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Weâve already seen what happens when meme stock momentum propels GameStopâs share price, given the early-year short squeeze phenomenon. Now, weâre seeing how a potential association with GameStop can send an Ethereum tokenâs price soaring, as well.
Recently, GameStop stock enthusiasts have uncovered purported details suggesting that the retailer will tap Loopringâs Ethereum scaling technology for its upcoming NFT marketplace. Over the last week, as the rumors spread, Loopringâs Ethereum-based LRC token has skyrocketed in price.
LRC is up 206% over the last seven days, per data from CoinGecko, up to a current price of $1.31 per token. The price is down nearly 11% over the last 24 hours, but the recent jump has seen the coin rise from a recent low of about $0.38 per token in the past week. On Tuesday, Loopring tweeted that it had set a new daily record of $75 million worth of trading volume.
That's a new Loopring L2 daily record in trading volumepic.twitter.com/ni63b4CAMh
â Loopring (@loopringorg) November 2, 2021
GameStopâs own stock price is up lately amid speculation over its NFT plans. At a current price of nearly $212 per share, GME is up 21% over the last five days. Earlier this year, GameStopâs stock hit a price of $483 per share amid the meme stock craze that also encompassed stocks like AMC and BlackBerry, aided in large part by retail traders using the Robinhood app.
Loopring is a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, the primary blockchain network for NFT collectibles. It enables faster, cheaper transactions by handling them on a separate blockchain before rolling them all up and committing them to Ethereumâs mainnet. Itâs also more energy-efficient than pushing all transactions directly to Ethereum.
GameStop first teased its plans for an Ethereum-based NFT marketplace back in May, and hired Matthew Finestoneâformerly Loopringâs Head of Businessâas its head of blockchain. Recently, the retailer has posted several job listings for positions related to NFT collectibles and Web3 gaming plans.
Reddit Building NFT Marketplace to Join Ethereum Token RewardsGMEdd, a resource for GameStop stock holders, reported last week that new code posted to Loopringâs GitHub repository makes multiple references to GameStop and NFTs. It also points to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)âa peer-to-peer decentralized service that effectively backs up websites and filesâwhich GameStopâs NFT teaser page previously referenced.
Neither GameStop nor Loopring immediately responded to Decrypt's requests for comment.
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