Toute l'actualité des NFT
D’ici la fin de l’année, l’entreprise derrière la collection de tokens non fongibles (NFT) va lancer sa propre cryptomonnaie. Ce nouveau token viendra récompenser ses plus anciens détenteurs de NFT, et constitue pour la société un moyen d’attirer de nouveaux investisseurs.
L’article Pudgy Penguins annonce le lancement de sa propre cryptomonnaie basée sur Solana est apparu en premier sur Cryptoast.
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
You know how it feels when you’re watching a match, both teams score and you end up with a draw? So, that’s the bitcoin market right now.
The bulls pushed prices above $103,000 early Thursday, only for the bears to bite back, crashing prices to $91,000. As it stands, we’re trading steadily around $98,000. Talk about undecided …
The crash shook out leveraged crypto futures bets worth around $1 billion, bringing a degree of normality to what had become an overheated market. That’s possibly a blessing in disguise, because had BTC surged all the way up to $120,000, the eventual leverage shakeout would have been even more severe and could have potentially damaged investor confidence.
The glass-half-full perspective is supported by bitcoin spot ETFs, which managed to pull in a net $766 million despite the chaos.
But there’s a glass-half-empty side too. The ProShares Ultra Short Bitcoin ETF, which tracks twice the inverse of bitcoin’s daily performance, also saw a net inflow as well as record trading volume. While the $7 million added is small compared with the long spot ETFs, it shows the bears are ready to make their presence felt.
If it all feels a little shaky, there’s more to come, with the chance of downside volatility if U.S. nonfarm payrolls data points to a resilient labour market and sticky wage pressures. That would prompt a recalibration of Fed rate-cut expectations and possibly hurt crypto prices. Weak data, conversely, could yield a price bounce, although trading directionally might be tricky while prices are this indecisive.
In other news, President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of David Sacks as Crypto and AI Czar (which might seem like the opposite of crypto’s decentralization ethos) is being viewed positively for Solana’s ETF prospects. Why? Because at one point, Sacks was associated with the crypto hedge fund Multicoin, one of Solana’s early investors. It seems farfetched, but hey it’s a typical bull-market narrative.
Looking at the broader market, Hyperliquid’s HYPE token is quickly approaching the $4.6 billion market value of Arbitrum’s ARB token in a move that indicates application-specific layer 2s like Hyperliquid are becoming the « real value capture mechanisms for DeFi applications, » according to Gautham Santosh, founder of Polynomial Protocol.
Gautham noted on X that building on general-purpose layer 2s could mean constructing someone else’s moat, essentially translating your success into their token value. He points out that while Arbitrum-based perpetual protocol GMX generates 54% more revenue than Hyperliquid, its market cap stands at just $376 million or just 8% of Hyperliquid’s.
That’s a lot to take in for today. So, as trader Alex Kruger said on X, « If you’re not a full-time trader, focus on portfolio construction. » Stay alert out there!
Crypto:
Dec. 18: CleanSpark (CLSK) Q4 FY 2024 earnings. EPS Est. $-0.18 vs Prev. $-1.02.
Macro
Dec. 6, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases November’s <a href= »https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm » target= »_blank »>Employment Situation Report</a>.
Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) Est. 200K vs Prev. 12K.
Unemployment Rate Est. 4.2% vs Prev. 4.1%.
Average Hourly Earnings MoM Est. 0.3% vs Prev. 0.4%.
Average Hourly Earnings YoY Est. 3.9% vs Prev. 4.0%.
Dec. 11, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases November’s <a href= »https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ » target= »_blank »>Consumer Price Index (CPI)</a> data.
Core Inflation Rate YoY Prev. 3.3%.
Inflation Rate YoY Prev. 2.6%
Dec. 11, 9:45 a.m.: The Bank of Canada announces its <a href= »https://www.bankofcanada.ca/core-functions/monetary-policy/key-interest-rate/ » target= »_blank »>policy interest rate</a> (also known as overnight target rate and overnight lending rate). Prev. 3.75%.
Dec. 12, 8:15 a.m.: The European Central Bank (ECB) announces its latest <a href= »https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/activities/mopo/html/index.en.html » target= »_blank »>monetary policy decision</a> (three key interest rates).
Deposit facility interest rate Prev. 3.25%.
Main refinancing operations interest rate Prev. 3.4%.
Marginal lending facility interest rate Prev. 3.65%.
Governance votes & calls
TK
Unlocks
Solana’s Jito to release 105% of JTO circulating supply on Dec. 7 at 10 a.m., worth nearly $500 million at current prices.
