Daily Market Update 1/23

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover BAYC & Pudgy Penguins on CEX, Musée d’Orsay’s First NFT Exhibition, FTX GBTC Sales, ETH Nethermind Bug, and More.

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Jake
January 23, 2024

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Top Stories

Floor Protocol: launches BAYC, Pudgy Penguins u-Tokens on CEX

GBTC, Bitcoin Selloff: attributed to FTX estate sales, raises Bitcoin ETF fresh inflow estimates (not from other BTC products)

Le Code d’Orsay by DJ Agoria: to premiere at the Musée d’Orsay’s first NFT exhibition

Ethereum Nethermind Bug: temporarily knocks out 8% of validators, worries ecosystem users of larger concern for “client diversity”

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NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:
🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

  • 11:00 AM Professor Jun: 'Batailles' on Iconic

  • 12:00 PM Wren: ‘Hitomebore’ on Foundation

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

  • ETH: $13.9M (3% ▲)

  • BTC: $7M (1% ▲)

  • SOL: $8.9M (2% ▽)

  • MATIC: $2M (27% ▽)

  • AVAX: $1.5M (25% ▲)

🪙 Top Tokens:

  • BTC: $ 38,954 (3.7% ▽)

  • ETH: $ 2,216 (6.1% ▽)

  • BNB: $ 295 (4.5% ▽)

  • SOL: $ 81.81 (4.8% ▽)

  • XRP: $ 0.507 (3.3% ▽)

📊 Market Stats:

  • Global Crypto Market Cap: $ 1.53T

  • BTC Dominance: 51.6%

  • BTC OI: $10.0B

  • Fear & Greed: 50

💹 Indices (Futures):

  • DOW: $38,099 (0.3% ▽)

  • S&P500: $4,884 (0.1% ▲)

  • NASDAQ: $17,472 (0.1% ▲)

  • FTSE100: $9,529 (0.2% ▲)

  • HSI: $2,002 (2.3% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

  • Non-Fungible DAO: launching $NFT token with commitment from Magic Eden to open-source contracts

  • 0x “Tx Relay”: enables “gasless” swapping through abstraction; combines gas fee into the total swap value

  • Anon Wallet: airdrops 21k Ordinals to protocol users; references @rodarmor’s Runes Protocol, community advises caution

  • EigenLayer: plans shared security model to enable, secure protocols using a collective pool of re-staked ETH

  • Kaspersky: Trojan targeting Mac users’ crypto wallet seed phrases

Crypto & Financial Markets:
AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

  • Eternal You: debuts at Sundance Film Festival focusing on reviving dead via AI avatars

Government, Policy & Regulation:

  • SEC: confirms X account hack was a SIM swap, had no two factor authentication from July 2023; investigation ongoing

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

  • Telegram: rolling out “view-once” voice & video messages

  • Judge: to hear Binance, SEC arguments on whether certain tokens were securities

  • Alameda Research: drops Grayscale lawsuit to liquidate GBTC shares

  • Abra: settles with Texas Securities, opens investor withdrawals for $13M in crypto

  • US Air Force Cyber Analyst: arrested for allegedly promoting, rug-pulling “UndeadApes NFTs”

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