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@Lexlife

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Web3 investor (Metamatic) // @Harvard @Kelloggschool previously @CaesarsEnt @abinbev @zxventures

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Joined November 2009
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
2 months
Super bullish on the Prowlis team. Tap in!
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Prowlis
2 months
The Prowlis Team is excited to announce we've completed our technical due diligence and will bring our restaking solution to @Solana ! In the coming weeks, we will share more details on the impact to metastaking. Stay tuned! #SolanaCommunity
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Perhaps the biggest name in Web3-Social infrastructure, Lens Protocol, has raised $15 million in what appears to be its first external funding round.
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1/ Aptos Vs Sui (Pt 2) - Funding & Tokenomics $APT & $SUI - FUNDING TIMELINE:
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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@Jitu15490102 The line was โ€œyou not a colleagueโ€ฆโ€
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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Serious question. Which will come first 1.) AI revolutionizing every industry or 2.) Customer service departments not needing to ask for all of your information again when you get transferred?
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Game publisher, Sega (of Sonic the Hedgehog-fame), has recently adopted a more conservative stance toward blockchain gaming than it has historically held.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
8 months
Looking forward to speaking about the intersection of web3 & AI beginning at 11:50am PST today. Welcome you to join the panel discussion virtually by registering here.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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Metamatic Group General Partner Jason Magnus enjoyed representing us at HK Fintech Week. His panel was hosted byย Kavi Harilela and also featured Bosco Lin, Eugene Yeung, and Julia Charlton. HK๐Ÿ†™ #hongkongfintechweek2023 #metamaticgroup #digitalassetmanagement
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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Excited to support Drosera. Their approach to security is crypto-native in a way that is uniquely capital efficient and scalable. ๐Ÿซก๐Ÿซก๐Ÿซก
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Drosera
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The @DroseraNetwork team is proud to announce the closing of our oversubscribed $1.5 million Pre-Seed round. We aim to deliver capabilities in line with a decentralized ethos and introduce novel solutions to the security tapestry of Web3. READ MORE:
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1/ Apple's cryptocurrency policy is shifting and this is now being reflected in multiple announcements from high-profile crypto projects.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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I'm Hiring for an Investment Associate Role. Feel free to apply via LinkedIn and/or share with folks you think may be qualified and interested. Cheers!
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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nothing is sacred!:-)
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@crypto_condom @solana @rollbitcom You simply cannot outsmart a group of people that are this autistic. See you at $4 when we #FillTheWick THE HAT STAYS ON @CryptoHayes @blknoiz06 @dogwifcoin
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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Love Hong Kong
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ArkStream Capital
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Last night in Hong Kong, ArkStream hosted its second GP/LP private dinner. Following the ETF, it was a pleasure to collaborate with GPs from like @MH_Ventures @NomadCapital_io @Stepnofficial , as well as family offices and VCs from the Web2 such as Gaorong, YF and Ant Group to
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1 year
1/ As if to demonstrate the size of the in-game purchases market, Roblox has recently announced that, in Q1 of 2023, users were responsible for around $774 million in revenue, stemming from purchases of the universe's in-game virtual currency, Robux.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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Iโ€™M IN! Just subscribed to @borktheviking DRiP. ๐Ÿซก You can sign-up too for free here: (Use code: 38NTdH6r) @drip_haus
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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Whether this is real or not it is absolutely hilarious. When your โ€œengagementโ€ is an opportunity for your highest โ€œengagementโ€ LinkedIn post of the month!
