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            <title><![CDATA[How to Participate in The GamesPad Telegram Sticker Contest]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 05:21:18 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the coming months, our team will be discovering various opportunities to involve our community in the future of GamesPad. Today, we are announcing the beginning of our efforts with the start of the Telegram Sticker Contest. GamesPad is calling for submissions now to help us create Official GamesPad Telegram Stickers! We are looking for truly remarkable artworks that will feature GamesPad’s branded colors and aesthetics: the combination of elite ninjas and powerful cyborgs. We have decide...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the coming months, our team will be discovering various opportunities to involve our community in the future of GamesPad. Today, we are announcing the beginning of our efforts with the start of the Telegram Sticker Contest. GamesPad is calling for submissions now to help us create Official GamesPad Telegram Stickers! We are looking for truly remarkable artworks that will feature GamesPad’s branded colors and aesthetics: the combination of elite ninjas and powerful cyborgs.</p><p>We have decided to organize this contest as we are searching for talented artists to create a branded sticker pack that will be used by our entire community in Official GamesPad Chats on Telegram and beyond.</p><p>Stickers should be designed in GamesPad’s branded colors and feature themes of ninjas and cyborgs. They may include text, animation, gestures, and other details that reflect the main topics of discussions among members of our community. Keep in mind that these stickers should empower users when they are talking about GamesPad. The tone of the sticker pack can be fun and reflect the daily life of the GamesPad community and our team.</p><p>All stickers must be in TGS File Format (for animated stickers) or WebP format with a transparency layer (for static stickers). Please read attentively this guide about WebP format and this article about TGS format before creating stickers.</p><p>You will have to submit at least 3 stickers. However, we encourage you to create more.</p><p>Please submit your creative works using this Google form: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://forms.gle/e7cknD1CCMhggzt87">https://forms.gle/e7cknD1CCMhggzt87</a></p><p>Make sure that you sent us the link to a SHARED Google Drive or Dropbox Folder with your stickers.</p><p>Here is a quick guide on how to share a Google Drive Folder:</p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; On your browser, go to drive.google.com.</p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Click on the folder you want to share.</p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Click “Share”</p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; At the top right, click “Get link”</p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Make share it shows “Anyone with the link” and “Edit” as shown on the image below.</p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; Copy and paste the link in any place you want to share it.</p><p>Here you can watch a quick tutorial on how to share a DropBox folder with anyone with a link to it.</p><p>The deadline for submissions is on January 31. Keep in mind, no submissions will be accepted after the deadline. Please make sure you enter in time.</p><p>We’re looking forward to seeing your amazing artwork!</p><p>GamesPad is the ultimate gaming, NFT, and metaverse ecosystem that brings together a decentralized VC, multichain launchpad, game incubator, NFT aggregator, and marketplace. We help the most impactful crypto gaming projects raise funds and provide the opportunity for retail buyers to invest in the deals on equal terms with VCs. Our team brings together industry experts with over 20 years of combined tech experience. It’s a mix of talented individuals at the top of their fields who are here to create an exciting and successful journey from startup ideation to execution.</p><p>GamesPad Official Links:</p><p>✔️ Website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://gamespad.io/">https://gamespad.io/</a></p><p>✔️ Twitter: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://twitter.com/gamespad_vc">https://twitter.com/gamespad_vc</a></p><p>✔️ YouTube: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://bit.ly/3kpQWEQ">https://bit.ly/3kpQWEQ</a></p><p>✔️ Official Announcements: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://t.me/GamesPadAnnouncements">https://t.me/GamesPadAnnouncements</a></p><p>✔️ Telegram Official Chat: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://t.me/GamesPadChat">https://t.me/GamesPadChat</a></p><p>✔️ Instagram: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://www.instagram.com/gamespad.io/">https://www.instagram.com/gamespad.io/</a></p><p>✔️ Facebook: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://www.facebook.com/gamespad.vc">https://www.facebook.com/gamespad.vc</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[通过web3.0生态Melos努力托起音乐的失落帝国,加密艺术迎来红利爆发期]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2022 17:36:24 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[没有任何艺术创作比音乐家更让人容易失落和失去创作激情。