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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Donald Trump NFTs are surging on reports that the former president may be indicted.</li><li>The total number of NFT sales spiked by double-digit percentages since the news. </li></ul>Since reports emerged of Donald Trump's possible indictment, prices for the former president's non-fungible token collection have surged. The floor price for the NFTs has jumped 26% in the past week, according to data from <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/trump-digital-trading-cards/analytics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OpenSea</a>, with the total number of sales increasing by double-digit percentages since the news of Trump's potentially imminent arrest.The Trump Digital Trading Cards are selling for over 0.53 ether, or $929, rising from 0.41 ether, or $719, last Thursday. The collection was announced in late December, with all 45,000 of the cards selling out shortly after launch.The cards, which sold for $99 each, show Trump's face photoshopped into a series of macho cartoons. The collection is described as "incredible, hand-drawn art, inspired by President Trump's extraordinary life &amp; career," according to the project's <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/trump-digital-trading-cards/analytics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listing.</a> On one NFT, the former POTUS is depicted in a suit, wearing an American flag cowboy hat and red boxing gloves, surrounded by gold bars with "TRUMP" engraved on each.NFT buyers were also entered in a sweepstakes to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-nft-win-mar-a-lago-meeting-pay-travel-lodging-2022-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">win a 20-minute meeting with him at Mar-a-Lago.</a> However, winners must cover their own travels expenses such as lodging and airfare.The price pump follows <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/donald-trump-indictment-arrest.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that Trump is facing a Manhattan district attorney probe into whether he illegally paid off adult actress Stormy Daniels during the final days of his 2016 presidential campaign in exchange for silence over an alleged affair. The specific criminal charges prosecutors could seek, however, are still unknown.

Donald Trump NFT prices climb on reports of the former US president's looming arrest

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Bitcoin could see massive gains if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, according to Bernstein.</li><li>Trump's growing support for crypto suggests a friendlier regulatory environment than Harris, the firm said.</li></ul>Owning <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/btc-usd">bitcoin</a> may be the latest example of a "Trump trade" that could lead to massive gains if the former president returns to the White House next year.Analysts at Bernstein said in a note on Monday that Donald Trump's recent embrace of the crypto industry suggests that a potential Trump administration would be much more friendly to the digital assets than a Harris administration."Crypto is the rare instance, where the difference in election outcome could determine the destiny of the industry," Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani said.Trump's growing friendliness toward the crypto industry has been a yearslong progression.Trump <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bitcoin-stance-2024-7">addressed the Bitcoin Conference in July</a> with a 45-minute speech, and has talked about crypto policy in nearly every speech since. He's also released several NFT collections over the past two years.At the Bitcoin Conference, Trump said he'd lay out a plan "to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet and the bitcoin superpower of the world."Chhugani predicted that bitcoin could soar to new highs later this year if Trump wins the election, with the cryptocurrency potentially trading in a range of $80,000-$90,000 by December.That represents potential upside of as much as 59% based on current levels of $56,539 at 2:04 p.m. Bitcoin peaked at just under $74,000 in March.As for why there's so much upside potential for bitcoin if Trump wins in November, Chhugani argued that a positive regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies is not yet priced in to the market."With strong regulatory challenges, decentralised finance did not see participation from institutions and banks, to build blockchain based financial products," Chhugani explained.He added: "A positive regulatory environment would take away the policy risk for financial institutions and banks to participate, thus removing the handicap for digital assets to compete with traditional assets for institutional flows."According to the note, easing crypto regulations could spur innovation in the sector and bring back users to the ecosystem.Bitcoin might be front-running a potential Trump win in November, with the cryptocurrency up 34% year-to-date."Elections remain hard to call, but if you are long crypto here, you are likely taking a Trump trade," Chhugani concluded.

