Bought To You By gettingstartedincrypto.com
Happy New Year everyone! Lisa and I are very optimistic for 2022 and for the crypto projects that are just waiting to go to the Moon! There are a few projects we’re keeping our eye on and we’ve also been watching over the existing projects that we’ve had in previous editions of the Moon Mag. It’s fascinating to see how projects evolve and grow, particularly in a time when the Market is undecisive or, at least, moving sideways. One of the key indicators of success for us is persistence and patience. Whilst some projects are more ‘vocal’ and constantly share updates, others prefer to work hard behind the scenes and let actions do the talking rather than words. Both approaches have their pros and cons but either way, progress is progress. A combination of timing, hard work and a little bit of luck often fuels the rocket for launch and projects have a tendency of shooting for the stars in a matter of weeks, days and sometimes, hours!! Keep a close eye on the projects that interest you....here are some more to kickstart 2022.
A note from Lisa…
A note from Josh…
Welcome to 2022!! Another HUGE MoonMag Issue, packed full of what we believe will be the game changers of the crypto space! I’m especially looking forward to a MASSIVE year for crypto, having watched it go from strength to strength over the last 10 plus. And as another year begins, Josh and I are excited to bring you some of the fundamentals of trading, with low risk - arbitrage and how to do it. It’s always important to know other ways to mitigate risk, especially in times of uncertainty like we are experiencing presently with a sideways Bitcoin! I’m excited to bring you M31, an alternate to Michael Saylor’s Microstrategy, with yields of up to 200% with their managed portfolio. Our writer delves into why we feel these types of funds are important to the cryptocurrency ecosystem and how they will help the market cap to increase beyond 2022. Also, a long term project, that we feel will change the way homes are booked with cryptocurrency, through tokens and NFTs, of course, I’m talking about DTravel! Our regular #Play-To-Earn pick and history of NFTs, just in time for Samsung to launch their NFT connected TVs. I know you are going to love reading! Enjoy!
Editorial
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Evolution of minting NFTsCryptoUFO MOrganisationAutonomousDecentralisedDtravelArbitrage31Capital 3428201206
CONTRIBUTORS
Aldrich (or Rhys to those in the Signals group!) has been HODL’ing since 2017 and is proud of surviving bear markets, rug pulls and still trading successfully enough to have paid of all debts. Recently, he’s jumped head-on into NFT projects - particularly ones that combine his love of gaming.
I’m a quantitative analyst and a mechanical engineer. I took an interest in crypto because my line of work led me down the fnancial trading and investment rabbit hole, and it’s only a matter of time before you reach crypto. I enjoy researching diferent crypto projects, and attempting to forecast their roles in the future fnancial and technology systems. I also fnd the volatility of the charts and the resulting crypto-Twitter posts very thrilling.
Daniel Dudek
Kel Udeala
I am a Quantitative Biology PhD student with a small addiction to crypto. One of my favorite things about crypto is its ability to revolutionize everything we do, from payments to culture. Real implementation and interoperability between projects are what I am passionate about in this space.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Daniel Jimenez
Aldrich Shillian
Daniel has been a blockchain technology evangelist since 2012 and is a faithful believer in the Crypto ecosystem. Daniel also writes for Coin Telegraph!
THEFOLLOWMONEY…M31CAPITALwrittenby
Daniel Dudek
M31 Capital is a global investment frm focused exclusively on generating asymmetrical gains in the new alternative asset class which we have all come to know as the cryptocurrency market.
Gain exposure to the cryptomarkets by investing in two professionally managed portfolios.
• Capital Bitcoin Access Fund, LP (Bitcoin-Only Fund)
• Capital Partners, LP (Digital Asset Hedge Fund)
CoinMarketCap Watchlist list/6182bb52dbd1ec7b748dc9e0https://coinmarketcap.com/watch (Sign-upNewsletterfor the Monthly Newsletter) bit.ly/3aUnDCt
of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Their globally decentralized team (ofces in New York City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Seoul) manages institutional-grade investment funds with a variety of risk profles and strategies to provide massive returns for their investors. This deep dive will cover the investment products ofered, what’s in their portfolio, how well their funds have performed, what insight I have gained through doing this deep-dive, and, most importantly, the partnership with Coinbase.
M31 Ventures
Website https://www.m31.capital/ Contact contact@m31.capital LinkedIn m31-capital-partners/https://www.linkedin.com/company/ Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/M31Capital
What type of investment vehicles do they ofer?
M31 Capital
M31 actively mines Bitcoin and other Proof-ofWork cryptocurrencies through both Hardware and Software mining, while additionally providing mining resources to interested parties.
Compared to other investment frms in legacy fnance, M31 ofers the experience from seasoned investment professionals in the crypto asset markets to support companies and curious investors eager to be part of this new technological revolution.
M31 exclusively invests in companies with a forward-looking mindset that leverage innovative implementations of blockchain technology to further drive decentralization.
This magazine is sole property
M31 Mining
Portfolio Composition • Alpha Finance Labs (ALPHA) • Cosmos (ATOM) • DEIP • Dopex (DPX) • Helium (HNT) • Injective (INJ) • Livepeer (LPT) • Nexus Mutual (NXM) • Olympus (OHM) • Popsicle Finance (ICE) • Safron Finance (SFI) • Serum (SRM) • Solana (SOL) • SushiSwap (SUSHI) • Terra (LUNA) • THORChain (RUNE) • THORStarter (XRUNE) • Tokemak (TOKE) • Wonderland (TIME)
son-b91b375/https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-swens
Before co-founding M31 Capital, Michael worked in the traditional fnance space since 2005 at a variety of companies including Amaranth, AllianceBernstein, Goldman Sachs, and Bridgewater Associates. The potential experience and connections Michael Swensson has should not be understated and should give confdence to any investor entrusting this frm to handle their capital.
Michael Swensson, COO
○https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanmontone/
Nathan Montone, CEO
Core Portfolio Managers
Nathan is a graduate from Columbia University in the City of New York and Harvard University. He was a Director at both Block72 and GBIC (Global Blockchain Innovative Capital) for two years from 2018-2020, after which transitioned to founding and becoming CEO of M31 Capital.
