Alpha Zone #14
Welcome to the Alpha Zone Newsletter ! We share crypto alpha, macro news. Please do your own research. Not Financial Advice.
📰 NEWS Recap Weekly
◼ Coinbase launches in Canada
◼ Coinbase secures approval to bring crypto futures trading to eligible US customers
◼ Ledger partners with @PayPal to allow users to buy crypto via Ledger Live app
◼ Mastercard forms CBDC partner program involving Ripple, Consensys and Fireblocks
◼ Bitmain announced the launch of a market volatility protection mechanism
◼ Binance to shut down fiat-to-crypto payment platform
🎦 What is Bitcoin BACKED by?
📊 Market Overview
1️⃣ Layer 1 Zone
◼ Sei Mainnet is live
◼ Elastic Era: Considerations for Subnet Builders
◼ BNBChain's bridge exploiter liquidated partially on Venus Protocol
◼ Ethereum devs explanation on possibility of running nodes on mobile phones
◼ Sei mainnet is live and valued at $1.8B
🎦 Tim Beiko & Justin Drake: The Sci-fi Roadmap to Ethereum
2️⃣ Layer 2 Zone
◼ A simplified look at Eigenlayer & what is actually deployed now on mainnet
◼ Linea’s ERC20 token bridge is live
◼ opBNB mainnet is live for infrastructure providers
◼ Arbitrum Orbit AnyTrust Chains
◼ Nautilus Chain now live on Mainnet
🎰 Degen / New Projects / Alpha Call
◼ DarkMeta | Arbitrum | Game Fi
◼ Mirage Bot | Analytics
◼ Tobinu | Ethereum | Trading Bots
◼ FriendFarm | Farms
◼ Base Token Sniper | Base | Social,Trading Bots
◼ Fren Finder | Ethereum | Social,Trading Bots
📈 DeFi Zone
◼ YIP-XX: Launch V3
◼ Tether discontinues support for Kusama, Bitcoin Cash SLP and Omni Layer
◼ DefiLlama CEX Transparancy: added custom range inflows
◼ Shibarium update
◼ Announcing: Silo Llama on Ethereum
◼ Harbor_Protocol exploited on Cosmos
◼ Unibot X is now live
Top 10 DeFi Protocol Rankings
🐵 NFT
Top 10 NFT Rankings
◼ Adidas and BAPE Team for Ultra-Limited Sneakers With Digital Twins
◼ Yugalabs On @opensea 's decision to sunset their Operator Filter
◼ NFT platform Recur announces its decision to shut down, two years after raising $50M
◼ Crypto and NFT Games Are Still Launching on Steam Despite Ongoing Ban
◼ China Is Taking Its Social Credit System to the Metaverse
🎦 How Sam Spratt Put the “Cult” in Culture
🪂 Airdrop
@0x_gremlin thread about an interactive dashboard with all the necessary tools to monitor wallet activity.
🎭 Meme
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