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🥶 Compound ETH Market Frozen Due to Upgrade Bug

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Hello Defiers! Here’s what we’re covering today:

News
  • Compound ETH Market Frozen Due to Upgrade Bug

  • Bitcoin Dominance Drops Under 40% For The First Time Since January

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  • Mt. Gox Trustee Repayment Announcement Triggers Fear in Bitcoin Market

NFT Roundup
  • Moonbirds Fly High On $50M Round and New Collections

Podcast

🎙Listen to the exclusive interview with Jake Chervinsky in this week’s podcast episode:

DeFi Explainers
  • What is The Merge?

  • What Is a Sweep-the-Floor NFT Trading Strategy?

Elsewhere
  • Arbitrum Nitro Launch with Steven Goldfeder & Harry Kalodner: Bankless

  • District of Columbia Suing MicroStrategy Founder Michael Saylor for Tax Fraud: CoinDesk

  • Crypto Lawyer Kyle Roche Pulls Out of Lawsuits Against Tether, Binance and Others: Decrypt

  • What's @Polkadotup to? A @MessariCrypto@nickdgarcia report analyzed Polkadot's 2022 milestones, highlighting 435k active chain users and 3.5% increase in $DOT staking: Polkadot

Trending in The Defiant
  • Christensen Calls For MakerDAO to Float Stablecoin

  • SushiSwap Members Rejoice as Whale Bails from Token

  • Why The Merge Might Fail


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DeFi Lending

🥶 Compound ETH Market Frozen Due to Upgrade Bug

Withdrawals and Liquidations in cETH Will Remain Frozen For A Week

By Aleksandar Gilbert

Compound ETH Market Frozen Due to Upgrade Bug

FREEZING Despite three separate audits, an update to crypto lending protocol Compound contained a software bug, freezing the protocol’s $800M Ether market when it took effect Tuesday.

TVL Compound’s ether market, cETH, is its second-largest, after its market for dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin (USDC). Compound is the ninth-largest DeFi protocol with $2.68B in total value locked (TVL), according to The Defiant Terminal.

SOLUTION Withdrawals and liquidations in cETH will remain frozen for about a week, while the proposed solution – to undo the problematic upgrade – makes its way through Compound’s rigid governance process. Deposits remain unaffected, according to the protocol.

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Bitcoin Market Action

📉 Bitcoin Dominance Drops Under 40% For The First Time Since January

ETH Miner Balances At All-Time Highs Ahead Of The Merge

By Owen Fernau

Bitcoin Dominance Drops Under 40% For The First Time Since January

FALLEN Bitcoin dominance (BTC.D), which is the market capitalization of BTC relative to that of all digital assets, has fallen below 40% for just the second time since 2018 and stands at an eight-month low, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

CONTRAST The move stands in contrast to the last crypto bear market which kicked off in 2018 and saw BTC.D rise throughout the carnage to above 70% in September 2019 as alternative crypto assets collapsed in price. 

Bitcoin Dominance. Source: CoinMarketCap

FORCE Perhaps predictably, Ether has emerged as a primary force driving BTC.D close to all-time lows. ETH dominance (ETH.D) stands at 20% as of Aug. 30 after crawling upwards from a low of below 8% during the last quarter of 2019. 

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NFT Roundup

🌜 Moonbirds Fly High On $50M Round and New Collections

Proof Collective Bags a16z Cash and Phantom Offer Scam Roils NFT Market

By yyctrader

Moonbirds Fly High On $50M Round and New Collections

NEWS Institutional investors continue to place bullish bets on NFTs despite the current bear market in digital assets.

FUNDING Proof Collective, the company behind the popular Moonbirds collection, said on Aug. 30 that it had raised $50M in a Series A funding round led by venture capital behemoth a16z. Other investors include Seven Seven Six, True Ventures, and Collab+Currency. 

GAMES The news came just a day after Limit Break revealed that it had raised an eye-popping $200M to build Web3 games. The company’s DigiDaigaku NFT collection commands a floor price of 12.3 ETH ($19,000) at the time of writing.

COLLECTION In a livestream on Tuesday, Proof CEO Kevin Rose outlined the company’s plans, which include a third NFT collection of 20,000 profile pictures (PFPs), called Moonbird Mythics, and a $PROOF token. Both are expected to launch in 2023. 

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DeFi Explainers

🧐 What is The Merge?

A Step-by-Step Guide to Ethereum’s Historic Upgrade

By Rahul Nambiampurath

What is The Merge?

STAKING In 2014, Ethereum launched Beacon Chain, a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network that differed from the original. Up until that time, Ethereum has used the same type of consensus mechanism to maintain its blockchain as Bitcoin — Proof-of-Work. Beacon introduced a new way to add blocks of data to the chain — staking.

MINERS From Sept. 15 to 16 2022, Ethereum will become a PoS network when Beacon merges with its mainnet. The move will ditch miners and computational work in favor of economic staking and validators. Here’s a primer explaining what this means for decentralized finance:

NEXT MOVE While Bitcoin legitimized the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) digital money, it was Ethereum that spearheaded the blockchain’s next move — smart contracts that deploy decentralized applications (dApps). Bitcoin accounts for about 40% of the total market capitalization in crypto. Ethereum broadened smart contracts for many uses — borrowing, lending, predictive markets, NFT marketplaces, exchanges, gaming, governance, wallets, storage, and even gambling. 

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DeFi Explainers

🧹 What Is a Sweep-the-Floor NFT Trading Strategy?

Understanding a Key Investing Practice in Nonfungible Tokens

By Rahul Nambiampurath

What Is a Sweep-the-Floor NFT Trading Strategy?

RISKIER As speculative assets go, NFTs are at the riskier end of the spectrum. And they’ve fetched astonishing sums in the marketplace. From Yuga Labs’ Bored Ape Yacht Club to Chiru Labs’ Azuki, a dozen NFT collections recorded $400M in total sales. Even after May’s market crash in 2022, the floor price of top collections remained at around 70 ETH.

STRATEGY New traders are searching for the next hit collection. This is where the “sweep the floor” NFT trading strategy comes into play.

The floor price of Azuki. Source: OpenSea

TRACTION The floor price is the fundamental metric in the NFT market. The NFT market behaves much like the commodities market, with one big difference: the former is decentralized. The price determination in the NFT market is organic. As the project gains public traction, more people rush to buy items from an NFT collection, typically composed of 10,000 NFTs. And the more they buy, the more the minimum price rises.

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Elsewhere

🔗 Arbitrum Nitro Launch with Steven Goldfeder & Harry Kalodner: Bankless

On today's episode, we welcome back Steven Goldfeder and Harry Kalodner for their second appearance on Bankless. Both times for huge Arbitrum launches!

🔗 District of Columbia Suing MicroStrategy Founder Michael Saylor for Tax Fraud: CoinDesk

The District of Columbia is suing MicroStrategy (MSTR) founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor for allegedly never paying any income taxes in the district in the more than 10 years he has lived there, Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced in a tweet on Wednesday.

🔗 Crypto Lawyer Kyle Roche Pulls Out of Lawsuits Against Tether, Binance and Others: Decrypt

High-profile crypto attorney Kyle Roche has withdrawn from several class action suits against Binance and other major crypto companies, just days after the release of leaked videos in which he discussed his relationships with crypto clients over drinks.

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🤔 What's @Polkadot up to? A @MessariCrypto @NickDGarcia report analyzed Polkadot's 2022 milestones, highlighting 435k active chain users and 3.5% increase in $DOT staking Read more about the chain's achievements so far and their upcoming developments👇 bit.ly/3cwl9kD
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Trending in The Defiant
  • Christensen Calls For MakerDAO to Float Stablecoin In what would mark a dramatic strategic reversal, Rune Christensen, the founder of MakerDAO, is calling for the DeFi stalwart  to reduce its exposure to real-world assets and freely float the value of its stablecoin, DAI, against the dollar.

  • SushiSwap Members Rejoice as Whale Bails from Token Arca, a crypto-focused asset manager, appears to have sold its $3.1M position in SushiSwap’s token. And many of the crypto exchange’s community members couldn’t be happier.

  • Why The Merge Might Fail Yes, hard as it is to believe, after all the setbacks, breakthroughs, delays, two steps forward, one step back…


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🌋 Mt. Gox Trustee Repayment Announcement Triggers Fear in Bitcoin Market

Outstanding Claims by Ripped Off Customers Worth $2.8B

By Samuel Haig

Mt. Gox Trustee Repayment Announcement Triggers Fear in Bitcoin Market

FLOOD Is Mt. Gox, the notorious exchange that crashed spectacularly in 2014, about to rise from the dead and flood the market with Bitcoin? Or is an arcane legal document that surfaced on Wednesday being widely misunderstood?

RUMORS Those are the questions roiling crypto after the announcement was published to Mt. Gox’s moribund website on Aug. 31. Straight away, rumors flew that Mt. Gox was poised to release $2.8B worth of BTC it held n mid-September.

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