Newsletter #30

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Hey fam!

Biden's out of the 2024 race, shaking up markets. Bitcoin's still killing it with retail investors. POPCAT briefly hit $1B, and Yuga's spicing up The Otherside.

New AI tools are popping up, and there's tons of NFT and gaming action.

Keep your eyes open!

BTC & Altcoins:

• ⁠🔗President Biden announced he would step down from the 2024 Presidential race via a letter shared to his Twitter page. Crypto majors dipped briefly on the news, then rallied sharply.

• ⁠🔗Retail interest in Bitcoin has reportedly hit levels not seen since it was at $16,000.

• ⁠🔗The ETH ETFs were formally confirmed by the CBOE to launch for trading on July 23.

• ⁠🔗Grayscale announced its new Decentralized AI Fund, seeking to provide its investors with access to blockchain x AI.
  The fund is made up of a basket of 5 decentralized AI protocols, with market caps in the $1B-$7B range.

Memecoins:

• ⁠🔗POPCAT became the latest memecoin to hit $1B, briefly reaching the number before dipping to $870M

NFT/Web3:

• 🔗Yuga announced a major partnership with Pixel Vault & Reboot to bring skill-based wagering into The Otherside. And The Otherside announced "Project Dragon" will take place on July 27 at noon ET

• 🔗Coinbase revealed new info on its cryptic cat post + NFT link from yesterday, introducing a new "The internet needs an update" campaign leading to a "Mister Miggles Remix Challenge" offering the ability to mint a version of the shared cat.

AI:

Every week, we select new AI tools that you can try out. This way, you save time for the more enjoyable things in life.

• 🔗 Pop AI - Create polished presentations and docs faster. Enter any prompt and make a compelling presentation using AI in minutes.

• XspaceGPT - Master Twitter Spaces with GPT4 for AI summaries and insights. Transcribe live audio to text, extract abstracts and mind maps!

• MyMap AI - Mapping out your ideas. Struggling to plan your next big project? MyMap turns complex ideas into clear mind maps.

Alpha:

• 🔗 Sofamon released its Telegram mini app for everyone, with 120,000 Blast Gold to distribute.

• 🔗 Mocaverse and Pacmoon distributed tokens to those who participated in their collab creator event from a few weeks back.

• 🔗 Fantasy Top opened up the ETH claim for Heroes, once again offering the chance to share rewards with Card holders.

• 🔗 XAI is sponsoring a $50,000 tournament celebrating Yaku arriving on Xai Games.

Tweet of the Week:

The Moonshot App debuted in the Apple AppStore, offering a new way of buying & selling of memecoins via Apple Pay deposits (and credit/debit cards, PayPal & crypto) without wallet creation headaches