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Aug 28th
😳 ACTIONABLES
Story Protocol Iliad Commemorative Mint
1) Connect Wallet
2) Complete Steps
3) Get faucet tokens
4) Mint
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- ETH Foundation Spending Breakdown
- USDS (Renamed from $DAI) will have a freezing function
- EigenLayer Introduces Permissionless Token Support
- SOON - Solana Optimistic Network
- Lyra rebrands to Derive
- Maple Finance announces MPL>SYRUP conversion
- Soneium Testnet is live
- Setter mainnet launching mid-September
- WINR Protocol will launch WINR Chain 2 Sep24
- Oyster Labs has unveiled an upgraded UBS1 (why anyone would buy this phone baffles me, don't waste ur money)
- BNB Chain launches official cross-chain bridge with Celer, deBridge and Stargate
- Introducing legion.cc
🤓 READS
- Optimism: How (and why) Superchain drives fees to the Optimism Collective
- Read: Circle's CCTP Noble Mint Bug
- Llama Risk: State of Symbiotic
🤨 NEWS
- Echelon Market raises 3.5M seed led by Amber
- Galaxy $71m val with $11m seed extension
- Solayer $80m val with $12m seed round
- Robinhood Wallet has added support for Solana
- Lemniscap raises $70m for third fund
- Donald Trump drops new NFT collection
- Opensea receives Wells Notice from SEC
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Aug 27th
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- PayPal's $pyUSD at a $1 billion dollar market cap
- openeden/openeden-crosses-100-million-in-tokenized-us-treasury-bills-f030d1ef2dbd">OpenEden crosses $100M in Tokenized US Treasury Bills
- Mina introduces their Fungible Token Standard
- Balancer is Going Superchain
- Aave Labs proposes integrating GHO stability module with BlackRock’s BUIDL
- ORDER Token Live (pointless project don't bother)
- MakerDAO rebrands to Sky
🤓 READS
- Hack VC: The Future of Privacy Tech in Blockchain
- Rollups - Final Frontier of Scaling
🤨 NEWS
- PSA: Mac users warned about 'Cthulhu' malware targeting popular crypto wallets like MetaMask, Coinbase, and Binance
- SEC charges Abra for unregistered crypto asset securities sales
- Chainbound (Bolt) raised $4.6M Seed led by Cyber Fund
- Sorella Labs Raises $7.5M Seed Round Led by Paradigm
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Aug 23rd
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Marginal live on Base, Bartio, Sepolia
- Conduit launches marketplace for rollups
- Babylon launches phase one staking mainnet
- Aethir introduced its 6-Month Roadmap
- Sony Chain is live
- MakerDAO plans to optionally redenominate 1 MKR into 24,000 NGT tokens
- MetaLex and Lido propose the first major BORG
- Rabby to introduce chain abstraction, allowing users to pay for tx fees with USDC/USDT
- rUSD launch
- Quasar EVM
- Near Protocol launches Nightshade 2.0
- Introducing Baseline Markets
- Gearbox new multicollateral loans let users borrow against multiple assets
🤨 NEWS
- Arch Raises $75M
- CZ out of prison & transferred to a LA Halfway House
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Aug 21st
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Clearpool has unveiled Ozean
- Proposal to enable Starknet staking
- Introducing mETH Protocol
- Introducing Sonic Bounty Program
- Idex Mainnet soon
- Basenames are live to claim on Base
🤓 READS
- 1kx: Trustless Interoperability between rollups
- Gauntlet: Morpho Vault Curation Strategy
🤨 NEWS
- Binance Labs Invests in Corn
- YeagerAI, closes a $7.5m seed led by North Island Ventures
- Paradigm leads $7.5m seed for Sorella Labs
- zkME raises $4m seed
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Aug 19th
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Claim Chainbase Genesis Points
- New Memecoin Platform: https://www.dub.social/waitlist
Invite code: 487A3 (limited to 5 uses)
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Yeet announces YEETBONDS
- MakerDAO removes WBTC as collateral for DAI
- ao introduces ArFleet
- Robin linus shares BitVM2 whitepaper
- Babylon Labs Phase 1
- Renegade Dark Pool Launch In 3 Weeks
- GammaSwap TGE Set for August 30th
- Announcing TON Nest
- IO Staking is live
- Introducing Nudge xyz's Re:allocation
- Introducing Satflow Beta
- Introducing Onmi Ar
