Crypto Pulse #22 - Crypto prices yo-yo after Fed rate hike 🪀 Friday, 23rd Sep 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Crypto prices "yo yo" after a rate hike by the Fed - what's next for the markets after the ETH merge ? (source) 📌 Liquidity provider Wintermute, which provides liquidity across most CeFi and DeFi exchanges, has suffered a major setback in a second security-based incident this year (source) 📌 FTX is in talks to raise up to $1 billion at valuation of about $32 billion, in-line with prior round (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Bitcoin remains flat at around $19k. Ripple is in the limelight, gaining 22% on the day (source) 📌 Solana based transactions have reached the 100 billion milestone in 2 years (source) 📌 Coinbase continues its aggressive expansion in Europe, with the latest regulatory approval coming from Netherlands (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 NFT floor prices have fallen over the week, with Bored Ape's Market Cap Drops 21% (source) 📌 Chiru Labs, the creator of Azuki NFT collection, is raising at least $30 million in an upcoming Series A funding round (source) 📌 Why is the Indian NFT market still largely untapped ? The CEO of Totality Corp explains... (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

‼️Be careful of SCAMS ‼️ Dear Genesians, please note that there is No Airdrop ongoing at this moment. Please note that no GS Team Members/Admins will PM to you first and Ask for funds/Add you to any group/ ask you to confirm your wallet. Official GS Announcement channel -

t.me

Crypto Pulse #21 - Will a major Fed announcement affect Crypto this week ? 🤔 Tuesday, 20th Sep 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Another week of major macro updates is here - we could see the largest Fed rate hike in 40 years. So what are the key announcements that could affect the market this week ? (source) 📌 Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon is at risk of an Interpol red notice. An arrest warrant has been issued by South Korea against Kwon, founder of TerraUSD and Luna - that wiped out reportedly $60 billion in the cryptocurrency market (source) 📌 In an interview with CNBC's Squawk Box, Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX, stated that the exchange had at least $1 billion available for acquisitions and bailouts (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 After reaching a multi month low last week, the crypto market has recovered some ground , with BTC rebounding above $19k (source) 📌 As Ethereum declined to 2-month lows post merge, it triggered over $400M in liquidations (source) 📌 Consumers are being cautioned by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority about the exchange FTX, which it claims is not permitted by the authority to provide financial services or goods in the nation (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 NFTs can now be brought to Grand Theft Auto V and Minecraft, as per Enjin and MyMetaverse (source) 📌 Japanese gaming giants such as Bandai Namco & Sega are positioning for mainstream blockchain game adoption, and are not being swayed by a section of gamers that are against crypto and NFTs (source) 📌 Lamborghini has launched its second NFT collection of "The Epic Road Trip". This campaign consists of monthly drops that will run until March 2023 (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

☯️ Announcing the brand new GenShards Discord Genesis Shards is now on Discord ! 📌 Link to Discord Server :https://discord.gg/KetbQXHD Hop into the group and... 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Interact with our team and fellow community members 💬 Know about GS product launches before anywhere else 🏆 Take part in Discord-only competitions and giveaways 🐧 Spread the word - retweet

Crypto Pulse #20 - The Much Awaited ETH Merge is Complete! 🎉 Friday, 16th Sep 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 After years of development and delay, the enormous Ethereum redesign known as the Merge has finally taken place. This has transferred the digital machinery for the crypto asset to a system that uses a great deal less energy (source) 📌 FTX has emerged as the highest bidder for Voyager Digital, which had filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Will the deal be closed or are higher offers expected? (source) 📌 A United States senator criticised the SEC for not releasing the crypto framework and urged the Congress to intervene (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 After the merge, BTC is trading sub-$20k, and ETH dropped to a multi-week low (source) 📌 A court in South Korea issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs. LUNA dropped ~20% after this news. (source) 📌 After the merge, ETH has shed the "energy intensive" image associated with proof of work mining. The new "green ETH" narrative can drive investment and adoption, as per experts (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 As per an Animoca Brands subsidiary, blockchain game developers need to focus more on making their games "interesting to play" instead of creating fancy tokenomics (source) 📌 The Ethereum PoS transition may be beneficial to the NFT ecosystem (source) 📌 Holders of Blue-Chip NFTs are now eligible for an IRL rewards program, modeled on AMEX rewards (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

