Daily Market Update 12/04

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SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

• Earn XP through “Direct Minting” on Mintify

• Increased Daily Seasonal XP Limit: 100 XP → 1,000 XP

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

🎟️ Active Raffles:

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

• 80.4 Ξ Otherdeed #71490

• 26 Ξ Pudgy Penguins #5266

• 19.5 Ξ Pixelmon #2448

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• 11:00 AM Meme Card #175: ‘Transactional’ by Bryan Brinkman

• 01:00 PM Martijn Cohen: ‘Escherly Seeds’ on ArtBlocks

• 01:00 PM Roope Rainisto ‘Rainisto Variations’ on Verse

• 03:00 PM The Golden ratio by Harto

• 03:00 PM Transient Labs x MakersPlace Miami

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• Pudgy Penguins, floor of 9.64 Ξ (6% ▲)

• Lil Pudgys, floor of 0.84 Ξ (11% ▽)

• BAYC, floor of 30.3 Ξ (1% ▲)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Sprotoladys, floor of 0.089 Ξ (98% ▲)

• Deforgs, floor of 0.052 Ξ (478% ▲)

• Fortune Founder's Key By AOFverse, floor of 0.67 Ξ (2% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• Skyborne - Nexian Gems, floor of 0.19 Ξ (78% ▲)

• Kanpai Pandas, floor of 1.56 Ξ (70% ▲)

• Candy Collective: Genesis Collection, floor of 0.69 Ξ (57% ▲)

Other News

Web3

• Pixelmon: Nov. update details partnerships, game dev. progress, upcoming activations

• Army of Fortune: $AFG launching early Dec.

• Binance: re-opening withdrawals for several delisted tokens

• Aqua: marketplace, wallet to shut down, users should withdraw funds

• Kyberswap: treasury grant to reimburse exploit victims in USD

• Velodrome, Aerodome: service provider, frontend compromised

Blockchain

• Arbitrum DAO: approves $23.54M “backfund” for unfulfilled grants

• Zodia Custody: joins Metaco’s institutional safekeeping, settlement network

• Franklin Templeton: BTC ETFs lead to tokenization, democratize markets

• Mantle: launches its liquid staking protocol, “targeting the No. 3 spot”

Finance

• Analysts: debate Jan. 8 - 10 next chance for spot ETF approval

• Terra ecosystem: rallies as speculators bet on LUNC, LUNA, USTC

• North Korean hackers: stole $3B in crypto over six years; 10x countries exports earnings since 2021

Artificial Intelligence

• Together: raises $102.5M Series A, Nvidia, Emergence Capital

• Stability AI: SDXL Turbo generates images in under one second

• Sam Altman: appears to admit existence of Q*, “no particular comment on that unfortunate leak”

• Google: delays Gemini AI model release until next year

Government

• Nayib Bukele: El Salvador President steps down, re-election campaign

• Israeli Defense Force: shows AI-powered “Gospels” targeting system

• Madeira: welcomes tech companies, effort to boost economic growth

• UK legislators: urge caution in implementing retail digital pound

Business

• Coinbase: to integrate Solana and “other layer-1s that are very fast”

• Tether: to build renewable energy facilities; on track for $4.5B profit

• Binance CEO: company’s explosive growth led to compliance failures

• Walmart: suspends advertising on X (formally Twitter)

Legal

• NABU: seizes $1.5M in crypto from former gov’t official

• SBF: not pursuing post-trial motions, reserves right for claims on appeal

• ZachXBT: connects convicted SIM-swapper to 2022 Instagram scams

• Platypus DeFi hackers: acquitted by Paris court, argued as “ethical hacker” and later returned funds