🗿 Stars Arena Is Collapsing 😅

GM. CoinDesk boldy claims that “Crypto Winter is Over”. Read to find out why.

In DC, Biden signs an executive order for AI, seemingly sidestepping standardization for blockchain. Crypto Twitter drama is in full effect, with another sketchy fallout – this time involving Kook and social-fi platform Stars Arena.

Without Further Ado. ☕ *knuckle cracks* ☕ Let’s get into it.

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Today’s Specials:

No FOMO News 📰 : CoinDesk Claims Crypto Winter Over 🤐

No FOMO 🗿 : WTF happened to Stars Arena??? 🤔

Max’s Gaming Corner 🎮 : SHRAPNEL Announces $20M Series A 💰

AI Intel 🤖 : Biden Signs Executive Order on AI 📝

No FOMO 🗿 : It’s Wildxyz Mint Day 🥳

No FOMO News 📰

• CoinDesk: ‘Crypto Winter Is Over’

• Grayscale’s Ethereum ETF just entered a 240-day review process. Its Bitcoin cousin is expected in January (Fortune)

• Prosecutors Turn Sam Bankman-Fried’s Own Words Against Him (New York Times)

• The Hunt for Crypto’s Most Famous Fugitive. ‘Everyone Is Looking for Me.’ (Wall Street Journal)

• UK confirms plans to regulate crypto industry with formal legislation (CNBC)

• Crypto Memes Kick Back Into High Gear After Bitcoin ETF Frenzy (Bloomberg)

• Crypto billionaire's nonprofit buys $500 million of AI data center chips (Reuters)

• Crypto thief steals $4.4M in a day as toll rises from LastPass breach (Cointelegraph)

• Tokenized U.S. Treasury Market Grows Nearly 600% to $698M as Crypto's RWA Race Intensifies (CoinDesk)

• Biden AI plan is one step in avoiding crypto trap (Reuters)

WTF Happened to Stars Arena??? 🤔

A scandal is unfolding with the Avalanche-based social-fi platform Stars Arena 😏

The CT goodies:

Kook has been removed from his position as a Stars Arena team member, and the multisig is now controlled by only 3 people.

Kook has posted several times suggesting that he will reveal some dirty laundry from the Stars Arena team…

It has already been a difficult month for the team, which must have played a part in their undoing. 

Stars Arena suffered a hack on October 7 that saw nearly $2.9 million worth of AVAX stolen. The team recovered 90% of user assets, while the hacker was offered a 10% bounty.

As of this morning, Avalaunch, the launchpad and fundraising platform for Avalanche projects,announced termination of its partnership with Stars Arena. 

It’s tough to say exactly what is going to happen over the next few weeks, but it’s clear that Stars Arena’s future doesn’t look great.

AI Intel 🤖

• Elon Musk to do a live interview with UK PM Rishi Sunak (BBC)

• Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI (Reuters)

• TikTok, Snapchat, OnlyFans and others to combat AI-generated child abuse content (CT)

• With Executive Order, White House Tries to Balance A.I.’s Potential and Peril (NYTimes)

• Brain Mysteries Deciphered through AI’s Self-Learning Models (Neuroscience)

It’s Wildxyz Mint Day 🎉

After a 60-second sell-out in August, Wild is back with its latest drop PROXY, minting today at 12 PM EST.

PROXY is a series of 639 portraits — but not the kind you’d expect. The collection begins with the ‘Similar Tones’ section of the UN Portrait Library — an almost inexplicable accompaniment to the portraits of world leaders.

https://x.com/wildxyz/status/1719331396789940612?s=20

Balancing power and image, Figure transforms each piece through a series of generative & handmade processes. The resulting works are breathtaking baths of color, each pixel carefully constructed.

How To Mint: To participate in the Descending Auction, simply place a bid at the price you’re willing to pay. Bids will start at 0.6Ξ, and progressively decrease until the collection sells out.

To maximize your chances of minting, place your bid early! Ultimately, everyone will pay the same price: The clearing price (the price of the bid when the auction sells out). If your bid is higher than the clearing price, you’ll be able to claim a refund via the smart contract.

Full Details:

Starting price: 0.6000 Ξ

Resting price: 0.1200 Ξ

Clearing price: determined in Auction

Start time: Oct 31, 2023 12:00 PM EST

Duration: 30min

Supply: 639 (97 already sold in presale)

Max’s Gaming Corner 🎮

Our web3 gaming update, brought to you by Max Kaufman and Helika

🔥 SHRAPNEL Announces $20M Series A Round Led by Polychain Capital

🔥 Uplandme, Inc. Raises $7M Series A funding round led by EOS Network Foundation

🔥 Moonveil Entertainment Raises $5.4M Seed Round Led by gumi Cryptos Capital & Arcane Group

🔥 Hyptopia (ex-NFT Worlds) Raises $3M Led by Delphi Digital

🔥 Third Time Entertainment, Inc. (Photo Finish - ​​Blockchain-based horse racing game) Raises $2M Seed Round led by Sfermion

🔥 CyberConnect Raises an Undisclosed Amount Led by Binance Labs

🔥 Pixelcraft Studios Chooses Helika as its Official Strategic Game Partner to Help Build, Grow, and Optimize its Gaming Ecosystem

🔥 Xterio Launches Pro-Creator Marketplace with Zero Platform Fees

🔥 BoomLand's Hunters on Chain Announces its RPG is F2P - Available on Android, iOS, and Web Browser

🔥 Endless Clouds' CEO Loopify Teases Ecosystem Token for All Games, $CLOUDS

🔥 Horizon Wins 'Best Blockchain and Web3 Technology' Game Changers Award from GamesBeat & Lightspeed

🔥 Immutable's Gods Unchained Announces Expansion of Tides of Fate - Now Live with 140+ New Cards and Legendaries NFTs

🔥 Strategic Auto-Brawler, Battle Plan, from Pixel Vault is Now Open for Playtesting

What a week!

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Giga Crypto Chad, circa 2021: His Girlfriend, 2023:

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