Fund Investment:
M31 Capital Bitcoin Access Fund, LP
Core Portfolio Managers
If you have a signifcant amount of capital to invest which meets the requirements for the minimum requirement for these funds ($100,000), M31 capital could be an option to diversify your portfolio depending on what you are holding. Investing in the crypto markets is a time intensive process as there are thousands of tokens, geopolitical events to navigate regarding the regulation of these assets, constant technological innovation, and possible scams which make doing research a near full-time job to obtain the return on investment you are seeking in this new asset class. M31 alleviates the stress of doing the research and gives you exposure to this market through both their diversifed fund and bitcoin-only fund.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
M31 Capital Partners, LP
Historical Performance
Nevertheless, M31 clearly has a vision for aiding in bringing cryptocurrency mainstream through this partnership. Why is this development important you might ask? Well, coinbase is heavily building out their ecosystem to be a 1-stop-shop for everything related to the crypto industry, including bridging the gap between the fat and crypto world.
This avenue is not for everyone, especially those of you entering into the market with limited savings trying to build your wealth.
Portfolio Insight:
To all of the readers who scavenge the internet for those 10-100x gems, examining M31’s portfolio can be extremely benefcial. It is my belief that great insight can be obtained whenever you follow the money, and that is what you can do here. Within the portfolio composition section of this article, you have over 19 possible projects to investigate in diferent sectors of the market, i.e. DeFi (Decentralized Finance), Web3, Layer 1s, Interoperability, etc, and at a variety of market capitalizations.
M31 capital also seems to have THORChain in their portfolio, which is a decentralized crosschain liquidity platform to perform swaps of native digital assets, i.e. BTC for ETH. Keep in mind that both Terra and THORChain are built using the Cosmos SDK.
If you are able to directly deposit your income into coinbase, it almost dissolves the role of banks for crypto adopters. You can use the coinbase visa debt card to spend your money in any of the assets you have invested in immediately to gain a variety of crypto rewards in the form of USDC, DAI, XLM, ETH, and BTC at varying percentages. From there, it is easy to transfer assets to the coinbase wallet (software wallet) and interact with decentralized applications.
One extremely important partnership to mention would be M31 Capital’s partnership with Coinbase to help revolutionize payroll. Coinbase is rolling out the capability for customers in the US to deposit their paycheck directly into their coinbase account. M31’s exact role in this partnership is unknown to me but one would suspect it would be supplying capital or business resources as they aren’t a payment infrastructure company.
What is truly fascinating with this development is that employers will be able to allow a percentage of the employee’s paycheck to be automatically converted to the digital asset of choice. Coinbase is continuously making it seamless for retail to enter the crypto world, enabling mass adoption in the US. It’s always smart to take note of who is supporting the key developments of cryptocurrency adoption, such as M31 Capital.
Coinbase Partnership:
More recently the Terra ecosystem has been gaining signifcant adoption and notoriety due to its ability to host a suite of decentralized stablecoins to power their DeFi ecosystem, along with the native LUNA token appreciating from under $1 in January to over $75 in early December.
Some of the projects listed such as Luna, Cosmos, and Solana, while not as decentralized as Bitcoin, are growing networks in terms of adoption, number of dapps, use cases, and market capitalization.
This may be sought after for those wanting to protect their wealth and want individuals who understand the market to give them exposure.
Why would an investment fund allocate literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to these particular projects? What do their investment researchers see in these projects, especially the lower market cap ones, that others don’t? Why have these projects gone under mainstream crypto twitter’s radar?
Just by observing their portfolio performance, we can see that this can be an extremely proftable venture for wealthy traditional investors as the M31 Capital Partners Fund portfolio garnered 468% return YTD since 2020 and 237% since the beginning of 2021.
Coinbase Partnership Article Link: deposited-into-coinbase-116fe1d073ceblog.coinbase.com/now-get-your-paycheck-https://
As you examine their portfolio, the themes of def and interoperability emerge. As we go into 2022, think about what this investment frm is researching and take note of how their portfolio changes in their monthly newsletter.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
What does their portfolio tell me about what they believe Theyin?
share my mindset that this space will grow to be multi-chain and interoperable. Although Ethereum is a major player in this market, they seem to not emphasize it in their portfolio composition. Maybe holding Ethereum is just an obvious notion or maybe they prefer higher risk/ reward plays based on the newer technologies. Either way, a global investment frm with the goal of driving cryptocurrency adoption and partnered with Coinbase should be on everyone’s radar. Keep an eye on where the money is being allocated and further partnerships they are part of.
Let’s end this article with a quote from Margin Call (2011), hopefully, all of you have watched it, “There are three ways to make a living in this business: be frst, be smarter, or cheat. I don’t cheat. Although I like to think that we have some pretty smart people in this building, it sure is a hell of a lot easier to just be frst.”
Final Thoughts
M31 capital is a group of crypto investment professionals who have been in this space for in excess of four years. They have a wealth of experience managing diversifed crypto portfolios. For those with a low-risk appetite for doing their own trading, this is the perfect way to dip your toes in. With the high returns, a traditional or retail buyer would reap the rewards, the previous investments gaining well over 200% return.
Investigating M31 has enlightened me about potential money fow in 2022. This is important. If you are able to have asymmetric knowledge about a narrative or project before large market participants catch on, you have an edge in this market. Identifying the gems is one of the main ways to generate massive gains.
This technique basically consists of simultaneously buying and selling Bitcoin — or any other asset — in order to beneft from the price diference in diferent markets. Thus, a cryptocurrency trader buys BTC where it is cheaper and then sells it on exchanges where it turns out to be more expensive.
RisksHowArbitrage:CryptoitWorks,and Benefts for bywrittenInvestorsDanielJimenez
But what is cryptocurrency arbitrage?
Often executed through automated trading bots for a speed advantage, arbitrage is the practice in which we take advantage of the price diference of a cryptocurrency between two markets.
The fact that each exchange shows a diferent price for Bitcoin has given rise to the phenomenon of arbitrage. And despite the low prices in the market, it is still a very proftable activity for many traders. More interestingly, this technique is not exclusive to Bitcoin; on the contrary, it is a trading strategy that can be applied to many altcoins on the market.
