WTF happened this weekend?

🧵 ⤵️

(bookmark this) it was perhaps the most wicked 48h in crypto's history

- President elect Trump launched a token on Solana
- $TRUMP rallied to a crazy $75B fully diluted market cap
- Melania (Donald's wife) announced her own meme coin
- $TRUMP crashed 50% on the news

the full story 👇

One of the greatest minds in crypto, @VitalikButerin just held a keynote at @EthCC.

Topic: How to strengthen the Ethereum ecosystem.

In case you missed it, here are the best parts of Vitalik's talk ⤵️🧵 1/ Presenting the different visions for the Ethereum ecosystem

Fred Wilson is a legendary VC.

He was one of the earliest investors in Coinbase and has been buying Bitcoin since 2013.

Here are his predictions for 2024: First, bookmark this and subscribe to Milk Road. We'll help you navigate crypto in 2024:



Now, let's get to Fred's predictions…milkroad.com/subscribe

Coinbase, Bitwise, and a16z released their crypto market outlook for 2024.

Here are their predictions for next year:



First, bookmark this and subscribe to Milk Road. We'll help you navigate crypto in 2024:



Now, let's get to the predictions…milkroad.com/subscribe

Navigating crypto is hard.

Here are the 7 best tools to level up your skills: 1/ @TokenTerminal

What: Fundamental research for crypto.

Token Terminal gives you the tools to evaluate and track the most promising projects.

The SEC is suing Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto platform.

Here's what you need to know: 1/ This week, the SEC sued both:

• Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange
• Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto platform

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, is showing signs of trouble.

Here's what you need to know: 1/ Binance is facing mounting legal pressure.

In March, the CFTC sued Binance for allegedly violating U.S. trading and derivatives laws.

Apple, the world's most valuable company, is entering the metaverse.

Here's what you need to know: 1/ First, let's rewind a bit.

The year is 2021. Facebook just changed its name to Meta.

Everyone is talking about the metaverse.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, just raised $115 million for his crypto project Worldcoin.

He wants to scan your eyeball in exchange for crypto.

Here's what you need to know: 1/ First, what is Worldcoin?

It's a crypto project that aims to create a global identity and financial network for everyone.

Wanna work in Web3?

Get your resumes ready!

Here's a list of companies hiring right now 👇 @wintermute_t: C++ Trading Platform Developer

@yugalabs: DevOps Engineer

@chainalysis: Sr. Manager, Engineering

@PaxosGlobal: AML Program Manager

We had 3 goals in 2022:

-Turn $1M --> $10M
-Lose 15lbs
-Learn a super-basic dance move to fall back on when stuck awkwardly on the dance floor

None of it happened.

But hey, we managed to drop a newsletter EVERY SINGLE WEEKDAY.

Here are the top 10 editions you voted on 👇🏼 10/🥛Instant reactions to Elon selling tons of BTC 😲

Elon, king of Twitter and DogeCoin's number one fanboy, sold 75% of Tesla's Bitcoin in Q2

Paper hands.

milkroad.com/p/instant-reac…

The FTX saga is the story that never sleeps

A private jet to Argentina, $600m hack, and company-sponsored amphetamine use

Here's everything that’s happened in the past 24 hours 👇 1/ The Hack

•FTX was hacked for all of its funds (both FTX US and FTX International) on Friday night
•FTX users are reporting their wallet balances show up as $0
•FTX apps were hacked (P.S - if you still have any, delete them!)
•FTX site got hacked

14 yikes moments from SBF before the collapse of ftx BTW.

From now on we only refer to him by his government name "Samuel" or "he who was formerly known as SBF" or fkSBF for short

Ever wondered how much $100,000 staked today can generate?

🧵 • 20 $SOL = $625/month

• 0.22 $ETH = $285/month

• 35 $DOT = $185/month

The Merge just might be the biggest event in crypto history. But what are some of the others?

We took a trip down memory lane to find 10 other big moments

Here they are 👇 1/ Satoshi’s final forum post

On Dec. 10th 2010 Nakamoto wrote that developers had to do more work to make the software resistant to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks

It was his last post

Today is YC demo day.

There were 227 total companies.

We looked through all of them to find the web3 companies.

Here they are 👇 We split the companies into 5 buckets

-Defi

-NFTs

-Investing

-Consumer

-B2B

Elon Musk on March 14: "I still own & won't sell my Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Doge"

Today: Tesla has sold 75% of their Bitcoin in Q2

Was Elon just playing us?

Let's look at the evidence...👇👇 Exhibit A:

Well, only took 4 months for Elon to change his mind...

Alright - lemme try to explain the @0xPolygon zkEVM announcement

Everyone's saying it's a big deal for ETH, but ...what is it?

Let's make it stupidly simple with a "Driver's License" analogy.. You need a driver's license.

If you're american, that means you need to go to the DMV.

If you don't know what a DMV is, just close your eyes. Imagine hell. Now, add paperwork.

There, you've got it.

Consensys is dropping a new NFT. It's called TURN.

And before you turn the other way saying "Here we go, another NFT"... hear us out.

This one is different.

Here's why 👇👇 The NFTs come with a special utility - tokenized labor.

Holders will be able to redeem their NFTs for a full week (40 hours) of security audits.

This is cool for 2 reasons:

Time is money. Especially in Crypto

And using the right tools will save you hundreds of hours.

All while helping you make a bag 💰

Here are the top 7 tools we use every single day 1. Etherscan

The Ethereum Blockchain Explorer.

It has all the data you need for what’s happening on Ethereum. In real-time.

You can:
🕵️‍♀️Track wallets
🧮Analyze transactions
📚Research tokens & who holds them

The best part? It’s free.

The 3AC court filings have been leaked.

It’s a 1000+ page doc that includes multi-million dollar yachts and founders on the run.

You know the drill, we did the reading so you didn’t have to!

Here are the top wtf moments:
👇👇 1/ 3AC owes 27 creditors a total of $3.5b....

Genesis took the biggest hit - they lent out $2.3b to 3AC.

Ouch.