For me, tech is too boring and gains are too volatile. What keeps me in this space is developing a belief, a vision that I can build a conviction in: by painting the picture of the world and imagining where we are all heading to.

Unfortunately, with my cat’s eyesight, it is not a pretty scene.

We are living in an age of increasing authoritarianism, where the livelihoods of the majority are under the hands of the few:

So much of our sufferings, our wrongdoings, our biases, and our corrupted behaviours can all be pointed to one apparent problem that is the extreme centralization of power.

We are all living in a reality where much of our life is governed by those who are in positions of power, and while they can promise us to provide the best educational system, the best financial system, the best healthcare system…

How do we ever trust that these systems are established and operated in the best interest of us, the majority, the people and not of themselves?

The answer is we can’t, because as humans, “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”, and it is only getting worse as we trend toward digitalisation.

We already see this happening in the digital age, the effects of extreme centralization of power to some of the most important aspects of our life: our privacy, our freedom, our wealth, our education, our opportunities and our future.

Answer: We expect to be f**** over and over and over again, and yet we have come to accept it because partly we have no other choice but to participate in this system where the game is already rigged at the very start.

In a centralized system of power, there only exists the powerful and the powerless.

To have faith in the future of humanity, we must distribute and decentralize this power, especially as we digitalize ourselves in the metaverse. I’d suspect none of us ever want to have Mark Zuckerberg or the US government to make decisions for the rest of our life.

So we must create, develop and INVEST in a new system, where the majority, the people actually have a CHOICE and a SAY in how we live our lives and where we should collectively head towards in the future.

Taking back control of our lives, subsequently, we take back control of our destiny and our fate. Bitcoin enables this, DEFI enables this, NFT enables this, decentralized metaverse enables this.

This is my thesis for investing in this space. I’m no longer scared of crashes nor euphoric about gains, but instead, always excited to the days ahead of what will be made possible. It is all part of the process.

But what do I know as someone who has all the freedom and the choice in the world to eat and sleep. Of course, it is easy for me to find the insights and the excitement to hold on to, though I believe this is one perspective that has actual value in giving people hopes during the ups and downs of what is going to be the future of mankind

We are all in this together. WAGMI.

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Despite falling nearly 40 percent since its all-time high in November, Bitcoin continues to appeal to big investors. And for good reason, Binance just invested $2 billion in the world’s largest crypto project.

While many investors have been fleeing the mother of all crypto-currencies for several weeks, the Binance platform is taking the opposite bet. On January 4, the exchange bought nearly $2 billion worth of Bitcoin. That’s just the beginning!

The address 3LYJfcfHPXYJreMsASk2jkn69LWEYKzexb, at the origin of the movements bought 43,000 BTC for an average price of $ 46,553. In 2019, the platform had confirmed to be the owner of this wallet. At present, this wallet contains 116,601 BTC, or about $4.7 billion at the current price.

Meanwhile, the FED’s announcements about a faster increase in key interest rates have played very negatively on the crypto market. In the evening and night of Wednesday and Thursday, most of the major crypto projects were showing losses of around 10% over 24 hours. A decline also related to the instability in Kazakhstan. With protests that have led to a huge nationwide power outage. Remember that Kazakhstan is the second country in the world for Bitcoin mining.

According to many analysts, the $40,000 mark is now a vital level for the Bitcoin price. If it were to break this bar on the downside, the token could quickly fall to the $30,000 level. We would then be back to the level that Bitcoin was at the end of July, when the crypto market recovered after a complicated late spring.

Some observers point out that January could also be marked by the return of institutional investors to digital currencies. And for now, most of these investors are still largely confined to Bitcoin or Ethereum. The price of the queen of cryptocurrencies could therefore appreciate according to this parameter. In any case, the investment of a company like Binance sends a positive signal about the future of Bitcoin.

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Wonderland. Coming in at first is $TIME Wonderland. Their sell-off lately is putting them into attractive valuation territory. While you still have to pay a premium compared to their peers, the long-term growth prospects of the treasury are very attractive. Recently they announced a VC opportunity with Betswap where tokens from the new project will be airdropped to stakers. It’s becoming clear that $WMEMO is making its way across all chains and their network, social sentiment, innovation, low risk, etc. are off the charts.

