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📈 Market Moves
📰 News & Views
🤝🏿 Deal Summary
🧰 Cool tools
Don’t miss: Crypto crash helmet, doubling organic traffic, Uniswap launches venture arm, NFTs as collateral, and ‘Connectd’ links startups with investors.
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📈 Market Moves
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👎 Ethereum | $3,073.31 | -1.50%
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📰 News & Views
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It’s a Trap
Dig out your crypto crash helmet.
That's one of the takeaways from Arthur Hayes' article in which he discusses the roller coaster we ride in our search for profits.
Our inability to recognise the cyclical nature of all markets leads us to ignore inconvenient truths about the assets we wish into the stratosphere.
The inconvenient truth that haunts crypto at this current juncture is that crypto moves in lockstep with the debt-based, un-free risk asset markets like global developed market equities.
Hayes puts forward a range of charts showing the correlation between traditional markets and crypto to back up his suggestion that, if the Nasdaq 100 (NDX) drops, it will drag crypto down with it.
Among his discussion points are:
NDX, like all long-duration assets, benefits from falling interest rates
Big tech (NDX) has been saved for now by a few profitable names
The Fed and all other central banks are fighting inflation, and must therefore tighten monetary conditions, not loosen them
Global growth will decline on higher commodity prices
Dig into Hayes' blog post for more.
🩳 The Shorts
🔹 Betting big on the demand for investments beyond the stock exchange, Vienna-based crypto startup Coinpanion has increased its seed round from €1.8 million to €5.5 million. Companion users can choose from different smart portfolios, which revolve around innovative technologies such as NFTs, the Metaverse, and cryptocurrencies. (EU only).
🔹 Connectd is a community network that connects entrepreneurs and startups with investors to secure growth opportunities. Created by serial entrepreneur, Roei Samuel, its technology helps organisations and individuals find each other through a data-driven approach and cutting out the middlemen in the investment cycle.
The company just raised $1.6 million to expand into the European market and launch two new tools.
🔹 NFT holders seek use for Bored Apes: While NFT sales are down, blue-chip NFT projects like the Bored Ape Yacht Club and others are doing relatively well. Holders of these NFTs are looking for new ways to use them, treating them as collateral.
🔹 Circle raises: Circle, a crypto-focused financial technology firm, has entered an agreement for a $400 million funding round, the company announced. Investors in the round include BlackRock, Fidelity Management and Research, Marshall Wace and Fin Capital. Circle issues the USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin that is pegged to the U.S. dollar on a 1:1 basis.
🔹 DeFi giant Uniswap has launched a venture arm to invest in other Web3 companies. Uniswap is already invested in 11 companies and protocols across the Web3 ecosystem, including Tenderly, LayerZero, MakerDAO, Aave, Compound Protocol, and PartyDAO.
🤝🏿 Deal Summary
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USDT - Vires (Waves) 106% APY
💲 DeFi Yields
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🧰 Cool Tools
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NFTs as collateral would mean, I think, giving up custody, even if it’s just within a smart contract. I’m happy enough to buy / hold ETH in NFTs that offer utility