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Let’s be honest, the last two weeks have been rough in the crypto space, but this week finally comes along with so many good vibes and exciting news between NFT NYC & a new Tezos-based project paving the way for even more creative opportunities.

Here is this week’s recap ✨

🎨 NFT News

✨ typed.art: a new type of art

Tezos has always been known to be the home to true, authentic art within the NFT scene backed by one of the strongest art-driven communities.

Now, a new type of art has risen, thanks to a whole new text-based marketplace on Tezos: typed.art.

Within this minimalistic website which gives Hic et Nunc vibes, anything you type and mint can become art…whether it has to do with poetry, phrases, or character-built figures.

Landing on the Tezos scene not even a week ago, typed.art has already gained over 1,000 followers on Twitter reaching around 1,000 mints per day including those of renowned artists in the NFT art space including Kevin Abosch and Quasimondo to name a few.

✨ NFT Now announces the inaugural edition of the NFT100

In line with its mission to redefine how creators and communities share in the value they create, web3-driven NFT Now has just announced the inaugural edition of the NFT100: an annual celebration of 100 influential creators and 100 community leaders in the NFT space.

Among the 100 influential creators & 100 community leaders at the forefront of building a new creator economy is SuperRare. Kudos to John, the SuperRare team and all the inspiring leaders in the space!Here is the full list.

✨ Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden raised $130m and plans a multi-chain expansion

Magic Eden is an NFT marketplace that already makes up for 90% of the Solana secondary market (outperforming OpenSea lately when it comes to sales volume and active users) and that now, is ready to step one step further.

On Tuesday, Magic Eden announced that it has raised $130 million in Series B funding and been valued at $1.6b, officially becoming a crypto unicorn.

So what next?

This funding round will serve first of all, to push Magic Eden’s gaming vertical, but also support their plan to become multi-chain.

COO and co-founder Zhouxun Yin stresses on how we'll be in a multi-chain world for a while, suggesting that some types of NFTs, including games, artwork, and music, are coalescing around certain blockchain platforms Magic Eden wants to support.

📉 Crypto & De-Fi News

✨ Luna. Celsius. Three Arrows. Who’s up next in this liquidation war?

Rumors have it that the liquidation war may be coming up for two other protagonists: BlockFi and Babel Finance.

BlockFi is a lending platform that, like Celsius, has attracted many users since its launch especially thanks to its yields.

But things don’t seem to be going too well: at the beginning of last week BlockFi in fact had to cut about a fifth of its staff, citing a “dramatic shift in macroeconomic conditions”.

Add that to the leaked documents showing that they lost $285m in the past two years, that they’re going through a liquidity crisis, and are trying to raise money from VCs at a way lower valuation ($1B now, was $5B last year).

Lucky for now, FTX came to BlockFi's rescue as on Tuesday BlockFi mentioned it has agreed to a $250m credit from FTX.

The question is, will it be enough to save it from the wide-spread FUD in the community?

The second platform risking it all is Babel Finance, another crypto lending platform whose tagline is “we have your best interests in mind.”

Too bad they have, just like Celsius, blocked all withdrawals starting from last Friday citing “Unusual Liquidity Pressures”.

As of one of its latest updates on Monday, Babel has carried out an emergency assessment of its business operations in order to determine the company's liquidity status.

✨ Celsius goes up 50% thanks the community’s GameStop-inspired shortsqueeze attempt

Celsius may be down, but Celsians have no intention of giving up just yet.

The #CELShortSqueeze hashtag is trending on Twitter, as Celsius holders are planning a short squeeze by buying up CEL on the FTX crypto exchange, to then move it to decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and set sell limit orders.

So far, the short squeeze appears to be giving positive results as the price of CEL is currently trading at $1.39 at the time of writing, which is up around 50% from last week.

A strategy, that reminds us of the one used by day traders during the GameStop short squeeze back in January 2021, that pushed the price of GameStop's (GME) stock up over 1,000% in two weeks.

Bets on how high CEL’s price will go in the upcoming weeks?

🐋 FakeWhale Spaces

Another FakeWhale Spaces you won’t want to miss is coming up.

Retracing the steps of artistic discovery: the value of sharing the process and stories behind every artwork.

🔊 FakeWhale Spaces hosted by @jessedraxler w/ @skygolpe

📅 Saturday June 25th, at 12 pm EST / 6 pm CEST

📍 On the oficial FakeWhale Twitter profile

🍿 Events this Month.

MetaVanity. A meta-exhibition.

📅 Ongoing exhibition.

📍HADEM.

📚 Book of the Month.

This month’s book is a recent release by one of my favorite futurists in the space, Cathy Hackl, who collaborated with Dirk Lueth and Tommaso Di Bartolo to bring “Navigating the Metaverse: A guide to limitless possibilities in a Web 3.0 world” to life.

A must-read for anyone who wants to stay up to date on the Metaverse, whether already deeply in, or just getting acquainted with it!

🐥 Highlights of the week