❌IMPORTANT NOTICE: 📌 Temporary TG Chat for GenShards Will be Closed!! 👉 The main chat is up and running again!! 👉 Thanks for your patience🤝 Here's the Link:

t.me

Crypto Pulse # 19 - A Bitcoin Battle has begun in Norway... ⚔️ Tuesday, 13th Sep 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 A legal battle in Norway may have a significant impact on the future of Bitcoin's growth. This involves a lawsuit by a pseudonymous bitcoiner Hodlonaut against Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto (source) 📌 Search engine Google has added a countdown feature for Ethereum’s (ETH) upcoming merge - as global interest in this upgrade is rising sharply (source) 📌 Fidelity customers may soon be able to buy Bitcoin via the company’s brokerage platform, according to The Wall Street Journal (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Bitcoin reached a 3-week high of $22k+, and bitcoin dominance increased by 2% over the last few days (source) 📌 Keep an eye out on these 3 major events in the coming week - which can have a major impact on the crypto market (source) 📌 Prominent crypto exchange Huobi Global will delist seven privacy tokens next week amid broader regulatory scrutiny of such tokens (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Starbucks will launch its official NFT Rewards loyalty program tagged “Starbucks Odyssey” on Ethereum’s (ETH) layer2 Polygon (MATIC) network later this year (source) 📌 NFT artworks portraying Queen Elizabeth II flooded the marketplace within minutes of the announcement of her death on Thursday in the U.K., with many people paying tribute to the longest reigning British monarch (source) 📌 The Japanese government has become one of the first to issue NFTs to reward the work of local authorities who have excelled at using digital technology to solve local challenges (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

Crypto Pulse#18 -El Salvador celebrates 1st "Bitcoin Birthday"🎉 Friday, 9th Sep 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 El Salvador celebrated its first "bitcoin birthday" on 7th Sept, marking a year of adopting it as legal tender. What have been the effects of this unprecedented move ? (source) 📌 According to a new study, these are the five worst countries for crypto taxation (source) 📌 A $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin has expanded (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 The crypto market cap crosses USD 1 trillion again, as BTC reclaims $20k and ETH crosses $1.7k (source) 📌 The next Bitcoin bull market is underway, as per Pantera Capital's CEO (source) 📌 DeFi project New Free DAO lost over $1.25 million in a flash loan attack, as per PeckShield. The price of the NFD token has dropped by over 99% (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Sony Music Entertainment, a major record company, has filed for trademarks related to NFTs and the Metaverse (source) 📌 Sorare is taking on NBA Top Shot with an Ethereum NFT-Based fantasy NBA game (source) 📌 Ford, the American car manufacturer, is jumping on the Metaverse bandwagon, according to its recent trademark applications (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

🕔 Listing today for Metacraft at 2AM UTC 👉 You can redeem your Genticket NFT for tokens on app.genshards.com after listing 👉 Steps to redeem NFT for tokens can be found here 👉 Chain - BNB Chain 📌 Follow the official Metacraft channels for updates on TGE: Twitter | Telegram

🀄️ Metacraft - Flash Sale - now live ! 🀄️ ⌛️Sale only from 1PM - 5PM UTC today 🚩Metacraft is the first-ever Multi-chain NFT dApp-based platform (link to research report) ✨ TGE is tomorrow - 9Sep, 2AM UTC | 100% unlock at TGE ✨ 👉 Whitelisting is not required for this sale. Only KYC is necessary 👉 Take part on app.genshards.com (connect to BNB chain, currency is BUSD) Retweet - Link

💸 Crypto Pulse #17 - Saudi Arabia Appoints Crypto Expert for CBDC Program Tuesday, 6th Sep 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Saudi Arabia’s banking regulator recently appointed crypto expert Mohsen AlZahrani to lead its virtual assets and central bank digital currency program in a sign of the Gulf state’s potential crypto ambitions (source) 📌 US Congressman Brad Sherman said that crypto has too much money and power and can not be banned in the near future (source) 📌 Former MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor said that the company is creating software that would easily connect more people and companies to the Bitcoin Lightning Network (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Bitcoin has stalled around the $20k mark, as altcoins also have been "quiet" over the last few days - both volume and volatility of the market have plunged (source) 📌 After the Merge, ETH will no longer be mineable. What are the other options for miners after this ? (source) 📌 Researcher Kyle McDonald suggests BTC may crash after the ETH merge (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Rug Pull Finder (RPF), an NFT watchdog aiming to look for Web3.0-oriented frauds, has reportedly been at the receiving end of a smart contract exploit of its own (source) 📌 LG Electronics said today it has released its NFT platform "LG Art Lab", which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG’s smart TVs (source) 📌 FIFA will launch an NFT platform ‘FIFA+ Collect’ for digital collectibles with soccer themes ahead of the much-awaited 2022 World Cup in Qatar, in partnership with Algorand (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

