Daily News - July 15, 2022
TLDR:
PROOF acquires Divergence! OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff. Deepak bids $3.2M on CryptoPunk 4156. Celsius is missing $1.2B USD.
Alerts:
DeekayMotion, the artist behind the Let’s Walk collection, was hacked on Twitter! Please avoid clicking any links or minting anything posted by @deekaymotion (Source)
OpenSea Trading Volume:
Contrary to Twitter’s sentiment, Ethereum closed the day at $1,191.53 USD (+6.9%)! Unfortunately, OpenSea's trading volume dived to $14.6M USD - down from yesterday’s close of $16.99M USD.
News:
OpenSea laid off 20% of their staff! Devin Finzer, the co-founder and CEO of OpenSea, explained these layoffs would better enable OpenSea to survive the upcoming crypto winter. (Source)
PROOF Collective acquires the Divergence engineering team! For those unfamiliar with Divergence, the team was responsible for G-Money’s Admit One Collection. (Source)
Deepak.eth places a bid of 2,690 ETH ($3.18M USD) for CryptoPunk 4156! Deepak has an extensive history with the CryptoPunk collection buying a total of 5 Punks for 8,445.77 ETH ($10.3M USD). (Source)
For those in search of a job, LooksRare is in need of engineers and designers! (Source)
Nalin implements zero-knowledge proofs within Wordle! (Source)
Pudgy Penguins will be releasing a Penguin toy in Q4 2022! Leading up to the release, the team will be accepting submissions for specific Penguins to feature in their toy campaign. (Source)
Pandamonium 2022 is coming on August 13! The event will be hosted in Las Vegas featuring Tyga and Rich the Kid performances. (Source)
Celsius bankruptcy filings reveal a $1.2B USD deficit on their balance sheet! (Source)
Notable Sales:
917.eth is sold for 32.0 ETH ($38,152.96 USD) to dokwonisamotherfuckinscammerpieceofshit.eth! (Source)
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