Happy Sunday frens! Market updates/stats at top and stories/news/etc at bottom as always :)
Market Update
Overall crypto market cap: +1.5% to $1.08T.
$BTC: +0.9% to $22,547.86 and a market cap of $430.7B.
$ETH: +3.2% to $1,580.97, and a market cap of $189.4B.
For tradfi (note: stock results are Friday’s since markets closed til Monday):
More crypto:
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 500)
Up:
-WeWay $WWY +30.6%
-VeThor $VTHO +28.0%
-Synthetix $SNX +14.1%
Down:
-Blox $CDT -38.4%
-Hoo $HOO -31.1%
-Flamingo Finance $FLM -28.6%
Biggest TVL Movers
For chains, BSC is now in the #2 spot again (just in the last few minutes after below screenshot was taken), suggesting Tron’s ascendance yesterday may have been due to calculation idiosyncrasies (is unclear). Avalanche is pulling away from Solana in spot #4, now more than 30% higher by TVL. Optimism is now in spot #14, up over 27% on the weekly.
Top protocols are extremely green. Top weekly gainers among top 100 are Arrakis (#11) up over 27%, Synthetix (#25) up over 21%, and Rocket Pool (#29) up over 21%.
Here’s The Top 12 Chains By TVL (from @defillama):
Here’s The Top 12 Protocols By TVL (from @defillama):
Here’s The Top 12 Stablecoins By TVL (from @coingecko):
Other Data Points
Bitcoin Fear/Greed Index:
(from @BitcoinFear)
Ethereum Fear/Greed Index:
(from @EthereumFear)
New Protocols/Yield Farms
(note: this is checked via a variety of sources (listed below when used) and general Twitter research - note: this excludes Tomb forks and reflection tokens and tries to only include at least semi-legitimate defi-oriented stuff, but DYOR)
-A new defi privacy protocol called @beamprivacy is working towards launching soon. Twitter bio states “Confidential, fast, easy to use. Leading the way to confidential DeFi”:
-A new protocol called @UnrealFinance that allows you to “Tokenize future yield” is launching soon. Appears to be launching on Eth Mainnet and/or Polygon if understanding right:
Rug Pulls/Exploits/De-Peggings/Liquidation Alerts
-@certiKAlert issues alerts regarding Discord hacks of @Superful_xyz and @Wearelux_space, and a flash-crashes and/or rugpulls on $CANDY and $SW and $YYDNS.
-@AudiusProject has been exploited. Here was an early tweet drawing attention to it, from @mhonkasalo:
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @defillama ($1M+ TVL only) and @stable_fish)
Other News And Analysis
(key news, twitter threads, articles, videos, etc from last 24 hours)
-Terra co-founders home raided in South Korea last week apparently:
-Brave Browser announced six new partners for their Wallet Partner program today:
-Uniswap continues to dominate in fees generated:
-$BTC and $ETH are both considerably under their price from a year ago:
-SBF/FTX and Voyager news:
-US real estate continuing to cool:
-Italy continues its economic slide downward, causing more problems for Eurozone and ECB:
Conclusion
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