从人类文明诞生之初，音乐就伴随着整个人类历程，随着人类社会的进步而发生着各种各样的变化着。但是在这个过程中，很多我们身边耳熟能详的的旋律和音乐却根本不知道其创作者是谁，而社会也很少将注意力和任何形势的回馈反补给音乐创作者。 这就是困扰众多音乐创作者的社会“魔音”，也是让音乐行业自然而然的成为一座失落帝国的主要原因。 音乐产业建立在音乐创作者的基础上，却避开了创作者 引用《Future》上Dave Edwards所写下的一段话： “音乐行业一直在实行减少性和惩罚性的版权政策，未能在其实质性 IP 之上构建身临其境的、基于社区的生态系统。就目前的形式而言，音乐被视为一次性的，不仅可以用视频游戏代替，还可以用播客、有声读物和新闻轻松替代。 音乐产业必须从根本上重新考虑版权和主要项目发布的情况。通过创建通用版权“轨道”来大规模解锁用户生成内容 (UGC)，音乐行业可以重新获得其创新声誉，与其他娱乐形式进行令人信服的竞争，并打造一个以粉丝为中心的新未来。” 音乐创作者正在日新月异的互联网影响下，受“注意力”经济影响而逐渐边缘化。这不仅仅...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>没有任何艺术创作比音乐家更让人容易失落和失去创作激情。从人类文明诞生之初，音乐就伴随着整个人类历程，随着人类社会的进步而发生着各种各样的变化着。但是在这个过程中，很多我们身边耳熟能详的的旋律和音乐却根本不知道其创作者是谁，而社会也很少将注意力和任何形势的回馈反补给音乐创作者。</p><p>这就是困扰众多音乐创作者的社会“魔音”，也是让音乐行业自然而然的成为一座失落帝国的主要原因。</p><p>音乐产业建立在音乐创作者的基础上，却避开了创作者</p><p>引用《Future》上Dave Edwards所写下的一段话：</p><p>“音乐行业一直在实行减少性和惩罚性的版权政策，未能在其实质性 IP 之上构建身临其境的、基于社区的生态系统。就目前的形式而言，音乐被视为一次性的，不仅可以用视频游戏代替，还可以用播客、有声读物和新闻轻松替代。</p><p>音乐产业必须从根本上重新考虑版权和主要项目发布的情况。通过创建通用版权“轨道”来大规模解锁用户生成内容 (UGC)，音乐行业可以重新获得其创新声誉，与其他娱乐形式进行令人信服的竞争，并打造一个以粉丝为中心的新未来。”</p><p>音乐创作者正在日新月异的互联网影响下，受“注意力”经济影响而逐渐边缘化。这不仅仅是因为作为个人难以于巨大的流媒体平台、版权公司、专业艺人团队抗衡。更是受各种算法影响，音乐创作者的收入开始直线下降，甚至不少音乐人开始迎合市场创作“符合”市场的声音而选择妥协。</p><p>我们急需有一种新的生态来支撑音乐保持创作激情的同时，给予其响应的价值回报。</p><p>Web3.0被认为内容创作者经济生态改革的号角</p><p>《Sounds of Longinus》是一位在Melos音乐NFT平台（<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://www.melos.studio/registration?inviteCode=387930DD%EF%BC%89%E7%9A%84Discord%E7%A4%BE%E5%8C%BA%E4%B8%AD%E4%BB%A5John">https://www.melos.studio/registration?inviteCode=387930DD）的Discord社区中以John</a> Keynes为名的音乐创作者发布的特殊专辑名称。这份专辑一共三部曲。其第一部曲《Song of Destruction》在取得Melos官方的支持下，4000份独立音乐NFT在15秒内，被一抢而空。</p><p>然而引起社区持续讨论和关注的是Melos官方支持John Keynes这样一位神秘音乐人的更深层次的原因。</p><p>“Melos给我们这样的音乐爱好者一个自由、开放展示自己音乐价值的平台，我希望将我所写的几首音乐放在Melos平台作为第一次发放。目前我计划是上传3首音乐，在完成这三首音乐之后，我将致敬在区块链上唯一的真神 — 中本聪，做出和他一样的选择，彻底消失。</p><p>我将这三部曲称之为： 《Sounds of Longinus》</p><p>我信仰人类之善可以创造未来，我信仰上帝会给予善良与和平到所有人，我坚信每一个人都将获得幸福。</p><p>但，我依然要用最沉重的警告，写作音乐，愿更多的人觉醒。</p><p>天堂里将响彻赞美诗与甜美的音乐，</p><p>而我甚至也不再去歌唱。 — — 《凯恩斯墓志铭》”</p><p>以上是John Keynes在发布《Song of Destruction》之前所作出的“宣言”，在此后受到了Discord社区管理员的注意，从而与官方产生了联系，取得了响应程度的支持。并达成了共识，包括发布方式和未来收益用于支持Melos平台音乐艺人的创作和激励。</p><p>从这位神秘人后面的发言和其名字John Keynes，能看出他在选择音乐NFT平台的之初，对整个Web3.0创作有着相当程度的研究之后，最终确定了在Melos上发布，Melos平台和粉丝们对其热情也进行了不同方式的回应。</p><p>他希望通过音乐来传递文化，承载文化，甚至超越文字，更加直达人心，更广泛的能够引起他人的思考和行动。John Keynes在这个过程，他的行为本身已经赋予了Web3.0更深远的意义 — — 将这些音乐收益用于未来音乐人的创作支持和激励。</p><p>Melos正在努力托起音乐的失落帝国</p><p>如果说John Keynes的行为如同吹响了改革的号角一般而采取了行动。那么，在市场上，更多的细节，则证明了这场艰难改革的正确性。</p><p>但在 2021 年消费一位艺人的主要发行版的体验与 40 年前没有根本不同。仍然缺乏在享受音乐的同时直接支持艺术家的机制，并且几乎没有吸引消费者的主要发行内容。</p><p>同时几乎所有人都知道的一点，就是音乐人在创作过程中，仅仅能够收到其创作版权所产生商业价值中不到3%的平均值。</p><p>然而事实上，从宏观层面审视音乐界顶级明星所创造的经济和文化财富，却暗示了一个截然不同的现实。</p><p>从文化的角度来看，音乐家是任何行业中最强大的创作者群体。全球前4个最受关注的Twitter 帐户中的3个是音乐家。Instagram 前50个帐户中的23个是音乐家，而只有6个是运动员。当所有主要平台的关注者加起来时，趋势保持不变：世界上最受关注的人中占主要比例的人是音乐家。</p><p>音乐的顶级创作者是任何行业中最富有的名人之一。然而，奇怪的是，这一代财富的产生很少是由他们的音乐本身驱动的：一位创作者通过他们的音乐释放了巨大的文化重要性，但却在一个完全不同的行业中利用了它。</p><p>造成这个现象更加本质的原因来源于因为流媒体的经济使得单靠聆听难以谋生，更不用说创造财富了。这就是为什么音乐行业必须从根本上重新考虑交互性、社区建设和沉浸感的潜力。</p><p>在《FUTURE》这个受A16Z直接管理成立的内容分享平台上，Dave Edwards用这样一句话，总结了他对音乐行业在WEB3.0的内容创作者经济下的想法。可谓痛心。</p><p>“我呼吁业界投资建设技术骨干 — — “版权轨道” — — 这将使任何商业作品的无限混音、修改和重新解释成为可能，同时确保原始权利持有人得到补偿。”</p><p>但是仔细观察这句话，音乐能够在版权保护前提下，能够进行无限混音、修改，同时确保原始版权持有人的补偿。这不正是Melos平台为音乐NFT引入DNAtree的一种实际应用场景吗？！</p><p>Dave Edwards这篇发表于《FUTURE》的文章，发表时间在2021年10月5日。最后引用Dave Edwards和John Keynes发表于Discord的话来结束本文。</p><p>“音乐有一个固有而强大的优势：它的创作者是流行文化的仲裁者，用他们的创作、模因和句法推动我们的集体现实向前发展。音乐的文化影响力与对音乐在 21 世纪的更进步的看法相结合，可能会成为世界各地的行业、艺术家和粉丝真正强大的力量。我真诚地希望我们能看到它。” — — Dave Edwards</p><p>“在我茫然于音乐人的权利和收益时，我看到了Melos带给音乐人未来的机会，这也是我在这里发声的原因之一。”</p><p>“但是希望我这次小小的尝试，在Melos的帮助下，能够让更多的音乐人和关注音乐的朋友们获得更多的机会。” — — John Keynes</p><p>最后送大家一个新年小福利</p><p>音乐NFT平台Melos又有空投了，对话电报机器人：</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://t.me/MeloSstudioDAOairdropbot?start=r09770958700">https://t.me/MeloSstudioDAOairdropbot?start=r09770958700</a></p><p>随机1000人给500Wave，邀请前50名，再给2000Wave。</p><p>注意一定要先注册好Melos，登陆绑定好邮箱和BSC地址，才能参加：</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://www.melos.studio/registration?inviteCode=387930DD">https://www.melos.studio/registration?inviteCode=387930DD</a></p><p>近期有关Melos的报道：</p><p>《如何使用Melos来创作自己的音乐NFT并出售，获取新年多倍Wave积分空投奖励》 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://bihu.info/article/1521290585">https://bihu.info/article/1521290585</a></p><p>《币安投资的元宇宙音乐web3协作平台Melos积分Wave零撸攻略,新年期间多倍累加,可用于创世挖矿》 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://bihu.info/article/1986351263">https://bihu.info/article/1986351263</a></p><p>《4000枚音乐NFT已进入免费领取倒计时,Melos音乐NFT平台发布公益性音乐专辑,大毛别错过！》 