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- 💥 Astria sees big 1st day. The new Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) provider just launched and facilitated more than 500 rollups created over its first 24 hours, prompting the project to pause new deployments until the new year.
- 🔴 OP Labs outlines path forward. Optimism's software stewards have published a post charting out the "Superchain" L2's path toward full, Stage 2 decentralization over the near future.
- 🚫 SEC fines BarnBridge. The Commission just ordered the DAO and leadership of former DeFi yield protocol BarnBridge to pay $1.7M to settle charges over the alleged failure to register the project's "crypto asset securities."
📈 Here we go again! Ethereum is finally showing signs of strength against Bitcoin. The ETH/BTC ratio is up 4.5% to 0.053, and top L2s decided to come along for the ride, with Arbitrum gaining 19% and Optimism surging 26% on the day. It looks like rumors of Ethereum’s death have been greatly exaggerated…
| Prices as of 4pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $1.67t | ↗ 1.2% | ↗ 4.4% |
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BTC $43,731.55 | ↘ -0.1% | ↗ 3.6% |
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ETH $2,318.91 | ↗ 3.7% | ↗ 3.0% |
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Inscriptions mania continues to spread across all the chains, Solana just flipped Ethereum in DEX volume stats, and the restaking scene's starting to catch fire. Just another week in crypto!
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