It isn’t just my love of men that would have me wanting them to exist in the future. The continuation of our species depends on it… even if some psychopathic people believe we can breed successfully for the rest of human existence without males. Genetic variation is vital for a species to be successful, so if we were hypothetically using the same sperm donors overtime, you’d expect it to be less adaptive (like inbreeding). Anyway, that was a weird aside. To me the motto should be “The immediate future is a little more feminine”.

Of course it is. We’ve been on a masculine rampage for a while. The Industrial Revolution, The Great Wars, space exploration, and the Age of the Internet have all distracted us from the most important aspect of our lives. Our home, the Earth, the spaceship aboard which we powerlessly tumble through space. We take cheap entertainment over the responsibility of preservation. The human species has overshot its mark on the attempt to balance a prior state of feminine stagnation.

Before I can articulate how crypto has shifted our focus back to Earthly responsibilities, I will need to catch some people up on the word feminine in this context, as it is very different from female. Considering guys are so prevalent in this sector of the metaverse, I have a huge competitive advantage just by being a female. But if there is such a scarcity of women, how could I be calling this a feminine endeavor?

Feminine in the way I am using it here is really highlighting the community verification aspect. There is no single authoritative power that regulates crypto (as far as I know). It is a system of verification for which the community is responsible in affirming transactions. Group consensus in both its negative and positive manifestations is feminine.

According to Hofstede Insights

MASCULINITY VERSUS FEMININITY (MAS)

The Masculinity side of this dimension represents a preference in society for achievement, heroism, assertiveness, and material rewards for success. Society at large is more competitive. Its opposite, Femininity, stands for a preference for cooperation, modesty, caring for the weak and quality of life. Society at large is more consensus-oriented.

In the business context Masculinity versus Femininity is sometimes also related to as “tough versus tender” cultures.

Remember the whole Robin Hood escapade that really launched us into a crypto-age? While this is a new frontier and that is actually masculine I still get a general vibe of this being an attempt to redistribute the wealth in society, which still has me convinced that it is a feminine industry, with masculine tendencies. Regular gamers have an upper hand when it comes to creative design, not only because they are perpetually in a state of play (I mean, some of them only take short bio breaks), but also because they are intrinsically in tune with their equipment and software. Most of the noteable projects are led by people who either work in a team, or couldn’t care less for credit to be awarded to them. Look at Satoshi Nakamoto… oh right.. you can’t because nobody knows who or what that is. Again, this is a beautiful balance of masculine energy serving a feminine endeavor.

On top of that, this NFT minting craze is incredibly Venusian with creatively designed art pieces that only hold as much value as that which is agreed upon by the group based on how many people obtain and retain the coin. The value is completely reliant on how much enthusiasm and long-term support a project can generate. This whole experiment of cryptocurrency has an air of what some may refer to as acting on the “honor system”. In astrology, its pretty clear that Venus is associated with femininity, an idea so pervasive it permeated popular culture. What you may not have known is that Venus is the ruler of the Second House of livelihood and possessions. Therefore, astrologers have concluded that this house is involved with finances in the natural Zodiacal wheel (that starts with Aries in the spring).

The masculine and feminine energies can also be applied to our ability to obtain satisfaction without properly nourishing our bodies. Sugar is relatively easy to attain and is pretty universal so we just go along with it out of convenience. Just like going to work and getting money to spend on things we need is. The sweet taste of convenience is still, however, only a short-term solution. Though it is reliable, available, and definitely gets the job done (gives us energy or stores it), it is really just a cheap alternative to natural sugars found within fruits and vegetables, or even molasses, all of which also contain co-factors like vitamins and minerals. In the case of fiat money, it is hardly as valuable as the gold that once determined its value. We even started making fake sugar, just like we started building houses of cards from our paper money.

The crypto market requires much more concentration to successfully enter as a buyer. On the part of the project teams, it takes way more effort to generate value for something that is imaginary than it does to accumulate wealth from things that already hold (imaginary) value. As a final point I’ll add, the crypto day traders are using the lunar cycle to hedge bets. The moon (Luna) is also the original feminine archetype (counter to the masculine Sun) in Ancient Astrology, so it is something to note if in this argument.

One of the only fortunate parts of living through this pandemic is seeing the resilience of the human spirit. We have sought and manifested community even in our darkest moments of solitude. I’m very pleased to see this evolution into group-verification without a need for total consensus in thought (so far…). Crypto is almost like the dream of rank-choice voting, where we the people decide what is worth investing in for our future. It is no different than investing in a company on the stock exchange, unless you are under the impression its just a bunch of kids playing with Monopoly money. That is, in fact, what the stock exchange has become. Cryptocurrencies, even the dumbass meme coins, are a soft-power stand against the established order of business. I’ve also noticed a lot of projects that are innovative solutions to current structural problems in industries like Health and Environmental Preservation.