Neon to release 50% of NEON circulating supply on Dec. 7 at 10 a.m., worth $35 million at current prices.
Token Launches
Binance lists Across Protocol’s ACX and Orca’s ORCA, trading to begin at 8 a.m.
Futures of PolyhedraZK’s ZKJ went live on OKX.
Dec. 6: <a href= »https://www.digitalfinancesummit.com/ » target= »_blank »>Digital Finance Summit Summit 2024</a> (Brussels)
Dec. 7: <a href= »https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-gb/experiences/events/konferenz-bitcoin-baden-2024″ target= »_blank »>Bitcoin Baden 2024</a> (Baden, Switzerland)
Dec. 9 – 12: <a href= »https://adfw.com/ » target= »_blank »>Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2024</a> (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Dec. 9 – 13: <a href= »https://www.blockchainweek.lu/ » target= »_blank »>Luxembourg Blockchain Week 2024</a>
Dec. 12 – 13: <a href= »https://www.globalblockchainshow.com/ » target= »_blank »>Global Blockchain Show</a> (Dubai)
Dec. 12 – 14: <a href= »https://www.taipeiblockchainweek.com/ » target= »_blank »>Taipei Blockchain Week 2024</a> (Taipei, Taiwan)
Dec. 16 – 17: <a href= »https://theblockchainassociation.org/policy-summit-2024/ » target= »_blank »>Blockchain Association’s Policy Summit</a> (Washington)
By Shaurya Malwa
Ethereum and Base memecoin mog (MOG) surged 40% to set fresh highs Friday on the back of a Coinbase spot market listing. It becomes the second-largest cat-themed token behind Solana-based popcat (POPCAT)
The memecoin is known for its distinctive branding around the meme of a cat laughing with tears (often represented by the « joycat » emoji 😹) and sporting Pit Viper sunglasses. This token doesn’t boast any intrinsic utility, thriving instead on its community-driven ethos and the virality of meme culture within the cryptocurrency space.
Meme coins often rely on community hype, and MOG has successfully captured a zeitgeist with its humorous and culturally resonant branding driving demand.
Its cult community often appears to ‘mog’ other token communities (a slang term for outperforming) on social posts or in replies on X — and that has become a meme itself, further fueling the token’s popularity.
BTC and ETH perpetual funding rates have normalized from previously overheated levels, with the ETH rate remaining elevated compared with BTC, suggesting a bullish bias for the ETH/BTC ratio. The positioning in SOL perpetuals is even more bullish.
The open interest-normalized cumulative volume delta has declined for most major tokens in the past 24 hours, indicating that the sell-off primarily resulted from the unwinding of long positions rather than fresh shorts.
Despite BTC’s quick retrace to sub-$100K levels, calls continue to trade at a premium to puts, although the spread is narrower than it was early Thursday. A similar dynamic is observed in ETH options.
A large bull call spread crossed the tape on Deribit, involving a long position in the $106,000 strike call and shorting the $110,000 strike call, both expiring on Dec. 27, according to data source Amberdata.
BTC is down 0.82% from 4 p.m. ET Thursday to $98,196.16 (24hrs: -4.05%)
ETH is up 0.27% at $3,870.06 (24hrs: -1.93%)
CoinDesk 20 is down 0.29% to 3,954.73 (24hrs: -3.32%)
Ether staking yield is down 5 bps to 3.22%
BTC funding rate is at 0.0165% (18.05% annualized) on Binance
DXY is unchanged at 105.80
Gold is up 1.12% at $2656.00/oz
Silver is up 1.73% to $31.67/oz
Nikkei 225 closed -0.77% at 39,091.17
Hang Seng closed +1.56% at 19,865.85
FTSE is unchanged at 8,354.46
Euro Stoxx 50 is up 0.56% at 4,979.24
DJIA closed on Thursday -0.55% to 44,765.71
S&P 500 closed -0.19% at 6,075.11
Nasdaq closed -0.18% at 19,700.26
S&P/TSX Composite Index closed +0.15% at 25,635.73
S&P 40 Latin America closed +1.37% at 2,368.14
U.S. 10-year Treasury was unchanged at 4.18%
E-mini S&P 500 futures are unchanged at 6,083.50
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are unchanged at 21,465.75
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are unchanged at 44,846.00
BTC Dominance: 55.76% (0.10%)
Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.03937 (1.08%)
Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 800 EH/s
Hashprice (spot): $63.02
Total Fees: 14.28 BTC/ $1.4M
CME Futures Open Interest: 518K BTC
BTC priced in gold: 37.3 oz
BTC vs gold market cap: 10.62%
Bitcoin sitting in over-the-counter desk balances: 423.84k
The chart shows the dollar index (DXY), which tracks the U.S. currency’s value against major peers, has dived out of a trendline, characterizing the steep rally from late September lows.
