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24 Hour Crypto Recap: Market Performance and Sector Trends
Bitcoin traded near $82,000, down 0.8% over the past 24 hours. Ethereum held above $2,400, down 0.25% on the day. The AI sector rose nearly 1%, while DePIN fell 1.09% over the same period. The total crypto market held largely steady day over day. Pudgy Penguins, Quantus, Pearl, Solana, and Pons were the top trending searches, with Solana up 0.2% to $105.24 and Quantus down 12.0% to $89.96. Among top gainers, startupSI led with a 163.4% surge to $0.0196, followed by torch up 96.8% to $0.0159, HoodPork up 87.2% to $0.0302, Citrea up 35.7% to $0.0181, and Bedrock up 34.9% to $0.598. OpenAI is seeking to complete a roughly $30 billion funding round at an unusually fast pace, aiming to finalize it before Anthropic’s expected IPO in mid-November. Nscale is in talks with Anthropic for a compute deal worth approximately $45 billion, which would be the second major agreement between the two firms after Nscale’s IPO filing disclosed an existing $44.6 billion infrastructure agreement. CME Group launched Uniswap (UNI) futures for trading, offering two contract specifications with 24/7 trading support, making UNI the first DeFi protocol token to list futures.