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Citizen Daily Brief

Base Picks Up Pace ($)

gm Bankless Citizen, amid friendlier markets, crypto's degens are bidding up new projects, new memecoins, and new contrarian bets.
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Sep 27, 20243 min read
Base Picks Up Pace
Published on Sep 27, 2024
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NEED TO KNOW
Base TVL Surges
  1. 🔵 Coinbase's L2 Base Hits $2B TVL. Base's total value locked is up 40% this month.
  2. 🏹 Robinhood Joins Other Fintechs Exploring Stablecoin Launch. The popular trading app could be getting into the stablecoin business.
  3. 🥭 Mango Markets Settles SEC Charges. The DeFi platform and its DAO were required to pay a $700K penalty and destroy their MNGO tokens.
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MARKET VIBES
Memes Are Back

📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Like clockwork, it's memecoin season yet again. After a strong couple of weeks of price action, heavyweights like PEPE, BONK, and NOT are mounting big run-ups today, all while newcomers like Solana's baby hippo-themed MOODENG, up 760% this week, blaze their own trail.

Prices as of 5pm ET 24hr 7d
Crypto $2.32T ↗ 1.3% ↗ 5.2%
BTC $65,843 ↗ 1.4% ↗ 4.1%
ETH $2,696 ↗ 2.2% ↗ 5.8%
AERO $1.16 ↗ 9.5% ↗ 41.4%

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New Token Rating: Aerodrome has continued to rip this week, compounding its gains to an epic 150% off the September lows. Is there a buying opportunity?
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LEARN
Lido's Opportunity

Earlier this week, we dug into how renewed conversations around Ethereum's execution abilities could spell promising returns for Lido investors.

Now, we've updated our free Bankless Guide for the liquid staking platform to give you the full rundown of why Lido exists and the opportunity it represents.

Dig into the free guide 👇


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INVEST
This Week's Yield Opps

🧑‍🌾 Farming Alpha: While BTC restaking yields remain attractive, declining excitement for the Ethereum-centric version has crushed ETH LRT yields on Pendle. Despite this, Aerodrome is offering attractive returns for depositors into its concentrated liquidity WETH-wstETH pool on Base, and various farms continue providing lucrative stablecoin returns.

Top Opps:

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