Renewed losses in DXY will likely ease financial conditions further, supporting more risk-taking in financial markets.
MicroStrategy (MSTR): closed on Tuesday at $386.4 (-4.83%), up 0.47% at $388.23 in pre-market.
Coinbase Global (COIN): closed at $320.57 (-3.13%), up 0.83% at $323.24 in pre-market.
Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed at C$27.65 (-0.22%)
MARA Holdings (MARA): closed at $24.79 (-4.51%), down 0.69% at $24.96 in pre-market.
Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed at $12.32 (-4.86%), up 0.16% at $12.34 in pre-market.
Core Scientific (CORZ): closed at $16.94 (-3.03%), down 1% at $16.77 in pre-market.
CleanSpark (CLSK): closed at $13.93 (-5.11%), up 0.5% at $14.00 in pre-market.
CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed at $28.91 (-2.07%), up 0.83% at $29.15 in pre-market.
Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed at $58.55 (-7.65%), up 1.95% at $59.69 in pre-market.
Spot BTC ETFs:
Daily net inflow: $766.7 million
Cumulative net inflows: $33.03 billion
Total BTC holdings ~ 1.092 million.
Spot ETH ETFs
Daily net inflow: $428.5 million
Cumulative net inflows: $1.32 billion
Total ETH holdings ~ 3.158 million.
Source: <a href= »https://farside.co.uk/ » target= »_blank »>Farside Investors</a>
The daily stablecoin transfer volume has surged to nearly $150 billion, the most since May.
Stablecoins are widely used to fund cryptocurrency purchases, derivatives trading and to move capital across borders.
<a href= »https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/12/05/trump-names-david-sacks-as-ai-and-crypto-czar » target= »_blank »>Trump Names David Sacks as ‘AI and Crypto Czar'</a> (CoinDesk): President-elect Donald Trump appointed David Sacks as his czar for artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, aiming to boost U.S. leadership in these sectors. Sacks, a PayPal veteran and venture capitalist, will prioritize cryptocurrency regulation and safeguarding free speech while addressing concerns over Big Tech bias.
<a href= »https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-05/macron-says-he-will-serve-out-remainder-of-his-term-until-2027″ target= »_blank »>Macron Vows to Serve Remainder of Term as French President</a> (Bloomberg): French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to serve out his term through 2027, calling for unity after his government was ousted in a no-confidence vote. He pledged to appoint a new prime minister within days to form a government and address France’s stalled budget crisis.
<a href= »https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/12/05/memecoins-reach-140-b-market-cap-and-gain-ground-in-crypto-economy » target= »_blank »>Memecoins Reach $140B Market Cap and Gain Ground in Crypto Economy</a> (CoinDesk): Memecoins, led by dogecoin, have grown 330 percent in market value since Jan. 1, and now account for 3.16% of the crypto market and 5.27% of total trading volume. The growth of new tokens and activity on platforms like Solana has raised questions about the sector’s long-term stability.
<a href= »https://www.ft.com/content/359a95ec-72b2-4e83-b16f-4778fc7f2834″ target= »_blank »>Investors Poured $140B Into U.S. Stock Funds After Trump Election Victory</a> (Financial Times): The S&P 500 climbed 5.3 percent in November as investors poured $139.5 billion into U.S. equity funds, the strongest monthly inflow on record, driven by optimism over President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-growth agenda. Meanwhile, equity markets in emerging economies, Europe, and Japan suffered significant outflows amid trade tension fears.
<a href= »https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/06/india-keeps-interest-rate-unchanged-amid-rising-inflation-risks-and-a-slowing-economy-.html » target= »_blank »>India’s Central Bank Revises Down Economic Growth Forecast for 2025, Keeps Interest Rate Steady</a> (CNBC): India’s central bank held its benchmark interest rate steady at 6.5% on Friday, citing a need to balance rising inflation with economic growth. It also reduced banks’ cash reserve ratio by 50 basis points to 4.0% to support liquidity. The RBI downgraded its fiscal 2025 GDP growth forecast to 6.6%, reflecting concerns over a slowing economy.
