Daily Market Update 1/15

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SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

• New Activation! Lifetime Tier Key Holders get 30-Day Access to EAT!

• New Features! Orderbook, Favorites, Transfers, and More.

• New Raffles! FUTROne #1544, Cobra Effect Pepe.

⏳️ What’s Up Next:

• Mintify ERC721C Marketplace with Listing & Bidding XP

• Creator Leaderboard, Loot Boxes, & more teasers

🎟️ Active Raffles:

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

• 190 Ξ CryptoPunks #6912

• 90 Ξ Azuki #5889

• 90 Ξ Azuki #308

• 19.5 Ξ Pudgy Penguins #3616

• 10 Ξ MAYC #8515

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• 09:00 AM Moving Blocks by Deblock [Phase 2 & 3 — Jan. 17]

• 11:00 AM Meme Card #187: Meme Enjoyoor by Viva la Vandal

• 01:00 PM Ralgo: ‘Wild Wave Studies’ on Verse

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• Azuki, floor of 6.7 Ξ (4% ▽)

• Pudgy Penguins, floor of 12.8 Ξ (16% ▲)

• BAYC, floor of 24.3 Ξ (5% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Beramonium Chronicles: Genesis, floor of 0.059 Ξ (48% ▲)

• Mint Genesis, floor of 0.012 Ξ (35% ▲)

• THNFTees: Dorks, floor of 0.031 Ξ (22% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• Moonbears, floor of 0.38 Ξ (76% ▲)

• BlockGames Dice, floor of 0.33 Ξ (18% ▲)

• Pudgy Rods, floor of 0.56 Ξ (18% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

• Upcoming Token Unlocks: 15.6M $APE, 3.43M $AXS, 3.67M $INJ, 53M $ID

• Over 30% Crypto Games: went inactive or were discontinued in 2023

• Jupiter: to commence first $JUP airdrop this week

• Failed Bitfinex Exploit: spooks market as fake 25B XRP transfer is only worth cents

• Flare (FLR), Google Cloud: joins the network as a validator and infra provider

Crypto & Financial Markets:

• Morgan Stanley: spot Bitcoin ETF approvals mark significant point in adoption by global financial system

• BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: Bitcoin could act as a long-term store of value in face of government distrust, currency debasement

• JPMorgan: no more than 50% odds of spot ETH ETF approval by May

• Gary Gensler: firm on only Bitcoin as a commodity for now; ETH ETF not likely imminent

• The Block Report: Tether represents over 70% of stablecoins in circulation

• Microsoft: closed Friday with higher market value than Apple, first since 2021

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

• Sam Altman: AI will make workers more effective, but its rapid growth potential is “scary”

• IMF: warns nearly 40% of jobs globally to be affected by rise of AI, high-income economies facing greater risks

Government, Policy & Regulation:

• SEC: publishes statement on X account hack, fake/early ETF announcement

• US Congressional Leaders: reach agreement on short-term spending avoiding gvovernment shutdown

• Germany: narrowly avoided technical recession, faces slump in 2024

• Venezuela: ending Petro cryptocurrency five years after launch

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

• CoinShares Report: Riot, TeraWulf, CleanSpark best-positioned miners for Bitcoin halving

• Google: pulls Binance, Kraken & others from Play Store in India

• Bitwise, Fidelity: largest BTC ETF inflows; GBTC $95M outflows

• GameStop: to wind down NFT marketplace due to “regulatory uncertainty”

• Genesis Global Trading: to forfeit BitLicense, $8M fines in settlement