Crypto Pulse #16 - Celsius users approach bankruptcy court ⚖️ Friday, 2nd Sep 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Celsius custodial service users are petitioning a bankruptcy court, in an attempt to force the lender to repay them (source) 📌 Wave Financial, a US based $1.5b fund made its first acquisition in Europe amidst "unprecedented demand among investors for access to digital assets". It is also plotting further deals taking advantage of the ‘fire sale’ environment (source) 📌 MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor is being sued for alleged tax fraud in Washington, D.C. (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 As Bitcoin continues battling the 20k level, altcoins mostly remain in the red (source) 📌 Open interest in crypto futures is outpacing market size - this increases the odds that high volatility is about to come into the market (source) 📌 Ethereum-based asset management protocol Babylon Finance is going to shut shop in November after failing to recover from the impact of April’s $80 million exploit on Rari Capital (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 OpenSea is going to exclusively support Ethereum PoS NFTs following the Merge, and any "forked" NFTs are not going to be supported (source) 📌 Axie Infinity NFT sales continue to suffer due to reduced interest from collectors. It now has 4 consecutive months with sub $10M sales (source) 📌 The Luxury brand Hermès has filed a trademark application for its name with plans to expand into the metaverse (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

🌍 Crypto Pulse #15 - Iran allows imports to be paid in Crypto Tuesday, 30th Aug 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Iran has passed a regulation that would allow cryptocurrencies to be used as payment for imports. The country has already conducted one such transaction, which was reportedly worth $10 million (source) 📌 Crypto lender Hodlnaut has been placed under interim judicial management by the Singapore High Court, after it suspended withdrawals earlier this month. Judicial management allows a financially distressed company to be restructured under court supervision (source) 📌 The US Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a new warning focused on attacks against decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, saying that cybercriminals are exploiting vulnerabilities in the smart contracts that govern them (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 As US Fed remains committed to keep raising rates to control inflation, Bitcoin fell below $20k on Sunday. But it has since recovered back above the key level (source) 📌 FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, clarified that there are no plans to acquire cryptocurrency exchange giant Huobi, contrary to previous reports (source) 📌 10,000 Bitcoin which were dormant since 2013 have left their wallet - which has left BTC hodlers wondering if a "price top" is nearing (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Meta has announced that Facebook now supports NFTs fully. Users can connect their wallets to Facebook and display their NFTs on their profiles (source) 📌 BAYC has flipped Cryptopunks in the all time sales ranking, driven by popularity among celebrities coupled with increasing interest by individual collectors (source) 📌 The team behind Art Blocks, the generative NFT project of technicolor squiggles, has launched a new product allowing creative teams to launch their own generative assets (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

📉 Crypto Pulse Issue #14 - Bitcoin gets rejected at $22k Friday, 26th Aug 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find the highlights below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Bitcoin gets rejected at $22k…but has Bitcoin’s decline prior to the Fed meeting made room for a “buy the fact” rally? (source) 📌 New amendments to US commercial code will differentiate between crypto and ‘electronic money’. “Electronic money” is included in the revised category of “money” and signifies fiat digital currencies - which will include CBDCs (source) 📌 Samsung, the South Korea-based global tech behemoth, could likely be part of a wider plan to launch a Bitcoin and crypto exchange in the first half of 2023 (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Could the Ethereum merge - the most anticipated crypto event of the year - already be priced in ? (source) 📌 What can MATIC holders expect after the ETH merge ? (source) 📌 As the US midterms are bringing student-debt forgiveness, could this potentially free up cash and lead to a crypto rally ? (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Social media network Reddit has begun airdropping its Polygon-based “Collectible Avatars” as the first step towards a wider push for including blockchain technology (source) 📌 Over $100 million in NFTs have been stolen in the last year, according to a new report by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic (source) 📌 'The Sims' creator Will Wright has raised $6 million from VC firm Griffin Gaming Partners to foray into blockchain gaming (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