<a href= »https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/12/05/top-nft-brand-pudgy-penguins-to-release-pengu-token » target= »_blank »>Top NFT Brand Pudgy Penguins to Release PENGU Token</a> (CoinDesk): Pudgy Penguins, a top NFT collection, plans to launch a token called PENGU on Solana this year, with 23.5% of its 88 billion supply reserved for holders of related NFTs. Despite the NFT market downturn, Pudgy Penguins’ strong cultural relevance positions it well in a market now favoring memecoins over NFTs.
A heavyweight from the once-hot NFT era is now getting into the cryptocurrency issuance game.
Pudgy Penguins launched three years ago as a set of 8,888 NFTs depicting colorful and comical birds.
Now, the team behind the project tells CoinDesk that they will release a token called PENGU this year on the Solana blockchain.
Nearly a quarter — 23.5% — of the 88 billion PENGU tokens will be reserved for owners of the project’s NFT collections like Pudgy Penguins, Lil Pudgys, Pudgy Rods and more. A further 22.02% will be available to the Solana and Ethereum communities, while 12.32% are set aside to provide liquidity on decentralized exchanges.
« With $PENGU, the millions of Pudgy Penguin fans and the hundreds of millions of people who see and share the Pudgy Penguin every day now get the opportunity to align themselves with the character and become a part of The Huddle, » the team shared in a statement.
Pudgy is among the rare collections that managed to stay culturally relevant in the otherwise dreadful NFT business following the price crash from the 2021-2022 bull market. Many NFTs lacked real utility beyond being a digital brag. It was also difficult to fully realize gains after price bumps — as market liquidity was often inadequate to fill orders.
The pivot comes as fun tokens and memecoins, unlike NFTs, have taken off and flourished in the last two years. Liquidity, relative cheapness, virality and ease-of-use are key reasons why people have flocked to these latest hot asset classes — even though fun tokens and memecoins fundamentally represent the same idea as NFT collections did: belonging to a passionate community.
Official Pudgy Penguins channels have over 3 million followers across Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube, and videos involving the characters have notched 32 billion views on Giphy.
One of the brand’s TikTok accounts is focused on spreading good vibes under the « Pudgy Kindness » moniker — popularizing it as a feel-good service in the mainstream, outside of crypto circles.
It goes beyond screens too. Parent company Igloo last year introduced Pudgy Toys, a toy line based on the digital art collection, and has since sold more than $10 million in collectible igloos and plushies that are carried at major retailers, including Walmart, Target, Amazon and Walgreens.
Pudgy Penguins is the third-largest NFT collection by market capitalization — $550 million in total — as of Thursday, <a href= »https://www.coingecko.com/en/nft » target= »_blank »>data shows</a>, trailing only CryptoPunks and Bored Apes Yacht Club. The collection came to life in 2021, and each penguin is hand-drawn and features various distinct traits such as backgrounds, body, face, head and skin.
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Viral personality Haliey Welch has released her official token on the Solana blockchain, the latest in a long line of celebrity tokens floated on the network.
Welch went viral earlier this year after using a « hawk tuah » onomatopoeia to describe a sexual act. « Hawk Tuah » quickly became a phase used for memes across social platforms — making Welch an overnight sensation from a minimum wage worker who didn’t even have an Instagram account.
As often happens with memes, « hawk tuah » has found its way to the blockchain. Welch’s HAWK token went live on Solana-based exchanges at 22:00 UTC on Wednesday in partnership with overHere, a token launchpad.
Minutes after HAWK began trading, its market cap soared to $490 million — and then it dove.
Welch previously distributed free tokens to her social media followers and supporters within the meme and NFT communities during a campaign held from Nov. 26 to Dec. 2.
A statement shared with CoinDesk said Welch can’t sell the HAWK tokens she got for one year and they will vest over three years.
« Who doesn’t love a good meme? » Welch said in a prepared statement. « Becoming part of meme culture interested me in the world of crypto, and I’ve learned so much along the way. Launching my own token feels like the perfect next step — not just to create something meaningful for my fans but also to protect my community from scammers. »
HAWK is supported by a foundation in the Cayman Islands through complete legal compliance in the U.S. with hired directors on staff. It has raised money from a group of private non-U.S. investors at a $34.5 million initial valuation.
Celebrity tokens became a short-lived rage within the Solana ecosystem earlier this year, with several niche and forgotten media artists releasing their tokens using Pump.Fun during a frenzied period in May.
