Daily Market Update 1/24

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SZN2 Updates

📣 Announcements:

• New Activation! Lifetime Tier Key Holders get 30-Day Access to EAT!

• New Features! Orderbook, Favorites, Transfers, and More.

⏳️ What’s Up Next:

• Mintify ERC721C Marketplace with Listing & Bidding XP

• Creator Leaderboard, Loot Boxes, & more teasers

🎟️ Active Raffles:

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

• 205 Ξ CryptoPunks #6505

• 77 Ξ CryptoPunks #486

• 40 Ξ Ringers #698

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• ripcache x Particle: neutral | public // private 7

• William Mapan: ‘Centrifuge’ on Avant Arte

• Christie’s 3.0: Creating Connections

• 01:00 PM Tengil: ‘Växt’ on ArtBlocks

• 03:00 PM Batz: ‘The Search for Memetic Purity’ on SHILLR

• 09:00 PM Early Retired Cats Club

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• Doodles, floor of 2.32 Ξ (3% ▽)

• Pudgy Penguins, floor of 18.1 Ξ (0%)

• Lil Pudgys, floor of 1.83 Ξ (0.5% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Pengubits, floor of 0.0065 Ξ (271% ▲)

• Pudgy Milady, floor of 0.042 Ξ (40% ▲)

• PUNKBITS, floor of 0.015 Ξ (32% ▲)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• Skytopia Mayor Pass, floor of 0.42 Ξ (64% ▲)

• Deadfellaz, floor of 0.25 Ξ (62% ▲)

• GLHFers, floor of 0.06 Ξ (52% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

• HashKey, Animoca Brands: partner to enhance Web3, digital entertainment through virtual asset development, public education

• Magic Eden: cross-chain NFT rewards program starting with Solana, retroactive Diamond drop from 2021

• Endless Clouds: Treeverse, Capsule Heroes to launch on Immutable zkEVM

• Edward Snowden: backs & endorses legal defense for Tornado Cash founder facing money laundering charges

• Doginals on Dogecoin: enables 4.2 MB playable on-chain ‘Doom’

• Hackers: phish MailerLite employee to distribute phishing emails; $600k+ stolen

Crypto & Financial Markets:

• Gamee, $GMEE: contract exploited for 600M tokens, user assets are safe; token falls 50%+

• OKX: cascading liquidations crashes $OKB 50%+; exchange to compensate users who took losses

• Former Mt. Gox. Customers: receive emails requesting identity confirmation, account details

• Global Financial System: accommodated $3.1T illicit funds in 2023

• Spirit Airlines: surges 100%+ as JetBlue files appeal to court-blocked merger

• JCapital Research: short-selling firm says Hut8/USBTC merger likely a pump and dump, Hut8 CEO rejects report as “filled with inaccuracies”

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

• Activision: over 2M Call of Duty accounts reprimanded for “disruptive voice chat” through new ToxMod AI moderation tool

Government, Policy & Regulation:

• Taurus: approved to offer blockchain-based securities in unlisted companies to retail investors in Switzerland

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

• Polymer: $23M raise for interoperability-as-a-service Ethereum L2

• Apple Car: reportedly pushed back to 2028, initially planned for 2025

• BDE Ventures CEO: considers possibility of Grayscale being acquired by competitor following mass BTC ETF approvals

• Nexo: seeks $3B damages from Bulgaria for “wrongful and politically motivated actions”