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Things I’m looking at today…

Quiet weekly close, Fed on Wednesday, FT self-buying rises

Crypto

• Majors stable & unchanged heading to weekly close

• $BTC number of addresses rising as price falls

• $BTC surpasses Visa’s annual transaction volume

• CT fights over university credentials

• Total value hacked up to $7bn

• DeFi activity drops 15% in August

• Recent deep liquidation event often marks rebound

• $TRON network now 10% of DeFi

• $LINK foundation sends $100m tokens to Binance

• $DOT metaverse Polkaworld folds

• $ARB first incentive program proposed, 50M unlock

• $OP to re-distribute unclaimed airdrop

Macro & General

• This week: Fed (Weds), BoE (Thurs)

• Market prices almost no chance of US rate hike

• US mortgage, student, auto & credit card debt at record

• US Q4 growth to slow to just 1.3%: Goldman Sachs

• US Dollar at 6-month high

• US casinos have their best July ever

• India expects to achieve 10.5% growth

• Armed man arrested at RFK event

• Antarctica sea-ice levels at all-time low

• Fox and dog hybrid discovered in Brazil

NFTs & Low-Cap

• Self-buying accounts for 27% of FT TVL

• $APE AIP to buy Yuga Assets leans towards passing

• $RLB had $5.6m burnt last 30 days

• $HIFI drops 50% after 200% increase

• Only 5% of NFTs have market cap above $0

• Bitcoin metaverse coin coming from Animoca

• Magic Eden launches cost-compressed $SOL NFTs

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