For the Love of the Game

A Mind on its own is a beautiful thing, but what's happening right now on Ethoswarm is the beginning of a civilization. 

This week, Animoca Brands announced the launch of Animoca Minds.

Animoca Minds are powered by our Ethoswarm platform, giving each Mind their own identities, memory, and much more. Animoca now lives at the cutting edge of the AI conversation, and we’re incredibly proud to bring agentic AI to everyone with them.

When it comes to what Minds are doing, well, people are just scratching the surface. 

We’re seeing Minds that help track nutrition and health goals, others that are trading crypto, and even some in the works that will help influencers engage with their fans.

It’s an exciting time, and it's only just starting.

You can awaken a Mind right now by going to amind.ai. There are no accounts and no installs needed, you just need an email address.

Soon we’ll be showcasing some of our favorite Minds live on our SLAM Nation daily show and hosting live building sessions.

You can catch SLAM Nation Monday through Friday at 9am ET on YouTube here.

If you want to appear on the show and tap into SLAMai data, come join us in SLAM Nation today! Join here. 
 

Noteworthy Happenings

DEATHSTR Targets NFT Floors

$DEATHSTR is an experimental Ethereum-based token launched by the CyberKongz NFT project, designed to use transaction taxes for purchasing and relisting NFTs from community-voted collections at below-floor prices.

• $DEATHSTR launched with a 99% initial buy/sell tax that decreases by 1% per minute until reaching a fixed 10% rate.

• 9% of the tax collected fuels NFT purchases, and then relists the NFTs 20% below the current floor price.

• 1% of fees are kept by the CyberKongz team to support development. 

• Holders of $DEATHSTR vote every three days to select which NFT collection the strategy token will target. 

• The $DEATHSTR token hit an all-time high of $1.3M market cap, while Moonbirds survived the attack, seeing their floor price down just -1%.

• Community feedback was mixed. Traders who love experimentation praised the new strategy token, while others disliked the attack on NFT collections.

Is Jeffrey Epstein Satoshi?

The Bitcoin community was rocked with the latest release of Epstein files, which revealed his close ties to early BTC developers, and even rumors that he might actually be Satoshi Nakamoto.

• Doctored emails circulating online falsely showed Epstein as the inventor of Bitcoin.

• Epstein was involved in funding early crypto development. In 2014 he invested $3B in Coinbase’s Series C funding round.

• In 2014 Epstein also invested around $500K in Blockstream, a company focused on Bitcoin infrastructure and development.

• Other communications show Epstein was possibly in communication with Satoshi or other core Bitcoin developers.

Peep the charts

AI

The AI market is down -23.95% in the past 7 days to a $4B market cap. Top token movers include PIPPIN (+104.8%), BNKR (+89.3%), AWE (+41.52%), TIBBIR (-23.38%), and REKT (-22.38%).

• Reddit style social media platform Moltbook has rocketed to over 2.48 million registered agents.

• Crypto.com’s founder purchased the ai.com domain and ran a Super Bowl ad promoting AI agents.

• The ERC-8004 standard has hit 14,500 registered agents in just 23 days.

• AGDP.io launched its own agent commerce protocol for OpenClaw to give agents identity, commerce and funding opportunities.

• RentaHuman.ai went live last week, letting AI agents hire humans to complete real world tasks.

NFTs

• NFT sales collapsed to another 5 year low, falling -18.63% to $50.99M. Buyers were down -17.74% (108K), sellers -19.33% (102K), transactions -12.41% (528K), average sale price -7.10% ($96.43) and trade profits -14.14% (-$15.61M).

• Adam Weitsman continues his massive NFT buying spree, last week acquiring 3AC’s entire Pudgy Penguin collection. This week he announced a purchase of 175 Good Vibes NFTs + 10M $VIBESTR.

• Refik Anadol minted the 1/1 Winds of Yawanawa for a new collector as their first ever owned digital artwork.

• OpenSea has integrated Kraken’s new L2 blockchain called Ink Chain.

• The Rodeo and Foundation art platforms have been acquired by Blackdove.

• Nifty Gateway is extending the deadline to move assets of their marketplace to April 23.

https://www.cryptoslam.io/indexes/cs500

ETH NFT Composite - 354.01 (-4.25%)
SOL NFT Composite - 237.48 (-6.45%)
POL NFT Composite - 1.82 (-3.70%)
CAR NFT Composite - 72.86 (-2.12%)

Crypto

Top Gainers 7d

RAIN - $0.01069 (+17.7%)
SKY - $0.06964 (+12.5%)
ASTER - $0.6376 (+7.6%)
NIGHT - $0.1538 (+4.0%)
NEXO - $0.8346 (+3.6%)

Top Losers 7d
JUP - $0.1469 (-23.4%)
TRUMP - $3.28 (-22.6%)
APT - $0.9976 (-21.5%)
POL - $0.0928 (-20.4%)

BNB - $628.11 (-19.4%)

News Headlines

• The White House is set to host second meeting on stablecoins today.
• South Korean crypto exchange accidentally gave away $43B in BTC.
• Stablecoin transaction volume in January surpassed $10T.
• Elon Musk’s xAI is hiring crypto experts to teach AI models how to trade.
• Bed Bath & Beyond acquires Tokens.com for RWA tokenization.
• Lighter perp dex announces new Lighter EVM L2 blockchain.
• Senator warns of potentially criminal conduct after UAE $500M investment in Trump’s WLFI.
• Polymarket files for crypto token trademarks for POLY trading platform and $POLY token.
• Mr Beast has acquired financial services app Step.