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Lending platform Arcade has launched on Pawn Protocol in a bid to bring liquidity to the non-fungible token (NFT) market, the company announced Monday.

The platform is a peer-to-peer marketplace that allows users to access fixed-rate loans collateralized by their Ethereum-based NFTs, using an escrow system.

Arcade says it currently has more than $15 million locked up in blue chip NFTs and $6 million in loan volume, with average loans being around $350,000, a representative told CoinDesk. (Blue chip NFTs are considered to be those among the highest valued in the market, like Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks or Doodles.)

The launch comes just a month after Arcade announced a $15 million Series A in December led by Pantera Capital.

“Right now, most of the value is locked up in the top 1% of assets, so the platform is curated to certain collections,” Gabe Frank, CEO of Arcade, told CoinDesk in an interview. “Once we start integrating Layer 2s and other blockchains we can get into some of the lower value assets but just because of gas costs. It’s currently quite restricted and only makes sense for these higher value loans.”

NFT resilience

Arcade’s launch comes at a time when confidence in blue chip NFT projects has never been higher. Despite an overall market downturn in recent weeks, the floor price for projects like Bored Ape Yacht Club have soared to all-time-highs, with trading volume on the popular marketplace OpenSea doing record sales volume in January.

Frank said he sees the future of the NFT lending market extending beyond just PFPs – the platform has seen a growing interest in collateralized loans for metaverse assets on games like The Sandbox, and recently issued a loan to a DAO against 48 plots of the games virtual land.

Read more: Arcade Raises $15M to Offer NFT-Backed Loans

While the NFT lending market is still in its infancy, competition in the space does exist. PawnFi raised $3 million in November for a similar venture, backed by big name investors Digital Currency Group (the parent company of CoinDesk), Animoca Brands and Dapper Labs.

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L’agrégateur de données sur les jetons non fongibles (NFT) CryptoSlam a identifié plus de 8,3 milliards de dollars de « wash trading » (transactions fictives) sur LooksRare, une nouvelle place de marché NFT. En soustrayant ce volume, il s’avère que la principale place de marché NFT, OpenSea, reste l’acteur dominant dans ce domaine….
Lire la suite: La majeure partie des transactions réalisées sur LooksRare, concurrent d’OpenSea, sont fictives

L’extrême volatilité qui s’est emparée du marché des cryptomonnaies a finalement poussé l’administration Biden à prendre des mesures fortes en matière de réglementation. En effet, celle-ci s’apprêterait à publier un décret qui demandera aux agences fédérales de réglementer les actifs tels que le bitcoin, l’ether et les NFT pour des raisons dites de sécurité nationale. […]

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L’attaquant du Borussia Dortmund, Erling Haaland, peut désormais se vanter du record de la carte la plus chère du jeu blockchain Sorare. En effet, un token non fongible (NFT) lui étant associé s’est vendu pour 265 ETH, soit plus de 680 000 dollars.

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Circle’s dollar-backed stablecoin USDC can now be minted and redeemed across Flow, the high-speed blockchain platform created by non-fungible token (NFT) pioneers Dapper Labs.

Circle previously announced a partnership with Dapper in 2020 to enable USDC as a payment processor and custodian for Dapper wallet users.

The support for USDC across the entire Flow network expands on that partnership by allowing users to directly mint and redeem USDC on Flow, enabling easier access and larger liquidity pools for network users. It also means developers can use Circle’s suite of developer APIs.

“The decision to release USDC in the flow ecosystem system is all about betting on where the next wave of growth is going to be,” said Dapper Labs co-founder Mik Naayem in an interview. “And that’s likely consumer Web 3.”

Dapper Labs, the inventor of CryptoKitties, the first viral NFT collectibles, oversees a thriving ecosystem on Flow including NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day, Matrix World and more.

USDC circulation currently tops some $48 billion, and adding the stablecoin to blockchain ecosystems generally provides a shot in the arm for applications like decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFTs.

In addition to Flow, Circle now supports USDC natively across the Ethereum, Algorand, Solana, Stellar, TRON, Hedera and Avalanche blockchains.

“Flow has emerged as the go-to destination for thriving communities of developers, artists, creators and brands building their own blockchain-based digital media and entertainment experiences,” Jeremy Allaire, CEO and co-founder of Circle, said in a statement.

FTX raised $400 million in a Series C funding round that gives the cryptocurrency exchange a mammoth $32 billion valuation. That’s about the same as the market cap of Germany’s Deutsche Boerse and more than the Nasdaq exchange or Twitter.

