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What in the Worldcoin...
Today's issue ⬇️
- ☀️ Need to Know: Altman Out
Worldcoin's founder loses his other job. - 📊 Today in Markets: ETH Struggles
The ETH/BTC ratio keeps dropping. - 🗞️ Analysis: Backpack Review
Hands-on with Solana's buzziest wallet. - 🎧 Rollup: Bull Market Week Two
What's going on with these spot ETFs? - 🧑🌾 Invest: Yield Opps
The yields we're watching this week.
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- 🗑️ Sam Altman shelved. OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman, a surprise move which sent the price of Worldcoin's WLD token plunging.
- 🤨 What are Gary's ETF plans? The SEC continues to delay spot BTC ETF decisions, but is also talking to exchanges? What's Gary up to?
- 💰 Jump spins out Wormhole. Jump Trading is reportedly dialing back its crypto biz, spinning out the cross-chain bridge it spent $320M propping up after its big hack.
📊 ETH Struggles: Bitcoin up, Ethereum down! ETH/BTC is down 1.6% today and on the verge of retracing the relief rally incepted by BlackRock’s decision to file for a spot Ether ETF. Will the ratio continue to trade lower?
| Prices as of 4pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $1.38T | ↗ 0.2% | ↘ 2.8% |
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BTC $36,466 | ↗ 1.1% | ↘ 2.4% |
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ETH $1,949 | ↘ 0.6% | ↘ 6.9% |
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Despite a mixed week for the majors, the bull market action is still in full effect. What tokens and projects are we watching?
Watch the full episode for all the details 👇
🧑🌾 Farming Alpha: Umami is serving up juicy delta-target yields across the board thanks to Arbitrum’s Short Term Incentive Program! Hop is incentivizing ETH LPs on Linea with WETH, and Aerodrome has sweet yields on tap for Base users. Farm responsibly!
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