For the Love of the Game (Market Commentary) |
Not one, but two brand-spankin’ new all-time highs for Bitcoin were ticked this past week, with
$126,080 our new high score to beat as of Monday.
Most traders still think we’re only going higher from here.
Forecasts from VanEck have Bitcoin hitting $644K down the
road, but demand only keeps growing today. Yesterday, BlackRock's IBIT ETF saw $1.2B in inflows, and officially became their most profitable ETF.
It may not be slowing down anytime soon. Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Committee is now guiding its 16,000 Financial Advisors on recommending up to 4% portfolio allocations towards BTC.
ETH is near an all-time high as well, and BNB got there just today ($1,311). It’s fair to say we’ll have a lot more wins coming in the short term.
Be ready. The Ultimate NFT Strategy 
TokenWorks’ strategy tokens like PNKSTR, PudgyStr, ApeStr all hit new all-time highs over the weekend. Traders are realizing the explosive potential the new liquidity-providing tokens bring to the NFT market. - PunkStrategy soared to a $296M market cap and now owns 26 CryptoPunks NFTs, while PudgyStrategy hit $25M market
cap and owns 40 Pudgy Penguins NFTs.
- The TokenWorks team announced that 10 new strategy tokens will launch in the next 2 weeks including
GoblinTown, Checks, Max Pain, Good Vibes Club, and Milady.
- Speculation suggests that Chimpers, World of Women, and Deadfellaz will be included in the next batch of launches next week.
- Any project will soon be able to launch a strategy token, and 80% of their presale funds will be sent to the Punk Strategy treasury for more CryptoPunks purchases.
- The GobStrategy token became the top GoblinTown NFT holder within 10 minutes of the token launching, and now holds 480 NFTs.
- New mechanics are coming to strategy tokens including the ability to burn purchased NFTs instead of
selling them.
- PunkStrategy was the #1 traded token on Uniswap last week.
Prediction Markets the Trojan Horse
 Polymarket, Kalshi and Robinhood are all turning heads outside of crypto and showing why they may have the best product market fit of any crypto app. - Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of NYSE, is investing $2B in Polymarket to build
the next evolution of markets.
- Polymarket is expected to launch a US platform at any moment following a $212M acquisition of the
CFTC-licensed QCX platform.
- Limitless’ token presale concluded on Kaito and saw $201M in USDC committed to token
allocations.
- Robinhood stock HOOD hit an all-time high last week on news
that they’re looking to expand their prediction market products outside of the US.
- Kalshi is now becoming a threat to traditional sports betting platforms after debuting sports prediction parlays (and seeing $535M in volume over the weekend). DraftKings shares fell -12% on the news and FanDuel’s parent company Flutter fell -10%.
Virtuals Reveals New Unicorn 
Virtuals Protocol announced their official replacement for their Genesis launchpad. The new system will be called Unicorn, and comes with a complete overhaul for AI token
launches. - Token launches will no longer be pre-sales, and instead will be fair launches that begin with a 99% tax that decreases to 1% (similar to strategy tokens).
- Teams will pay 100 VIRTUAL to initiate a token launch, which will then hit TGE at minimum 24 hours later.
- 5% of each launch will be allocated to active Virtuals ecosystem participants (3%) and Virtual token stakers (2%).
- 50% of token supplies will be reserved for the founding team with 25% unlocked at milestones, and the other 25% unlocked 1 year after TGE.
- Milestone team token unlocks occur at FDVs from $2M - $160M.
- Points will be phased out over a 3 week period, but initially will be targeted in the 3% ecosystem participants airdrop.
 The AI market is up
+0.88% in the past 7 days to a $17.1B market cap. Top token movers include OPEN (+80.19%), IRC (+41.93%), TOSHI (+14.92%), AIC (+11.73%), and TIBBIR (+8.67%).
- Virtuals returns with its newest Builder Banter spaces with co-founder EverythingEmpty joining to
chat about the new Unicorn launchpad.
- ACP updates continue to roll out including an agent page redesign, Butler sandbox mode, and
portfolio management + notifications for Butler on Virtuals’ website.
- Vader Research announced that they are releasing 200 pairs of AI smart glasses which will be
given away during competitions, community events, and giveaways.
- Arbus is joining the CCM meta, now allowing PumpFun streamers to reward mindshare leaders with
SOL.
- A record $192B has been invested by venture capitalists into AI startups so far this
year.
NFT Strategy tokens are bringing NFTs back to life in a big way, but massive sales continue to hit the market organically. This week’s top sales include Bitcoin Shroom H Shroom for 3.8 BTC ($470K), Bitcoin Shroom S Shroom for 3.8 BTC ($426K), CryptoPunk #9205 for 92.5 ETH ($416K), Wrapped Ether Rock #91 for $380K, and CryptoPunk #4125 for 71 ETH ($312K). - Art Blocks is launching the final collection of Art Blocks Curated and it’s a collection from
Larva Labs (creators of CryptoPunks) called Quine.
- Bodoggos, MadLads, NodeMonkes, and Based Angels all launched their own strategy tokens outside of the TokenWorks ecosystem, and more like V1
Punks are planning their own launches.
- A California judge has ruled that Bored Ape NFTs are not securities, and tossed a class-action lawsuit
against Yuga Labs.
- Critters Quest open edition blind box mint on OpenSea failed to gain traction, so the team cut
supply to 2k and sold out. In total the team raised $620K on the sale.
- OhBabyGames announced their first foray into NFTs with a launch coming to OpenSea on Oct
8.
- OpenSea has added $100K of PEPE, WBTC, ARB, SHIB and REKT to their season rewards
pool.
- Moonbirds announced that their official token will be launching soon on
Solana.
- Animecoin’s first official live stream kicked off on anime.com and allows official digital collectibles to be purchased with ANIME tokens.
- The NFT market hit its 2nd highest weekly volume of 2025 at $185.66M.
- Sellers, buyers, txns, and average sale price all fell on the week.
- Trade profits hit a 3-week high, though still in the negative at -$2.59M.
ETH NFT Composite - 648.95 (+3.00%)
SOL NFT Composite - 548.72 (+6.46%)
POL NFT Composite - 3.25 (-2.11%)
CAR NFT Composite -
196.94 (-2.79%) Top Gainers 7d ZEC - $141.98 (+96.9%)
ASTER - $2.05 (+31.7%)
MNT - $2.33 (+30.5%)
BNB - $1,288.38 (+29.3%)
WBNB - $1,292.03 (+28.8%)
Top Losers 7d
XPL - $0.9625 (-21.9%)
FLR - $0.02424 (-7.4%)
FIGR_HELOC - $0.9976 (-4.6%)
PI - $0.2612 (-2.6%)
WLFI - $0.2612 (-1.7%) |
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