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LinkedIn has peaked they say.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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Metamatic is excited to back @ValidationCloud . I think the markets they are competing in (Staking, Node API, and Data services) will become significantly larger as web2 enterprises expand B2B and B2B2C blockchain use cases.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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tis the 24/7 season
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1/ Starbucks' recent implementation of its NFT loyalty rewards program, Odyssey, is a lighthouse example of a traditional company leveraging blockchain-specific benefits in a drive toward increased customer-retention and engagement.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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I can't wait to teach my AI agents the concept of intersubjectivity, thus unlocking my own irrelevance
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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TAKE II: The Wallet Space (1.) The point of looking into wallets was to sharpen our thesis when it comes to identifying early stage wallets. With exciting ecosystems emerging, there may well be space for a small number of new wallets to achieve real success.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ The president and COO of traditional gaming giant, Activision Blizzard, has jumped ship to join Yuga Labs as its CEO, making an official resignation on April 1st.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ At Metamatic, we believe that one emerging trend is the use of blockchain technology/NFTs as a way for existing Web2-gaming IP to activate and engage communities, rather than NFTs and GameFi exclusively manifesting as standalone products.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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Apple store needs regulation to reduce exorbitant value extraction. Monopoly profits stifling innovation, not just in the NFT market
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Coinbase Wallet ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ
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You might have noticed you can't send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature. ๐Ÿงต
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1/ Last week, ApeCoin DAO, founded by Yuga Labs, voted to approve a proposal to establish an accelerator/incubator program to assist and grow projects building within its ecosystem and creating use cases for their native fungible token, APE.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ It was only a matter of time before the Web3 venture capital process became popularized and dramatized in the way that shows like Shark Tank and Dragons' Den have done for traditional venture and angel investing.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Lay-offs in any vertical/organization are never a pleasant affair. However, this particular instance does have a Web3-shaped silver lining.
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1/ Last week, OpenSea released the pro version of its platform, aimed at more sophisticted NFT speculators, and with additional functionality such as aggregation.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ The battle for NFT marketplace dominance rages on, despite altogether less coverage owing to the ongoing slump in NFT volumes and activity across the board.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Avalanche Network has announced a partnership with Chinese technology giant, Alibaba, to provide a Web3 metaverse launchpad - Cloudverse.
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1/ At a time when cynicism of Web3 is at an all time high, it's encouraging to see that major Web2 IP has not been intimidated. Even now, we see traditional companies looking to leverage the advantages that blockchain can bring.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ We already know about an ever-increasing list of high-profile traditional game studios that are now developing games with Web3 functionality. Some examples include:
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ The trend of Web2 gaming companies experimenting with digital assets, and NFTs in particular, now dates back years.
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5/ However, Sega is leaving its less high-profile IP (such as Three Kingdoms and Virtua Fighter) open to third party creativity, meaning its stance's bullishness has only lessened from fully-fledged adoption, to mere experimentation.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ From experimentation to implementation...
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1/ Universal is hot on the heels of the likes of Fox Entertainment when it comes to blockchain adoption, and its new vampire-flick, Renfield, starring Nicolas Cage, is recieving its own accompanying Web3 game, hosted on the Aptos blockchain...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ When it comes to successful Web2 game publishing studios adopting blockchain technology and its advantages, none were as early as Ubisoft - Creator of major gaming IP such as Assassin's Creed and Tom Clancy.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ I read an interesting Forbes piece this morning articulating the negative attention bias being suffered by the Web3 ecosystem, in the wake of Terra, Celsius, FTX, and so much more.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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6/ Emerging markets, like Web3 and NFTs, can sometimes give rise to monopolistic tendencies, which in turns creates a limited offering to the consumer. This was true of NFT marketplaces but is now beginning to wane.
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1/ Before the holidays, we published a piece on the Sui and Aptos ecosystems, and it included some examination of the existing state of the Aptos ecosystem and some of its key metrics and applications.
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1/ Stripe is a world-renowned payment service provider. It estimates that it will faciliate as much as $1 trillion in volume in 2023 and the potential impact of its recently launched fiat2crypto onramp cannot be overestimated.
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1 year
1/ A recently published report by DappRadar had some interesting takeaways, beyond decentralized application adoption, and regarding the state of the NFT ecosystem specifically.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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2/ Last week, #8611 of the famous CryptoPunks collection (currently a floor of ~50 ETH), was burned by its owner, and one-way bridged to Bitcoin, via ordinal inscription. The NFT itself is worth nearly $100,000.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Well-known software researcher, Albacore, has recently shared screenshots on social media showing a self-custodial wallet feature that is already integrated into Microsoft's Edge browser - Though the feature is not yet publicly accessible to users.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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6/ The impact of Sega's move is yet to be seen, but it now means that the publisher is lagging behind other competing blue-chip IP-holders in the gaming industry, when it comes to exploring innovative technologies.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ 11th March saw Metamask's internal swap feature hit a whopping $174.5 million in daily volume, according to data from Dune Analytics, breaking through its own ATH.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ There are a lot of factors that triggered Yuga Labs' BAYC collection's rise to become the mother of all PFP collections it is today. Celebrity involvement, partnership procurement, and so much else, is often pointed to in historical analysis.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Following on from its aquisition of the NFT marketplace in June of last year, eBay has has announced a wave of new open roles via KnownOrigin.
