gm Bankless Nation, Welcome back to the Citizen Daily Brief. It's been an uneasy week for investors following a chaotic start to the month. Upgrade to see investing opportunities on Base.
Today's Issue ⬇️
☀️ Need to Know: Kraken's Big Buy One of crypto's biggest acquisitions.
✍️ Cheat Sheet: Playing Checkr Opps, reads, yields, and airdrops.
🤑 Token Rating: Solana's Riches Can SOL push forward without memes?
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🥷 Kraken is Acquiring Futures Platform NinjaTrader for $1.5B. The mega deal will serve Kraken's ambitions to expand beyond crypto.
🦄 Uniswap DAO Approves $165M Funding Plan. One of the two approved proposals includes steps toward making Uniswap Governance a legal entity.
🚔 Gotbit Founder Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud, Forfeits $23M. Alex Andryunin, founder of Gotbit, pled guilty to wire fraud and market manipulation.
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Daily Market Snapshot: Crypto prices inched lower Thursday as traders grappled with dropping tech stocks. Even a surprise conference address from Trump where he vowed to make the US a 'bitcoin superpower,' couldn't reignite BTC price action.
Prices as of 5pm ET
24hr
7d
Crypto $2.76T
↘ 1.7%
↗ 5.3%
BTC $84,247
↘ 1.8%
↗ 4.8%
ETH $1,975
↘ 3.3%
↗ 7.4%
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CHEAT SHEET
Playing Checkr
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