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- 🌉 Stripe May Acquire Stablecoin Platform Bridge for $1B. Stripe's reported interest could take the fintech giant even deeper into the crypto world.
- 🐦 EigenLayer's Twitter Gets Hacked to Promote Fake Airdrop. EigenLayer's official account on Twitter was compromised Friday.
- 📱 Freedom Factory Debuts dGEN1
Ethereum Mobile Device. The team behind the ethOS operating system just unveiled their new mobile Ethereum hardware device.
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📸 Daily Market Snapshot: BTC and ETH are both closing out the work week in style, with bitcoin flirting with $69K on Friday while ether prices nearly reached $2,700. The week's biggest loser? Sky Protocol's MKR which has fallen 12% amid continued skepticism around the protocol's grand new vision.
| Prices as of 5pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.34T | ↗ 2.0% | ↗ 6.8% |
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BTC $68,495 | ↗ 2.2% | ↗ 8.7% |
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ETH $2,644 | ↗ 1.7% | ↗ 7.5% |
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ENA $0.424 | ↗ 10.1% | ↗ 25.9% |

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