Bitcoin prices will soar 59% to $90,000 by the end of the year if Donald Trump wins election, Wall Street analyst says

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11937112" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gamestop" source="Orion">GameStop</keyword> is launching an <keyword id="13096649" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nft-marketplace" source="Orion">NFT marketplace</keyword> for gamers to ride the boom in digital collectibles. </li><li>It will use the liquidity platform of Immutable X, a layer 2 scaling solution for NFTs on the ethereum blockchain.</li><li>GameStop is also creating a $100 million fund alongside Immutable X to support game developers and studios.</li></ul><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/gme-stock">GameStop</a> has selected a key partner to help launch a non-fungible token marketplace for gamers to ride the boom in digital collectibles. The video game retailer will use the liquidity platform of Immutable X, a layer 2 scaling solution for NFTs on the ethereum blockchain later this year, Immutable said Thursday.Building on Immutable's protocol will enable quicker, carbon-neutral transactions at more affordable prices, especially for gaming developer-focused <keyword id="11919795" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nft" source="Orion">NFT</keyword> projects, the company added. The integration will allow all of the projects built on Immutable X to be featured on GameStop's marketplace. Existing partners of Immutable X include TikTok, Gods Unchained, Guild of Guardians, Ember Sword, and Playco, among others."Gaming is now bigger than music and movies combined -- but the time and value that gamers invest cannot be turned into real economic value," Robbie Ferguson, co-founder of Immutable, said in a statement. "GameStop, in partnership with Immutable, has the potential to cement itself as the ultimate destination for the next paradigm of gaming."GameStop is also creating a $100 million fund alongside Immutable X to support game developers and studios that will partner with them.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reviews/out?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fgamestop-entering-nft-and-cryptocurrency-markets-as-part-of-turnaround-plan-11641504417">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported in early January that GameStop is developing an NFT marketplace and has hired around two dozen employees to work on its digital asset push. The beleaguered gaming retailer — once criticized as being too slow to adopt a digital video-game business — is revamping its corporate structure to focus more on online sales rather than physical stories. Coming a year after <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gamestop-stock-one-year-meme-nokia-blackberry-amc-nokia-fed-2022-1">the Reddit-fueled GameStop stock frenzy,</a> this effort is helmed by its chairman, Ryan Cohen, the co-founder of pet supply company Chewy. GameStop joins a growing list of companies that are launching NFT marketplaces, including <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/ftx-crypto-nft-solana-based-ethereum-trading-marketplace-launch-token-2021-10?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets">FTX</a> and <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/coinbase-nft-marketplace-cryptocurrency-ethereum-solana-digital-asset-token-ftx-2021-10">Coinbase</a>. Mark Cuban-backed OpenSea remains the largest NFT marketplace, with monthly ethereum trading volume hitting a record <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/opensea-monthly-ether-trading-volume-nft-crypto-marketplace-solana-fungible-2022-1">$4.9 billion</a> last month, according to data from <a href="https://dune.xyz/rchen8/opensea">Dune Analytics</a>. NFTs — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-have-taken-over-heres-why-theyre-important-2021-4?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">digital representations</a> of artwork, sports cards, or other collectibles tied to a blockchain — have surged in popularity as investors from Hollywood to Wall Street join in the craze.

GameStop is launching its NFT marketplace on carbon-neutral blockchain platform Immutable X as the retailer and meme-stock icon dives into digital collectibles

