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Industry news headlines

💰 Investment firm Andreessen Horowitz's crypto department a16z invests $50 million in Solana staking protocol Jito. (source)

📺 Aptos and NBCUniversal expand partnership with a new fan engagement and rewards platform. (source)

📈 Users of Polymarket can now bet in prices to go up or down for stocks, through up/down equity markets. (source)

🟠 Zeta Network Group partners with Solv Protocol to build out its Bitcoin treasury. Zeta looks to raise $230 million in BTC and SolvBTC in exchange for their own ZNB stocks. (source)

🔥 Paxos accidentally minted $300 trillion worth of $PYUSD. However, they burned the tokens within 25 minutes. Paxos responded that it 'mistakenly minted' the tokens, and there was an 'internal technical error'. Or was it an intern with fat fingers?

🌐 Strategy RPG Lost Odyssey will launch its open beta test on October 16, and players can earn $ODY in the Sanctuary War. (source)

🪙 Open Game Protocol wants to allow gamers to use any crypto token to fuel their Web3 game experiences. (source)

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In the fast-paced world of Web3, staying on top of your favorite projects shouldn't feel like a scavenger hunt. This week DappRadar announced Watchlist, a new feature designed to simplify how you discover, track, and monitor the performance of the dapps, tokens, chains, and NFT collections that matter most to you.

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🔵 Bearish crypto momentum hurts NFT marketplaces

Crypto has taken a massive hit across the board, as major tokens lost 5% up to 35% in the past week. This negative trend also has a reflection on the trading activity for NFTs. As crypto prices drop hard, we traditionally also see a drop in NFT trading activity.

OpenSea saw a drop of 22% to 1.85 million NFTs sold in the past 7 days, while total volume dropped 27% to $86.6 million. Even popular marketplaces such as card collectible portal Courtyard or fantasy sports platform Sorare have seen serious drops in trading volume. Courtyard went down 38% to $4.4 million, while Sorare noted a 21% drop to $712,000.