Most tokens ended up falling 99% in the days, or even hours, afterward.
But Welch’s team says it is in it for the long run, hoping to build a community around the token and her fans in a bid to make it a successful project in the long term.
« Launching the $HAWK token creates a fun, secure and innovative way for Haliey to get even closer to her community, » Jonnie Forster, Welch’s manager, said in a statement. « It not only empowers her fans but also eliminates the confusion posed by scammers who are constantly releasing unauthorized coins without approvals of her name and likeness. »
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk’s deputy editor-in-chief for features, opinion and standards.
In this issue:
Bitcoin gets a DEX, thanks to the Nomic bridge
Union Labs gets $12M to build more bridges
Base’s Jesse Pollak looks back on BALD
Justin Drake discusses Ethereum’s Beam Chain plan … and Solana
STRENGTH FOR ETH: The Ethereum blockchain’s transaction revenue has increased substantially since Donald Trump’s U.S. election victory, Steno Research said in a Monday report. « This outcome is crucial for all on-chain activity, » wrote analyst Mads Eberhardt. The surge has led to higher staking rewards and more ether (ETH) being burned via transaction fees, the report said. « This combination strengthens Ethereum’s tokenomics, » Steno said, making ether a more appealing asset. Steno noted that the amount of USDT on the Ethereum network surpassed supply on the Tron blockchain for the first time in more than two years. This is a clear sign that on-chain activity is booming, resulting in greater demand for ether to facilitate transactions and higher transactional revenue. Read more.
BITCOIN GETS A DEX: Osmosis, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built for the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem, has opened a bridge to the Bitcoin network, as part of a pivot toward the world’s largest cryptocurrency. The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that governs Osmosis voted in favor of adopting Bitcoin bridge Nomic in June. The integration went live on Tuesday. Nomic’s bridge now enables users to deposit their BTC on the Bitcoin network in return for a token called alloyed BTC (allBTC) on Osmosis. “The novel thing with Nomic is that it’s all decentralized, » said Matt Bell, CEO of Turbofish, the team of developers behind Nomic. « The whole flow for users, from having Bitcoin in their wallet to the Bitcoin being on Osmosis, remains decentralized with Nomic. There’s no Bitgo or Coinbase in the middle.” In the big picture, Osmosis is one of several projects attempting to leverage the value tied up in BTC, by far the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, to bring liquidity to the broader crypto world. Read more.
UNION LABS GETS $12M: Union Labs, a project focused on helping blockchains communicate with each other, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Gumi Cryptos Capital and Longhash Ventures. The fresh round of funds will be used to expand Union’s core team, advance partner integrations, and contribute to ecosystem growth. The fundraising comes after Union raised $4 million in seed financing last year. Borderless Capital participated in the new round, along with angels from the Polygon, Celestia, Movement, and Berachain communities, Union Labs said Tuesday. Union’s core product is a modular, zero-knowledge (ZK) interoperability layer, designed to ease movement of assets between the Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystems. Its mainnet is supposed to go live in early 2025. Union is also interested in building in the Bitcoin ecosystem, “addressing the chain’s scripting limitations to enable secure asset transfers across Bitcoin L2s and the multichain ecosystem, enhancing DeFi on Bitcoin,” the team said. Read more
TO BALDLY GO… Critics say the Base blockchain, created by the Coinbase exchange, is too centralized. But if that were true, would anyone have been able to create BALD, a meme coin launched on Base last year whose name mocked Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s shiny pate? « BALD showed that Base wasn’t going to be this place that was fully manicured, curated, controlled, and centralized, » says Jesse Pollak, Base’s founder. « Bald showed that Base wasn’t going to be this place that was fully manicured, curated, controlled, and centralized. » Too bad BALD also turned out to be a rug, as it were. Read more
Ethereum developer Justin Drake said his comprehensive proposal to overhaul the second-largest blockchain’s consensus layer isn’t about catching up with a rival, it’s about sticking around for the long haul.
Drake unveiled the proposal, known as the Beam Chain, at Ethereum’s biennial Devcon gathering in Bangkok last month, at a tim when the network’s native token ETH is lagging behind its counterparts at other major layer-1 blockchains.
The Ethereum network enjoyed wide adoption over the last few years, making it more expensive and slower to use. In response, a cohort of layer-1s, known as “Ethereum killers,” emerged in 2020 to compete with Ethereum on transaction speeds, and Solana has been seen as the leader of the back.