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://bihu.info/article/1208725440">https://bihu.info/article/1208725440</a></p><p>《Melos全方位赋能音乐创作者,引领WEB 3.0内容创作者经济新范式》 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://bihu.info/article/1029238234">https://bihu.info/article/1029238234</a></p><p>《0 Gas Mint+AI辅助,Melos让普通人也能轻松创作音乐NFT,开启Web3.0经济新模式》 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://bihu.info/article/1480504635">https://bihu.info/article/1480504635</a></p><p>《一文读懂web3.0音乐元宇宙平台 — — Melos》 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://bihu.info/article/1496333499">https://bihu.info/article/1496333499</a></p><p>好啦，今天先分享到这里，有什么问题欢迎大家在下面评论区留言，我一定尽力做到有问必答，也欢迎大家加入唐华斑竹的读者电报群多多交流：<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://t.me/tanghuabanzhu8">https://t.me/tanghuabanzhu8</a></p><p>郑重声明：以上内容仅供参考，不构成任何投资建议，如您据此投资，一切风险自负，币圈风险大，投资需谨慎。</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[THORChain 2021 RECAP危機常是最好的入場機會 — 用危機處理檢驗團隊的好壞]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 08:48:13 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bitcoin blockchain came into existence in 2009. Ethereum, a protocol supporting smart contracts in 2014. Both of them have touched a marketcap of over $1 trillion and $500 billion respectively.最近發現許多項目方都面臨各式各樣的問題, 有的是產品做不出來導致NFT價格大跌/元老投資人認賠出場, 有的是被駭客攻擊, 導致投資人/社群經濟受損. 當消息流出, 常常伴隨的是項目發行的NFT/幣價下跌, 網路聲量上升, 但口碑下降. 許多投資人此時會感到恐慌而拋售, 但其實: 危機是檢驗團隊能力 +品格最好的時機. 若處理得當, 恐慌造成的價格下跌反而是最好的一個入場點. NFT Siblings 是我踏入NFT界參加的第一個社群. 當時的我對藝術家PAK充滿好奇, 在翻看PAK過去Twitter時, 發現了這個他公開支持的社群. 進入Discord社群後, 我發現項目負責人JC是一個充滿正面陽光的...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bitcoin blockchain came into existence in 2009. Ethereum, a protocol supporting smart contracts in 2014. Both of them have touched a marketcap of over $1 trillion and $500 billion respectively.最近發現許多項目方都面臨各式各樣的問題, 有的是產品做不出來導致NFT價格大跌/元老投資人認賠出場, 有的是被駭客攻擊, 導致投資人/社群經濟受損. 當消息流出, 常常伴隨的是項目發行的NFT/幣價下跌, 網路聲量上升, 但口碑下降.</p><p>許多投資人此時會感到恐慌而拋售, 但其實:</p><p>危機是檢驗團隊能力 +品格最好的時機. 若處理得當, 恐慌造成的價格下跌反而是最好的一個入場點.</p><p>NFT Siblings 是我踏入NFT界參加的第一個社群. 當時的我對藝術家PAK充滿好奇, 在翻看PAK過去Twitter時, 發現了這個他公開支持的社群.</p><p>進入Discord社群後, 我發現項目負責人JC是一個充滿正面陽光的年輕人 (對, 他只有21歲). 從過去投資紀錄來看, 眼光非常精準; 與許多藝術界的創作者, 收藏家都有很好的關係; 更可以從日常互動中感受到他為人正派負責, 並總是感謝對社群付出的人. 也因此, 我認為[能力], [人脈]與[人品]都好的負責人, 項目不會差.</p><p>2021年12月, NFT Siblings發行的PFP項目, 因為長期延遲, 導致初始投資人出走, 價格跌破0.075以太的初始Mint價.</p><p>當項目團隊成員離開並拋售時, 價格更被砸到0. 許多人認為項目基本結束了.</p><p>因觀察而相信JC的能力與為人, 不會是讓項目放著歸零的. 因此在大家恐慌, 認為項目玩完了的時候, 以0–0.05以太左右購入幾張項目NFT; 目前地板價已回升至0.14以太, 漲幅超過3倍.</p><p>在新創圈十幾年的經驗讓我深深體會, 團隊是人組成的, 而沒有任何人是完美的. 每個努力帶來創新與價值的團隊, 都是從觀察, 創造, 修正, 再觀察, 再修正, 一步步讓產品或服務更好的, 不斷犯錯與修正是必經之路; 一個”不犯錯的團隊”不存在.</p><p>目前的投資NFT, 很多時候很像一個新創團隊的天使投資人. 被說成是”天使,“是因為你在沒有人看好時將資金給了項目團隊, 在產品/服務都還不夠好時相信他們未來會慢慢變好. 中間有太多可能出錯的地方導致項目失敗, 投入的資金歸零; 反過來, 當團隊越做越好, 越”接近完美”時, 代表價值顯而易見. 這時投入的風險低了, 回報也低多了.</p><p>若要獲得高投報:</p><p>不是找”完美產品,” 而是”能力+品格好, 但產品還不完美/還在路上”的項目.</p><p>近乎完美的產品/服務, 代表最高的獲利點已過.</p><p>若你因為團隊犯錯而選擇離場, 很可能錯失很好的投資標的.</p><p>選擇投資項目時, 比起選擇”沒有犯錯的團隊,”不如選擇”遇到問題有能力快速解決 + 品格上願意承擔責任”的團隊.</p><p>把任何一次危機處理, 當成團隊檢驗的最好機會. 在市場因為”項目犯錯”而看壞時, 很多時候是最好”入場”的時機.</p><p>** NFA/ DYOR — not financial advice, do your own research, let’s learn &amp; grow together～</p><p>But even after being in existence for so long, there hasn’t been any decentralised solution to swap these assets in a decentralised manner.</p><p>This changed with the THORChain protocol launch in April 2021.Founded in 2018, THORChain development began using Cosmos-SDK. A big role played here is of Threshold-Signatures (TSS), which made it possible for node operators to operate without revealing their private keys to each other.</p><p>Lets come back to the recap of 2021, the year where decentralised Native cross-chain swaps went live!</p><p>Note: We have only covered the most important updates in our opinion, and those which we are able to find. 2021 was a crazy year for THORChain, and there is a possibility of missing few important updates which weren’t pushed on all channels.</p><p>Above is an image of 2020 Christmas where the team gave an overview on what can be expected in early 2021. Happy to say that all above targets are achieved, with various THORChain interfaces going live this year.Only Synths is left, which is tricky and something for the THORFi period.</p><p>In January 2021, A THORChain OG (mehowbrainz) published a community-built THORChain Website — THORChain.org.The V0.1 website was filled with content for new-comers. With a “But sir?” approach to queries. This was an incredible idea and was appreciated a lot by the wider community. Few suggestions were given and a new version was promised (and delivered recently, Read details here check out the Website!)</p><p>The team was made efforts to decrease SCCN Node Operators’ dependency on AWS service provider. Incentives were given to move to another service providers.</p><p>THORChain handled a total of ~$14 million at beginning of January. Diversified in BTC, USD, RUNE and little BNB. Grants were being given to bootstrap the ecosystem.</p><p>Blog: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://medium.com/thorchain/monthly-treasury-report-dec-2020-fb943e516e6d">https://medium.com/thorchain/monthly-treasury-report-dec-2020-fb943e516e6d</a></p><p>RUNE price was $1.40 at beginning of the year.