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- 🚀 EigenLayer nears mainnet. The much-hyped restaking protocol is getting ready for primetime, teasing its final roadmap for the "next several weeks."
- 🙅 Craig Wright is not Satoshi, judge rules. A U.K. judge declared that litigious computer scientist Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto and did not author the Bitcoin whitepaper, despite his claims otherwise, CoinDesk reports.
- 🗳️ Crypto holders lean Trump. A study authored by Paradigm suggests that registered U.S. voter crypto holders are fairly split between major candidates but lean toward Trump.
📊 Swap Surge. A flurry of speculative trading activity on Ethereum and its L2s has increased swap volumes, benefiting the tokens behind the ecosystem’s DEX aggregators! 0x Protocol’s ZRX has been at the forefront of this volume-led rally, but the fundamentals suggest an overlooked contender should be capturing traders’ attention. Which DEX aggregator token could be on the brink of breaking out?
| Prices as of 7pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.71T | ↘ 1.9% | ↗ 6.7% |
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BTC $71,600 | ↘ 2.1% | ↗ 6.8% |
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ETH $3,884 | ↘ 3.0% | ↗ 0.7% |
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