Daily Market Update 1/26

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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:

• 70 Ξ CryptoPunks #5987

• 69.42 Ξ Fidenza #858

• 21 Ξ Pudgy Penguins #2280

🎉 Notable Mints (EST):

• 10:40 AM Meme Card #192: All Your Bitcoin by 6529 and 6529er

• 12:00 PM Farcana Ordinals

• 03:00 PM HAHA Glitchframes

• Jan 28 03:00 PM Remnants of a Distant Supernova by Nullish

⬆️ Top by Volume:

• Emby, floor of 0.35 Ξ (36% ▽)

• Lil Pudgys, floor of 1.84 Ξ (4% ▽)

• OVERWORLD INCARNA, floor of 1.52 Ξ (16% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

• Pudgy Milady, floor of 0.059 Ξ (16% ▽)

• Zokio, floor of 0.065 Ξ (17% ▽)

• Fortune Founder’s Key by AOFVerse, floor of 0.19 Ξ (55% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

• Early Retired Cats Club, floor of 0.3 Ξ (154% ▲)

• Mocaverse Treasure Box - Lucky Neko, floor of 0.79 Ξ (87% ▲)

• OnChainMonkey, floor of 1.74 Ξ (33% ▲)

Other News

Web3 & Blockchain:

• Pixels: giving away NFTs, $RON, & in-game VIP membership coupons

• AltLayer: airdrops 300M $ALT to NFT holders, ecosystem users

• IOTA: confirms upcoming IOTA EVM, alpha version debut; recommends staking tokens on IOTA EVM by Q2

• Dymension CEO: mainnet soon, expects “rollup summer” like ICO boom

• Celo: begins financial discussions for ETH L2 migration with blockchain partners

• BitcoinOS: “public good” scaling solution; “sovryn rollups” uses Bitcoin as data availability layer, ZK rollups require smart contracts

• ETH Developers: target late Feb. to early March for Dencun upgrade

Crypto & Financial Markets:

• Bitcoin ETFs: first bearish trend, GBTC outflows overtake overall inflows

• JPMorgan Report: GBTC Bitcoin selling pressure may be largely over following 20% drop since ETF approvals

• Deutsche Bank Survey: many retail investors expect Bitcoin below $20k by year-end, 42% “anticipate its disappearance” over time

• Grape Coin: launch on ETH through Layer Zero; first deployed on BNB

AI, Quantum & Emerging Tech:

• Palantir Co-Founder: AI agents may be an important future “buyer” of crypto, used in conducting financial transactions for operators

Government, Policy & Regulation:

• US Govt.: to sell $117M BTC seized from Silk Road drug trafficker

Business, Corporate Strategy & Legal:

• Apple: allowing alternative browsers to run on iOS in EU to meet new regulations

• Microsoft: cuts 1,900 Xbox, Activision Blizzard staff after becoming second company to hit $3T valuation

• Swan: Bitcoin mining unit expected to raise computational power 44% by March; parent company seeks IPO in next 12 months

• UK Supreme Court: denies Craig Wright’s permission to appeal ruling in case against Peter McCormack; COPA “passes” on settlement offer

• Pokémon Company: to investigate Palworld for “acts that infringe on intellectual property rights related to the Pokémon”