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- 🐘 GOP Make Combating Crypto Crackdown an Official Stance. Trump's pro-crypto stance makes it onto the party's official 2024 platform.
Read more on Bankless.com - 🗿 BlackRock's BUIDL Fund Surpasses $500M AUM. The tokenized megafund is only getting larger.
Read more on Bankless.com - 👩⚖️ FTX Execs Who Testified Against SBF Set to be Sentenced. Nishad Singh and Gary Wang will both be sentenced this fall.
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📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Traders seemed to signal a lull in the selloff Tuesday as the majors saw small bumps, while a number of previously over-performing altcoins rebounded after weeks of unrelenting capitulation. TIA climbed 18% on the day, while SEI pushed up 16% and SUI climbed 9%.
| Prices as of 5pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.12T | ↗2.1% | ↘7.8% |
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BTC $57,865 | ↗2.6% | ↘6.6% |
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ETH $3,061 | ↗1.6% | ↘10.4% |
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TIA $7.07 | ↗17.9% | ↗20.4% |
Interest has never been higher in the Polygon-based prediction market Polymarket.
The platform, which allows traders to create markets around an infinite number of “yes” or “no” outcomes, has caught fire amid a chaotic and volatile U.S. Presidential election. Traders seeking to make a buck off their conviction in which candidate will come out on top have placed hundreds of millions of dollars in bets on the platform over the past several months, pushing Polymarket's business metrics and its name recognition to new all-time highs.
Today, we’re discussing what the post-election future holds for crypto's buzziest prediction platform 👇
Mantle kickstarts Season 1 of Methamorphosis. Building on the success of their Liquid Staking Token, mETH, Mantle LSP announces plans for a new Liquid Restaking Token, cmETH, along with a governance token, COOK. With Methamorphosis, participants can now farm Powder for future COOK tokens and position themselves early for upcoming cmETH release.
It's Ryan and David's turn to get interviewed.
In this crossover episode, the Animal Spirits co-hosts Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson interview Ryan and David to discuss crypto cycles, Bitcoin versus Ethereum, crypto entering politics, and much more!
Listen to the full Citizen-only episode 👇
- 📷 Zoom Out - Arthur Hayes
- 🪙 The Token/Vibe Paradox - LGHT
- 📱 Family App Design Values - Benji Taylor
- 🎈 The Optimistic Crypto Pitch - Matti
- 🎨 Curator Economy, Not Creator Economy - Tom Beck
- 💰 Grant Programs Are Broken, Can We Fix Them? - eylon
- ⛓️ How OP Superchain Makes L2s Highly Interoperable - Zeeve
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