Mando Minutes

Things I’m looking at today…

Crypto

• Majors dip 1% as tech stocks fall despite Nvidia

• $BTC $2bn options expire today

• $BTC on exchanges at 5 year low

• Four $ETH whales bought $94m in dip

• JP Morgan sees limited crypto downside here

• Tether keeps $3.3bn liquidity cushion

• Binance contacts low-cap teams to boost trading

• FTX & Blockfi customer data leaked in hack

• Magnate Finance $6.5m rug-pull on Base

• Photo sharing now live in Friend Tech

• $LDO final $14m token unlock today

• $SHIB Shibarium re-opens in private mode

Macro & General

• Powell speech at Jackson Hole today

• Fed’s Harker says they have “done enough”

• BRICS agree to stop trade in dollars

• US data mixed: jobless claims fall, durable goods orders fall

• Foreign investors sold $10bn Chinese stocks this month

• China’s $9T local government debt in focus

• US approves $500m arms sale to Taiwan

• SpaceX sued by DOJ for hiring policy

• Elon will sue Soros funded NGOs

• Meta launches AI coding tool to public

• Nvidia CEO now worth $46bn

• Major websites increasingly blocking ChatGPT

• OnlyFans users spent $5bn last year

• Scientists finally fully map male Y chromosome sequence

• Ramaswamy top challenger to Trump after debate

• Trump mugshot released, posts on X for first time

NFTs & Low-Cap

• $PEPE devs leave & sell $16m tokens, token -20%

• $PEPE open interest up 30% as large shorts added

• Other meme coins fall: $BITCOIN, $MOG, $PNDC fall 20-30%, $SHIA up 90%

• $RLB up 15% as whale seller begins to slow

• $YGG & $MC both fall 15% in gaming guild space

• Major NFTs bounce 5-10% as meme coins fall

• Sam Spratt $700k 1/1 sale

• Artblocks creator SnowFro launches new project

• Julian Assange holds metaverse political rally

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