Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange dYdX plans to list perpetual futures on prediction markets.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/09/17/dydx-to-debut-perpetual-futures-on-prediction-markets-as-dex-seeks-to-raise-profile/
Funki is launching its L2 on the Superchain
Funki is a fun-first L2, focusing on onchain gaming and social experiments.
Current Partners include Optimism, Altlayer, Halliday, Relay, Socket, Hyperlane, Sipher, YGG, and more.
https://x.com/funkichain/status/1835997160321556482
WalletConnect, a web3 communications protocol that connects crypto wallets to decentralized applications, is set to launch its native Connect Token (WCT) on Optimism's Mainnet, an Ethereum Layer 2 network. The token will also be airdropped to users.
Registration for the WCT airdrop will open on September 24.
WalletConnect Inc. has rebranded to Reown.
The WCT token will have an initial supply capped at 1 billion, with 18.5% — or 185 million tokens — allocated for airdrop season 1, Houlgrave told The Block. The airdrop will include WalletConnect end users, as well as wallets, apps, nodes, software development kits and communities that have contributed to WalletConnect's success, Houlgrave said.
https://www.theblock.co/post/316751/walletconnect-token-launch-airdrop
Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial debuts plans to sell WLFI token
The WLFI token will be distributed as follows: 63% will be sold to the public, 17% for user rewards, and 20% for team compensation.
https://www.theblock.co/post/316688/donald-trump-backed-world-liberty-financial-debuts-plans-to-sell-wlfi-token
Donald Trump says crypto is "a very powerful market."
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1835841017674621083
Trade association U.K. Finance said it completed the experimental phase of a tokenization and central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform and is looking to work with regulators and other public bodies on developing payment networks based on the technology.
Involving 11 member banks, including Barclays, Citi UK, HSBC and Natwest, as well as professional service firms, the program concluded that such a platform would help deliver economic value and could enable new functionality such as programmable payments.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/09/16/uk-finance-member-banks-see-benefits-during-experimental-phase-of-a-tokenization-cbdc-platform/
He Yi, co-founder of Binance, explained: Binance has no intention to guide the trend towards Meme. There are three types of projects now: Telegram games, all for airdrops; many infrastructures, all high FDV VC coins; Memecoins. Binance found some projects with low FDV and dispersed coin holdings to test.
https://x.com/WuBlockchain/status/1835652343272214622
deBridge (DBR) claim is live
Claim: https://debridge.foundation/
https://docs.debridge.foundation/faq-airdrop-season-1/claim-dbr-to-a-centralized-exchange/how-to-claim-dbr-to-bitget-exchange
Vitalik Buterin: Solo staking key to Ethereum’s security
Buterin discussed the risks posed by centralized entities and the role solo stakers play in protecting the network from attacks to ensure its long-term resilience and sustainability.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-solo-staking-ethereum-security
Binance Futures will launch the CATIUSDT Perpetual Contract at 2024-09-20 10:30 UTC and HMSTRUSDT Perpetual Contract at 2024-09-26 12:30 UTC with up to 75x leverage.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-futures-will-launch-usd%E2%93%A2-margined-catiusdt-and-hmstrusdt-perpetual-contracts-with-up-to-75x-leverage-cc509cb14e244c4b9be2cea3b0998bcd
DeltaPrime has faced a security incident on their admin keys.
Attacker had control on the private key of 0xx40e4ff9e018462ce71fa34abdfa27b8c5e2b1afb
then he upgraded the proxy.
So far $5.93M has been drained.
https://x.com/cyversalerts/status/1835577325469020283
Binance will list Neiro (NEIRO), Turbo (TURBO), Baby Doge Coin (100000BABYDOGE) and open trading for the following spot trading pairs at 2024-09-16 10:00 UTC.
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-list-neiro-neiro-turbo-turbo-and-baby-doge-coin-100000babydoge-with-seed-tag-applied-4336ae4908154736acff8302509f7a05
The ETH/BTC exchange rate fell below 0.04, a new low since 20 April 2021
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/ETH_BTC
Gunshots were reported in Donald Trump’s vicinity Sunday afternoon. The former president is safe.