✨ Whitelists for Sportzchain are now open 📌 Chain - Polygon , Currency - USDT As per community interest, we have decided to reopen whitelists for Sportzchain 🎮 Sportzchain — the world’s first engage-to-earn (E2E) platform for sports fans powered by sports tokens (fan token 2.0), watch 2 earn, fan commerce and gamefi 📌 Link to Research Report 👉 Open to Access Club & Community 👉 Open Community - please fill this form | Access Clubs - forms will be shared in respective groups 🐧 Retweet

📈 Crypto Pulse Issue # 13 - Miners capitulate : but will BTC still lose $21k? Tuesday, August 23, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find a summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Will BTC lose the $21K level in spite of miner capitulation? Also, a key Federal Reserve event in Jackson Hole is coming up this week - which could affect crypto and risk assets in general (source) 📌 The largest online brokerage firm in Japan, SBI Holdings, is planning to shut down crypto mining operations in Russia, adding to the instability already present in the country due to U.S. sanctions (source) 📌 Supporters of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev gathered in Amsterdam to protest over the weekend, almost two weeks after he was arrested in the Dutch capital (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 After losing ~14% on the week, the crypto market cap is back to $ 1 trillion (source) 📌 As a direct impact of the tumbling Bitcoin (BTC) prices, miner revenue has dropped to a 1-year low (source) 📌 Staking in Ethereum 2.0 is increasing dramatically, as the merge moves closer (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Global investment management firm Invesco is set to launch the Invesco Metaverse Fund, in a move that will see it invest in a range of companies globally from across the ecosystem (source) 📌 Dozens of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs purchased with borrowed money sit dangerously close to being forcibly sold. There's worry that this could lead to even more liquidations (source) 📌 After being at the receiving end of internet ridicule, Mark Zuckerberg has changed his metaverse avatar (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

Hello everyone. Please note that the refunds for Kala Network have been processed for everyone who returned their NFT successfully.

📈 Crypto Pulse Issue # 12 - Market sees Red as Analysts Fear Fed Decision Friday, August 19, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find a summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Will the Fed dash any hopes of easing rates in 2023 ? Bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and S&P 500 futures are seeing weakness, amidst such fears (source) 📌 South Korea is cracking down on unregistered crypto exchanges, with a ban that will affect major exchanges like Poloniex and Kucoin (source) 📌 Coinbase’s CEO says the crypto exchange will abandon Ethereum staking if threatened by regulatory agencies (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 It appears that the era of troubles for stablecoins is yet to be over, as yet another one seems to be crashing. HUSD, a stablecoin created by the Huobi crypto exchange dropped to $0.92 (source) 📌 Meme coins like DOGE and SHIB are rallying again, outperforming BTC & ETH. Though this has historically foreshadowed a market-wide crash, analysts say this time it’s different (source) 📌 The three largest Bitcoin mining companies in the United States have collectively lost over $1 billion in Q2 2022. They have sold coins and mining gear to help recoup losses (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Meta is launching Horizon Worlds in France and Spain to expand its social platform for virtual reality (VR) - expanding beyond Canada, the UK, and the US, where it is already available (source) 📌 Amidst the crypto market’s bearishness, a BAYC NFT sold for 777 Eth, worth US$1.4 million (source) 📌 Actor Anthony Hopkins is set to launch an NFT Collection inspired by his film roles and artwork (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

✨ NFTO Sale is currently live for SportzChain 📌 Chain - Polygon , Currency - USDT 👉 Sale is now live on GS Market for whitelisted participants To participate, 👉 You should have been whitelisted for the NFTO 👉 You should also have completed your KYC on the GS WebApp 👉 Steps for purchasing your GenTicket on the GS WebApp can be found here 📌 Link to Research Report 👇

docsend.com

🐧 Retweet

Results are out for SportzChain 🔥 🚩Sportzchain is the first engage-to-earn (E2E) platform for sports fans ⛹️‍♂️ Congratulations to the whitelist winners ! ( list can be found here ) 📌 Next : Please complete your KYC on the GS Market (if not done already) 📌 The NFTO pool will open on GS Market at 1PM UTC on 17Aug 📌 Chain will be Polygon Chain, currency - MATIC 🗣 Retweet - link - - - Stay tuned to our social channels !! 📺 Medium | Twitter | Telegram community | Telegram announcements channel

