Daily Market Update 1/25

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover Lido DAO Endorsing Wormhole & Axelar, Telefónica Helium Mobile Deployments, Craig Wright Settlement Offer, Bitwise Public Bitcoin Address, and More.

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Top Stories

Lido DAO: endorses Wormhole, Axelar as “official” provider for moving stETH to BNB in wake of LayerZero’s unauthorized bridge launch

Telefónica, Nova Labs: partner to deploy Helium Mobile hotspots in Mexico City & Oaxaca

Craig Wright: issues settlement offer in COPA case to avoid trial on IP rights, end legal pressure to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitwise: first spot Bittcoin ETF issuer to provide its wallet address to the public

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NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:
🎉 Notable Mints (EST):
⬆️ Top by Volume:
⬆️ Top by Sales:
🪅 Biggest Winners:
⛓️ NFT Vol. by Blockchain (24h):
  • ETH: $10.2M (27% ▲)

  • BTC: $6.9M (8% ▽)

  • SOL: $7.1M (2% ▽)

  • MATIC: $2.3M (10% ▽)

  • AVAX: $1.4M (29% ▽)

🪙 Top Tokens:
  • BTC: $ 39,780 (0.7% ▽)

  • ETH: $ 2,199 (1.8% ▽)

  • BNB: $ 292 (0.5% ▽)

  • SOL: $ 86.43 (0.4% ▽)

  • XRP: $ 0.507 (1.7% ▽)

📊 Market Stats:
  • Global Crypto Market Cap: $ 1.56T

  • BTC Dominance: 51.97%

  • BTC OI: $9.5B

  • Fear & Greed: 52

💹 Indices (Futures):
  • DOW: $38,085 (0.3% ▲)

  • S&P500: $4,919 (0.4% ▲)

  • NASDAQ: $17,714 (0.5% ▲)

  • FTSE100: $9,572 (0.5% ▲)

  • HSI: $2,056 (0.6% ▽)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:
  • Solana Labs: launches Token Extensions for advanced functionality, helps enhance utility and compliance of tokens on Solana

  • Polygon Labs: new “aggregation layer” to create a “web” of networks set to launch next month

  • SatoshiVM: uses trendy buzzwords in marketing, controversy after influencers dump tokens; community advises caution

  • Saga DAO: community-run fan club for Solana Saga loses $60k SOL, 70% of treasury; only required one of twelve active multisig signers

Crypto & Financial Markets:
  • Bitcoin: could see heightened demand in 2024 “with US Fed Reserve likely to cut rates,” CoinShares report

  • GBTC: moved over 100k Bitcoin to exchanges since spot ETFs launched; FTX estate recently sold its 22M GBTC shares

  • Solana Dialect: launches “conversational” trading bot in telegram using ChatGPT

  • Tesla: falls on missed Q4 earnings, warns growth rate to be “notably lower” than 2023

  • Worlds Largest Uranium Miner: shortages over next two years; Uranium could rally beyond 16-year highs

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:
  • Jason Rohrer: refutes “Eternal You” documentary depicting his work, saying interactions with his AI model were taken out of context

Government, Policy & Regulation:
  • BoE: Digital Pound legislation to include privacy, control of money protections

  • SEC: delays its decision on BlackRock’s spot Ethereum ETF application

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:
  • Tesla: Bitcoin holdings unchanged in Q4, holding over $387M

  • Sygnum: Swiss crypto bank secures $40M round with $900M valuation

  • Judge: blocks CZ’s request to travel to UAE despite offering $4.5B Binance equity as security

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