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- 💰 Wall Street Bets on Soft Landing after Rate Cut. The bulls are back in charge as stock market pumps (and crypto does, too.)
- 2️⃣ Ethereum's 'Pectra' Upgrade Will Have Two-Phase Rollout. Devs are shifting their initial ambitions for the next major
Ethereum rollout. - 📲
Solana Unveils New Crypto Smartphone 'Seeker'. The Solana Mobile follow-up arrives after 140K pre-orders.
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📸 Daily Market Snapshot: After digesting yesterday's rate cuts, markets pumped across the board Thursday, with crypto, especially altcoins, seeing substantial gains. TIA is up 41% week-over-week, SUI up 33%, and FTM up 29% as investors look to identify ecosystems that could capitalize on bullish sentiment returning.
| Prices as of 6pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.17T | ↗ 4.0% | ↗ 6.4% |
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BTC $62,706 | ↗ 4.0% | ↗ 8.1% |
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ETH $2,459 | ↗ 5.1% | ↗ 4.5% |
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SUI $1.39 | ↗ 9.6% | ↗ 33.7% |
Sui's star continues to rise, gaining real traction that has drawn more attention to the chain, as well as its twin flame, Aptos.
Both descendants of Facebook’s shuttered Diem blockchain project – Sui and 
Aptos have raised $300M and $350M, respectively, to build ultra-scalable blockchains capable of handling serious transaction action.
With the alt-L1 trade being a consistent trend in the past two cycles and both native tokens showing strong recent price action, it's valuable to compare these two networks focused on scalability and security to see exactly what they bring to the table.
Let's compare Sui and Aptos, including their technical architecture, tokenomic structure, ecosystem, and usage trends, to see where their differences lie, where one may hold an edge, and the overall challenges both face 👇
Mantle kickstarts Season 1 of Methamorphosis. Building on the success of their Liquid Staking Token, mETH, Mantle LSP announces plans for a new Liquid Restaking Token, cmETH, along with a governance token, COOK. With Methamorphosis, participants can now farm Powder for future COOK tokens and position themselves early for upcoming cmETH release.
