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PLUS: The App Store meets Web3 games š¤
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Itās Friday. Letās boogie:
The Milk Man goes whale watching š³
Axie Infinity is on Appleās App Store š®
Funding Friday š°
Fahrenheitās going after Celsius šŖ
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A PEEK INTO SOME 7-FIGURE WALLETS š³
I'm gonna let you in on a secret I've never told anyone before....I almost failed 8th grade biology.
The reason I didn't? I copied the smart kid next to me on the final exam. (Don't hate the player, hate the game.)
Well, crypto reminds me a lot of 8th grade biology - it's confusing and none of the words sound the way they're spelled (it's pronounced "Eeeeeeth".)
But don't worry, the trick still works.... Except in crypto, you copy the whales.
Lucky for you, the Milk Man did some research on a few whale wallets. There was only one requirement: the wallets had to have $5M+ in them. (Big ballers only)
Here's a peek at 3 of the most interesting ones:
1/ āThe Risk Takerā ( ~$63M in assets)
Only ~12% of their portfolio is in stablecoins, with their stable of choice being Tether
Theyāre holding over $10M of SHIBA among two different chains (ETH & BNB)
At least they diversify - this wallet is hanging on to over 60 different tokens, including a good ole bag of FTT (FTXās token)
The craziest thing about this whale? They donāt do any staking, lending, or any other common activities you see among other whales.
2/ āThe Bankerā ($8.5M in assets)
They hold over $9M of DAI, USDT, and USDC and are lending out these tokens for interest
They are also borrowing ~$4M of ETH, CRV, and SNX from others
Their only staked holding is Aave - which is their lending protocol of choice. But they are only staking 2.5% of their total wallet
This wallet is okay with missing out on some upside and is all about that juicy lending yield. Talk about being your own bank.
3/ āThe Liquidity Providerā (~$15.5M in assets)
DeBank
This wallet does not hold any stables, but they keep almost all of their money in well-known tokens like ETH, BNB, and LINK
They make up for being less risky by providing funds to decentralized exchanges as liquidity and taking a small slice of each trade
This wallet is a very active trader and has been in and out of PEPE more times than Iāve watched Step Brothers
The Milk Road Take: It's pretty cool that the blockchain allows you to watch what the biggest players are up to in real time.
But having a lot of money and being a whale doesnāt mean theyāre successful investors. Itās always important to DYOR, Roadies.
Reply to this email with your favorite wallets to watch!
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AXIE INFINITY IS ON APPLEāS APP STORE NOW š®
Axie Infinity has had a wild journeyā¦
It was one of the top play-to-earn NFT games (at its peak, it had 2.8M users)
Then got hacked for $600M+ in the largest hack in crypto history. (All because of a āFake jobā scamā¦)
Now itās making headlines again: Axie Infinity is launching an NFT game on the Apple Store.
Thatās right, after 2 long years of trying to get Appleās approval, they finally got it.
(If you needed some motivation to finish that last rep on the squat rack, here it is.)
It was only a matter of time... @AxieInfinity is now live on iOS.
Big moves for the space as a whole, and awesome to see the team's relentless drive throughout difficult times.
Lots to learn still on how crypto might work with the App Store, but an exciting step nonetheless.
ā Piers Kicks (@pierskicks)
3:24 PM ā¢ May 17, 2023
Here are the MilkNotesā¢ on everything you need to know:
Users battle each other to collect/trade NFTs & earn rewards
New users will get a free non-NFT āstarter character.ā No need to buy an NFT to start playing
If you already own one of the gameās NFTs, you can move them into the app & play
Itās only available in Latin American & Southeast Asia, for now
BUT you can only claim certain rewards on desktop - not in the app. Looks like Appleās still cagey about its 30% cut of all App Store salesā¦
Why this matters: Apple hates NFTs more than my Aunt Lori (she calls them the āDevilās JPEGsā), so this is a big move.
And itāll be the first time Apple lets outside NFTs into its App Store. Now, 1.5B+ people will start having access to an NFT game.
Talk about a giant step toward mass Web3 gaming adoption.
FUNDING FRIDAY!š°
Itās Funding Friday! This week, $171M was invested in Web3 companies.
Hereās who got that bag:
Auradine got $81M for its blockchain security solutions. Ex-Google & Intel folks founded it.
River Financial got $35M for its Bitcoin-focused financial services. Among the backers is Peter Thielā¦
Hourglass got $4.2M for its Time-Bound token trading marketplace. A+ branding right there.
anotherblock got $4.3M for its platform that lets you invest in music and earn royalties. You buy your share via an NFT.
Check out the full database of companies that have raised money this year, right here.
MILK & COOKIES šŖ
A company called Fahrenheit is in the lead to buy Celsius. You canāt make this sh*t upā¦
SEC tells Grayscale that Filecoin is a security. While continuing to leave Brian Armstrong and company in the dark.
Binance Australia suspends AUD fiat deposits. Another chapter in the āDude, where is my car fiat?ā
The first Solidity smart contract is now running on Bitcoin. First Ordinals, then BRC-20s and now smart contracts. Whatās next for the grandfather of crypto?
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