Recently, activity on Solana has exploded, mainly thanks to the surge of memecoins on the blockchain, with users wondering whether it will overtake Ethereum as the “hot” chain.
But Drake said he doesn’t see Solana as a threat to Ethereum, and neither does he see the Beam Chain as a way to restore Ethereum’s edge in the short term.
The Beam Chain “is all about improving the long-term health and security of the consensus layer, it has nothing to do with performance,” Drake said in an interview with CoinDesk.
“Solana has no consideration for health. The only thing they care about is performance. They care about reducing latency and increasing throughput,” Drake added.
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What are the odds?
Polymarket Retains Loyal User Base a Month After Election, Data Shows
Deals and grants
GraFun Expands to TON Network to Enable Memecoin Creation Right in Telegram
Tokenized Uranium Goes Live on the Tezos Blockchain with Archax, Cameco Involved
Grayscale Files To Convert Solana Trust Into ETF
Greasing the skids
XRP Account Fees Fall by 90% After XRPL Validator Vote
Coinbase Plugs Apple Pay Into Its Fiat ‘Onramp’ for Third-Party Crypto Apps
Regulatory and policy
Crypto Cash Fueled 53 Members of the Next U.S. Congress
Opinion: De-banking Deserves Urgent Attention
Calendar (See #content-announcements channel in Slack)
Dec. 4-5: India Blockchain Week, Bangalore
Dec. 5-6: Emergence, Prague
Dec. 9-12: Abu Dhabi Finance Week
Dec. 11-12: AI Summit NYC
Dec. 11-14: Taipei Blockchain Week
Jan 9-12, 2025: CES, Las Vegas
Jan. 15-19: World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
January 21-25: WAGMI conference, Miami.
Jan. 24-25: Adopting Bitcoin, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jan. 30-31: PLAN B Forum, San Salvador, El Salvador.
Feb. 1-6: Satoshi Roundtable, Dubai
Feb. 19-20, 2025: ConsensusHK, Hong Kong.
Feb. 23-24: NFT Paris
Feb 23-March 2: ETHDenver
May 14-16: Consensus, Toronto.
May 27-29: Bitcoin 2025, Las Vegas.
Après le Bitcoin et Ethereum, c’est maintenant au tour de Solana de faire du bruit. Grayscale, le mastodonte de la gestion d’actifs numériques, a frappé à la porte de la SEC dans le but de transformer son Solana Trust en ETF au comptant, sous le petit nom de GSOL.
Si la SEC donne son feu vert, ce nouvel ETF sera coté à la Bourse de New York, soit un gros coup pour Solana.
Cette blockchain, déjà connue pour être rapide, performante et bon marché, pourrait franchir une nouvelle étape dans son adoption par les investisseurs institutionnels.
Ce mardi, Grayscale a annoncé vouloir convertir leur Solana Trust en ETF spot. Dans cette optique, ils ont envoyé à la SEC un fameux formulaire 19b-4, qui est une sorte de sésame pour pouvoir lister ce produit à la Bourse de New York.
NEW: @Grayscale & @NYSE just filed to convert the Grayscale Solana Trust — $GSOL — to an ETF pic.twitter.com/LPoQHxeiC8
— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) December 3, 2024
Actuellement, ce trust a une valeur de 134,2 millions de dollars d’actifs, soit 0,1 % de tous les SOL en circulation. Autant dire qu’ils ne rigolent pas avec cette opération.
Lorsque l’on prend en compte le fait que Solana a enregistré une hausse de 267 % sur l’année et un prix qui tourne autour des 236 $, on comprend pourquoi Grayscale se jette à l’eau.
Néanmoins, ce n’est pas une course en solitaire. VanEck, 21Shares et même Canary Capital sont déjà sur le coup avec leurs propres projets d’ETF reposant sur Solana.
Si Grayscale réussit, ce ne sera pas une première pour eux. Ils ont déjà converti leurs trusts Bitcoin et Ethereum en ETF spot cette année et ça a marché comme sur des roulettes.
Pour cette mission Solana, ils se sont entourés des poids lourds financiers : Coinbase Custody pour garder les actifs bien au chaud, et BNY Mellon pour gérer tout le reste, de l’administration au transfert.
Néanmoins, la concurrence, elle, est féroce. Tout le monde veut une part du gâteau, et Grayscale devra sortir le grand jeu pour garder son avance.
Depuis que Grayscale a partagé la nouvelle, Solana a pris un coup de boost. Sa valeur a explosé de 3,77 % en une journée, la propulsant directement à 232 $, alors qu’il était encore à 215 $ il y a peu.
