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Pleased Friday.
A pleasant reminder to not imagine Large Fall propagandists. The tremendous lame “meteorological summer” may need technically ended on August 31, however we nonetheless have about 9 days left till the a lot cooler “astrological summer” is definitely over, marked by the September equinox.
So, neglect what your boss stated about no extra Summer season Fridays. They’re nonetheless very a lot alive. Go on, take the afternoon off. Empire stated it’s okay.
Within the meantime, take pleasure in these takes on political memecoins, FTX and prediction markets. Viva La Summer season!
— David Canellis
Retaining with custom
If you happen to’re affected by extreme political burnout, you’re not alone.
Political memecoins — or PolitiFi — are simply as down within the dumps about the entire affair as anybody.
The 5 most distinguished tokens, MAGA (TRUMP), MAGA Hat (MAGA), Doland Tremp (TREMP), Jeo Boden (BODEN) and Kamala Horris (KAMA), altogether peaked at over $1.25 billion market cap firstly of June.
Now they’re value below $170 million, a near-90% collapse.
The remnants of ConstitutionDAO, which misplaced an public sale of a uncommon first-print of the US structure to Citadel CEO Ken Griffin in late 2021, now make up nearly two-thirds of all the PolitiFi market. Though, it’s debatable whether or not it must be actually ranked alongside political parody memecoins and such.
PolitiFi didn’t even exist this time final 12 months. This election season has been its large second, with the most important Trump memecoin launching solely in August 2023 — simply as bitcoin was warming up for its main rally.
Bitcoin’s bull run between October and March actually gave cowl for PolitiFi. The chart above plots the market caps of the big-five political memecoins (pale areas within the again) in opposition to the efficiency of bitcoin (orange line), ether (purple line) and the S&P 500 (blue line).
You possibly can see that PolitiFi has principally mirrored ETH value motion over that interval — the purple line follows the form of PolitiFi’s market cap — whereas bitcoin is holding up higher, for now, a minimum of.
Is PolitiFi over? In all probability not. However contemplating the Kamala Harris-themed memecoins aren’t doing any higher than the Trump ones is considerably telling.
A easy motive this explicit taste of memecoin is down may very well be that there’s no new recent wave of holders getting into their markets, whose liquidity would possibly’ve outweighed sellers’ and enhance costs.
MAGA’s holders are cut up between 4 completely different blockchains, with about three-quarters on Ethereum and SolanaThis chart zooms into the market cap of the most important Trump memecoin — as proven by the orange line — and maps it in opposition to modifications within the variety of new holders.
Discover that main factors in Trump’s narrative instantly coincide with enormous influxes of latest holders.
1000’s of addresses added MAGA (TRUMP) to their baggage across the Supreme Courtroom’s election poll ruling, Trump’s ‘hush money’ responsible verdict, and his assassination try in July.
No such luck since, with solely 424 new holders following the controversy in opposition to Harris on Tuesday.
All informed, out of the 80,190 addresses holding MAGA (TRUMP), about 30% of them (24,300) purchased in after the token set an all-time excessive of $17.51 in early June. It’s presently buying and selling at $2.25 after shedding nine-tenths of its worth.
And certain, 80% drawdowns are one of many oldest traditions in crypto. But when there was a time for an enormous Trump headline to revive PolitiFi, then now could be it.
— David Canellis
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Empire host Jason Yanowitz spoke to Allen Ng of Everest Ventures Group in right now’s Empire podcast. Which, you will have guessed by the title, is a venture-building group targeted on Web3.
Ng gave Empire listeners a rundown on quite a lot of matters: from the regulatory fallout following the Terra and FTX implosions, to a glimpse of how of us throughout Asia work together with crypto.
Focusing in on the FTX and Terra of all of it, Ng supplied perception into how each of these now-defining moments in crypto impacted the way in which that numerous Asian international locations dealt with the regulatory setting within the aftermath. Oh, isn’t it enjoyable to recount that point in crypto?
Anyway, Ng very curiously highlighted the adverse impression FTX had in some Asian international locations, provided that FTX truly began in Hong Kong.
“I think it only [had] a bigger impact in the US because, in the later part, after [they used] Asia for the success [of the] business, they raised a lot of capital from the US and then” they infamously concerned quite a lot of well-known individuals, Ng stated.
And now you realize.
Whereas we might rehash extra of what occurred with FTX and the fallout there — and belief me, we’ll be speaking about FTX once more quickly sufficient with a court docket listening to developing — I wished to show our consideration over to the Commodities Futures Buying and selling Fee’s authorized battle with regulated prediction market Kalshi.
In contrast to Polymarket, which dropped US customers as a part of a CFTC settlement in 2022, Kalshi is ready to provide US prediction markets. And, as of Thursday afternoon, is now the one agency to supply election markets to US customers. (In contrast to Polymarket, Kalshi doesn’t run on sensible contracts, blockchain or crypto, though it does provide markets for crypto-related matters.)
Now, the struggle between the CFTC and Kalshi isn’t over. CFTC legal professionals are pushing actually exhausting for an extension of the emergency keep in court docket yesterday (which Choose Jia Cobb denied), and the CFTC had a discover of enchantment filed earlier than the mud had even settled after the listening to.
The plan, a minimum of from the listening to yesterday, is for the CFTC to hunt a two-week emergency stick with the Appellate court docket.
Kalshi wasted no time getting its election markets up, earlier than having to halt them earlier right now because the CFTC strikes ahead with an enchantment. And with the recognition of Polymarket so widespread (not solely making prediction markets related once more, but additionally quietly pushing a scorching use case for crypto), that is going to be a case to look at.
— Katherine Ross
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