- Introducing: So Extra by Eden Network
- Tether (USDT) to launch on Aptos (LOL why)
🤓 READS
- Franklin Templeton: Blockchain and AI - A Path to Transparency, Trust, and Decentralization
- Imran Khan: State of Consumer Crypto
- The Finternet Explained: A New Frontier for Interconnected Financial Systems
🤨 NEWS
- Franklin Templeton Files For Ether and Bitcoin Crypto Index ETF
- Blockless: Empowering Neutral Network Applications
- Neutron's Pulse for the week
- Dubai approves Bitcoin and Crypto for Salary
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Aug 16th
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Renzo Season 2 Airdrop Claim Live
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Stride x Symbiotic
- SUAVE testnet: Toliman
- Tari Universe live
- OKX brings Solana ‘Blinks’ to Ethereum chains
- Uniswap Labs announces $2.35m auditing competition (When project's don't know where else to spend their money, pls donate to this channel 🤣)
- Allora x Oraichain: Advancing Accessible and Reliable ML for Real-World Impact
- Ether Fi introduces Bitcoin LRT Vault
🤓 READS
- CowSwap: Batch Auctions vs. Dutch Auctions in Crypto
🤨 NEWS
- Crunch Labs raises 3.5m seed led by Multicoin
- Chaos Labs announces $55m series A led by Haun Ventures
- Binance registers officially in India
- Binance Labs Invests in MyShell
- Coindesk Piece on Eigenlayer forcing projects to airdrop to their employees / Eigen's response (damn, disappointed in eigenlayer)
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Aug 13th
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Dapplist x Zerion Free Mint
- Coinbase Dawn of Daylight Free Mint
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- DeFI Dot Money Live in Early Access
- Elixir deUSD design reveal
- Introducing Monad Madness, a pitch competition by Monad
- Catalyst <> L0
- Solana Wallets <> Fuel
- Camelot expanding to Duck Chain
- Saga introducing liquidity integration layer
- Aleph Zero EVM is live
- Drop is live on mainnet
- Curve Finance reduces CRV emissions
- Decentralized Futures: Introducing MLabs
🤨 NEWS
- Essential raises $11m Series A round led by Archetype Ventures
- BlackRock potentially launching an L2
- Andre Cronje - Sonic Labs new CTO
- Coinbase hints at launch of new tokenized Bitcoin cbBTC
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Aug 12th
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Download Dawn extension to farm points (Raised $18M from Dragonfly)
Invite code: etpq1p
- Check Debridge Airdrop
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Limit Break back after 2 years (lmao)
- Buyback and Distribute GMX Proposal queued for execution
- BananaGun x Cielo
- Bracket's Liquid Staking Platform is live
- Introducing CryptoHouse: Real-time blockchain analytics
- Announcing: Gitcoin Grants 21
- Arbitrum Orbit chains can now use USDC as a custom gas token
- AnubisDAO rugger returns after 3 years to deploy token in a possible attempt to rug again
- Arbitrum proposal to unlock ARB staking live
- Canto hasn't produced a block in 22 hours
- OKX Wallet x Nubit
- Symbiotic launches devnet, plans full mainnet in Q3
🤓 READS
- The Rollup: Chain Abstraction Market Map
- Uma: How Polymarket is Making Prediction Markets Mainstream
- 0xkyle sector performance watchlist
- Helius: Short Intro to DePIN
🤨 NEWS
- SEC subpoenas three crypto VCs
- Marathon Digital intends to offer $250 million in covertible notes to buy more BTC
- BitGo has announced the move of its WBTC business // BA Labs urges Immediate Actions to Limit WBTC Exposure in Maker and SparkLend
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🇸🇬 Singapore National Day Giveaway
500USDT Total
50USDT each
Sponsoring this giveaway with Hypurr Collective (Supporting Hyperliquid's ecosystem)
Winners amount: 10
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Aug 8th
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Espresso's HotShot Consensus Protocol is Now Open Source
- Orbit Chains x USDC
- y2k officially rebrands to Fractality
- Pacmoon leaves Blast
- Nillion x Ritual Net
- Immutable Announces Closure of Immutable X Marketplace
🤓 READS
- Shoal Research: Particle Network - The Chain Abstraction Layer
- CoW AMM - The Next Frontier of AMM Innovation
