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Investors have dumped $630 million into Blast. Are they crazy?
Today's issue ⬇️
- ☀️ Need to Know: Saylor Spends
MicroStrategy adds $600M in BTC. - 📊 Today in Markets: An Atom Split?
Is Cosmos Hub headed for conflict? - 🗞️ Analysis: The Blast Opportunity
Is this TVL monster worth tossing ETH at? - 🎧 Pod: Property Rights Masterclass
An economist unpacks tokenization. - 🏹 New Airdrop Hunt: Blast
Yes, it seems insane, but is there an opportunity? 👀
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- 💰 Saylor doubles down again. Where is MicroStrategy getting all this cash? They just bought another $600 million worth of BTC.
- 🇧🇷 Brazil goes after crypto taxes. The Brazilian Senate's new income-tax regulation slaps up to a 15% tax on crypto held on intl exchanges.
- 🥷 KyberSwap hacker makes demands. The exploiter behind a $47 million hack has made his non-negotiable demand: a total takeover.
📊 Troubled Cosmos. The Cosmos Hub (ATOM) is undergoing major changes. Token holders voted to cut ATOM inflation in half last week, but not everyone is happy: ecosystem leadership is now advocating for a chain split! Where’s the ATOM opportunity?
| Prices as of 4pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $1.42T | ↗ 0.5% | 0.0% |
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BTC $37,751 | 0.0% | ↗ 1.4% |
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ETH $2,046 | ↗ 0.8% | ↘ 1.1% |
In what feels like a true return to bull market degeneracy, investors have pumped $630 million into a pre-launch L2. There's plenty of controversy surrounding the chain, but is Blast getting a bad rap?
Read the full free analysis on our website👇
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Ryan and David are joined by economist Hernando De Soto, who asks the tantalizing question, "What is Property?"
Here's everything you want to know 👇
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