Types of Arbitrage
Simple arbitrage, therefore, is based on obtaining the price beneft from the purchase and sale of an asset between two diferent platforms.
A problem that occurs when this arbitrage is carried out is that, after doing it, in each exchange you will lose quantity in one of the two currencies, and accumulate volume in the other, creating the risk that at some point you will be left with a very high volume in one coin yet small volume in the other, preventing you from taking advantage of any future opportunity.
Simple Arbitrage
Parallel arbitrage is about looking for buying and selling opportunities between 2 cryptocurrencies and 2 diferent exchanges. It is important to point out again that both operations have to be carried out at the same time; otherwise, you would be exposed to price variations in the cryptocurrencies between which you want to arbitrage.
In order to carry out this arbitrage, it is necessary to own both currencies in each of the 2 exchanges, since we do not know if the opportunity that is going to present to us will undervalue ethereum against bitcoin on the frst exchange or on the second.
If you let a time interval of more than several seconds pass between buying and selling, we would no longer be talking about an arbitrage strategy; during those seconds you would be exposed to variations in the price of assets, and therefore you could lose money. An arbitrage trade is an operation that you execute because you know that you are going to obtain a proft, but of course, in those split seconds, the price could still move against you. By executing simultaneous trades, you lower the price risk.
Arbitrage is based on the simple concept of buying low to sell high. However, for it to be an arbitrage strategy and not a trading strategy (as many people confuse them), the key is that the purchase and sale have to be made almost simultaneously.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Parallel arbitrage
In order to carry out this arbitration, it is necessary to own the three currencies in each of the exchanges among which we are going to operate. The fact that the trade involves 3 currencies and 2 or 3 exchanges will make it extremely difcult to intuitively detect which combination will provide a positive return.
Once again, at the end of the operation it will be necessary to rebalance to maintain a position similar to the initial one that allows us to take advantage of the maximum number of future opportunities.
What fundamentally diferentiates parallel from triangular arbitrage is that, as its name indicates, the trade will no longer be carried out on 2 exchanges and with 2 diferent cryptocurrencies, but with the support of 3 cryptocurrencies and on 2 or 3 diferent exchanges. Therefore, unlike parallel arbitrage, not only one coin will be used as a currency to pivot, but now there will be 2 coins that will perform this function.
Triangular arbitrage
In order to carry out this type of arbitrage, it is necessary to analyze in real time the prices ofered by the maximum possible currency pairs (ETH/BTC, DASH/ETH, BNB /BTC, BNB/ETH ...). The more pairs you observe, the more likely you are to fnd a strategy that allows arbitrage.
Intraexchange arbitrage seeks to take advantage of the fact that there is no perfect price parity between cryptocurrencies.
Intraexchange arbitrage
Today, intraexchange arbitrage is considered the type of arbitrage that allows you to do the most operations. It is characterized by using a single exchange, which diferentiates it from previous arbitrations. The process consists of transferring your capital from one cryptocurrency to another, always starting and ending in the same one.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
TYPE OF ARBITRAGE
1. High difculty
2. Rebalancing cost
Higher trading volume, single exchange, no requiredrebalancing
1. It is not easy to detect opportunities
In this way, no matter how many exchanges you trade across, in the end the value of your fnal position would always be the same and at no time would you make a proft.
Parallel Speed of execution, simplicity
Normally the currency with which you start and end is Bitcoin, Ethereum or Tether, since they are by far the currencies that ofer the largest number of pairs, so it is more feasible that the last currency that has been purchased is transferable to the currency with which the strategy began.
Intraexchange
1. Rebalancing cost
ADVANTAGES
It is worth noting that parallel, triangular and intraexchange arbitrations are more complex techniques that require greater knowledge, and a more complex set of operations that are not the fnal scope of this post.
Triangular Higher performance
2. Lower performance
However, within exchanges this does not happen, so this situation can also be taken advantage of to obtain a proft through arbitrage.
2. Longer execution time
DISADVANTAGES
To clarify the concepts and diferences between the diferent types of arbitrage, the following table is ofered in which the main advantages and disadvantages of each one are summarized:
Therefore, we will limit ourselves from now on to instructing the average investor on simple arbitrage.
Step-by-Step Guide to Do a Cryptocurrency Arbitrage
4. Deposit the money to invest in platform A.
5. Buy the desired cryptocurrencies
In summary form, we ist the basic arbitrage steps for the cryptocurrency sector, be it Bitcoin (BTC) or any other crypto asset available in the market.
2. Once you fnd your opportunity, use the calculator to see the estimated proft according to your investment and design your appropriate plan.
3. Verify that you have an open account where you want to operate. Otherwise, create one and verify it if necessary so as not to be restricted with the daily trading limits stipulated by each operator/exchange.
6. Transfer the cryptocurrencies from the previous step to platform B.
1. Look at the price indicators such as Coinmarketcap for the pair in which you want to arbitrage — for example, BTC/USD and activate the necessary alerts so that you can take advantage of market opportunities. There are also bots on the market like Lisa Bot that can make this task easier for you.
7. Sell the cryptocurrencies.
8. Done! Withdraw money wherever you want and enjoy your winnings.
As we can see, arbitrage is still quite proftable when identifying options and verifying of course that we have the amount of capital to obtain a respectable proft through this technique.
What you need to do to ensure you obtain the necessary liquidity is to identify the ‘respectable’ sites to buy and sell Bitcoin at the best ofer-sell price, in addition to complying according to your arbitrage capacity with the respective KYC rules to not exceed the daily limits allowed by exchanges for withdrawals and deposits
An example of a simple Bitcoin arbitrage
The diference between the prices is $1,528,184, and this is a pretty decent opportunity for arbitrage. Let’s say you buy 100 Bitcoin on Binance at a rate of $47,083.82 each, and then sell it on Crypto Store at a rate of $48,612,004 each.
However, in real life things are more complicated than the simplifed example above.
In a perfect world, you would earn $1,528,184 per Bitcoin, a proft of + 3.14%.
