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IS DEPIN CRYPTO’S #1 DRAFT PICK? 🏈

Picture two high school quarterbacks, from two rival townships. 

One goes on to the NFL, becoming a globally recognized figure in the process…while the other stays in the minors, becoming famous within his local community.

Right now, crypto is made up mostly of ‘hometown heroes’ – killer products/platforms/protocols that serve the tight-nit crypto/web3 community.

…but very few have made the draft (aka: the mass market arena). 

Which is why the new signals we’re getting from decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) projects, Hivemapper and Helium, are commanding our attention like a DVD wait screen.

🫰 Hey, enough of that – eyes over here 👀 check this out:

1/ From Hivemapper, the crypto app that pays users to video-map their local streets (as if they’re running their own private Google Street View car):

2/ As for Helium (the decentralized mobile network provider that pays folks to share their 5G internet bandwidth with its customers)?

Check out Helium's growth in carrier subscribers!

…now, here’s the kicker: some Helium customers have the potential to make their mobile service a net-zero cost!

And this adoption seems to be reflected in DePIN’s recent performance – it’s the only sector to be flashing positive of late:

Ok, so what’s working here?

Zooming in…

Global physical infrastructure updates, like cell tower installations/upgrades and real-world mapping are logistical nightmares.

Hivemapper and Helium each solve these pain points for legacy tech companies by using token incentives to bootstrap localized data and infrastructure development – something that cannot be achieved without blockchain (boom!)

Zooming out… 

The broader winning formula looks something like this:

Instead of creating crypto solutions to solve crypto-centric problems, these two are using blockchain tech to solve real-world problems (for companies with deep pockets).

Now that’s ‘number-one-draft-pick’ behavior if we’ve ever seen it.

CRYPTO FIRE SALE, ENDING SOON? 🏷️

We’re in a storm. But the skies appear to be clearing…

The $BTC and $ETH markets have been flooded with new supply and increased selling pressure of late – with some of the biggest culprits being:

1. Grayscale’s $ETHE ETF (its high fees are pushing investors to sell) 

2. Mt. Gox (repaying creditors that lost $BTC in their 2014 collapse) 

3. German Gov. (selling off its seized $BTC)

4. US Gov. (potentially selling off the $BTC it seized from Silk Road)

A single point of selling pressure can be weathered…two can be painful, but often manageable...three or more? That can be long and grueling (👈 we are here).

The good news is, 124k of the total 227k $BTC to be sold has already been absorbed by the market.👇 

We’re not out of the woods yet – and other selling events could pop up in the future – but the current supply overhang for $BTC appears to be drying up.

Which is of particular importance, because:

1. Bitcoin tends to drive the market long term.

2. Buyers are less likely to start accumulating when there’s a wall of publicly tracked selling pressure in front of them (those fears are slowly being calmed).

The forecast:

Potential for markets to continue grinding sideways, as the market absorbs the last of this known supply.

Once those clouds part, investor confidence can rebuild.

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