</p><p>THORChain opened a bridge to move between BEP2 RUNE and ERC20 RUNE. ERC20 RUNE was out to have more awareness and exposure about THORChain protocol in other dominant network.</p><p>3 RUNE pools were out on Sushiswap, and all of them were given Impermanent Loss Protection from the Treasury.</p><p>Sushiswap uses fixed-fee approach (0.3%) while THORChain uses dynamic-fee approach. This initiative helped in gaining more data that dynamic-fee model is better.</p><p>In February 2021, the Multi-chain TestNet went live with 5 chains (BTC, ETH, LTC, BNB and BCH). The Native $RUNE also went live on TestNet, and the community was encouraged to try and report any bugs (rewarded with Bug Bounty).Details: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://medium.com/thorchain/thorchain-multichain-testnet-live-ae1f68f542a6">https://medium.com/thorchain/thorchain-multichain-testnet-live-ae1f68f542a6</a></p><p>The TestNet link is here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://testnet.asgard.exchange/">https://testnet.asgard.exchange/</a> Interestingly, the Website is now owned by SKIPSwap. An interface to interact with THORChain.</p><p>Along with the MCTN launch, THORChain Collectibles were also distributed to RuneVault Stakers. A total of 2325 Collectibles were distributed, to 1500 Unique Owners.</p><p>THORChain OG Collectibles on OpenSea: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://opensea.io/assets/thorchain-collectibles">https://opensea.io/assets/thorchain-collectibles</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[A New start for Sneakers and NFTs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:32:49 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey! this is our first time posting in this space. In here we love sneakers, fashion, crypto, and everything related with NFTs. At this place you´ll find all type of news, opinions and our personal experiences having an NFT project, built and inspired by all the things we love and mentioned at the beginning of this post. Lets talk about who we are… Two years ago from now we started Viking Studio. A business focused entirely to simplify the complex processes between customers and artists, deve...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey! this is our first time posting in this space. In here we love sneakers, fashion, crypto, and everything related with NFTs. At this place you´ll find all type of news, opinions and our personal experiences having an NFT project, built and inspired by all the things we love and mentioned at the beginning of this post.</p><p>Lets talk about who we are…</p><p>Two years ago from now we started Viking Studio. A business focused entirely to simplify the complex processes between customers and artists, developing platforms to make the acquirement of art pleasant. At Viking Studio we personalize Sneakers, cases, and all types of merch. Achieving with this business model a community of more than 100k sneaker-art lovers on Instagram, collaborating with the best Mexican influencers wearing our products and featuring youtube shows that represent our image and style.</p><p>The Viking Club</p><p>The Viking Club is a NFT collection that integrates NFTs and hand painted fashion goods, giving new ways to show an admire digital art. This project borns when Viking Studio and Genesis Blocks Art creator got together and developed TVC. A PFP project with an innovative SHOE PASS system, giving the possibility to acquire and trade utilities. Our strategy towards the evolution of this project is completely organic, we don´t want to be an average project that probably flop in 3 weeks after mint. In order to be congruent with this, our drops are going to be surprises drops, according to the market conditions and our floor price. This drops will vary in price and amount, to protect our early holders.</p><p>What is The Shoe Pass system?</p><p>As this concept is something new, to make this explanation easier we must see the shoepass as a code, this code is linked with your NFT from the Viking Club, which works as an entry to our online platform.</p><p>If you look closely to a Viking Club NFT , it has a necklace, this necklace determines the amount of shoe passes the viking has, in our collection all the vikings can only have 3 types of neckless, the gold one, the silver one and the broce one, the gold one having three shopasses, the silver two, and the bronce one, determining the amount of sneakers you can purchase from Viking Studio´s platform.</p><p>Our Mission</p><p>THE METAVERSE. If we can simplify all the things we do in one word putting all the complexity of our project aside. Definitely it´s fashion. The Metaverse is definitely something we see in the future as our main goal, letting us share the beauty of design and community, supported by IRL utility. The Metaverse it´s something you probably heard at least ones, most of the talk caused by Facebook changing into Meta and all the future possibilities related with fashion, seems the perfect universe for us.