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1/ The Hermes v Mason Rothschild lawsuit is the first to explicitly examine the overlap between collectible-NFT popularity and intellectual law and the verdict is already in.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Perhaps overshadowed by Web3 related efforts from competitor Samsung, LG Electronics has been no stranger for blockchain technology. Indeed, the tech giant has been serving as a validator on the Hedera Hashgraph network since as early as 2020.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Though Bitcoin NFT popularity has had a very impressive run in recent weeks, functionality-rich NFTs remain the jurisdiction of Ethereum and its various scaling solutions - At least for the timebeing.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ A really good IRL example of how Web3 technology can be leveraged to improve traditional verticals. In this case, NFTs specifically.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Itโ€™s interesting to note that, for brands, NFTs can be more than a way of giving ownership, and a meaningful stake to ecosystem participants, and a way of encouraging and rewarding engagement. There exists IP that, once a household name, has since...
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4/ If activity around Bitcoin ordinals continues to grow/is maintained, the 'first CryptoPunk on Bitcoin' could be of outlandish future value. However, if interest and investment in ordinals wanes, the owner of Punk #8611 could have made a poor choice with their NFT.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ E-commerce behemoth, Shopify, has expanded its Web3/NFT offerings even further. Merchants using Venly Shopify are now offered a plug-and-play solution to design, mint, and sell NFT products based on Avalanche ($AVAX).
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ At a glance,a small legal dispute over digital handbags, the recently ignited Hermes NFT trademark battle could prove a precedent setting case for both the collectible NFT-specific business line, and the industry at large.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ The launch of Porsche's NFT collection, '911', is one piece of NFT news that has seen a great deal of media coverage over the last week - and little of it good.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ HTC are far from being the only big-tech co to be gearing up for a metaverse-driven future... Las Vegas' CES '23 saw LG too unveil it's own Web3-friendly products.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ The NFT creator-royalty debate continues... The NFT market has thrived off of generative art and Art Blocks has so far been leading the charge therein, with its NFT collections seeing more than $1.4 billion in revenue from secondary sales across other platforms.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Amazon's plan to launch an NFT marketplace in April fits with our thesis that existing large players (brands, enterprises) will play a role in expanding the base of consumers interacting with web3 technologies.
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1/ 2022 was a rough year for most all cryptocurrency projects and organizations, but perhaps more so for the Solana network, which saw network outages, and aggressive BD pushes from other ecosystems, diminish both network activity and token price.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ It's not just investors that are playing cautious with the Solana ecosystem at the moment, and seeing both NFT collections and fully-fledged applications migrate elsewhere is a common theme in headlines right now.
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1/ A recent study conducted by CoinGecko has revealed that some 75.8% of cryptocurrency-owners hold an NFT of some kind.
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1/ Just how threatening is the Blur NFT marketplace to the likes of OpenSea?
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1/ Following the UK's Spring Budget's (March '23) committment to โ€œlead on the future of web technology, sometimes known as Web3 or the metaverse"...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ Self-custody and absolute asset control is perhaps the single coolest thing about blockchain technology and what it brings to the consumer, but we still have some way to go before it's 100% ready and accessible to the masses...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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7/ Wherever NFT marketplace volumes sit in the future, it is likely that the biggest winner is the consumer, and that is precisely what the vertical needs.
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1/ Can NFTs really be valuable without scarcity...?