<ul class="summary-list"><li>US stocks rose after an <keyword id="11894140" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="inflation" source="Orion">inflation</keyword> gauge for December showed the fastest pace in four decades. </li><li>The CPI gained 7% year-over-year last month, in line with the median forecast. </li><li>But it did little to change investors' expectations for continued tightening from the Fed.</li></ul>US stocks closed higher on Wednesday after inflation data for December came in as expected, but still showed prices rising at the quickest pace in almost four decades.The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-december-cpi-price-growth-index-supply-chain-economic-recovery-2022-1">Consumer Price Index</a> gained 7% year-over-year last month, in line with the median forecast of 7% given by the economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The pace reflects the strongest inflation since 1982 and marks a slight acceleration from the 6.8% year-over-year leap seen in November."Inflation is not slowing down just yet, but the peak is getting close," Edward Moya, senior equity analyst at Oanda, said in a note. "Today's inflation report does two things, it does not alter the Fed's course for a March rate liftoff and provides no incentive for Senator Manchin to return to the Build Back Better negotiating table."Here's where US indexes stood at the 4:00 p.m. ET close on Wednesday:<ul><li><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/s&amp;p_500?utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">S&amp;P 500</a>: 4,726.35, up 0.28%</li><li><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/dow_jones?utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a>: 36,290.32, up 0.11% (38.30 points)</li><li><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/index/nasdaq_composite?utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nasdaq Composite</a>: 15,188.39, up 0.23%</li></ul>While the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-december-cpi-price-growth-index-supply-chain-economic-recovery-2022-1">CPI report</a> revealed inflation worsened last month as the Omicron variant spread alongside continued supply chain constraints, it did little to change investors' expectations for continued tightening from the Fed."The market had already priced in or even over anticipated a hawkish Fed as the comments in the minutes about quantitative tightening were just discussions and not policy," Jay Hatfield, portfolio manager at Infrastructure Capital Advisors, said in a note.He added that US equities are also rising in anticipation of a likely strong earnings season that will kick off at the end of the week. Delta Air Lines will report on Thursday, while big banks such as JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup will post results on Friday.The <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/rates/u-s--rates-10-years?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10-year Treasury note</a> yield slipped to 1.736% from Tuesday's 1.745% rate. The yield saw a brief spike to about 1.80% in the previous session — the highest level since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions.In cryptocurrencies, sales of non-fungible tokens hit <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/best-selling-nft-collections-last-week-pudgy-penguins-crypto-sandbox-2022-1">$592 million</a> over the past week. But as the frenzy continues, so have the scams. The developers of an <keyword id="11919795" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nft" source="Orion">NFT</keyword> collection called <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/nft-frosties-rug-pull-crypto-discord-opensea-non-fungible-tokens-2022-1">Frosties</a> vanished in a potential "rug pull" after buyers put in $1.3 million.Still, the space continues to attract newcomers, such as Grammy-nominee Akon who said he will <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/akon-nft-next-album-cryptocurrency-digital-monetization-akoin-akon-city-2022-1">sell his next album</a> as an NFT to "monetize it from the day it drops." And Gap is launching its <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/gap-launches-first-nft-collection-tezos-brandon-sines-frank-ape-2022-1">first-ever NFT line</a> that it has dubbed a "gamified" experience.<keyword id="11896879" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="oil" source="Orion">Oil</keyword> prices ticked up after oil inventories tumbled to their lowest level since October 2018.<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?type=wti&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Texas Intermediate crude</a> oil rose 1.80% to $82.68 per barrel. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oil-price?utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest%3Futm_source%3Dmarkets&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brent crude</a>, oil's international benchmark, jumped 1.10% to $84.64 per barrel.<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/gold-price?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gold</a> rose 0.31% to $1,826.58 per ounce.

US stocks jump as investors shake off inflation data showing prices climbing at the quickest pace in 4 decades

