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Top 5 NFT Marketplaces for Creators to Sell Non-Fungible Tokens in 2022

Top 5 NFT-In some ways, NFTs are similar to Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, except, of course, they are non-fungible and non-divisible. The first NFTs were part of the Ethereum blockchain, which stores extra electronic information to distinguish their uniqueness. Other blockchains now also facilitate NTFs. Because of the differing blockchain technology behind particular NFTs, not all NFT marketplaces buy and sell all types of NFT. Creators will often select an NFT marketplace based on whether that marketplace supports a specific NFC token standard. Ethereum has released two standards now: ERC-721 and ERC-1155. Competitor, Binance, has since released standards BEP-721 and BEP-1155. The two “1155” standards differ from the original “721” standards because they allow multiple NFTs to be bunched and transacted together.

  1. OpenSea
Top 5 NFT

OpenSea boldly describes itself as being the largest NFT marketplace. It offers a wide range of non-fungible tokens, including art, censorship-resistant domain names, virtual worlds, trading cards, sports, and collectibles. It includes ERC721 and ERC1155 assets. You can buy, sell, and discover exclusive digital assets like Axies, ENS names, CryptoKitties, Decentraland, and more. They feature over 700 different projects, including trading card games, collectible games to digital art projects, and name systems like ENS (Ethereum Name Service).

  • Rarible

Rarible is a community-owned NFT marketplace, with its “owners” holding the ERC-20 RARI token. Rarible awards the RARI token to active users on the platform, who buy or sell on the NFT marketplace.  It distributes 75,000 RARI every week.

The platform places a particular focus on art assets. Creators can use Rarible to “mint” new NFTs to sell their creations, whether they be books, music albums, digital art, or movies. The creator can even show a sneak peek of their creation to everybody who comes to Rarible but limit the full project to the purchaser.

  • SuperRare

SuperRare has a strong focus on being a marketplace for people to buy and sell unique, single-edition digital artworks. Each artwork is authentically created by an artist in the network and tokenized as a crypto-collectible digital item that you can own and trade. They describe themselves as being like Instagram meets Christie’s, offering a new way to interact with art, culture, and collecting on the internet.

Each artwork on SuperRare is a digital collectible– a digital object secured by cryptography and tracked on the blockchain. SuperRare has built a social network on top of the marketplace. As digital collectibles have a transparent record of ownership, they’re perfect for a social environment.

All transactions are made using ether, the native cryptocurrency to the Ethereum network.

  • Foundation
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Foundation is a specialist platform designed to bring digital creators, crypto natives, and collectors together to move culture forward. It calls itself the new creative economy. Its primary focus is on digital art.

In the first blog post on their website in August 2020, they announced an open call for creators to experiment with crypto and play with the concept of value. They invited creators to “hack, subvert, and manipulate the value of creative work.”

Whenever an NFT trades on Foundation, the artist makes 10% on that secondary transaction, i.e., an artist receives 10% of the sales value any time a collector re-sells their work to someone else for a higher price.

5. AtomicMarket

AtomicMarket is a shared liquidity NFT market smart contract that is used by multiple websites. Shared liquidity means that everything listed on one market also shows on all other markets.

It is a marketplace for Atomic Assets, a standard for non-fungible tokens on the eosio blockchain technology. Anyone can utilize the Atomic Asset standard to tokenize and create digital assets and buy, sell and auction assets using the Atomic Assets marketplace.

You can list your own NFTs for sale on the AtomicMarket, and you can browse existing listings. NFTs of well-known collections get a verification checkmark, which makes it easier to spot the real NFTs. Malicious collections are blacklisted.

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Tether Fails to Calm Jittery Nerves as Short Sellers Circle

Repeated assurances by the backers of Tether, the biggest stablecoin, that the token is backed by ample reserves and working smoothly haven’t been enough to reassure markets. 

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A so-called liquidity pool that allows traders to swap between the three biggest stablecoins still shows an elevated supply of Tether, with the token accounting for 65% of the total as of Friday. That’s an indication that investors remain cautious about holding Tether, said Edul Patel, chief executive of crypto investment platform Mudrex. 

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“USDT is the most widely held and most accessible stablecoin in the world, so it isn’t a surprise that more people hold USDT and have it available to swap for other assets that they want to use for other purposes,” a Tetherspokesperson said in an emailed response to questions from Bloomberg. USDT is the ticker for Tether’s main dollar-based stablecoin. 

