Crypto News Weekly Digest 23.06.2023

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2023-06-23

 

Crypto market

BTC - $30063 -0.73%. On the chart, there is a small flat trend near $30k. Over the past 11 weeks of sightings, whales have accumulated 131.6k BTC, and their holdings hit a 7-month high. Low growth to $32.5k is possible.

 

Alt charts are red. Ether is trading at $1884. alt season 12, admission interest 65 Index (greed). The trading volume is $39.5 billion.

 

Growth leaders among altcoins are KAS, VET, LEO.

Fall leaders - STX, PLS, FLOW.

BTC dominance is 51.41%.

 

Shiba Inu will release branded merchandise.

Crypto lead developer Shitoshi Kusama announced "Shibacals".

These are digital NFTs that can be exchanged for physical merchandise.

The main goal of Shibacals is to popularize SHIB through strategic partnerships with well-known brands.

 

Nike and Fortnite will launch an NFT sneaker hunt on June 20th.

The community is arguing that Nike took advantage of the Fornite Creative 2.0 map build mode and created their own island.

On it, players will be able to complete tasks to receive NFT Airphoria collections related to Nike Air Max sneakers.

Fortnite has over 242.9 million monthly active players.

 

SHIB sweatshirt design competition launched.

In the Shibacals Hoodie Contest, everyone can submit 2 designs for Shibacal hoodies.

The coolest 3 designs will be taken as the basis of the first collection of sweatshirts. Authors will receive a percentage of sales.

Hoodies will sell for $75.

 

The trader received 848 thousand profit after selling 1 trillion PEPE.

Someone with insider knowledge bought 2 trillion tokens at launch for just $58.

A little more than half was sold earlier at the maximum price, and PEPE merged the rest the other day, exchanging it for 514 ETH.

The total profit was more than $1.5 million.
 

Stablecoin TrueUSD (TUSD) has lost its peg to the dollar.

The crypto company Prime Trust, with which the issuer of the stablecoin worked, went bankrupt. And although they write on Twitter that everything is okay, in reality, the situation is complicated:

Emails were sent from TUSD to suspend minting and redemption services for 10 days.

Despite assurances that there are other ways to issue TUSD, they are not officially named.

In the Curve Pool, investors massively dump the token, exchanging it for DAI, USDC and USDT.

 

50% of daily bitcoin trading takes place in the Asian market.

Large investors enter the crypto sphere mainly through Asian channels: Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.

The number of transactions with BTC exceeds the US and European turnover.

 

Deutsche Bank has applied for a crypto license.

The bank will become the largest crypto vault in Germany and offer digital asset transactions to customers.

These are funds, family offices, and other large investors who want to contribute millions of euros in crypto.
 

The Chinese will write off crypto even from switched-off smartphones.

SIM card readers were installed at 2 subway stations in Qingdao to check how NFC works - near-field communication.

To pay, you need to add a phone number to the digital wallet and bring the phone to the reader. Money will be written off even if the gadget is turned off.

 

Ethereum developers decide to increase the entry fee for miners to $3.6 million.

The starting payment can be raised from 32 ETH to 2048 ETH.

Crypto mining will become available only to millionaires, and the number of validators will be reduced from half a million to several thousand.

Any problem with validators with hosting or power supply can stop the blockchain from working.

 

Schoolchildren stole $30 million in crypto on Twitter and Discord and spent it on skins in Roblox.

Cybersecurity NFT market OpenSea writes that buyers of hacker software (NFT leakers) in 95% of cases are very young scammers.

Many are in school. Complaining about teachers and homework. On their conscience the theft of almost $ 30 million, which they spent on various nonsense:

Laptops, smartphones, branded clothes.

Weapons, skins, and pumping in the game Roblox.

Ordering food at Uber Eats, gambling.