hopes you like "surprises", because surprises continue. Bitcoin ~20K, ETH ~1500 USD. The Eurozone has been having a tough time lately, with record inflation of 9.1% amidst the natural gas and energy crises - not optimistic. The macro picture still looks very unstable. Additionally, we see another contender entering the stablecoin battleground: CrvUSD – how innovative!
⛓ Crypto News:
- Curve founder Michael Egorov said that Curve’s native stablecoin crvUSD may be launched next month and is currently in the alpha stage.
- OpenSea has added support for Polygon to its Seaport protocol implementation to expand its functionality and will accept MATIC payments.
- Ethereum miner balances hit four-year high just weeks before merger, likely hoarding more ETH in anticipation of price surge and forked PoW tokens. The core developers of
- Helium proposed migrating the project to Solana, a move aimed at achieving more scalability.
- Composite Financial Corporation implemented a governance plan to update its Chainlink price feed containing a coding error, freezing the cETH lending market for seven days.
- Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining pool, has opened a new ETH staking service, offering 4.43% interest and only 0.1 ETH ($159) to enter.
- El Salvador’s Bitcoin bond will be further delayed until later this year, possibly due to a lack of investor interest.
- Paraguay’s President has vetoed a proposed bill regulating the cryptocurrency industry.
- V God wrote a book "Proof of Stake" - all proceeds were donated to gitcoin
- Coinbase, FTX, and Binance were questioned by the U.S. Congress, which hopes to combat a $1 billion cryptocurrency fraud.
- Lana Rhoades’ $1.5 billion shady scam - Dave Wang Youtube short video
- Binance futures will launch USDⓈ-M Binance Football Fan Token Index perpetual contract before the World Cup, leverage is as high as 25 times.
- South Korean “blockchain” city Busan announced a partnership with FTX to establish a local exchange.
- Brazilian-based cryptocurrency exchange Digitra.com has launched a cryptocurrency exchange for institutional and retail investors, powered by NASDAQ cloud-based cryptocurrency trading service.
- introduces KINETIC: the first multi-chain NFT aggregator. Automatic, trustless and non-custodial trailing stops are now available to all MakerDAO and Liquity Protocol users of
- Defi Saver.
- MAP mainnet goes live on August 31st
- Mask funding and ecosystem plans
- Introducing Apollo DAO’s Cosmos Liquidity Staking Solution
- Introducing Kamino - Aiming to Become Solana’s Liquidity Destination
Data:
- Nansen Smart Money Holdings Token Inflows and Outflow: Tracking what whale is doing...
- Inflows: USDC ($100 million), USDT ($12.9 million), WBTC ($4.5 million), aUSDC_v2 ($2.4 million), cbETH ($1.5 million)
- Outflows: WETH ($8.7 million), YGG ($253,000), FTM ($184,000), aWETH_v2 ($171,000), stETH ($153,000)
- Nansen NFT Popular contracts:
- Phoenixes: 945 ETH
- Moonbirds: 781 ETH
- BAYC: 601 ETH
- CloneX: 496 ETH
- Moonbirds Oddities: 465 ETH
NFT/Metaverse News:
- In the past year, a mysterious Axie Infinity whales have been quietly amassing billions in Love Potion and now hold just over 22 billion SLPs – over 50% of the total circulating supply. No one knows who it belongs to.
- Event ticketing giant Ticketmaster will adopt Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain to mint NFT tickets for specific events.
- On Friday, September 2nd, DigiDaigaku holders will receive an airdrop.
- a16z hopes to standardize NFTs by licensing your tokens.
- JPEG'd - Introducing Trait Boost
- Morningstar Ventures Announces Acquisition of Elrond Apes NFT Series
- What to Expect from the Royal Mint's NFT Series?
Capital Market:
- a16z led a $50 million investment in the NFT organization Proof Collective, a private community behind Moonbirds and Oddities, founded by serial entrepreneur Kevin Rose.
- Pantera led a $13 million funding round for creator-owned live streaming platform Stacked.
- Sei Labs raised $5 million from MulticoinCap to launch a new blockchain specifically for trading, with leading market makers Flow Traders and Hudson River Trading among its backers.
- GoGoPool raises $5 million to provide liquidity staking for Avalanche, making it easier to launch subnets. The
- Koop protocol has raised $5 million in funding led by 1confirmation and Variant Fund. Let creators organize and manage their communities and allow the community to contribute.
- Luabase, a startup that makes blockchain data cheaper and easier to use, has raised $4.5 million from the founders of Costanoa Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, and thirdweb.
- Web3Games raised US$4 million to develop next-generation blockchain games.
- Contribution Labs is close to raising $3 million in equity financing . The startup created Mint Kudos, a Web3 platform built on the Polygon blockchain that rewards community participants with digital badges.
- GreenTrade, the forward financing market for nature-based carbon credits based in Berlin , is raising funds.
Crypto V’s remarks:
