Bitcoin
Bitcoin surged past $71,000 as spot bitcoin ETFs saw their second highest day of inflows on record.
Business
The IRS will receive a $200 million priority claim from FTX, and a $685 million lower priority claim payable to the extent that funds are available.
Ondo Finance’s crypto wallet, labeled on Etherscan as “OUSD Instant Manager,” is the largest recipient of BUIDL’s monthly dividend receiving roughly 42% of the total pot.
DeFi
A 10% airdrop of ZkSync tokens could be worth over $1.3 billion, which is almost double zkSync’s current TVL of $852 million.
Implementing OP_CAT is a preliminary step to incorporating a new layer 2 that could connect Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Solana
Solana saw the highest number of new token launches ever recorded on the blockchain last month, as celebrities joined the cohort of memecoin enthusiasts.
The last time exchanges held a comparable record low percentage of the entire BTC supply was in Dec. 2017, and for ETH, Oct. 2015, the same year Ethereum had its first transaction.
The memecoin inspired by Matt Furie’s Boys’ club comic has recovered from a local trough after allegations that BRETT’s rollout was dominated by insider activity.
USDe’s market cap reached an all-time high, equaling the market cap of all stablecoins on Solana.
Consensys’ zkEVM network Linea paused block production for around an hour to prevent additional funds from being bridged out after a DEX built on the network was exploited for around $6.8 million worth of ether.
