Daily Market Update 1/17

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover F2P Dookey Dash, Vegas Golden Knights NFTs, Nyan Heroes Play-to-Airdrop, Maliciously Trained AI, and More.

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Jake
January 17, 2024

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Top Stories

Yuga Labs, Faraway: F2P Dookey Dash Unclogged in Q1, benefits for NFT holders; APE rallies in speculation

Nyan Heroes: “play-to-airdrop” for NYN in Feb. early access release on Epic Games Store

Vegas Golden Knights, Theta: NFTs granting access to IRL experiences, home game claims, memorabilia

Anthropic: “backdoored” language models can be maliciously trained, contain hidden agendas

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NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:
🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

  • Jake Fried: ‘Open Eyes (Signal)’ on Avant Arte

  • 11:00 AM Meme Card #188: Art Drop by Wÿn

  • 01:00 PM Rafaël Rozendaal: ‘Twist’ on ArtBlocks

  • 06:00 PM Axiom Space3: ‘Space Grails’ in Collaboration with Transient Labs and NiftyGateway

⬆️ Top by Volume:
⬆️ Top by Sales:
🪅 Biggest Winners:
⛓️ NFT Vol. by Blockchain (24h):

  • ETH: $16.8M (23% ▲)

  • BTC: $9.3M (30% ▽)

  • SOL: $5.6M (5% ▲)

  • MATIC: $3.4M (37% ▽)

  • AVAX: $2.3M (4% ▽)

🪙 Top Tokens:

  • BTC: $ 42,534 (1.8% ▽)

  • ETH: $ 2,547 (0.8% ▽)

  • BNB: $ 311 (2% ▽)

  • SOL: $ 100 (2.9% ▲)

  • XRP: $ 0.569 (1.2% ▽)

📊 Market Stats:

  • Global Crypto Market Cap: $ 1.70T

  • BTC Dominance: 50.97%

  • BTC OI: $9.8B

  • Fear & Greed: 60

💹 Indices (Futures):

  • DOW: $37,465 (0.2% ▽)

  • S&P500: $4,761 (0.8% ▽)

  • NASDAQ: $16,723 (1.4% ▽)

  • FTSE100: $9,396 (2.1% ▽)

  • HSI: $1,955 (0.2% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

  • Star Atlas: 1k player stress test to showcase high-density environments

  • Blast: developer testnet, “Big Bang” dApp contest for token rewards

  • ETH Dencun Upgrade: goes live, fails to finalize due to lack of participation & older validators

  • Socket, Bungee: restart operations following $3.3M exploit

Crypto & Financial Markets:
AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:
Government, Policy & Regulation:

  • IRS: $10k+ business crypto transaction reporting rule not yet enforced

  • China: GDP up 5.2% in 2023, missing expectations; weak retail sales, second consecutive year of population decline

  • UK: inflation rises to 4% led by rising tobacco, alcohol costs

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

  • Core Scientific: emerging from bankruptcy, to re-list shares by EOM

  • Goldman Sachs: exceeds earning expectations, profits rise 51% YoY

  • Coinbase, SEC: judge to hear arguments for regulators wrongdoing in suing, whether exchange’s business violates US laws

  • Epic Games, Apple: legal battle ends as Supreme Court rejects both appeals; developers can direct users to external payment options

  • SBF Parents: seek having FTX bankruptcy case against them dropped

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