Squid. Squid DAO’s most interesting update is related to the purchase of a few Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs and some $TOKE. While Curve Wars are the thing today for the fight over decentralized stablecoins, I think there’s a chance we’ll be seeing Tokemak Wars in the future. I’ve been kicking myself for not picking up some $TOKE in the $35-$40 range a couple weeks ago, though I still might try and get some now around $50. Either way, $SQUID’s treasury management and recent marketing pushes have been impressive to say the least. Since $SQUID is heavy on $ETH and $ETH has taken quite a beating lately, it’s no surprise $SQUID would get hurt too. $SQUID has one of the most innovative treasuries, unique mechanics with $veSQUID tokens and NFT sales, and their market cap is trading very steadily at their treasury value.

Olympus DAO. I picked up some $gOHM today after Olympus DAO nuked hard in the last 24 hours. I’ve always been incredibly wary of their very high valuation ratios but the technical analysis put them in very oversold territory very fast and I always thought I was a little light on $OHM after dedicating much of my free time to analyzing $OHM forks. :)

Umami. Umami continues to have an exciting treasury filled with $MAGIC $wBTC $wETH $gOHM and more. While the Arbitrum outage on Sunday was a little rattling, I’m keeping an eye on $UMAMI. I still think they’re a little too overexposed to stablecoins. We’re in the dip of a lifetime guys… spend those stables!

Otterclam. Otterclam, soon to rebrand to Otter Kingdom, has absolutely shot up the rankings because they are doing a lot more to innovate than many of the other plays on the list, especially with building out their community. Their play on NFTs to reward loyal users, a positive Discord environment, and owning a plot of land in the Sandbox game has made them a FUN rebase token to own. I’m already spread so thin with my holdings but $CLAM is looking like one I might initiate a position on soon.

Redacted Cartel. $BTRFLY has flown back down a little to reality today after having a pretty large run. The hype on this token is pretty aggressive and I have to admit their launch strategy, dune analytics, and treasury strategy are all top-notch. However, I simply cannot wrap my head around the valuation metrics. A $468m market cap token to own a $115m treasury of $CVX $CRV and $gOHM. Since we all know the APY doesn’t have any value, I would just rather own the pure assets of $CVX $CRV and $gOHM myself. Still, the potential to group together an extremely large amount of curve bribes will make many projects knocking on the door of Redacted Cartel.

Hector. Hector shot up the rankings, especially with the addition of the social sentiment score factoring into the total score since they have quite a large following. Hector also has a decently sized treasury and they’ve been the only rebase token in the green for the last week! I do have an issue with the hefty valuation, especially considering their treasury isn’t invested in anything interesting. There’s also the fact that I can’t figure out the $20m discrepancy between the treasury value on their dashboard and looking at the treasury contract wallet itself. $HEC has the potential to jump into the top four of my list if they just do something interesting with the treasury. Fantom has such fun DeFi opportunities $HEC, do something fun while the current market dip has handed us some discounts!

Spartacus. One of the more stable performers over the last week, which is not surprising considering their massive discount to their treasury value, their low APY not causing sell pressure, and their high exposure to stablecoins in a down market. I’m also excited to see they’re finally putting some of the treasury to use, though I think with the current bearishness I would invest in some assets with a bit more upwards potential than farming a measly 10% APR. I think $SPA is really overdue for some token buybacks.

Sol Invictus. Sol Invictus has a very strong community, and a lead dev that I really respect. I am constantly reading announcements that come through all these Discords and I always get the impression that they are professional and care deeply about their project and community. Overall very solid project, and similar to some other complaints of projects on the list, it would be neat to see some deployment of the stablecoins, especially with $SOL trading at a decent discount right now.

Klima. What a meteoric meltdown in price. I always stayed away from Klima because I always thought the valuation metrics were insanely overvalued, but it’s finally starting to come into a decent orbit. If this pulls back a little more, I might be tempted to initiate here.

