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NFT All Stars

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NFT All-Stars

“NFT All-Stars” is an animated podcast series hosted by NFT OGs Jason Bailey, also known as Artnome, and Marguerite deCourcelle, the CEO of blockchain game studio Blockade Games. Co-hosts also include EDM pioneer and NFT artisan BT and Highstreet Co-founder Jenny Guo. Get ready for eye-opening and entertaining conversations about the fast-evolving, exploding world of non-fungible tokens, where niche meets mainstream culture, featuring guests like Pete Holmes, FEWOCiOUS, Deadmau5, Damon Dash, James “Munky” Shaffer and others. Text us at (507) 4787-NFT for live updates and to ask us anything.

TRAILER: NFT All-Stars

Watch the full episode here.

6 Reasons for Optimism This Crypto Winter

When token markets plunged in 2018 following the initial coin offering (ICO) bubble, I wrote a column entitled “Crypto Winter Is Here and We Only Have Ourselves to Blame.” It lamented the get-rich-quick schemes and “lambos” that took precedence over the development of real solutions to real problems at that time.

Four years later, with crypto markets reeling from another sharp sell-off, I feel no compulsion to write such a self-flagellating piece on the industry’s behalf.

Sure, last year’s boom generated overblown prices for many tokens, both fungible and non-fungible, alongside a whole new set of bad-taste, wealth-flashing memes. (The phrase “have fun staying poor” surely took the prize as the worst.)

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But in many ways the building and problem solving that followed the 2018 meltdown has served us well. It meant the speculation behind the most recent boom was built on a more established foundation than in 2017.

Crypto is still far from going mainstream, both in terms of its technical capability and social acceptance. But there is a lot less “vaporware” now. It feels more “real,” established, here to stay – that it truly is building something transformative for the world. That’s why this “winter” feels less brutal.

So, with that in mind, here are my six main reasons to say “this time is different” (which, I know, is always a dangerous thing to say).

Layer 2 scaling systems: No longer just an idea

Whether it’s the Lightning Network for low-cost bitcoin payments, the ZK-rollups that power decentralized finance (DeFi) applications or multiparty computation projects enabling secure online custody, cryptographic advances have over the past three years gone from concept to deployment.These innovations will lead to the network processing scalability that’s needed for blockchain technology to go mainstream.

Most of these are layer 2 or companion tools that address a core problem with multi-node blockchains: the need for a massive amount of duplicative computation to process transactions on chain. They represent decentralized alternatives to “permissioned” blockchains where only a small set of approved actors would have the authority to validate transactions (thus improving efficiency). Instead, Layer 2 mechanisms use clever cryptography to enable off-chain computation that can’t be gamed and which, after linking outcomes back to a “permissionless” blockchain, don’t undermine its decentralized consensus. If Ethereum developers can successfully migrate that blockchain to the full suite of 2.0 features, even bigger scaling gains will soon be made by the crypto ecosystem.

Permissionless models are winning

Thanks partly to the technological improvements described above, recent crypto success stories are concentrated among permissionless projects open to any participants, rather than in the permissioned projects once favored by incumbent players. The money is being made in DeFi, non-fungible tokens (NFT) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), not so much in IBM’s once prominent “enterprise blockchain” offerings.

Users are finding value in blockchain technology’s most disruptive, paradigm-changing promises rather than in incremental adjustments to existing business models. This reflects hope that it will unleash a truly transformative wave of innovation, something closer to what the internet achieved than most fintech ideas seem geared toward.

Corporates and financial institutions are here now

This preference for permissionless crypto projects is not just coming from crypto-native “degens.” It’s also found among the same kinds of established companies that were earlier the target of permissioned enterprise blockchain ideas. Thousands of mainstream firms are experimenting with NFTs and social tokens, especially those in entertainment, fashion and media such Adidas, Warner Brothers and The New York Tiimes. One mark of what this says about the sector’s future growth came in separate earnings calls this week, when Satya Nadella and Tim Cook, the CEOs of Microsoft and Apple, respectively, both crowed over opportunities in the metaverse and pledged to invest forcefully in it.

