Mario Nawfal

Emerging NFT niches to keep an eye on. A thread:

With a series of interest rate hikes announced for 2022, raising capital may become more challenging. If you are an employee, you may want to start exercising those stock options sooner than later.

Fact: #Roblox has the highest-paying internship programs per week. Media monthly salary: $9,667

JP Morgan is still assigning a long-term price target for #Bitcoin of $150,000!

Nomad, Stargate, Wormhole, Connext, Hop, Rainbow Bridge, Synapse… The list of crypto ‘bridges’ grows. Bridge-war will be one of the hallmarks in crypto this 2022.

#NFTs could soon be coming on Amazon.

I’ve been hearing Facebook’s organic reach is growing again. What’s your take?

The first thing to have before deciding to launch a startup: Personal branding! Unless you have some traction and community around yourself, don’t start a startup.

#Metaverse for kids is coming. Conceived by who else if not Epic Games and Fortnite.

Kevin O'Leary: #cryptocurrency will become the S&P 500's 12th sector within a decade.

Meta plans to take a 47.5% cut on each transaction of digital assets in Horizon Worlds, Meta’s own metaverse. …. vs OpenSea’s 2.5%, and LooksRare’s 2%. ?? More power to the decentralized metaverse!

@Vince_Van_Dough, @ACthecollector, and @jdh have nice collections. Check them out!

Ukraine has so far raised more than $60 million in cryptocurrency donations In addition, a $20 million contribution from the Stellar Development Foundation means that some 66,000 Ukrainian refugees will receive a wallet containing $300 of cryptocurrency. Yes, for more adoption.

Mastercard has filled 15 trademark applications for the #metaverse and NFT. Someone’s up to something!

#Coinbase is launching a short films series, based on the BAYC NFT project. Much needed.

At the end of March, Axie’s userbase had dropped to just 1.5 million. This was some 45% off of all-time highs. A dominance of Earn over Play in P2E is not sustainable. To ensure long-term loyalty P2E needs to start reprioritizing the in-game experience.

Geeky and useful: Use the following dashboard to find stats of a specific DEX pool such as volume, generated fees, TVL, token prices, yield, impermanent loss, APY - t.co/Rcf7nZ1ujI

A thread on fantastic #Web3 gaming resources I’ve come along with. Feel free to recommend your favorite ones below.

Most public bitcoin miners have failed to reach their announced growth potential in recent months. Marathon, for example, has an operating hashrate of less than half the potential they announced in September 2021. And macro fears are back.

t.co/Tte5HamFIr now shows what percentage of Ethereum L1 fees are paid by L2s. A handy little way to see the growing contribution of L2s.

This week my email subscribers at NFT Tech were able to read an insider story about ENS’s rise to glory. Sign up for the next batch here: t.co/FF8TVRs0H3

Just applied for a FREE Citizenship NFT for Satoshi Island 🏝️ @satoshiisland A real private island being turned into the crypto capital of the world! To apply for yours, go to t.co/pun0z9JzBi and click on the Citizenship tab in the menu. #satoshiisland #NFT #Airdrop

#Crypto is an area where it is almost impossible to keep track of all developments. Becoming a specialist in a certain domain could be a wise step (example: core dev, layer 2’s, public goods and DeFi.).

Almost 12,000 crypto enthusiasts flooded Miami, Florida last weekend for the world’s largest crypto conference “Bitcoin 2021. Here are the key moments (a thread):

Will Smith's slap became a Memecoin dubbed Will Smith Inu. The coin generated more than $3M in trading volume, which later collapsed to zero a week later. Just a normal day in cryptoland.

Current crypto adoption in several countries: - India – 54% - Brazil – 51% - Indonesia 41% - Singapore – 30% - Europe – 20% - USA – 17% Source: Cointelegraph survey

Few tips on staying safe in #crypto! A thread…

The 19th million #BTC has been mined a few days ago. Only two million BTC left to ever be mined – by the year 2104.

The #metaverse will spawn millions of new entrepreneurs. Excited AF!

CME will be bringing both Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA) futures contracts. In contrast, the Bitcoin and Ethereum futures contracts offered by the CME have been very popular. Excellent news for the industry.