Daily Market Update 12/21

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover $ISLAND Play-to-Airdrop, Web3War Skill-to-Earn, Two New Bitcoin ETF Ads, New CryptoPunk Wrapper, and More.

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Jake
December 21, 2023

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Top Stories

Nifty Island: $ISLAND launching through Play-to-Airdrop beginning Jan. 17

Bitwise, Hashdex: publish two new spot Bitcoin ETF ads as race heats up

Web3War: mission to overhaul P2E landscape, end “burning” time model through Skill-to-Earn

Yuga, CryptoPunks: reveal new 2-way wrapper for greater flexibility

SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

  • New Raffles! 3x FUTR One, Valhalla #6342, & Otherdeed #79244

  • Listing & Bidding XP, FUTR One, Creators, $ME, and [redacted] teasers

🎟️ Active Raffles:

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:
🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

  • 01:00 PM Takawo: ‘Snail Trails’ on fxhash x ARTXCODE

  • 03:00 PM BitBlocks by Billy Restey

  • 03:00 PM Pepemon Collective: Evo-Lotion

  • 06:30 PM Matteo Mauro: ‘FOUR SEASONS: WINTER’ on NiftyGateway

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

  • ETH: $13.4M (37% ▲)

  • BTC: $37.6M (1% ▽)

  • SOL: $10.1M (15% ▽)

  • MATIC: $1.3M (34% ▽)

  • IMX: $156k (83% ▽)

🪙 Top Tokens:

  • BTC: $43,821 (0.6% ▽)

  • ETH:  $2,239 (0.6% ▽)

  • BNB: $272 (5.4% ▲)

  • SOL: $86.24 (8.6% ▲)

  • XRP: $ 0.617 (1% ▽)

📊 Market Stats:

  • Global Crypto Market Cap: $ 1.66T

  • BTC Dominance: 53.49%

  • BTC OI: $10.7B

  • Fear & Greed: 70

💹 Indices (Futures):

  • DOW: $37,656 (0.6% ▲)

  • S&P500: $4,782 (0.7% ▲)

  • NASDAQ: $16,923 (0.9% ▲)

  • FTSE100: $9,697 (0.3% ▽)

  • HSI: $2,121 (0.1% ▽)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

  • Phantom: adds support for Bitcoin, Ordinals, & BRC-20 tokens

  • MoonPay: launches streamlined checkout tool for buying NFTs in fiat

  • Starkware, Avail: reach deal to provide its “data availability” solution to application-chains using SW’s Madara sequencer

Crypto & Financial Markets:

  • Gaming Tokens, Immutable: hits 20-month highs, outpacing Bitcoin

  • Solana: flips XRP by market cap as gains continue to exceed other majors and DeFi ecosystem grows

  • $STX, Stacks: rallies after Tim Draper makes positive comments, sees future building on Bitcoin

  • Bitfinex, Mikro Kapital: raise 5.2M USDT for tokenized bond issuance

  • ARK Invest: sold $245M $COIN, $GBTC shares the past month

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

  • Anthropic: to raise $750M new funding at $18B valuation

  • UK Court: rejects two patents filed in the name of an AI model, must be a “natural person”

Government, Policy & Regulation:
Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:
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