On Curve’s 3pool, where traders can swap between Tether, USDC and DAI, Tether’s share of supply stood at 29.9% on May 6, just before TerraUSD started deviating from its peg. That portion jumped as high as 82% on May 12 as the TerraUSD crisis worsened, briefly knocking Tetherfrom its own peg.

While Tether’s share of supply has since declined, it remains far above pre-TerraUSD crisis levels. And it has reversed some of the decrease after the Journal report. The 3pool platform handled about $117 million in trading volume.

Tether has hewed close to its dollar peg since that brief May decoupling and continues to be widely used despite all the questions swirling around it. Over the weekend, for instance, the cost of buying the token with Argentine pesos surged after the nation’s Economy Minister Martin Guzman resigned.Tetherrelies on a reserve of dollars and dollar-equivalent assets to maintain its one-to-one peg with the currency, though the quality of this stockpile has repeatedly been called into question.

Tether files quarterly attestations from a Cayman Islands accounting firm on its holdings, which show that it’s been steadily decreasing its exposure to assets like commercial paper in favor of more liquid instruments like Treasury bills.Bloomberg reported in February that Fir Tree Capital Management was making a substantial short wager on Tether, predicting it could pay off within a year.

Paolo Ardoino

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Tether Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoino has repeatedly taken to Twitter to reassure markets since TerraUSD cratered. In a 12-part tweet this week, just after the Journal story was published, he said Tetherhas “never failed a redemption” and has cut its commercial paper holdings by roughly $45 billion, adding: “Tetherportfolio is stronger than ever.” 

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Sports Betting：Understanding Sports Betting

Understand moneylines

The moneyline is a plus or minus number associated with each team involved in a particular match, and it refers to either how much you have to bet to win $100 or how much you’ll win if you bet $100.

Sports Betting：Example

For instance, if a moneyline is Toronto Maple Leafs -200 and Vancouver Canucks +155, it means you have to bet $200 on the Leafs in order to win $100, or you have to bet $100 on the Canucks to win $155.

Sports Betting：Leafs

The team associated with the minus number (the Leafs) is the favored team, while the team associated with the plus number (the Canucks) is the underdog.

Sports Betting

You can bet on the moneyline for almost every sport

Many gamblers bet on the moneyline in hockey and baseball, because the scores are lower and point spread betting doesn’t make as much sense in these games. However, you can bet on the moneyline for almost every sport.

Learn about point spreads

Point spread betting is more popular in games where there’s a larger gap between the final scores. In a point spread bet, you don’t just bet on whether a team will win, but also whether that team will win by a specific amount.

Example

For instance, if a point spread is Detroit Lions +4, New England Patriots -4, you would bet on whether you thought the Lions would win and if they’d win by more than four points. Again, the team associated with the minus is the favorite and the team associated with the plus is the underdog.

Sports Betting

Understand parlays

Parlay betting involves making multiple types of bets on the same game. For example, if you combined a moneyline bet and a point spread bet on the same game, this would be a parlay bet.These bets often offer large payouts, but they require a great deal of accuracy.

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Coinbase lays off 18% of executives as they prepare for crypto winter

Coinbase

Coinbase is laying off

Coinbase has roughly 5,000 full-time workers, translating to a head count reduction of around 1,100 people.Shares of Coinbase closed down .83%.

CEO Brian Armstrong pointed to

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a possible recession, and a need to manage Coinbase’s burn rate and increase efficiency. He also said the company grew “too quickly” during a bull market.“We appear to be entering a recession after a 10+ year economic boom. A recession could lead to another crypto winter, and could last for an extended period,” Armstrong said in the email, adding that past crypto winters have resulted in a significant decline in trading activity. “While it’s hard to predict the economy or the markets, we always plan for the worst so we can operate the business through any environment.”

Coinbase had initially said it was pausing hiring

Two weeks later, the crypto giant announced that it was extending the freeze for the “foreseeable future.” Earlier this year, Coinbase said it planned to add 2,000 jobs across product, engineering and design.“Our employee costs are too high to effectively manage this uncertain market,” Armstrong said. “While we tried our best to get this just right, in this case it is now clear to me that we over-hired.”

The news comes during a deep rout for Coinbase shares

 The stock went public via a direct listing last April during a boom in crypto markets and investors clamoring for high-growth tech stocks. Coinbase’s shares are down 79% this year and 85% from the all-time high. Meanwhile, bitcoin has dropped to near $22,000 and has lost 53% of its value this year.

