Daily Market Update 8/21

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover Sugartown Updates, Yuga Winding Back OS Support, Allen Ginsberg AI Exhibition, Recur to Shut Down, and More.

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Top Stories

Zynga announces its upcoming Sugartown Oras collection will be a free mint

LA exhibition features AI-crafted poems inspired by Allen Ginsberg’s photographs

Yuga will wind back OpenSea support for “all upgradable contracts and any new collections”

Recur announces its Web3 platform is winding down

NFT Market Recap

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

🪅 Biggest Winners:

⛓️ NFT Weekend Volume:
  • ETH: $14.53M (8% ▽)

  • BTC: $633k (25% ▽)

  • SOL: $2.02M (4% ▽)

  • MATIC: $1.94M (2% ▲)

  • ZORA: $4.83k (36% ▲)

🪙 Top Tokens:
  • BTC: $26,035 (0.6% ▽)

  • ETH: $1,673 (0.2% ▽)

  • BNB: $210 (3% ▽)

  • XRP: $0.525 (3.7% ▽)

  • ADA: $0.267 (0.5% ▽)

📊 Market Stats:
  • Global Crypto Market Cap: $1.05T

  • BTC Dominance: 49%

  • BTC OI: $7.43B

  • Fear & Greed: 38

💹 Indices (Futures):
  • DOW: $34,633 (0.2% ▲)

  • S&P500: $4,398 (0.4% ▲)

  • NASDAQ: $14,829 (0.6% ▲)

  • FTSE 100: $7,289 (0.2% ▲)

  • HSI: $2,252 (0.2% ▲)

Other News

Web3
  • Zynga announces its upcoming Sugartown Oras collection will be a free mint

  • Yuga will wind back OpenSea support for "all upgradable contracts and any new collections"

  • OpenSea will end support for buying and listing BSC NFTs

  • Stephen Teglas will step down as Cool Cats CEO, and Clon will take on a larger role

  • Glow Token CEO was duped by scam artists posting as Crypto.com representatives

  • Recur announces its Web3 platform is winding down despite a $50M raise, and hosting IPs like Hello Kitty, and Nickelodeon

Blockchain
  • ETH developers explain how Verkle Trees could vastly increase the blockchain's decentralization

  • Base daily transactions surpass Arbitrum and Optimism in its first-week post-launch

Finance
Artificial Intelligence
Government
  • China is reportedly interested in implementing a social credit system in the metaverse

Business
  • Elon Musk says he intends to remove X's block feature

  • Bitget to tighten its ID requirements amid allegations of fraud

Legal
  • SBF wants weekday access to personal space in the Manhattan courthouse to prepare his legal defense

  • Checkout.com terminates its partnership with Binance; the exchange is considering "legal action"

  • Class-action lawsuit accuses Roblox of allowing and enabling minors to gamble with its in-game currency

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