to be converted into First Digital USD on Dec. 31

• KyberSwap hacker: demands “complete executive control” by Dec. 10 deadline, otherwise “treaty falls through”

Blockchain

• Copper: to offer tokenized securities early 2024 in Abu Dhabi

• Bioniq Ordinals marketplace: reduces trading fees via ICP native Bitcoin integration

• Bitcoin mining: study finds it could mitigate against climate change

Finance

• ARK Invest: sells more $COIN, buys $HOOD, $SOFI

• Jack Dorsey: raises $6.2M for non-custodial Bitcoin mining pool that pays miners block rewards directly from the network

• Republic Note: to be listed on INX through Avalanche on Dec. 6; regulated, available to non-accredited investors

• Antpool: offers refund for record breaking 83 $BTC transaction fee

Artificial Intelligence

• Amazon: announces image generator part of Amazon Titan, suite of multimodal foundational models

• Stability AI: reportedly looking for buyer following CEO, VPs departure over firm’s use of copyrighted content

• OpenAI: announces official return of Sam Altman as CEO, new board with Microsoft

• Google DeepMind AI: predicts 2 million novel chemical materials, accelerate discovery of new tech

Government

• US Treasury: exploring new tools to pursue bad actors in crypto

• BIS: central banks should plan in advance for CBDC security

Business

• HK Securities trade group: suggests establishing official ICO portal

• University of Miami, Helium Mobile: partner to become Official Wireless Sponsor of UM Athletics

• Grayscale: updates Bitcoin trust agreement to optimize structure in anticipation of spot ETF uplisting

• Blackrock: meets with SEC over ETF filing update; Pando files for spot BTC ETF

• SoFi: to transition away from direct crypto services; Blockchain[.]com partnership for customer asset handoff

Legal

• US Treasury: sanctions mixer Sinbad, alleging ties to North Korea

• FTX: approved to sell Grayscale, Bitwise digital assets valued at $873M