Mando Minutes

Things I’m looking at today…

Crypto

• Majors flat and trading in a tight range

• Grayscale asks for urgent SEC response on ETF

• Base stops producing blocks for 43 mins

• Metamask allows fiat off-ramp, 9% fees FUD

• Metamask announces cross-chain DApp store

• $BTC open interest YTD lows, volatility 10 year lows

• $ETH whales purchased 260k ETH in last few days

• Visa introduces $USDC payments on $SOL network

• $SOL users fall to lowest in 2 years

• Bernstein says crypto poised for ‘epic rally’

• 30% of CEX withdrawals going to crypto casinos

• Tail emissions of $BTC debated on the TL

• Ben Armstrong (BitBoy) returns to X

• Bybit launches AI trading assistants and bots

• Coinbase upsizes debt buyback to $180m

• Lawyers made $700m from crypto bankruptcies

• $DYDX to launches DEX on Cosmos

• $SNX up another 13% as V3 hype grows

• $KAS up 15% as Bybit lists

Macro & General

• Chinese property soars as Country Garden avoids default

• Fed’s Waller says ‘can proceed carefully’ with rate hikes

• Oil at 2023 highs as Saudi & Russia cut production

• Dollar hits highest level since March

• Arm headed for $52bn IPO

• China bans Apple products for government staff

• 100 cases of Chinese ‘tourists’ spying on US bases

• Japan plans economics stimulus plan for October

• Airbnb banned from NYC

• Ukrainian oligarch linked to Zelensky is arrested

• Proud Boys leader given 22 year jail sentence

• Biden to begin wearing mask indoors again

NFTs & Low-Cap

• $PRIME up 20% as positivity high for Parallel game

• $ENJ up 20% in gaming as blockchain to launch

• $PERP, $UNFI, $BLZ see massive volumes amid price increases

• $RLB burned 1% of total supply in last month

• Mr Beast Creator League postponed in NFT backlash

• Yuga Labs launches TwelveFold puzzles

• Justin Bieber song now NFT with royalty sharing

• Winds of Yawanawa 12ETH floor, 10x in 2 months

• Pudgy Penguins projects $10m toy sales in 7 months

• Draftkings NFT NFL packs drop today

• ZED RUN to add gambling on races

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