Let’s take a simple arbitrage example to illustrate how arbitrage is done. At the time of writing, the price of Bitcoin on Binance is $47,083.82
While the sell price of Bitcoin on TiendaCrypto, for example, is USD 48,612,004.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
If we graphically summarize the total costs and expenses of those Bitcoins bought on Binance and sold on TiendaCrypto, we can see that the total proft in this case for the arbitrage of 100 BTC is the not inconsiderable sum of USD 152,818.40
Still, there are options to carry out the practice because it is completely legal, because all you are doing is exploiting the price gaps between centralized, decentralized or P2P exchanges.
When you detect an arbitrage opportunity, it does not necessarily mean that it will be proftable. Exchanges generally have deposit, withdrawal, and trading fees. The frst two are sometimes charged as a fxed amount and can result in your arbitrage operation being unproftable. Therefore, once the opportunity arises, do not forget to calculate all the underlying fees.
Some people might see it as a way to make a quick buck, but they have to keep in mind that these price shortfalls don’t last long. In fact, in order to make a proft using arbitrage, you will need to be skilled in the world of cryptocurrencies and national currencies all over the world.
The important point is to know how to identify the best options on the market and have enough knowledge to minimize the risks implicit in each transaction, while ensuring the security of the platforms where you want to operate.
Another crucial factor to take into account is the cost of the fees involved in the transaction on cryptocurrency exchanges. Often the potential proft that could be made can be consumed in fees or even turned into a loss.
Arbitrage Options: Risks and Rewards for Investors
In addition, all of the types of arbitrage in the world of the individual investor present a very serious and common problem, which was already mentioned in the example on simple arbitrage: the execution time. From when the price diference and therefore the arbitrage opportunity is observed, until it is executed, a few seconds should not be exceeded. If we exceed this time, the probability that someone will arrive and buy the volume that was available at the prices that had been observed is very high.
With the right tools and knowledge, you can take advantage of arbitrage with Bitcoin, as well as other digital assets available for trading, arbitrage easily fnds its way into the world of Bitcoin.
If we review the data available for the BTC/USDT pair on CoinmarketCap, we can see that there are arbitrage options that guarantee good market movement.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
In conclusion, thanks to arbitrage with cryptocurrencies, thousands of operations can be carried out per day that provide us with a proft, but to take advantage of them you need more than simple knowledge and a computer, as we have mentioned before. A solution is arbitrage bots such as LisaBot to automatically take advantage of market opportunities and obtain additional proftability with your portfolios.
Regardless of the type of arbitrage, the proft obtained per operation is usually quite small, as has been demonstrated. This makes sense, since the objective of arbitrage is not to earn a lot in a single operation, but to add small incremental profts, which when performing thousands of daily operations turn into much higher profts. That is the essence of bots and the current market, the opportunity to perform thousands of daily operations.
Arbitrage With Automated Bots
The popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has exploded in recent months. As with cryptocurrencies, tokens can serve as both a store of value and a speculative asset.
Evolution of Minting NFTs: From Source Code to a Single ClickwrittenbyDaniel
Like goods made with gold or a work of art, NFTs are unique assets that cannot be modifed or exchanged for another with the same value, since no two NFTs are equivalent, just as no two paintings are alike.
One of the most famous sales of NFTs was carried out by the renowned American boxer and Youtuber Logan Paul. A few months ago he put 3,000 NFTs of Pokemon cards up for sale and in a few days he sold all the assets for 5 million euros.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
But what are NFTs?
NFTs are cryptographically assigned units of value. In essence, it is a type of token developed at the end of 2017 under the ERC-721 standard for the Ethereum network.
Tokens are a broader concept than cryptocurrencies, although technologically they are very similar as they are also based on the blockchain.
Within these concepts of uniqueness and originality, non-fungible tokens are born, under the popular acronym today of NFT.
The market for crypto art and non-fungible tokens or NFTs is expected to maintain the same growth curve despite the slight drop in popularity in recent weeks. In fact, according to a study carried out by the frm Invezz, there are no signs that the NFT market is a bubble and the volume of operations is expected to continue growing for the frst quarter of 2022.
To understand the concept of NFTs, you must frst understand that there are expendable goods and non-expendable goods. An example of consumables is money. A 20 euro bill, for example, can be exchanged for another without problem; it does not lose value and is exactly the same. Furthermore, this bill is consumed when you use it.
On the other hand, an example of a nonexpendable good would be a work of art. If you have a painting of the Mona Lisa in your home, it is not consumed when used nor can it be replaced by another, since in essence it is a unique and irreplaceable work.
Another well-known case is that of artist Mike Winkelmann, nicknamed Beeple, who sold his NFT “EveryDay - The First 5000 Days” in March for USD 69 million.
Their peculiarity is that they represent unique and non-fungible values, unlike, for example, Bitcoin, whose standard is fungible and interchangeable with others, or the standard, also of Ethereum, of ERC-20, which is also fungible like Bitcoin.
The interesting thing about this action is the value that these cards will have in the future, since in 2021 they have cost EUR 2,000, but it is estimated that in 2030 the value could increase to EUR 30,000.
NFT Trade CLICKPredictionsVolume-InfogramHERE
One of the frst applications that emerged when the ERC-721 standard was developed was the CryptoKitties game, which is nothing more than a blockchain-based game in which players collect virtual cats and sell them for cryptocurrencies.
Mint an NFT: Smart contracts or a single click?
You already know what an NFT is, what benefts it has and how the market is eager to buy them. Now the most important thing is how to monetize your creativity. Well, at this point we enter something known in blockchain slang as “mint”.
This non-fungible characteristic makes NFTs the ideal crypto-vehicle to digitize and create a whole market for digital works of art, since each unique item is not replicable or consumed with use, after you acquire it. In the form of an NFT, a work of art will not be consumed as you view it, lend it, or make any other use of it that is not a sale.
In addition, with the NFTs the owner can certify that he is the sole and absolute owner of the original work; they are not divisible like tokens or
What can I do with NFTs?
