Daily Market Update 12/22

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover Wallet Wars $BZR, Anipang Match LG TVs, Ocean Allows Ordinals, Prometheum Regulatory Approval, and More.

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Jake
December 22, 2023

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Top Stories

Wallet Wars, Balthazar DAO: to vote on future of potential $BZR token early 2024

Ocean: miners to decide to process Bitcoin blocks with non-financial transactions (Ordinals), not prohibit them

Anipang Match: to offer P2E gameplay elements in LG Smart TV app

Prometheum: receives approval to clear, settle digital asset securities trades, licensed under SEC rules

SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

  • New Feature! Custom Layouts: Swap, rearrange, add, remove modules

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

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

🎟️ Active Raffles:

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:
🎉 Notable Mints (EST):
⬆️ Top by Volume:
⬆️ Top by Sales:
🪅 Biggest Winners:
⛓️ NFT Vol. by Blockchain (24h):

  • ETH: $12.1M (5% ▽)

  • BTC: $22M (40% ▽)

  • SOL: $11.5M (41% ▽)

  • MATIC: $991k (23% ▽)

  • IMX: $696k (327% ▲)

🪙 Top Tokens:

  • BTC: $43,636 (0.3% ▲)

  • ETH: $2,343 (5.6% ▲)

  • BNB: $269 (1.2% ▽)

  • SOL: $94.14 (9.1% ▲)

  • XRP: $0.621 (1.1% ▲)

📊 Market Stats:

  • Global Crypto Market Cap: $ 1.67T

  • BTC Dominance: 52.65%

  • BTC OI: $10.4B

  • Fear & Greed: 74

💹 Indices (Futures):

  • DOW: $37,861 (0.3% ▲)

  • S&P500: $4,820 (0.5% ▲)

  • NASDAQ: $17,033 (0.5% ▲)

  • FTSE100: $9,753 (0.5% ▲)

  • HSI: $2,096 (1.7% ▽)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

  • Decrypt, Rug Radio: release official merge, Arbitrum partnership

  • Magic Eden: introduces Open Solmap for owning, developing Solana’s transaction history & blockspace

  • Animoca Brands CEO: open metaverse could help promote competition, enable “vampire attacks” by Web3 games

  • Ethereum Developers: target Jan. for deployment of Dencun upgrade testnet, soft target of late-Feb. for mainnet

  • Solana Mobile: cancels Saga orders after “inventory management” issue; if no cancellation email, phone is expected to ship by year-end

Crypto & Financial Markets:

  • Solana DeFi: volume overtakes Ethereum DeFi the past week

  • Solana Saga: $BONK, $ACS, $HXD, $SAMO, $SLND airdrops; multiple mining & promotional perks across different apps

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

  • MidJourney: V6 alpha launch bringing enhanced prompt accuracy, coherence, & text generation

Government, Policy & Regulation:

  • UN Agency: decentralized identity infrastructure through ZK-proof are critical for refugees crossing borders

  • Argentina: confirms Bitcoin as legally accepted currency for contracts

  • China: suggests banning game token to fiat currency conversion

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

  • X, Elon: expects to launch in-app payment services by mid-2024

  • Coinbase: approved as VASP in France

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