What Crypto Built This Winter ($)
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- 🪱 Wormhole announces airdrop. Cross-chain protocol Wormhole shared the impending airdrop of its W token. The startup behind the protocol raised funding from VCs last November at a $2.5B valuation.
- 🌴 Dencun moves one step closer to rollout. Ethereum's next big upgrade has deployed on the Holesky test network, its last major test rollout before mainnet Ethereum deployment next month.
- 🛒 MicroStrategy's BTC buying spree. Michael Saylor's MSTR bought nearly 32,000 BTC last quarter, and now holds 190K BTC.
📊 DYM Outlook? Modular settlement layer Dymension went to mainnet yesterday, distributing 70M DYM tokens worth $420M to bluechip NFT holders and participants in the Celestia, Ethereum, Solana, and Cosmos ecosystems in the process! What should you do with your free DYM?
| Prices as of 5pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $1.69T | ↗ 2.0% | ↗ 4.3% |
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BTC $44,189 | ↗ 2.3% | ↗ 4.1% |
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ETH $2,429.64 | ↗ 2.0% | ↗ 6.7% |
It was a tough bear market. We don't need to tell you, you were here alongside us!
But crypto built its way through the tough times, and created infrastructure that's going to power us through the next bull market. Today, we break down the most impactful advances that builders pushed forward in this crypto winter.
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