Obviously, the sale of the NFT will transfer your property and its value to another new owner, but that would not really be making use of the NFT as such, so it does not violate its “non-fungibility” character.
cryptocurrencies, and although they can be easily shared on the internet, they cannot be destroyed, deleted or replicated as such, since they are supported by a smart contract on a blockchain network.
In any case, the applications of NFTs are very broad since they can represent all types of physical or digital assets. The problems that we can fnd are related to the regulatory limitations which the commercialization of certain assets supposes in the physical world, as happens, for example, if we intend to tokenize real estate assets.
Blockchain is a technology that can be used to carry out and store transactions in a ledger that, due to its technical characteristics, ofers great security in relation, fundamentally, to the integrity of the transactions. The fact that we can transact through unique and non-fungible tokens gives a greater degree of security to the transaction since the goods that are represented by said token are unique and cannot be represented by another token. In other words, the technical characteristics of the NFTs do not allow replications or plagiarism.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Another method that was later implemented by NFT enthusiasts to monetize artistic creations and support their designs on the blockchain was the use of Etherscan, the popular Ethereum Blockchain explorer.
How to Mint an NFT (Part 2/3 of NFT Tutorial Series) | ethereum.org
Coining an NFT is the action of creating a unique token on the blockchain. Even when you are minting your NFT from a project website, you are interacting with the underlying smart contract to mint your NFT.
Mint with Etherscan on an existing contract
This was the frst stage in the process that artists and creatives used to create their designs. Of course, doing so requires a certain degree of technical knowledge to understand the correct process of translating our designs into programming code.
Perhaps for many average investors and some art enthusiasts who want to capitalize on opportunities, this is today the most archaic way and the least concerted way to proceed to tokenize an artistic design or a piece of music for exposure to the decentralized market.
In the beginning, when the idea of CryptoKitties emerged, the frst NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain were minted through coding and programming in smart contracts.
However, it is worth noting that although it seems a complex process, it only requires 9 steps and a little patience to bring this process to a successful conclusion. If you want to learn how to do it, you can check out this excellent guide from the Ethereum Foundation:
Just get your Web 3 non-custodial wallet and connect to your preferred platform on the blockchain network that best suits your needs. Upload your digital creation and in a couple of clicks you can create your NFT through a blockchain transaction!
In this context, and in a similar way to how the internet evolved, within the context of Web 3.0 some platforms are making the process of coining an NFT a simpler one without the need for advanced technical knowledge.
To do this, you just need to fnd the correct contract function to coin the NFT and go through the process in fve steps:
• Find the smart contract.
• Go to “Contract” and then Write contract.
• Select the Contract function, which usually starts with “mint” or, in the case of loot projects, “claim” and fll in the required entries (check three times in this step!).
Please note that these steps are not the same for all smart contracts.
The current era: One click
It’s that simple today for any artist, designer or just an average investor who wants to embody a unique and original certifcate within the blockchain through nonfungible tokens.
Now with the popularity of NFTs and the rise of tokenization of countless types of assets such as real estate, stocks, art, music and even digital identities; the evolution towards the massive adoption of these tokens is making things easier for the newest technology newbies.
• Click “Connect to Web3” and sign.
• Confrm the transaction in MetaMask and receive your NFT!
It is worth mentioning that most of these platforms function as decentralized marketplaces that allow the direct exposure and commercialization of digitalcreations to the public in the NFT sector.
Generally, an artist or musician does not want to learn coding to tokenize her assets. And those early in their careers don’t have the resources to hire the professional services of programmers.
Rarible is an NFT marketplace that was created in Russia and bases its operation on its community. In fact, it has its own token (RARI) so that buyers and sellers can be rewarded for making decisions on the platform governance. However, it is arguably on par with Opensea when it comes to buying and selling NFTs.
Rarible
Let’s look at some popular options present today:
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
This can be a very good source of passive income in the future.
OpenSea
Although it is slightly more complex to start with, since the user frst must pass through an entry flter (being a verifed user), it is a good option if you are starting in this world. The downside: they don’t cover your minting costs, which can make a big diference when choosing this marketplace versus Opensea if you’re just starting out.
At Opensea you buy and sell with a system very similar to eBay: auctions and “buy it now.” In addition, they allow you to choose the option to receive a commission on your item every time it is sold between third parties. This commission is optional and you choose the amount of the commission.
Opensea is the largest marketplace for NFTs and is perfect for beginners and those who want to mint as cheap as possible. This is because it is not curated (that is, there are no barriers to entry) and because they cover the transaction costs of the mint (you only have to pay a one-time initial fee to start selling).
However, it is not as accessible when it comes to selling on the platform, since it is limited to renowned artists and brands. It is also used to sell videogame NFTs on blockchains like Gods Unchained.
NiftyGateway
NiftyGateway difers from other marketplaces in that buying NFTs (or ‘nifties’) is much more accessible for people from outside the crypto world, since it can be done by card. In addition, you can choose in which wallet to store your NFT (Metamask, Nifty account ...)
NiftyGateway is perhaps a more suitable marketplace to buy for the general public than to sell as an artist.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Other marketplaces
Get started minting NFTs
Look, minting your own NFT is not that challenging. If you can create a wallet, you can also create an NFT. It really isn’t much more difcult than creating an eBay or Amazon account and uploading items to Yousell.will
EphimeraAsyncArtArtblocksMintbasePositionAirNftsSuperRareMintable
fnd that the process is quite similar on any platform, regardless of the blockchain it supports. So if you are interested in participating in the NFT ecosystem as a creator, why not go out there and start minting your own NFTs?
As we have said, there are many marketplaces. The most used are the ones we have mentioned above. However, a few more are worth mentioning:
Cryptocurrency and gaming have hit the headlines in a big way in recent weeks, particularly at the intersection of gaming and NFTs. We’ve covered a few NFT projects getting into gaming in The Moon Mag already! While mainstream gaming coverage focuses on adding NFTs into “traditional” games, projects in the crypto space are looking to innovate, not just by delivering a game with tagged-on crypto features.
