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Jul 28, 2021 23 tweets 10 min read Read on X
“Meme coins” have been blowing up, however they make up very little of reality

I thought it’d be nice to go over a brief list of cool applications and things that are ACTUALLY being built on $ETH

All of these are breaking into trillion dollar industries… 🥐
Reddit

The 10th most popular social network in the U.S. uses “community points” on $ETH to reward users who provide quality posts or comments

They have already started three projects using $ETH, with more said to be in the pipeline

There are over 1.7B visits to Reddit a month
AP Elections

A collaboration between Everipedia & Associated Press allowed for an immutable database over the 2020 election

With help from $LINK oracles, more than 7,000 state and National election race calls were recorded on $ETH

This was the first of its kind
Spencer Dinwiddie

With $ETH, a basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets created a unique bond after he wished to tokenize his $34.4M contract

NFT technology allowed him to tokenize and create what he calls “Professional Athlete Investment Tokens”
Crypto-Backed Loans

An FDIC-insured bank is offering $ETH backed loans with smart contracts

They have attracted attention from numerous other banks with tens of billions in assets

This example is just one of many crypto-backed lending products for banks to come
Real Estate

NFTs offer a great solution for real estate

Real estate is often limited to only those who can afford such investments, & there is a lack of liquidity

However, NFTs introduce the concept of fractionalized tokens, which could change everything for the market
Smart Cities

Robotics teams have found home on $ETH for plans to build out a city of IOT devices

Microsoft experimented with $XRT aiming to make smart cities a reality in the 4th industrial revolution

They use the blockchain to offer “robot as a service” technology & much more
Forbes Paywall

Unlock protocol has been implemented on Forbes for an ad-free experience on the site

Even more interestingly, the subscription is represented as an NFT on the blockchain

Connect to the site with your $ETH wallet, and instantly have access ad-free via $UDT
Jewelry

Once a diamond leaves the Jewelry store, it loses almost half of its value

This is because they aren’t a liquid asset, & don’t have a form of verifiable authenticity even slightly comparable to NFTs

Several luxury dealers have explored NFTs for their unique advantages
Insurance

Tens of thousands of Kenyan farmers have access to insurance they otherwise wouldn’t of been able to thanks to $LINK oracles and $ETH

Smart contracts monitor different parameters and execute claims in a seamless manner

This is a multi hundred billion dollar industry
Proof of Life

I couldn’t make this thread without including this amusing yet brilliant use of $ETH

In 2017 people were convinced Vitalik Buterin died in a car accident, but he was able to verify life and put everyone at ease on-chain
NFT marriage

Another amusing yet true use case for $ETH is apparent in the case of two Coinbase employees, and how they chose to get married

Unlike traditional couples, this couple got married on an immutable ledger

These go to show just how creative you can get…
Tickets

Tickets can be easily made for events, with tons of programmable options

The Dallas Mavericks have discussed using NFTs as tickets to collect more revenue from royalties

These can include built in features to profit from secondary markets & scalpers reaping profits
Flashloans

Instantly access a loan of more than $10M with absolutely zero collateral placed down

What’s the catch? Well, there isn’t one.

Flashloans can make up several trades on the condition that it returns what is owed, or it fails

This means there is NO RISK for lenders
VISA x USDC

Online payments processor giant VISA announced they will accept transaction settlement in $USDC, a stable coin on $ETH

There are a staggering 3.3B VISA cards in use, with as little as 163M wallets on $ETH

& $ETH is home to an abundance of stable coins
MasterCard

MasterCard partnered with Consensys to deliver a suite of products on $ETH

They hope to “support a growing number of customers that are actively developing applications on Enterprise Ethereum and leveraging open-source technologies and communities”
No-collateral loans

Goldfinch, a protocol on $ETH, aims to decentralize the process of lending, AND getting loans without collateral

So far they already have more than 10,000 borrowers across Mexico, Nigeria, and Asia
Liberland DAO

The Liberland DAO is an Ethereum-based decentralized autonomous organization for governance over a small nation between Croatia and Serbia

Token holders are inclined to service the Free Republic of Liberland

This is the first “country on the blockchain”
Music

The music industry is littered with record labels and larger corporations who take up all of artists profits

