FTX’s sudden stop selling Anthropic shares and ZEN’s radical change decision are among the highlights of the day. In this article, you can find the prominent altcoin news of June 28. In the first place is Ankr and its new solution AppChains.
Here are the hot developments of the day from ANKR and 8 altcoins
Ankr launches AppChains on Ethereum
Blockchain infrastructure provider Ankr has announced a new solution on Ethereum called AppChains. AppChains redefines the boundaries of the Ethereum ecosystem by delivering high performance at scale. Ankr’s team of experts aims to overcome Ethereum’s scalability challenges by combining cutting-edge technologies such as WebAssembly (WASM) and Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs. This breakthrough opens up endless possibilities for enterprise-grade applications.
🔵 Introducing: AppChains on Ethereum
🔗: https://t.co/VbL6AC3Ojw pic.twitter.com/YfGmkMw6fW
— Ankr (@ankr) June 27, 2023
FTX pauses $500M share sale in Anthropic
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has decided to halt the sale of its much-loved $500 million stake in artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic. The development leaves potential bidders in uncertainty. It also raised questions about the future of this important investment.
Perella Weinberg, the investment bank that dealt with the bankruptcy of FTX, briefed interested parties about the sudden pause earlier this month, according to sources familiar with the matter. The decision comes after months of extensive due diligence by potential bidders looking to acquire a stake in Anthropic, creator of Claude, a leading chatbot that rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Azuki’s Elementals NFT collection raises $38 million
Elementals, Azuki’s newest collection, completed its pre-sale round in just 15 minutes. The collection managed to find buyers for 38 million dollars in a short time. The announcement of “Elementals” came at an event in Las Vegas last week that brought the project owners together. The project is based on 20,000 NFTs based on the four elements (earth, fire, lightning and water).
The remaining NFTs go on pre-sale on June 27. Meanwhile, to participate in the pre-sale, Azuki and BEANZ holders were required to purchase 2 ETH shares. Elemental NFTs were sold via a Dutch auction with an initial mint price of 2 ETH, decreasing by 0.1 ETH every 5 minutes until all NFTs are exhausted.
Azuki Elementals have sold out in the presale with the entire allocation going to the Azuki and BEANZ community. There will be no public sale.
Trading and reveal will open shortly. pic.twitter.com/CVk3kRIqU6
— Azuki (@Azuki) June 27, 2023
Sui team denies rumors of staking reward sale on Binance
cryptocoin.com In this article, we have included allegations that the Sui team deliberately distorted SUI emissions. In response to these allegations, the Sui Foundation said it does not sell any staking rewards. He stated that transactions related to the wallet address specified by DefiSquared are deliberate.
On May 31, 0x341f sends 2,500,000 SUI rewards to 0x209f. 0x209f then sends 625,000 SUI to 3 different addresses, all of which ultimately end up at binance, but for simplicity we’ll just follow the 625,000 sent to 0x03d8. 9/ pic.twitter.com/EsW5gIDUrS
— DeFi^2 (@DefiSquared) June 27, 2023
Worldcoin explains reason for mysterious distributions
In another development, Twitter users noticed thousands of Safe distributions to Optimism. It led to speculation that this could be an attack. According to Tiago Sada, head of product for Worldcoin developer Tools for Humanity, Worldcoin is the reason for a series of Safe distributions to the Optimism (OP) network last week.
Deploying more safes – steady lads https://t.co/W5DiQirrP0
— tiago sada (@tiagosada) June 27, 2023
Quant’s CBDC infrastructure is enterprise ready
Quant made the technology used in Bank of England’s CBDC project available to businesses. Recently, the company launched the Overledger Platform used in the Bank of England and Bank for International Settlements Project Rosalind CBDC project. With the new technology, Quant is addressing blockchains interoperability challenges, especially between central bank and corporate ledgers.

Magic Eden invites BRC-20 tokens to its platform
Taking a step towards diversification, NFT marketplace Magic Eden recently announced its initiative towards BRC-20 token functionality. The NFT trading platform has announced its intention to place its BRC-20 token operations on the publicly sourced utility market and its creator launchpad.
This announcement comes just eight weeks after the launchpad debut for Bitcoin Ordinals, a groundbreaking protocol that enables NFT exchange on Bitcoin. The development, which became operational on June 27, empowers users to accumulate BRC-20 projects directly. In addition, it gives creators the ability to launch their own BRC-20 for in-platform publishing.
And here… we… GO! 🪄🟧🟧🟧💥💥
BRC-20 will be coming to Magic Eden's platform today.
Notifications ON for go live details.🔔 pic.twitter.com/qZMOxotYfI— Magic Eden on Bitcoin 🟧 (@MEonBTC) June 27, 2023
Horizen community approves deprecation of main chain protected repositories
The Horizen community has recently approved ZenIP 42204. This led to the deprecation of Horizen mainchain protected repositories. This decision includes removing protected transactions with transparent inputs from the Horizen main chain. This results in the elimination of consensus-level privacy features. As a result, the Horizen cryptocurrency ZEN will no longer be considered a privacy coin.

Dormant Dogecoin address reawakened
On-chain data shows that a Dogecoin whale has become active again after 9.5 years. The wallet contains a total of 2,000,447 DOGEs worth approximately $131,178. This whale probably bought DOGE right after Dogecoin 2013 was launched. Selling due to the low quantity will not have any effect on the DOGE price in particular.
💤 A dormant address containing 2,002,447 #DOGE (131,178 USD) has just been activated after 9.5 years!https://t.co/m1aIwd8s5O
— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) June 27, 2023