So, to square the circle that I began this post with, as we shift our focus to crypto, we are building communities that can have a great impact on how we care for our beautiful Mother Earth. It is in direct competition with the industries that have destroyed our only home with overproduction. This proverbial middle finger in the face of corrupt corporate entities and their disgusting wasteful practices has been the greatest chance we’ve ever had to take the wheel of this spaceship.

Hofstede Insightshttps://hi.hofstede-insights.com/national-culture

Brennan, Chris (2017) Hellenistic Astrology. Chapter 10: Significations of the Places. Page 347

Originally written in Collective Journaling at The Stoa

The March proposal was updated to provide the public and private sectors with revised guidance. These revisions focused on six key areas where greater guidance from the FATF was sought. These are to

On May 10, 2021, Tokyo FinTech held a webinar to discuss this revised guidance in the context of the overall regulatory environment, with a specific focus on the travel rule. We have posted Lucas Betschart’s explanation of the travel rule and its impact on the VASP ecosystem in Switzerland on the Tokyo FinTech YouTube channel.

While we will use the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) announcement to expect compliance with the Travel Rule by April 2022 as a hook, the geographic coverage of the panelists will allow us to take the discussion into a global context. The regulation to be adopted requires all virtual asset service providers to share transaction data of senders and recipients of crypto-assets.

The FSA also noted that it had requested the Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association (JVCEA) to advise its members to prepare for the implementation of the rule. FATF created the travel rules to prevent cryptocurrencies from being used to finance terrorist and money laundering activities. Japan authorities have been concerned about the use of cryptocurrencies to perpetrate financial crimes within the country.

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So what is UHive?

UHive is a blockchain-based social network, managing to deliver a new user experience unlike any other social network, and I’ll tell you how. The UHive ecosystem revolves around UHive tokens (HVE). There’s a total supply of 80 billion tokens. The company has set a hard cap of $52.4 million (or 25 billion HVE) for the token sale, with a soft cap of $10 million. Tokens are being sold at a price of $0.003 during the token sale.

UHive expects the value of their tokens to sharply increase as the number of users grows. By the time they have 100 million active users, for example, they estimate their token will be valued at $2.

For every minute you spend on UHive, every day, you’re earning tokens. This is capped at 4 hours per day (they obviously want you to have a life outside). Also, every time you create a new post, like, or dislike someone’s post, write a comment and repost, you keep earning tokens. There are many ways to use tokens on the platform, including buying and reserving spaces, buying attraction for your space, getting paid a share of the revenue your spaces generates, advertisements, special effects, space subscriptions, buying merchandise and allowing businesses to sell products or services using Uhive tokens.

What makes UHive different?

Obviously, we already have hundreds of major social networks on the internet today. How does UHive plan to separate itself from the components? The unique selling feature of the UHive social network is the idea of a “physical dimension”. By adding a physical dimension to the social network, they aim to bring digital social interactions to the real world. The UHive platform designed exclusively for mobile devices and controlled with A.I. (Artificial intelligence) and virtual reality.

What exactly is this UHive “physical dimension”?

Well, the company’s platform allows users to create and display their profiles or walls with digital physical location address in a world of infinite space. Your social profile occupies a real space inside a virtual environment, allowing you to get the feeling that you’re wandering around space. In other words, you have a “physical” location within the UHive social network. You can discover and explore the network to find new businesses and spaces. You can zoom in and out or left and right to explore nearby spaces.

There are two unique spaces within the UHive platform - the Civilized World and the Grey World:

Civilized World:

The Civilized World is designed for real people and real profiles. You can use this world to navigate your social network of friends, family, peers, and coworkers. It’s a regulated environment similar to what you’d find on Facebook. You can discover topics and communities.

Grey World:

The Grey World is a social network where you can be whatever you want. It’s uncharted and uncontrolled space where users can create their own region and be completely anonymous in a liberating world. Users can run wild with their imagination, creating their own stories and spaces. The world is completely isolated from the Civilized World and secured with a decentralized infrastructure.

UHive has filed patents for two technologies, including their “physical social network” concept and their “Grey World” concept. Both are listed as patent pending.

With UHive, users can have multiple profiles. You can have a profile on the Civilized World and another on the Grey World. You can embrace freedom and imagination on the Grey World while enjoying a regulated environment on the Civilized World. UHive uses a hybrid blockchain technology to keep user data, identity, and activities secured and anonymous.