Fantohm. Fantohm probably wins the #1 award for most fun and diversified treasury. However I’m having a little bit of trouble drawing the line between their assets on their Bond page and their treasury contract listed in their documents. If the devs could link me a zapper bundle of their treasury contracts that I could monitor, it would be great. I think Fantohm is a great project with a positive community. The only reason they fell a few spots on my list is their valuation metrics due to a recent huge pump, and some uncertainty that looms around their $FHUD token. I would love to see if that $FHUD could just be traded for more recognizable assets.

Papa. Papa has been a great value play and a fun one to hold because of the frequent buy-and-burns. Their proximity to the $1 floor makes them one that has been decently stable over the last few days. I’m hoping to see a little more development out of them soon as their feature deployments have been a little lacking lately. They have an AMA coming up in a few days that I’m excited to listen in on. [Jan 11th EDIT: PapaDAO deployed their dashboards! Bullishness increasing.]

Fortress. Fortress, something that was already trading at an incredible valuation, tanked quite a lot over the last 24 hours to make it the biggest value play on the list. However it’s far down my list because of the high risk rating. Fortress has a unique setup where their liquidity pool is extremely shallow, which makes them very volatile. If people want to sell their rebases, the slippage can be high. To this day I still don’t agree with all the $FORT they have just sitting in their treasury doing nothing when it can be put in an LP to help stabilize their price. It seems like they are just waiting for a buyer to have to pay that slippage to bump it back up. They’re also working on launching a new stablecoin, $FUSD, and as with any launching of a new product or token, there are risks involved with adoption and use. If you have a high risk tolerance though, this token does have the capability to shoot up very high in a short amount of time based on the shallow liquidity and extremely discounted valuation.

Euphoria. Token Harmony One project. Their valuation is starting to enter decent value territory.

Rome. Gamified Rebase Token. Will be extremely curious to see how the campaigns play out. Looks like a lot of fun, but the game element makes their price action so very difficult to predict and their current valuation ratios are a tad on the scary side.

That’s all for this week folks. Tune into Squid DAO’s Twitter spaces at Noon EST on Tuesday, January 11th where I’ll be giving a brief overview of my thoughts in the rebase token space. I’m going to try and do another recording with Cruising on Crypto tomorrow, which would debut on Wednesday afternoon. As always, feel free to leave feedback or questions here or on Twitter. Thanks!

~Bludex

Disclosures: Nothing in this article should be considered financial advice. I hold $SQUID, $TIME, $OHM, $SPA, and $PAPA.

Tenacious Tigers is a cross-chain, multi-faceted project. Tenacious Tigers are the characters in a larger Meta-Jungle, which includes a combination of PFP, play-to-earn, and DAO mechanics. Tiger holders will also became the land owners of the Meta-Jungle receiving NFTs representative of their land.

The Genesis Tigers were minted on Ethereum (1,482 in supply) and the Gen1 Tigers (7,777 in supply) will be minted on Solana. The team made the decision to leverage a cross-chain model for a few reasons:

● To be a first-of-its-kind PFP with 2 generations spanning 2 different blockchains

● To reduce the gas fees that the community will incur by moving to SOL

● To introduce new communities to the Meta-Jungle

Each Tiger has been generated from over 150+ possible features, which include fur, eyes, clothes, hats, mouths and more. The Gen1 SOL Tigers will also feature 10 special edition 1/1s. Check out the Tenacious Tigers Discord to see a sneak peak of these rare special edition Tigers that will be available at random on mint day!

Backstory:

Far from the bustle of the Metaverse where the futuristic suits, flying cars, and where teleportation takes place, the animals are collecting. Pushed from their land, many are turning to the Tenacious Tigers for help. For refuge….

For those animals, we are here. The Tenacious Tigers are prepared in their Meta-Jungle.