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Prices of LinksDAO NFTs roughly doubled after Steph Curry bought a membership.</li><li>The DAO sold out of its 9,094 NFTs just days after it launched.</li><li>LinksDAO is a loosely organized collective that has raised millions in ether, hoping to buy a real-world golf course.</li></ul>The prices of LinksDAO non-fungible tokens roughly doubled after NBA superstar Steph Curry bought a couple of them, which give him membership to a new decentralized autonomous organization trying to buy a golf course.After the Golden State Warriors player made the purchase Monday, he was swiftly welcomed by the cryptocurrency collective."Welcome to LinksDAO, @StephenCurry30 - See you on the 1st tee!" the group said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/linksdao/status/1480656785212166150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1480656785212166150%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_0_7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecrypt.co%2F90139%2Flinksdao-nft-prices-jump-steph-curry-purchase">tweet</a>. The DAO sold out of its <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/linksdao">9,094 NFTs</a> — 6,363 Leisure Membership NFTs and 2,727 Global Membership NFTs — just days after it launched in December and raised nearly $11 million, according to <a href="https://opensea.io/collection/linksdao">OpenSea</a>, where it released its first collection. Since Curry's purchase, the value of the digital collectibles jumped on the secondary market. For the first type of <keyword id="11919795" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nft" source="Orion">NFT</keyword>, the Leisure Membership, the floor price jumped from 0.29 ETH (roughly $904) to 0.72 ETH ($2,245). For the second, more exclusive type, the Global Membership, the floor price has jumped from 1.12 ETH ($3,492) to 2 ETH ($6,236).<a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/linksdao-memberships-sold-out-raised-11-million-buy-golf-course-2022-1">LinksDAO</a> is a loosely-organized <a href="https://legal.linksdao.io/">cryptocurrency collective</a> that seeks to buy and operate a real-world golf and leisure club for its newly minted members.In this case, the NFTs represent various rights, including the right to purchase a membership at the first physical club acquired by the DAO, along with governance rights via the $LINKS token which launched in early 2022.According to the DAO's roadmap, it plans to acquire a golf course by mid-May and open the club location by early 2023 at the latest. The group also plans to expand to additional locations. DAOs have dominated headlines over the past few months as emboldened crypto-enthusiasts try their hands at crowdfunding. Among the most well-known groups is <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/constitutiondao-raises-46-million-buy-rare-copy-us-constitution-auction-2021-11?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ConstitutionDAO</a>, which failed to buy a 235-year-old copy of the US Constitution in November. The DAO <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/ken-griffin-citadel-constitution-copy-constitutiondao-crypto-collective-meme-stocks-2021-12?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost its bid</a> to the billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin.As for Curry, the golf-loving athlete has been snapping up various NFTs as of late, including a $180,000 bored-looking blue-furred ape from the Bored Ape Yacht Club in <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/steph-curry-nft-bored-ape-yacht-club-180000-ethereum-nba-2021-8">August 2021</a>.

Prices of LinksDAO NFTs roughly double after Steph Curry buys a membership to the crypto collective trying to buy a golf course

Cyber-security researchers on Wednesday reported that world's largest <keyword id="4668945" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="nft" source="Orion">NFT</keyword> (non-fungible token) marketplace called <keyword id="11928103" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="opensea" source="Orion">OpenSea</keyword> had compromised security which, if exploited, could have led hackers to hijack user accounts and steal entire crypto wallets of users, by sending malicious NFTs. After seeing reports of stolen crypto wallets triggered by free airdropped NFTs, Check Point Research (CPR) investigated OpenSea, the world's largest NFT marketplace. The investigation led to the discovery of critical security vulnerabilities on OpenSea's platform. The team immediately disclosed findings to OpenSea, who went onto deploy a fix in less than one hour of disclosure. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="wazirx" comment="wazirx" text="wazirx">wazirx</cmsannotation> OpenSea is known as the world's largest NFT marketplace, recording $3.4 billion in transaction volume in August alone. "These attacks would have relied on users approving malicious activity through a third-party wallet provider by connecting their wallets and providing a signature for the malicious transaction," OpenSea said in a statement. "We have been unable to identify any instances where this vulnerability was exploited but are coordinating directly with third-party wallets that integrate with our platform on how to help users better identify malicious signature requests, as well as other initiatives to help users' thwart scams and phishing attacks with greater efficacy," the company added. NFTs allow people to buy and sell ownership of unique digital items in cryptocurrencies, and keep track of who owns them using the Blockchain. NFTs can technically contain anything digital, including drawings, artworks, tweets, animated GIFs, songs, or even video games. The investigation of OpenSea was prompted by reports of free airdropped NFTs allegedly gifted to users. The security researchers recommended that users must be careful when receiving requests to sign your wallet online. "Given the sheer pace of innovation, there is an inherent challenge in securely integrating software applications and crypto markets," said Oded Vanunu, Head of Products Vulnerabilities Research at Check Point Software. "We sternly warn the OpenSea community to watch out for suspicious activity that may lead to theft, as we believe bad actors will continue to expand their efforts, in order to hijack crypto wallets while exploiting system vulnerabilities," Vanunu added. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/stablecoin-regulation-will-be-less-risky-in-super-countries-than-in-the-us-according-to-makerdao-founder-rune-christensen/articleshow/86965660.cms">‘We should be ready for the worst’ — MakerDAO founder is not optimistic about the stablecoin regulation in 2022</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/bitcoin-crosses-57000-for-the-first-time-in-five-months-altcoins-continue-to-struggle/slidelist/86957497.cms">Bitcoin crosses $57,000 for the first time in five months — altcoins continue to struggle</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/binance-to-halt-chinese-yuan-crypto-trading-and-restrict-mainland-china-customers-to-withdrawals-only/articleshow/86992235.cms">Binance to halt Chinese yuan-crypto trading and restrict mainland China customers to withdrawals only</a>