Les marchés sont clairement en mode anticipation, mais ce n’est qu’un début. Si l’ETF obtient le feu vert de la SEC, certains voient déjà Solana grimper à 400 $ avant la fin de l’année.
Le tout dépend d’un seuil clé : 244 $. Si le SOL arrive à casser cette barrière, c’est parti pour la fusée. En cas de blocage à ce niveau ou si l’ETF est recalé, on pourrait retomber dans une zone entre 201 et 221 dollars, ou pire, voir une correction sévère.
Ce genre de mouvement, on l’a déjà vu avec les ETF Bitcoin et Ethereum. À chaque fois, la moindre annonce liée à une potentielle approbation a attiré une pluie de capitaux institutionnels et propulsé les prix.
Toutefois, il ne faut pas non plus se leurrer, l’effet FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) pourrait aussi provoquer une bulle à court terme, suivie d’une descente rapide si l’enthousiasme ne se transforme pas en vraie demande.
Pour l’instant, les marchés semblent optimistes. Solana pourrait devenir un vrai concurrent sérieux parmi les altcoins, mais tout repose sur l’approbation de cet ETF. Une chose est sûre : tout le monde est déjà en train de placer ses pions.
Solana a tout pour séduire : une blockchain rapide et scalable, des frais minimes, et un écosystème en pleine effervescence attirant des projets DeFi et NFT à la pelle.
Sur certaines métriques comme le volume des transactions, Solana dépasse même Ethereum, ce qui en fait un choix de plus en plus populaire pour les développeurs et les utilisateurs.
Pourtant, l’adoption institutionnelle reste encore à la traîne comparée à des géants comme Bitcoin ou Ethereum, et cela pourrait freiner l’élan si l’ETF ne s’accompagne pas d’un développement concret de l’activité sur le réseau.
En parallèle, la concurrence dans l’univers blockchain ne faiblit pas, avec des réseaux émergents et les améliorations des chaînes existantes qui menacent de diluer l’attrait de Solana.
Si la demande autour de l’ETF stimule l’intérêt à court terme, le défi pour Solana sera de maintenir cet élan avec des cas d’usage tangibles et une adoption généralisée au-delà des simples spéculations.
Le timing est crucial, car tout ralentissement dans la dynamique pourrait rapidement reléguer Solana derrière d’autres altcoins plus agressifs dans la course à la dominance.
Source : CoinMarketCap
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Nike et RTFKT sont accusés de Rug Pull par leur communauté, après avoir annoncé lundi abandonner définitivement leurs activités dans le domaine des NFT. Sur X et sur les réseaux sociaux, de nombreux investisseurs accusent les fondateurs de “Rug Pull”. RTFKT, des NFT symboles d’une époque L’annonce, lundi, de la fin de RTFKT, la marque…
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Relai de communiqué de presse. L’octogone nous ouvre ses portes. Le principe des jetons numériques uniques que sont les NFT (non-fungible token) a rapidement trouvé un cas d’utilisation pour moderniser les bonnes vieilles cartes à collectionner. Le phénomène c’est notamment bien développer au sein du domaine sportif. Aujourd’hui, c’est le sport de combat MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) qui plonge dans cette innovation, avec le projet MetaFight qui lance son token MFT.
Avant d’en arriver à l’info principale du jour, rappelons déjà que le projet MetaFight propose aux fans des combats de MMA de collectionner des cartes numériques, sous forme de tokens non fongibles, qui représentent chacune un des combattants de ce sport.
Via une plateforme multijoueur en ligne, les joueurs-collectionneurs peuvent ensuite faire s’affronter leurs cartes NFT Fighter au sein de ligues MMA.
MetaFight se présente d’ailleurs comme la seule marque sous licence mondiale pour le secteur du MMA. Ce mardi 3 décembre 2024, le projet a été pleinement lancé avec le TGE (Token Generation Event, ou « événement de génération de token ») de son jeton numérique propre, le MFT.
Le projet de NFT à collectionner MetaFight possède une licence mondiale pour le MMA.
C’est sur Base, la layer 2 d’Ethereum (ETH) proposée par Coinbase, que les tokens MFT ont été lancés ce 3 décembre. L’offre totale (total supply) pour ce nouveau token se monte à 100 millions de MFT. Les jetons numériques sont notamment disponibles sur le DEX Uniswap.