San Francisco-based Coinbase reported

a slump in users in its last quarter and a 27% decline in revenue from a year ago. The company gets the majority of its top line from transaction fees, which are closely tied to trading activity.President and Chief Operating Officer Emilie Choi called it a “very difficult decision for Coinbase” but given the economic backdrop, she said it “felt like the most prudent thing to do right now.”Affected employees received a notification from human resources. If so, the memo was sent to a personal email as Coinbase cut off access to the company systems. Armstrong called it the “only practical choice” given the number of employees with access to customer information, and a way to “ensure not even a single person made a rash decision that harmed the business or themselves.”

Coinbase employees will have access to a talent hub to find new jobs in the industry

including Coinbase Ventures’ portfolio companies. Choi said Coinbase would still be “doubling down” on areas like security and compliance and may be “reorienting” employees to near-term revenue drivers.“If there are any cuts to new product areas, it’s going to be more around experimental venture areas that we’re still very bullish on, but that we don’t want to invest in in this part of the cycle,” Choi told CNBC in an interview at the company’s headquarters.“We will continue to invest in incredible innovative areas of crypto that we think are emerging over the longer term, but we’re probably going to do those in a more measured way in this type of an environment.”

and we have a number of mechanisms in place for them to do so

“We will always encourage our employees to share feedback internally on how we operate as a company. It’s very much unclear if this document came from within the company,” Choi said. “However, if it did, we’re disappointed that those behind it felt the need to breach the trust of the company and their co-workes by sharing this information in a way clearly designed to drive controversy rather than a meaningful dialogue.” Coinbase has no plans to offer additional company equity grants, or cash compensation amid the price drop, Choi said. The company offers annual grants, partially so employees could “mitigate the swings” and volatility in crypto. For employees and investors, the COO likened it to Amazon or Tesla: a long-term investment with volatility in the meantime.

“We think that anyone who makes an investment

whether they’re an employee or investor, will have a handsome return over the longer term,” Choi said. “Coinbase is a long-term play  — we have very deep conviction in the long-term value of the stock.

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Bitcoin bottom speculation continues

Bears, bulls and non-anthropomorphised crypto-market participants continue to speculate on the Bitcoin bottom. Metrics say yes… macro says nah, while technical analysis probably has a bet each way.One thing that is certainly consistent in crypto right now, though, is the market-sentiment reading – the Fear & Greed Index, which seems permanently switched to a forehead-dabbing “extreme fear” setting.

In search of a Bitcoin bottom

But as for that bottom talk, the excellent US on-chain analytics firm Glassnode is back at it with more searing insights. While caveating: “within the current macroeconomic framework, all models and historical precedents are likely to be put to the test”, its analyst “Checkmate” noted:

• Those who bought BTC in 2020 and 2021 have been largely responsible for all the recent selling (suggesting longer-term hodlers are still doing their thing – hodling).

• “Almost all macro indicators for Bitcoin, ranging from technical to on-chain, are at all-time lows, coincident with bear-market floor formation in previous cycles.”

• “Based on the current positioning of Bitcoin prices relative to historical floor models, the market is already at an extremely improbable level, with only 0.2% of trading days being in similar circumstances.”

And as you can see from the Glassnode chart below

it certainly looks very close to being a Bitcoin bottom when compared with previous bear-market cycles.In fact, with BTC currently closing and trading under the 200-week moving average for the first time, it would appear to be oversold compared with the previous lows.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin believers may well be happy to keep dollar-cost averaging at these levels

The extra cautious, or maximum-opportunity hunters, however, might be waiting for something lower.IF, for example, Bitcoin were to come down around 80% to 85% (which has some precedent based on past bear markets) from its November 2021 US$69k all-time high, then, strap in, because, we could well be looking at BTC down at US$10k-US$14k levels.

Another, closer bottoming-out metric to consider, though, belongs to US financial technical analyst guru John Bollinger,

Bitcoin

At these levels, maybe just a fraction south of US$20k, Bitcoin is “tagging” the bottom of his monthly timeframe BTC Bollinger Bands volatility indicator after posting a “picture perfect” double-top pattern in 2021. “This would be a logical place to put in a bottom,” he suggested.

As for the macroeconomic factors

shall we nutshell those again, too? May as well while we’re here…  Crazy global inflation, 75bp Fed interest-rate hikes, Eastern European war, rising commodities, recession fears… not to mention the fact crypto is doing its best effort to implode from within.The full crypto-contagion narrative in the wake of Terra LUNA’s collapse is still being weaved, with the likes of Celsius, BlockFi, Voyager, Babel Finance, Coinflex, Three Arrows Capital and others all reportedly having a pretty rough time of things – some more than others. Although certain bailout vultures have reportedly sharpened their beaks and are circling for some.

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