A physical Mickey Mantle baseball trading card sold for $5.2 million yesterday.
What does this mean in the context of non-fungible tokens and NFT portfolio allocation?
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NFTs are better than traditional trading cards.
NFT sports trading cards offer:
β’ Utility value in fantasy games
β’ Fractionalization and ownership by a group of collectors
β’ Collateral asset in smart contracts
β’ Potential programmed utility in future protocols
The fantasy sports NFTs (e.g. trading card) market is relatively new so let's consider the potential in the context of the legacy trading card market.
The PWCC 100 index, comprised of the top 100 trading cards by highest average market value outperformed the S&P 500 since 2008.
However, thatβs only comparing the top performing sports trading cards most of which have accrued significant collectors value over the years.
The PWCC 2500 index β representing the 2,500 cards with the highest average market value β still outperformed the S&P 500 by 13% to date
As an asset class, trading cards appear uncorrelated with the stock market, avoiding significant drawdowns & upswings in the market.
Investors that follow modern portfolio theory optimize for diversification and risk of losses by adding uncorrelated assets to their portfolios.
Non-fungible tokens as an asset class present a real opportunity to diversify one's portfolio.
Read more about some of the top crypto fantasy sports NFTs like @nbatopshotapp and @SorareHQ.
All personal tokens will naturally evolve into community tokens.
Since the network size of a personal token is limited to an individual, there is a natural transition from a personal token into a community token as an individualβs audience grows and their brand matures. 1/
2/ Personal tokens transition into community tokens when:
β’ DAO governs tokens
β’ Token supply is shifted to a community treasury
β’ Tokens hold a direct affiliation with an organization
β’ Revenues from the personal token are meaningfully shared with the token holder community
3/ The point when a personal token becomes a community token is vague but will grow clearer as social token standards further develop.
The early taxonomy for social tokens is starting to form. How social tokens evolve is unknown and therein lies the market opportunity.
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of humanity. USV now has a $162m Climate Fund for climate solutions.
Crypto doesn't often intersect with solutions for climate change but there are ways for crypto to grow more sustainable and contribute to a greener world.
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We're past the point of climate mitigation and now need to focus on sequestration and removal.
Nori is helping build a robust marketplace for carbon removal.
While most of the energy used to mine Bitcoin comes from renewables, there are still ways to utilize Bitcoin mining to combat problems like the Duck Curve, grid stability, and more.
.@nansen_ai tracks six fund portfolios currently worth over $20 million in Ether and token balances.
.@paradigm sits atop as one of the largest funds, but still has over $100 million in ETH that they havenβt deployed.
a16z and Polychain have the top token balances currently tracked on Nansen valued at $84 million and $54 million, respectively. messari.io/screener/a16z-β¦
Polychian has made recent investments in YFI purchasing nearly 2% of the overall YFI supply.
Crypto bulls have only allocated 1-2% of their entire portfolio to Bitcoin. If they were truly confident it was a store of value they would allocate 100%.
1οΈβ£1-2% allocators aren't the real bulls
Crypto bulls like @APompliano HAVE allocated over 50% of their portfolio to Bitcoin.
Traditional capital allocators like Paul Tudor Jones are newer bulls who don't (yet) have the confidence of earlier bitcoiners.
Metaverses are a prime example of crypto enabling the ownership economy.
Virtual worlds - with digital property and free markets - will transform our existing digital worlds into vibrant communities governed by their users.Β 1/
The top 5 metaverses β virtual worlds β continue to grow and expand. Hereβs what you need to know. messari.io/article/metaveβ¦
Metaverses as a category account for over a third of all NFT sales activity.
Investors have spent nearly $55 million on metaverse digital land and in-game items.