Dans le jeu de carte à collectionner MetaFight, les tokens MFT jouent un rôle clé, car les joueurs peuvent les utiliser pour faire évoluer les cartes. Cela, en débloquant « des améliorations visuelles exclusives, telles que des positions de combat et des effets animés », chaque transformation étant rare et limitée.
Les MFT permettront aussi aux joueurs d’échanger les anciennes éditions des cartes contre des nouvelles dès leur sortie, ce qui « ajoute un élément stratégique à la gestion des cartes ».
Et d’ailleurs, plus globalement, les jetons MFT seront également la principale monnaie d’échange des cartes à collectionner. Ils permettront aux joueurs d’acheter, de vendre et de lister des cartes sur le marché du jeu.
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Après notamment le football, c’est donc désormais le sport de combat MMA qui a son univers complet de cartes à collectionner numériques sur blockchain. Si la folie des NFT était un peu retombée depuis le précédent marché haussier de 2021, certains se vendent toujours pour des fortunes. Et le nouveau bull run qui s’amorce sur le marché crypto devrait également contribuer à relancer un grand enthousiasme pour les tokens non fongibles.
L’article MetaFight : le jeu de carte NFT à collectionner sur le MMA lance son token MFT est apparu en premier sur Journal du Coin.
Ethereum est de retour ? Suite à la pause initiée par le Bitcoin sous les 100 000 $, certains altcoins profitent de la tendance pour exploser. Une course actuellement dominée par les projets Ripple (XRP) et Tron (TRX) à la surprise générale. D’autant plus avec un Ethereum inscrit aux abonnés absents, avec des rendements bien en dessous de la moyenne générale. Pourtant, cela ne l’empêche pas d’enregistrer quelques records collatéraux. Comme, par exemple, une accélération importante de son volume on-chain, propulsé à presque 184 milliards de dollars en novembre.
Difficile de comprendre la dynamique qui opère au sujet de la cryptomonnaie ETH. Car le réseau Ethereum a connu de nombreux changements structurels et stratégiques depuis le dernier marché haussier de 2021. Et autant dire que pour le moment, les performances ne sont pas au rendez-vous.
Une situation qui touche en premier lieu les rendements associés au staking en train de s’effondrer face à la concurrence. En effet, ces derniers pointent actuellement à un peu plus de 3 %, contre 5,6 % au moment de son passage au Proof of Stake en septembre 2022. À titre de comparaison, Solana (SOL) offre environ 6 % à l’heure actuelle.
Dans le même temps, le cours de l’ETH peine à enclencher une hausse notable au moment où l’ensemble du marché s’emballe. Avec une paire ETH/BTC qui parvient difficilement à inverser sa descente aux enfers, malgré un BTC en vol stationnaire sous les 100 000 $.
Paire ETH/BTC – TradingView
Serait-ce le déclin d’un géant en cours ? Ou la quête de sens d’une blockchain dont les problèmes de scalabilité sont résolus par l’apparition d’une horde de réseaux parallèles basés sur un modèle instable et incertain ? Avec la dissolution de liquidité que cela implique…
Quoi qu’il en soit, Ethereum – et ses layers 2 – continue de supporter la grande majorité des innovations actuelles. Et sa cryptomonnaie ETH réussit tout de même à mettre plus de 90 % de ses détenteurs en profit, malgré sa position toujours à 25 % sous son dernier ATH.
Serait-ce la promesse d’un réveil explosif imminent ? Un espoir pas si impossible que cela, si l’on considère la hausse de l’activité on-chain enregistrée sur son réseau au cours du mois de novembre. Avec un nouveau sommet annuel fixé à 183,7 milliards de dollars.
Volume on-chain Ethereum (mensuel) – The Block Data
Bien évidemment, nous sommes encore loin de 405 milliards de dollars enregistrés en mai 2021. Mais cela représente tout de même une hausse de 9 % par rapport à son dernier record de mars 2024. Et une multiplication par 2 en comparaison de son plus bas enregistré en septembre (91 milliards de dollars).
La principale explication de ce regain d’activité serait une redistribution des capitaux détenus sur les exchanges centralisés (CEX) pour réaliser des opérations on-chain. Pour preuve, la récente et fugace renaissance du marché des NFT à la fin novembre. Mais là encore, le réseau Solana est en embuscade avec sa plateforme Pump.fun grande amatrice de volumes on-chain pour créer ses memecoins !
L’article Ethereum (ETH) : Record annuel de volume on-chain avec 183,7 milliards de dollars pour novembre ! est apparu en premier sur Journal du Coin.