A bug in the world's largest NFT market could have allowed crypto wallets to be hijacked or stolen

<ul class="summary-list"><li>High gas fees and congestion have pushed NFT apps away from the <keyword id="2810876" type="General" weightage="60" keywordseo="ethereum" source="Orion">ethereum</keyword> network, JPMorgan said.</li><li>The bank's analysts found ethereum's NFT volume share has fallen from 95% at the start of 2021 to around 80%.</li></ul><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/eth-usd">Ethereum</a> is losing ground to rivals such as solana in the NFT sector of the cryptocurrency universe, due to sky-high transaction fees on the network, JPMorgan has said. Ethereum's volume share of non-fungible token trading has fallen from around 95% at the start of 2021 to around 80%, according to JPMorgan's analysts, led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="wazirx" comment="wazirx" text="wazirx">wazirx</cmsannotation> "It looks like, similar to DeFi apps, congestion and high gas fees has been inducing NFT applications to use other blockchains," Panigirtzoglou said in a note sent to clients last week, referring to apps built for decentralized finance. The bank's global <keyword id="31671" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="markets" source="Orion">markets</keyword> team found that the solana network in particular had been <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/solana-crypto-take-market-share-away-from-ethereum-sol-ether-2022-1">seizing market share</a> from ethereum in recent weeks. "If the loss of its NFT share starts looking more sustained in 2022, that would become a bigger problem for ethereum's valuation," Panigirtzoglou said. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nft-meaning">Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs,</a> are <keyword id="2721952" type="General" weightage="60" keywordseo="crypto" source="Orion">crypto</keyword> assets that represent ownership of items such as pieces of digital art, video clips, and virtual clothing. The now roughly $12 billion NFT market has boomed over the last year, with one digital art NFT selling <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/beeple-nft-mike-winkelmann-digital-art-christies-2021-3?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T">for $69 million</a> in March 2021. Bored Apes and CryptoPunks, two types of digital avatars, are some of the most popular <keyword id="902592" type="General" weightage="60" keywordseo="nfts" source="Orion">NFTs</keyword>. The ethereum cryptocurrency network, founded in 2015, is the technology that underlies the vast majority of NFT buying and selling. Yet traders are becoming increasingly frustrated with congestion and very high transaction or "gas" fees on the network, which often add more than $80 to a purchase. Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nft-investing-opensea-treasure-marketplace-ethereum-wave-financial-les-borsai-2022-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Wave Financial's Les Borsai invested in 2 NFT collections that have soared by 450% and 70% in 2 weeks. Now the chief strategy officer is looking toward another under-the-radar collection.</a> Newer blockchains such as solana are now muscling in, attracting NFT developers with much lower transaction fees. Other networks, such as wax or tezos, are also jostling for position, JPMorgan said. Ethereum has also been <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/ethereum-upgrade-dominance-defi-market-share-rivals-eth2-sharding-jpmorgan-2022-1">ceding market share</a> in the world of decentralized finance. DeFi apps allow people to carry out financial transactions, trade or sign "smart contracts" without the need for intermediaries such as banks and clearing houses. Cardano, one of a number of rival networks sometimes dubbed <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/ether-outlook-4-cryptocurrencies-considered-ethereum-killers-crypto-solana-cardano-2022-1">"ethereum killers"</a>, has been a particular beneficiary in the DeFi space. However, ethereum remains by far the dominant blockchain when it comes to both NFTs and DeFi. The total value of projects locked on the ethereum network stood at around $156 billion — almost double that of the next 10 networks combined — analysts at the Coinbase exchange estimated last week. Ethereum developers are racing to try to <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/ethereum-upgrades-boost-ether-price-eip1559-prrof-of-stake-2021-5-1030404464">solve the problem</a> of high gas fees. But a crucial network upgrade known as "sharding", intended to <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/ethereum-upgrade-dominance-defi-market-share-rivals-eth2-sharding-jpmorgan-2022-1">add more capacity to the network</a>, is not due until early 2023. <keyword id="6709758" type="General" weightage="60" keywordseo="ether" source="Orion">Ether</keyword>, the cryptocurrency on the ethereum network, was down 3.4% to $3,162 on the Coinbase exchange Tuesday. It's been hit by a <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-today-us-tech-futures-bond-yields-oil-prices-2022-1">broad sell-off</a> that has whacked tech stocks and digital assets.

