The global crypto market cap is $2.65T 5.61%▲ with a 24-hour market volume of $105.16B 15.26%▲. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 47.33% 0.35%▼. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $66,613.24 | 4.58% ▲ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $4,123.06 | 7.80% ▲ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $504.98 | 4.50%▲ | | 4 | Cardano ADA | $2.20 | 4.16%▲ | | 5 | XRP XRP | $1.15 | 6.00% ▲ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 3:30 EST
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Tendermint announced a partnership with Forte for NFT game development. The partnership aims to make games developed on the Forte platform easily accessible to the Cosmos (ATOM) blockchain. More: - Tendermint is a core contributor to the Cosmos Network and the Interchain Foundation (ICF).
- Forte is a blockchain game development platform that previously raised $185M in a Series A funding round earlier this year.
- The Forte platform has over 8 million monthly active users, has minted 5 million NFTs, and generated over 10 million wallets.
- In addition to integrating Forte games on the Cosmos network, Forte will also feature ATOM and other Cosmos currencies on the platform for payment, liquidity and collateral.
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TOP ETHEREUM NFT COLLECTIONS | # | Name | 24h Volume | 24h % | | 1 | Axie Infinity | $17.24M | 8.24%▼ | | 2 | Bored Ape Yacht Club | $6.21M | 160.94% ▲ | | 3 | CryptoPunks | $5.16M | 47.01%▲ | | 4 | Doodles V4 | $3.2M | 2.79%▼ | | 5 | Art Blocks | $2.66M | 133.24% ▲ | Source: DappRadar, 3:30 pm EST
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Animoca Brands raised $65M to continue investing in the NFT and blockchain gaming space. The investment firm received investments from Sequoia China, Dragonfly Capital, Liberty City Ventures, Justin Sun, and others. More: - Animoca Brands is a Hong Kong-based firm that has been an early investor in NFT projects like Dapper Labs, Axie Infinity’s Sky Mavis, and OpenSea.
- Other NFT investments made by the firm include Star Atlas, Aurory, Jamb, and Calaxy.
- Animoca is additionally working on the release of its own metaverse game, The Sandbox.
- Animoca reached a post-round valuation of $2.2B, up $1B since last valued in July.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 Gaia EverWorld, Blockchain Gaming: $3.7M ⮕ The seed funding round was participated in by Polygon, Au21, Onebit Ventures, GD10 ventures, Fairum, and others. More: - Gaia EverWorld is a fantasy, kingdom-building game inspired by games like Age of Empires and Pokémon.
- The game offers several adventure gaming features, including a PvP battle mode and an MMORPG style map.
- Gaia EverWorld is expected to utilize play-to-earn style tokenomics to reward players on their in-game progress.
Sommelier, DeFi/DEX: $23M ⮕ The Series A funding round was led by Polychain Capital and participated in by Alameda Ventures, Tendermint Ventures, Zola Ventures, D1 Ventures, and others. More: - Sommelier is a Defi protocol for automated liquidity providers (LPs), founded in 2020 by the former lead developer of Cosmos (ATOM) and Tendermint, Zaki Manian.
- The fresh funding will be used to continue developing the protocol and launch Sommelier Cellars.
- Cellars are community-elected strategies for liquidity management across DeFi protocols.
- Sommelier has raised a total of $26.5M to date. The startup previously raised $3.5M in seed funding back in March.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | OKB OKB | $25.19 | 28.95% ▲ | | 2 | Huobi Token HT | $9.41 | 19.92% ▲ | | 3 | Terra LUNA | $42.93 | 18.83% ▲ | | 4 | Nexo NEXO | $2.04 | 14.41% ▲ | | 5 | The Graph GRT | $0.8706 | 13.88% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS / ▲ LEAST GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Perpetual Protocol PERP | $16.07 | 0.35%▼ | | 2 | Fantom FTM | $2.40 | 0.03%▲ | | 3 | Celsius CEL | $5.33 | 1.19%▲ | | 4 | Icon ICX | $2.14 | 1.43%▲ | | 5 | XDC Network XDC | $0.1115 | 1.57%▲ | Source: CoinMarketCap, 3:30 EST
*Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100
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 Bitcoin (BTC) reached a new all-time high of over $66,000 following BITO’s first day of trading. Bitcoin shattered its previous all-time high of $64,900, which was set back in April. More: - Proshares’ BITO bitcoin futures-based ETF saw just under $1B in trading volume on its first day.
- The global crypto market cap also reached a new all-time high of $2.7T.
- The overall crypto market has reacted positively alongside Bitcoin’s breakout, with Ethereum (ETH) reclaiming $4,000 for the first time since May.
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Multicoin Capital raised $250M for a crypto startup venture fund. The latest fund from the crypto hedge fund comes five months after it announced its second, $100M crypto fund. More: - Multicoin is reportedly looking to expand its portfolio into DeFi interest rate markets.
- The fund previously led a round for DeFi interest rate provider Strips Finance.
- Multicoin received funding for its latest crypto fund from Binance, Ribbit Capital, Union Square Ventures, Marc Andreessen, and David Sacks.
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 Facebook is rebranding itself with a new name focused on the metaverse. Mark Zuckerberg is expected to speak on the rebrand at Facebook’s upcoming Connect conference. More: - The name change has been a tightly kept secret inside Facebook. It is unclear whether the announcement will be announced sooner than the conference.
- Facebook recently promoted Andrew Bosworth from the head of AR and VR to CTO.
- The metaverse company announced plans to hire 10,000 European employees to build Facebook’s metaverse.
- The Facebook social network will likely keep its name, but join Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus under the umbrella of a newly named corporate parent, similar to Google's move in 2015 with the formation of Alphabet.
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- Bored Ape #8585 sold for 696.969 ETH ($2.7M), making it the highest single sale of any BAYC NFT.
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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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