GamingUFO
Instead, they look to leverage the power of blockchain to create tools, assets and fnancial systems around their games that enable players to earn money by playing, something called #play-toearn.
written by Rhys
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Thepocket!#play-to-earn
segment of the crypto space is fast-growing and innovating week on week. The runaway success of Axie Infnity, in particular, has inspired copycats on other chains, as well as led other high-grade NFT projects to pivot into gaming, too. Think of Axie as the proof of concept. It proved that #play-to-earn works, sells, and has made a good chunk of adopters a solid passive income. The innovations we’re seeing now apply the same ideas into more impressive products or reduce the friction to entry for new players by making buying/selling their crypto and NFTs simpler or simply seeing developers branching out into other genres.
These tools, as mentioned earlier, are at the heart of #play-toearn. Through cryptocurrencies that represent in-game money and NFTs representing in-game assets, developers now can allow players to “own” their assets outside of the game world. Games like Axie Infnity have led the way, making #play-to-earn a distinct, growing market. Most #play-to-earn games pay you cryptocurrency for completing tasks in the game. This crypto can then be used in-game to play, to enhance your experience or give you a competitive edge. But as these currencies exist on the blockchain - outside the game - they can also be exchanged for other cryptos (including stablecoins), hence #play-to-earn. If you don’t need the money in the game, you can take it out and put it in your real-life
Leveraging blockchain technology means tokens or NFTs can mean diferent things to many projects. If a team came along and created an ecosystem upon which to build - with currencies or assets that could transfer between games as and when required - that could be genuinely game-changing…
Through #play-to-earn, blockchain gaming shows that players can be rewarded for their hard-spent time playing. Building your assets in-game can help build your assets ofine, too. A revolution in gaming is here. But there’s vast potential available beyond “play this game and earn”.
The Dark Metaverse
Building an ecosystem like this is a complex business. Achieving a balance between the fnancial demands of the system and the needs of a game itself is difcult enough, so UFO Gaming setting out to make this all work across their ecosystem is a hugely complex task. But unpicking this complexity is key to understanding just how promising UFO Gaming could be. Below, we’ll look at how these assets create the value we think is worth looking into as a Moon Mag reader.
Whitepaper available from their website
Newly listed on top exchange Kucoin (must be withdrawn to an Ethereum wallet for use in staking/gaming)
51.5bn initial supply, burnt down to 25.7bn 50k holders of UFO on-chain
Website: https://www.ufogaming.io/
Coinmarketcap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ufo-gaming/
Uniswap liquidity of over $24m at time of writing - meaning low price slippage for average investors on-chain
By using a common framework of the $UFO token and its connected rewards, plus NFTs linked to their ecosystem, UFO Gaming aims to create a complete gaming metaverse, with a working proofof-concept game and plenty of opportunities for early adopters to get in and grab some long-term investments with the token, game NFTs and other assets.
It all starts with the $UFO token - recently listed on Kucoin, and the gateway into anything UFO Gaming related. The $UFO token has several uses in the UFO Gaming ecosystem. Still, the frst thing you will likely do with it is stake or provide liquidity –the graphic below shows how this feeds into the later parts of the economy.
This is where UFO Gaming comes in. UFO Gaming is creating a platform with assets that can be traded and exchanged, or used in upcoming games developed by them or others. Starting with the launch of Super Galactic – an action-RPGstyle game – their focus is not just on this single title. Instead, they aim to bring forth a whole gaming universe, which they call The Dark Metaverse. Early investors in UFO Gaming will have opportunities to buy playable NFTs called UFOeps and other assets like parcels of land in the UFO Dark Metaverse (for use by future game developers) and NFTs with utility inside and outside of the game worlds.
About $UFO:
The buy-in
Every project approaches this problem diferently, commonly with time limits and fees charged to stop players from overdoing it. UFO Gaming’s attempt to address this is interesting. In addition to the usual restrictions, they introduced “ratings”, encouraging gameplay to keep NFTs valuable and maximise earnings.
Breeding is one strand of the #play-to-earn ofering for early adopters and ensures that new NFTs are generated over time for new players to join the game. After you’ve gathered your Plasma Points and bought a few UFOeps, you can “breed” 2 NFTs together to produce another UFOeps for use in-game or for sale. With breeding power comes breeding responsibility – if there are no checks and balances in an NFT ecosystem on how many can be produced, then most new NFTs quickly lose value (which is what people refer to as the foor dropping).
UFO Gaming can still facilitate that reduction in circulating supply (and therefore scarcity, infuencing price) while also shoring up liquidity for trading. It’s an intelligent move but doesn’t end $ UFO’s use there - $UFO will also have a role in UFOeps breeding.
The $UFO staking mechanism will lead to a reduction in the circulating supply of $UFO by stakers locking it up to get these NFTs. Why not just burn $UFO for these NFTs? Well, by burning, you would immediately remove $UFO for a fnite resource in the NFTs without ofering any incentive to provide liquidity. That can only go so far. By ofering Plasma Points at a higher rate to $UFO/ETH stakers,
As you can see, staking your $UFO will generate Plasma Points, which in turn can be used to buy NFTs. These NFTs will come in multiple shapes and sizes, including UFOgers (stake-able NFTs) and UFOeps, which are the in-game NFTs for Super Galactic (soldiers that you send out on missions!) These NFTs are likely to be highly desirable – particularly the earlier Origin UFOeps with higher base stats and are a key to later land sales for the Metaverse.
UFOeps can build up their rating by completing daily quests ingame. Their rating dictates their ability to earn a further token – UAP – which is used for breeding, as well as a #play-to-earn reward. Each day that a quest is completed, your UFOep gains rating – while each day missed reduces it. In doing this, players are encouraged to play the game every day to keep their UFOep ratings high for maximum UAP.
So breeding will reduce your #play-to-earn rewards and the rating of your NFT breeding pair. Breeding multiple times in quick succession would compound these issues, producing lowerrated NFTs and stopping your UAP income. This encourages players to get back to playing after some breeding rather than continuously creating more NFTs. As mentioned earlier in the article, these aren’t the only checks and balances on breeding applied - there’s also a per-pair breeding limit and a cost in $UFO and UAP for each breeding event, as shown below. These rules should keep the NFT market for UFO Gaming from becoming oversaturated too fast. It also burns UAP to maintain its value high and cycles $UFO back through the system to keep the prices for the broader ecosystem steady.
