The global crypto market cap is $2.28T 3.78%▲ with a 24-hour market volume of $84.75B 13.74%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 40.80% 0.36%▲. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $49,054.13 | 4.37% ▲ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $4,030.12 | 2.08% ▲ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $529.12 | 0.89% ▲ | | 4 | Solana SOL | $179.86 | 3.24% ▲ | | 5 | Cardano ADA | $1.28 | 3.17% ▲ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 6:45 EST
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 A report from the Blockchain Gaming Alliance (BGA) found that blockchain gaming accounted for 22% of all NFT trading volume in Q3 2021. In the same quarter, NFT games generated $2.32B in revenue. More: - Daily active unique wallets increased 6,566% from the previous quarter.
- The WAX (WAXP) blockchain experienced the highest level of user adoption, gaining 1,082% in new active wallets in the past quarter.
- Splinterlands was the most active game with over 245,000 daily unique wallets, up 3,267%.
- Behind Splinterlands, the other most popular games were Alien Worlds, Axie Infinity, CryptoMines, and Bomb Crypto.
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TOP NFT COLLECTIONS (24hr Volume) | # | Name | 24h Volume | 24h % | | 1 | Axie Infinity ETH, RONIN | $9.43M | 5.63% ▼ | | 2 | CryptoPunks ETH | $4.82M | 77.81% ▲ | | 3 | CloneX ETH | $3.62M | 4.04% ▼ | | 4 | Bored Ape YC ETH | $3.10M | 53.26% ▲ | | 5 | Mutant Ape YC ETH | $3.02M | 51.49% ▲ | Source: DappRadar, 6:45 pm EST
TOP ETH NFT COLLECTIONS (Floor Cap) | # | Name | Floor Price (ETH) | 24h % | | 1 | CryptoPunks | Ξ 55 | 8.26% ▼ | | 2 | Bored Ape YC | Ξ 51.90 | 1.76% ▲ | | 3 | Mutant Ape YC | Ξ 7.10 | 2.90% ▲ | | 4 | VeeFriends | Ξ 9.69 | 2.76% ▲ | | 5 | Fidenza - AB Curated | Ξ 70 | 0% | Source: NFT Price Floor, 6:45 pm EST
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 Rari Capital and Fei Protocol token holders approved a DAO merger. The “FeiRari” merger is the largest DAO-DAO governance merger to date. More: - The vote passed on margins of 93-1% by Rari RGT holders and 90-0% from Fei’s TRIBE holders to merge the tokens into TRIBE.
- 103 wallets participated in the election, consolidating a total of $2B in total value locked.
- The first product to come out of the DAO merger is expected to launch sometime within the next two months.
- Fei founder Joey Santoro stated that TRIBE is looking to become a full-stack DeFi infrastructure and become an in-house mega-DAO.
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 🍋 Fresh Funding 🍋 Interlay, DeFi/Interoperability: $6.5M ⮕ The funding round was led by DFG and participated in by IOSG, KR1, Nexo Finance, D1 Ventures, and others. More: - Interlay is a Polkadot (DOT) based DeFi protocol that tokenizes bitcoin (interBTC) for DeFi.
- The DeFi protocol is planning on participating in the Dec. 23 Polkadot parachain auction, which would interBTC to Acala, Moonbeam, and other Polkadot parachain projects.
- Interlay’s bitcoin protocol claims to be decentralized and offers a non-custodial BTC tokenization solution using the XCLAIM protocol.
Multichain, DeFi/Interoperability: $60M ⮕ The funding round was led by Binance Labs and participated in by Sequoia China, Three Arrows Capital, Circle Ventures, Tron Ventures, Hashkey, and others. More: - Multichain (formerly Anyswap) is a cross-chain router protocol that offers an interoperable decentralized exchange.
- The project received a post-round valuation of $1.2B and currently has over $4.8B in total value locked.
- Multichain was previously the recipient of a $350,000 grant from the Binance Smart Chain accelerator program back in October.
Render Network, Decentralized Rendering: $30M ⮕ The strategic funding round was led by Multicoin Capital and participated in by the Solana Foundation, Alameda Research, Beeple, Vinny Lingham, and others. More: - Render is a decentralized 3D rendering service provider for 3D visuals in art, videos, and games.
- Users can access remote rendering power on other users’ computers using the network’s RNDR tokens.
- Render Network founder Jules Urbach stated that one of the goals of the project is to enable artists to work more directly with creators to provide day-to-day work in between NFT drops.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Loopring LRC | $2.42 | 20.37% ▲ | | 2 | IOTA MIOTA | $1.29 | 20.05% ▲ | | 3 | The Graph GRT | $0.7078 | 13.88% ▲ | | 4 | Curve DAO Token CRV | $4.63 | 11.45% ▲ | | 5 | Kadena KDA | $11.13 | 10.19% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Yearn.finance YFI | $34,685.38 | 7.05%▼ | | 2 | Arweave AR | $54.55 | 2.80%▼ | | 3 | Nexo NEXO | $2.22 | 1.19%▼ | | 4 | PancakeSwap CAKE | $12.02 | 0.80%▼ | | 5 | Huobi Token HT | $10.00 | 0.11%▼ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 6:45 EST
*Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100
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Crypto exchange Kraken announced the acquisition of non-custodial staking startup Staked. Though details were not disclosed, Kraken called the acquisition “one of the largest” crypto acquisitions to date. More: - Staked is a non-custodial, staking, and fixed income provider for crypto assets.
- CEO Jesse Powell stated that the acquisition will complement Kraken’s existing products and help strengthen the exchange’s product offerings.
- The news supports rumors and public comments from Powell that Kraken is looking to go public within the next two years.
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 DeFi protocol Visor Finance was exploited in a hack worth $8M. The fallout of the attack caused Visor’s VISR token to drop 95%. More: - 8.8 million VISR tokens were taken from the decentralized liquidity protocol due to a reentrancy bug.
- Reentrancy bugs enable hackers to mint an unlimited amount of tokens on a DeFi protocol.
- Visor shared the news on Twitter, stating that no users' positions are at risk, and token holders would be compensated for losses.
- Information from Etherscan shows that the hacker has already moved the majority of the VISR tokens on Uniswap and subsequently moved them through Tornado.Cash.
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