📈 Crypto Pulse Issue # 11 - Tornado Cash in Trouble Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find a summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Netherlands has arrested a suspected dev of the crypto anonymity service Tornado Cash, days after US sanctions (source) 📌 Kevin O’Leary says sacrificing Tornado Cash is "worth it" for institutional adoption (source) 📌 The Democratic Republic of Congo is opening up oil auctions to crypto and carbon firms (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 After spiking above $25,000 to a new two-month high, bitcoin was violently rejected at that point and dumped by more than $1,000 in hours (source) 📌 Acala’s stablecoin (aUSD) lost its peg to the dollar and plummeted by more than 99% after hackers issued 1.3B tokens (source) 📌 Here are 5 common misconceptions regarding the upcoming Ethereum Merge (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 NFT sales showed improvement this week, with high volumes being observed on Fantom and Immutable X (source) 📌 Could street art be the new connection between virtual and real life NFT experiences? (source) 📌 The Co-Creator of Rick and Morty has released a series of NFTs for the upcoming animated series Krapopolis (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

📈 Crypto Pulse Issue # 10 - Crypto marketcap reaches multi-month high Friday, August 12, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find a summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 The crypto market cap has gone to a multi-month high on favorable inflation numbers, BTC and ETH spiked above $24,500 and $1,900, respectively (source) 📌 Hotbit has suspended crypto trading, deposits and withdrawals because law-enforcement authorities have frozen some of the firm's funds during a criminal investigation into a former employee (source) 📌 Coinbase says it's being probed by the SEC over its staking programs, which allow users to earn rewards for holding certain cryptos (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Social metrics indicate the crypto community isn’t behind the latest market rebound, according to the analytics firm Santiment (source) 📌 5 predictions on how the crypto market may look like in 5 years' time (source) 📌 LongHash Ventures – an Asian investment firm and accelerator that’s geared towards web 3 – has announced a $100 million venture fund for the decentralized web (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Trading volume for CryptoPunks soared by 25% overnight, with punk #8576 being the most expensive sale during the period (source) 📌 Since its top in Dec21, the fractionalized NFT market has lost more than 76% in value (source) 📌 Leading Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden, which entered into Ethereum just last week, has revealed a proposal to build an official ApeCoin marketplace for Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

⏰ AMA in 1 Hour with Sportzchain 🚩Sportzchain is the first engage-to-earn (E2E) platform for sports fans ⛹️‍♂️ We will have an AMA with Siddharth Jaiswal, Founder/CEO and Vinayak Yannam, Co-Founder/CBO at Sportzchain 👉 Date : 10Aug, 1PM UTC 👉 Venue : t.me/genshardsCHAT 🐧 Retweet

📢 Announcing GenShards x Sportzchain Word Scramble Event Post your solution, by marking the answers on the 📸screenshot of the scramble, in the comment section of this tweet, using the Gleam link👇

gleam.io

🔑The key to solving this is hidden in the questions below👇: 1️⃣ What's the name of the project? 2️⃣ SPORTZCHAIN is world's 1st ____ platform 3️⃣ What's the ticker for Sportzchain token? 4️⃣ What's the other name for Fan token? 🔃Do not forget to use #genpadpartners #Sportzchain $gs when you quote retweet & share☺️ ⏳Contest ends 11Aug22 Retweet

🚩The first engage-to-earn (E2E) platform for sports fans — Sportzchain lands on Genpad ! 🎮 Sportzchain — the world’s first engage-to-earn (E2E) platform for sports fans powered by sports tokens (fan token 2.0), watch 2 earn, fan commerce and gamefi ✨Whitelists are now open ! ✨ 👉 Open to Access Club & Community | Closes 1pm UTC on Thu, 11 Aug 2022 👉 Open Community - please fill this form | Access Clubs - go to app.genshards.com/market (POLYGON Chain <MATIC>) 👉 Access Club eligibility requires tokens staked in an Access Pool or Liquidity Pool (more details here) 📌 Details in this Medium Post 📌 Link to Research Report 🗣 Spread the word - Retweet - - - Stay tuned to our social channels !! 📺 Medium | Twitter | Telegram community

