🎮 Web3 Gaming and Tech

• Off the Grid is now live on Steam

  • According to the SteamDB data, the game has peaked so far at 8431 CCU

• Football.Fun shares they raised $2M in a round led by 6th Man Ventures

• Ronin integrated token swaps directly into the Ronin Wallet

• Opinions.fun is a new opinion marketplace

  • Users mint quotes, and they can be traded via a bonding curve

• Kaito is introducing a capital launchpad: “initial community offerings”

• Ronin is exploring the Tradfi angle, going hard on a VC pitching spree

• Alphabot introduces a new InfoFi product: Pulse

• Fantasy Top officially migrated to Base

  • With this new launch, the game introduced a F2P version of the game

• Treasure DAO is migrating to Abstract - agents can stream on ABS now

• Abstract achieves a $200M+ TVL

  • Recent growth seems to be driven by PENGU bridging and meme coins

🚀 Nexus V1 Launch

Welcome to edition #87 of the Nexus Power Up Newsletter. After releasing our on-platform trading feature to the public recently, we continue to expand on our tools to make Nexus the all-in-one crypto platform.

Try the free features (trading, game database, crypto market overview, and token and NFT charts) of the platform 👇

You can also get access through:

• Getting a Nexus Pass NFT now for exclusive lifetime access

Don't miss out—follow our journey on Hustle's Twitter, YouTube channels, and Nexus Twitter.

📈Macro Cryptocurrency News

• U.S. producer prices unchanged in June: U.S. wholesale prices registered 0% growth in June, defying expectations of a rise, as a drop in services costs offset tariff-related goods inflation.

• Nasdaq filed an SEC amendment allowing BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) to stake its held ETH and pass staking rewards to investors.

• Coinbase unveils Base app: Coinbase has rebranded its Wallet into the "Base app," launching a multifunctional platform combining social media, trading, payments, and mini‑apps on its Layer‑2 chain.

• Peter Thiel buys stake in Ethereum treasury firm: Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund acquired a 9.1% position in BitMine Immersion Technologies, a firm led by Tom Lee that holds a large Ethereum treasury.

• Standard Chartered to offer spot Bitcoin and Ether trading: Standard Chartered has become the first major global bank to launch regulated spot trading for Bitcoin and Eth through its UK branch to institutional clients.

• Vanguard has significantly increased its crypto exposure by heavily investing in a software company used as a proxy for Bitcoin, driven by its index investing strategy.

• Agora stablecoin Series A: Agora secured $50 million in a Series A round led by Paradigm (with backing from VanEck) to expand its white‑label stablecoin infrastructure. 

• BlackRock is seeking to add staking to its iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA), according to an amended 19b-4 filing submitted by Nasdaq on Thursday.

🌟Token Spotlight by Hustle

• Coin of the Week: ETH

• Market Cap: ~$434B

• What is ETH? The capital rotation from BTC to ETH (and alts) is finally happening, as ETH ETF inflows started to surpass BTC. Will this be an ETH Summer? Let’s hope so…

• Delve into Hustle's market wisdom with his “Daily Watchlist” and deep-dive analysis available on the TTOO Discord server and through his “In the Game" show. 

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See you next week!