Weekly Market Report. July 12, 2024

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July 12, 2024

Greetings, curious minds! Join us on a journey into the cutting-edge. This newsletter unveils the latest trends shaping our world. 

Let’s explore together! 🌐🚀

 

🔥 Top Reads

 

Germany Almost Done Selling Bitcoin, Holding Less Than 5K Tokens After Latest Moves 😲

The German state of Saxony is quickly running out of bitcoin (BTC) to sell after moving another batch of its confiscated assets to crypto exchanges and brokers on Thursday.

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SEC drops key stablecoin investigation in win for crypto industry 🤔

As the crypto industry continues its calls for regulatory clarity, a glaring question has been whether stablecoins, typically digital assets pegged to and backed by the U.S. dollar, should be treated as securities. Now, a decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to quietly end a probe into the New York stablecoin issuer Paxos suggests that, in most cases at least, the answer is no.

Whether It’s Biden or Trump, Europe Knows It Must Stand Alone 🧐

NATO’s European members have long thought they would prefer an ailing Joe Biden to an unpredictable Donald Trump. But now they’re coming to terms with the fact that — whoever wins the election — US priorities are increasingly going to shift elsewhere.

 
 

📈 Market Data

 
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🚨 Important News This Week

 
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AI

  • Sequoia, Nvidia Back Startup Fireworks AI at $552 Million Valuation

  • Will K-pop‘s AI experiment pay off?

  • OpenAI Scale Ranks Progress Toward ‘Human-Level’ Problem Solving

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Tech

  • X Developing ‘Dislike’ Button For Downvoting Replies

  • Tesla delays Robotaxi event in blow to Musk’s autonomy drive

  • YouTube Shorts adds TikTok-style artificial voiceovers


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Business

  • Paris’s Budget Effort to Reboot the Olympics

  • Treasury, IRS announce ‘major milestone’ of $1 billion in past-due taxes collected from millionaires

  • Japan Likely Spent $22 Billion on Yen Intervention Thursday

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Crypto

  • VC funds pump $481 million into crypto startups in June

  • The Bullish Fed Rate-Cut Play in Bitcoin Is Not as Straightforward as You Think

  • Crypto hacks top $1.4B as centralized exchanges become the main target

 
 
 

🚨 Notable Companies Secure Impressive Investments

 

  • idOS Network has raised $4.5M in a funding round led by Fabric Ventures

  • Rome Protocol has raised $9M in a funding round backed by Hack VC and Hashkey

  • Term Labs has raised $5.5M in a Strategic funding round led by Electric Capital

  • Dora has raised $5.5M in a funding round co-led by Dragonfly and Lemniscap

  • JPMorgan-backed Partior has raised $60M in a Series B funding round 

 
 
 

🚀 Pendle Finance’s Surge: Deep Dive Into The Golden DeFi Protocol

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In the vast landscape of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Pendle Finance has stood out as a golden protocol, glittering with innovation and rapid growth. From its humble beginnings in 2020, Pendle has transformed into a powerhouse, capturing the DeFi community’s attention with its unique approach to yield tokenization and strategic integrations. In this blog, we will uncover the secrets behind Pendle Finance’s meteoric rise and explore the intricacies of its technical and market mechanisms.

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🤣 Meme of the Week

 
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Sincerely,

Constantin Kogan

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