DAILY CONQUEST ISSUE #074
Every thing it’s essential know of as we speak’s fast-moving crypto markets
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Overview
- L2 progress replace
- Markets: Trending sideways forward of a troublesome month.
- Michael Saylor seems to be to onboard tens of millions into BTC Lightning Community.
- Nigeria and Binance.
Good morning Fam,
It’s time to verify on the progress of some Layer-2 (L2) networks and discover any new incentives the rising blockchains have to supply.
Whereas the markets are stricken in a bearish winter trance, there are tasks constructing for the long run.
The L2s started small however are beginning to develop regardless of market circumstances, and with the Ethereum merge weeks away, L2s stand to reap the advantages.
Taking a look at TVL throughout the market, three L2 tasks are within the prime ten (Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism). Whereas Solana and Avalanche have struggled to maintain TVL with month-to-month losses of -25.56% and -6.61%, respectively, all of the L2s within the prime ten had constructive progress for the month.

Supply: DeFi Llama
Furthermore, the newer children on the block, Arbitrum and Optimism are bolstering packages to encourage customers to hitch their networks. For instance, Optimism is operating a number of incentivized swimming pools throughout its protocols, which can present yield and extra OP token payouts. Chart under.

Supply: Optimism
The Optimism community is seeing progress in its ecosystem use, with most customers bridging from Ethereum.

Supply: Messari Twitter
The Arbitrum community, which rolled out its a lot anticipated Nitro mainnet improve final week, has set the stage for the horde of customers about to enter its community to take part within the Arbitrum Odyssey program.
The eight-week Odyssey program, which started in June, will probably restart someday within the subsequent few days. In trade for utilizing completely different protocols on the community, customers shall be rewarded with NFTs (and probably an ARBI token airdrop).
For some additional perception into some Arbitrum tasks, take a look at the Twitter publish under by @corleonescrypto:

Supply: Twitter
The crypto market continued to development sideways in the course of the vacation weekend. With the Fed reducing its stability sheet this month and one other attainable fee hike of 75 foundation factors, it may show to be a troublesome month for crypto, one thing we lined in final week’s e-newsletter.
Bitcoin continues to vary between $19.5k and $20.5k whereas quantity continues to lower. The US Inventory market is closed as we speak, which may showcase wild worth motion for BTC. The mixture of a closed US inventory market may current the chance for whales to unload in a low liquidity environment and manipulate the worth. Hold a detailed on the $19.2k assist stage as we speak. BTC accomplished the every day candle up 0.85% to $20,000.

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The greenback continued its strengthening upward development versus different main currencies in the course of the weekend. The EURO fell under 98 cents versus the USD and seems to have damaged a big assist stage. Whereas traders flock to USD, the possibilities they wish to put money into danger property or equities are restricted.

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Michael Saylor is growing on the Lightning Community. Former MicroStrategy CEO mentioned (on the Baltic Honeybadger convention) that the corporate has builders engaged on options to onboard many individuals onto the Bitcoin Lightning Community. Saylor, a well-known Bitcoin evangelist, mentioned,”
“The benefit of Lightning is not only that you possibly can scale up bitcoin for billions of individuals, or drive the transaction price to almost nothing, but additionally, the ethos of bitcoin is to go very rigorously and never transfer quick on the bottom layer with out the common consensus, however in Lightning, you possibly can transfer far more aggressively growing performance and take extra dangers with the functions than you possibly can with the underlying bitcoin layer”
The Lightning Community permits for quick and low-cost transactions, is constructed on prime of Bitcoin, and is especially used as a decentralized cost community.
Sudoswap token airdrop. The NFT market “sudoswap” introduced the retroactive airdrop of its new SUDO governance token for liquidity suppliers and XMON token holders. Because of this, the cohort will obtain 41.9% of the 60 million token provide.
Information tidbits:
- Nigeria and Binance are in talks to create a digital financial zone to bolster the expansion of fintech and blockchain tech.
- Arcane Analysis releases “How Bitcoin Mining can rework the Vitality Business” report.
Extremely anticipated y00ts NFT mint placed on maintain. The staff behind y00ts announced a “blocker bug” throughout testing of the NFT launch that can delay the mint of the y00ts NFT assortment by someday.
FIFA’s World Cup NFT platform. The governing physique for worldwide soccer, FIFA, has announced the launch of an NFT platform on Algorand that appears to promote soccer-themed digital collectibles for the World Cup.
You don’t have to purchase a variety of tokens to take alternatives throughout the crypto-verse. A big majority of the networks permit for affordable gasoline charges.
With L2s reminiscent of Arbitrum and Optimism simply starting incentive packages, it can open the door for airdrops, liquidity supplier incentives, and NFT drops. Furthermore, it’s an effective way to learn to use crypto-based protocols for affordable!
Low cost transactions + rewards + airdrops = low-cost crypto schooling
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