🤨 NEWS
- BoJ to not hike interest rates during market instability
- saylor owns more than $1B in BTC
- Metaplanet Arranges Loan to Buy $6.8M of BTC
- Binance Will List Toincoin (TON) with Seed Tag Applied
- Ripple hit with $125 million penalty for institutional sales
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Aug 7th
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Mint ZK Debank Badge
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Enso Token Launch is postponed
- CEO of Starknet steps down
- Symbiotic website is temporarily down
- Nexera suffered an exploit with $1.8m stolen
- Ethena USDe is Now Live on Solana
- Ordiswap Roadmap is live on X/Twitter
- Synthetix introduces USDx on Arbitrum
- Euler V2
🤓 READS
- Race to Dominate Stablecoins - by Christian Catalini and Jane Wu
🤨 NEWS
- Coinbase Will Add Support for Gravity (G) on Ethereum
- DAWN, Raises $18 Million Led by Dragonfly Capital
- Martin Shkreli's memecoin DJT rugged
- Binance Labs announced that it has invested in Solayer
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Aug 5th
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Layer N x Succint
- Introducing kel xyz: A New International Money
- Initia introduces Initia VIP
- Polymarket on TON
- Introducing Lido Institutional
- Amber Group, HashKey criticises ZKX for abruptly ceasing operations
🤓 READS
- ParaFi Capital: Analyzing Activity on Polymarket
🤨 NEWS
- HashKey's OTC trading unit awarded Singapore's payment license
- Genesis Completes Restructuring, Begins Payouts
- Jump Trading redeemed 120,000 wstETH into ETH and transferred it to CEXs (Jump is not a friend, but a foe)
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Aug 2nd
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Vote for latest Jup Proposal (30% token supply reduction)
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Infrared is live on Berachain V2 testnet (portco lfg)
- deBridge on LFG
- Injective Altaris is live on mainnet
- Fantom has rebranded to Sonic Labs
- EURC now available on Base
- Fixed Price Sales are now supported on Fjord
- DeBank announced Rabby added support for multi-signature wallets
- Introducing Mach 1: A 4-week accelerator by Monad
🤓 READS
- Consumer on Bera: An Ecosystem Spotlight on Berachain Native Consumer-Focused Apps
- Movementlabs - What is Movement
- maven11research/everything-on-based-rollups">Maven11: Everything on rollups
🤨 NEWS
- Bybit will end services and stop offering products in France
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July 31st
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Movement Labs Battle of Olympus Hackathon Live (If you are a dev, sign up)
- Mint ZRO Airdrop Hunter Badge on Debank
- Aethir $20M Checker Node Bonus Rewards Claims are Live
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- IBC-hooks exploited, Astroport affected (!)
- Solayer sSOL is fully transferable
- Gnosis introduces Gnosis AI
- Introducing The Irys L1 – The First Programmable Datachain
- Introducing BIO Genesis
- USDe added as stable margin collateral on Bybit (this will not end well)
- Blackwing deposits live on Solana
- Movement Labs joins Polygon's AggLayer
- Dolomite expanding to Berachain
- AAVE v3.1 is now live
- Elixir launches 'fully decentralized' synthetic dollar
- Rage Trade sold out in 15 minutes, 6 million raised.
- Rug Ai Founders Dispute / Joe / Jake
🤨 NEWS
- BitClout founder charged with fraud and unregistered offering of crypto
- Circle said to be trading around $5B valuation ahead of planned IPO
- Mt. Gox moves over $2 billion worth of Bitcoin to fresh address
- Trump raised $21 million during the 2024 Bitcoin Conference
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July 29th
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Wrapped PURR contract deployed
- Polytrade going on Base
- Compound passes proposal to send 500K $COMP to "Golden Boys" vault
🤨 NEWS
- CZ prison sentence ends September 29th
- Bitstamp distributed all BTC and BCH to Mt.Gox creditors
- Ledger Introduces Ledger Flex
- Donald Trump Bitcoin Conference Recap
- Kabosu mama new dog called Neiro
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ⓘ 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯.
