1/ Today we released our comprehensive report on the collapse of FTX/Alameda

Here's a TLDR thread of what we found 👇🧵

nsn.ai/FTX-Report-Int 2/ Alameda was closely tied to FTX from day one.

One of the clearest ties was through FTT as both Alameda and FTX held the vast majority of supply of the token since mint.

If one was forced to sell, the other entity may consequently take a large hit to its balance sheet.

Truly been all hands on deck at Nansen this week

Alongside getting on-chain data out to everyone, we also added exchange holdings to Nansen Portfolio, all free for you to view

- Binance
- OKX
- Cryptocom
- KuCoin
- Deribit
- Bitfinex

Find them here: nsn.ai/Exchange-Portf… Be sure to check the relevant exchange statements to see exactly what each portfolio is showing 🫡

1/ Very excited to be kicking off a new series of casual streams called “Nansen Unsupervised” from this Friday.

For the 1st episode, I’ll be joined by the true chad @cmsintern at 10am EST, live on YouTube 🔥

See the tweet below for more details and I'll share the link soon 🤝 @cmsintern 2/ Each week I’ll showcase how best to use Nansen for trading/investing.

On top of this, I’ll aim to get different influential guests/interns on to chat and to offer insights, memes and alpha.

Feel free to @ anybody else below that you’d like as a guest 🫡

His Excellency? 👀

1/ Why I'm confident that 3 of the top 4 most profitable NFT trader wallets are owned by the same person/entity.

A short thread 🧵 2/ The potential of this being true came from 3 very similar transactions I noticed whilst looking at Smart Money on Nansen.

Below is my 2 tweet thread about it 👇

https://twitter.com/nansen_intern/status/1541780826731335681?s=20&t=Pc8TZyqpOMqgn5swgdyvoQ

There is something so funny about Justin Sun, the guy just yeets around hundreds of millions of dollars

No test transactions, no shits given about alerting on chain analysts, just not a care in the world I saw that some guy paid $19 Mill the other day for a lunch with Warren Buffet and thought "who would do that" and then I saw ahhh, of course, Justin Sun did that 2 years ago.

1/ My thoughts on the market:

I think a lot of people have been caught offside over the last few months because of how absorbing the space is.

It's easy to think in isolation, as often the sector is so different to others.

However, for months now there has been a clear issue. 2/ The 2020-2021 cycle was built on the foundation of artificially pumped economies where governments propped up both individuals and companies.

Now that money flow is gone and like an elastic band, we are seeing the reversal of an overextended/artificial world economy.

1/ Do we actually need NFTs?

I thought I'd start a series of short threads on the use-cases of #NFTs that I am bullish on and why.

Of course, feel free to disagree and share your own thoughts.

I'll start with my bull-case on Art/PFP NFTs, regardless of utility and roadmaps👇 2/ Firstly - PFPs

Digital identities will become increasingly important and influential as society continues to move the majority of daily activities online.

A PFP will be the front-facing element of your identity, as we are already seeing.

1/ Intern Notes/Alpha from our recent Office Hours ep with me, @sandraaleow and @DadaBatman 👇

We discuss the state of the NFT market; how to find free mint gems; the rise of @goblintownwtf; predicting NFT prices and Unlocks and Airdrops 🪂

Watch here: nsn.ai/Intern-OH76 @sandraaleow @DadaBatman @goblintownwtf 2/ Notes part 2 👇

1/ Are P2E games sustainable or stupid?

I'm very interested in hearing everyone else's opinions but here are mine 👇 2/ Axie Infinity became the figurehead of P2E games success last year but because of this, has now become the figurehead of their weaknesses.

Ronin daily revenues hit $12-16 Million in August 2021 but, almost a year later, revenues struggle to hit $20k per day.

(@nansen_ai).

1/ Metaverse or Virtual World?

The word "Metaverse" can get thrown around very loosely in this space so, by using @a16z's blog on the "7 Essential ingredients of a Metaverse" as reference, I thought I would go through the differences.

I'll link to the full blog at the end 👇 🧵 @a16z 2/ The term "Metaverse", though often used prior, really came into prominence in 2021, accelerated by Facebook's rename to Meta.

However, the idea of entering a world built by technology comes very close to what we already experience in modern games with Virtual Worlds.

Instead of answering individual DM's, I thought it might be helpful for people trying to get a job in Web3 to make a thread on how I ended up with the role of @nansen_ai Intern.

I’ll break it up into 4 categories.

TLDR at the end too 🧵 👇 @nansen_ai 1/ My very brief, relevant, non-Web3 background:

I studied business and have a post-grad degree in law as I had an initial intention to move into Legal Tech.

During my studies I also worked as a Social Media Manager for a small cafe.

1/ Pixelmon NFTs are still 0.39 ETH (~$800) despite not a single tweet from the @Pixelmon team since February 25th (other than a reply on March 2nd).

Why? @Pixelmon 2/Their recent activity is filled with sweeps coming from wallets such as these:

0x7d4 - 59 Pixelmon in the last 11hrs
0xC20 - 84 Pixelmon in the last 30days
0xA3d - 23 Pixelmon in last 27hrs

All three of them were fresh wallets funded to buy Pixelmon and no other NFTs.

1/ Using @nansen_ai, I saw that the 5th largest $ETH holder is a wallet with the ens "sendmesomeethplease.eth".

It holds 1.9 Million ETH (Currently valued at ~$3.8billion).

Let's *jump* into it, it gets interesting... 🧵 @nansen_ai 2/ Through Nansen, we can see that the trading activity is, by large majority, done in the late evening UTC (likely an American) and during weekdays, with Friday being their favourite.

1/ Copenomics: A series of threads on how you could've made it in the past year 🤑

Next up - $LUNA 🌕 2/ As before, let's hit you with the % first.

If you had bought $LUNA on the 1st Jan 2021, and then big-brain sold the (current) top at the beginning of April, you would have made a gain of ~18,366%.

$1000 would have turned into $183,660 💀

1/ Copenomics: A series of threads on how you could've made it in the past year 🤑

First off - $SHIB 🐕 2/ Lets hit you with the % to start things off.

If you had bought $SHIB on the 28th March 2021 and had then sold around the top at the end of October, you would have made a nice gain of ~210,000%.

$1000 would have turned into $2.1million 💀

1/ Time for a short alpha thread 🧵 on finding Private Sale Investors on @nansen_ai from our recent Office Hours ep with @Not3Lau_Capital 🔥 2/ After previously spotting $LOKA on the home dashboard, @Daryllautk looks at the Top Transactions list for the token and sees various wallets including BlockTower Capital and Sequoia Capital India 👀

We all love free stuff so I thought I'd start off with some alpha about our free membership - Nansen Lite.

Yes anon, *free* 😏 (1/8)

pro.nansen.ai/auth/signup Nansen Lite gives you access to a number of brilliant Nansen features for zero cost. Let's run through a few!

Firstly, you're able to see the Hot DeFi Contracts, displaying those that have a high inflow of smart money depositors on the day of viewing🔥

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