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- The 2nd batch Oyster Labs smartphone preorder has started.
Accepted: TON
Price: $ 159.99 (shipping fee included)
https://universalphone.xyz/
- LayerZero announced that 803,093 addresses were identified as potential sybils.
Start: Today, May 18th, 2:00 UTC
Deadline: May 31st, 23:59 UTC
Reward: 10% of a sybil’s intended token allocation.
https://x.com/layerzero_labs/status/1791622471965163597
https://x.com/layerzero_labs/status/1791622471965163597
- Fantom (FTM) plans to rebrand to Sonic Network (S).
Sonic Network will be a new layer-1 chain with a native layer-2 bridge connected to Ethereum and beyond.
Holders of FTM will have the ability to migrate their tokens for a 1:1 ratio at genesis for the S token.
Fantom Foundation has earmarked hundreds of millions of FTM from its treasury to assist with ecosystem development for the Sonic network for marketing, business development, migration grants, and other adoption initiatives.
https://forum.fantom.network/t/the-new-frontier-building-the-sonic-boom/875
- May 17 Update:
9 ETFs added 3,743 BTC (+$ 251.56M).
Grayscale added 397 BTC (+$ 26.7M) and currently holds 288,895 BTC ($ 19.42B).
Blackrock added 1,435 BTC (+$ 96.44M) and currently holds 276,190 BTC ($ 18.56B).
https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1791509008739921948
- Bank of America raised Coinbase to neutral from underperform and boosted its price target to $ 217 from $ 110.
The current macro backdrop has been positive for crypto market cap growth and trading volumes, the report said.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/05/17/coinbase-upgraded-to-neutral-from-underperform-at-bank-of-america-on-positive-crypto-market-dynamics/
- JPMorgan has revised its bitcoin production cost estimate to $ 45,000.
https://www.theblock.co/post/295005/jpmorgan-revises-bitcoin-production-cost-estimate-to-45000
- 🎮 Blockchain gaming investments reach nearly $ 1 billion in April.
◾️Blockchain gaming saw investments totaling $ 988 million in the month of April, the highest since January 2021.
◾️In the first quarter of 2024, blockchain gaming investments totaled $ 288 million. April alone saw more than triple that amount.
- TON game Notcoin announced that it will donate 1.03 billion Notcoin (NOT), equivalent to $ 6.8 million, to Telegram founder Pavel Durov and Telegram. Notcoin was recently launched on Binance Launchpool and OKX Jumpstart at the same time, with 102,719,221,714 NOT in full circulation. The current price is $ 0.007091, with a total market value of $ 728.38 million. — https://x.com/thenotcoin/status/1791438097541914744
- Stacks co-founder: “The ALEX private key compromise is unfortunate. There is no Clarity contract issue or exploit, though.
The ALEX team is hardworking and well-meaning, and they are working with exchanges to freeze funds.”
https://x.com/muneeb/status/1791143724719677820
- Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun was hacked for approximately 12,300 SOL, valued around $ 1.9 million.
Pump.fun said a former employee was behind the exploit.
The platform laid out plans to compensate users that suffered from the exploit in a post-mortem posted on X.
https://www.theblock.co/post/295029/pump-fun-post-mortem
https://twitter.com/pumpdotfun/status/1791235050643636303
- US Senator Cynthia Lummis posts Bitcoin laser eyes after pro-crypto legislation passed in the Senate.
https://x.com/watcherguru/status/1791186480167334035
https://twitter.com/SenLummis/status/1791181277044875366
- The Senate voted 60 to 38 on Thursday on a resolution to overturn the SEC’s SAB 121, which establishes certain accounting standards for firms that custody crypto.
The resolution will likely be vetoed when it reaches President Joe Biden’s desk.
https://www.theblock.co/post/294949/us-senate-passes-measure-withdrawing-sec-accounting-bulletin
- CoinList has announced the NATIX token launch.
The NATIX purchase period begins on May 16, 2024 at 17:00 UTC and ends on May 23, at 17:00 UTC.
The launch has one public option:
Supply: 5,000,000,000 NATIX tokens (5% of the total token supply)
Price: $ 0.001
Lockup & Release: 25% unlock on TGE followed by a 6-month linear release. TGE is expected to occur on or around June 25, 2024.
