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Solana + Nomad Hacks Lead To HUGE Losses
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Welcome to the Exit Liquidity newsletter, the place to stay up to date on the ridiculous things that happen in the Crypto, NFTs & Web3. If you are looking to join the community check out the AlphaMint Discord where all the degens gather to chat in the dojo.
This week has been fully loaded with massive hacks resulting in huge losses, big brand name announcements and lots of NFT action. We cover some of it on Episode 2 of the Exit Liquidity show, but there's still a ton in this newsletter that we did not cover in the video. Do yourself a favor and catch up below. It definitely doesn't feel like a bear market with everything happening.
Crypto
Coinbase partners with BlackRock to provide crypto trading, custody, prime brokerage, and reporting capabilities to Aladdin’s Institutional client base
Tag Hauer and Gucci will start accepting ApeCoin payments for in-store purchases
Crypto exchange Zipmex reopens withdrawls, starting with Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA) and XRP. Remember, never keep your tokens on an exchange and get a hardware wallet!
Crypto and Stock trading platform Robinhood takes a few licks this week as their Crypto Division is fined for $30M and the company does another round of layoffs
Ledger looking to raise another $100M in funding. The company raised $380 million back in June
Solana hack occurred on August 2nd draining thousands of wallets and stealing $6M in $SOL. The hack has been linked to a Slope wallet backend leak
Great thread gathering all the info on the Nomad Bridge hack
Bitcoin maxi and MicroStrategy Founder, Michael Saylor, steps down as CEO of MicroStrategy. Is this the end of the bullish investments for $BTC for the company?
NFTs
NFT marketplace, Magic Eden, is expanding into ETH NFTs and will become a multi-chain platform for trading
OpenSea proves yet again what a terrible platform they are by introducing a new feature allowing users to buy and send NFTs to another wallet in the same transaction which triggered tracking apps to show that specific wallets (such as influencers or whales) were buying NFTs they were not
Nansen drops stats on NFT sales such as market participants spent 963,227 $ETH (approximately $2.7b) on minting NFTs in the first half of 2022 plus more
NFTs.com domain sold for $15M. Unknown buyer at the time, but it was reported that the buyer has associations with other Web3 projects
Tiffany's & Co NFTiff early mints are already being flipped, someone even managed to squeak out 1 ETH of profit
Coolman's Universe Babies claims have officially begun. Holders have until August 23rd to claim.
Moonbirds and Oddities moving to a CC0 public license
DappRadar July overview dropped and the biggest winners were P2E NFT games. Axie Infinity a big standout reaching more than $830 million in trading volume alone. They also report NFTs being more relevant than ever. Definitely a good read back by lots of numbers and charts
Web3
Starbucks to introduce a Web3 based rewards program next month
NFT project, Tenacious Tacos, by StrEATS restaurant franchise aims to bring IRL benefits to project holders such as discounts on tacos, staking and more to push the into Web3 space. Sign up for the Premint WL
Ex-Meta Facebook and Tinder employees start a Web3 social network called Niche. Built on the blockchain, the app will help communities setup as DAOs which will allow members to own, control, and monetize the content they create on the platform
Dtravel, a Web3 vacation and short-term rental platform, has completed its first successful smart-contract booking
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