Crypto News Weekly Digest 18.08.2023

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2023-08-18

 

Crypto market

BTC - 26544 -7.31%.

Growth leaders among altcoins are INJ.

Fall leaders are CFX, APE, LTC.

BTC dominance is 49.64%.

Altseason index 24.


Assets worth $2.8 million were found in Trump's crypto wallet.

Former US President Donald Trump earned $4.9 million from NFT collections. He currently holds $2.8 million in an Ethereum wallet.

Previously, the former president criticized cryptocurrencies and called them a "scam."

 

In MetaMask, you can now buy crypto using Apple Pay.

To use the innovations, you just need to select an asset, double-click on the "personal ID" to confirm the payment, and after a minute the funds appear in the wallet.

 

On Polymarket, users place bets on the fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

According to one of the positions, the amount of bets exceeded $380,000.

According to users' predictions, Zuckerberg's chances are higher. Although on the same platform, bets are placed on whether this fight will take place at all and whether Zuckerberg will manage to knock out Musk.

 

LIQUIDATIONS on the crypto market exceeded $1 billion.

In the last 24 hours, 176,566 traders have been liquidated, totaling $1.04 billion in liquidations.

The largest single liquidation order occurred on Binance — ETH/BUSD worth $55.92 million.

 

EARNED $540,000 on mem coins.

Noname has purchased a total of 1.25 million BONEs at $0.96 since June. Sold 844k BONE for $1.6.

In addition to the net profit in pollama, he still has 386k tokens left.

 

ATTENTION! The price of the FIL token is falling.

In China, Filecoin mining companies have been equated with pyramid schemes. There was a wave of arrests and searches.

The FIL token of this decentralised project has lost about 2.6% and is falling rapidly.

 

LUNAR MISSION DOGE-1 starts November 15-20.

Dogecoin investors and Musk with their SpaceX will launch a 40-kilogram satellite using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

It will orbit the moon and collect information using onboard sensors and a camera.

 

50 ETH PAYS social network to users!

In the beta version of Friendtech, you can link to Twitter and sell your shares to subscribers.

A day after the launch, the trading volume amounted to 4400 ETH ($8.1 million) for 126 thousand transactions.

Profits can be cashed out by clicking "withdraw ETH". Also, according to rumours, there will be a drop of native tokens.

 

A HACKER stole 52% of CURVE (CRV) tokens.

But this is not the same hacker that hacked the project a week earlier, but the one that hacked Wintermute in September 2022.

It's hard to sell them for free. So it turns out that half of the CRV tokens are simply withdrawn from circulation.

 

The crisis in the US banking sector continues.

Moody's agency downgrades the ratings of large banks Bank of New York Mellon, Truist Financial, Northern Trust, saying:

“We expect a moderate recession in early 2024. There will be a tightening of credit conditions and an increase in credit losses for US banks.”