Telegram Founder Arrested, Maker Rebrand, EF Spending, and More!

It’s another day at the Castle, and while the market might be frustrating us still, we’ve got all the updates to keep you sharp and ahead of the game. Yes, we’re feeling the pressure too, but you know what pressure makes… diamonds.

Although we may have to be patient for those days to come. Even the Maker → Sky rebrand couldn’t stop markets from dumping yesterday. As always, on days like this (or what seems to be this entire quarter), our advice is get stuck into some research, contribute to a community, or maybe drop a donation to your favorite public good writers.

Before we get stuck in, a humble request for support.

Castle has been selected as an Education Project in the Sei Creator Round on Gitcoin and this is our final call for your support. The more individual donors we get, the higher the matching from Sei, and the more research and education we can publish. Even $2 can go a long way!

You can bridge directly from any EVM chain to Sei on Rabby with Symbiosis.

Now, finally, let’s get into it 👇️

🔑 KEY NEWS

MAJOR HEADLINES

• Grayscale announces Avalanche Trust

• Justin Sun withdraws 12k BTC without DAO approval on USDD collateral

• Telegram founder Pavel arrested in France and later released on bail

PROJECT UPDATES

• Tether launching new stablecoin pegged to UAE Dirham

• Clearpool unveils Ozean L2

• Magic Eden announces ME Foundation & $ME token

• Puffer Finance releases roadmap, TGE Q4

• Traderjoe shares future products

• Sony launching Soneium L2 and Astar zkEVM transitioning to it

• Tensorplex Labs introduces Intelligence Chips program

• Morpho Labs starts discussion about token transferability

• Maple Finance announces Q4 MPL>SYRUP conversion

• MakerDAO rebrands to SkyEcosystem & introduces USDS & SKY

• Maple Story Universe unveils NXPC tokenomics

INTERESTING PROJECTS

• Bolt Protocol: Enabling preconfirmations on Ethereum, with proposer commitments

• Soneium: Sony’s L2

• Chainbound: Research & development organization

• World Liberty Fi: Trump’s project

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Courtesy of CJ - check out his telegram channel for daily news, project updates and new releases

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⛓️ CHECKING THE CHAIN WITH TOKEN SENTINEL

In the last few months, a few different on-chain tools have been developed under the Castle Capital umbrella.

One of them is an Alfa scraper based on a Crypto Twitter social graph that helps to identify new crypto projects via their Twitter account creation and a list of smart followers.

Some members of Castle Cap have already used this newly developed scrapper to find some g00d opportunities.

(screenshot taken on 15th of August 24)

This project: https://x.com/StrawberryAI_5 and its related token ($BERRY) were found very early by some Castle Hunters, thanks to the early signal provided by the Token Sentinel Telegram bot.

Powered by TokenSentinel - Castle’s Web3 Social Graph

The project has since returned a 6x at ATH to early entrants.

Courtesy of Cl - On-Chain Sleuth and Growth Specialist

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🔍️ MARKET WATCH

WHAT’S TO COME THIS WEEK

Chair Powell indicated something in last week's meeting - he said everything the market was looking for.

Bitcoin and the crypto sector might soon reach new highs. Remember, 90% of your feed around you is just noise! and engagement farming…

Courtesy of @MarketsAlpha - Telegram channel for sharing crypto market research and Intel Alpha

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📈 HTF PRICE ACTION

Gm frens!

No new price developments this week. Price is still going down/sideways. Let’s take a look at the weekly chart to see what’s going on when we zoom out a bit.

• Overall bullish market structure

• Currently consolidating

• Expectation is bullish

So while we have some bearishness right now, it’s important to remember where we are on the bigger picture. My expectation for this market is to reach new ATHs eventually, but I have no idea when or how that’s going to happen (and I might, of course, be wrong too!).

I therefore expect this to be a big re-accumulation and I’m waiting for big money to step in again. Once that happens I will once again be looking to long. But we’re quite far away from that. At least a couple of weeks or even months.

So stay patient and don’t burn your capital by trying to catch a knife.

Trade responsibly and I’ll see y’all next time!

Courtesy of 0x_Vlad - trend-based trader and MentFX student

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🏰 CASTLE CATCH-UP

I know you’re thinking it… what else did I miss from Castle this week?!

We outlined some of our expected deliverables from our Sei Creator grant, as well as outlining some other creators in the ecosystem.

And Francesco wrote in depth about Stacks (STX) and the Nakamoto Upgrade.

🤝 OUR ECOSYSTEM ALIGNMENT

Arbitrum Delegates & DAO Service Providers

GMX Delegates

Sei Creator Grant Recipient

If you made it this far, maybe you deserve a final Easter egg → if you were watching Atomist’s Twitter you would have seen a tease earlier in the week.

We may soon be making our merch available to loyal subscribers and giving many away for free in several ways.

Make sure you donate to our current Gitcoin round to have your wallet tagged for future campaigns!

That’s all for this week gang, please give us a follow on Twitter at @Castle__Cap 🙏

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