📈 Crypto Pulse Issue # 9 - What's up with Inflation and the Markets? Tuesday, August 9, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find a summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Is it possible that US Inflation may have topped out? Bitcoin keeps trucking higher after a good weekly close (source) 📌 Crypto financial services firm Galaxy Digital (GLXY) reported second quarter net loss of $554.7 million, more than triple the amount for the same period last year. This seems mainly due to the crypto market downturn (source) 📌 A Deloitte study has concluded that blockchain makes a lot of sense for use in commercial real estate processes like leasing and sales (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Markets look green as Bitcoin tested $24K and BNB spiked to a 2-Month High (source) 📌 Binance said on Friday it doesn’t own India-based platform WazirX in a move that has baffled industry players, including the Indian firm that insists the purchase did take place (source) 📌 The Optimism protocol grew rapidly over past month as developer activity seems to be on a clear uptrend (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Meta has rolled out NFT support for Instagram users in over 100 countries (source) 📌 The NFT sales volume for Immutable X has hit a low for the year of 2022, dropping more than $48 Million (source) 📌 Popular Ethereum competitor Avalanche has gained double-digits as NFTs on the network gain traction (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

🔊 AMA Alert - Sportzchain We will have an AMA with Siddharth Jaiswal, Founder/CEO and Vinayak Yannam, Co-Founder/CBO at Sportzchain 👉 Date : 10Aug, 1PM UTC 👉 Venue : t.me/genshardsCHAT 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

✅ Kala Network - 100% Refund to the Community 👉 As per the community vote outcome, we have opened the option for Kala NFT holders to return their NFTs and claim a refund 👉 The option to return NFT will be right next to the redeem button for your NFT on the dashboard 👉 The option to return will be open till 18Aug2022 Kindly note that refunds will be processed within 3 days after the return window closes Retweet

🧑‍💻 Crypto Pulse Issue # 8 - The Solana Hackers Strike Friday, August 5, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find a summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor is stepping down as the CEO of the software company he co-founded, MicroStrategy, and will instead take on the role of executive chairman, to “focus on the Bitcoin strategy” (source) 📌 BlackRock is set to offer Crypto for institutional investors through Coinbase Prime (source) 📌 GitHub faces widespread malware attacks affecting projects, including crypto (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Nearly $6m has been drained from accounts linked to the Solana crypto network after a hacker targeted 8,000 wallets.The Solana Foundation said a “malicious actor” had taken funds from a number of wallets linked to Solana (source) 📌 An estimated $2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 separate hacks so far this year according to the latest report by blockchain data firm Chainalysis (source) 📌 A rare signal has emerged which hints at a Bitcoin price bottom (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Textbook publisher Pearson plans to profit from secondhand sales by turning its titles into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) (source) 📌 Pre-Framed NFTs are attempting to make crypto art more approachable (source) 📌 Following Minecraft’s outright ban on in-game NFTs, some blockchain-based projects have been forced to find new homes (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

📈 Crypto Pulse Issue # 7 - Rally Continues Among Macro Fears Tuesday, August 2, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue || 🐧 Read the tweet thread ||👇You can also find a summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Crypto prices continued to rally over the past week while the global macroeconomic environment was worsening and fears of a recession grew (source) 📌 Honduras has launched a ‘Bitcoin Valley’ in the tourist town of Santa Lucia. The goal is to encourage tourism, with 60 businesses initially offering the payment feature (source) 📌 Israel has put in place further restrictions on cash payments as a means to combat illegal activity and spur digital payments in the country - and other countries may soon follow (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Crypto markets stabilized in July with no final capitulation event as many had predicted. There is now around $140 Billion sitting in stablecoins waiting to re-enter markets when the time is right (source) 📌 Ether-based derivatives are heating up as large traders increasingly speculate on the cryptocurrency’s upcoming transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake (source) 📌 Memecoins battled it out in the month of July with Shib outperforming Dogecoin by a good margin (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Blockchain gaming and the Metaverse have managed to “sidestep” the collapse of Terra in May — though decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) haven’t been so lucky, a report says (source) 📌 Luxury jewelry brand Tiffany & Co has announced the sale of 250 diamond and gemstone encrusted pendants for CryptoPunk nonfungible token (NFT) holders (source) 📌 Vitalik Buterin is confident that the Metaverse will happen but doesn’t think “any of the existing corporate attempts to intentionally create the Metaverse are going anywhere.” (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !

📈 Crypto Pulse Issue # 6 - The Markets Rally 📈 Friday, July 29, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Read the issue | 🐧 Tweet thread | 👇 Summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Crypto markets have rallied in spite of an interest rate hike by the Fed on Wednesday - why could this be? (source) 📌 The IMF has played down the impact of the crypto market crash on global financial stability but warned of more gloom and uncertainty ahead (source) 📌 Amid an economic collapse, Nigerians are rushing to buy Bitcoin and stablecoins, as per report (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Ethereum hits an all-time-high for number of daily active addresses, surpassing prior high by 50% (source) 📌 Cathie Wood, one of the most popular investors globally, has sold off Coinbase Stock. Is it a classic case of “buy high sell low”? (source) 📌 After hitting some key milestones in the first half of 2022, Polygon has laid out its plans for second half of the year (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 Mark Zuckerberg remains unfazed despite a $2.8B quarterly loss for the Metaverse division (source) 📌 NFT tooling company Center raised $11 million in a seed funding round, as per a company announcement on Thursday (source) 📌 The Queen of Pop Madonna has her eyes on a particular BAYC NFT worth $1.3M (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word and retweet !

🚩 Kala Network NFTO - Community Vote 👉 We understand that a lot of the Kala NFTO participants want clarity on what's next 👉 We have discussed your concerns with the team in detail. As per the Kala team : 1️⃣ The IDO launch is planned for September 2022 2️⃣ Kala NFTs will allow users to engage with their platform and earn rewards 3️⃣ Kala is going to give lottery tickets (equivalent to $360) to every NFTO investor, if a refund is not requested 👉 We have decided to open the decision to a community vote 📌 Should GenShards proceed with Kala Network ? - If the majority vote is yes, then we will proceed with Kala Network (and participants will get a lottery ticket as mentioned) - If the vote is no - then Kala Network will provide a refund to the investors ✨Please cast your vote here - voting window will remain open for one week :

www.app.genshards.com

Retweet

🔍 The Crypto Pulse Newsletter - Issue # 5 🔍 Tuesday, July 26, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Link to issue | 🐧 Tweet thread | 👇Summary below ⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Bitcoin prepares for a potentially tense week of rate hikes, earnings and more - will the Fed prevent further BTC upside? - source 📌 Troubled Crypto Exchange Zipmex says it is mulling possible offers with interested parties for a deal - source 📌 Tesla may take a $460 million impairment charge on its sizable bitcoin holdings for the second quarter, according to a note from Barclays analyst Brian Johnson - source 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 The crypto market cap is down by about $50 billion daily as bitcoin, as well as most altcoins, have turned red - source 📌 Ethereum researcher, Vivek Raman, believes that Ethereum’s upcoming proof-of-stake (PoS) transition will enable it to take over Bitcoin’s (BTC) position as the most prominent cryptocurrency - source 📌 Crypto lender Voyager Digital Holdings has rejected an offer from Alameda Ventures to buy out its digital assets, calling it 'Low-ball Bid Dressed Up as a White Knight Rescue' - source 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 As per a class action lawsuit, Yuga Labs ‘inappropriately induced’ BAYC investors - source 📌 OpenSea volume shows dismal performance among top NFT sets - source 📌 Heavy NFT regulations in China lead to Tencent closing its marketplace a year after launch - source 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word and retweet !

🔍 The Crypto Pulse Newsletter - Issue # 4 🔍 Friday, July 22, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Link to issue :-

www.getrevue.co

⛰Macro Landscape 📌 Crypto market cap remains above $1 trillion despite Tesla selling 75% of its Bitcoin holdings - source 📌 The World Economic Forum is looking to hire a blockchain and cryptocurrency lead. They join a growing list of major organizations turning their attention to a future which includes digital assets in an significant role - source 📌 A new UK bill seeks to regulate stablecoins as a form of payment. This follows the EU's approach of regulating stablecoins - source 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 Venture Capital firms have invested $29 billion in crypto firms this year so far, in spite of the market downturn - source 📌 The third-Largest Bitcoin Whale has transferred all their BTC Holdings to Coinbase. As BTC has gained some ground recently , could they be looking to seize the opportunity ? - source 📌 South Korean prosecutors have raided a number of local cryptocurrency exchanges and offices as part of an inquiry into the collapse of the digital currency Luna - source 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 The Developer Behind Minecraft - the World’s Best-Selling Video Game - Has No Intentions of Using Blockchain and NFTs within the game - source 📌 NFTs from the super popular 'Final Fantasy' series are coming to Polkadot, in a partnership between the game publisher "Square Enix" and Enjin - source 📌 A major Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT hodler lost 100 Ether (ETH), worth $150,000, as a result of a joke bid on his own registered Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain - source 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word and retweet !

