Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets, Kaiko

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Data-Driven Analysis of Cryptocurrency Markets

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<ul><li>“An estimated $100bn investment in an unknown future is super-sized and terrifying, even by Silicon Valley standards…the age of excess is over - big tech companies need to lose some weight and get into shape and earn the right to win the next major wave of innovation”.</li><li>These were comments made this week by Altimeter Capital CEO and investor in Meta, Brad Gerstner, in an open letter to the Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding their $10bn a year investment in the metaverse.</li><li>Meta, formerly Facebook, made a monumental pivot last year to capitalize on the explosive growth of the metaverse. </li></ul>

“An estimated $100bn investment in an unknown future is super-sized and terrifying, even by Silicon Valley standards…the age of excess is over - big tech companies need to lose some weight and get into shape and earn the right to win the next major wave of innovation”.These were comments made this week by Altimeter Capital CEO and investor in Meta, Brad Gerstner, in an open letter to the Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg regarding their $10bn a year investment in the metaverse.Meta, formerly Facebook, made a monumental pivot last year to capitalize on the explosive growth of the metaverse. 

Crypto in Sports, Sporting Crypto

Sporting Crypto

Crypto in Sports

Breaking down the intersection between Sports and Crypto

Intersection Between Sports and Crypto

<ul><li>Anything that augments your physical life, to the digital, is in some way or form linked to what currently is, and what will become, ‘The Metaverse’.</li><li>So a Zoom call or a free world game — whilst they don’t wholly agree with the notion of interoperability or persistence —they still are in essence part of the Metaverse.</li><li>Now, to give further context, there is the idea of ‘Metaverses’ — aka, Decentraland, Sandbox or any company building their own virtual world.</li></ul>

Anything that augments your physical life, to the digital, is in some way or form linked to what currently is, and what will become, ‘The Metaverse’.So a Zoom call or a free world game — whilst they don’t wholly agree with the notion of interoperability or persistence —they still are in essence part of the Metaverse.Now, to give further context, there is the idea of ‘Metaverses’ — aka, Decentraland, Sandbox or any company building their own virtual world.

Sporting Crypto - October 3rd 2022: What does the Metaverse mean for Sports?

Crypto Investing and Decentralized Finance, Coinstack

Coinstack

Crypto Investing and Decentralized Finance

Coinstack is published weekly by Ryan Allis. He was previously CEO and Co-founder of iContact and led the company from 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales and an exit for $169M. Ryan was an angel investor in SpaceX, LendingClub, Change.org, Kuli Kuli, and Catalant. Today, Ryan advises companies and governments on blockchain-related projects and is the Chairman of Hive.org, a global community of 3,500 purpose-driven leaders from 130 countries making a positive impact in the world. Ryan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was Co-President of the Harvard Social Enterprise Club and a fellow of the Harvard Graduate School Leadership Institute.

<ul><li>An alternative to ICOs that actually vets projects is needed. That is why Peer, a Web3 social network and blockchain company, recently announced an alternative to the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) called the Initial Coin Exchange (ICX). </li><li>The ICX provides a framework for an evidence-based fundraising standard for established blockchains and decentralized apps that promotes responsible innovation, global participation, and rapid validation. </li><li>Essentially, an ICX is for crypto companies and projects past the prototyping phase and looking for their next round of funding before seeking seed-stage investors.</li></ul>

An alternative to ICOs that actually vets projects is needed. That is why Peer, a Web3 social network and blockchain company, recently announced an alternative to the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) called the Initial Coin Exchange (ICX). The ICX provides a framework for an evidence-based fundraising standard for established blockchains and decentralized apps that promotes responsible innovation, global participation, and rapid validation. Essentially, an ICX is for crypto companies and projects past the prototyping phase and looking for their next round of funding before seeking seed-stage investors.

<ul><li>Imagine for a moment an entirely new type of social network. On this new social network, the point isn’t to get stuck in an endlessly scrolling feed in your bedroom.</li><li>Instead, the whole point is to actually go outside with your phone, smartwatch, or Augmented Reality (AR) glasses and interact in the real world -- with digital content that was posted into a specific place in the real world by friends, creators, and businesses.</li><li>If you can’t go outside, you can always use AR at home using Peer’s patent-pending holodeck AR experience.</li></ul>

Imagine for a moment an entirely new type of social network. On this new social network, the point isn’t to get stuck in an endlessly scrolling feed in your bedroom.Instead, the whole point is to actually go outside with your phone, smartwatch, or Augmented Reality (AR) glasses and interact in the real world -- with digital content that was posted into a specific place in the real world by friends, creators, and businesses.If you can’t go outside, you can always use AR at home using Peer’s patent-pending holodeck AR experience.

<ul><li>The last couple of newsletters have focused on news stories and Sporting Crypto will always explore them in a deep and insightful way.</li><li>This week, however, I want to think slightly laterally. <em><strong>‘What if?’</strong></em> has become something I’ve heard a lot in crypto more broadly But I think it’s very important this question is asked especially when it comes to Sports x Web3.</li><li>There are so few good examples of Web3 x Sports — that sometimes, this is what it takes to try and explain to stakeholders and the uninitiated what is going on here.</li></ul>

The last couple of newsletters have focused on news stories and Sporting Crypto will always explore them in a deep and insightful way.This week, however, I want to think slightly laterally. ‘What if?’ has become something I’ve heard a lot in crypto more broadly But I think it’s very important this question is asked especially when it comes to Sports x Web3.There are so few good examples of Web3 x Sports — that sometimes, this is what it takes to try and explain to stakeholders and the uninitiated what is going on here.

Sporting Crypto - August 22nd 2022: What if The Worm NFT was a Web3 Sports Project?

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