🔮 Welcome to ZenDaily - a recap of the past 24hrs in NFTs 🔮
🗞️ NFT NEWSFLASH
• The current Bitcoin price is $86.29K, ETH is $2.74K, and BNB is $776.13 : https://tinyurl.com/uu5v9frz
• Art Blocks Marfa Weekend Returns October 22–25 for Its Sixth Edition. Artists, collectors and the generative-art community will gather in Marfa, Texas for four days of digital-art exhibitions, talks, workshops and experimental installations.: https://tinyurl.com/3xu3fusm
• Ethereum Foundation Launches zkAPI for Private AI and API Payments. The Ethereum mainnet protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs to let users privately pay for AI and other metered API services without linking payments to individual requests.: https://tinyurl.com/55r25d7y
• Porsche Shuts Down Web3 Project Nearly Four Years Aftrr Launch. PORSCHΞ 911 NFTs will remain with holders and stay onchain, while the PIONΞERS Discord moves to read-only mode and the project’s X account stops active updates.: https://tinyurl.com/2u2usaf7
• Zcash Community Approves $8.4M in Retroactive Grants Following Orchard Bug. The community funded 17 proposals covering security research, bug bounties, audits and protocol development, including $1.5M for the researcher who discovered the critical Orchard vulnerability.: https://tinyurl.com/5amuecy3
• Bitget Restores $300M+ Protection Fund as Withdrawals Resume After $388M Security Incident. The exchange reports a 131% reserve ratio and has restored BTC, ETH and USDT withdrawals, with remaining withdrawal services scheduled to return October 2.: https://tinyurl.com/8m9basy9
• Base Launches Cobalt Upgrade With New Tools for Tokenized Assets. The upgrade adds conditional transactions and expands Base’s B20 standard with issuer controls for compliance rules, corporate actions and token administration.: https://tinyurl.com/43d4f4u7
💸 NOTABLE MEME COIN MOVES
• CHUMP is up 26% at $0.02971
• PURR is up 11% at $0.182
• BULLA is up 10% at $0.08539
• USELESS is up 10% at $0.2557
• BRETT is up 8% at $0.006085
NOTABLE ETHERUM MARKET MOVES
• Cryptophunks V2 is up 34% at 0.07 ETH
• 0N1 Force is up 13% at 0.04 ETH
• Argonauts is down 10% at 0.42 ETH
• Pudgy Penguins is down 8% at 2.97 ETH
• mfer is down 5% at 0.13 ETH
💸 NOTABLE NFT SALES
• CryptoPunk #2529 - 36.49 ETH
• CryptoPunk #242 - 35.26 ETH
• CryptoPunk #5448 - 35 ETH
🔮 ZENACADEMY / 333 CLUB UPDATES
AI Call with Arthur
Join us today for a live vibecoding session where we focus on building with AI together. To join the call and catch up on the recordings, join our Discord. https://discord.com/events/867600947282706463/1522154025938587688
🔮 Welcome to ZenDaily - a recap of the past 24hrs in NFTs 🔮
🗞️ NFT NEWSFLASH
• The current Bitcoin price is $63.59, ETH is $1.90K, and BNB is $604.80.: https://tinyurl.com/uu5v9frz
• Ethereum Is Evaluating Proposals For Its Upcoming Hegotá Upgrade, prioritizing censorship resistance, faster blocks, native account abstraction, privacy and L1 scaling, with FOCIL (EIP-7805) already confirmed as the headliner.: https://tinyurl.com/mrxm7mua
• Ripple Minted 10 million RLUSD On The XRP Ledger on August 17, with the transaction costing just 0.000405 XRP. RLUSD’s circulating supply now stands at approximately 1.71 billion tokens.: https://tinyurl.com/59nvk47h
• Chainalysis Sues U.S. Government Over TRM Labs Contract, challenging ICE’s $94.7 million sole-source contract with rival TRM Labs and seeking to halt the arrangement.: https://tinyurl.com/53fvjut6
• Binance To Block Transactions With 11 Crypto Platforms From August 23. Binance will stop processing transactions involving 11 crypto platforms, including HTX, EXMO, Rapira and WhiteBird, from August 23 following recent regulatory developments.: https://tinyurl.com/yztrwbpd