NFTs and $ETH offer a direct tool for creators to sell their work straight to their fans, while making it a whole lot more profitable!
Creator Economies

Anyone can make independent economies with unique control over their interactions & experiences with fans

These provide a never seen before level of access at disposal of the content creator

This is a gigantic market which has only dipped its toes
Legal Agreements

On $ETH, it is actually possible to create legal agreements in law with code

These smart contracts can significantly reduce friction and cost of creating binding legal agreements

OpenLaw offers a platform exactly for this purpose
Synthetics

Real world assets are being tokenized with the use of off chain oracles

These off chain oracles relay data to smart contracts with stuff like price feeds for various assets like gold, silver, or almost anything else that you could think of with a stream of value
TLDR?

It is becoming increasingly obvious that Ethereum is more than what many people set it out to be, and I think it’s time we start treating it that way.

Education > Speculation

If you made it this far, I hope you enjoyed! More breadcrumbs from the bakery coming soon… 🥐

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Nov 13, 2024
donald trump’s dive into crypto is full of insane alpha. nobody is looking at this close enough.

what is his end game? i compiled some of the most interesting stuff below… 👀
it all starts december 15th, 2022.

donald trump releases his own nft collection called ‘trump’s digital trading cards’.

the collection quickly sold out, making $4,500,000. Image
fast forward to august 27th, 2023.

donald trump drops his 4th collection with ‘mugshot edition’ nfts.

to date trump campaign has made ~$7,150,000 from nft collections.

definitely starting to see the potential of cryptocurrencies…
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how to ‘make it’ in crypto.

the golden bullrun edition…
the trenches aren’t the same as they used to be.

things have changed in unexpected and unforeseen ways.

to some this may be the worst news in the world. but we are going to use it to our advantage…
there are many tried and true efforts for ‘making it’ in crypto.

but they all vary greatly based on your timeline, network, morals, funds, skills, intellect, social abilities, etc.

let’s say you’re super smart. your iq is in the >125 range. how are you making it in crypto? Image
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“we should onboard more celebrities for mass adoption”

the celebrities (proof below): Image
Mila Kunis

-launches Stoner Cats NFT collection back in 2021
-raises $8M+
-gets charged by SEC
-NFTs removed from marketplaces
-down 100%
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Jason Derulo

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Donald Trump is coming for crypto in a very big way.

I looked at all of his most recent statements on crypto & found some eye-opening things.

Let’s discuss… 👀 Image
Donald Trump, the former President of the United States, began his venture into crypto with Ethereum back in December of 2022.

Here, he launched a digital trading card collection with 45,000 NFTs on Polygon.

The NFTs offered exclusive access to a variety of amenities.
The 45,000 NFTs quickly sold out, giving President Trump’s wallet over $4M in crypto.

Donald Trump would later go on to host a handful of events with those who hold the NFT.

Dinner with Trump, golfing at Mar-A-Lago, etc. Image
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are you following the breadcrumbs from coinbase?

many millionaires will be made on base this cycle.

if you don’t quite get it yet, you will soon…
the number one crypto exchange in the United States is Coinbase, with no debate.

it consistently ranks top 25 in the app store for finance, with 50M+ registered users.

but this isn’t what makes base so interesting… Image
there are a combination of factors paving the way for base to become a leader in the L2 ecosystem.

to start, eip-4844.

eip-4844 has tremendously lowered tx fees. tx fees on base are now just a fraction of what they were before thanks to the upgrade.
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hello frens.

if you’re reading this, you just made it through one of the longest crypto bear markets in history.

are you prepared to see something we’ve never seen before?

let’s compare to 2021.
a popular top signal is when coinbase hits #1 on the app store charts.

this has only happened twice in history:

first on December 7th, 2017 - when btc was $17,249

then on May 10th, 2021 - when btc was $58,213

Today, btc is $54,575 and coinbase sits all the way at rank #422.
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some analysis can show just how far we are from peak hype:

in 2021, r/cryptocurrency averaged hundreds of thousands of posts a day.

in 2024, r/cryptocurrency averages just a couple thousand of posts a day.

big difference.
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