🪂 10 Points Programs to Watch for Airdrops 🪂
In today’s edition: 🌉 Uniswap launches cross-chain bridge, 🔥 Why altcoins might boom if Trump wins, and more!
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What’s Poppin’?
by Juan Aranovich, Sage D. Young, and Tikta
10 Bitcoin Protocols With Points Programs That Will Likely Airdrop Tokens
Bitcoin protocols such as various layer 2 blockchains and liquid staking providers are currently offering points programs, which users speculate are signals of an upcoming airdrop.
Uniswap’s Permissionless Cross-Chain Bridge Goes Live
Uniswap’s six million users can now directly bridge assets across nine networks, including Base, Polygon, ZKsync, and World Chain.
Why Altcoins May Be the Best Bet if Trump Wins the U.S. Presidential Election
If Trump wins another term on Nov. 5, there are better trades than just buying bitcoin, one expert says.
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Daily Bits… ✍️✍️✍
✍️ Nigeria dropped money laundering charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, allowing him to seek medical treatment after months of detention related to his role at the crypto exchange.
🇺🇸 Polymarket is tightening compliance checks on users, ensuring that US-based traders aren’t betting on the platform, which has seen a surge in large pro-Trump wagers ahead of the election.
🚪 Portofino Technologies, a crypto trading firm, has seen a significant staff exodus after firing co-founder Alex Casimo and chief financial officer Jae Park in July, leading to nearly 40% of employees departing.
📊 An institution placed a $25 million bet on bitcoin options on decentralized derivatives exchange Derive’s onchain market, speculating that bitcoin could rise to $80,000 following the US election in November. It’s the largest ever onchain options transaction bet tied to the election, Derive told Coindesk.
⚖️ Government lawyers praised former FTX executive Nishad Singh for his "substantial assistance" in their investigation, highlighting his cooperation and remorse ahead of his sentencing later this month.
📉 PumpFun, the Solana-based memecoin platform, sold over $6 million worth of solana, contributing to its total sales of 503,343 SOL, valued at around $78.7 million.
⏳ zkLink postponed its token vesting schedule by six months, delaying the release of over 40% of its ZKL token supply to align better with market conditions and future product launches.
🔐 Base plans to introduce permissionless fault proofs on Oct. 30 to decentralize its network and enhance security by allowing users to challenge suspicious transactions.
The $$$ Corner…
💻 Variational, an Arbitrum-based crypto derivatives protocol, raised $10.3 million in seed funding to expand its peer-to-peer trading platform after operating successfully in stealth mode.
🎮 Web3 mobile gaming platform Party Icons secured $9 million in seed funding led by Bitkraft Ventures to enhance its gaming and social experiences, aiming to integrate more party games and shooter modes.
🏦 Europe-based digital asset platform STOKR raised $7.98 million, with plans to establish one of the first corporate bitcoin treasuries in the EU, following the lead of companies such as MicroStrategy.
💰 Bitcoin mining firm TeraWulf aims to raise $350 million through a convertible note offering to fund a $200 million share buyback program and support strategic business expansions.
What Do You Meme?
📈 Your Market Update 📉
BTC is up 0.7%, trading at $67,030
ETH is down 2%, trading at $2,530
BTC dominance: 54.95%
Crypto market cap: $2.4T
*All data as of today, 06:35 am ET. Source: CoinGecko
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