Initial Purchase Limits: $ 100.00 minimum, $ 2,000.00 maximum (USDT/USDC only)
https://coinlist.co/natix
https://coinlist.co/natix
- Gnosis announces the launch of Genome, a digital ID service native to Gnosis Chain.
Developed in collaboration with SpaceID, a Web3 domain and identity platform, and the Web3 messaging protocol dm3, Genome simplifies the process of sending and receiving transactions within the Gnosis ecosystem by converting complex wallet addresses into human-readable names.
https://www.gnosis.io/blog/gnosis-launches-genome-naming-service-extending-ens-for-web3-identity-within-gnosis-and-wider-web3-ecosystem-2
- XION is bringing Chain Abstraction to the Avalanche ecosystem through its Landslide integration.
https://twitter.com/burnt_xion/status/1791123183921201385
- Bybit will list Subsquid (SQD) on May 17th at 8:00 UTC.
SQD will also have listing on Gate, MEXC, KuCoin and Coinlist.
https://twitter.com/Bybit_Official/status/1791091232292159907
- Tether is joining forces with Oobit, a mobile payment app, and the TON Foundation to create seamless crypto-payment solution.
https://tether.io/news/tether-collaborates-with-ton-foundation-and-oobit-to-create-seamless-crypto-payment-solution/
- 🍺 Beercoin (BEER) Pre-Sale started on May 16th, 12:00 UTC!
BEER is the next big meme on Solana 💛
📎 Key benefits:
🍺100K+ followers across all social media in just a few days
🍺Huge web2 and web3 KOLs shilling it
🍺Team is crypto OGs and they claim that listings are on tier-1/2 cexes are confirmed
🍺Meme potential is incredible
📌BEER team has revealed a huge bonus for those who hop into the pre-sale. Each participant will get 20% more tokens.
📌Anyone can enter in a range from 0.5 up to 1000 SOL.
contact address 👉 FkC84JH6HnRCTLch8KhzCc9d5KMBt93zuW2apSKXFovY
🌐 Links: Website◻️Twitter◻️Telegram
#sponsored
- Internet Computer has introduced its updated roadmap.
https://medium.com/@dfinity/the-internet-computer-roadmap-62487bdce289
- Drift Protocol (DRIFT) trading has started on Bybit.
DRIFT is now trading at $ 0.6.
FDV: $ 612M
Claim starts at 12:00 UTC
https://drift.foundation/
https://www.bybit.com/en/trade/spot/DRIFT/USDT
- Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev appeals guilty verdict.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/16/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-appeals-guilty-verdict/
- Three scholars published a paper studying Crypto-Influencers on Twitter. The average return rate one day (two days) after the twitter sending was 1.83% (1.57%). The return rate of small tokens after one day was 3.86%. The average cumulative returns ending 10 and 30 days were -2.24% and -6.53%. — https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4412017
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4412017
- Zentry launched a website with 4 apps.
▫️NEXUS - Zentry’s gamified staking and Social Gateway Hub for investors of ZENT.
▫️ RADIANT - The world’s first cross metagame platform.
▫️ ZIGMA - An anime and gaming-inspired NFT collection.
▫️ AZUL - A cross-world AI companion that elevates gameplay, making it more fun and productive.
https://twitter.com/ZentryHQ/status/1790747939230597149
https://zentry.com/
https://twitter.com/ZentryHQ/status/1790747939230597149
- CME plans to launch bitcoin spot trading.
https://www.ft.com/content/bfae5894-8fa7-4131-86ce-7f8614065985
- Andrew Tate: “I know I’m not supposed to do this in chaotic times but I’m about to leave fiat completely and ape over 100M into btc.”
https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/1790802144431378828
https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/1790802144431378828
- Hedge fund Millennium Management, with more than $ 64 billion in assets under management, held roughly $ 2 billion across a number of the spot bitcoin ETFs, according to its filing.
Another hedge fund, Paul Singer's Elliott Capital disclosed a stake of nearly $ 12 million in BlackRock's IBIT as of the end of the quarter.
Finally, Apollo Management Holdings disclosed a quarter-end $ 53.2 million stake in ARK/21's ARKB.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/05/15/izzy-englanders-millennium-paul-singers-elliott-among-bitcoin-etf-holders/
- The Blast airdrop is launching on June 26.
The airdrop was originally scheduled for May. The airdrop allocation will be increased to account for this.
