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On the hunt for massive returns on the frontier of crypto?
In today's report, our analysts zero in on tantalizing (and risky!) crypto investment plays across memecoins, DeFi, and NFTs. These top 8 degen crypto opportunities focus on providing you with the basic information and objective assessments on the plays that have us buzzing with excitement!
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- 🇨🇦 Binance fined by Canada. Binance is still serving as a regulatory punching bag, receiving a fine for $4.4M from Canada’s FINTRAC agency for breaching registration and reporting rules, Bloomberg reports.
- 🐶 VanEck launches memecoin index. VanEck’s MarketVector has started a new index centered on some of the top-performing memecoins, including PEPE, WIF, DOGE, & BONK.
- 💎 TON’s wild ride continues. Toncoin continued its upward surge ahead of the rollout of the NOT gaming coin; TON is now the 8th most valuable token by market cap.
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📊 Trump Pump. Crypto had a mainstream moment last night at 2024 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s NFT trading card gala. Could a Trump re-election be bullish for the crypto industry, and what tokens managed to pop off?
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Crypto $2.31T | ↗ 1.7% | ↗ 4.5% |
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BTC $62,549 | ↗ 1.8% | ↗ 5.8% |
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ETH $3,021 | ↗ 1.8% | ↗ 0.8% |
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Today, we're exploring David's theory that this cycle is cooked, and Ryan has some questions, starting with... what does that even mean?
In this week's episode of Bankless Takes, we take a deep dive into token distributions through airdrops and points programs, highlighting the winners and losers, and what we need to get Crypto's good vibes back.
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Thousands of Bankless Citizens scored an average of $3,500 worth of tokens after Ether.fi's airdrop. Did you miss out again?
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