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Launched in 2019, MoonPay is now a Web3 household name. In late '21, it raised a staggering $555 million from the likes of Tiger Global, valued at $3.4 billion, and in H1 '22, the company raised a further $87 million from investors such as Justin Bieber, and Bruce Willis.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ The NFT lending and borrowing space has existed for years now, with a small number of (oftentimes well-backed) projects pioneering the nascent business line.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Something we didn't expect to see so soon...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Aptos Vs. Sui: Social Traction Comparison (Pt. 3) $APT & $SUI - SOCIAL SNAPSHOT: let's get to it... #AptosEcosystem #SuiEcosystem
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Dune Analytics' '22 Trends of 2022' is well worth a look. There are some interesting insights around a number of areas...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Though it may seem a long jump from the world of traditional payment processing, to the universe of Web3/NFT art, Mastercard is pushing ahead with their January-launched Web3 Artist Accelerator program.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
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1/ We certainly have serious interest in the growing functionality-centric ecosystem emerging around the Bitcoin network itself. However, that belief evidently extends beyond institutional interest...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ With the non-Ethereum generalist layer-1 blockchain vertical hotly contested, and with new competitors regularly emerging from the woodwork, such as Aptos and Sui, there may lie opportunity in purpose-specific, verticalized ecosystems.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Despite a 20% workforce reduction in mid 2022, OpenSea product development hasn't stopped. The NFT behemoth hs just rolled out a new suite of tools to ease onboarding for brands looking to launch and distribute their own NFT collections.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Leveraging pre-existing IP to make a splash in the Web3 landscape is hardly a new game. However, what is novel is the caliber of the IP being leveraged.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Since October '21, metaverse-token price action has been interesting to say the least...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
@Artemis__xyz @AuxExchange (To read Metamaticโ€™s in-depth report on Sui and Aptos, please visit our Medium page:
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ As fear around cryptocurrency volitility wanes in the aftermath of the FTX fallout, it now seems as if one can't check Web3 news outlets without coming across instance after instance of major Web2 brands moving full-throttle into the space.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Despite various Pokemon themed spin-offs launching Web3-specific projects, such as the infamous Pixelmon and their respective NFT debacle, the Japan-based The Pokemon Company, has been yet to make any tangible moves into the space.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ If the plethora of blue-chip traditional institutions and IP holders experimenting with the Web3 ecosystem is exciting, then those exploring immediate and tangible use cases are doubly so...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ There are few names larger than Amazon, when it comes to organizations embracing Web3 technology and economic models. But what has actually been said? The rumours, according to Blockworks 'exclusive' report are as follows:
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ We are now seeing some of the early green chutes of what could become a burgeoning Bitcoin functionality ecosystem.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ The overlap between blockchain and entertainment verticals continues to grow, albeit largely behind the scenes.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Overshadowed by further-reaching market events, is the growing trend of optional creator NFT royalties.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ It's been hard to miss developments around the hacking of blue-chip NFT collection, Azuki's Twitter account. In the space of less than half an hour, the better part of a million dollars had been siphoned away from compromised wallets.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ And it's not just Web2 retail brands looking to establish a Web3 presence...
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ At 254,000 ETH in cumulative trading (currently ranked 8th on OpenSea for total volume), Doodles is amongst the small handful of speculative 'blue-chip' NFT projects to not have had its value erased in the NFT winter seen over the last twelve months.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ There has been some speculation and questioning around whether NFT marketplace, Blur, can maintain the industry dominance (currently 60+% according to data from The Block) that it has established over recent months.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Typifying the thesis of verticalized blockchains being incepted by leveraging developments in foundational infrastrcuture, well-known guild, Merit Circle, is launching its own Avalanche subnet, Beam.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ We already saw blockchain technology and NFTs play a notable role in the preservation of Ukrainian history, throughout the conflict so far. Indeed, DLT is being put to use in preserving 3D renderings of much of Ukraine's historical architecture already.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ One trend that we are identifying is a shift in the nomenclature and phraseology with which Web2 brands and organizations are marketing Web3 and blockchain technology to their audiences/community.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ Since early 2021, what is generally considered the 'right way' to implement Web3 Gaming has shifted on numerous occasions - sometimes gradually, sometimes very quickly.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ It has not been a kind end to 2022 for the blockchain world. And the fact that Web3-native VCs have tightened the purse strings as a result is hardly newsworthy.
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Alexi Solit ๐Ÿค™๐Ÿพ๐ŸŒ 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐Ÿฆ„
1 year
1/ When is comes to nations with pre-existing and well-respected art communities and ancestry, you can't get much better than Italy (maybe France...).
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