There will be two final Dapp Gold distributions before the airdrop.
https://twitter.com/Blast_L2/status/1790839049521123350
- Morgan Stanley, the 6th biggest bank in the US, has invested over $ 269 million in Bitcoin ETF.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895421/000089542124000355/0000895421-24-000355-index.html
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895421/000089542124000355/0000895421-24-000355-index.html
- Bitcoin Lightning Network payment IBEX Pay tweeted that it has decided to suspend all IBEX Pay services in the United States starting from May 31, 2024. Founded in 2018, IBEX seeks to connect banks, wallets, exchanges, and traditional businesses with Bitcoin via the Lightning Network.
- Linea has announced the launch of the Linea Surge program.
Start: May 16 at 16:00 UTC
The Early Adopter modifier snapshot will be taken on the final block produced on Linea mainnet today 5/15 23:59 UTC.
https://twitter.com/LineaBuild/status/1790777686383534477
- Layer3 has launched the Infinity CUBEs Campaign.
Over the next 6 weeks, you can mint three legendary CUBEs by participating in special Layer3 quests. These CUBEs will provide additional allocation for the airdrop.
https://app.layer3.xyz/collections/the-infinity-cubes-campaign
- Scroll has introduced the checker.
Checker: https://scroll.io/sessions
▫️Marks are rewarded to all eligible bridged assets since Scroll's mainnet launch on October 10th, 2023, based on amount and time held on Scroll.
▫️Marks have been awarded to users with more than $ 5 total gas spent on Scroll from the mainnet launch on Oct 10th, 2023 to Apr 29th, 2024 12:00 UTC.
https://twitter.com/Scroll_ZKP/status/1790733896851591388
- 🍀Creator launches CRET ICO: Beta Stage!
About the project:
CREAT'OR is a platform that allows businesses to showcase themselves to potential investors and allows the everyday individual access to opportunities to invest for equity in a business.
Using the blockchain allows CREAT'OR to provide a platform with global access to large liquidity pools and endless possibilities for investors for a fraction of the cost, which can be further reduced for holders of the token CRET.
ICO details:
🍀Price: $ 0.017
🍀Total supply: 500M CRET
🍀Team tokens are locked for 18 months and vested over 30.
🍀The presale consists of 4 stages, Beta, stage 1, 2 and 3.
🍀Accepted: ETH, USDT, ERC20 or TRC20.
🖇What are the benefits for token holders and investors?
▫️ Reduced Platform Fees
▫️ Staking Rewards and DAO Participation
▫️ Early Access and Leadership Opportunities
▫️ NFT-Based Benefits
▫️ Tiered Rewards System
▫️ Equity Rewards and Project Insights
▫️ Exclusive Insights and Events
▫️ Educational Resources
🌟 Participate here: https://bit.ly/3QLwDBD
https://bit.ly/3QLwDBD
- CoinList is not in control of the delivery of TRIBL tokens and is considering possible legal actions to address this issue.
https://twitter.com/coinlist/status/1790503094595326205
- The co-founders of Lido are secretly funding a competitor to EigenLayer.
According to several people with knowledge of the matter, the project is called Symbiotic and has drawn backing from not only the Lido co-founders, Konstantin Lomashuk and Vasiliy Shapovalov, through their venture firm Cyber Fund, but also Paradigm.
Symbiotic allows users to "restake" using Lido's staked ether (stETH) token and other popular assets that are not natively compatible with EigenLayer.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/05/14/lido-co-founders-paradigm-secretly-back-eigenlayer-competitor-as-defi-battle-lines-form/
- According to Bloomberg, stablecoin issuer Circle has filed documents with the court, planning to move its legal headquarters from Ireland to the United States in preparation for its upcoming IPO. A Circle spokesperson confirmed the news but did not disclose the specific reason. — https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/05/15/stablecoin-issuer-circle-files-to-shift-legal-home-to-us-from-ireland-ahead-of-planned-ipo-bloomberg/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines
- The aggregated L3 zkEVM network zkLink adopts a similar form of airdrop hunter self-reporting as LayerZero. Sybil Attack users self-report within the next ten days in exchange for 25% of expected rewards. Lynks NFT holders must pass anti-Sibyl testing and KYC verification when claiming ZKL token rewards. — https://discord.com/channels/839458691983605832/1104554827712827402/1240257199016513596
https://discord.com/channels/839458691983605832/1104554827712827402/1240257199016513596
- BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US inflation falls to 3.4%.