JPMorgan says ethereum is losing ground to rivals in the NFT market, which could boost the likes of solana

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Emoji-identifiers called Yats are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars.</li><li>Yats can be used as a personal URL or crypto-wallet address, replacing jumbled numbers and letters.</li></ul>At a virtual auction last April, bidders fought for a chance to own an emoji.A single golden key sold for $425,000. A rocketship-and-moon combo sold for $200,000. A frog-and-crown combo sold for $105,000.You may be thinking: These high-flying prices for a digital picture sound a lot like bidding for <keyword id="11893898" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crypto" source="Orion">crypto</keyword> collectibles called NFTs. But this is a new craze — a craze for emoji-identifiers known as Yats that could become your online descriptor in <keyword id="12461337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="web3" source="Orion">Web3</keyword>, or the next iteration of the internet.A <keyword id="13132304" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="yat" source="Orion">Yat</keyword> is used as a person's online identity, a link to a URL or <keyword id="12368097" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crypto-wallet" source="Orion">crypto wallet</keyword> address, for example. And according to Naveen Jain, the founder of Yat Labs, it's a tool for "self-expression" that replaces jumbled numbers and letters currently used in URLs and crypto addresses. "<keyword id="13132306" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="emojis" source="Orion">Emojis</keyword> are a universal language," he said. "You can tell incredible stories using emojis. We thought that could be a way to humanize these addresses."Yat Labs launched in February 2021, and in a year, the company sold about 160,000 Yats for about $20 million in revenue, said Jain, who was among <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/12/07/most-influential-40-naveen-jain/">CoinDesk's most influential people of 2021</a> for his invention.But since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last month, <keyword id="13132305" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="yat-prices" source="Orion">Yat prices</keyword> may not be as high as before, if NFTs are any indication. Sales of the digital collectibles have <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-sales-plunge-crypto-non-fungible-2022-3">plunged</a> in recent weeks amid the war. Yat Labs said it's been involved in donation efforts to Ukraine, but didn't specify how. According to <a href="https://www.elliptic.co/blog/live-updates-millions-in-crypto-crowdfunded-for-the-ukrainian-military">Elliptic data</a>, the country has brought in $63 million worth of cryptocurrency from 120,000 donations.Still, Yats have been popping up in prominent spaces on Twitter, where celebrities including Ke$ha and G-Eazy have placed their emoji-identifiers in their bio. G-Eazy's is a bat-rose, while Ke$ha's is a rainbow-rocketship-alien.Single and double-emoji yats generally sell for higher prices because they're rarer, especially given that Yat Labs only has 452 emojis currently in its set. But don't worry, there will be enough yats to go around. With Yats able to come in five-emoji versions, there are about 19 trillion possible combinations, said Jain, allowing everyone on Earth to have about as many as they'd want."Our ambition is that ultimately we want every internet-connected user to have a Yat, at least one Yat," he said. "We believe that we have a chance to redefine how people think about online identity."Jain said he envisions Yats as a way for people to "tell their story in Web3." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-web3-internet-blockchain-cryptocurrency-web1-web2-future-2021-12">By definition</a>, Web3 is the successor to Web2 that will be based on blockchain technology and ideally be decentralized, giving ownership to individuals instead of large corporations. The concept has been widely debated, but Jain sees Web3 as a way for individuals to <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/facebook-metaverse-nfts-crypto-meta-cryptocurrencies-2021-11">own their identities</a> online and their Yats to be an expression of it. "Imagine if your Yat is something like unicorn-robot-dancer," Jain said. "In three characters, that's really saying a lot. That's like telling a whole story about somebody that literally would be impossible to tell with alphanumeric characters."