Mario Nawfal

The Central African Republic to make bitcoin legal tender. Panama passes a favorable crypto regulation. Crypto has become a popular store of value in Argentina, with Buenos Aires now allowing its residents to pay their taxes with crypto. All within a week. Bullish!

Influencers who build massive followings by shilling tokens are rewarded more than network/governance participants. This doesn’t seem right.

How to build your web3 resume: (a thread)

#Grayscale is coming to Europe!

Almost 100M people have access to the Lightning Network Up from 100k last summer. That’s 1000x in just one year. Bullish!

Scammers have used AI-generated faces to pose as a Boston law firm. Their methods are THAT advanced. Stay vigilant.

Three steps to building a community: - Find an interesting topic people will associate around - Bring in people - Set the standards And an extra: Make sure your community is not being built around you but around themselves.

Another Infura outage happened a few days ago. Metamask was down. More decentralization is paramount.

2021 was a good year for Axie Infinity 92% net profit on a 100M turnover.

Before Elon Musk became whom we all know today, he: - Created and sold a video game to a PC magazine for $500 — he was only 12 - Turned his college frat house into a nightclub to pay for rent.

Optimism’s airdrop #1 is here Eligibility criteria: - Optimism User - Repeat Optimism user - DAO Voter - Multi-sig signers - Donated to Gitcoin Grants on L1 - Priced out of Ethereum (Used bridges while being a regularly active user on L1) I’ve announced L2 token airdrop will be

#NFTs are about communities. Communities are all about fostering belonging. If you have ever built one, you will know how to launch an NFT project as well.

What does the crypto industry need for a broader adoption as per PayPal's Jose Fernandez da Ponte, the company's senior vice president of blockchain: - More developers - Stable instruments of exchange such as stable coins (agreed) and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) that

Celebrities buy Bored Apes to signal they know what’s up. Can your product do the same?

Persistence beats resistance!

First came the personas. Then the currency – Apecoin Finally, a metaverse Some metaverse projects haven’t succeeded because they’ve started the other way around #BAYC

If you have to do anything on the blockchain in a rush, stop, and don’t do it.

It is not late-stage capitalism. It is a late-stage fiat.

NFTs are an overlap of culture, tech, & economics, a cradle for a collective of polymaths. There has never been a better time to be a geek and a bookworm.

The Lightning Network’s latest statistics at a glance: - The number of payments has roughly doubled over the last year - The value of the payments has increased by more than 400%, measured in US dollars. Bullish!

What has made #Moonbirds so popular? A thread…

Decentralized #Metaverse Vs. Centralized Metaverse t.co/rtjelFWOmx

Everyone asks once. Winners ask MANY more times.

Two ways to scale a business: - Invest in better technology and software to help automate. Don’t be cheap. - Hire more people, so you can have more time to work on higher-level things.

Fidelity has opened its Fidelity Stack building in Decentraland, to engage a younger audience. Why? Over 3.8M newly opened accounts last year belonged to a younger clientele. Are you still doubting whether your business should be present in the metaverse?

Yet another crypto exploit, this time concerning Beanstalk. This is DeFi in its infant stage. People will still lose money.

NFTs are inherently a social thing.

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Framework Ventures total assets under management are currently around ~$1.4B. The VC firm was one of the first to enter the DeFi space and recognize gems such as Chainlink, Aave, The Graph, Tokemak, and others.

Emirates Airlines is launching its own NFT