Breeding and UAP
In addition to UAP rewards, these ratings afect breeding in two key ways. The frst is that “parent” NFT ratings will shape the starting rating of the “child” NFTs. Higher parent ratings will result in a better child rating, and therefore better immediate return in UAP. Secondly, breeding has a 14-day timer for reproduction, during which the parent NFTs must remain idle. Through this, they lose ratings.
• Use the NFTs in-game to build up rating and earn UAP
• Sell UAP or NFTs to make money, or continue to re-invest in your collection and build over time
With Super Galactic shaping up, it shouldn’t be too long until we know how much fun we’ll get to have alongside this building. But even if Super Galactic isn’t quite your cup of tea, the wider UFO metaverse could lead to something more your speed over time – all the while you’ll be able to gather NFTs, if nothing else, purely by providing your $UFO tokens! For the passive investor/non-player, getting these NFTs will still be valuable and not purely for straight resale either. The early “genesis” NFTs will give holders the chance to buy land parcels for the Metaverse, which can be fractionalised and sold of, or held onto until new gaming projects are allocated to your land. If they’re allocated to your land, you will own a percentage of that project - and therefore the possible profts that they earn. Metaverse land is hot property - additional passive opportunities through project ownership add a nice little bonus.
The UFO Gaming metaverse is shaping up to have developed a great set of assets and systems for games to build on. With Super Galactic leading the way to deliver value to players, UFO Gaming shows how creating blockchain and #play-to-earn games should be done. Early adopters have great opportunities to scoop up $UFO gas-free with a central exchange listing if nothing else. The Kucoin listing has already given the price quite a kick in a tricky market period. Moving ofexchange, there’s an opportunity to build a portfolio of NFTs with relatively little efort. At the same time, those who are more timerich can actively create the value of their portfolio and further earn over time through gameplay and breeding. With more games using the same resources, $UFO and NFTs could become more and more scarce and drive price action positively. For us, UFO Gaming is shaping up to be a great place to get started in blockchain gaming, #play-toearn, and NFTs for the long-term
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
While it remains to be seen what other games will be available, Super Galactic is the frst game coming to the UFO Gaming ecosystem. Early footage of the game shows that you will start in a hub-world, select missions, and select your NFT soldiers to send on those missions. The missions then take place in a top-down, action-RPG style. While there are no frm details on the length of missions, how they take place etc., at the moment – the development looks further along than many games in the blockchain space and is backed by a robust set of assets to build on, as described above, it looks promising already.
Conclusion
In summary:
• Use UAP and some $UFO to breed your NFTs together for more NFTs to enhance your UAP-earning
• Use Plasma Points to purchase NFTs
The rating system incentivises play over breeding to earn your crypto. It drives players to use their NFTs and boost their UAP earnings, with the bonus of them being valuable to new players or breeders if they’re highly rated. You can see that UFO is hoping to maximise the value of playing the game here, as opposed to prioritising the economics of their Metaverse, but without taking away myriad options for players to earn if they go looking for them even without playing the games.
• Buy $UFO to stake, or add to liquidity pools, to earn Plasma Points
dTravel
written by Kel
Decentralised Autonomous Organisation
The project seeks to eschew outdated and centralised corporate governance structures that aggressively seek proft for shareholders at their customers’ expense. For instance, anyone holding the project’s token - TRVL - is a member of the Dtravel community and can beneft from lower fees for both hosts and guests, accept and make payments in fat and crypto, and vote on initiatives that guide the future of the platform. Furthermore, hosts using the platform beneft from US$1,000,000 in property protection.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Dtravel is a AutonomousDecentralizedOrganization (DAO) that seeks to decentralise and facilitate home-sharing discovery, bookings, and payments to beneft its community members. Dtravel aims to provide a crypto-friendly and decentralised alternative to services such as Airbnb and Homestay.
Dtravel fees are just 10% but can go as low as 5%, and transaction fees are held in a communitygoverned treasury and used to grow the ecosystem. Contrast this with similar centralised platforms that charge up to 20% per booking.
Any member of the DAO can submit proposals on improving the platform, vote on proposals and participate in other activities that beneft all members.
In summary, Dtravel enables short-term accommodation discovery, bookings and payments where participants contribute directly toward the growth and success of the entire
Community Growth Fund: 25% Community Treasury: 25% Core Contributors & Advisors: 10.5% Foundation Reserve: 20% Seed Sale: 10%
Data
Total Supply: 1,000,000,000
Max Supply: 1,000,000,000
Total Supply: 3,105,244
2nd Strategic Sale: 2.5%
All Data Is Current At Time Of Writing
Ethereum
Max Supply: 3,105,244
Token Allocation
Website
White Paper
https://whitepaper.dtravel.com/ Twitter
https://medium.com/dtravel-community
Binance Smart Chain
https://www.dtravel.com/
https://twitter.com/DtravelDAO Telegram https://t.me/dtravelcommunity Medium
Ethereum Contract Address: 81b58aa061f3d0xd47bdf574b4f76210ed503e0efe
Binance Smart Chain Contract Address: 63052ce0f0x6a8fd46f88dbd7bdc2d536c604f811c
1st Strategic Sale: 7%
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Where To Purchase The TRVL Token
The TRVL token is available on decentralised exchanges such as Uniswap and Pancakeswap using the Ethereum or BSC contract addresses, respectively. On the other hand, centralised exchanges such as KuCoin, Gate.io, MEXC Global and Bybit have TVRL/USDT pairs, with KuCoin having the highest trade volume followed by Gate.io and MEXC Global, respectively.
Cynthia is currently contributing to creating the next revolution of platforms at Dtravel, which seeks to align the incentives of homesharing platform users’ incentives. Before her role at Genesys Partners, she co-founded the Airhosts Forum, a community of Airbnb hosts worldwide, where hosts can learn from each other, share tips and meet. Cynthia also co-founded Altcoin Fantasy, a cryptocurrency trading simulator game with 300K+ users on web, Android and iOS. Cynthia holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of British Columbia.
