The Most Profitable Weekend of 2024 (So far)

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Top Stories

• BTC $50,990 (-1.3%), ETH $3,043 (+0.2%), SOL $101 (-2%)

• Blast announces 47 winners for the Big Bang developer competition as mainnet is expected to go live this week. See the full list of winners here

• Portalcoin to launch Thursday, February 29th on Binance - currently trading at $3 per token in pre market

• Ben Armstrong (Bitboy) defeats $BITCOIN developer More Light in the Influencer Fight Club portion of the Karate Combat 44 event - $BEN pumps 66% post-fight before pullback

• Risk, a gamblefi project that was supposedly launching on Blast, shuts down their Twitter and Discord after raising 500 ETH in a token presale

• Yuga Labs releases a trailer for Dookey Dash Unclogged and announces a $1 million prize pool, with the game expected to go live in Spring 2024

• Pixelmon’s $MON presale goes live today at 9 AM EST, ending Wednesday, February 28th

• Parcl announces the $PRCL token and an initial 7-8% community supply, airdrop expected to go live in April

• Pacman (Blur founder) praises Uniswap’s proposal of fee sharing with $UNI holders, $BLUR sees 20% gain on Saturday

• Frank (DeGods) clarifies his lack of Twitter presence the last few months, claiming having to merge Dust Labs and DeLabs in a hostile takeover

• Microstrategy gets hacked on Twitter, resulting in over $440k stolen

• NFT Stats is announced to be joining Memeland

• ZachXBT reports on BitForex Exchange’s suspicious activity, the exchange’s website then goes down completely this morning

• 1/1 NatCat sells for 1.3 BTC - see here for a full explanation of the ecosystem

• Leonidas’ BTC Runestone airdrop is expected this week, before or on February 28th. Runestones are currently selling for ~$450 each on pre-markets - check your wallet eligibility here

ETH - Top Movers

• Creepz +60% to 4.9 ETH

• Kanpai Pandas +38% to 3.8 ETH

• Sappy Seals +19% to 1.55 ETH

BTC - Top Movers

• NodeMonkes +43% to 0.4 BTC

• Bitcoin Puppets +110% to 0.17 BTC

• Ordinal Maxi Biz +24% to 0.94 BTC

• Quantum Cats +18% to 0.29 BTC

Upcoming Mints

• 2/27: Brain Drops - “Seven” by Redrum (ETH)

• 2/27: Okay Dogs (ETH)

• 2/28: LALIGA War Chest (ARB)

• 2/28: Art Blocks Curated - “Melancholic Magical Maiden” (ETH)

• 2/29: PMB - Puppet Maxi Biz (BTC)

  • Supply: 10k

  • Mint price: Free for Bitcoin Puppets/OMB, 0.0002 for collabs/public

  • Snapshot taken 2/27 at 3 PM EST, CC0 and OPIUM holders eligible for Phase 2

  • Take: This is a good mint and flip opportunity, likely within the same day of mint for lowest risk possible