October 19, 2022 / Unchained Day to day / Laura Shin

What’s Poppin’?

Voyager Sale Proposal Contains Settlement With Executives Over Alleged Missteps

by Juan Aranovich

The sale thought proposal for Voyager Digital contains plans to study with executives over their potential missteps within the mortgage to bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital.

Aptos Finds Tokenomics And No One Is Happy

by Samyuktha Sriram
The Aptos Foundation goes by heat from the broader crypto community that is largely uncomfortable with the challenge’s token distribution.

Hacker Steals $8.4M From DeFi Protocol Moola Market

by Samyuktha Sriram
DeFi lending protocol Moola Market became once hacked for $8.4 million in what one blockchain security researcher has known as “an incredibly straightforward assault.”

In Other Files… ✍️✍️✍️

Three crypto commerce groups filed an amicus brief supporting Grayscale’s lawsuit in opposition to the SEC over the rejection of a insist Bitcoin ETF.
A hacker stole $1 million in BNB tokens from BitKeep and moved the funds by Twister Money.
The European Union is determined to map an energy efficiency label for blockchains.
A gaze from fintech firm Plaid published a elope gap in crypto adoption.
Crypto project fund Paradigm joined the Ooki DAO case arguing the CFTC ought to composed wisely attend its contributors as a exchange of the DAO as a total.

As of late in Crypto Adoption…

Bicycle, a taking half in card label, got a Bored Ape NFT for $187,000 to map and promote bodily ape playing cards.
A condo in South Carolina became once equipped as an NFT for $175,000.
Lemon, a crypto commerce in Latin The United States, partnered with TravelX to facilitate airline stamp purchases as NFTs.

The $$$ Nook…

Stardust, a gaming infrastructure platform, raised $30 million in a funding spherical led by Framework Ventures.
Layer 1 blockchain Shardeum closed a $18.2 million seed funding spherical at a $199 million valuation.
ChainSafe, a blockchain study and constructing studio, raised $18.8 million in a Series A spherical.
Web3 Builders Inc., a crypto startup targeted on security, garnered $7 million in seed funding.
Ego Demise Capital, a brand recent VC company on the Bitcoin ecosystem, is raising $30 million for its first fund.

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On The Pod…

The Cutting Block: Two on Two Debate: NFT Royalty Throwdown!

Welcome to The Cutting Block! Host Haseeb Qureshi partnered with Zhuoxun Yin, cofounder of Magic Eden, to debate Unchained host Laura Shin and Li Jin, cofounder at Variant Fund, on the topic of NFT Royalties. Expose highlights:

What NFT royalties are
Why Laura believes zero NFT royalties is a defective industrial resolution prioritizing brief wants over long-time period ones and that this can turn creators off from the industry
How charging royalties is no longer sustainable, basically based mostly entirely on Haseeb
Why royalties are the splendid mechanism to align incentives between creators and holders, basically based mostly entirely on Li
The technical barriers of NFT royalties on a overall-function blockchain admire Ethereum or Solana
The steady technique to align incentives between NFT creators and holders
Why the prices of NFTs would toddle up if royalties are no longer enforced
Whether the NFT market will switch within the long elope
Whether it is that you simply would possibly per chance bring to mind to map a each day that enforces royalties in a dapper contract
The creators’ response to Magic Eden transferring to no longer obligatory royalties
The likely for a bifurcation of the NFT market

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