Your Favorite Crypto Digest From TradeCrypto.com #152

The statistics:

Market is red. BTC is now trading above $19,000, ETH is trading around $1,250.

💪 Bitcoin dominance: 42%

📉 Total Cryptocurrency Market Cap: $ 0,870 tr

😲 Fear and greed index: 23 (Extreme Fear)

🚀 Gainers (Top-100)

• Toncoin (TON)+9.68%

• Casper (CSPR)+5.94%

• Lido DAO (LDO)+1.98%

😭 Losers (Top-100)

• TerraClassicUSD (USTC)-8.77%

• Axie Infinity (AXS)-8.49%

• Ethereum Name Service (ENS)-8.19%

Very festive. With Halloween nearing, fantasy sports platform DraftKings announced 📢 that it has partnered with Ethereum NFT project Deadfellaz and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) to create zombified NFT versions of star players to use within DraftKings’ fantasy football game.

A total of 13 current NFL 🏈 players have been illustrated as Deadfellaz characters that will be released as NFT collectibles through the DraftKings Marketplace, including Matthew Stafford, Nick Chubb, Jalen Hurts, Kyler Murray, Alvin Kamara, Deebo Samuel, and others to be announced.

So who did? Magnus Granath, who goes by “Hodlonaut” on Twitter, has won a lawsuit in Norway against Craig Wright, court documents revealed Thursday. Wright has long claimed he is the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto—but Hodlonaut and many others have publicly challenged Wright’s claims. Hodlonaut filed the case in Norway in an effort to prove that the numerous 📲 tweets he published about Wright and Wright’s Nakamoto claims were, in fact, not defamatory—a way of getting ahead of a pending defamation case in the U.K.

Lucky for them. Tether announced that it plans to make its USDT cryptocurrency—the world’s dominant stablecoin 💰 by market capitalization—available at over 24,000 ATMs across Brazil.

“The difficulties and limitations imposed by inflation and a less-than-inclusive financial system have excluded many of Brazil’s citizens from being able to participate in the country's growing economy,” 💬 Paolo Ardoino, Tether’s CTO, said in a statement. “Adding tether tokens to ATMs across Brazil provides the opportunity to include more people in the financial system.”

Crypto exchange 💱 Kraken confirmed that it will be conforming to the European Union’s new sanctions package. “Kraken complies with the legal and regulatory requirements in all jurisdictions that we operate in,” a Kraken spokesperson told. “Since the EU’s announcement, we have been working to make the changes needed to comply with the latest package of sanctions against Russia." It makes a lot of sense.

Fans of the saga will be happy. At least one major Hollywood studio is looking to pivot its home entertainment business from DVD 🎞 collections to NFTs. Warner Bros. is releasing NFTs for its iconic 2001 film “Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring,” at web3.wb.com, the studio announced.

The NFTs effectively function as an all-in-one digital experience and each include a 4K copy of the film, hours of bonus behind the scenes 📺 footage, lots of behind the scenes stills, and exclusive AR collectible assets inspired by the film. Web3 company Eluvio developed the NFTs and is hosting them, along with all the content data, via its Ethereum-compatible Content Fabric blockchain.

The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) is putting on its virtual reality headsets as it prepares to crack down on an expanding list of “possible crimes” in the Metaverse. According to an announcement, Interpol has launched the “first ever Metaverse specifically designed for law enforcement 🌐 worldwide” — introducing it at the 90th Interpol General Assembly in New Delhi — already fully operational. Even there, crime will not escape.

United States crypto exchange Binance US has created a new “investigations unit” and tapped a former FBI special agent as its new head, with the aim of seeking out and stopping illegal ❌ activity on its platform. The “investigations unit” is a brand new unit within the U.S. crypto exchange, the firm’s head of legal, Krishna Juvvadi, confirmed and sees former FBI agent BJ Kang become the company’s first “head of investigations.”

Conclusion: Kraken have blocked Russian accounts on their platform. The sanctions are in full effect. The question remains. Will these funds mostly flow to DeFi or will Russian users get out of crypto?

What is Crypto Ping Pong digest?

TC lads here are working quite hard and from time to time we gotta chill. Recently, we got ourselves a ping pong table to complete our lazy-bag-stuffed chill zone. As you all know our main hobby is Crypto, so even while we play we don’t really shut up about it. Ever.

So memes, leaks, gossips naturally come about – we collect them and share them with you in this interstellar space on our site we like to call Crypto Ping Pong digest.