</p><p>The Nike acquirement of RTFKT besides the centralization backlash is something historical towards the space. Having a large corporation like Nike betting towards the Metaverse reaffirms our vision and all the possibilities towards a new concept of fashion were the holder is able to craft a personalized clothe with an essence of himself. Satisfying IRL and virtual fashion.</p><p>The Metaverse distopia or utopia?</p><p>During the final stages of 2021 the amount of opinions toward the metaverse had changed a lot. The innovations presented by facebook and Pokemon Go being part of the mainstream news about the metaverse, have a remarkable opposite point of view. Facebook presents a version of the metaverse close to a utopia, a place that could function as our reality, online meetings, avatar characterization, hang out with your friends in real time and even a new virtual reality headset named Project Cambria, demonstrating us a long term vision of the metaverse that will have an investment of 10 billion dollars per year. By the other hand we have John Hanke the CEO of Pokemon Go. After the Meta announcement Jhon even warned us by the metaverse presented by Mark Zuckerberg. Saying this:</p><p>“I’m not denying that the metaverse is a cool concept from a technology point of view; it comes from one of my favorite sci-fi writers, Neal Stephenson, who coined the term in his 1992 novel, ‘Snow Crash,”</p><p>“A lot of people these days seem very interested in bringing this near-future vision of a virtual world to life, including some of the biggest names in technology and gaming. But in fact these novels served as warnings about a dystopian future of technology gone wrong. The world doesn’t devolve into the kind of place that drives sci-fi heroes to escape into a virtual one.”</p><p>Knowing the opinions and putting aside years of technology needed, the conversation of the metaverse pros and cons seems a need.</p><p>Presenting nowadays the possibility to live most of the time in the metaverse it is something hard to believe. But being realistic, how much do you use your phone or computer? And how much of that time do you socialize with people? Most of you probably invest more or around 4–9h with your phone a day, representing close to a 30% of the day, not counting sleep and eat hours as an option. This means that if the metaverse reach a level of efficency and utility better than a phone or a computer, everybody could tell it wouldn´t be a surprise to live most of the time in the metaverse.</p><p>After making this questions, the metaverse wouldn´t change how we live at all in matters of time. Years needing our phones and adapting to technology wouldn´t represent a problem to adapt to a VR lense, but we can´t forget what social media is making to society, instagram and facebook changed how we see people and how we see ourselves trough this platforms, establishing ways to live and look, increasing depression, nutritional disorders and all the consequence I know you have in mind clear. Even for kids, knowing the consequences of social media and the high possibility of the metaverse to increase them, are something we should be aware of.</p><p>A surprising start of the year for Open Sea</p><p>After months of continuos falling activity, open sea achieved and amazing start of the year. According to The Block’s Data Dashboard, the first 10 days of January Open sea reached $1.38 billion volume, compared to the best-ever month been august with $3.16 billion seems an incredible jump and Renaissance for the NFT space.</p><p>Besides the amazing start of Open sea, the crypto market has lost at the moment double-digit losses since the start of the year. This article is just a base touch towards who we are and which is our vision towards the future.</p><p>The whole TVC team wishes you an amazing start of the year. For TVC this is definitely the year of the Vikings.</p><p>by Daniel Martinez, January 2022.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bitcoin to 42K, are the bulls back in charge?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:09:05 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Bitcoin shot back up to 42K while indicators are signaling that the Bull-case might be on. Bitcoin recently tested the 39K level three times trying to break throught it, but February 4th we suddenly blasted through it with amazing volume which puts Bitcoin back to the early January levels. Long term, yes but stay patient in the short term. We did get through the 39K level but it’s still going to take a long time before we start breaking new all-time highs. Realistically I’d expect Bitcoin to ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bitcoin shot back up to 42K while indicators are signaling that the Bull-case might be on.</p><p>Bitcoin recently tested the 39K level three times trying to break throught it, but February 4th we suddenly blasted through it with amazing volume which puts Bitcoin back to the early January levels.</p><p>Long term, yes but stay patient in the short term. We did get through the 39K level but it’s still going to take a long time before we start breaking new all-time highs.