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October 25, 2022

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Former OpenSea worker will get indicted for insider buying and selling

Nate Chastain has been arrested and charged with wire fraud and cash laundering. The fees carry with them a max penalty of 20 years in jail. This implies he can get 40 years for front-running Jpegs.

What occurred:

Nate was an early worker at OpenSea and the corporate’s head of product. His place gave him some insider data concerning which NFT collections could be featured on the entrance web page of their web site.

He would purchase just a few NFTs from these collections after which flip them as soon as after the worth went up. This course of allowed him to routinely financial institution a 2-5x revenue per flip.

Nate secretly did this for a few months utilizing random OpenSea and wallets. His efforts weren’t sufficient as all it took was one blockchain sleuth sensible (or bored) sufficient to trace his pockets exercise…

0xZuwu.eth 🧪 @0xZuwu

Hey @opensea why does it seem @natechastain has just a few secret wallets that seems to purchase your entrance web page drops earlier than they’re listed, then sells them shortly after the front-page-hype spike for earnings, after which tumbles them again to his primary pockets together with his punk on it?

After getting busted, Nate admitted to his wrongdoing and misplaced his OpenSea shares.

The case appears fairly singular to Nate’s – not the kickoff of a large regulatory crackdown on NFTs that many initially thought.

𒐪 @SHL0MS

@thenftattorney perhaps i am naive however looks as if 99% of individuals employed in crypto aren’t buying and selling on info they’re instantly answerable for figuring out

📉 Andrew’s Market replace

This can be a new part of Zima Purple the place we synthesize and share Andrew’s ideas on the NFT and crypto markets. You’ll be able to comply with these ideas and musings reside on Twitter.

Is the underside in?

Macro/crypto market billionaire thought leadooooor Arthur Hayes says that the crypto market costs have bottomed out. However have they?

Properly, two issues are true:

The market is 100% managed by the Fed’s actions
The Fed is doing two of essentially the most bearish issues it could possibly do that are:
- elevating charges
- persevering with with quantitative tightening

With that being mentioned, NFTs are holding up surprisingly effectively. Whereas they’re clearly being devalued in USD phrases, many have held regular and even elevated in base crypto phrases (ETH, SOL, and so on.) This can be a nice time to be loading up on crypto that you’re bullish on long-term.

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Goblintown mewns

After the Terra collapse, Crypto Twitter formally introduced that we now have all collectively entered into “Goblin City” (we’re undecided who precisely coined the time period however we’re going to offer credit score to Sassal bc that’s the primary place we heard it.)

The markets going to goblintown primarily means that they will be down 80%+ akin to previous bear markets – therefore going straight to goblintown.

Andrew Steinwold @AndrewSteinwold

On the intense facet, I realized a brand new time period:

“Goblintown”

Out of the goblintown meme, goblintown.wtf started minting. It had no street map and an nameless group. All anybody knew was that it was CC0 and free to mint 1 + fuel.

Because of the challenge’s timing, execution, and stable sensible contracts, many speculated that it was being led by NFT veterans. Rumors started to flow into about its founders as being anybody from Beeple to Yuga Labs.

The meme caught and Goblin City has already executed an unbelievable 30K+ ETH in quantity.