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News Highlights of the week and my TOP prime number alphas for the week ahead! #13
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News Highlights of the week
My personal Top prime numbers alpha (i know geeky!!!)
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The News Highlights of the week:
BTC News:
Bitcoin Puppets hit new ATH smashing through 0.3 BTC and landing at current price of 0.305 BTC
Ordinal protocol creator Casey Rodamor publishes documents for the upcoming Runes protocol
Mutant Hounds inscribe three hounds (“First”, “Last”, and “Infinite”), mining an entire block and integrating parent and child relationship for the first time in a single block
Alts News:
AnimeCoin announces AnimeChain powered by Abritrum Nitro and partnering with Azuki who will be launching its anime productions, games, and physical products on the new chain
Solana based exchange Jupiter funds its DAO with 10M USDC and 100M $JUPfor operations and “key initiatives” with plans to top off the DAO with the same funding every year
Memcoin News:
$HOWDY is launching on SOL today, distributing 66% of supply to holders of Howdy Hats based on a 7 AM EST snapshot
Notable BAYC whale Machi Big Brother launches a presale for memecoin Bobaoppa, named after his dog and raises $40m
DOGE hits 3 year high as ETF expectation grows, WIF follows
Airdrop News:
Blast distributes the first round of “Blast Gold” to Dapps with 1 Gold equivalent to about 35K points
NFTStats highlights a Blast Gold allocation nerf to NFT perps protocol Wasabi due to their ETH mainnet product
0xZergs writes a great breakdown thread that analyzes the cost per “Blast Gold”for various Blast dapps
Optimism announces an 850M $OP ($3.4M) incentive program to reward builders, OP stack contributors, governance participants, and those creating dev tooling
Wormhole announces launch date of 4/3 for their $W token and Phantom wallet releases a thread educating users on how to safely claim directly from their walle
Solana real estate NFT Parcl announced the tokenomics for their $PARCL token, with 36% allocated to the community including 1% for Mad Lad holders who claim a holder role in the Parcl discord
NFT News:
Runestone artist and sculptor Leo Caillard announces his upcoming ordinal collection, with all Runestone holders to be allowlisted
Jack Butcher releases open edition “1988” on Base, with 37K wallets minting over 148K editions raising a total of 118 ETH ($400K)
Based Fellas, the self-proclaimed “first ever 10k PFP project on Base”, sees 525 ETH volume over the last 7 days with the floor doing a 10x from 0.02 to 0.21 - mint price was 0.003 ETH and ATH at 0.5 ETH!
Blast farming game Munchables has its contract exploited and is drained for 17.5K ETH ($62.5M) — Pacman and the Blast team recover all funds as the hacker gives up their private keys without requiring ransom
“Blobs”, a new feature of the Dencun upgrade to reduce gas, start being used for inscriptions with the increased demand creating a backlog 40x what the network can accommodate
General News:
Friendtech announces 100% “onchain points community distribution” and that they aren’t planning to raise outside capital – Friendtech points currently trading OTC for $4.75
The London Stock Exchange plans to roll out BTC and ETH exchange-traded notes (ETN) on May 28
Coinbase celebrates their own victory as claims that they acted as an “unregistered broker” via their Coinbase Wallet were thrown out
Parallel Studios, the gaming studio behind Parallel Alpha TCG and upcoming AI powered “Colony”, raises an additional 35M in funding from investors including VanEck, Spartan, Solana Ventures, and Base
h/t to @rektmando’s daily Minutes & @niftyportal daily updates
And I can tell you, the next week has more coming…
My personal TOP prime numbers alpha for this coming week:
🎨 My TOP 5 NFT drops:
Anon Island by Crypto The Game (CTG)
GENESIS by Foundation (expanding to base)
Broken Printer by Tabor Robak
🎟️ My TOP 3 NFT NYC Events:
Magic Eden - Degen Yacht Party
🪙 My TOP 2 Coin drops:
Wormhole - $W.
ZEUS Network - $ZEUS.
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