Daily News - August 4, 2022
TLDR:
Solana exploit due to Slope Wallet! NFTs.com sold for $15M USD! Claire Silver mints out her latest collection!
OpenSea Trading Volume:
Ethereum closes the day at $1,618.87 (-0.86%)! OpenSea trading volume inches slightly higher closing the day with $14.94M USD in daily volume - up from yesterday’s close of $13.3M USD.
News:
A post-mortem investigation reveals that the recent $8M USD Solana exploit stemmed from unsecured storage of private keys by Slope - a popular Ethereum and Solana wallet! (Source)
Greg Solana and Wiley Aronow, the co-founders of Yuga Labs, conduct their very first interview since their forced-doxxing by BuzzFeed! (Source)
NFTs.com was sold for $15M USD! The ENS equivalent (nfts.eth) is currently listed on OpenSea for 1,001 ETH ($1.64M USD). (Source)
Claire Silver partners with Mirage Gallary to release “AI Art is Not Art.” The collection temporarily caused a gas spike to 1,111 gwei as many rushed to mint the ~ 100 pieces available for public sale. (Source)
Webaverse open their raffle list registration! (Source)
Notable Sales:
Sergito temporarily lost CryptoPunk 6507 due to accidentally defaulting on his NFTfi loan! Fortunately, Sergito was later able to purchase his CryptoPunk back for 68.5 ETH ($112,564.00 USD). (Source)
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