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Aleo Mainnet is officially live
https://aleo.org/post/announcing-aleo-mainnet/
Synnax announces SynQuest is live on Telegram
SynQuest is just the latest in a lineup of mini apps from Synnax, joining hits like Notcoin, Yescoin, Hamster Kombat, and Catizen.
https://x.com/SynnaxTech/status/1835966962414833715
Revolut, a London-based fintech company that offers cryptocurrency trading, intends to issue its own stablecoin, according to four people who have heard about the plan.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/09/18/fintech-giant-revolut-said-to-be-planning-stablecoin/
Bitget and Foresight Ventures have made a strategic $30 million investment in The Open Network (TON) blockchain.
This investment aims to enhance the development of Telegram-based projects, focusing on tap-to-earn games such as Hamster Kombat and Notcoin.
https://www.theblock.co/post/316975/bitget-foresight-ventures-invest-30-million-in-ton-blockchain
"The rate cut is a bad idea because inflation is still an issue in the U.S., with the government being the biggest contributor to the sticky price pressures. If you make borrowing cheaper, it adds to inflation," Arthur Hayes said.
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/09/18/fed-rate-cut-could-crash-crypto-markets-but-era-of-central-banks-is-over-arthur-hayes/
1inch introduces Fusion+: a new standard for cross-chain swaps
With Fusion+, users retain full self-custody of their assets, while the architecture ensures transactions are fully completed on the two networks involved in the swap, without relying on third parties.
https://blog.1inch.io/1inch-introduces-fusion-plus/
Wintermute is developing a permissionless smart contract for a new US presidential election prediction market
The market will be accessible across Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum, supported by Chaos Labs’s Edge Proofs Oracle.
Debuting 2 tokens: TRUMP and HARRIS.
https://x.com/wintermute_t/status/1836049797540880779
Spot ETF Flow on 17.09: BTC-ETF +$186.76M, ETH-ETF -$15.11M
https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot
Coinbase has added CoW Protocol (COW) to its roadmap.
https://x.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1836146598562111664
Ethena has launched sENA
https://x.com/ethena_labs/status/1836063384040530125
Andrei Grachev: “Thank everyone who joined us today! This black flag is cooking a several innovative things that will be presented soon and will change the market
Stay tuned, love crypto how we love it! LFG🚀”
https://x.com/ag_dwf/status/1836064308360585685
The market is positive. BTC > $61,100. ETH > $2,300
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💧 Recent Funding Rounds Backed by Top Tier Angels
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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
💧 Top Telegram Mini Apps with Potential Airdrop
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MicroStrategy announced the pricing of its offering of $875 million aggregate principal amount of 0.625% convertible senior notes due 2028.
MicroStrategy plans to buy more Bitcoin and redeem outstanding Notes.
https://x.com/saylor/status/1836375366903939246
Clearpool Finance has introduced Oxygen (O2): The RWA Liquidity Layer driving the growth of Ozean.
O2 combines tokenized treasuries, RWAs, major crypto assets and yield-bearing tokens into a unified asset basket, supporting critical functionalities like swaps, lending, and collateralization on Ozean.
https://x.com/ClearpoolFin/status/1836359684003106851
Chromia Announces $20M Data and AI Ecosystem Fund and Upcoming ‘Asgard’ Mainnet Upgrade
https://chainwire.org/2024/09/18/chromia-announces-20m-data-and-ai-ecosystem-fund-and-upcoming-asgard-mainnet-upgrade/
Phantom has introduced Usernames
You can now create your own username to replace long and complicated wallet addresses.
You can decide which wallets will be synchronized.
The feature is currently only available for early adopters.
https://x.com/phantom/status/1836062324047880657
⚡️ Early-Bird Phase is Now Open!
Big news today – we’re rolling out early access to the MiniApp👀
Want to start farming $DPS? All you need is an invite 🎟
Invites will be shared through public channels and our social media. We’ll also release lists of KOLs (influencers and bloggers) who will be distributing invites.
LayerZero Foundation is launching lzCatalyst, a program dedicated to connecting the best builders with the best venture capital firms in crypto.
As lzCatalyst launch partners, a16z Crypto, Animoca Brands, Atrum, Delphi Ventures, Faction, Franklin Templeton, King River, Lightspeed, PayPal Ventures, and Spartan have the option to invest up to $300M to support the development of novel omnichain applications built on LayerZero.
The lzCatalyst initiative is designed to empower developers with access to significant capital and resources. Participating funds are incentivized to directly invest up to $300 million into projects integrating LayerZero, but will independently maintain their respective diligence and investment processes. Projects that receive meaningful investment from one partner fund or participation from 2+ partner funds in a given round will be eligible to receive additional strategic capital investment directly from the LayerZero Foundation.
https://x.com/layerzero_core/status/1836037465884577894
BlackRock and Microsoft have announced that they are planning to launch a $30 billion fund to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
https://watcher.guru/news/blackrock-and-microsoft-to-launch-30-billion-ai-investment-fund
The crypto market is growing
BTC Dominance - 56.84%
Market Cap - $2.11T
BTC - $60,578.34 (+4.17%)
ETH - $2,336.95 (+2.26%)
BNB - $548.5 (+2.35%)
SOL - $131.86 (+0.55%)
INJ - $19.35 (+7.04%)
XRP - $0.5812 (-0.87%)
TON - $5.51 (+1.03%)
SUI - $1.2 (+12.71%)
ZRO - $4.06 (+4.64%)
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Eigenpie has announced the EGP token IDO
▫️The IDO will be held on the Magpie Launchpad via Arbitrum.
▫️A snapshot will be taken between September 18-20, 2024.
▫️The EGP token IDO is scheduled to begin on September 20, 2024, at 13:00 UTC and will end on September 24, 2024, at 13:00 UTC.
https://x.com/Eigenpiexyz_io/status/1836048709299392736
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
Circle USDC is coming to Sui
https://x.com/EvanWeb3/status/1835915947330453994
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