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Crypto drifts lower, US inflation set to rise, Fren Pet hype grows

Crypto

• BTC: 69k (-2%), ETH: 3520 (-3%), SOL: 171 (-3%)

• Top 100 gainers: ENA, TAO, CKB, FTM

• Crypto drifts lower ahead of key CPI figure

• ETFs see small outflow day on GBTC selling

• Hong Kong ETFs likely launch this month

• BTC CME gap filled, points to possible rally

• BTC short liquidations clustered at $72k

• SOL Firedancer rumoured close to testing

• SOL revenue up 27x in a year

• ETH dominates share of SOL outflows

• Paradigm leads $225m round in Monad

• Base makes $33m in fees YTD

• FTM up 10% after first Sonic validator

• EigenLayer launches on mainnet, $13bn TVL

• ENA up 15%, stablecoin fastest growing ever

• ARKM says competitors spreading false rumours

• INJ sees huge unlock tomorrow

Macro & General

• NASDAQ: 16.3k (0%), Gold: 2365 (0%)

• Stock and bond markets flat ahead of CPI

• Gold consolidating near ATH

• CPI expected to rise slightly to 3.4%

• State Street sees 150bp rate cut by year-end

• Israel must be punished: Khamanei

• Fitch downgrades China outlook

• Hedge funds sell stocks at fastest pace in months

• Costco selling $200m gold bars a month

• AI models as persuasive as humans: Anthropic

• EU courts rule in favour of Russian oligarchs

• OpenAI & Meta AI models ‘capable of reasoning’

• Saudi Arabia scales back Vision 2030 projects

NFTs, Memes & Low-Cap

• Hot coins: HOBBES, NUB, pepecoin

• Hot NFTs: Runestone, Blob Army, Rune Punks

• PAC hits another ATH amid creator push

• FP rises 40% after Ansem highlights

• Tate pushes Venom token on Base

• EPIK launches bred game

• Zeta reveals Z airdrop plans

• Parcl ends points program ahead of airdrop

• Metamask airdrop tracker to launch

• XCOPY 1/1 sells for $1.9m, Fewocious $86k

• Blob Army new Ordinals mint hits 0.05BTC

• Friend Tech sees highest net inflow in 7 months

• Kreatorhood NFT marketplace to launch today

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