Читать полностью…
Aug 26th
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Base Onchain Activity Checker
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- PSA: Arbitrum "DAO" approved voting to fund legal defence for Tornado Devs and Arbitrum "DAO" takes down voting page
- PSA: The official Avalanche Discord has been compromised
- Jupiter launches Jupiter Lock
- PumpFun introduces Stages
- Introducing Hyperbolic: the AI Coprocessor for Karak
- Tanssi expands to Ethereum
- Zellic acquired code4rena
- Introducing OP Succinct
- Polynomial introducing Trade 2.0
- Euler Labs introduces ERC-7726
- Buildpsace shuts down
- Introducing Nucleus (enable yield by default for networks)
- inspect announces tokenomics v2
🤓 READS
- Flossy911: Hyperliquid - Innovating On-Chain Perp Trading
- Hyperlend: Navigating the Mirage of Hyperlned
- pivotglobal/solana-single,-permissionless,-global-state-machine">Pivot Global: Solana
🤨 NEWS
- Pavel Durov arrested in France
- Cursor AI raises $60m
- Kraken must face SEC lawsuit over crypto exchange registration
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Aug 22nd
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Magic Eden announces $ME
- Kresko has announced the shutdown (Barely 2 months since launch... rekt. Withdraw by Sep 10)
- McDonald's Instagram account hacked
- SafePal launches SFPlus staking hub (LOL WHY)
- Tether to Develop UAE Dirham-Pegged Stablecoin
- Optimism: introducing the Sunny Awards
- Aave <> Zksync
- Nym Technologies launches NymVPN
- Puffer introduced its roadmap
- WIF on Base via LayerZero
- Introducing AUSD to Avalanche
- Introducing BOLT
🤓 READS
- Particle Network: Crypto Predictions
- Alpha Pls: Understanding Kamino - The Liquidity Layer of Solana
- Franklin Templeton: Landscape Overview: ETH Restaking & EigenLayer Case Study
- infraredfinance/understanding-the-bgt-and-ibgt-vote-incentives-markets-4e6333679ce1">Infrared: Understanding BGT Vote Incentives
🤨 NEWS
- Justin Sun’s USDD removes 12,000 BTC without DAO approval (disgusting)
- Story Protocol raises $80m Series B led by a16z
- Stork Network raises $4m seed
- SatLayer raises $8m pre-seed
- BSX raises $4M Seed led by Blockchain Capital
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Aug 20th
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Grass Airdrop (Link your preferred wallet to grass acc by Aug 23rd)
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Ooga Booga live on bArtio
- Jupiter discovered a malicious Chrome extension called "Bull Checker" ⚠️⚠️⚠️
- Parcl Website (Front-end) and Twitter Hacked ⚠️⚠️⚠️
- Aori x Theo Network
- Drift launches BET (their version of polymarket, lel)
- Babylon to start phased mainnet launch this week
- UXD winding down operations (gg)
- gmAI Introduces gmdotfun (Coming Soon)
- INFINIT: The DeFi Abstraction Layer
- Base will launch Basenames (claims a dutch auction will make it fair, nein, its so that they maximise profits)
- Clearpool develops Caldera-powered Layer 2 chain
- Galxe launches alpha mainnet (lol, why)
- pevm: Parallel EVM for Reth
- Kaia mainnet launch 29 Aug
- YieldNest is launching on Base
- Rabby has integrated LiFi
🤓 READS
- Puffpaw: Vaping Reimagined
- Li.Fi: Primer on Bitcoin L2s
- Four Pillars: Particle Network
🤨 NEWS
- SEC talks with ETF issuers over concerns of Solana being a security preceded Cboe removing
- ARC to launch incubator with 4.5m raise (proud to be arc member leggo)
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All you need for Token2049 SG & BREAKPOINT 🇸🇬
Hope this is helpful for yall, sharing this as its approx a month till the event and i know many of yall are planning to make your way over!