OK, Let’s go back to talking about UHive’s physical space idea: over time, your physical space in the Civilized World and Grey World can become more unique. As users engage with the platform more frequently, their space will be more visible and attractive to other users.

Users can also choose a specific space location today and then capitalize on the increased value of that space over time. You might situate your profile next to a famous space with lots of traffic, for example, which means people visiting the space will see your profile, increasing the value of your space location.

UHive also mentions A vision off virtual reality technology that is already running ! The social network will be built from the ground up to support virtual reality, although this feature will be optional for users. You can explore the physical spaces inside UHive from a virtual reality device. The social network will also allow you to view movies and photos using VR and perform other social interactions with VR.

Who’s Behind UHive?

UHive is led by founder and CEO Muayyad Shehadeh, that currently lives in London. He founded the company in January 2016. He’s also the acting CEO of BigMIND, Zoolz, the founder of G Cloud, and the CEO of Genie9 - all of which are active positions at active companies. UHive is headquartered in London, UK.

My Conclusions

UHive aims to create a new social network based on the concept of physical space. users can occupy a “physical” space inside a virtual environment. The social network exists in an infinite space, and users can occupy whichever part of that space they wish to. Brands and companies can also occupy positions within that space and take place there in publicity and marketing. You’ll be able to explore the space within your mobile app. Or, you can use VR technology to explore the space like you would in any virtual reality environment.

UHive will have two separate social networks, both of which are based on a hybrid blockchain technology. There’s the Civilized World - where you use your real name and information - and the Grey World -where you can create your own story and let your imagination run wild. Above all that, you would get paid with HVE tokens just for being active on the media. I got a massive feeling that not only UHive will be one of the most used social network on the WEB3, also big companies today like META or Tweeter would try to imitate them through the upcoming technology. My recommendation is that you hop on and join this on-forward train that just keep speeding up.Thank you !

When it comes to specific NFT marketplaces, the phenomenon known as the network effect is, predictably, still in place. OpenSea dominates the NFT ecosystem, having achieved $14 billion in trading volume during 2021, compared to the incipient $21.7 million in 2020. This represents a massive 646x growth factor from the year prior.

Excluding project-specific NFT marketplaces, such as Axie Infinity, NBA Top Shot, and CryptoPunks, following OpenSea are Solanart and Magic Eden. Both NFT marketplaces are hosted on the Solana blockchain and have accrued $974 million in trading traffic. This is a significant development, but not that surprising.

Ethereum is notorious for having stupendously high ETH gas fees, while Solana treats its customers with a completely negligible $0.00025 fee per transaction. Therefore, we may see this trend rise in 2022 if Ethereum doesn’t get its act together.

Lastly, the top 3 NFT collections have marked 2021 in sales: Axie Infinity at $3.8 billion, CryptoPunks at $1.8 billion, and Art Blocks at $1.1 billion. Because Axie is also a blockchain game, it far surpassed all other NFT collections, by having nearly 1.4 million buyers. Only NBA Top Shot came close at 385k buyers.

With the yearly stats out of the way, here are some notable NFT collections popping up on the radar last week.

Although past his prime, the 73-year-old singer and songwriter still has a heavy cultural weight. After all, since the 1960s he has sold over 100 million albums, netting him $220 million in personal wealth. Fitting Ozzy’s British lineage, Rolling Stone UK announced his first entry into the NFT market with the Prince of Darkness collection.

Consisting of 9,666 NFT bats, the Prince of Darkness is a nod to the incident in 1982 in Des Moines, Iowa. While he was performing solo, the ex-Black Sabbath singer bit off the head of a real bat, with its heart still beating. Furthermore, the Prince of Darkness is also a four-CD box set Ozzy released in 2005.

From the number of Cryptobats involved, we can conclude this is another generative art collection revolving around a randomized set of attributes. Moreover, the NFT bats will borrow from another common theme — pixel art.

CryptoBatz NFTs will also hold an additional feature layer. Popularized by Mutant Ape Yacht Club with its mutant serum, there will be an alternate, even darker version of CryptoBats as MutantBatz. In other words, CryptoBatz holders will have an option to activate a ‘bite’ on any of their other NFTs.

However, CryptoBatz added a unique twist to the mutant formula. This ‘bite’ could be exerted to even separate NFT collections such as Cryptotoadz. SupDucks, and even Bored Ape Yacht Club. This is all made possible by Sutter Systems, a brand-new NFT studio.