🔍 The Crypto Pulse Newsletter - Issue # 3 🔍 Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Link to issue :-

www.getrevue.co

⛰Macro Landscape 📌 How the new crypto regulations in the EU can affect stablecoins - "burdensome but not a threat" (source) 📌 India’s introduction of new crypto taxes negatively impacted overall trading, forcing entrepreneurs to move to friendlier jurisdictions (source) 📌 Bitcoin is set to serve as a reserve asset in the Central African Republic. It was recently approved as legal tender in the African state following a proposal from key lawmakers (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 The downturn in the crypto market could lead to new M&A opportunities, according to Galaxy Digital's top deal maker (source) 📌 Forced selling from Bitcoin miners could put downward pressure on BTC price, but the use of renewable energy and the oil and gas industry’s growing interest in BTC are longterm positives (source) 📌 As per Glassnode, Bitcoin hodling activity resembles prior market bottoms (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌 NFT trading volumes declined 74% from the month of May to June,as per data by Block Research (source) 📌 OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace in the world, has cut its workforce by 20% to reduce costs (source) 📌 Despite the sluggish market, CryptoPunks have continued their strong performance, with a $2.6M sale this week (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for a more detailed breakdown of what's hot in the Web3 world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word and retweet !

📊 The Crypto Pulse Newsletter - Issue # 2 Friday, July 15, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 👉 Link to issue :-

www.getrevue.co

⛰Macro Landscape 📌US Inflation as tracked by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose to 9.1% in June, to a new 40-year high. This has exceeded economist forecasts, and risk markets including Bitcoin reacted negatively to the news (source) 📌A new report from the European Central Bank (ECB) finds that climate change may force carbon taxes on crypto transactions as well as a ban on mining proof-of-work assets like Bitcoin (source) 📌India’s securities watchdog (SEBI) is planning to heavily utilize blockchain tech for monitoring and recording of financial instruments, beginning next year. This is a key milestone in blockchain adoption within India’s financial ecosystem (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌Celsius has filed for bankruptcy proceedings in the US going back on previous calls to resist to resist doing so (source) 📌 Blockchain firm Polygon is one of six companies that will take part in Disney’s accelerator program this year (source) 📌 The total value locked in Avalanche’s DeFi ecosystem has swelled to $1.8 billion in the last month due to a boost in incentives - but will the users stay? (source) 🀄️ NFTs and Metaverse 📌A UK court has allowed a lawsuit to be delivered via NFT (source) 📌Playboy is set to enter the metaverse via Sandbox. Playboy will add to its Web3 offerings by launching a “MetaMansion” that will host gaming and social events, along with NFT collectible releases (source) 📌Sports legend Tony Hawk is venturing into the world of blockchain games in a partnership with The Sandbox. Hawk will be building a virtual skate park in the Sandbox (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for a more detailed breakdown of what's hot in the Web3 world (do not miss the memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! 🐧 Spread the word and retweet !

📊 The Crypto Pulse Newsletter - Issue # 1 📊 Wednesday, July 6, 2022 | Powered by GenShards 🌎 Top stories from the world of crypto/web3 - 📌 As per a Bank of England warning, prices of risk-on assets including cryptocurrencies could be further affected by recession risks, supply shocks and monetary policy tightening by central banks (source) 📌 Sen. Cynthia Lummis says her crypto regulatory framework would split oversight between the CFTC and SEC (source) 📌 On Tuesday, Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs traded the first block trade of Bitcoin futures in Asian markets, according to Bitcoin Magazine (source) 📌 The UK government is seeking views on the taxation of cryptoasset loans and staking within the context of Decentralised Finance (DeFi) (source) 📌 Meta is closing down its cryptocurrency digital wallet Novi less than a year after its launch, effectively ending the company's crypto ambitions (source) 👇 See our full newsletter for a more detailed breakdown of what's hot in the Web3 world (be sure to check out the dank memes 😉)

www.getrevue.co

⌛️The NFT Reveal Hour ⌛️ Reveal 3/4 - Metacraft x Genshards 📌 Metacraft - Gold Edition NFT "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." - Democritus 🗣 Retweet

twitter.com

⌛️The NFT Reveal Hour ⌛️ Reveal 2/4 - Metacraft x Genshards 📌 Metacraft - Pink Edition NFT "You can never wrong with a little pink, a lot works too." – Dana Dalgetty 🗣 Retweet

twitter.com