</p><p>Realistically I’d expect Bitcoin to take a little breather now, and start testing 47K level in the coming weeks. Don’t expect us to break through in one go however, it will very likely take a few tries with a few minor pullbacks during our way up.</p><p>We’ll slowly have to regain all support levels which we went tumbling down from in the correction, the next resistance levels being 47K, 56K and then eventually 60K.</p><p>I’m convinced we’ll be putting in new all-time highs by Q4 but please stay very patient, we always go down quicker than we go up and reclaiming all these support/resistance levels will take time.</p><p>To be honest, nobody really knows. All we know is that it will probably take months to do so.</p><p>To put things into perspective, in our last Bull run it took us about 3.5 months from the 30K bottom to the 69K all-time high so if we were to assume that history reapeted itself then we would get back to 69K levels by May.</p><p>Please consider that this could be a Bull trap in which case we haven’t actually seen the true bottom. A similar thing happend in June of 2021 where there was a fake break-out which went from 33K to 41K, stabilised there for a few days and then fell right back down to 32K.</p><p>Ironically, those are the exact same levels we are at today which could mean we go down and eventually put in a complete bottom around the 30K level. This however, doesn’t mean that history has to repeat itself, I’m just telling you that there is a chance for it to happen.</p><p>To be honest, I really don’t know for sure what’s going to happen in the short term so you’ll just have to stick around and see for yourself.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Splinterlands — SPS Token]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 01:32:44 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the previous article, I gave a review of the Splinterlands game and why I believe the economic model is more sustainable than Axie, and that there may therefore be similar gains to look forward to. But if Splinter’s is as good a game and have a sensible eco n omi and growth, why is it that Axie has exploded, not Splinter Lands? One of the reasons may be that Splinterlands lacks an important mechanism in the Play2Earn model, which is generally overlooked. Here I’m talking about a speculativ...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the previous article, I gave a review of the Splinterlands game and why I believe the economic model is more sustainable than Axie, and that there may therefore be similar gains to look forward to.</p><p>But if Splinter’s is as good a game and have a sensible eco n omi and growth, why is it that Axie has exploded, not Splinter Lands? One of the reasons may be that Splinterlands lacks an important mechanism in the Play2Earn model, which is generally overlooked. Here I’m talking about a speculative engine. Axie would never have become so popular if not for speculators driving a lot of money into the economy that kickstarted the positive feedback loop around more users -&gt; more demand for tokens -&gt; more users -&gt; […]. They would still have grown if the game is good, but much slower and more organic.</p><p>Splinterland’s growth is just slow and organic. Unlike AXS and SLP, Splinterlands only offers DEC, which is a stack coin. The only way to make money on the game is to actually get involved in the game. Therefore, they also have a user base that is super committed to the game and the modest profit is an afterthought. But the modest profit will soon get a los in the ass when Splinterlands launches their new token in 2 weeks, SplinterShards (SPS).</p><p>SPS is a governance token like Axies’ AXS, where users get voting rights in the game’s future development. It may be that the governance token sounds boring, but if you knew the community, then you know how eager they are to participate in the details of the game. SPS will give them the platform to do it on, and thereby a good “basic demand”. But in addition to governance, SPS also provides access to offers in the shop, participation in presales of new packages, airdrops from partner projects, airdrops of special cards, access to tournaments with large prize pools, etc.</p><p>As I explained in the previous article, you need to pimp up your account with the best and latest cards to increase your earning potential. It is therefore a huge monetary advantage to own SPS and gain access to said benefits. In addition, one must stake them to gain access and the voting rights. On top of that, it takes a whole 4 weeks to unstake, where you are allowed to unstake 25% per week for 4 weeks from the time you choose to do so. This is expected to lock in a large part of the supply.</p><p>In my eyes, there is a very sensible structure up around SPS and its use in the game. This also makes it a good speculative engine, and a speculative engine in blockchain games is free marketing. Because with speculation, Splinterlands comes to light, it attracts new players, which drives up the price, which attracts new players, and so on.