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Sponsor: Celo — Celo is returning to Ethereum with OP Stack and celebrating four years of mainnet!
- 🇹🇭 Thailand to block unlicensed crypto platforms. Thailand's SEC has announced plans to soon block access to ‘unauthorized’ crypto platforms in the country.
- 🎰 ZKasino prompts outrage. Investors are crying “rug” after the crypto gambling network reneged on its launch plans and delayed $33M in redemptions; the project denies wrongdoing.
- 🪴 Magic Eden debuts Runes platform. The beta store allows users to buy Ordinals and Runes on Bitcoin inside of the marketplace's native wallet.
📊 Runes launch. The launch of Runes, a new protocol for minting fungible tokens on Bitcoin, did live up to the hype, at least initially. Are Runes a short-lived fad, or could they usher in a new future for Bitcoin and its fee volumes?
| Prices as of 3pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.43T | ↗ 2.5% | ↗ 6.1% |
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BTC $66,337 | ↗ 2.7% | ↗ 5.6% |
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ETH $3,192 | ↗ 1.6% | ↗ 4.2% |
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