Official Sites
https://www.asia.token2049.com/
https://solana.com/breakpoint
Side Events Lists
Official Side Events List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWp6ENyhxaNnnCHvxrMRO8n1IRKq3lu891F7Y4zxfZk/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Luma: https://lu.ma/token2049
BlastCTRL: https://blastctrl.notion.site/Token2049-Breakpoint-2024-Events-bdfb411ae263439090020a91145e60c1
C4 Aggr Curated: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kwbK7oT1lTCzpgVdBJVTn7l_NWqxBR6fyI2ECNi7p2U/edit?usp=sharing
CryptoNomads: https://cryptonomads.org/SGBlockchainMonth2024
SG Builders: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1InBZNRjpP7-K-UZsEES1YDH5XtXnZphmTr6oHIhRDfc/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Web3Meets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1buNmlCMwO6bX__uZMEQ15ebjaAsJP0IAW4PiZ4CZjbA/edit
Resources
Food Recs, Place to Stay: /channel/kirbycrypto/978
Accomodation Options: https://anecdotetravel.notion.site/Accommodations-Options-Singapore-94059b6593c74b3e8222ef45f674002e
Group Chats
Official Group Chat: /channel/token2049official
Kirby Crypto Curated Network Chat: /channel/+OtYAA4HmxZYzMTZl (keeping this smol, request and will consider) :D
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Aug 15th
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- MetaMask x Baanx Debit Card
- Meteora x Moonshot
- Sonic SVM x with Solayer
- TON x Pyth Network
- Rabby Dark Mode Live
- Bitcoin is now live on Symbiotic
- Injective has integrated TON
- Cadence Protocol rebranding to Symphony
- Introducing Pichi
- Introducing Xion
- dydx announces dydx Unlimited (LOLLLL took you long enough)
- EigenLayer introduces Permissionless Token Support
- Satflow Raise Details
- Civitia Mainnet Details
- Vertex on Sei
- Grass Snapshot Taken
- Cronos zkEVM launches mainnet
- Renzo set to launch ezSOL on Jito
🤓 READS
- Fisher8: What is FHE in Web3?
🤨 NEWS
- Crypto.com UEFA Champions League official crypto partner
- Morgan Stanley discloses $187 million Bitcoin ETF Holdings
- Goldman Sachs reveals a $419 million stake in Bitcoin ETFs per their latest filing
- Sahara raises $43M co led by Pantera Capital, Binance and Polychain
- Parfin raises $10m Series A led by ParaFi Capital
- Rhinestone raises 5m seed led by 1kx
- Sling Money raises $15m in Series A
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Aug 13th
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
Ordiswap to provide liquidity suport for BRC20s and Runes
- Optimism developing native interoperability system for Layer 2 chains
- EigenLayer Introduces AVS Rewards
- Introducing Sentient Protocol
- USDY is now live
- Introducing the Arena
🤓 READS
- Safary: The State of Web3 Growth 2024
- Token Terminal - BlackRock's Crypto Play, What You Need to Know
🤨 NEWS
- Binance Introduces Toncoin $TON on Launchpool and Super Earn
- DBS Bank launches blockchain-powered treasury tokens pilot
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Unfortunately.. prize bot didn’t work when clicking on the raffle button - so I’ve changed it to giving away 25x TG premium to those who don’t have premium yet.