</p><p>But I have not even come to the whole reason why I think this is a complete nobrainer. It actually has something to do with how these tokens are released.</p><p>Total supply is 3 billion and approx. 1 billion tokens a year. But in the first 12 months, 400 million is issued in a continuous airdrop. This corresponds to approx. 40% of this year’s supply! This is what is central to my analysis of the investment case.</p><p>The way they determine airdrop is very interesting and aims to encourage the ownership of playing cards, packages, DEC, land (more on that later), won titles and other gaming objects. Everything you own in the game is simply included in the calculation of how much share you get in this airdrop.</p><p>Do you remember the tool I mentioned that one of the users has voluntarily developed? It can calculate your share for you:</p><p>We will now use the tool to form an idea of ​​how much we can expect to earn from holding on to these objects. My own strategy is to buy a lot of DEC, because remember that it is technically a stable coin. In theory, therefore, there is no risk in buying a lot of DECs and keeping them. Because if you buy them for $ 1, then you can expect to sell them again for $ 1. Thus, you have got all your SPS “free and risk-free”. But the reality is that DEC is an algorithmic stack coin, and that it can fluctuate (enormously) in value. I actually do not expect it to return to $ 1 before SPS releases, and after SPS releases not at all. on For the demand for DEC will explode so much that the algorithm can not keep up and I do not know if the team chooses to jump in and increase inflation manually to counteract it.Therefore, this is a significant risk factor to consider .</p><p>So you have to decide if you dare to buy a stack coin at an overpriced price to take part in this massive airdrop. I myself have paid approx. 30% too much for my coins, but that’s because I think the probability of SPS far overperforming the 30% during the year is high. So let’s look at what the calculator says if I choose to buy DEC for $ 1000. At present it corresponds to DEC 741152:</p><p>First of all, note that the calculation is not accurate, as your stake is based on your share of the total number of airdrop points. Each object in the game is awarded some points, and it’s hard to say how many objects and how many DECs there will be throughout the year. But the calculator gives a qualified estimate, which I have marked in blue.</p><p>I have marked the result with yellow. That’s what you approx. can expect to earn per day if the price of SPS is $ 0.02. That is, $ 2.78 a day, or about $ 1,000 a year. Since your initial investment is also $ 1000, it is a gain of 100% per year.</p><p>If you look back at a screenshot, SPS is also part of the pool of objects that give a share in airdrop. This is not even taken into account! For each DEC you get 1 airdrop point and 0.25 airdrop points for each SPS. So if you choose to stake your SPS, you can expect to get even more.</p><p>That brings me to the different ways you can stake SPS. The Airdrop pool is just one of several pools from which SPS draws returns. When SPS is launched, you will be able to win them side by side with DEC when you win matches. To earn SPS by playing, however, one must stake his SPS on himself. Let me say it again; if you keep a lot of SPS you can stake them on yourself. The more you own, the more SPS you earn per. won battle. As if that were not enough, they have taken the idea even further. If you are not good at the game, or do not want to play, you can actually bet on other players. This means that you bet on the best player, he wins several SPS as a result and you share the winnings.</p><p>It’s such a wild idea as you are left with a game where players invest in each other. But so that everyone does not just invest in the best player, the SPS win is adjusted downwards according to how much is staked on the player. In this way, each player gets a form of “ROI” that is based on how many SPS are staked on the person and how good the person is to play and how much the person plays. So the best player does not have the best ROI at any time. On the other hand, he probably plays often, and you do not have to worry about him taking a break and having to bet on someone else. This feature forms so many cool market mechanisms that you get completely head over heels!</p><p>The second thing to do is to throw liquidity on exchanges like Pancakeswap. An entire pool of tokens has been set aside as a reward for liquidity providers. A third (future) option is to stake on land that you have purchased. Land / land in the game is a new expansion of the game which will come later in the year. Here you will be able to own land that continuously produces profitable things such as unique cards that are not available elsewhere. Pt. sold a piece of land for approx. $ 40 on the open market, but as I said, these features are not out yet. But the idea is that it requires SPS to operate these (profitable?) Pieces of land.