Meanwhile, even though lots of institutional investors have no doubt pared down their bitcoin positions these past couple of weeks, the engagement in crypto among hedge funds, family offices and even pension funds surged last year – with the more adventurous of them dabbling in DeFi. Even if they’ve sold a lot of crypto of late, institutions’ investments in the technology, staff, processes and legal arrangements needed to enable those investments now stand as a base of established infrastructure for handling future transactions. The institutions aren’t leaving.

Regulation implies normalization

While the crypto community was understandably upset by some poorly worded amendments to a U.S. infrastructure bill that resulted in overzealous tax surveillance of crypto service providers, the law also effectively legitimized the industry. If a government wants to tax a sector, it won’t kill it. It was also encouraging to see wide bipartisan support for the (ultimately failed) efforts to soften those amendments, along with other signs that lawmakers are becoming better informed.

Regulation remains a barrier to innovation, adoption and growth, particularly the onerous nature of anti-money laundering rules and securities law enforcement. But it’s also a framework for normalizing the industry and for making the general public feel more comfortable with it.

This wasn’t (all) crypto’s fault

The mad 2017 token price runup and subsequent collapse in 2018 was largely endemic to the crypto sector. It was stoked by investor mania for ICOs and by blind belief in the untested ideas of founders who raised billions of dollars on flimsy white papers. The inflated prices for this vaporware inevitably deflated when doubts about their promises grew.

The current situation is quite different. While excessive enthusiasm for new tokens contributed to unsustainable price rallies, crypto’s ballooning market capitalization was also fueled by unprecedented fiat monetary expansion as central banks pumped trillions of dollars worth of quantitative easing into the global economy to soften the impact of a pandemic-fueled global recession. That surfeit of dollars, euros and yen flowed into risk assets: stocks, commodities, real estate, fine art and, significantly, cryptocurrencies. Now we’re all paying the price for that as an inevitable inflation problem is prompting the U.S. Federal Reserve to remove the punch bowl.

With good reason: Crypto’s concurrent collapse with stocks and other assets led some to question the claim that bitcoin is an uncorrelated asset and a hedge against inflation. But I think the excessive part of the crypto price rally – the part that took bitcoin from $30,000 to $65,000 but not that which drove it from $10,000 to $30,000 – was perhaps due to exogenous factors.

Once prices settle, we should be in a better position to gauge how much of their future advances will be driven by legitimate crypto-only factors such as those described in points one through four, and how much is caught up in the risk-on/risk-off whims of a global financial system addicted to central bank largesse.

How to Pick the Right Play-to-Earn Game for You

It’s no secret that gaming has turned from a passive hobby to a multibillion-dollar industry. According to Accenture, the global business is currently valued at over $300 billion, driven by an influx of new gamers looking for social interaction.

With the rise of the blockchain, the industry paradigm has changed. Instead of money going only to game developers and distributors, players can now generate an income from cryptocurrencies or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using their computer or smartphone in play-to-earn games. The trend has even reached the major game distributors, with Ubisoft announcing plans to launch NFTs into the next Ghost Recon game.

Before getting started with these types of games, it’s critical to understand how they work and how you can actualize a return for your gaming hours.

What are play-to-earn games?

In many games – especially Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) games – players collect digital items to further their progress. These can include in-game objects like weapons, property or wearables. They’re usually earned as rewards for completing quests and challenges, or acquired from loot boxes bought with real currency. From various skins to in-game currency, items let gamers customize their characters with new outfits and better equipment, but none of these can be sold to other players for cash.

