For the Love of the Game (Market Commentary) |
Crypto adoption is coming whether people realize it or not, and massive changes are happening right
under our noses that will accelerate how quickly it happens.
Less than two weeks ago a US judge ruled that Apple was in violation of a 2021 injunction that prohibited them from imposing anti-competitive pricing. Specifically, Apple was still blocking any applications that allowed payments to app makers outside of the Apple App Store. Games like Fortnite were a casualty, and so were crypto applications. No more.
With the judge’s ruling, apps on the App Store can now accept payments from external sources, and yes, that includes crypto. We’re already seeing changes.
Last week, a game called Crazy Defense
Heroes, an Animoca Brands tower defense collectible game, pushed an app update that allows in-game crypto payments. With this simple update, a new era for crypto has been ushered in, one where crypto becomes normalized in mobile apps. Remember, the mobile gaming market accounts for almost half of the global gaming market share and revenue. If you believed
games were how the masses would come to crypto, it wouldn’t happen without the Apple App Store playing a large role in it. This is a pivotal moment for crypto, and while it might be under the radar right now, in the near future crypto applications will make up a huge percentage of the App Store.
This is big, and this
is just the start. Stablecoin Legislation on Shaky Ground The GENIUS Act was up for its first vote last week, and as expected, after 9 Democrats signaled that they would change their vote to no, the legislation failed. - Senator Cynthia Lummis said the failure to pass the bipartisan legislation was deeply
disappointing.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune claims the GENIUS Act is the first step in bringing digital
assets into our financial system.
- Senate Banking Committee Chairman blamed the Democrats saying that it was a vote against
President Trump and his agenda.
- Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects another vote this week, and ultimately believes the GENIUS
Act will pass with strong bipartisan support.
- Stablecoin transaction volume hit a record $1.82T last month, showing the need for stablecoin
regulation.
The hottest sector of crypto continues to be AI. Over the past week, we saw Virtuals showing why they’re such an elite team, all while hot agents continue to make traders' money. - The Virtuals team continues to be fast-to-react, implementing token lock displays, updated point
accrual periods, resetting traders point cooldowns, and working to eliminate inorganic points farmers.
- Gloria and Burnie AI both launched over the past week and saw traders realize 20x - 50x gains. Both teams came on CryptoSlam’s The Swarm Report daily show so traders can meet the teams behind the agents.
- Virtuals implemented anti-sniping measures, stopping malicious traders from buying tokens on Block
0.
- Kaito is integrating Virtuals onto their platform and creating their own leaderboard, bringing Virtuals
Virgen points (for token presales) into their AI ecosystem.
The highly anticipated $DOOD token from Doodles finally arrived on Friday, and with it, some profit taking, complaining, and a new NFT collection called Doopies. - The $DOOD token came out of the gate seemingly hot, hitting a $105M market cap, but after delays with
getting holders their airdrop, along with relatively little demand, the token has settled around $50M.
- $DOOD now has listings on major exchanges like OKX and Binance.
- Doodles now have an NFT collection, crypto, an animation studio, and an AI launchpad, and are
driving the message of how it all fits together now.
- Quietly, the Doodles have revealed a new NFT collection called Doopies, though details of how they will
be acquired are still not known.
- An interactive social-first game has been launched on X which will find the last department standing
with a prize of 500K $DOOD.
The AI crypto market has exploded this week, climbing +28.2% to an $11.14B market cap. We now have multiple coins sitting above $1B mc, while new launches are finding traders in serious profits on Virtuals. - AIxVC’s AxelRod agent launched on Virtuals this morning, and as the head of the ACP Autonomous Hedge Fund, it’s
expected to break participants and subscription records.
- Gigabrain’s AI Portfolio Manager is now live, giving traders their own AI for Hyperliquid
trades.
- Billy Bets trading terminal is now live, and will soon let traders execute their own sports bets
on the platform.
- Neurobro revealed their new NeuroDEX, allowing traders to make direct trades from its
calls.
- Virtuals released their April monthly update, highlighting their milestones for the
month.
- Kosher Capital launched their personal trading agents platform for $SHEKEL
holders.
- Whim.bet is teasing some major partnerships (Supreme?), advisors, and product
updates.
- $AIXBT and $GOAT are now live for trading on Binance US.
- Major NFT sales continue to excite the NFT community. This week we saw an Ape CryptoPunk sold for an undisclosed amount (rumored to be nearly $2M), XCOPY Last Selfie for $1.15M USDC, CryptoPunk #7261 for 150 $ETH ($274K), MAYC #30001 and #30003 for nearly $400K USDC, XCOPY N for $176K USDC, a rare XCOPY Grifter named Rotten for $150K USDC, and ACK’s i dreamt of you again last night for 50 $ETH
($98.6K).
- Major CryptoPunks news dropped today when Yuga Labs official sold the Punks IP to the NODE Foundation.
Yuga will still be the top Punks holder with over 200 NFTs, while they will donate 5% to the foundation.
- Claynosaurz revealed mint details for their upcoming Popkin collection, which will arrive on the
Sui blockchain in tiered collectible packs.
- DeGods and Y00ts founder, Frank DeGods, announced that he is stepping down as CEO of the projects
and turning it over to the team.
- Refik Anadol revealed his new AI art collection called Biome Lumina, which will mint beginning
today for $5K.
- Moriusa teased changes to their Mori’s which can lose their tails and
arms.
- The NFT market finished with its highest week of sales in 11 weeks, with $105.9M in cross-chain sales.
- Unique buyers fell to a 4-week low, and sellers declined to their lowest level of 2025.
- Bitcoin NFT floor prices are up across the board over the past 7d, with collections like Bitcoin Puppets up +57.1% to .049 $BTC, NodeMonkes up +12.9% to .041 $BTC.
- Ethereum NFTs were largely lower with Doodles falling -61.5% after TGE to 1.36 $ETH, Pudgy Penguins -3.9% to 11.25 $ETH, and BAYC -7.9% to 12.75 $ETH.
The CryptoSlam 500 NFT Index fell -4.24% over the past week as the top 500 NFT collections saw their USD value decline. It’s an interesting push and pull between crypto prices going up, and NFT traders repricing their collectibles in USD value.
Still, some collections, especially on Bitcoin, are up big, and ETH NFTs are actually on fire, with the ETH NFT Composite up +8.57%.
ETH NFT Composite - 598.12 (+8.57%)
SOL NFT Composite - 512.91 (+0.89%)
POL NFT Composite - 3.75 (-1.06%)
CAR NFT Composite -
410.78 (-2.52%) Top Gainers 7d WIF - $1.15 (+113.6%)
PI - $1.18 (+102.4%)
PEPE - $0.00001362 (+72.9%)
INJ - $13.76 (+48.0%)
FLOKI - $0.0001123 (+47.1%)
Top Losers 7d
LEO - $8.57 (-1.3%)
FDUSD - $0.9972 (-0.1%)
USDT0 - $0.9999 (-0.0%)
DAI - $0.9998 (-0.0%)
USDS - $0.9999 (-0.0%) |
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