CryptoBatz discord channel is holding up the pre-sale, with an additional 2,500 pre-sales heading for exclusivity on the channel. All the social links and the collection itself can be found on CryptoBatz’s official Twitter page.

If there is one brand that pops off when you hear Italian luxury supercar, it would almost certainly be Ferrari. Focused on exclusive clientele, Ferrari was always concerned more with its image than profit. Therefore, although its market cap of $48.7 billion is impressive, it is only half that of General Motors.

With many metaverses now in play, such as The Sandbox and Decentraland, many companies are now looking into virtual commodity expansion. This is the gambit Ferrari is making with its partnership with Velas Network AG, headquartered in Switzerland. Velas (VLX) blockchain is in many ways similar in performance to Solana.

In fact, Velas is built upon Solana as the next iteration, although with a smaller mark cap at $845 million compared to Solana’s $53 billion. Nonetheless, Velas does support Ethereum, Tron, and BSC smart contracts, which will extend to the upcoming Ferrari NFTs.

In short, just like Ferrari offers one of the top-performing supercars, so will their NFTs top both performance and transaction affordability. Velas will also sponsor the Ferrari Esports Series, a virtual car race featuring the highly-rated Assetto Corsa video game. You can sign-up for it at Ferrari’s official site.

Based on this, one should expect to see Ferrari car models as NFTs soon. Perhaps, in the future, they will be playable NFTs just like Axies in Axie Infinity. It would be a natural fit, given that 99.9% of people on the planet will only be able to afford Ferrari supercars, virtually.

Given that the Ferrari-Velas partnership will last for multiple years, it looks like this is a long

Those who are fans of football, or soccer in Europe, would be familiar with Chelsea, one of the oldest Premier League clubs founded in 1905, in the U.K. Over the century, Chelsea scored hundreds of iconic footballers. One of them is the former captain John Terry.

Now a professional football coach, Terry scored 41 goals in his career across 492 football appearances. Fans who have been following Terry could have noticed that he changed his Twitter pic profile last week to a blue ape.

This is indeed one of the NFTs from the recently announced The Ape Kids collection. Created by ApeKidsClubTeam, Terry will be now working with them to energize the NFT market even further, but aiming for non-adults.

Also following the trend of generative clusters, it will account for 9,999 baby apes. Terry gave another clue for his NFT interest on December 28, 2021, when he posted the picture of his newly acquired ApeDads NFT out of 4,000 total. They share stark similarity with now-legendary Bored Apes Yacht Club, except they are going for the football fan aesthetic.

To spice things up, even more, Terry gifted his wife an NFT from the Desperate ApeWives collection.

All of these apes are clearly running through the same generative algorithm as BAYC, now having accrued over $986 million in total sales. The involvement of Terry with this market section creates an interesting dynamic. Are parents going to buy NFTs for their kids, as a speculative asset, and as a form of savings?

Given that most NFT holders have yet to recoup their losses on the secondary market, that might not be such a good idea. At least, not according to Nansen’s data.

Would you like an NFT marketplace that specializes in blockchain gaming and metaverses? Well, the newly launched Fractal running on the super-affordable and ultra-fast Solana blockchain has you covered. First announced in the second week of December, Fractal is now fully deployed, already featuring six blockchain games:

Aurory — 3D tactical, the ability-based game very similar to Wakfu.

Portals — Social-networking metaverse game playable within a browser. Imagine Fallout 4 settlement-building but with social features — chat, invites, NFT racks for clout… Portals NFTs are effectively building ownership certificates.

Panzerdogs — Dogs in panzer tanks! Another Play-to-Earn game similar to Axie Infinity, but with real-time tank battles and explosions.

Genopets — Are you wearing a sports-monitoring device that tracks your progress? Genopets allow you to connect that data and watch the evolution of your Genopets. In other words, it’s the world’s first Move-to-Earn NFT-powered game.

Photo Finish — Virtual horse racing in which racing is just a small bit. It’s a whole world of breeding, buying, selling, and training horses.

The first impression of Fractal — it’s a snappy and clean-cut NFT marketplace, befitting Solana’s growing ecosystem of DApps. To celebrate its launch, Fractal is airdropping 100,000 Fractal NFTs, as digital snowflakes.

The airdrop will last for several weeks, but you will have to be ‘Grape Verified’ on the official Fractal Discord server, which has grown remarkably fast in December, to over 111k members. Most interestingly, Fractal is all about making blockchain assets, including NFTs, available across projects. Justin Kan, the co-founder of the marketplace, indicated that these Fractal NFTs may one day be in some blockchain game as an ability.

