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6 months in crypto: teaches everything you need to learn about finance, psychology, game theory - college not required.
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Arbitrum's Layer Zero: Now powering 11.5M seamless transactions. LZ = a game changer. Efficient Layer Zero enables high-speed, low-cost blockchain transactions. • Explore blockchain scalability • Embrace Layer Zero technology • Utilize cost-effective transactions
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The global macro environment is unfavorable for a sustained NFT turnaround - crypto winter still looms while the threat of recession dampens risk appetite. Today in The Index (Link: Substack) https://open.substack.com/pub/theindexmedia/p/the-nft-crash-20-is-coming?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Takeaway - FriendTech shows the potential of social tokens but still battles bots, MEV and monetization. Data can be p-hacked any way you want; but there isn’t a strong bull case for the model. Yet. More: The Index on Telegram:
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Creators also see high bot activity. @zachxbt had 82 tokens sniped for a 76 ETH bot profit. 🎯
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Trading volume spiked to $15M on 8/20 likely due to influencer promos. Engagement jumps during promotions - nothing new here but evidence that influence on Twitter is translating strongly to influence on FT
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High number of transactions fail due to MEV issues like sandwich attacks. Hurts legit traders through lost funds 🥪
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Troubling bot activity sniping new token drops - 125 bots have sniped 21,873 keys and profited $2.1M so far 🤖
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Rapid user growth with 119,907 traders but TVL remains low at just $5.8M. Huge potential to drive engagement and value per user from this base 📈
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Analyzing some key data points on FriendTech, the popular social token trading platform 🧵
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DeFi isn't about disrupting traditional finance. It's about replacing it. The institutions will either adapt or be left behind.
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DeFi is the unruly teen of the financial world. A rebel with a cause, shaking up traditional banking systems, and challenging the status quo. Imagine a world where financial middlemen are obsolete. No banks, no lenders, just you, your assets, and a plethora of global opportunities. That's DeFi.
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The Index: Deep web3 knowledge Written for makers x builders No shills No pump and dumps No undisclosed relationships No hype machines Everything fact checked
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The @theindex report on VC/grant funding in web3 for July to date has landed. TL:DR - less than $20m raised, compared to roughly $265,058,300 in the same period in 2022. We've got a long way to climb back up folks. https://www.theindex.media/p/web3-funding-data-july-to-date
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Web3 Funding Dives By 80% (Surprising Nobody) My data analysis from this past weekend revealed a turbulent first quarter for web3 funding in 2023. That reporting is borne out by data released this week... https://www.theindex.media/p/web3-funding-dives-by-80-surprising
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Building in public. Slowly. Organically. @theindex is an indie tech publication I'm actively building, writing, and dedicating my time to.
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Meta's Threads, a new text-based platform, gains traction with 30 million sign-ups in 24 hours 👀 + Binance executives resigning, unexplained outflows from Multichain bridges, & the drop in crypto trading volume... https://www.theindex.media/p/musks-ego-teeters-amid-twitter-meta
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Serendipity frequently gets brushed off as mere luck or coincidence, though it might carry more weight in innovation than we typically acknowledge. sd https://www.theindex.media/p/the-serendipity-effect-harnessing?sd=pf
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San Francisco-based data management company Databricks is set to purchase generative AI startup MosaicML in a $1.3 billion deal designed to empower businesses to create their own low-cost, personalized language models. 💸 https://beyondthelab.substack.com/p/databricks-acquires-mosaicml
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We’re witnessing a revolution in HK: the opening of digital assets - and asset derivatives - to the ordinary investor. HSBC, a banking juggernaut in Hong Kong, has begun offering its customers Bitcoin and ETH futures Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). @theindex https://www.theindex.media/p/hk-hsbc-etf-btc-eth-wtf
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