2024.5.15 Cryptocurrency Events
I. Macro
(1) Fed Chairman Powell: I do not think the next move will be to raise interest rates, and it is more likely that the policy rate will be maintained at the current level
(2) The annual rate of US PPI in April was 2.2%, in line with expectations
(3) People familiar with the matter: Musk's xAI plans to spend nearly $10 billion to rent Oracle's cloud servers
(4) Grayscale GBTC net outflow of $51 million on May 14
(5) Traders purchased $30,000 of Solana's on-chain Meme coin GME, now worth $571,300
(6) A user bought Solana's on-chain Meme coin GME within less than 10 minutes after Roaring Kitty tweeted, and currently has a floating profit of 18 times. Smart money address:
ELZeNSDTzbBRjnyNqm2MQ6KP8bcYdS7jFstWCLjSsHnk
(7) Polymarket completed $45 million B Round of financing, led by Founders Fund
II. Public Chain
(1) $Sui: Completed the scheduled unlocking on the anniversary date of May 3, and processed over 300 million transactions in the first 14 days of May
(2) L1 project Initia announced the launch of an 8-week incentivized public testnet
(3) LayerZero CEO: 100,000 people have self-reported as witches
(4) $AR - Arweave launched @aogamesorg, a fully decentralized game launchpad powered by the ultra-parallel AO computer
(5) $AXL - Deutsche Bank announced its participation in MAS's asset tokenization project Guardian, selecting Axelar developers as partners
(6) $CELO - Celo DAO proposed to launch the Kenyan Shilling stablecoin ($cKES). Voting ended on May 21
(7) $MATIC - Polygon founder @MihailoBjelic plans to upgrade the leverage of the zkEVM prover. Roadmap updates coming soon
(8) $MAV - Maverick Protocol announces launch of Maverick v2 Testnet
(9) $MKR - MakerDAO announces upcoming launch of first SubDAO Spark as part of its endgame roadmap
(10) $NAKA - Nakamoto Games announces new partnership with Microsoft
III. Projects
(1) Drift Protocol $DRIFT has been added to Coinbase’s roadmap
(2) Zeta Markets completes $5 million funding round led by Electric Capital
(3) Puffer: plans to launch Chapter 4 event, plans to launch its own AVS in the future
(4) Lido Alliance and Paradigm are funding re-staking project Symbiotic
(5) MakerDAO is about to launch its first SubDAO Spark and announce token economics
(6) Sonne Finance was hacked and has lost more than 20 million US dollars
(7) DeFi protocol Spark completed a pre-seed round of financing of 1.5 million US dollars, with Fuel Network and others participating
(8) Jupiter's third round of LFG candidate projects are deBridge, http://Divvy.Bet and xchange Art
