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š„ Major conference canceled. Are NFTs in trouble?
PLUS: The 17 luckiest people in crypto
Gm. This is Milk Road. We're your crypto standing desk. Keeping you aligned, balanced, and focused.
Hereās what weāve got for you today:
Buzzy NFT conference canceled
$4 and an ICO dream
Web3 job openings
A new nine-figure crypto fund
MOONBIRDS ARE ANGRY
The PROOF of Conference, an NFT extravaganza that was scheduled for May in Los Angeles, has been canceled, according to its website.
Why? Because there wasnāt enough interest, according to Proof Collective CEO Kevin Rose. (Yes, early 2000s Digg entrepreneur Kevin Rose.)
āAfter several weeks of sales data, speaking with potential sponsors, and talking to community members, it's clear that there is considerably less interest than anticipated for an event like this right now,ā he wrote.
ETH refunds are coming, which is a good thing, since tickets cost 1.5 ETH (~$2,500) for the general public and .75 ETH (~$1,255) if you own a Moonbird. Proof is the collective behind the highly capitalized collection of 10,000 pixelated owl NFTs.
Is the cancellationā¦proof (ahem) of a bigger problem with the NFT market, or limited to Roseās latest project? According to The Blockās summary of Cryptoslam data, the latterāthough early data show that angry āBird buyers arenāt, for the most part, selling just yet.
Theyāll probably tweet about it, tho.
GET VALUE FROM YOUR NFTS WITH UNLOCKD
We all bought NFTs in the bull market.
Even though liquidity is important, you don't want to sell when the prices are down 50%+.
What if I told you there was a way to get ETH for your NFTs without selling them.
Our friends over at Unlockd are giving you ETH for those dusty NFTs.
How is Unlockd giving you ETH for your dusty NFTs?
The NFT market is in bad shape right now. It sounds too good to be true.
Here's how.
Peer-to-pool model: Works with decentralized liquidity pools. This model allows borrowers to access instant loans and lowers the risk for lenders.
Risk Mitigation: Their data science team has a custom risk framework that screens the market for data and provides a dynamic Loan-To-Value for each loan
Fair Price: The best part is they donāt use a collection's floor price. Instead, they appraise each NFT so you get fair value.
Unlockd is audited by Halborn Security and the code is open-sourced so you donāt get rugged.
So, if you want to do something with those dusty NFTs.
Hit that button below.
CHART OF THE DAY: $4 AND A DREAM
One of the best ways to earn big crypto returns is to get in on the ground floor, which is why itās always interesting to look at early token airdrops and ICOs, or initial coin offerings.
Well, peep this new chart showing profits from investors that bought ETH during its ICO. (It was made by Conor Grogan, a director at Coinbase and a friend of Milk Road.)
Itās hard to remember now, but in 2015 anyone could invest in ETH, which was dirt cheap. One ETH was worth $0.31 back then, and there was a $4 minimum pledge to invest.
Seventeen investors took the four-buck leap. Howād it work out? Wellā¦
The minimum investment the 2014 Ethereum ICO was ~$4. I went back and tracked the 17 people that made the minimum pledge:
ā«Of the sellers, the longest holdout sold for a 3480x ā«One immediately flipped for a $11 profit
ā«7 still possess most/all of the 13.37 ETH, worth ~$22kā Conor (@jconorgrogan)
12:55 AM ā¢ Feb 20, 2023
To summarize:
Seven investors have held onto their initial investments. The initial $4 bet is now worth ~$25k at todayās prices.
Two investors immediately sold for ~$12. I mean, hey, thatās a 3X return!
The last OG investor to sell was in 2018. Thatās aā¦3,480X return. Noice.
TELL US: What tokens are you looking at right now? Tell us your top 2 or 3 and weāll share the results with you later this week š
WEB3 WEDNESDAY
Wanna work in Web3? Do we have a roundup for you.
In a new feature weāll call (Work in) Web3 Wednesday, hereās our list of the coolest of the cool open jobs on the market.
Dust off your resume, ācause here we go:
Part-time UI/UX designer at Milk Road (come on in, the milk is warm)
Senior App Architect for CBDCs at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
MILK AND COOKIES
The layoffs continue. This time itās Polygon Labs that is cutting 20% of its workforce, a sign of continued crypto category challenges.
A new nine-figure crypto fund. A former Binance exec is looking to raise $100M for his new outfit Cypher Capital. The goal? To bring hundreds of millions of internet/social media users into Web3.
eToro has a NY State of Mind. The trading platform just scored a license to offer crypto services in New York.
FTX withdrawal time! Sorta. FTX Japan, one of the failed exchangeās subsidiaries, will start letting users take their holdings off the platform.
AI, but make it scammy. Blockchain security firm Pecksiled found dozens of tokens pulling pump-and-dump schemes by purporting to be associated with AI bots like ChatGPT.
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