NASA, the U.S. space agency, has partnered with Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, to build a challenge for developers to help create a Martian metaverse experience. The challenge will include various tasks, including designing several key environments for Martian astronauts, which will be rendered using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 to provide a realistic […]
A class of 2021 Bitcoiner in Mozambique is using the Lightning Network to transact while using Bitcoin to protect his savings.
PayPal-backed crypto firm Talos has raised fresh funding from companies like Ken Fox’s private equity firm Stripes, BNY Mellon, Citi and others.
The mysterious organization known as The Proof Collective defines itself as “a private members only collective of 1,000 dedicated NFT collectors and artists.” To join the Proof Collective someone would have to, you guessed it, own their NFT. So, in theory, anybody can be a part of it. In practice, though, the floor price for one of their passes is around 88 ETH at the time of writing. The size of the investment keeps the undesirables away. The Proof Collective is all about NFTs. Because it’s the law, they run a private Discord in which you can probably receive the biggest alpha available. The organization also provides NFT info via its social media, produces a podcast in which they interview the biggest names in the NFT world, and, reportedly, owns a huge NFT collection. At least its members do. According to the website, those members own 153K NFTs, including 148 CryptoPunks and 817 Bored Apes. Who are those members? We wouldn’t know for sure. Its founders are Kevin Rose, of Diggs fame, and illustrator Justin Mezzell. And it has been widely reported that the Proof Collective gave free memberships to digital artist Bleeple and motivational speaker and NFT millionaire Gary Vee. Enter The Influencers In the following video, one of the Proof Collective founding members, Internet legend and Diggs co-founder Kevin Rose, says. “This is the very beginning of what’s going to be a multi-decade journey to build a new media company.” He also promises that Proof will combat FUD that comes with success by constantly shipping product. Moonbirds holders can expect benefits, airdrops, and physical objects related to the nascent brand. What Is The Proof Collective? The Proof Collective NFTs’ main benefit is the world’s most valuable currency: information. Besides a social club of sorts, the organization believes in “group bottoms-up-driven research.” Plus, some members are early NFT adopters that own all of the projects you hear about on social media and are actively looking for the next one. If you play your cards right and the gods smile in your direction, that Proof Collective NFT might pay for itself in a few months. The organization takes things one step further, though. As “a new media company,” The Proof Collective produces and releases its own NFT masterpieces. Their first product where the Grails, which mint was solely for the members of the organization and had the slogan, “20 artists. 20 unique pieces of art. Artist names revealed after the mint.” So far, they’ve unveiled art by Tyler Hobbs, Claire Silver, Mike Shinoda, Larva Labs, Rachel Ryle, and Gary Vaynerchuk among others. The Proof Collective’s second product was the incredibly successful Moonbirds, who conquered the world on a bearish market. “There are a total of 10K Moonbirds, they were issued under the ERC-721 standard on the Ethereum blockchain. The mint price for each one was a whopping 2.5 ETH. That means that, at current prices, the Proof Collective made over $70M on that first day,” our report said. At the moment, the floor price for the Proof Collective NFT is 88 ETH, which at today’s exchange rate is more than $200K. And the prices of the listed for sale ones go up to a whopping 700 ETH. Currently, these NFT tickets sit at #17 in Cryptoslam’s “NFT Collection Rankings by Sales Volume” list. The project has sold more than $800K in the last 24 hours and more than $52M since the Proof Collective’s creation. BTC price chart for 05/10/2022 on Gemini | Source: BTC/USD on TradingView.com We Need A Little Controversy Look, they don’t have any proof (no pun intended), but NFTethics suggests there’s something shady going on. “Some mentioned that we should check the purchases of proof collective, as many wallets only contains the proof collection and the floor is now 88 ETH. Wash trading is so common (…) these days that it’s not even noteworthy anymore.” 3/ Also nepotism is completely standard in the NFT space, so the fact that GaryVee (Gennady), his brother AJ, Beeple and some old friends received the Proof collective for free is standard. We saw quite a lot of other “old” friends that received the proof collective for free/$3. pic.twitter.com/o20NOgfIM4 — NFT Ethics (@NFTethics) April 15, 2022 Wash Trading is the process of buying and selling an asset in order to increase its perceived price. “In some situations, wash trades are executed by a trader and a broker who are colluding with each other, and other times wash trades are executed by investors acting as both the buyer and the seller of the security,” according to Investopedia. Could the Proof Collective have done that? Maybe. But there’s no evidence, all of this is mere speculation. In Conclusion The Proof Collective entered the NFT space with a bang. The space has never seen an ascension this fast and a track record this clean. So far, they’ve done everything right. Does that guarantee future success? No, it doesn’t. But it certainly is impressive. Check the previous edition of the Blue Chips NFT 101 series, Solana’s “DeGods.” Featured Image: Proof Collective NFT, promotional image from their site | Charts by TradingView
Long positions suffer across Bitcoin and altcoins as BTC gets sent back to exchanges for potential sale.
