Wed, June 26, 2024 | 12:56PM ET

Blast Airdrop Goes Live, Bybit Card Integrates with Apple Pay

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Tom Couture ^AC

Vice President of Crypto Strategy

Crypto Market Update

U.S. equities are relatively flat as the DXY N/A% has surged above $106, fueled by the Yen’s weakness, with USDJPY hitting its highest level since 1986. Crypto assets are giving back some of yesterday’s gains, with BTC 1.04% trading at $61.2k and ETH 0.23% hovering near $3,350. AVAX 1.74% is showing strength today following news of popular web3 developer, OtherWorld announcing its choice to build an NFT platform on Avalanche. OtherWorld will leverage its own Avalanche Subnet featuring gasless transactions and the NFT platform will be based on Solo Leveling, a South Korean “webtoon” that has accumulated over 14 billion viewers. OtherWorld also owns IP rights to 26 other webtoons, which can be converted into digital collectibles.

Blast Airdrop

The Blast Foundation initiated the first phase of its airdrop program, with 17 billion BLAST tokens available for claiming today. Of the 17 billion tokens, 7 billion are allocated for Blast Point holders, 7 billion for Blast Gold holders, and 3 billion for the Blur Foundation. The total supply of Blast is 100 billion tokens, with 50% of the supply earmarked for the community, 25.5% for core contributors, 16.5% for investors, and the remaining 8% maintained by the Blast Foundation. Blast has quickly become the 6th largest on-chain economy, accumulating over $2 billion in TVL in less than 100 days. It remains to be seen how sticky that TVL is and whether users were mainly airdrop farming. BLAST N/A% claims went live at 10 AM EST this morning, opening at $0.024 and currently trading at $0.021, implying an FDV of approximately $2.1 billion.

Bybit Card Integrates with Apple Pay

Bybit Card, a Mastercard-issued debit card that allows users to leverage their Bybit crypto balances for payments and cash withdrawals, can now be added to Apple Pay. The Bybit Card supports payments using eight different crypto assets, including USDC, Tether, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. Apple Pay is one of the most used payment services globally, with an estimated 640 million users worldwide and accounting for 12.6% of all online consumer payments in 2023. The integration gives Bybit users an easy way to off-ramp digital assets and spend in the real world while integrating crypto into their daily lives. Crypto companies continue to try and bridge the gap between the two sectors and find ways for people to operate on blockchain rails without noticing any differences compared to traditional infrastructure.

Technical Strategy

Despite the ongoing consolidation seen across many cryptocurrencies, TRON has taken the lead in achieving a meaningful breakout of its four-month downtrend. This is a bullish technical development that should lead to an upcoming test and breakout above May highs at $0.1277. TRX -0.26% has now risen for six of the last eight trading sessions, and while this has led momentum indicators like RSI to near overbought levels, it’s made some big improvement structurally this week. Upside targets above May highs lie near $0.1407 and then $0.144, the latter signifying late February peaks. Pullbacks should afford dip-buying opportunities, and this should arrive near $0.12 before pushing back higher.

Daily Important Metrics

Crypto Size

Bullish signal is tied to the crypto market growing

Market cap 2.27T

+$4.5B(0.20%)

BTC Dominance

53.42 % (0.16%)

Stablecoins

Increase in circulating stablecoins is a Bullish signal

In Circulation +$113B	(-0.09%)
In Exchanges +$19B	(-0.71%)

BTC Metrics

A decrease in Bitcoin on exchanges is bullish, indicates investors are moving coins to cold storage

# BTC Exchanges +$2.3M

(-0.26%)

Funding Rates

Positive funding rates indicate traders are Bullish

Aggregate	+0.0778(0.0779)
Binance	+0.9990(0.9990)
Bitfinex	-0.0162(-0.0162)
Bitmex	+0.9108(0.9108)
ByBit	-0.8639(-0.8639)
Deribit	+0.0117(0.0117)
Huobi	+0.2801(0.2801)
Kraken	+0.0058(0.0058)
Mean	+0.0778(0.0778)
OKex	-0.3250(-0.3250)

Sentiment

Picasso Network Successfully Integrates IBC with Ethereum, Wormhole Token Goes Live

BMI : 22 (100.00%)

Futures

A positive spread between Futures Prices and Spot Prices is Bullish

CME Price $61,350(100.00%)

Spot Basis +$91(0.15%)

Volume 631,138(-44.01%)

Open Interest 294,044(-2.15%)

Options all exchanges

Higher open interest change in a bull market is bullish for the sector

Volume 24,775(-45.61%)

Open Interest 280,334 (0.77%)

Vol. Put/Call Ratio 0.4979 (-34.98%)

OOI Put/Call Ratio 0.4704 (1.76%)

All metrics as of 2024-06-26 12:00:24

All Funding rates are in bps

Crypto Prices

Symbol	Market Cap	Last Price	Daily Change	Year to Date	Relative to BTC YTD
BTC	$1.21T	$61,412	-0.71%	45.41%
ETH	$404B	$3,360	-1.60%	47.66%	1.55%
SOL	$63B	$137	-1.72%	34.42%	-7.56%
DOGE	$723,956	$0.0007	9.08%	-99.19%	-99.44%

All prices as of 2024-06-26 11:53:54

Exchange Traded Products (ETPs)

Symbol	Prem. to Nav	Last Price	Daily Change	Year to Date	Relative to BTC YTD
BITW	-32.38%	$33	-1.82%	43.43%	-1.36%
ETHE	-0.83%	$31	-1.70%	61.06%	10.77%

News

Quick Bits

The Block

Ripple CEO says SEC Chair Gary Gensler ‘will cause Biden to lose the election’

Brad Garlinghouse’s comments echo voices such as billionaire Mark Cuban, who recently expressed similar views.

The Block

Ripple’s upcoming stablecoin will ‘compliment’ XRP, says Ripple President Monica Long

Monica Long shares the strategy behind Ripple's upcoming stablecoin launch.

The Block

Lawyers debate FTX’s reorganization plan in bankruptcy court as creditors gear up to vote on next steps

Bankrupt FTX is gearing up for creditors to vote on a reorganization plan following the catastrophic fall of the crypto firm two years ago.

Market Data

CoinDesk

Ether Spot ETFs to Attract $15B of Net Inflows in First 18 Months: Bitwise

Investors are likely to allocate funds to ETFs in proportion to the relative market caps of bitcoin and ether, the report said.

Dose of DeFI

The Block

Blast Foundation to disperse 17 billion BLAST tokens in this week’s airdrop

Of the 17 billion, 7% will go to Blast Points holders, another 7% to those with Blast Gold, with 3% allotted to the Blur Foundation.

Fundraising and M&A

The Block

Blockchain data infrastructure firm Covalent raises $5 million in strategic funding

Covalent said it will use the funds to expand operations in Asia.

The Block

Paradigm, Haun Ventures co-lead $37 million round in Conduit

Conduit plans to use the freshly raised funds to roll out products that help developers build their own “customizable and reliable” rollups.

Product Updates and Partnerships

CoinDesk

Investcorp and Securitize Launch Fund Tokenization Partnership

The partnership aims to create on-chain Real World Assets based on Investcorp's funds.

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