While we hear metaverse used often, the Meta-Jungle, led by the Tenacious Tigers, will be a new spin. Developed on SOL (while leveraging Minecraft and its open-source ecosystem), Tenacious Tiger holders will become landowners for the upcoming Meta-Jungle launch. The Meta-Jungle will come with the ability to use your Tiger (and other projects) inside a land that you own! Expect games, twists, and a universe unfolding where Tenacious Tigers are king!

Vision

The Tenacious Tigers NFT project is the genesis project in the larger Tiger metaverse world called the Meta-Jungle. The Meta-Jungle will encompass several of the hallmarks of the best NFT projects, including a combination of PFP characters, metaverse (with playable characters spanning multiple projects), play-to-earn, and DAO mechanisms all together in one project.

● PFP characters: Genesis and Gen1 Tigers; Tiger Cubs

● Metaverse: Meta-Jungle land

● DAO token: The Tiger Claw

The TigerVerse economy and its play-to-earn mechanics revolves around acquiring Tiger Claws, which represent ownership of the Tiger DAO’s assets. Both Genesis and Gen1 Tigers will have opportunities to earn Tiger Claws by participating in the Meta-Jungle which is unlocked by owning the metaverse land. Friends of the Tigers may make appearances in the Meta-Jungle as well (Alpha?!).

Innovation is key to the success of the Tigers and the Meta-Jungle, and the team is committed to staying on the cutting edge of NFT trends and favorable mechanisms as the future project roadmaps are developed.

A tactical initial roadmap has been released and includes the following milestones:

Pre-launch Activities (all focused on community building)

-Discord Giveaways

-Merch Design and Previews

-Townhall

-Presale Whitelisting

Launch:

-ETH launch (complete)

-SOL launch (1/16/22)

-Giveaways (at 50% sell out)

-Cubs development (at 75% sell out)

-TigerDAO officially forms (at 100%)

Post-launch:

-Public full store merch release

-TigerDAO virtual launch party

-First SOL TigerDAO purchase

-Voting on TigerDAO multisig representatives

-Release of Roadmap v2

-Meta-Jungle land mint

Community

Community is critically important to the Tigers founding team, and a part of the overall mission of the project is to encourage participation in making project and DAO decisions, and then to reward members for their collaboration and action.

Genesis Tiger owners have already been rewarded with 2X DAO claim and a free plot of land, and these are just scratching the surface of what’s to come.

The founding team firmly believes that creating a valuable NFT project starts with driving value to the community. The team took action early by seeding the DAO fund with a Lazy Lion and 10 TOR VIP Passes, and the v1 roadmap includes additional contributions at different stages.

Rest assured that Genesis Tiger owners and Gen1 Tiger owners will reap benefits in the future (i.e. free mints) simply by holding these NFTs and being a part of the growing Tiger community.

TigerDAO

The TigerDAO will initially consist of Tenacious Tiger NFT holders that wish to collect NFT projects as a group, using a portion of Tenacious Tiger primary and secondary sales.

Our founding team will serve as a governance council, along with elected members of the community. The council exists to serve and support the DAO. The DAO itself will be able to vote on NFT collecting decisions, respective allocations of funds from secondary sales, and much more.

We love NFTs. We believe NFTs are the future. We want more individuals to be able to experience and have access to blue-chip NFT exposure. We understand how difficult it can be to collect top-tier NFT projects at the individual level, and a DAO allows us all to participate.

That’s where the power of TigerDAO comes in. By using revenue generated through Tenacious Tiger NFT sales, TigerDAO members are enabled to participate in other top-tier, blue-chip NFT projects as a group. Thus, TigerDAO members will be able to become fractional owners of other NFTs, simply by having joined the DAO.

The TigerDAO currently holds 1 Cool Cat, 1 Lazy Lion, 5 Dizzy Dragons, 8 Knights of Degen, and 10 Tools of Rock: VIP passes. We are incredibly excited to continue to collect NFTs as a community!

Давайте почнімо послідовно, а саме з того що це за проєкт такий?