Enjoy 🫶🏻
Aug 9th
Happy National Day SG ~
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Coinbase launched "Roar with Coinbase SG" Campaign (Win up to 1BTC for referring friends or making a trade - SG only)
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- hyperlane_fdn/interoperability-for-everyone-e69298030218">Introducing Hyperlane Foundation (seems like token soon)
- NEAR Protocol pushes "Signatures" on mainnet
- KanpaiPanda launch memecoin
- bitracetech/beware-of-scanning-unknown-payment-qr-codes-funds-stolen-instantly-788cdeaeb87c">Beware of QR Code scam
- Zeller Hints at Aave on Solana
- Nexio: A Parallelized Bitcoin Rollup using MoveVM
- Introducing Commonware
- Switchboard x Jito
- Kamino season 2 concludes
- Pump Fun introduces 2 huge changes
- Rocket Pool proposal to upgrade tokenomics live
- Skate chain introduces 1st Stateless App
🤓 READS
- A16Z - Cash flows for app tokens: A new model
🤨 NEWS
- Judge approves $12.7B settlement between FTX and CFTC
- Coinbase Assets Has Added Zetachain (ZETACHAIN) to its Roadmap
- Federal reserve charges Customers Bancorp for its digital asset activities
- Brazil’s Securities Regulator Approves Solana ETF
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Aug 8th
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Shuffle Airdrop 2 Details
- Espresso's HotShot Consensus Protocol is Now Open Source
- Rialto is live (on/off ramp)
- Orbit Chains x USDC
- y2k officially rebrands to Fractality
- Pacmoon leaves Blast
- Nillion x Ritual Net
- Immutable Announces Closure of Immutable X Marketplace
- Gyroscope rolls out yield-bearing version of stablecoin
🤓 READS
- Shoal Research: Particle Network - The Chain Abstraction Layer
- CoW AMM - The Next Frontier of AMM Innovation
🤨 NEWS
- BoJ to not hike interest rates during market instability
- saylor owns more than $1B in BTC
- Metaplanet Arranges Loan to Buy $6.8M of BTC
- Binance Will List Toincoin (TON) with Seed Tag Applied
- AAVE DAO and Trident launch $100M onchain fixed-yield loan
- Ripple hit with $125 million penalty for institutional sales
- Franklin Templeton's on-chain money market fund launches on Arbitrum
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Aug 6th
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Claim Zircuit
- Check Renzo Season 2 Allocation
- Top 2k Mode Airdrop Recipients can claim rest of 50% allo
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Zircuit launches initial mainnet phase
- Ronin Bridge is hacked
- Aori live on Base
- Circle to discontinue USDC support on Flow (Cadence)
🤓 READS
- HypurrCollective Weekly Update on Hyperliquid Ecosystem (great resource for all things HL)
🤨 NEWS
- Capula Management, the fourth largest hedgefund in Europe, reports $464M in Bitcoin ETF holdings
- Curio raises $5.7m seed
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Markets are bloody af.
Everyone is exhausted, things are looking bleak.
Liquidations left and right.
We’re at peak uncertainty and fear right now.
NGL it gets mentally exhausting, hang in there frens 🫡
Why is this happening? Here are some possible reasons
1) JPY carry trade
https://x.com/jonwu_/status/1820283967049965909
2) ME Tensions
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1820251497944293474
3) Jump crypto dumping
https://x.com/spotonchain/status/1820300324047118518
It’s not the end though it feels like it. Chin up, go touch grass. Don’t be overly levered.
If any of yall need someone to talk to, dms are open!
Aug 1st
😳 ACTIONABLES
- Fluence Network Staking Race is live
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
- Enso is conducting the first auction held on Coinlist in 3 years
- TLX launches ETHBTC leveraged tokens
- Bringing IBC assets to Kodiak
- Convergence has been hacked. Do not interact with the protocol ⚠️
- Aptos foundation announces launch of ONDO's stablecoin on Aptos
- Tapioca Protocol unveils "Make DeFi Great Again"
- Universal mainnet beta live on Base
- Introducing ZetaAI
🤓 READS
- 22% of Jupiter Airdrop Unclaimed
- Introducing Paladin: Solving bad MEV for good by making it more profitable for Solana validators not to frontrun
🤨 NEWS
- Tether announces $5.2B profit in first half of 2024 in attestation
- Daylight raises 9M Series A led by A16z
- Donald Trump promoting limited edition Bitcoin-themed sneakers
- Particle Network raises round with participation from Binance Labs
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July 30th
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🇸🇬 Token 2049 SG Prep - List of bars, restaurants, brunch (@kirbycrypto)
(Some of these might be not up to date, ie closed)
Getting around
Our equivalent of uber is grab, download the app - https://www.grab.com/sg/
Alternatively, you can purchase ez-link for public transport at any MRT stations (relatively cheap), or travel with your credit cards.
SIM cards can pretty much be gotten anywhere, convenience stores at the airport, around singapore.
