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- 🛩️ Do Kwon is getting extradited. After a lengthy court battle to stay put in Montenegro, Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon is getting extradited to the US to face trial.
- 🙉 BAYC founder is new Yuga CEO. After a brutal year for NFTs and BAYC prices, Bored Apes founder Garga is returning to Yuga as CEO, replacing former Activision COO Daniel Alegre.
- ⭕️ Circle phasing out TRON support. In an eyebrow-raising move, Circle has announced that it is phasing out support for USDC on the Tron network, effective immediately.
📊 We’re so back? Ether pierced $3,000 to the acclaim of many on Crypto Twitter before sliding back beneath the psychological bull barrier Friday morning. Where do prices go from here?
| Prices as of 4pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $1.94T | ↘ 2.0% | ↗ 0.5% |
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BTC $51,254 | ↘ 1.7% | ↘ 0.6% |
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ETH $2,922 | ↘ 2.4% | ↗ 5.9% |
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- 🛂 Signing up for an Immutable Passport
- 🚀 Trying Turbo Yield ETH on Tranchess V3
- 🥳 Creating super squad chats with Party Rooms
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