February 24, 2022       /       Unchained Day-to-day       /       Laura Shin

Day-to-day Bits ✍️✍️✍️

  • The Block published a deep dive on Chainalysis’ insist of de-mixing CoinJoin transactions (an integral fragment of identifying the alleged DAO attacker).

  • Christine Moy, who co-led the inaugurate of JPMorgan’s crypto unit in 2020, is leaving the company after 18 years.

  • Crypto classified ads in India will now must always add a disclaimer that these merchandise are unregulated and perilous.

  • 77% of family offices are in or fascinated by crypto, in accordance to a BNY Mellon gaze.

  • Phantom, a Solana-essentially based fully mostly crypto pockets, is partnering with password manager 1Password (seriously, customers will seemingly be ready to store their non-public keys on 1Password).

  • A gunman (now in custody) demanded $230 million in crypto after taking a hostage at an Amsterdam Apple Retailer.

  • Ethereum staking provider Rocket Pool now accounts for 1% of Ethereum’s network validators.

  • Mintable was as soon as ready to in discovering greater three NFTs stolen from OpenSea in a recent phishing attack.

  • Beefy Cats is possibly the most smartly-most in fashion NFT mission on OpenSea by quantity over the final 24 hours.

  • A sequence of 104 CryptoPunks had been withdrawn from a planned Sotheby’s auction on the closing minute.

This day in Crypto Adoption…

  • Puma registered the puma.eth ENS domain.

  • The European Union reportedly plans to offer its modern anti-cash laundering unit oversight of crypto.

  • Warner Song Personnel is partnering with Splinterlands to create P2E games.

  • Japan’s ideal financial institution is shutting down its blockchain funds mission.

The $$$ Corner…

  • Solana-essentially based fully mostly price protocol Zebec raised $15 million in a Series A.

  • NFT platform Ucollex raised $10 million in a Series A led by Animoca Producers.

What Construct You Meme?

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What’s Poppin’?

Solana’s #1 NFT Marketplace Is Airdropping NFTs

By Heed Murdock

The ideal NFT market on Solana and sixth ideal in crypto, Magic Eden launched plans to originate a DAO and airdrop NFT governance tokens to modern customers.

The Magic Eden crew dropped three ranges of NFTs, or “Magic Tickets,” to energetic customers of the platform. To qualify for the airdrop, customers will need to include made a transaction on Magic Eden in the month leading up to the announcement. Additionally, customers had been required to join each a Discord and email address to their Magic Eden profile attributable to, because the crew explained, “we wanted to be obvious that folk receiving the airdrop had been staunch of us.”

Particularly, Magic Heed holders will every reach voting rights referring to Magic Edens’ mission, operational solutions, funding, treasury activities, and more. The determination to inaugurate a DAO by NFTs flies in the face of precedence in the crypto enterprise, because the attach quo is to on the total attach a DAO governed by fungible tokens (cherish SUSHI, LOOKS, and lots others.).

The Magic Eden crew looks to be wrathful to “experiment” with this modern governance venerable. “Whereas we’re not launching a token-essentially based fully mostly DAO, we’re rising an NFT-gated in discovering entry to to MagicDAO by Magic Heed and withhold in mind this an experiment to grow closer to our neighborhood,” explained the crew.

Per Jack Lu, the CEO and co-founder of Magic Eden, the switch to decentralize the platform is magnificent in accordance to Magic Eden’s core solutions. “What number of NFT marketplaces include a DAO? We present out 😉,” asked Lu in a thread on Twitter (most seemingly poking enjoyable at OpenSea). “‘Community Obsession’ is our predominant theory – if there is something that is magnificent for the Community vs. something that is magnificent for Magic Eden, we repeatedly favor the neighborhood,” he explained. “The different excessive theory for Magic Eden is “Web3 > Web2”. This signifies that if there is a Web 3 manner of solving an attach, we are in a position to favor that manner over the Web2 manner.”


Suggested Reads

  1. FinTech Collective’s Sean Lippel on the speak of DeFi:

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  1. Decentralised.co’s Joel John on metaverse staunch property:

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On The Pod…

The Chopping Block: Why Hacking The DAO Is ‘One thing to Be Proud Of’?

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Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up concerning doubtlessly the most modern news in the digital asset enterprise. Indicate issues:

  • their thoughts on The DAO hacker remark

  • the importance of The DAO and why it made Robert fall in admire with crypto

  • how the alleged attacker was as soon as realized (feat. a deep dive into the Morden testnet and Wasabi)

  • dreary DAOs: why the fellows are unimpressed with DAOs searching for to aquire, amongst other issues, the Denver Broncos and quick-food eating locations

  • fix note discovery for DAO mergers and acquisitions

  • whether Anchor’s 20% yield on UST is sustainable in gentle of Luna Foundation Guard’s determination to backstop its reserves with $1 billion in BTC

  • why deploying funds from a big treasury is refined

  • why the BlockFi splendid was as soon as not a surprise

  • what lessons the BlockFi settlement taught crypto companies

  • why Tarun silent loves Olympus DAO and OHM

  • how EthDenver has modified since the NFT progress


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