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The market is cooking; we could get used to this!
Today's issue ⬇️
- ☀️ Need to Know: Poloniex Hacked
Justin Sun's exchange hit for $125M+. - 📊 Today in Markets: ARB's Moment
ARB is up as the network boosts incentives. - 🗞️ David's Takes: Solana Breakpoint
David went to Solana's big conference; he has thoughts. - 🎧 Rollup: The Bull Market is On
Ryan & David unpack the market euphoria. - 🧑🌾 Invest: This Week in Yield Opps
Where we're farming. Citizens Only! 😎
-Bankless team
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- 🥷 Poloniex hacked for $$$. A hot wallet for Justin Sun's Poloniex exchange was hacked for $126M, Sun confirmed. They will be covering the losses.
- 🎮 ETH gaming tokens rebound. After a rough 2023, Ethereum-based gaming tokens are crushing it, led by IMX up 29% today.
- 💰 Celsius to exit bankruptcy. The embattled crypto lender received approval for a restructuring plan as its ex-CEO awaits a fraud trial.
📈 Arbitrum Making Moves. Arbitrum’s short-term incentive program (STIP) distributed $58M worth of ARB across 29 protocols. Early results are promising: $ARB is up big, its TVL reclaimed $2B, & daily active users are up 37%!
| Prices as of 4pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $1.41T | ↗ 2.4% | ↗ 10.1% |
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BTC $37,248 | ↗ 1.8% | ↗ 7.5% |
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ETH $2,088 | ↗ 2.5% | ↗ 14.0% |
Notable movers
ARB 7d
↗ 10.2% |
GMX 7d
↗ 12.3% |
We've been talking a lot about the Ethereum and Solana communities and what their respective values are.
Nuance tends to get lost on Crypto Twitter, so to get the full picture of what the Solana Community looks like in 2023, our very own David Hoffman went to Solana's Breakpoint conference to get the vibes straight from the source.
Let's dig in with the latest free long read from David 👇
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David and Ryan are declaring this bear market officially over!!!
What's making them feel so sure? They dig into the latest market action to showcase why things are looking up-only from here.
Watch the full episode for all the details 👇
🧑🌾 Farming Alpha: While Across is offering higher yields on WBTC than Fraxlend, 50% of the yield is derived from token inflation. Hop’s ETH pool on Linea is yielding 19.2% from trading fees, with an additional 7% paid out in WETH to incentivize deposits. Stablecoin yield ops look juicy across the board; just choose your chain!
Top Opps:
- 🟠 Up to 7.2% APY w/ Across’s WBTC pool on Ethereum
- 🟠 Up to 4.7% APY w/ Frax’s WBTC pool on Ethereum
- 🔵 Up to 26.2% APR w/ Hop’s ETH pool on Linea
- 🔵 Up to 15.5% APR w/ Yearn’s crvcvxETH vault on Ethereum
- 🟢 Up to 36.8% APR w/ Velodrome’s GRAI-LUSD pool on Optimism
- 🟢 Up to 36.6% APR w/ Aerodrome’s DOLA-USDbC vault on Base
- 🟢 Up to 19.6% APR w/ Aura’s DOLA-USDC pool on Arbitrum
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