The Daily Index — Wednesday, August 28, 2024 · TLDR Index

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meridian.stellar.org

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TONCOIN AND ETHER LEAD DOWNTURN AMID SURGE IN CRYPTO LONG LIQUIDATIONS

Toncoin and Ethereum have led a downturn in the crypto market, with Toncoin seeing a 20% decline following the arrest of CEO Pavel Durov. The crypto market overall saw over $144M in long liquidations within 24 hours, heavily impacting these two cryptocurrencies amid broader market corrections.

theblock.co · 2 min

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MAKERDAO REBRANDS TO "SKY" AND SCHEDULES USDS STABLECOIN LAUNCH

MakerDAO has rebranded to "Sky" and is set to launch a new stablecoin, USDS, and a governance token, SKY, on September 18, marking a large overhaul in its operations. The rebranding includes a new UI that aims to make the platform more approachable and expandable with a metaDAO ecosystem called "Sky Stars" for decentralized project governance. While the existing DAI and MKR tokens will remain, they can be voluntarily upgraded to the new tokens.

x.com · 1 min

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MAGIC EDEN'S MINT TERMINAL

Magic Eden has launched Mint Terminal, which aggregates minting platforms. It currently aggregates mints on Ethereum, Polygon, and Base.

x.com · 1 min

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SPOTLIGHT NARRATIVES, BREWING NARRATIVES, AND DORMANT NARRATIVES

The market is currently driven by a few prominent narratives, including new L1s like Berachain and Monad, the TON ecosystem, stablecoins, and institutional adoption. Emerging trends like progressive web apps, DeFi blue chips, and ETH restaking are gaining momentum and could become dominant soon. Dormant narratives, like GameFi, SocialFi, and NFTs, are slow right now but could revive eventually.

x.com · 5 min

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WEEKLY TECHNICAL READS

This thread highlights some interesting technical papers and reads about topics like ZK Machine Learning, verifiable sequencing, and DeFi exploits. It also recommends “Thinking in Systems: A Primer” as a quick read to help understand crypto protocols.

x.com · 2 min

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ERIC WALL'S THOUGHTS ON THE CRYPTO MARKET

Bitcoin is becoming increasingly attractive as a simple, gold-like asset, even with all its flaws and areas for improvement. It staying as the #1 asset is critically important, as it simplifies the pitch to investors about how to choose a winning digital asset. Ethereum has been a loser this cycle as value has been extracted by VCs, hence why money has been flowing into memecoins. Going forward, AI will become a bigger problem for crypto as it outcompetes in mindshare and developer talent.

x.com · 4 min

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AI AGENTS WILL REVOLUTIONIZE DECENTRALIZED STABLECOINS

Stablecoins face a trilemma around scalability, decentralization, and stability. Payments have been Crypto's first killer app, becoming a global payment system, especially in countries with unstable fiat currencies. AI agents can improve scalability by dynamically minting and redeeming. Agentic payments, where AI pays for goods on users' behalf, are the future of payments.

x.com · 2 min

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AERODROME REVENUE OVER LAST WEEK EXCEEDS KEY PLAYERS'

Aerodrome, a newer DEX, has generated more revenue over the last week than Ethereum, Solana, and UniSwap.

x.com · 1 min

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TON CHAIN DOWN

TON Network was down for 2+ hours yesterday, with major exchanges like Binance suspending withdrawals to TON.

x.com · 1 min

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THE SCOOP: SAN FRANCISCO'S LEGACY ENDURES AS VCS FURTHER GLOBALIZE THE CRYPTO MARKET

San Francisco maintains its role as a tech and VC hub despite the crypto industry's shift towards global markets, with Asia leading in retail crypto adoption.

theblock.co · 3 min

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SONY IS LAUNCHING THE FIRST PUBLIC TESTNET FOR ITS OPTIMISM-BASED SONEIUM BLOCKCHAIN

Sony is launching a public testnet and a developer incubation program for its Soneium blockchain, an L2 based on Optimism.

theblock.co · 1 min

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ROBINHOOD WALLET ADDED SUPPORT FOR SOLANA

Robinhood Wallet has added support for Solana so users can self custody their tokens.

x.com · 2 min