• NEAR Launches Staking-Powered AI Services And Always-On IronClaw Agents, allowing users to stake NEAR and receive recurring AI compute credits while retaining ownership of their staked tokens.: https://tinyurl.com/44fabmy6
• Stripe Reportedly Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter for $7B+. Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, over 5× its $1.3 billion valuation from May 2026.: https://tinyurl.com/3mnvsswj
💸 NOTABLE MEME COIN MOVES
• ANSEM is up 12% at $0.248
• TUT is up 10% at $0.03633
• PURR is up 10% at $0.0737
• MARSCOIN is down 30% at $0.03796
• SHORT is down 4% at $0.00002101
💸 NOTABLE ETHERUM MARKET MOVES
• CryptoSkulls is up 37% at 0.05 ETH
• Kaito Genesis is up 14% at 0.16 ETH
• Meebits is up 9% at 0.39 ETH
• Identity MD is down 6% at 0.20 ETH
• RektGuy is down 4% at 0.25 ETH
💸 NOTABLE NFT SALES
• CryptoPunk #3298 - 140 ETH
• CryptoPunk #2876 - 32.18 ETH
• Bored Ape Yacht Club #4913 - 15 ETH
🔮 Welcome to ZenDaily - a recap of the past 24hrs in NFTs 🔮
🗞️ NFT NEWSFLASH
• The current Bitcoin price is $63.37, ETH is $1.87K, and BNB is $608.13.: https://tinyurl.com/4w5m5cfe
• Bank of England Tests Stablecoins and Digital Pound for Cross-Border Payments. The Bank of England is testing how stablecoins and a simulated digital pound could be used for cross-border trade finance, including stablecoin payments to exporters and digital settlement by importers.: https://tinyurl.com/yux2754u
• Polygon Joins Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab. Polygon has been selected for Phase 2 of the Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab, alongside NOBO and Dun & Bradstreet, to explore potential use cases for a digital pound and cross-border stablecoin settlement.: https://tinyurl.com/mtzrhj8t
• Binance’s bStocks Has Reportedly Surpassed xStocks to become the second-largest tokenized stock issuer, reaching around $610.6M in value, while Ondo remains the market leader at roughly $927M, according to Token Terminal data.: https://tinyurl.com/muatauxc
• Solana Narrowly Avoids Transaction Finalization Halt. A Teraswitch routing failure pushed 28.83% of staked SOL offline, nearing Solana’s 33.34% finalization threshold. Around 90 validators were affected for roughly 33 minutes, highlighting infrastructure concentration risks.: https://tinyurl.com/34u7d8ve
• NEAR Has Introduced Confidential USDC Earn Vaults, featuring strategies curated by Gauntlet and additional vaults from 628 Labs via Taler Finance. Users can continue to swap, send, or spend their USDC while it earns yield, without first withdrawing from the vault.: https://tinyurl.com/mtzrhj8t
• VanEck Launches Trading Card Game to Teach Investing, a limited-edition trading card game designed to teach younger audiences financial concepts including diversification, risk management, market timing, and portfolio construction through gameplay. The physical release is limited to 12,000 sets, with 8,000 available to the public.: https://tinyurl.com/5n6r6h6u
💸 NOTABLE MEME COIN MOVES
• BasedHype is up 26% at $0.006583
• MOOLAH is up 14% at $0.0242
• SIREN is up 13% at $0.04766
• LUCIC is up 13% at $0.09929
• NEET is up 12% at $0.02112
💸 NOTABLE ETHERUM MARKET MOVES
• V1 Cryptopunks is up 17% at 2.40 ETH
• Identity MD is up 13% at 0.29 ETH
• MAYC is up 2% at 1.13 ETH
• Milady is up 2% at 1.08 ETH
• Normies is down 2% at 0.30 ETH
💸 NOTABLE NFT SALES
• Bored Ape Yacht Club #6034 - 42.30 ETH
• CryptoPunk #6438 - 38 ETH
• CryptoPunk #6562 - 33.19 ETH