BTC 64K
- Robinhood’s European crypto arm launched Solana staking, offering around 5% APY. Robinhood says SOL is one of the most popular coins among its EU customers. Robinhood's U.S. branch removed Solana last June after the SEC accused it of being an unregistered security. — https://blockworks.co/news/robinhood-solana-staking-europe
- Conduit said that Degen Chain is back online, users can submit transactions using public RPC, and the block explorer is still indexing. Degen Chain was down for more than two days this time. Conduit said it will release a full analysis of the incident in the coming days. — https://x.com/conduitxyz/status/1790603513346826620
https://x.com/conduitxyz/status/1790603513346826620
- Sonne Finance has been exploited for $ 20M with the known donation attack.
The exploiter executed 4 of the transactions when 2-day timelock ends for the creation of markets, and after that, executed the transaction for adding c-factor to the markets.
https://medium.com/@SonneFinance/post-mortem-sonne-finance-exploit-12f3daa82b06
- Equalizer (DEX on Fantom): “Don't use Equalizer.Exchange for now.
Please use these alternative Mirrors till then.
equal.eliteness.network (Equalizer on Fantom)
scale.eliteness.network (Equalizer on Base)
equity.eliteness.network (Equity)
clfarm.vip (CL Farms on Base & Fantom)
Please refrain from using the Cross-chain bridge.equalizer, equity analytics, beta sites and v4 sites.
Only the above sites are safe. We are working on restoring the main website and will update you shortly.”
https://twitter.com/Equalizer0x/status/1790301130913960098
- Zhu Su: „I think VCs have within the span of two months gone from laughing at memecoins, to haughtily insulting them, to realising high fdv / low float meta is over. 95% of the coins underperforming the last month or so will never recover. There is no one to buy unlocks, there's no plan.“
https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1790198782531125648
- 🚨 Alex Protocol suffers $ 4.3 million in loss after suspicious upgrades.
◾️Alex protocol, a Bitcoin layer-2 protocol, bridge on the BNB Smart Chain network suffered $ 4.3 million in suspicious withdrawals just after its contract was suddenly upgraded.
- BlockTower Capital’s main hedge fund has been hacked and partially stolen by fraudsters, according to Bloomberg. The firm manages $ 1.7 billion in assets. The hackers have not been arrested. BlockTower was founded in 2017 and has invested in companies such as Dapper Labs, Sky Mavis, Terraform, and others
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/crypto-investment-firm-blocktower-capital-suffers-losses-in-hack
- NATIX [NATIX] has announced upcoming token sale on CoinList
NATIX Network will conduct a $NATIX token sale on CoinList. $NATIX total token supply is 100B, and the token has several functionalities: it would be utilized to reward validators of xNodes, staking and voting power for system governance and In Drive& app utilities. 5B $NATIX (5% of total supply) is allocated for public sale. Other details of token sale and TGE will be announced soon.
NATIX Network is the AI-powered dynamic map supercharged by the DePIN and driver community. Previously, it raised $ 9.4M in funding rounds backed by Borderless Capital, Tioga Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Blockchange Ventures, TechStars, Plug and Play, Mulana Capital and others.
🔗 twitter.com/NATIXNetwork/status/1790336260713627814
- Polymarket has raised $ 45M in a Series B funding round backed by Founders Fund and Vitalik Buterin
Polymarket has secured $ 45M in a Series B funding round led by Founders Fund. Other investors in the round include Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, 1confirmation, ParaFi and Dragonfly Capital. Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market platform built on the Ethereum blockchain that allows users to place bets on world events. Previously, it raised $ 29M in two funding rounds backed by Polychain Capital, 1confirmation, ParaFi Capital and others.
🔗 coindesk.com/business/2024/05/14/peter-thiels-founders-fund-vitalik-buterin-back-45m-investment-in-polymarket
- Quest 4 The Scroll of Legends — Secret Mission
https://app.galxe.com/quest/RhoMarket/GCBMutzyhn
➖ Quiz : C - C - A - A - A - A - A - B - A - A - A - Supplying
- Sophon announced a $SOPH token airdrop for ecosystem token holders in Q3. Users will be able to stake certain assets to qualify for a $SOPH airdrop. The first asset announced is $BEAM, the native token of the Beam network. Other details about airdrop process will be announced soon.
- Zone Nine Premint
Register : https://www.premint.xyz/zone-nine/
Price : Free
Supply : 999 NFTs