This is where play-to-earn games – or GameFi – come into play. Leveraging the immutability of blockchain technology, game designers can create in-game items and rewards that are provably unique and transferable. Rewards can range from earning native digital currencies to collecting NFTs or be earned from staking. In turn, coins can be exported to crypto wallets to be converted to fiat currency like U.S. dollars, while NFTs can be sold to other players via in-house trading platforms or secondary marketplaces.

The popular play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, for example, allows players to purchase, battle and breed virtual creatures (called “Axies”) minted exclusively on the Ethereum blockchain. Because each Axie is represented by an NFT, they can be bought and sold peer-to-peer using cryptocurrency.

How to pick the right play-to-earn game

Once you understand how play-to-earn games work, you can start looking for one (or several) that works best for you. With hundreds of play-to-earn games already out there (and hundreds more in development), the question is, how do you find the best one for you?

The key to this is all about the fine print. Before you jump in, you need to understand how rewards are paid out, how you can convert in-game coins to other cryptocurrencies and what you actually want to gain from your experience.

Decide your goal: Coins, NFTs or both

Each play-to-earn game offers players rewards in different forms. Most games will payout rewards in a combination of NFTs and in-game cryptocurrency, which can be traded and sold to other players or external traders. In some rare cases, players can earn popular currencies for their play. In the game Coin Hunt World, players can explore their neighborhoods for keys that unlock quizzes. Answer correctly, and you are rewarded with bitcoin and ether – the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum.

When getting started, it’s important to understand how you will earn rewards for gameplay, and how much time it will take to earn them. While some require simple tasks to earn NFTs, others need a bigger investment to get rewarded.

How easy is it to cash out your coins?

Although many play-to-earn games are built on popular blockchains (like Ethereum and Polygon), converting them to another coin may not be an easy process. NFTs can take time to sell, while in-game coin values can fluctuate quickly.

Before investing your time in a game, do your research to understand how you can utilize your coins for real-world earnings. Knowing how to convert your digital items can help you decide if the game is the right one for your goals.

How much should you spend to get started?

Like other video games, getting started in a play-to-earn game often requires you to buy a starter pack with cryptocurrency. Depending on which game you decide to start in, your entry cost may vary.

For the incredibly popular Axie Infinity, you will need to purchase at least three Axies to get started. On the Axie Infinity Marketplace, Common Axies sell for anywhere between $35 and $70, while rarer Axies can go for hundreds of dollars.

With other games, you won’t need to make a purchase to start, but will ultimately need to spend cash to access premium features or play-to-earn aspects. In the virtual world game Decentraland, you can start with little more than a MetaMask wallet. If you enjoy it enough to claim a username, you will need to purchase 100 MANA (around $216 currently) to “build” it.

Cryptocurrency earned from play-to-earn games comes with inherent risk and no guarantee of return. Only invest what you can afford, on the understanding that it may take a while to get a return (and you may never profit at all).

How can I find existing and upcoming games?

Once you have decided to dive into play-to-earn games, your next step is to find one that aligns with your interests and price point. With over 400 active blockchain games online today, finding the best one for you is all about research.

Two key places to watch for new play-to-earn game options are data tracking websites DappRadar and CoinMarketCap. While DappRadar offers insight on the GameFi marketplace based on users and volume, CoinMarketCap gives insight into a game’s token price trends, helping you determine the right time to get involved in a game.

Bottom line: How profitable are play-to-earn crypto games?

Play-to-earn games combine the fun of video games with the opportunity to earn real rewards for your time. But as with any financial product, there is no such thing as a “typical” earnings, and your returns may vary.

In Axie Infinity, research published in July 2021 by the Cryptoday newsletter on Substack showed the average player could earn around 1,125 Smooth Love Potion tokens per week. At the then-high of $0.3462 per token, a gamer could earn an estimated $389.48 per week. Since then, the price of the tokens has dropped significantly, leading British investing firm Three Body Capital Management to revise the average earnings in November 2021 to around $100 per week.

