The global crypto market cap is $2.70T 2.07%▼ with a 24-hour market volume of $134.01B 3.14%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 42.80% 0.31%▼. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $61,225.27 | 2.79% ▼ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $4,517.25 | 1.62% ▼ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $557.19 | 1.78%▼ | | 4 | Solana SOL | $246.78 | 3.07% ▲ | | 5 | Cardano ADA | $1.98 | 4.36%▼ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 6:30 EST
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 The total value locked (TVL) in Defi protocols reached an ATH of $256B. TVL reached $200B in mid-October and spiked 25% within the next two weeks. More: - The TVL in DeFi is roughly equivalent to half of the market cap of Ethereum (ETH).
- Ethereum-based Defi projects account for $172.75B in TVL, approximately 67% of all value locked.
- Binance Chain ($19.68B) has the second-highest DeFi TVL, followed by Solana ($14.86).
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TOP NFT COLLECTIONS | # | Name | 24h Volume | 24h % | | 1 | Axie Infinity ETH, RONIN | $33.04M | 49.44% ▲ | | 2 | Farmers World WAX | $9.55M | 17.63% ▲ | | 3 | CryptoPunks ETH | $5.86M | 35.67% ▼ | | 4 | CrypToadz ETH | $3.60M | 436.43% ▲ | | 5 | Fat Ape Club ETH | $2.59M | 82.41% ▲ | Source: DappRadar, 6:30 pm EST
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 Grayscale added Terra (LUNA) and Avalanche (AVAX) to its list of potential investment products. The two newly considered assets join the list alongside other Layer 1 assets like Polkadot (DOT) and Solana (SOL). More: - Grayscale investment holdings is a digital currency asset manager with over $44B in assets under management.
- Although LUNA and AVAX were added to the list, Grayscale clarified that not all assets under consideration may be offered in the form of Grayscale investment products.
- Both cryptocurrencies have experienced an uptrend over the past several days but are currently near key areas of resistance.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 Faraway, NFT/Gaming: $21M ⮕ The Series A funding round was co-led by FTX and Lightspeed Ventures with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Solana, Jump Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Pantera Capital. More: - Faraway is a blockchain-based game developer of “midcore” games co-founded by former Glu Mobile heads of studio Alex Paley and Dennis Zdonov.
- Their most popular game, Mini Royale: Nations, is a first-person shooter based on the Solana (SOL) blockchain.
- Faraway has raised a total of $29M to date. It previously raised $8M in a stealth seed funding round in early 2021.
Mythical Games, NFT/Gaming: $150M ⮕ The Series C funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and participated in by FTX, Binance, D1 Capital, Michael Jordan, The Kraft Group, and others. More: - Mythical Games is an NFT and blockchain-based game developer of games like Blankos Block Party.
- The startup develops free-to-play, play-to-earn games with an empress staff of former Activision, Zynga, Oculus, and EA executives.
- Mythical Games received a unicorn valuation of $1.25B and has received a total of over $275M in funding to date.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Telcoin TEL | $0.0274 | 28.70% ▲ | | 2 | OMG Network OMG | $18.09 | 19.82% ▲ | | 3 | eCash XEC | $0.0002025 | 13.08% ▲ | | 4 | Kadena KDA | $12.16 | 12.16% ▲ | | 5 | Crypto.com Coin CRO | $0.2865 | 0.2865% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | The Sandbox SAND | $2.63 | 16.96%▼ | | 2 | Shiba Inu SHIB | $0.0000508 | 14.66%▼ | | 3 | Decentraland MANA | $2.44 | 14.56%▼ | | 4 | Loopring LRC | $1.08 | 9.43%▼ | | 5 | THORChain RUNE | $14.38 | 8.90%▼ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 6:30 EST
*Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100
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 Solana (SOL) overtook Cardano (ADA) and Tether (USDT) as the fourth-largest crypto by market cap. SOL's jump in position came as it set another ATH of $245.69 yesterday. More: - Solana has exploded 17,000% over the past year, reaching a market cap of around $72B.
- Solana's market cap is currently around 30% behind the third-largest crypto, Binance Coin (BNB).
- DeFi protocols Raydium and Orca have contributed massive amounts of TLV into the Solana ecosystem to rocket the blockchain's market cap.
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 Axie Infinity’s Smooth Love Potion (SLP) jumped 74% following the launch of Katana DEX on Ronin. Katana will enable Axie players to easily swap tokens directly on the Ronin sidechain. More: - Prior to the launch of Katana, Axie players were required to bridge SLP to Ethereum.
- SLP is the play-to-earn token of the Axie Infinity ecosystem, which can be swapped out for other cryptocurrencies.
- Axie’s AXS governance token is also up around 10% following Katan’s launch.
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 Enjin (ENJ) announced a $100M developer fund for metaverse projects. The fund aims to accelerate Enjin’s efforts to develop the Efinity blockchain on Polkadot (DOT). More: - The Efinity blockchain is designed to provide infrastructure for metaverse gaming, tokenized collectibles, digital art, and other dApps.
- Enjin plans to bid for 1 of 100 Polkadot parachain slots available for auction next month.
- ENJ jumped 10% following the news and is currently up over 200% in the past 30 days.
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 |  | Griffin McShane is a New York transplant currently living in Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of Providence College, where he studied both computer science and business, and the University of Maine School of Law, where he earned his JD. Beyond his work at Inside, Griffin has written articles for CoinDesk and is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). |  | | Editor | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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