Back to Normal After the Tornado 🌪️
In today's edition: 🥷 $7.5 million exploit, 📈 DAI Savings Rate, 😰 a huge OP unlock, and more!
What’s Poppin’?
by Samyuktha Sriram
Tornado Cash DAO Passes Attackers’ Proposal to Restore Governance
The Tornado Cash community has passed a proposal that would put governance control back in the hands of the DAO.
MakerDAO Considers Proposal to Raise DAI Savings Rate to 3.3%
The proposal authors believe this parameter upgrade could be a huge tailwind for the DeFi ecosystem.
$250 Million in Optimism Tokens Will Be Unlocked This Week
Around 155 million OP tokens are scheduled to be unlocked on Wednesday, representing 3.6% of total token supply.
Arbitrum-Based Jimbos Protocol Loses $7.5 Million ETH in Exploit
The liquidity protocol lost 4,090 ETH after attackers exploited the lack of slippage control in liquidity shifting operations.
On the Pod…
Ethereum L2s Are About to Be the Hot New Thing in NFTs
Daily Bits…✍️✍️✍️
⚖️ Gemini and Genesis Global Capital are petitioning a U.S. court to dismiss an SEC lawsuit that alleges the sale of unregistered securities through Gemini's Earn program.
🌐 The Fantom blockchain will offer a 15% rebate on gas fees to certain projects in an effort to stimulate demand for block space under the recently approved “dApp Gas Monetization Program.”
🔻 Following the failure of its FTX investment, Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek reduced the salaries of the staff involved, despite no misconduct found in an internal review.
📈🇹🇭 Gulf Binance, a partnership between Binance and Gulf Innova, secured a Thai digital asset operator license, paving the way for a regulated crypto exchange anticipated by year's end.
🔓 Ahead of a $130 million unlock, Avalanche's native AVAX token remains steady, with over 9.3 million tokens set for distribution.
💤 An Ethereum wallet holding 8,000 ETH (about $15 million) purchased during the 2015 ICO became active after eight years of dormancy.
🔍 Despite ongoing uncertainty and no update about the project team's whereabouts, the token price of the cross-chain protocol Multichain experienced a 35% surge in the past 24 hours.
Today in Crypto Adoption...
🏙️ Beijing's authorities published a web3-focused white paper, aimed at promoting the development and innovation of the web3 industry.
🏁 Platinum Group, the official F1 ticket issuer, launched NFT race tickets with added perks, starting with the Monaco Grand Prix.
The $$$ Corner…
🧠 Orbofi AI, a leading web3 generative AI engine, secured $2.8 million in funding, aiming to empower user content creation and monetization.
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📈 Your Market Update 📉
BTC is up 2.6%, trading at $27,892
ETH is up 3.2%, trading at $1,902
BTC dominance: 44.68%
Crypto market cap: $1.21 trillion
*All data as of today, 7:30 am ET
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Pretty interesting conclusions around roadmaps for NFT projects. Agree it's becoming an outdated narrative.
Maybe the broader conclusion is that NFTs are becoming more like a channel rather than a finite project.