Bullish vibes abound Bitcoin Nashville

08/2024

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• VanEck ETH ETF uses Pudgy Penguins in their advert (@vaneck_us)  

• Bullish vibes abound Bitcoin Nashville (decrypt)  

• Presidental candidate Jr RFK wants the US Gov to buy BTC and have Equivalent amount of gold (@btc_archive)  

• Crypto is democratising investment banking options (cointelegraph)

• Bitstamp has received the Mt. Gox assets to distribute (@bitstamp)  

• Uber CEO wants to accept BTC payments (@crypto_uk)  

• Fake Zoom malware steals crypto (cointelegraph)

• Mystery around the $289 million in ETH that moved first time in 7 years (coinmarketcap)  

• JD will issue Hong Kong dollar stable coin (@wublockchain)  

• OpenAI is testing “SearchGPT” (@degeneratenews)  

• Eurostar to cancel quarter of services this weekend ahead of Olympic Games opening (cnbc)

• Trump shooting: The plan and the botched response (bbc)  

• When is Binance CZ coming out of prison? (protos)

• Apple is not longer in top 5 phone vendors in China (cnbc)

• Sinaloa drug cartel arrested in Texas (bbc)

• Russia is still banned from the Olympics (forbes)  

• Obama endorses Kamala Harris (cnbc)

• Azuki brings Bobu to life as an interactive 2D AI, in collaboration with Hallway (@azuki)  

• Pudgy’s parent company Igloo raised $11 Million to develop Abstract L2 (theblock)  

• What is Polymarket? Decentralized Prediction market explained (decrypt)  

• Tezos NFTs celebrating ‘Plastic Free July’ (cryptonews)  

• Atari will bring retro games to BASE (cointelegraph)  

• SND ETH NFT collection tops the charts with $1.39 million (todaynftnews)  

• Memeland stakers can burn their stakes to get $BORPA tokens (@borpatoken)  

• Crypto game on Telegram is earning $16 million from in-app purchases (theblock)  

🛠️ Weekly Developer Updates 🛠️

What went live this week:

🗂️ Categories for Communities: Leaderboard on Community Hub
🛰️ Mission Control: Streamlined publish flow with design changes and improved warnings

What’s coming/cooking:

📅 July 29: End of the first (3-month) engine locking period
📰 Newsfeed feature for community owners
📍 Collection and community address shown on their pages
🔧 Galaxis Utilities: ERC-20 and NFT dropper
🏅 Vaults with digital redeemable badges