Genesys Partners - a frm developing and decentralising Web2.0 use-cases on Web3.0 - are the core contributors to Dtravel. Genesys Partners consists of an all-star, highly qualifed, and experienced team.
Charlie works in design at Genesys Partners and actively contributes to the development of Dtravel. He has over 11 years of experience facilitating crossfunctional design thinking in fast-paced product teams and six years of management experience. Before joining Genesys partners, Charlie consulted on design and product strategy for Haven Money, a fnancial services frm based in San Francisco. He has previous experience at Airbnb, where he worked for fve years as Experience Design Lead and Design Manager.
Drew FinanceCurrahLead, Genesys Partners
Drew previously worked at Travala.com as the Chief Financial Ofcer and Strategy Advisor. He was a Senior Analyst at Forte, a platform that ofers easyto-use tools and services for game developers to integrate blockchain technology into their games and support thriving community-focused economies. He is also the founder of Hexa Digital - a frm that helps promising ventures efectively leverage new-economy tools, including traditional digitalisation tools and fnancial models, digital assets and -decentralisationblockchain-supported-andTradeProsaplatformforhiringtrade professionals.
Charlie Aufmann Design, Genesys Partners
Quinn serves as the Lead Product Manager at Genesys Partners. Before the role, he was the Senior Product Manager at Lyric, an operator of urban, shortterm property rentals that combine the quality and consistency of a hotel experience with the space, fexibility, and community connection of a traditional short-term rental. Quinn also worked in Business Development and as a Product Specialist at Google. He holds a B.A. in Economics and International Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Core Team
Quinn Hubertz Product Lead
Cynthia Huang Growth, Marketing and Community Lead, Genesys Partners
The TRVL token derives utility from travel, loyalty, protection and governance. The demand arising from the token’s utility and the ecosystem’s growth will drive token price appreciation. For instance, a guest cashback of up to 25% of the total nominal fees encourages and incentivizes payments in TRVL tokens when using the platform. Similarly, hosts that receive payments in TRVL tokens are also entitled to the same cashback incentive. Every host and guest becomes a community member by holding the TRVL token, and this approach aligns both parties’ interests to beneft the project ecosystem. Finally, each member’s voting power is dependent on the amount of TRVL assigned by the member. Hence, platform users who want to participate in determining the direction and vision of the project will accrue the necessary number of tokens to do so.
The use-cases discussed above drive the demand for the TRVL token. With a limited supply, a growing project user-base and increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies, the TRVL token could see signifcant price appreciation. For instance, Dtravel has integrated with NOWPayments, a payment platform that enables merchants to easily accept TRVL payments online and in brick-and-mortar stores. This signifcant development will further boost the token’s utility, demand, and potential price appreciation. Furthermore, the project has opened bookings with over 250,000 vacation rentals in 20,000 destinations globally, signalling further future upside in the project’s value.
Ecosystem Health
Rewards and Governance
Dtravel encourages community participation in various ways through TRVL token incentives using the concept of “Support-to-Earn”. This concept will enable community members to share their experience and knowledge to contribute to customer support, dispute resolution, member onboarding and more, in return for TRVL token rewards.
What Does TRVL Do For Investors?
Value Accrual
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
Market Opportunity
The crypto community witnessed the narrative rotate from DeFi in the summer of 2020 to a signifcant rally in layer one blockchains such as Kadena and Solana in 2021. Afterwards, we saw a big rally in metaverse projects such as Decentraland and The Sandbox. Whispers from the grapevine suggest the subsequent narrative could be DAOs. The crypto community has begun paying attention to DAOs, with ConstitutionDAO jumping into the narrative via its attempts to pool resources to buy the US constitution. This feat garnered mainstream attention even though it did not secure the winning bid at the auction.
With increasing interest in DAOs, the Dtravel DAO will see increased awareness and adoption, but this is only one factor. One of Dtravel’s strategic partners, Travala.com, has more than 3 million listings of homes and hotels and more than 200,000 monthly users. The platform ofers over 30 payment methods, though 70% of users pay with cryptocurrencies. Travala and Dtravel have opened the travel and tourism industry to more than 100 million cryptocurrency users worldwide, and some of the $2.3 trillion of value in the cryptocurrency market at the time of writing is no doubt fowing into travel and tourism via Travala and Dtravel. The global travel and tourism industry is currently worth about $4.67 trillion. Travala is already taking market share of this industry, and combined with the community ownership and freedom of the Dtravel DAO, it can further increase its share of the market, hence increasing Dtravel’s valuation.
Conclusion
Furthermore, with the upcoming deployment of the ERC721 contract, the project will undoubtedly leverage the signifcant and growing mainstream interest in NFTs. The combination of NFTs, travel and tourism can create a cultural phenomenon where travellers and tourists can associate unique experiences with unique NFTs. Though more of a prediction, this narrative could become a social media phenomenon. Finally, Dtravel can onboard millions more customers from the travel and tourism industry who may not already have exposure to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
This magazine is sole property of gettingstartedincrypto.com and is not to be redistributed in any form anywhere else.
In 2022, Dtravel will be working on improving its booking platform and also has plans to launch its Premium NFT Memberships. The project aims to further ensure the health and success of its ecosystem by implementing many more roadmap items. These items include, but are not limited to, bridges to other chains and Grants from Community Treasury for Community Projects.
The Dtravel roadmap for Q1 2021 is nearly complete. So far, the project has deployed the frst version of its booking platform, implemented the ERC20 contract for its native token - TRVL - on Ethereum, completed the token generation event and implemented its BEP20 contract on the Binance Smart Chain. Additionally, the project has deployed a bridge on AnySwap, a cross-chain protocol that enables token swapping between Ethereum and the Binance Smart Chain.
With social media sentiment favouring the DAO narrative, the future looks very bright for Dtravel. The project also has strong backing from venture capital funds such as AU21 Capital and NGC Ventures, which have historically backed successful projects.
The Roadmap
Leveraging a solid social narrative like DAOs and NFTs, backing from reputable VC frms, and an outstanding team the Dtravel DAO shows immense strength and potential in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space.
https://gettingstartedincrypto.com/paid-signals/CLICKHERETOCOMEANDJOINUS!
