Daily Market Update 8/15

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover Zynga’s Sugartown, DeGods Points Parlor, Celsius’ Account Holders Poll, Machi Defamation Suit Withdrawal, and More.

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Top Stories

Zynga, the creator of Farmville, reveals its upcoming ETH-based game Sugartown

Celsius intends to poll account holders to restart as a user-owned company

DeGods launches Points Parlor, revealing mechanics and strategy

Machi has withdrawn his defamation suit against ZachXBT

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:
🎉 Notable Mints:
⬆️ Top by Volume:
⬆️ Top by Sales:

🪅 Biggest Winners:

⛓️ NFT Volume by Blockchain:
  • ETH: $11.43M (39% ▲)

  • BTC: $320k (17% ▽)

  • SOL: $1.42M (51% ▲)

  • MATIC: $1.45M (26% ▲)

🪙 Top Tokens:
  • BTC: $29,352 (0.02% ▽)

  • ETH: $1,838 (0.3% ▽)

  • BNB: $238 (0.6% ▽)

  • XRP: $0.626 (0.2% ▽)

  • DOGE: $0.074 (1% ▽)

📊 Market Stats:
  • Global Crypto Market Cap: $1.17T

  • BTC Dominance: 49.74%

  • BTC OI: $9.69B

  • Fear & Greed: 53

💹 Indices (Futures):
  • DOW: $35,151 (0.6% ▽)

  • S&P500: $4,481 (0.6% ▽)

  • NASDAQ: $15,198 (0.5% ▽)

Other News

Web3
  • Zynga, the creator of Farmville, reveals its upcoming ETH-based game Sugartown

  • DeGods initiates its vibrant Season III art “Downgrade”

  • DeGods launches Points Parlor, revealing mechanics and strategy

  • Kanpai Pandas announces the final 1,000 Pandas will mint on Solana

  • Wreck League shares mint details for its upcoming Genesis collection

Blockchain
  • MetaMask begins offering “1-Click” crypto purchases with Apple Pay through fiat-to-crypto onramp Banxa

  • Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 launches its betanet and Hub for devs and creators

  • Immutable launches its zkEVM testnet built on Polygon Supernets

Finance
  • The Sandbox unlocked 332M $SAND worth ~$133M

  • Europe’s first spot BTC ETF gets listed on Euronext Amsterdam

Government
  • Sen. Cynthia Lummis says the SEC is out of bounds, and its case against Coinbase should be dismissed

Business
  • Coinbase launches in Canada, offering Canadian nationals a free 30-day trial to its Coinbase One subscription service

  • Celsius intends to poll account holders to restart as a user-owned company

  • PayPal announces its new CEO, Alex Chriss

Legal
  • Machi has withdrawn his defamation suit against ZachXBT

  • Former FTX executive Ryan Salame does not intend to testify under oath; will plead the fifth

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