The WGMI DAO

The Current Crypto/NFT Market

Crypto & NFTs have taken the internet by storm.

In the last 30 days, 263,000 active wallets have interacted on OpenSea. 6 DAYS after Coinbase launched their waitlist to create an NFT marketplace was over 2.3M users.

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Bitcoin, Etherium, & other cryptocurrencies have continued to outperform the market. NFTs are a leveraged way of investing in cryptocurrencies. Prices of NFTs are correlated to ETH, but what is not shown is that there are large winners and large losers. If you can invest in the right teams and hold for the longterm there are potential for 10x gains in less than 12 months.

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Over the last month NFT sales and volume have declined from peaking in $ at the beginning of Sept & 7 day volume on Oct 10th. Contributing factors include:

  • The recent rise in BTC/ETH prices - as prices go up, people tend to want to ‘cash in’ when ETH rises

Total Value of Sales ($)

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Total Number of Sales (#)

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Example of NFT Blue Chips

Bored Ape Yacht Club

4 most expensive apes based of last purchase (avg 664.75 ETH = \~$2.52M)
4 most expensive apes based of last purchase (avg 664.75 ETH = \~$2.52M)

Bored Ape Yacht Club was founded/minted on Apr 29th, 2021.

  • Each Bored Ape is unique and programmatically generated from over 170 possible traits, including expression, headwear, clothing, and more. A total of 10,000 apes were created/minted.

  • The apes are stored as ERC-721 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain and hosted on IPFS. Minting an ape costs 0.08 ETH.

  • The current floor 10/18 (cheapest available on OpenSea) price of an ape is 35.68 ETH = ~$135K. Below are the average prices starting each month:

    • 5/1: 0.78

    • 6/1: 1.37

    • 7/1: 3.60

    • 8/1: 10.65

    • 9/1: 57.62

    • 10/1: 45.20

Cool Cats

4 most expensive cats based of last purchase (avg 153 ETH = \~$580K)
4 most expensive cats based of last purchase (avg 153 ETH = \~$580K)

Cool Cats was founded/minted on Apr 29th, 2021.

  • Cool Cats are a collection of programmatically, randomly generated NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. The 1st generation consists of 10,000 randomly assembled cats from over 300k total options. Cool Cats that have a variety of outfits, faces and colors - all cats are cool, but completed outfit cats are the coolest.

  • The cats are stored as ERC-721 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain and hosted on IPFS. Minting an ape costs 0.06 ETH.

  • The current floor 10/18 (cheapest available on OpenSea) price of an ape is 35.68 ETH = ~$135K. Below are the average prices starting each month:

    • 5/1: 0.78

    • 6/1: 1.37

    • 7/1: 3.60

    • 8/1: 10.65

    • 9/1: 57.62

    • 10/1: 45.20