The global crypto market cap is $2.19T 5.14%▲ with a 24-hour market volume of $127.55B 0.39%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 41.58% 0.82%▼. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $48,439.13 | 3.02% ▲ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $3,766.52 | 10.48% ▲ | | 3 | Cardano ADA | $2.86 | 3.25%▲ | | 4 | Binance Coin BNB | $486.42 | 4.82%▲ | | 5 | XRP XRP | $1.21 | 2.64% ▲ | *Prices as of 5:30 p.m. ET.
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Larva Labs reportedly signed a CryptoPunks licensing deal with United Talent Agency (UTA). The licensing deal is the first intellectual property deal to involve property entirely originated on a blockchain. More: - Under the deal, CryptoPunks may be represented by UTA in movies, television, video games, and other forms of media.
- The terms of the deal may also give UTA licensing rights in other Larva Labs projects, including Meebits and Autoglpths.
- CryptoPunks are currently the largest NFT project by trading volume on OpenSea, with a total volume of 94.5K ETH (~$320M) in the past 90 days.
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 PleasrDAO announced the fractionalization and sale of an NFT of the Dogecoin (DOGE) mascot. PleasrDAO previously purchased the NFT for $4M and will fractionalize it into 16,969,696,969 tokens. More: - Fractionalized ownership will be made available on SushiSwap as $DOG.
- Tokens will be made available as ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum Network.
- PleasrDAO is a community of collectors and digital artists who collect “culturally significant” NFTs.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 Evrynet, DeFi/Investing: $7M ⮕ The private funding round was led by Signum Capital with participation from Petrock Capital, Ellipti Ventures, and others. More: - Evrynet offers an interoperable financial service platform aimed at providing DeFi opportunities for institutional investors.
- The Evrynet network uses the PoS consensus protocol Tendermint to limit transaction fees while increasing the speed of transactions and the platform's security.
- Currently, the open-sourced Evrynet system allows developers to build interoperable centralized DeFi applications (CeDeFi) within its ecosystem.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Fantom FTM | $0.9296 | 31.24% ▲ | | 2 | FTX Token FTT | $62.70 | 30.63% ▲ | | 3 | XinFin Network XDC | $0.1544 | 17.10% ▲ | | 4 | SushiSwap SUSHI | $13.79 | 15.78% ▲ | | 5 | IOTA MIOTA | $1.13 | 15.60% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Arweave AR | $58.98 | 4.83%▼ | | 2 | Horizen ZEN | $90.96 | 1.34%▼ | | 3 | Terra LUNA | $30.89 | 1.97%▼ | | 4 | Amp AMP | $0.05312 | 0.90%▼ | *Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100. Prices as of 5:30 p.m. ET.
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Axie Infinity (AXS) reported $364M in protocol revenue in August, up from $196M in July. Despite impressive growth in July, the total month-to-month revenue growth was still above 85%. More: - Axie Infinity was the second-largest crypto protocol in fee generation, second to only the Ethereum network.
- AXS, Axie Infinity’s native token, also experienced immense growth in August. AXS is currently up 88% over the past month and trading at around $70.
- Trading volume on the Axie Infinity network has consistently ranked alongside other popular NFT projects like CryptoPunks, Art Blocks, and Bored Ape Yacht Club.
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 NFT collector Pransky was returned 100 ETH (~$338K) from a scammer promoting a fake Banksy NFT on Banksy’s official website. Banksy’s authenticators confirmed that the “Great Redistribution of the Climate Change Disaster” was not an authentic Banksy. More: - After being sent a link to the OpenSea auction and Banksy’s website on Discord, Pranksy quickly bid 100 ETH on the NFT.
- Immediately following the bid, the auction was closed, and the link was removed from Banksy’s official website.
- Banksy has not released any NFTs to date. However, an NFT of a partially destroyed Banksy titled “Morons” was sold on OpenSea for $382,000.
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Cryptocurrency pyramid scheme Finiko is reported to have netted $1.5B worth of bitcoin since Dec. 2019. The metrics from Chainalysis show Finiko is allegedly one of the largest crypto-related scams to date. More: - The majority of the scams targeted Russia and Ukraine, which were especially vulnerable to crypto scams due to their devaluing currency and lack of investment opportunities.
- Finiko’s founder, Kirill Doronin, was recently arrested but is set to be released by the end of September.
- Even with the arrest of its founder, Finiko was still active and promoting a project called OmFin as of July 21.
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 |  | Griffin McShane is a J.D. candidate currently living in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Providence College, where he studied both computer science and business. Griffin aspires one day to go to the moon and bring some of his altcoins along for the ride. |   | | 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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