Recommend getting SIM cards at the airport, or use an e-sim.
Main event is at Marina Bay Sands, most side events are around city center
Hotels around MBS area
MBS
Mandarin Oriental
Pan Pacific
Swissotel Stamford
Ritz Carlton Milennia
Marina Mandarin
Parkroyal
Fullerton Hotel
Hawkers around the area (Cheap food)
Lau Pa Sat (overrated)
Maxwell food center
Amoy Street food center (good)
Golden Shoe hawker
Hong Lim Food center
Telok Ayer Market & Food center (good)
Makansutra Gluttons Bay (overrated)
Dining in MBS
Ce La Vi
Lavo Italian Restaurant & Rooftop Bar
Waku Ghin
Cut by Wolfgang Puck
DB Bistro & Oyster Bar
Bread Street Kitchen - Gordon Ramsay's
Spago by Wolfgang Puck
MBS Food Court
List of places to eat/chill
Bars
Artemis - Rooftop
Anti:Dote
Employees only
The Spiffy Dapper
Zafferano- beautiful rooftop
Cache
Euphoria Wine Club
Urban Fairways
The Garage
Ce LA Vi- rooftop
Lavo- rooftop
Spago- outside rooftop
Aura- rooftop
me@oue - rooftop
bar rouge- rooftop
Mr. Stork- Andaz Hotel rooftop
1- Altitude- Rooftop
Lantern- Rooftop
Orgo- rooftop
New Asia Bar- rooftop
Smoke & Mirrors- rooftop
Bar Canary- rooftop
Super Tree- Rooftop
Level 33- Rooftop
The light House - Rooftop
Atlas-great bar
Lavo
Manhattan Bar
Restaurants
Lagnaa- Indian Restaurant
Birds of feather- Chinese
Putein- chinese
Empress- Chinese (my favorite)
Oxo- Italian
Zenso
Artichoke- hole in the wall
ExtraVirgin Pizza
Baka Laki- Greek
BluKuzina- Greek
Spago
Monti
The Garage
Salt Grill & Skybar
Pollen
Le Binchotan
Potato head Folk
Jaan- super high end
Restorante Da Valentino
Gattopardo Ristorante Di Mare
Otto Ristorante
Zaffarano- great Italian with a nice view
Shabestan- Persian
Grain traders- healthy quick lunch
Brunch
Wild honey- scotts plaza
Tong Jong Beach club
Summerlong
Publico
Common Man
Singpore restaurant/bar recommendations
$$$
⁃ Meta Restaurant
⁃ Sommer
⁃ Les Amis
⁃ Jaan
⁃ The Cut (Steak)
⁃ Otto (Italian)
⁃ Sushi Masaaki (omakase)
⁃ Tenshin (tempura)
⁃ Imperial treasure (Chinese food)
⁃ Crystal Jade golden palace
⁃ Aoki (Japanese food)
⁃ Cloudstreet
⁃ Burnt ends
⁃ Seroja
⁃ Ma Cuisine
⁃ Appetite
$$
⁃ Fat Cow (Japanese)
⁃ Pasta bar
⁃ Potato head (great burgers)
⁃ PUNCH (good brunch spot)
⁃ Meatsmith
⁃ Wang day bak (Korean)
⁃ California republic
⁃ Bar Cicheti (pasta)
⁃ Kinki (Japanese Fusion)
⁃ Artichoke
⁃ Lolla (great small plates - ideal for sharing)
⁃ The Dragon Chamber
⁃ Luke's Oyster Bar & Chop House
⁃ GAIG
$
⁃ Famous Eunos Bak Chor Mee
⁃ Zion Road Fish Soup
⁃ Jalan sultan prawn mee
⁃ Outram Park Ya Hua Rou Gu Cha
⁃ Westlake (tze char)
Drinks
⁃ Employees only
⁃ Barbary coast
⁃ 28 HKS
⁃ Set of six
⁃ Sago house
⁃ Jigger & pony
⁃ Spago (great view)
⁃ Emerald hill (lots of great bars on this street)
⁃ Mr Stork (great view)
⁃ Neon Pigeon
⁃ Live Twice (cool Japanese inspired bar, cosy, good cocktails)
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