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Banana Gun Token Launch Details

- $BANANA will have a circulating supply of 2.4M at launch, with a B/S tax of 4%/4%
- Liquidity will be seeded for a $1.56M starting market cap at a price of $0.65 at launch (presale price)
- BANANA-USD Perps market on Aevo trading at ~$7
- With total supply of 10M tokens, market is valuing $BANANA at $70M FDV

- Token will launch "early next week".

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Vitalik’s Twitter Account Hacked

- attacker managed to steal ~$700k from users who clicked on the phishing link
- account access has been restored

https://x.com/officer_cia/status/1700663821558325464

*edit: $700k, not $700m
RE: FTX asset liquidations.

Reminder that most of the $SOL is on a vesting schedule until ~2027.

See: https://news.1rj.ru/str/iansintel/513
FTX files for recovery against Layer Zero and its senior employee.

- Layer Zero: $21M
- Ari Litan: $13M
- Skip & Goose: $6.5M

h/t: sunil_trades
official docs: https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/Home-DocketInfo

Could this affect ZRO launch? 🤔
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FTX files for recovery against Layer Zero and its senior employee. - Layer Zero: $21M - Ari Litan: $13M - Skip & Goose: $6.5M h/t: sunil_trades official docs: https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/FTX/Home-DocketInfo Could this affect ZRO launch? 🤔
[IanGPT] CEO of Layer Zero Responds to FTX Suit

• CEO labels FTX lawsuit as "unsubstantiated," cites year-long ignored communication on share ownership.
• Refutes preferential withdrawal claims; notes personal deposits of millions before FTX's bankruptcy.
• Withdrawals mostly for standard gas rebalancing between L1 currencies.
• Criticizes FTX's "outrageous" gross withdrawal-based accounting.
• Tried to repurchase STG tokens; claims FTX counsel lacks basic blockchain knowledge.
• Condemns FTX's "mudslinging," eager to settle in court.

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Squid Router Enables Cosmos <> EVM Swaps

https://twitter.com/squidrouter/status/1701228161571377491
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[IanGPT] Visa Deep Dive on Solana

• Visa sees Solana as a promising blockchain for mainstream payments.
• High Transaction Throughput: Solana averages 400 TPS, surging to 2,000 TPS at peak, compared to Ethereum's 12 TPS.
• Parallel Processing: Solana's multi-threaded design enables simultaneous transaction execution, improving efficiency.
• Low Costs: Transaction fees under $0.001, predictable due to localized fee markets.
• Fast Finality: Targets 400ms slot time, uses "optimistic confirmation" for quick transaction finality.
• High Availability: 1,893 active validators, 925 RPC nodes, diverse geography.
• Multiple Validator Clients: Increases network resilience.
• Visa plans to test Solana in its stablecoin settlement pilot for corporate treasury operations.

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[IanGPT] Mantle Partners with Ondo Finance for RWA Stablecoin USDY

- USDY is a tokenized note backed by US Treasuries and bank deposits
- USDY holders earn yield, currently at ~5% APY
- users do not need to onboard with Ondo to acquire or trade USDY
- users who want to mint USDY have to onboard with Ondo, and require KYC to do so. this is available to "nearly all non-US individuals and institutions"

- USDY will have two forms, a rebasing & accumulating form:
— accumulating form (native form): redemption value increases based on interest rate set by Ondo
— rebasing form (launching mid-October): wrapped USDY (rUSDY), value stays pegged at $1, interest accrued via new rUSDY tokens

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ENS Domains Allegedly* Suffers Data Leak After Breach and Dump by SiegedSec

https://x.com/officer_cia/status/1701569495658123601
Metamask Snaps Launches Open Beta
Now live in v11.0+ of Metamask

- Snaps are like browser extensions, but for Metamask
- Snaps augment and enhance user experience and Metamask capabilities beyond the base wallet app
- e.g. with the Leap Cosmos Wallet Snap, users can connect to and interact with Cosmos dApps directly from Metamask

- 34 snaps live, allowing access to non-evm blockchains like solana, cosmos, aptos, sui, algorand, arweave, tezos, starknet

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