The global crypto market cap is $2.71T 0.03%▼ with a 24-hour market volume of $116.12B 12.11%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 42.57% 0.18%▼. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $61,070.28 | 0.63% ▼ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $4,483.34 | 1.19% ▼ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $608.26 | 8.74%▲ | | 4 | Solana SOL | $236.30 | 4.44% ▼ | | 5 | Cardano ADA | $1.99 | 0.02%▲ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 8:00 EST
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 Solana (SOL) Ventures, FTX, and Lightspeed Venture Partners launched a $100M blockchain gaming fund. The latest blockchain gaming fund highlights venture capital’s bullish sentiment about the space. More: - The fund has already invested $21M into NFT gaming developer Faraway Games.
- According to Newzoo, the gaming market is expected to generate over $200B by 2023.
- The Solana blockchain is already home to 2.2 million NFTs from 125 different collections and hosts several blockchain-based, Web3 games.
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TOP NFT COLLECTIONS | # | Name | 24h Volume | 24h % | | 1 | Axie Infinity ETH, RONIN | $38.38M | 0.05% ▲ | | 2 | Inertial Moment ETH | $5.45M | 132.37% ▲ | | 3 | Hor1zon Troopers ETH | $3.75M | 288.91% ▲ | | 4 | BearXLabs ETH | $3.63M | - | | 5 | Farmers World WAX | $3.42M | 26.31% ▼ | Source: DappRadar, 8:00 pm EST
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 Crypto projects received a total of $3.4B in fresh funding in October. Venture capital investments in the crypto space were distributed to ~163 different projects. More: - 68 of crypto investment rounds (42% of all rounds) were directly toward NFT/Web3 gaming startups.
- Axie Infinity creator Sky Mavis had the largest NFT/Web3 gaming funding round with its $152M Series B.
- Inside Crypto’s Fresh Funding reported on 48 funding events totaling $2.53B in funding.
- FTX raised the largest funding round in October at $420.69M, making it also one of the largest crypto funding rounds to date.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 Solidus Labs, Market Surveillance: $15M ⮕ The strategic funding round was led by Liberty City Ventures and participated in by GSR and Exor Seeds. More: - Solidus is a market surveillance and risk monitoring firm that offers analytic tools for traditional financial institutions.
- The fresh funding comes after Solidus raised $20M in a Series A funding round back in May.
- In July, the startup hired former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathy Kraninger as the VP of regulatory affairs.
Stackswap, DeFi/DEX: $1.3M ⮕ The private funding round was led by Stacks Foundation and participated in by HashKey, Genesis Block Ventures, and SOSV. More: - Stackswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) developed for the Bitcoin (BTC) network.
- The project developed a Proof of Transfer (PoX) consensus mechanism to become the first DEX to run on top of the Bitcoin network by combining the Bitcoin network and Stacks.
- Stackswap is set to feature standard DeFi features, including permissionless swaps and liquidity mining, among others.
- The Stacks Protocol was the first token sale to be approved by the U.S. SEC.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Crypto.com Coin CRO | $0.3781 | 30.94% ▲ | | 2 | Shiba Inu SHIB | $0.00006271 | 26.16% ▲ | | 3 | Helium HNT | $33.66 | 12.42% ▲ | | 4 | OKB OKB | $24.49 | 10.27% ▲ | | 5 | Kadena KDA | $10.68 | 9.23% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Telecoin TEL | $0.02182 | 16.48%▼ | | 2 | Arweave AR | $75.23 | 12.44%▼ | | 3 | OMG Network OMG | $17.16 | 9.16%▼ | | 4 | Avalanche AVAX | $74.25 | 6.07%▼ | | 5 | Nexo NEXO | $2.93 | 5.70%▼ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 8:00 EST
*Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100
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 Publicly traded Argo Blockchain’s regulatory filing revealed inadvertent insider information disclosure. The filing was a mandatory disclosure for discussing non-public information with equity portfolio manager Anthony Coyle yesterday. More: - Argo released that it projects that the construction of its Texas mining facility will cost between $1.5B to $2B.
- Short-seller Boatman Capital previously released a report claiming Argo purchased the land for its mining facility in Texas for more than 100 times over its value.
- Argo representatives told Coyle that it had a 500% ROI on its Equihash machines from June 2020. However, the filing called this stat a “particularly favorable example” of how ROI can vary greatly.
- Reps additionally stated that Argo could make 20% of its revenue from cryptos other than Bitcoin (BTC), but Argo claimed that this was a “directional insight” and not an intended forecast.
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 DeFi protocol bZx was exploited in a hack for over $55M. Polygon (MATIC) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) smart contracts were affected by the attack. More: - bZx is a multi-chain decentralized finance project that previously suffered two flash loan attacks back in Feb. 2020.
- The development team has asked users to revoke any permissions given to the two affected contracts.
- Ethereum (ETH) based smart contracts were not affected due to the platform’s multi-party DAO governed contract protocol.
- The source of the attack and the attacker’s keys are currently unknown. However, a post-mortem release is expected in the upcoming days.
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 A draft bill was introduced in Brazil to allow Brazilian workers to be paid in Bitcoin (BTC). Luizão Goulart (REPUBLIC-PR) proposed the bill, calling money the greatest creation in the history of humanity. More: - The current law in Brazil requires that workers are paid only in the country’s national currency.
- The draft bill was presented to the Deputies Chamber today as a first step into having it enacted.
- Brazil also recently introduced a draft bill to legalize BTC as legal tender.
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- Co-founder and former managing partner of Paradigm Mat Huang joined the board of directors for Stripe.
- Malaysia-based commodities trading firm Enegra Group moved its EGX security tokens from the Ethereum (ETH) network to Polygon (MATIC).
- A false press release circulated this morning stating that Kroger would accept Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as payment.
- XCOPY’s “A Coin For the Ferryman” NFT from 2018 resold for 1,330 ETH ($6M) on SuperRare.
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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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