Axelar Network це масштабована платформа кросс-чейн комунікації. Творці платформ-блокчейнів можуть використовувати його для безперешкодного підключення своїх блокчейнів один між одним. Розробники додатків зможуть вибрати найкращий блокчейн для розміщення своїх додатків та використовувати міжмережні протоколи зв’язку Axelar для блокування, розблокування та передачі активів, а також для зв’язку з програмами, створеними на інших платформах. Поєднуючи децентралізовані програми з кількома екосистемами блокчейнів, платформа Axelar дає користувачам можливість взаємодіяти з усіма програмами екосистеми безпосередньо зі своїх гаманців

Тобто грубо кажучи є програми в різних екосистемах і їм потрібно якось взаємодіяти одна з одною, але щоб вони могли взаємодіяти їм потрібен з’єднувальний міст ось тим мостом і буде Axelar Network.

Також Axelar Network пропонує багато переваг на фоні інших кросс-чейн рішень, наприклад таких як :

Ідея цього проєкту очевидна і дуже перспективна оскільки різних блокчейнів з кожним роком все більше і більше і було б чудово якби був якийсь універсальний міст, який міг би з ними всіма взаємодіяти.

Так вважають і багато топових фондів таких, наприклад як Polychain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Binance та інші які інвестували в ідею Axelar Network,

І як ми можемо бачити в Axelar є все для того, щоб стати наймасштабнішою кросс-чейн платформою яка має відмінну команду, чудових партнерів і перспективну ідею.

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The Maniak Aliens Philanthropy Club (MAPC) idea, was born in December of 2021. Two friends from college reconnected and decided to launch an NFT project together.

Ahmad K. who already had an established streetwear apparel(MANIAK) & smoke-shop business(HippieHut), and Gabriel M. who was knowledgeable to all things blockchain & has already worked with many established names in the NFT industry under his main business CryptoCUJO. Both founders have been fully doxed in our Discord.

We originally set out to create an NFT project that would bring a new vibe to the industry and offer unique utility that hasn’t been seen yet. Our main goal is to open up a community owned 3-in-1 store. It will be a smoke-shop, NFT-gallery, and streetwear clothing store all combined into a sleek and modern looking shop in the heart of downtown Columbus. There will be screens spread out across the store where you can view and hopefully buy NFTs, this may-or-may not include reserved screens where our NFT holders can place their NFTs they’re trying to sell (whether MAPC related or not). Hopefully this is enough information to get you interested to check out more of the Roadmap in the Discord. We’re super excited for what we have planned but don’t want to give away too much too soon.

So for now here is some more info on the team:

AK — FounderRuns the day-to-day for all things MANIAK. One of the two original founders of MAPC. Has his hands in all operations but focuses primarily on social media, marketing, general press, giveaways, and collaboration requests.

MaMoose “TheDankestAlien” — Founder Handles pretty much all things Discord; with the help of Mothership Security of course. Has his hands in most MAPC operations as well. Core focus on social media, writing, storyline, creative brainstorming/planning.

HAO — ArtistThe creative mind who brings the MAPC Universe to life. He has had many years of experience drawing both IRL and digitally; which has helped him form his own unique style that many of our MAPC Members have come to love.

Laterz — DeveloperLaterz is the developer that makes it all possible; of course, with the help of his stupendous team. Whether it’s asset-generation, building the algorithm so you can give your MAPC a unique name, or just your typical smart-contract, him and his team pour hours into this project on the daily.

Together, we form the strong foundation of MAPC, which combines and keeps art, business, community, philanthropy, and tech at its core.

Bonus Cause We’re MANIAKS — And We Believe Trust Is Earned Around Here:It’s this reason why we plan to deliver on one of our biggest promises before general sale. Our concert utility! We wouldn’t be the project we are today with out the many suggestions and feedback from our tight community. So we plan to throw a whitelist party with Legendary DJ Artist SCHEME. You have until the 30th of March, 2022; to get your hands on a whitelist spot and get at least 1 MAPC NFT which will serve as your ticket to enter the venue on the 31st in Columbus at the Dahlia Nightclub.

Keep the vibes real. Keep the vibes dank.-TheDankestAlien & MAPC Staff