The Acquisition That Shook The World to its Core

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Top Stories

• BTC $52,350 (+1%), ETH $2,909 (+3.7%), SOL $112 (+0.6%)

• Yuga Labs acquires Proof in exchange for Stock Equity, Kevin Rose to step back and become Proof advisor while majority of team is acqui-hired - insider trading accusations arise after Moonbirds pumped over 50% days before announcement

• Pudgy Penguins temporarily flip Bored Ape Yacht Club in floor price

• The first of 2 claims of $PIXEL token is now available to $RON stakers - the token is expected to be listed on Binance, with the snapshot taken on February 8th. OTC is trading at ~0.60/token

• $PORTAL begins trading for $0.94-1 OTC, up 6x(!) from public sale

• Coinbase releases their earnings report as a free NFT mint on Base - Brian Armstrong tweets that you should own this for “reasons you can probably imagine :)”

• Bored Ape Yacht Club teases their IRL Miami clubhouse via a “Blueprint” tweet

• Hey Wallet teases a feature that allows users to send SOL over twitter

• Total of 49,877 Net BTC inflows to ETFs last week

• GaryVee sweeps 20 VeeFriends and 50 VF2’s for 36 ETH - bringing his total collection to 66 VeeFriends and 609 VeeFriend Series 2

• EtherRock sells for 205 ETH ($567k)

• Upcoming mint to watch for: Persona (ETH) - Mint date: This week - Supply: TBA - Mint price: TBA - Allowlist spots are selling for $1-2k, Binance-Labs backed Unagi Studio - You can participate in the Quest and referral system for allowlist here

ETH - Top Movers

• Kanpai Pandas +20% to 2.62 ETH as Panda supporter and UFC fighter Ilia Topuria won the featherweight championship on Saturday

• Parallel avatars +25% to 1.30 ETH

• Creepz +23% to 2.98 ETH following Portalcoin OTC pump

• Sappy Seals +29% to 0.97 ETH

• The Captainz +10% to 4.7 ETH on the back of a 30+ ETH sweep

SOL - Top Movers

• Lil Potates rip 3100% from 0.1 SOL to 3.1 SOL before pulling back 50% - free mint on Saturday

• Mad Lads up 18% to 198.5 SOL, continuing to make new ATH’s

• Marms down 30% to 2.5 SOL

BTC - Top Movers

• NodeMonkes up 18% to .18 BTC on the back of a large sweep

• Quantum Cats +16% to 0.22 BTC

• Pngs +350% from mint to .0028 BTC — First collection to have 1000 pending buys on ME

Crypto - Top Movers

• OpenAI’s $WRLD coin up 85% to $7.95

• $PRIME +30% to $14.40, marking another ATH

• $BLUR +15% to $0.79

Upcoming mint

Wizards of Ord (BTC) 

• Mint Date: February 22nd

• Supply: 3,333 (3k for sale, 333 in team treasury)

• Mint price: 0.006 BTC on ME launchpad

• Allowlist is available through various alphabot raffles, random, ME wallet transactions, and more

• Presale spots are selling for $100-149