So unfortunately I had some UST and since I'm not really a crypto expert, I just couldn't foresee that it's possible that a "stable coin" loses 40% of its value or vanishes into thin air. So this morning I woke up, saw that UST has collapsed (even touched $0.68!) and decided to convert my UST…
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Stock market is living one of the worst trading months in it's history. Most growth stocks have been crashed more than 60-70% in last 6 months (e.g. Netflix, Spotify, Paypal etc.). Some big companies (e.g. Netflix) is crashed more than Bitcoin or Ethereum. There is a big panic in Stock market as well. Most people…
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PRESS RELEASE. Georgetown, Cayman Islands, May 10, 2022 – Today, HUMAN Protocol has announced that it has awarded a grant to VeritaTrust to power on-chain reviews. Following the announcement of HUMAN Protocol’s $10 Million funds dedicated to grants, this work with VeritaTrust represents their very first grant awarded since the inception of this program. VeritaTrust […]
A new report has concluded that restrictions on cryptocurrency trading, as well as the banning of Twitter by Nigerian authorities, may have “crippled foreign direct investment in the fintech industry.” Foreign Direct Investment ‘Crippled’ A new report has found that restrictions imposed by Nigerian authorities on crypto trading may have contributed to the reduced foreign […]
Over the past year, the trading volume of futures had surged. Thanks to the crypto bull of 2021, a wide range of decentralized projects have flourished, which has catalyzed the growth of the futures market. As the crypto bull advanced, the futures market remained popular throughout 2021. Right now, it has even surpassed the spot market and become the mainstream investment choice among crypto users. Meanwhile, the trading volume of futures has reached new highs despite the switch to a bear market. Earning multiplied returns by trading futures is one of the primary ways to profit from a bearish market. Driven by the increasing market recognition for the prospect of crypto futures, competition in this category has intensified. As a growing number of crypto investors foray into the futures market, the major crypto trading platforms are involved in fierce competition. Today’s futures market is a big cake, and only platforms with sound products may grab more shares. As a long-standing crypto trading platform, CoinEx started investing in the futures category a long time ago and has been committed to creating better futures products. The exchange is one of the earliest global crypto trading platforms with a full range of products and services. CoinEx took a long-term view when the spot market was flourishing and ventured into the derivatives market to provide users with versatile crypto products and services. This also laid a solid foundation for the growth of CoinEx Futures. In 2021, the trading volume of CoinEx Futures surged by 6,840% year-on-year, which was a huge breakthrough. In a market where the major crypto trading platforms are trying everything to take more shares of the futures market, how should CoinEx stand out? In the past, thanks to their strong resource reserve and funding capacity, large trading platforms had an absolute advantage when competing with rivals in a new field. Moreover, compared with less established platforms, the giants are also more experienced in the futures segment. At the moment, the number of futures investors is on the rise, and their requirement for futures products has also become increasingly rigorous. Apart from market recognition, investors’ interests hinge on many other aspects, spanning the product experience, the number of trading pairs available, the rules of the funding rate, the Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) mechanism, insurance payments, and platform liquidity. At the end of the day, investors will come to realize that simple, easy-to-use products and professional, satisfying services are the crucial factors that attract them to a trading platform and persuade them to stay. Recently, CoinEx has upgraded its slogan to “Making Crypto Trading Easier”, which indicates that CoinEx Futures will also shift towards simplicity and ease of use through improvements. By offering simple futures products, CoinEx will shatter the high threshold of futures trading as investors used to believe. Meanwhile, the exchange also aims to allow all crypto investors to trade futures with ease, moving futures trading out of the realm that’s exclusive to professional traders. Most users who have traded futures on CoinEx are satisfied with its simple, easy-to-use features. First of all, with easy operations, convenient order placement, and clear position information, CoinEx users can trade futures through an extremely smooth process from the moment they start a position to the moment they close it. Secondly, before starting to trade futures on CoinEx, users can quickly master the key points through simulated operation tutorials provided by the platform, which help them avoid the common traps in futures trading. Finally, thanks to the all-inclusive, easy-to-use features, including TP & SL, one-click liquidation, and futures calculator, provided by CoinEx Futures, users can manage their positions effortlessly. CoinEx now features more than 100 futures markets where users can trade both linear contracts and inverse contracts, with multiple trading pairs available. In addition, the exchange uses a unique price mechanism called the Mark Price, which is determined by the futures price on many mainstream platforms and protects users from abnormal market swings. Meanwhile, CoinEx has also introduced multiple futures mechanisms, covering the Insurance Fund and Auto-Deleveraging (ADL), to guarantee zero clawback for liquidation. Many users have this misperception that “simple, easy-to-use products are never professional or secure”. In fact, the opposite is true — CoinEx Futures are backed by strong risk-control measures and security mechanisms, which enable smooth, secure, reliable futures trading services and help traders seize the first-mover advantage. It should be noted that CoinEx has never suffered any security breach since its inception 5 years ago. Though many of the top platforms faced scandals such as security attacks, CoinEx has managed to preserve its system security, allowing all crypto users to trade futures in a secure, steady manner on the exchange. Security is essential to the existence and growth of crypto trading platforms, while simple, easy-to-use futures products function as the cornerstone of the general crypto market. CoinEx is all set to stand out from its rivals amidst the cut-throat competition.
