The Last 168 Hours in DeFi

Twitter, Optimism, EVMOS, oh my!

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Optimism (✨🔴_🔴✨) @optimismPBC

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MARKET:

Bitcoin briefly popped after the announcement of pro-crypto genius, Elon Musk, was buying Twitter went public. However, it fully retraced the following day as tech stocks continue to take a beating. Bitcoin and crypto are tethered to the broader global economy and things will continue to be uncertain with the expectation of more rate hikes.

AFP News Agency @AFP

#BREAKING Twitter confirms sale of company to Elon Musk for $44 bn

NEWS:

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

Fidelity is adding bitcoin as an option for 401(k) plans later this year, the first major retirement-plan provider to do so on.wsj.com/3xQiR8n

Camila Russo @CamiRusso

news is out!! 🎬🎬 The GOAT Ridley Scott and his production company Scott Free, the makers of 🔥 Gladiator 🔥 Alien 🔥 Blade Runner 🔥 House of Gucci 🏆 Nominated for 80 Academy Awards 🚀🚀 Will produce @ETHMovie The Infinite Machine movie!!! WAGMAM ETHEREANS!!!

Ozz, CEO of Altseason @Coinsandtoken

‼️I just realized that MicroStrategy has been selling bitcoin without telling no one. Michael Saylor said he would never do so, but yesterday he sold more than 1500 bitcoins. More info below 👇🏼 1/3

Blockworks @Blockworks_

NEW: Twitter will allow content creators to be paid in USDC via Stripe and Polygon

Sam, there is no box:

Cryptoyieldinfo @Cryptoyieldinfo

bloombergquint.com/onweb/sam-bank… Perhaps one thing is missing is if the box token has some right to a % profits of what is happening in the box (eg DEX, derivatives or marketplace) then it can have real value. Like $CRV, $SNX, $LOOKS, or even $SOLID or $HERMES.

bloombergquint.comSam Bankman-Fried Described Yield Farming and Left Matt Levine StunnedSam Bankman-Fried Described Yield Farming and Left Matt Levine Stunned

Great recap on Ethereum Foundation’s Devconnect

DavidHoffman.eth 🔴_🔴 🦇🔊🏴 @TrustlessState

Published in @BanklessHQ: 5 Things I Learned at @EFDevconnect - MEV is worse than I thought 🚨😬 - ETH Devs are grinding *hard* 👷‍♂️🚧🛠 - Incoming spicy L2 wars 🌶 (attention = 📈tho!) - EVM equivalence is 🔥🔥 - There's not enough talent!👨🏻‍🏫👩‍🏫 Catch up! newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/5-things-i-l…

newsletter.banklesshq.com5 Things I Learned from ETH Amsterdam [LITE]DevConnect was epic - here’s what you missed.

Lots of fund raising

CoinDesk @CoinDesk

Crypto investment firm @dragonfly_cap has raised $650 million for its third fund, more than doubling the size of its prior two funds combined. @BrandyBetz reports

trib.alDragonfly Capital Raises $650M for Third Crypto FundThe new fund will allow Dragonfly to lead rounds in later-stage companies, the firm said.

NFTs:

OpenSea @opensea

1/ Exciting news! To invest in the "pro" community and continue improving the OpenSea experience, we’re excited to share that we’ve acquired @gemxyz ! Read more in the official announcement blog, and below 👇 opensea.io/blog/announcem…

BAYC Instagram hacked

cool guy moon @MoonOverlord

annnd there goes like 100 apes to the hacker

Bored Ape Yacht Club @BoredApeYC

🚨There is no mint going on today. It looks like BAYC Instagram was hacked. Do not mint anything, click links, or link your wallet to anything.

REGULATORY:

Dennis Porter @Dennis_Porter_

HUGE BREAKING NEWS - The Central African Republic has unanimously passed a bill to adopt #Bitcoin as legal tender.

Barry Silbert @BarrySilbert

Grayscale makes fresh push for SEC approval to become bitcoin ETF

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RUGS:

Sad day for AkuDreams

foobar @0xfoobar

$34 million, or 11,539 eth, is permanently locked into the AkuDreams contract forever. It cannot be retrieved by individual users or by the dev team. The refund processing, which is complete, sets each bid status to 1.

PeckShield Inc. @peckshield

The @DeusDao was exploited today in ftmscan.com/tx/0x39825ff84… with ~$13.4M gain for the hacker (The protocol loss may be larger).

ftmscan.comFantom Transaction Hash (Txhash) Details | FtmScanFantom (FTM) detailed transaction info for txhash 0x39825ff84b44d9c9983b4cff464d4746d1ae5432977b9a65a92ab47edac9c9b5. The transaction status, block confirmation, gas fee, FTM, and token transfer are shown.

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