</p><p>Price speculation</p><p>Now, we come to the part where we talk about the middle ground. In my eyes, investing in SPS is a wild option even if the price did not rise. But I expect explosive increases on top of the high ROI. It is simply an advantage you as an investor get when you are so early in a project that is on the verge of doing something groundbreaking.</p><p>Previously, I based the ROI calculation on SPS costing $ 0.02, but I never mentioned where that number comes from. Yes, that number is dug deep away and it says nowhere. Only the Splinterland community knows about that number, and that’s because they’re the only ones who have listened to Splinterland’s weekly AMAs. The figure is actually $ 0.018, and it has been mentioned that this is the price the large private investors have paid for their tokens. It was also mentioned that they had to say no to several of their large investors who wanted to buy up the entire private sale cake. They would rather distribute these tokens to multiple partners and to the wider community. So there is that unfulfilled buying pressure already there.</p><p>The calculation earlier with a fixed price of $ 0.02 is my conservative bid, as I find it unrealistic that the price dumps below the purchase price of these private investors when the case is as sensible as it is. Even though it’s conservative, it’s fucking good.</p><p>But why the $ 0.018 figure is so significant is that it is actually a very low valuation. It is fully dilluted marketcap at 54M and for the first year supply only around 20M. Axie smoked well over a billion, and if Splinterlands can do the same within the first year, then we’re looking at a ~ 50x. The other reason the number is so significant is that no one but the close community knows about it. The broad crypto population thus does not have the numbers to be able to calculate this potential. But if you know these things, then you are here ahead of everyone else.</p><p>This is a translation of what <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://medium.com/@ostop">https://medium.com/@ostop</a> wrote, so go subcribe to him and leave a like!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Our Seed Sale Is On..]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:12:46 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Utility Pad VC, the first real-world use-case-focused incubator and launchpad is doing its seed sale. We are giving community members an opportunity to be one of the early investors in a launchpad whose main goal is projects with real world utility based on Blockchain technology Because our community is at the heart of everything we do, we are giving you an opportunity to buy $UTIL at our investor’s discounted rate. Our Investors who already participated are happy and would encourage you to j...]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Utility Pad VC, the first real-world use-case-focused incubator and launchpad is doing its seed sale. We are giving community members an opportunity to be one of the early investors in a launchpad whose main goal is projects with real world utility based on Blockchain technology</p><p>Because our community is at the heart of everything we do, we are giving you an opportunity to buy $UTIL at our investor’s discounted rate. Our Investors who already participated are happy and would encourage you to join the train now before it is too late. Do not be a late-stage investor and make only 3X when you can join now and potentially make 20X and up, join the seed sale now!!</p><p>Who is Eligible TO Participate?</p><p>All community members are welcome to apply for the seed sale.</p><p>How Do I Participate?</p><p>Contact us on telegram or email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="mailto:hello@utilitypad.vc">hello@utilitypad.vc</a> to invest</p><p>Seed Stage Pricing And Vesting</p><p>0.04$ per UTIL</p><p>10% at TGE</p><p>3 months cliff then 10% monthly</p><p>How Much Can I Invest?</p><p>The minimum amount to participate in seed sale is $10,000 USDT.</p><p>When Will This Offer End?</p><p>This will only last for a month as we want only serious investors to participate in the seed sale. Do not be a matured asset investor, join us today.</p><p>Official links</p><p>Website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://www.utilitypad.vc">https://www.utilitypad.vc</a></p><p>Telegram: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="http://t.me/utilitypadvc">http://t.me/utilitypadvc</a></p><p>Twitter: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://www.twitter.com/UtilityPadVc">https://www.twitter.com/UtilityPadVc</a></p><p>Medium: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="https://www.medium.com/@UtilityPadVc">https://www.medium.com/@UtilityPadVc</a></p><p>Email: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" class="dont-break-out" href="mailto:hello@utilitypad.vc">hello@utilitypad.vc</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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