That’s definitely something to look forward to, as NFTs gain an additional layer of function. In turn, this gives them more value down the line. Furthermore, with so many people already on board Fractal’s Discord channel, Solana’s title of potential ‘Ethereum-killer’ grows more likely with each passing day. Will Ethereum’s docking with Beacon Chain some time in H2 2022 finally lower its hefty gas fees?

Known for its grand architectural projects, the rich microstate, United Arab Emirates, is also known for its implementation of cutting-edge tech it borrowed from the West. Holding over $23 billion AuM (assets under management), the Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) is the 7th largest bank in the UAE.

The bank has its own digital lab in Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC), the leading FinTech hub of the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA). You may be wondering, why does a bank need a digital lab? You may remember that the UAE Central Bank (CBUAE) announced last Summer that it will develop its own CBDC — Central Bank Digital Currency — joining all major central banks.

In turn, just like in China, commercial banks are those that will facilitate digital currencies, less they become obsolete. Now, back to the NFT exhibit in DIFC. The art installation is actually physical, depicting the rapid growth of the UAE over 50 years. Specifically, how CBD helped grow both the nation and its capital, Dubai.

At the center of the artwork is Deira Clock Tower, also integrated into the CBD logo itself.

Where the interesting part comes in is that each physical exhibit contains a QR code, as you see on the image above. Through your phone, you can then experience an augmented version of the artwork, including sound. The project launched as a commemoration to the UAE’s Golden Jubilee.

CBD, therefore, became the first bank to have developed its own NFT collection. However, the digital NFT mirrors of the physical exhibits will become available later.

Linking physical assets with their NFT counterparts, as demonstrated by CBD, is just one of the innovations to take off in 2022. Fractionalized and collective ownership of all kinds of assets as NFTs already seems to be on the table. Companies such as Masterworks, Particle, and Exposed Walls, have all started breaking apart big NFT pieces, or non-blockchain assets, into fractionalized NFTs.

Case in point, when Particle bought Banksy’s 2005 artwork Love is in the Air and sold it for 10k NFTs, each with around €1300 price tag. With that in mind, one should expect more fractionalized NFTs popping up on marketplaces.

Even more clear is that big corporations, such as Nike, Adidas, Ferrari, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, are gaining foothold into the NFT ecosystem. They will provide a lead for other companies to follow, unless they wish to remain behind in the branding game. The latter will consist of in-game, in-metaverse blockchain assets that will provide some perks in the real world.

Because open-world metaverses are so inherently flexible, the imagination is the only limit to NFT use-cases. In turn, the most likely scenario is for metaverse virtual land plots to continue to sell like hotcakes.

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The team at BullPerks takes pride in meticulously vetting partnerships with the latest and most favorable crypto-gaming projects, such as Xmanna; which develops software using blockchain technology focused on gaming, sports loyalty, and engagement.

Xmanna is a loyalty gaming platform that provides game developers easy access to integrate cryptocurrency and pay-to-play games into a single platform utilizing fan engagement. The project aims to bring blockchain games to the masses, with a vision that can only be described as truly ambitious. Xmanna wants to overhaul the commerce and fan engagement that saturates the professional sports, advertising, and gaming ecosystem. These industries include FinTech, GameTech, and AdTech. The proposition of Xmanna is to maximize the potential of these industries by providing an optimized, profitable, and global solution for the property economy that promises apparent viability.

The project intends to solve several problems. It provides game developers with easy access to integrate cryptocurrency and gash games into a single platform, attracts the younger generation’s attention, and opens a revolutionary path to mass adoption.

Xmanna is based on the Polygon network. They are bridging their native token $XMAN to Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, Solana, and other top-notch networks.

The Xmanna project represents the perfect fusion of elements that are critical to the symbiosis nature between the sports world and advertisers. Here are some of those unique features:

Xmanna and the team of experienced professionals behind the project have sincerely put the users’ interests first. Therefore, they distribute a significant percentage of their income to users through rewards, prizes, and a unique in-game currency called Bonus Cash. The Xmanna currency equates to the dollar offering many opportunities to incentivize its users.

Xmanna’s business model creates an idealistic synergy between the project and its partners, resulting in increased benefits for investors and users.

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Firstly, a stablecoin is a cryptocurrency coin that is pegged to the value of another asset. Typically this other asset is a fiat currency such as the U.S. dollar, the British pound, or the Australian dollar. In the case of the PAXG coin, the pegged asset is gold specifically one ounce. When a stablecoin is pegged to another asset this means that the intended trade ratio…