U.S. Secret Service agents opened fire after seeing a person with a firearm near Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club in Florida while the Republican presidential candidate was golfing. No injuries were reported. Officials say the person fled in an SUV and was later apprehended by local law enforcement.
https://winknews.com/2024/09/15/trumps-is-safe-after-shots-were-reported-in-his-vicinity/
The market is positive. BTC > $61,100. ETH > $2,300
https://dropstab.com/coins/bitcoin
Mocaverse today announced a strategic collaboration with Magic Eden to launch MagicMoca, an NFT launchpad platform exclusively for the Mocaverse community and designed to facilitate access to curated gaming and IP NFT project launches.
MagicMoca will be the first co-branded NFT launchpad from Mocaverse or Magic Eden to curate high-quality NFT projects from key cultural verticals such as gaming, sports, IP, and others for holders of Moca NFTs, MOCA Coin, Moca IDs, as well as the Magic Eden community.
The new launchpad will tap into the scale of the Moca Network and funnel upcoming NFT projects from Animoca Brands and its portfolio of over 540 Web3 projects.
MagicMoca will adopt MOCA Coin as its primary currency for sale activities, while Magic Eden will accept MOCA Coin as one of the preferred currencies for its marketplace. In addition, Magic Eden will fully integrate Mocaverse products that enable Moca ID users to participate in the highly curated NFT launches and build their on-chain reputation with NFTs.
MagicMoca will launch later in Q3 2024.
https://www.animocabrands.com/mocaverse-and-magic-eden-to-co-launch-magicmoca-nft-launchpad
Spot ETF Flow on 16.09: BTC-ETF +$12.9M, ETH-ETF -$9.51M
https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot
EIGEN stakedrop Season 2 is now open
Get started: claims.eigenfoundation.org
https://x.com/eigenfoundation/status/1835758628067836256
MicroStrategy Announces Proposed Private Offering of $700M of Convertible Senior Notes
https://x.com/saylor/status/1835773231262744857
BlackRock says the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts will not be as deep as the market expects.
https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1835736846057325033
The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 56.24%
Market Cap - $2.04T
BTC - $58,047.93 (-0.71%)
ETH - $2,283 (+0.22%)
BNB - $535.1 (-1.9%)
SOL - $131.08 (+0.19%)
INJ - $18.07 (-1.37%)
XRP - $0.5869 (+3.13%)
TON - $5.46 (-0.83%)
SUI - $1.07 (-1.9%)
ZRO - $3.87 (+5.11%)
https://dropstab.com
Bybit has secured a provisional license in Dubai
The Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) has granted Bybit a non-operational license to serve retail and institutional crypto investors in Dubai.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bybit-bags-provisional-crypto-license-dubai
Tether minted $1 billion USDT on the Ethereum network
https://whale-alert.io/transaction/ethereum/0x2f54fdd84e98ebb4083e34b4876e222dfdcd4ec6f317ce0c29035bd3b0a70ea3
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has raised concerns about stagflation despite signs of easing inflation.
https://news.bitcoin.com/jpmorgan-ceo-warns-of-recession-threat-higher-inflation-stagflation/
DeGods NFT Creator De Labs Launches A New Crypto Token $DeGods
In a September 15 blog post, Frank DeGods, the co-founder of the highly acclaimed DeGods, y00ts, and Dust Labs projects, confirmed launching a new crypto token duped DEGODS.
NFT holders will convert their NFTs into the $DeGods token at 1 DeGod for 550,000 $Degods, 1 y00t for 120,000 $Degods, and 1 $Dust for 36 $Degods.
https://insidebitcoins.com/news/degods-nft-creator-de-labs-launches-a-new-crypto-token-degods-heres-more-details
Matter Labs has hired Meghan Hughes, the former VP of Marketing at the Solana Foundation.
Hughes will be the ZKsync developer’s new chief marketing officer.
She previously worked at Google, Facebook, Niantic and Stripe, among others.
https://www.theblock.co/post/315835/matter-labs-meghan-hughes-solana-zksync