NiftyNoon: Institutions are Coming for Your Bitcoin and Ethereum

Major institutions such as Goldman Sachs and DRW Venture Capital have disclosed significant holdings of both Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, indicating a shift in sentiment (August 14, 2024)

Highlighted News:

• iShares Bitcoin ETF has taken in approx $20.5bil this year:

  

  https://x.com/NateGeraci/status/1823539167122378998

• After the market closed today, Goldman Sachs filed a 13F disclosing the following positions as of June 30:

  

  https://x.com/macroscope17/status/1823496975636893937?s=46

• DRW Venture Capital discloses $150 million Ethereum ETF holdings:

  

  https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1823420680806994201

• Coinbase teases cbBTC creating speculation that the centralized exchange will create its own version of wrapped Bitcoin for EVM chains:

  

  https://x.com/coinbase/status/1823501582006411614

Project and Community News:

• @coinbase submitted another set of concerns with @SECgov over the agency’s proposal to expand the definition of “exchange”: https://x.com/iampaulgrewal/status/1823005008100753637?s=46

• Solana DEX trading volume falls as Ethereum and Base see increased activity: https://x.com/theblock__/status/1823040096188195249?s=46

• Evidence that @KamalaHarris will continue crypto crackdown: https://x.com/intangiblecoins/status/1823338570104352884?s=46

• Movements from $1.95B MT GOX BTC Wallet: https://x.com/ArkhamIntel/status/1823329015450525765

• Impressive recent growth of PYUSD on Solana: https://x.com/solana/status/1823415051900084504

• Blast gold allocations, new dapps, and the road head: https://x.com/ZoraWeb3/status/1823515218980274267

• Introducing Toncoin $TON on Binance Launchpool and Super Earn: https://x.com/binance/status/18233403744481046&t=hUvA7JiOv4Rx3wTaRwp8HQ

• $BASED memecoin goes live rewarding all holders of Base introduced NFTs with tokens during limited time redemption period: https://x.com/basedevo/status/1823455595409662119

• Farside Investors has added a new page: https://x.com/FarsideUK/status/1823439506776731763

• @OlympusDAO has started buyback-n-burn of $OHM, using DSR yield generated from $181M treasury. That's $83K per week: https://x.com/unbanksyETH/status/1823425063498154070

• Post Purchase Sniper Protection on Magic Eden: https://x.com/meonbtc/status/1823394768254062971?s=46

• blast as an ecosystem has monetization levers that don't exist anywhere else: https://x.com/pacmanblur/status/1823366749934264658?s=46

• Introducing Pizza Ninja World - Capital City: https://x.com/to/status/1823340822479184337?s=46

• Holders of @blastr_xyz keys and @huddle_wtf NFTs can hunt for free alongside wolves (1 hunt per NFT): https://x.com/thewolvesxyz/status/1823437684058022054

• WBTC on Ethereum - the story unfolding is important to understand for all Ethereum and L2 participants: https://x.com/martypartymusic/status/1823530443179766255

• A report on L2s, blobs and why the Ultrasound Money meme is dead without mainnet users: https://x.com/0xBreadguy/status/1823463041155129594

• The latest version of Ledger Live (version 2.85.0) is causing some users issues when updating Nano apps or their device OS (firmware): https://x.com/Ledger_Support/status/1823448123118956771

• APECHAIN x @D3inc: https://x.com/apecoin/status/1823397764354678799

• Machi Big Brother(@machibigbrother) still accumulated $FRIEND: https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1823048704879923455?s=46

• Portal Pay. Now on @arbitrum: https://x.com/Portalcoin/status/1823423997826228372

• Solana's most secure wallet is now on the App Store: https://x.com/fusewallet/status/1823359258026492095

Quick Stats:

• Blur ETH Daily Volume: 979 ETH (▲ 35.58%)

• OpenSea ETH Daily Volume: 252 ETH (▼ 25.09%)

• BTC: $60,790.40 (▲ 3.17%)

• ETH: $2,722.58 (▲ 3.12%)

• Solana: $149.80 (▲ 2.53%)

• Polygon: $0.42 (▲ 1.01%)

Top NFT Sales:

• Bored Ape Yacht Club #2742: 37.00 ETH

• CryptoPunks #8210: 27.50 ETH

• CryptoPunks #9558: 25.00 ETH

NFT Daily Winners:

• 🧦 Bitcoin Puppets: 0.09 BTC (▲ 20.35%)

• 🦧 Bored Ape Yacht Club: 10.99 ETH (▲ 12.11%)

• 🐵 NodeMonkes: 0.13 BTC (▲ 10.63%)

• 💼 Ordinal Maxi Biz: 0.16 BTC (▲ 3.70%)

• 🐧 Pudgy Penguins: 8.99 ETH (▲ 3.59%)

• ⛩ Azuki: 4.09 ETH (▲ 2.50%)

• 🏴‍☠ Captainz: 1.98 ETH (▲ 1.22%)

• 👾 Tensorians: 8.59 SOL (▲ 1.05%)

• 👩🏻 Milady Maker: 3.95 ETH (▲ 0.92%)

NFT Daily Losers:

• 🏳‍🌈 Chromie Squiggles: 3.24 ETH (▼ 0.01%)

• 🚬 CryptoPunks: 21.80 ETH (▼ 0.27%)

• 🐱 Quantum Cats: 0.27 BTC (▼ 0.59%)

• 🍭 Mocaverse: 1.72 ETH (▼ 1.15%)

• 😡 Mad Lads: 49.01 SOL (▼ 3.68%)

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