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11930436" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mark-cuban" source="Orion">Mark Cuban</keyword> trumpeted blockchain, and downplayed the relevance of <keyword id="11893898" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="crypto" source="Orion">crypto</keyword> prices and NFTs.</li><li>The "<keyword id="11938288" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shark-tank" source="Orion">Shark Tank</keyword>" investor reflected on his early business ventures and buying the <keyword id="11938289" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dallas-mavericks" source="Orion">Dallas Mavericks</keyword>.</li></ul>Mark Cuban discussed his early business ventures, told the story of how he bought the Dallas Mavericks, and argued people pay too much attention to the daily swings of cryptocurrency prices in a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2022-04-20/mark-cuban-s-journey-from-basketball-to-crypto-video">recent Bloomberg interview</a>.The billionaire investor and "Shark Tank" star also trumpeted the disruptive potential of blockchain technology, downplayed the importance of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and shared a key piece of advice he gives to aspiring entrepreneurs.<h2>Here are Cuban's 8 best quotes from the interview, lightly edited for length and clarity:</h2>1. "I never really thought that I would be in a position to own anything. I just wanted to have a good life and try to find my way to college."2. "From the time I was 9 or 10, I was hustling. I was one of those kids that was always selling something." (Cuban flipped baseball cards and sold garbage bags door-to-door.)3. "Selling isn't convincing somebody to do something they don't want to do. Selling is understanding what they need, and then finding a way to provide it in a better way."4. "I had been going to Mavs games, and there was nobody there. It was opening night and the place wasn't sold out, and I'm like, 'I can do a better job than this.' Then it hit me — ding, ding, ding! — now I can afford this stuff. (Cuban, who sold his internet-radio startup to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in April 1999, officially owned the Dallas Mavericks by January 2000.)5. "I always say I don't own the team, I just handle the finances. Mavs fans everywhere own the team — that's what makes basketball and all sports so much different than traditional businesses. Look at Apple, multitrillion-dollar market cap, but no one's throwing a parade in Cupertino when they have a super quarter."6. "I think it's a big part of the future, I really, really do. But people are looking at it the wrong way. They get really amped up about the price of the cryptocurrencies, and they think that's really what crypto is. But that's the noise; the signal is, 'If I were going to start a business, how can I use this new technology to give myself a competitive advantage and disrupt an industry?'"7. "Everybody's all amped about NFTs, and you see guys with their Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars all day long. It's a collectible just like anything else. To me, NFTs are just a proof of concept and an example of how <keyword id="11910184" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="smart-contracts" source="Orion">smart contracts</keyword> work."8. "Know your business. If you're going to do it, you've got to be the best at it. I'll tell them, 'Look, if I come in and compete with you, I'm going to kick your ass, are you ready to compete with me?' You've got to work. There's someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you." (Cuban was sharing some of the advice he gives to entrepreneurs.)

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