2/ I suspect gaming will be the highest growth sector over the next 5 years.
Maturing infrastructure and growing developer mindshare will drive greater variety and quality of experiences that appeal to the 2.7B strong gamer population.
This will be a primary crypto user funnel.
3/ Unsurprisingly, it's the art and collectibles sectors that have led most of the volume spearheaded by @SuperRare and @larvalabs' CryptoPunks.
4/ This art data ^ actually excludes @niftygateway volumes which have recently been higher than all of the other platforms combined.
This is attributable to their drop model, fiat gateway, and hosted wallet solutions suitable for web3 n00bs.
6/ It's pretty interesting to see that the 3 projects which brought in over $10M of PRIMARY sales over the period each belong to different segments (collectibles, sports, art).
7/ Do note the ratio of primary to secondary sales for @TheSandboxGame. It's great to see a thriving secondary market before the world has officially launched!
Note that for games such as @AxieInfinity transactions from fresh breeds are also counted as primary market trades.
8/ Asset price evolution over time, it's still pretty crazy how quickly some of these have evolved.
People are up almost 10x in 3 months simply by holding digital collectibles / game assets that they love.
@YieldGuild comfortably remains the most exciting project in the space to my mind, and I couldn't be happier for us to lead their Series A as @BitkraftVC's first token investment.
2/ The wealth of industry experience and broad network provided by the the wonderful BK team stands firmly behind Yield Guild on this pioneering mission to settle the New World.
3/ Since @Delphi_Digital led YGG's seed round in November, the pace of progress for the project and the play-to-earn games such as @AxieInfinity has been truly astonishing.
Note / The full piece has much more elaborate reasoning and justification for each of our gradings. There are unquantifiable aspects to some of the topic areas covered.
Also shoutout to @mediodelphi and @Alex_Ged for being an absolute pleasure to work on this with.
2/ It's no secret that the massive uptick in activity on Ethereum over the last 12 months has priced out many lower-value activities on the base chain.
I've noted this dynamic in earlier posts, but is has only been further exacerbated in recent months.
3/ At the base network level, we're seeing unprecedented dollar volumes. At the very peak of the CryptoKitties mania in late 2017, just over $2M changed hands in a 24 hour period.
On Valentines Day this past weekend, more than $6M was traded as NFTs on layer one alone.