Actual gameplay is only one way to gain returns in the metaverse. A 2021 report by investment firm Grayscale shows all-time secondary market NFT sales in Decentraland have grown by around 2.5-times in between September 2020 and 2021, going past the $100 million mark. The positive growth led the company to launch a single-asset trust for the MANA coin in early 2021. (Grayscale is owned by Digital Currency Group, the parent company of CoinDesk.)

While play-to-earn crypto games can be profitable, they often come with both an initial monetary investment and a time cost to learn the game and grow your investment. By doing your due diligence and preparing to go long in your GameFi experience, it’s possible to have fun and earn valuable cryptocurrency rewards for your time.

OpenSea’s Week From Hell

There’s no question that OpenSea, now far and away the most dominant non-fungible token marketplace, has been a success for its investors. It was valued at over $13 billion earlier this month, cementing its status as a unicorn among unicorns. And last week, it was integrated directly into Twitter’s new NFT verification mechanism – a real coup for visibility among the non-tech crowd.

But it’s lonely at the top.

As the industry’s de facto one-stop shop for NFTs, OpenSea has also attracted most of the criticism. The question of whether it has been a success for its investors is probably less important for the health of the sector than whether it has been a success for the creators it purports to serve. Events this week have precipitated something of an identity crisis: Does OpenSea want to be a marketplace, a hub for artists or an unregulated casino?

Uncanceled Listings

On Monday, traders started to notice valuable NFTs selling for well below their asking prices. The cheapest tokens in the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection will run you around $200,000 – so why did one suddenly sell for just 0.77 ether (ETH), or less than $2,000, without the permission of its owner?

Yooo guys! Idk what just happened by why did my ape just sell for .77?????

— TBALLER.eth (@T_BALLER6) January 24, 2022

Some news outlets and data providers characterized it as a “bug,” borrowing language from a blog post by the blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. But the reality isn’t quite so simple.

It has to do with the way OpenSea processes listings on the blockchain. To list an NFT for sale on OpenSea, you first need to “approve” the token for trading on its platform. This is an on-chain transaction, so you’ll need to pay gas fees (usually around $30 or so) to the network. Once you’ve “approved” the token, you pick your price and the NFT is listed for sale.

Now imagine that an hour later the market value of your NFT drops significantly. OpenSea lets you re-list the same NFT at a lower price without paying extra gas fees, but ends up creating a new listing instead of just lowering the price of the old one.

It’s the cost of working with data directly on the blockchain: an append-only distributed ledger that’s purposely resistant to change. OpenSea can’t change a listing on-chain, because what’s already happened on-chain can’t be changed. This sense of immutability is the basic fundament of blockchain tech.

If you list at 1 ETH, then drop it to 0.8 before making a sale at 0.6, you’ve still got two unfulfilled listings floating around, at 1 ETH and 0.8 ETH.

In the case of the Ape that sold for 0.77 ETH, its owner (someone called TBALLER) minted the token last year when the dollar value of the Bored Ape Yacht Club was essentially zero. He bounced it around between a few different wallets over the past nine months and listed it for 250 ETH about two weeks ago.

But a look at the token’s “Item History” on OpenSea shows there are plenty of other old, unfulfilled listings from around the time TBALLER minted the NFT. The listings may have expired, or TBALLER may have used the “lower price” button to create new ones – but the old ones are still there, even now.

And because canceling a listing is an on-chain transaction, you’ll need to pay gas fees for each cancellation (again, around $30 per transaction, plus or minus depending on network stress).

Crucially, these were TBALLER’s own listings. Buying an NFT with someone else’s uncanceled listings attached won’t make you vulnerable to this sort of sniping.

Still, it’s a miserable reality: If you’ve ever sold a token on OpenSea, odds are you’ve got a few uncanceled listings somewhere out there – listings that will almost certainly be an expensive hassle to cancel.