The capital injection will help the exchange fund its global expansion and obtain additional licenses in different markets. CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has previously told CoinDesk that FTX was planning acquisitions and partnerships to enter more countries and grow its user base.

« FTX will look to continue interacting with regulators to facilitate access to digital assets in a safe and compliant manner, » Bankman-Fried said in a statement today. « We look forward to working alongside our investors to achieve our mission and continue our tremendous growth throughout 2022 and beyond.”

The investment was raised at the same time as and from the same group of backers as the $400 million Series A round into FTX US, which gave the American affiliate an $8 billion valuation last week. Paradigm, Temasek, Multicoin Capital and SoftBank were among the firms participating.

The Series C funding round comes a little over three months after FTX raised $420 million, which gave the exchange a $25 billion valuation.

The amounts raised, however, fall short of the $1.5 billion figure reportedly targeted by Bankman-Fried last year.

Read more: NFT Marketplace OpenSea Valued at $13.3B in $300M Funding Round

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Bitcoin’s biggest challenge is its volatility and the boom and bust cycles that hinder further institutional adoption, JPMorgan said in a research report.

The bank’s fair value estimate for bitcoin – based on the volatility ratio of bitcoin to gold – fell to around four times, or $38,000, analysts led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote in the note published last week.JPMorgan said its previous forecast of the bitcoin to gold ratio falling to around two times now seems unrealistic. The bank sees significant headwinds for both bitcoin and ethereum going forward. The challenge for ethereum is different to that for bitcoin, as it derives most of its value as a “decentralized application currency rather than a form of digital gold,” it said.Ethereum is facing challenges due to declining market share in the decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible-token (NFTs) sector, the bank said. During this month’s correction, ether failed to recapture market share from its main competitors with ether prices falling by a similar magnitude compared to smaller altcoins, the bank added.Similar to last May, unwinding of leveraged futures contracts played a significant role in the crypto market correction in recent weeks, the bank said, but this month’s unwinding of positions seems less severe.Bitcoin was trading around $37,244 as of publication time.

Read more: Morgan Stanley Says Bitcoin’s 50% Correction Is Nothing New

Les NFT et le métavers ont particulièrement beaucoup fait parler d’eux en 2021. Grâce à cette belle promotion, de nombreuses entreprises cryptos tournées vers le métavers ont notamment été conviées au Consumer Electronics Show (CES) qui se tient chaque année à Las Vegas. Concomitamment, la banque d’investissements Goldman Sachs a réaffirmé sa conviction quant aux opportunités de ce secteur.

Pour Goldman Sachs, le métavers est une opportunité à 8 trillions de dollars

À l’occasion d’un podcast intitulé « Comprendre le métavers et le Web 3.0 » de la banque d’investissement mondiale Goldman Sachs, l’analyste de l’entreprise Eric Sheridan a posé cartes sur table. D’après lui, le marché du métavers pourrait potentiellement bientôt représenter plus de 8 000 milliards de dollars en termes de revenus et de monétisation.

L’analyste de Goldman Sachs a poursuivi en justifiant cette estimation :

« Nous regardons l’économie numérique qui représente actuellement environ 20-25 % de l’économie mondiale. Nous constatons que l’économie numérique continue de croître (…) C’est ainsi que nous avons trouvé des résultats allant de 2 trillions à 12 trillions de dollars, et donc nous avons retenu la médiane de 8 trillions de dollars. »

Il faut relever que d’autres banques d’investissement internationales se sont également prononcées sur l’avenir du métavers. Par exemple, en novembre dernier la banque Morgan Stanley avait déjà évoqué le montant de 8 trillions de dollars s’agissant des opportunités de ce marché.

Dans la foulée, la CEO d’Ark Investment, Cathie Wood, a concédé le fait que ce marché représenterait plusieurs milliards de dollars. L’avenir nous dira si ces estimations étaient proches, ou à l’inverse bien loin de la réalité.

Enfin, le gestionnaire de crypto-actifs Grayscale Investments est resté dans des ordres de grandeur plus raisonnables. D’après ses prévisions, le marché du métavers représente une opportunité commerciale évaluée à 1 000 milliards de dollars.

C’est désormais toute l’économie dite « traditionnelle » qui se met en ordre de bataille pour profiter des potentialités de Bitcoin et des cryptomonnaies. Et vous ? N’attendez plus pour vous inscrire sur l’exchange crypto de référence FTX. Une réduction à vie de vos frais de trading vous y attend grâce au lien affilié du JDC.

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