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Daily Market Update 9/15

Daily Market Update 9/15

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover the Start of Polygon 2.0, Cool Cats Showing Off Its 2023 Macy’s Balloon, BTC Renewable Mining Energy Exceeds 50%, SSV.network Launches to Decentralize ETH, and More.

Jake
September 15, 2023

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NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

49 Ξ Nouns #8
39 Ξ BAYC #7244
8 Ξ The Captainz #4509

🎉 Notable Mints:

New-life, to Still-life by cydr on Verse

The series started from me wanting to capture a way of making something very organic digital; from that, I searched for elements that could possibly come into play, from trees to mountains to animals, but fruits came as the best fit for the idea.

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MUSEUM OF MAHOMES II by Patrick Mahomes

When you acquire a piece of the Museum of Mahomes II collection, you receive an unrevealed exhibit. You can then decide to break the exhibit, just like the conventional card breaking. Sports Cards traditions, Web3 dynamics. There will be 6 Exhibits in the Museum of Mahomes II Collection.

app.mintify.xyz/collection/museum-of-mahomes-ii-by-patrick-mahomes

Bongdoe: ‘Midrange Hawkings’ on NiftyGateway

In the dystopian city of Hawkings, chaos reigned. Fires blazed throughout the streets, not just from rebels clashing but from a mythical creature called the baby fire, which left trails of flames wherever it flew. Amidst the anarchy, whispers spread about John Doe, the mysterious mastermind orchestrating the city’s demise.

app.mintify.xyz/collection/bongdoe-midrange-hawkings-on-niftygateway

Violet Interactions by violetobjects

A glimpse into my violet realm. Mixed media (tiles, photography, photoshop): An interaction of color created by combining tile ROugE and tile BLeU. 🟥🟪🟦 In homage to @0xTjo Timed editions This Friday 9/15 7 am – 7 pm PST

app.mintify.xyz/collection/violet-interactions-by-violetobjects

⬆️ Top by Volume:

Nouns, floor of 37.5 Ξ (3% ▲)
Nakamigos, floor of 0.26 Ξ (31% ▲)
Mittaria Genesis, floor of 0.09 Ξ (1% ▲)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

Mittaria Genesis, floor of 0.09 Ξ (1% ▲)
Nakamigos, floor of 0.26 Ξ (31% ▲)
Sugartown Oras, floor of 0.16 Ξ (18% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

Moonbears, floor of 0.31 Ξ (72% ▲)
10KTF G Tags, floor of 0.29 Ξ (60% ▲)
Treeverse Plots, floor of 0.19 Ξ (31% ▲)

⛓️ NFT Vol. by Blockchain:

ETH: $5.8M (25% ▽)
BTC: $823k (37% ▲)
SOL: $836k (4% ▲)
MATIC: $885k (44% ▽)
ZORA: $1.6k (43% ▽)

🪙 Top Tokens:

BTC: $26,370 (0.4% ▽)
ETH: $1,620 (0.2% ▽)
BNB: $211 (0.1% ▽)
XRP: $0.492 (1.8% ▲)
ADA: $0.249 (0.02% ▲)

📊 Market Stats:

Global Crypto Market Cap: $1.05T
BTC Dominance: 49.24%
BTC OI: $7.83B
Fear & Greed: 45

💹 Indices (Futures):

DOW: $35,210 (0.1% ▽)
S&P500: $4,546 (0.2% ▽)
NASDAQ: $15,623 (0.3% ▽)
FTSE100: $9,657 (0.4% ▽)
HSI: $2,316 (0.04% ▽)

Other News

Web3

Cool Cats shows off its 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon
VeeFriends and Crocs partner to deliver their collaborative Halloween float for New York’s 50th Annual Village Halloween Parade
Christie’s teams up with fashion brand MNTGE to release a physical NFC patch inspired by one of Keith Haring’s Pixel Pioneers currently up for auction at Christie’s auction house
GameOn lands a deal with LaLiga North America to develop NFT-based fantasy games for the league’s US and Canadian fanbase
Pace Gallery reveals an upcoming collection featuring previously unheard Joy Division vocal samples created in collaboration with the band’s drummer, Stephen Morris, album artist Peter Saville, and the official Joy Division Archive
Nakamigos adjusts to community feedback and makes the upcoming Nakamigos Cloaks collection free for holders

Blockchain

Darewise Entertainment, an Animoca Brands subsidiary, partners with Horizen Labs to launch the first-ever metaverse token on BTC Ordinals
Polygon 2.0 implementation kicks off with plans for MATIC’s conversion to POL, as the team releases three Polygon Improvement Proposals and its roadmap for Phase 0
Matter Labs embraces gradual decentralization with the launch of a zkSync ecosystem portal managed by DappRadar
Lido teams up with Neutron and Axelar to bring its liquid ETH staking token, stETH, to the Cosmos blockchain
Bloomberg analyst reports the percentage of BTC mining energy coming from renewable sources has exceeded 50%, a figure Elon Musk said is when Tesla would resume accepting BTC payments
Australian “Big Four” bank, ANZ, completes a transaction with tokenized assets using its A$DC stablecoin and Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol
Blockware Solutions and Glassnode data report the activity of BTC’s circulating supply on-chain fell to a record low, indicating bullish supply-side weakness as fewer coins are changing hands
SSV.network launches its distributed validator network on mainnet, developed in partnership with the Ethereum Foundation, aiming to decentralize the current landscape of staking providers

Finance

BTC miner F2Pool returned 19.8 BTC to Paxos after it overpaid $520k
European Central Bank says current interest rate levels may subside inflation if “maintained” long enough

Artificial Intelligence

Helsing raises $223M in Series B funding to advance AI for the safeguarding of democratic nations
EU President announces an initiative to give AI startups expedited access to European supercomputers

Government

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Sherrod Brown sent a letter to the heads of the Treasury Department, SEC, and CFTC, calling on them to use their authority to improve market transparency and protect crypto investors

Business

Custodian BitGo and financial services firm Swan plan to form a BTC-only trust company (pending regulatory approval) to offer custody without exposure to the rest of the digital asset market
Ramp Network adds the Brazilian Central Bank’s Pix system as a payment method
Genesis will voluntarily wind down spot and derivatives trading services through all of its entities
Meta’s Horizon Worlds launches on mobile and web in early access
Binance US’ head of legal and the exchanges chief risk officer reportedly left the company following the CEO exit and staff layoffs

Legal

Former Celsius exec pleads guilty to criminal charges related to fraud and price manipulation
SEC accuses Binance US of a “lack of transparency” and “numerous discovery failures”
FTX files an objection to BlockFi’s bankruptcy plan, saying it “still suffers from certain fundamental shortcomings”