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Daily Market Update 9/28

Daily Market Update 9/28

In Today’s Market Update, We Cover OpenAI Smart Phone Talks, Meta AI Announcements, Cricket Council Partnering with Near, Pokémon Cards Are Not Securities, and More.

Jake
September 28, 2023

Your #1 NFT, Crypto, and FinTech News Aggregator. Curated daily by our in-house team of analysts. Listen to our podcast on Spotify or Apple Music.

NFT Market Recap

💰️ Notable Sales:

46.99 Ξ CryptoPunks #7198
12.5 Ξ Azuki #2834
9.6969 Ξ Milady Maker #2244

🎉 Notable Mints:

Dmitri Cherniak: ‘Ringers #962 – The LACMA Iterations’ on Avant Arte

Dmitri Cherniak reconfigures his pioneering series with a silkscreen print that nods to the algorithmic parameters of Generative art. Originally released in 2021, the Ringers series illustrates the almost infinite ways a string could be wrapped around a set of pegs, created by an algorithm that allows an limitless variety of combinations of this concept.

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Grant Yun: ‘The Last Supper’ on Avant Arte

This artwork is a monumental reinterpretation of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper. In reworking one of the most recognisable images in the Western consciousness, Yun powerfully asserts his iconic and distinctive artistic style. The Last Supper presents a dramatic and psychologically complex moment of the earthly and divine.

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John Karborn: ‘The Seeker’ on Transient Labs

The Seeker captures the essence of the many pioneering entities and archetypes engaging with digital art in The Space. Built on the remarkable ‘Collectors Choice’ contract from Transient Labs, allowing the holders to possess and switch between any of these prototype-archetypes at will.

app.mintify.xyz/collection/the-seeker-by-john-karborn

Justin Bodnar: ‘Landscapes of Serenity’ on LVCIDIA

Showcasing three breathtaking digital landscape artworks connected by a single story, JSTNGRAPHICS invites you on a journey of renewal. Let curiosity guide you to the hope beyond the horizon, with our fourth curated digital art Experience. With Landscapes of Serenity, JSTNGRAPHICS wants to remind viewers of the beauty of the world around us.

app.mintify.xyz/collection/justin-bodnar-landscapes-of-serenity-on-lvcidia

⬆️ Top by Volume:

BAYC, floor of 24 Ξ (1% ▽)
Otherside Vessels, floor of 0.16 Ξ (12% ▽)
Milady Maker, floor of 1.98 Ξ (6% ▽)

⬆️ Top by Sales:

Deadmigos, floor of 0.0085 Ξ (51% ▲)
BlockGames Dice, floor of 0.06 Ξ (42% ▽)
Otherside Vessels, floor of 0.16 Ξ (12% ▽)

🪅 Biggest Winners:

DorTrafficMiner, floor of 4 Ξ (160% ▲)
Mutant Garden Seeder, floor of 5 Ξ (85% ▲)
BASTARD GAN PUNKS V2, floor of 0.08 Ξ (54% ▲)

⛓️ NFT Vol. by Blockchain:

ETH: $4.6M (7% ▽)
BTC: $251k (55% ▽)
SOL: $946k (27% ▲)
MATIC: $1.3M (33% ▲)
ZORA: $1.6k (25% ▲)

🪙 Top Tokens:

BTC: $26,464 (1% ▽)
ETH: $1,621 (0.1% ▽)
BNB: $213 (0.5% ▽)
XRP: $0.5 (0.8% ▽)
ADA: $0.246 (0.2% ▽)

📊 Market Stats:

Global Crypto Market Cap: $1.06T
BTC Dominance: 49.87%
BTC OI: $7.81B
Fear & Greed: 46

💹 Indices (Futures):

DOW: $33,766 (0.01% ▽)
S&P500: $4,310 (0.1% ▽)
NASDAQ: $14,702 (0.3% ▽)
FTSE100: $9,241 (0.6% ▽)
HSI: $2,232 (0.2% ▲)

Other News

Web3

International Cricket Council partners with the Near Foundation to build a Web3 fan app for the 2023 Cricket World Cup in India
Pixelmon introduces Community and Cosmetic badges to reward active ecosystem participants
Refik Anadol reveals the opening of the J’Adore AI Data Sculpture today at Beaux-Arts de Paris in collaboration with Dior
Sorare announces Game Week 1 of its NBA season will begin on Oct. 17
Echelon PRIME Foundation introduces the Ardent Arena 2023, a tournament for Parallel supporters with upwards of $40k in total prizes

Blockchain

Marathon Digital Holdings confirms it mined an invalid BTC block, calling its only encounter with the unspecified error “an anomaly”
IOTA will debut the first public IOTA Smart Contracts and a related token today after months of testing
Fireblocks Wallet adds support for Tezos-based assets

Finance

Jade Protocol proposal suggests the DAO liquidate its $31M treasury and issue redemptions to token-holders
HK crypto exchange Hashkey will open $AVAX trading for professional investors with portfolios exceeding $1M as defined by the HK SFC
Cosco’s 1 once gold bars online member promotions are selling out within hours

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI has relaunched its “Browse with Bing” beta feature for built-in web browsing for Plus and Enterprise
OpenAI is reportedly in talks with former Apple designer Jony Ive and Japanese tech giant SoftBank to bankroll a $1B project to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence”
Meta reveals several upcoming products, including its MetaAI personal assistant, AI image editing, and AR smart glasses developed in partnership with Ray-Ban
Cloudflare launches its new platform, Cloudflare AI, and a suite of generative AI tools for developers to build on

Government

SEC’s Gensler tells the HFSC that a Pokémon card is not a security but could not give a definitive answer regarding a tokenized Pokémon card
Buenos Aires releases a blockchain-based digital identity solution built on Matter Labs’ zkSync Era rollup
Bank of International Settlements, along with the central banks of France, Singapore, and Switzerland, successfully tested cross-border trading of wholesale CBDCs

Business

IBM Quantum, Microsoft, and others form a coalition to tackle post-quantum cryptography
Kraken reportedly plans to offer US stock and ETF trading services
Coinbase has gained approval to offer non-US retail users perpetual futures trading from the Bermuda Monetary Authority
Binance prompts Paysafe users to convert their EUR balances to USDT before Oct. 31 following the partner’s decision to end support
Crypto.com partners with PayPal and Paxos to become a preferred partner for PayPal’s $PYUSD
Swan, a Bitcoin financial services company, hires former NBA champ Matthew “Delly” Dellavedova as VP of business development, seeking to bridge the gap between crypto and sports and leverage his access to Australian firms

Legal

US HFSC Chair threatens to subpoena the SEC over documents related to FTX CEO SBF
Judge signs off on SBF using an “air-gapped” laptop to take notes and will be allowed to appear in a suit while in court next month
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon asked a federal court to reject the SEC’s extradition request, arguing that it would be “impossible” because he is detained indefinitely in Montenegro