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June 3, 2024: U.S. equity saw corrections in the second half of the past week, yet overall, May has brought investors significant gains. Meanwhile, the broader cryptocurrency market has seen lower volatility this week as it digested the impact of the SEC’s likely approval of Ether Spot ETFs.
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Volatility Surges as May Ends With Significant Gains
Volatility surged in the U.S. stock market during the final weeks of May 2024. Despite a brief drop of nearly 1%, driven by weakness in large tech companies, the S&P 500 ended the month with a significant gain, its biggest monthly advance since February.
However, according to strategists at Bank of America, investors betting on technology giants to continue leading the market higher could be in for a turbulent period. Strategists expect that as market breadth improves, with a wider range of sectors contributing to gains, the outperformance of value stocks over growth stocks could emerge as the next "pain trade" — a situation that causes pain for investors who aren’t positioned for it.
In other words, as the market broadens out beyond the dominance of big tech, investors focused solely on growth stocks (such as major technology companies) may struggle while value stocks in other industries start to catch up and outpace the high-flying tech names.
Next week, the employment report will draw investors’ attention on Friday.
The market is seeing lower volatility as inflows to Bitcoin Spot ETFs slow down. Nevertheless, these inflows have been consistently positive, leading to globally listed Bitcoin ETFs holding 1 million units of Bitcoin.
STG Jumps 45.2% After Stargate Finance Launches V2, Featuring DeFi's Cheapest Bridge That’s Now Live
Stargate Finance (STG), launched in March 2022, is a DeFi platform on the Ethereum network that enables cross-chain transactions using technologies such as cross-chain bridges and unified liquidity pools for a seamless user experience. Stargate Finance recently launched Stargate V2, featuring "DeFi's cheapest bridge.” The new release allows users to deposit into V2 pools and enhances interoperability across the DeFi ecosystem. Stargate Finance's market cap now exceeds $175 million. Concurrently, Stargate V1 continues to operate across 12 chains, with a gradual reduction in incentives.
NOT Surges by 51.8% After Notcoin Introduces Passive Earning Missions in Telegram Game
Notcoin (NOT), launched in November 2023, is a play-to-earn token within the TON ecosystem. It’s featured in a Telegram-based game, in which players earn tokens by tapping on a virtual coin and completing tasks.
After its NOT token launch, Notcoin introduced earnings missions in its Telegram-based game, allowing players to passively earn crypto. Post-airdrop, the game achieved a substantial market cap, introducing missions that provide continuous rewards for engaging with partner crypto projects. Players increase their earnings by staking Notcoin and advancing in-game levels, with higher levels yielding greater returns. Activities include social media engagement and app downloads from partners, with top-tier players enjoying over 300% annual yield.
BB Jumps 33.1% After Ethena Teases Strategic Partnerships With BounceBit
Founded in 2024, BounceBit (BB) is a Bitcoin staking protocol that merges decentralized finance (DeFi) and centralized finance (CeFi) yield mechanisms, allowing investors to earn through multiple methods. It also features a web3 universe for developing and automatically integrating new projects into its platform. Ethena's Season 2 updates feature a 5% ENA supply allocation to the community, with the Sats Campaign ending by September 2, 2024, or when the USDe supply reaches $5 billion.
Enhancements include a Sats Campaign calculator and strategic integrations with BounceBit and Infinex for improved yield opportunities. Additional features are a $10 million LP pool on FDUSD Curve, and a Bybit USDe integration for perpetual trading. BounceBit also teased an upcoming CeDeFi collaboration with Ethena Labs.
Sei’s Second Airdrop to Come
Since its Pacific-1 Mainnet launch, Sei has attracted over 100,000 active participants, especially in NFT transactions, culminating in the development of Sei V2, a high-performance, parallelized EVM blockchain. The Sei Foundation's second airdrop will distribute 27,421,200 SEI tokens to 43,052 addresses, rewarding users for active participation and engagement. Eligibility can be verified on the Sei airdrop portal, with tokens automatically distributed at the start of Sei v2's Phase 3. The airdrop focuses on users who have staked and collected significant NFTs, excluding high-volume holders to maintain fairness. Further community involvement and developments are anticipated as the ecosystem continues to expand.
AI-Optimized Yield Aggregator Amphor Launches Products and User Engagement Activities
Amphor, an early-stage EVM-based yield aggregator optimized by AI for DeFi with a TVL exceeding $35 million, has launched its product after a six-month beta. It offers an opportunity to earn yield and AMPR points by depositing $ETH or other assets in its currently available Boosted Vault. Additionally, users can engage in social quests via quests.amphor.io, earning Sherds through activities such as social engagements, referrals, quizzes and specific vault participation. Four quests are currently active: Starter, Ambassador, Scholar and ETH Boosted Vault. Users can track their Sherds in the platform's interface.
Ithaca Protocol Launches Airdrop Campaign
Ithaca has launched its live beta and announced a formula-based airdrop campaign. This platform, created by a former Goldman Sachs partner and an Amber Group executive and backed by investors like Cumberland and Wintermute Ventures, introduces advanced features for the crypto options market. It’s the first DeFi option protocol to offer executable prices across a variety of financial products, including vanilla options, digital options and more.
Ithaca's auction-based matching engine and mix of off-chain and on-chain technologies enhance liquidity and user capabilities in DeFi, CeFi and TradFi environments. The launch marks a significant step toward decentralization, with future plans to enable on-chain actors to manage key risk-sharing components.
Stay tuned for more institutional insights and crypto updates next week!