📺 Raoul Pal Bought an Ape for 140 ETH: Was It a Good Idea?

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News

• Anchor Leapfrogs Aave as Top DeFi Lending Protocol With $14B TVL
• Meme Stonk GameStop Taps Loopring for Beta NFT Marketplace

Opinion

• Getting Gamers to Embrace NFTs is Not Impossible

DeFi Primers

• How to Add BSC to MetaMask

Podcast

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Video

• Real Vision vs. The Defiant: Raoul Pal bought an Ape for 140 Eth. But was it a good idea?

Elsewhere

• Do Kwon Pitches a Decentralized NFT Publishing Service - Ep.333: The Chopping Block
• Two Defendants Charged In Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”) Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme: Justice Department
• Crypto in Ukraine | Alex Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine: Bankless
• Live at the @avalancheavax Summit @StaniKulechov dropping V3 alpha: Avalanche
• Want more of my mod skills? Still in Barcelona? Want free drinks to pre-game for your Friday night? ;) Join me, @StaniKulechov, @pavel_sinel & @SeenaForoutan: Bailey Reutzel

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• NFT Market Shifting Into New Growth Phase: Report
• EXCLUSIVE: Sifu Speaks!
• How to Generate an NFT Collection in 10 Minutes

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DeFi Lending

📈 Anchor Leapfrogs Aave as Top DeFi Lending Protocol With $14B TVL

Stablecoin Yield Project Shrugs Off Worries About Sustainability

By Samuel Haig

NEWS Anchor, a stablecoin yield protocol representing more than 53% of Terra’s Total Value Locked (TVL), has overtaken Aave to become the third-largest dApp in DeFi.

CAMPAIGN Anchor’s rise through the DeFi ranks comes as Terra has embarked upon an aggressive campaign to buy $10B worth of Bitcoin to back its native stablecoin UST. Anchor offers a fixed return of roughly 20% on UST deposits.

TVL According to DeFi Llama, Anchor now represents a TVL of roughly $14.5B after growing by 48% over just 30 days. The protocol sits behind Curve’s $20B and Lido’s $17B, with Lido also having grown by almost 59% in the past month.

Anchor TVL. Source: DeFi Llama

BLUE CHIPS Anchor has now surpassed almost all of Ethereum’s ‘blue-chip’ DeFi assets, including the lending protocol Aave, Uniswap, and Compound. As for Terra, it now has a TVL of $27B, making it the No. 2 smart contract network, according to DeFi Llama.

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NFT Marketplaces

🎯 Meme Stonk GameStop Taps Loopring for Beta NFT Marketplace

Immutable X to Join Fellow Layer 2 in Running Live Platform

By Samuel Haig

NEWS Gamestop’s highly anticipated NFT marketplace has been launched in beta. But it arrives with a surprise: It will be powered by Loopring instead of Immutable X, its recently announced partner.

LAYER 2s Both networks will eventually support GameStop’s NFT marketplace once it goes fully live by July. The beta deal is clearly a big win for Loopring. As for gamers themselves, who’ve become more vocally anti-NFT in recent months, that’s another story. Both networks are souped up Ethereum Layer 2s.

FAD After the NFT marketplace was confirmed in February, Twitter user ‘Louie Pikmin’ tweeted at GameStop: “Wow, you guys will really do anything to stay in business, including investing heavily into a fad.”

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Opinion

👾 Getting Gamers to Embrace NFTs is Not Impossible

Designers Must Dial Back the Cash Grab and Step Up Innovation

Guest writer Will Deane says gamers’ skepticism of NFTs can be addressed with one simple step — listen to them.

CASH GRAB NFTs are hot. The art, fashion, and food industries have embraced them. So has Hollywood and professional sports leagues and stars. But there’s one group that isn’t interested: gamers. While some game developers are eager to implement NFTs, many are appalled by what they see as a greed-motivated cash grab.

P2E Well-known brands like EA and Ubisoft received enormous backlash from the gaming community (including their employees). Critics argued that introducing NFTs into gameplay through play-to-earn (P2E) gaming would turn the recreational gaming world into a hyper-consumerist place gamers want to escape from.

PROBLEMS Blockchain games need to take a different approach to receive acceptance from the broader gaming community. Rather than presenting NFTs and other digital assets as a speculative earning opportunity, blockchain game developers should address problems their technology can solve.

SHRINKING The concept of digital goods isn’t new to the gaming community. The cash grab started in 2006 when Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion made in-game horse armor available for $2.50. In 2021, gamers spent $23B on microtransactions in PC games. Gamer demand for digital assets isn’t shrinking. Activision, the video game publisher responsible for Call of Duty, made $1.2B alone in Q3 2021 from in-game purchases.

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DeFi How-To Guide

🦊 How to Add BSC to MetaMask

A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Binance Smart Chain With MetaMask

By Arya Ghobadi

TL;DR In this article, we’ll show you how to add BSC network to your MetaMask wallet. If you have yet to read our primer on setting up MetaMask best to do that first. Click here.

DAPPS When you enter MetaMask,the first thing you’ll see is that it’s an Ethereum wallet and it is connected to the Ethereum mainnet. This won’t work with the Binance Smart Chain dApps and you could potentially lose your funds by sending them to addresses that you can’t actually use so we need to connect our MetaMask wallet to the Binance Smart Chain nodes.

AUTOMATIC There are two ways to do it: One is automatic and the second is manual. First, we’ll show you the automatic way. So go to a dApp on Binance Smart Chain like PancakeSwap.

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The Tube

📺 Real Vision vs. The Defiant: Raoul Pal bought an Ape for 140 Eth. But was it a good idea?

Elsewhere

🔗 Do Kwon Pitches a Decentralized NFT Publishing Service - Ep.333: The Chopping Block

On this week’s episode, Do Kwon, founder of Terraform Labs, also dropped by.

🔗 Two Defendants Charged In Non-Fungible Token (“NFT”) Fraud And Money Laundering Scheme: Justice Department

Defendants Executed a $1 Million NFT Fraud Scheme in January 2022, and Were Preparing to Execute a Second Prior to Their Arrests.

🔗 Crypto in Ukraine | Alex Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine: Bankless

In this special episode, we bring on Alex Bornyakov, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation to discuss the current state of the war, crypto’s impact, and so much more.

Aave Grants DAO @AaveGrantsLive at the @avalancheavax Summit @StaniKulechov dropping V3 alpha 👻👻 Live stream: live.avalanchesummit.com/mainnet-live/

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