So, the 0.77 ETH sale wasn’t the result of a “bug,” really. It’s just the way the platform is built. OpenSea said as much in an email to CoinDesk earlier this week, characterizing the sale as “not an exploit or a bug,” but instead « an issue that arises because of the nature of the blockchain. »

Not accidentally, the statement contains strong echoes of crypto’s overarching libertarian security philosophy. It’s not the code that’s wrong, suggests OpenSea, it’s you, the user, who failed to do your own research. After all, it’s already in OpenSea’s FAQ section.

On Wednesday, the company sent a short email to account holders looking to address the issue. The subject was “Clarification on Canceling Inactive Listings,” and the body of the email essentially just reminded users to cancel their old listings.

Of course, canceling an old listing is still an on-chain transaction, which means it’s appended to the very end of the blockchain. Scammers with their eye on new transactions might see that you’ve canceled an old listing and immediately begin digging into your other old listings, looking for a juicy one. Even worse, they might just pay an extra fee to frontrun your cancellation, executing a sale before you can even complete your transaction (frontrunning is a common issue on proof-of-work blockchains like Ethereum).

1/ WARNING: DO NOT CANCEL YOUR OS LISTINGS AS STATED IN THE EMAIL THAT OPENSEA JUST SENT OUT🚨🚨

Please FIRST transfer your NFT to a different address and cancel the listing/s on the original address BEFORE sending it back

OS just put everyone at even more risk than before🧵

— dingaling (@dingalingts) January 27, 2022

OpenSea’s solution was just to give out refunds rather than implementing new guidelines or protections for customers. Per Bloomberg Thursday, OpenSea has already reimbursed users to the tune of $1.8 million.

OpenSea’s shared storefront

The company took a similarly reactive tack to a controversy around its smart contracts, which bubbled up later in the week.

OpenSea lets users mint their own NFTs through a shared smart contract called the Shared Storefront – essentially a template for assigning a token to a media file. Hardcore Ethereum developers tend to prefer writing their own contracts, which offers greater flexibility and control. But for newcomers, the Shared Storefront is a common go-to.

Thursday, OpenSea suddenly decided to cap the number of NFTs users could create this way, citing user “feedback” about the site’s creator tools.

To address feedback we’ve received about our creator tools, we updated our collection storefront contract limits to only support the creation of up to 5 collections and 50 items per collection.

— OpenSea Support (@opensea_support) January 27, 2022

Backlash was swift, and the company reversed the decision later in the day. It gave its reasons in a tweet thread:

“We originally built our shared storefront contract to make it easy for creators to onboard into the space. However, we’ve recently seen misuse of this feature increase exponentially. Over 80% of the items created with this tool were plagiarized works, fake collections and spam.”

It’s a casual way of copping to a mammoth screwup, that “80% of the items created with this tool were plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam.”

The NFT space has always been rife with plagiarism and spam, and OpenSea has played a major role in unleashing these forces. It’s difficult to imagine that a cap on the Shared Storefront would somehow stem the tide – but it’s OpenSea’s sorry reaction, more than anything else, that should have users worried.

OpenSea and its investors don’t need to care about plagiarism because it actively helps their business model: the company takes a cut of each sale, and a sale’s a sale, legitimate or not.

Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have worked to make “creators,” not traders, the face of the NFT movement. Ultimately, it’s creators’ work on the line.

Blaming users for plagiarism and blaming “the nature of the blockchain” for the uncanceled listings debacle, while saying nothing of poor communications and user experience (UX) design (there was no quick way to see uncanceled listings before this week), is a cheap way of avoiding responsibility.

These weren’t amateurs losing their NFTs – they were experienced traders, the kinds of people who use OpenSea every day.

The company is only just starting to accept some level of responsibility for the plagiarism and exploitation it helped enable. Reimbursements and apology letters are a temporary band-aid, not a real solution.

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“Imagine all the NFT” – John Lennon et les Beatles aux crypto-enchères

Hey Jude ! – Ce titre, écrit par Paul McCartney pour le fils de John Lennon, pourrait vous appartenir, ou plus particulièrement les notes écrites par l’ancien Beatles, ainsi que d’autres objets mythiques.

