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TRUMP'S WORLD LIBERTY FINANCIAL WEBSITE CRASHES DURING TOKEN SALE

World Liberty Financial, Donald Trump's DeFi project, launched its token sale but faced technical issues - the site crashed due to high traffic. Despite the crash, the wallet handling the sales amassed over $5M in assets, well below the project's $300 million target.

ELON MUSK'S TESLA JUST MOVED $765 MILLION IN BITCOIN TO UNKNOWN WALLETS

After two years of inactivity, Tesla's Bitcoin holdings are on the move. Approximately $765 million BTC was moved to new unknown wallets. Tesla first bought $1.5 billion BTC in 2020 before selling 85% of its holdings by July 2022. There is no indication that Tesla plans to sell its remaining holdings.

TOWNS: PERMISSIONLESS GROUP CHATS

Towns is a new app for creating encrypted, permissionless, and decentralized group chats onchain. It uses River as its communication primitive and Base as its blockchain. The onchain integration allows for token-gated group chats, membership fee revenue models, and additional custom entitlements.

OPACITY NETWORK: PRIVATELY SHARE DATA ACROSS WEB2 AND WEB3

Opacity is creating a Verified Data Network (VDN) to allow users to own, monetize, and verify their data while maintaining confidentiality. It uses zkTLS to verify data, multi-party computation for cryptographic integrity, and EigenLayer for economic security. The project's goal is to bridge offchain data onchain and introduce new use cases for existing data.

THE STANFORD BLOCKCHAIN READING LIST

Stanford Blockchain has compiled a list of Crypto 101 resources for learning. The list mostly contains blog posts published by the club, with five relevant modules to get readers up to speed on the current web3 ecosystem and outlook. Each module includes goals, a reading list, and additional optional resources.

WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DECENTRALIZED PRIVATE NEW INTERNET?

This article addresses the problems with balancing onchain confidentiality with regulatory compliance, emphasizing how the lack of privacy has impeded blockchain adoption for practical applications. It proposes a decentralized compliance framework that uses selective disclosure and threshold cryptography to provide privacy while enabling de-anonymization when necessary. This approach could allow for additional use cases like frontrunning protection and private governance votes, though critics question how it would practically operate with various government compliance requirements.

SUI FOUNDATION DISPUTES $400 MILLION INSIDER SELLING ALLEGATION

The Sui Foundation has rejected claims that insiders sold $400M worth of Sui tokens during the token's recent price surge, clarifying that the aforementioned transactions involved an infrastructure partner subject to a lockup schedule, not foundation insiders or Mysten Labs employees.

THE TRUE COST OF ELECTION MARKET MANIPULATION

Polymarket's presidential election odds have recently diverged from traditional polls, with Trump surging to 52.6% despite mainstream polls showing Harris maintaining a slight edge. It is estimated that manipulating the market by 4% would cost around $40 million. The potential manipulation, alongside a recent spike in trading volumes coinciding with the odds shift, raises concerns about the integrity of these markets. Polymarket's founder recently noted that odds differ from polls, with 50% odds being statistically very close to 52%.

GRAYSCALE UPDATES ASSETS UNDER CONSIDERATION

Institutional crypto firm Grayscale has added numerous assets to its consideration list for future crypto investment products, including Dogecoin, Pendle, Arbitrum, and Optimism.

AI BOT PUMPS MEME COIN 7,000% FOLLOWING $50,000 FROM MARC ANDREESSEN

The “Truth Terminal” AI Twitter Bot created the $GOAT memecoin, which now has a market capitalization of over $200 million, after being seeded with $50,000 in funding from a16z founder Marc Andreessen.

BITCOIN WHALE HOLDING SATOSHI-ERA STASH MOVES MORE COINS TO KRAKEN

A Bitcoin “whale,” who acquired their coins shortly after the network was created, has transferred high amounts, totaling $5.47M, to the Kraken exchange over the past two months.

CANARY CAPITAL PLOTS LITECOIN ETF JUST DAYS AFTER XRP PROPOSAL

Canary Capital plans to launch a Litecoin-focused ETF shortly after proposing a Ripple XRP ETF, following its strategy of launching ETFs beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.