All You Need Is Love… et un NFT !

Une collection de NFT (non fongible token) est proposée aux enchères par le fils aîné de John Lennon.

Sous le nom « Lennon Connection : The NFT Collection« , Julian Lennon met en vente des pièces incroyables de sa collection privée.

Annoncée le 24 janvier 2022, cette vente aux enchères a fait du bruit. Le fils du célèbre guitariste assassiné a décidé de se séparer d’objets ayant appartenu à la légende du rock anglais.

Annonce de Julian Lennon sur Twitter

Ouverte ce lundi, la vente débutera le 7 février, en collaboration avec YellowHeart et Julien’s Auction.

À l’heure actuelle, l’enchère le prix de départ le plus haut concerne les notes manuscrites de Paul McCartney sur sa chanson « Hey Jude« pour environs 11,5 ETH (30.000 $). Vous pouvez également investir sur le blouson que John Lennon portait pendant la tournée « Magical Mystery tour » pour 2,3 ETH (6000 $).

Et si votre cœur de musicien préfère les instruments, vous pourrez faire une offre pour l’une des trois guitares que John Lennon a offertes à son fils, pour un prix de départ de 1,5 ETH (4000 $).

Il va de soi qu’il ne s’agit là que les prix d’ouverture des enchères et que les tarifs risquent fort d’exploser à l’ouverture des enchères le 7 février.

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Un morceau de l’histoire du rock dans votre salon ? ou pas..

« La musique appartient à tout le monde. Il n’y a que les éditeurs pour croire qu’elle appartient à quelqu’un. »

John Lennon

L’aspect de « possession » est très important dans ces enchères très particulières. Car il faut préciser que cette vente est un peu spéciale et ne vous donnera pas le droit de posséder « physiquement » l’objet de vos rêves.

En effet, le NFT vous donnera la propriété d’un objet de collection audiovisuel. Julian Lennon racontera lui-même l’histoire de l’objet auquel est lié ce NFT.

Vous détiendrez donc les droits liés à cet enregistrement, ce vocal, cette histoire, d’un objet ayant appartenu à John Lennon.

Julian conservera les objets physiques dans son musée personnel dédié à son père disparu.

Ainsi, vous n’aurez pas la propriété des notes manuscrites de Paul McCartney de la chanson « Hey Jude« , écrite spécialement pour réconforter Julian lors du divorce de ses parents. Mais vous aurez le NFT correspondant, avec l’histoire et le contexte, raconté par le fils de John lui-même.

Notes prises par Paul McCartney pour sa célèbre chanson « Hey June »

Étant donné que la polémique autour des NFT et de la consommation électrique est sur toutes les lèvres, une partie des bénéfices sera reversée à la White Feather Foundation. Cette action compensera le coût carbone produit par l’opération.

Il faut noter que la plateforme Julien’s Auction n’en est pas à sa première vente d’objets liés aux Beatles. De nombreuses reliques, comme une guitare acoustique de John Lennon ou le kit de batterie de Ringo Starr ont été vendus pour près de 2,5 millions de dollars chacune.

Cette vente changera-t-elle les aprioris négatifs que conserve parfois le grand public sur les NFT ? Marquera-t-elle un changement pour les artistes, les incitants à bouder les enchères traditionnelles ? A n’en pas douter : la tendance NFT est loin d’avoir finie de faire parler d’elle !

L’univers des NFT est vaste et passionnant. Mais si vous souhaitez investir de manière plus traditionnelle dans les crypto-monnaies, profitez de jusqu’à 100€ offerts lors de votre inscription sur la plateforme Swissborg (lien affilié, pour un dépôt minimum de 50€).

L’article “Imagine all the NFT” – John Lennon et les Beatles aux crypto-enchères est apparu en premier sur Journal du Coin.