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What are Ordinals aka Bitcoin NFTs? Should you get one? Chances are, you’ve heard about them. Let’s break them down.

Blur surpassed Opensea to become the largest NFT marketplace. Is Blur going to kill Opensea?

Build products that solve problems. Look at these biggest problems in 2022. And find the next unicorn solutions:

In 2022, Crypto market lost over $2 trillion in the bear market. We got fucked by Terra, 3AC, FTX. We’re now entering stage 3 of the bear market. “Bottomless Exhaustion”:

@opensea went from a seed-stage startup to a $13 billion business in under 4 years. How did they do it? The little known secret about Opensea’s history:

37% of crypto owners globally are women. You could not imagine what it’s like without women in web3. More women in web3 mean more players, various products, and a complete ecosystem.

Reading web3 newsletter gives you an edge in crypto. Top 21 newsletter recommendations in 2023.

Are you ready for the wild ride of crypto predictions in 2023? Buckle up👇🏻 Top 10 trends in the cryptocurrency market:

“Not your keys, not your crypto.” A quick guide on keeping your crypto safe with a “self-custody” wallet:

Top 22 products from 2022 that people loved on Smoothie: (NFTs fractionalization, web3 CRM, DeFi yield platform, Metaverse builders, cross-chain bridges, and more…) Keep reading 👇

In 2022, our team wrote 45 articles, with visuals. We covered web3 growth, crypto learnings, and analysis. Here are the top 12 smoothie articles of the year:

Web3 organizations operate differently. Service DAOs have emerged to support the changing landscape. Here are 21 service DAOs to know:

$23B+ was invested into web3 in 2022. Who are top VCs in the space? Here are 26 to know:

Tokenomics changes how web3 startups scale. But how does it work? Here are the 20 tokenomics learning resources you need to know 🧵

FTX, once valued at $32B, announced bankruptcy on Nov 11th. What happened? Here’s the whole story:

Reddit has 3M+ wallets, 99% unique, and $100m market cap. Their web3 strategy is working. Here is what you need to know 🧵

The market for web3 growth tools are changing 🚀 Here are 26 web3 growth startups you need to know:

DAOs are the future of companies. @deworkxyz talked to 100+ DAO operators. And here’s what they found:

Smoothie just raised $1.2M! Our cofounder @withmattkim shares his 19 lessons for crypto fundraising: There are many ways to raise venture capital.Use this as a reference to find your own style.

What are the next big NFTs? Dune Analytics has 30K+ free dashboards to analyze trends. Here are 5 dashboards you have to know:

The Ethereum merge happened 3 weeks ago！ (**Sept. 15, change it before posting)** But what’s next? Here’s how the merge will change crypto:

for future’s deep dive what is tether ?—stable coin 2014 pegged to USD why do you care?

Utility tokens will be the next big thing for real-world companies. To adopt them, you need to know about tokenization. And how to boost growth via the concept:

There are 3 stages of a crypto bear market. Read on to see where we are at now. This thread is inspired by @JasonYanowitz, founder of @blockworks_. Follow Yano to learn more about crypto trends.

Making too many decisions in Crypto is exhausting. Systems Thinking can help you with that! Here's your playbook for creating Systems in Crypto:

Metamask is not enough. You need a cold wallet to keep your money safe. Here is everything you should know about cold wallets.

I made (and lost) a lot of money in NFTs. I wish I knew these lessons earlier. 19 NFT investing tips you need to know:

Among 600+ crypto exchanges, which one should you pick? Crypto exchanges vary with transaction fees, coin availability, and level of safety. Here are our Top 16 exchange recommendations for you:

Crypto Scammers stole $14 billion from people last year. Proper management of your crypto funds can stop that. 24 tips to protect you and your funds:

Web3 marketing is different. It’s enabled by crypto and true ownership for users. Here are 9 strategies for web3 marketing

How to design smart contracts. The article is inspired by @kazsatamai. Follow him for more web3 design insights.

If you want to be a better crypto investor, you need to master cognitive biases. They are subconscious errors in thinking that cost you money. Here are 14 cognitive biases that a better crypto investor would avoid: This was inspired by @thedefiedge. Check out his tweets to learn more about DeFi.

Ethereum co-founder @VitalikButerin believes that soulbound tokens (SBTs) will be “very important” in web3.

Here are 3 strategies to earn crypto passive income. A step-by-step guide 💰

Shaan Puri is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the podcast host of @myfirstmilpod. He even sold his company Bebo to Twitch for $25M dollars!

Prices are plunging. And the Crypto Fear and Greed Index (FGI) has dropped to 8/100. What does that even mean though?

Are we entering a crypto bear market? Here are 6 charts you need to know:

“Web 3.0, the future of the internet.” But what does it even mean for us? Chris Dixon (general partner of a16z) explains why web3 matters.

Transactions with Bitcoin burn up A LOT OF energy. Each transaction consumes almost twice the monthly amount used by the average U.S. home. Here’s what you need to know.

The most valuable NFT is worth up to $91.8M. As of 2021, there are around 360,000 NFT owners. However, only 9% is contributing to ~80% of the market value (Financial Times and Chainalysis). Interested in creating your own NFT? Read this.👇

15 steps to crypto investing 🧵 The Crypto Investing Playbook was written by Karthik Senthil Use these opinions as lamp posts to help inform your thinking and portfolio strategy, not rules that must be followed.

There is 100+ crypto content out there. But most of the learning happens on just a few of them. Here are 24 of the best crypto learning resources you should know.

$LUNA grew like crazy. Creating a $37B market capitalization. But why is everyone so bullish on it?

As you may find, the crypto world is so confusing! Well, Twitter is a good place to learn! You can find a lot of know-how about crypto. Here are 13 tweets about crypto that Smoothie picks for you!

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) just raised $450M on a $4B valuation.

POAP just raised $10M. The company has now worked with over 100 events, sending out 7,000 badges as of March 2020.

If you are looking for thought leaders in Web3, Chris Cantino is the person you should know! Chris Cantino is the co-owner of Color Capital, investing across consumer, commerce, media, and marketplaces. Remarkably, his insights draw 100K followers’ attention on Twitter, that’s something.

The world of crypto is fast paced. It can be difficult to find your place to start. To simplify your journey in the space, here are 40 communities that you should join!

In 2021, Venture Capitals poured $30B into crypto startups. That’s a 400% increase compared to 2020! To get more “fuel” on the way, crypto startups have 7 ways to raise funds.

$14 billion in cryptocurrency was scammed in 2021. That’s an increase of 80% than last year. Web3 created bountiful opportunities for entrepreneurs and cryptocurrency users. But it also left ajar crypto’s pandora box. Here are 6 *interesting* scams to date.

Did you buy an NFT in the last year? Then you might get a piece of a $400 million “airdrop.” Here’s everything you need to know about how token airdrops work. This article was inspired by Coinvise.

Only 6% of women in the U.S. have purchased crypto. But female user growth had an increase of 43%, according to CoinMarketCap. Crypto is not a boy’s club anymore. Women are making impacts in web3.

You want to launch your own NFT. And you want to sell 10,000 of them. But how do you do it? Here are 6 strategies that you need to know.

The NFT market surpassed $40B 😮 More people are buying NFTs than ever before. But how do you decide which NFT to buy? Here are the 5 things to look for when buying an NFT.

Startups are building for web3. But Ethereum is really slow and expensive. Gas fees can be $500+ at times! Here is how “Layer 2” might be able to solve this.

Solana (SOL) has been called the Ethereum (ETH) killer. Solana is another layer 1 blockchain that is known to be faster and cheaper than Ethereum. In the last year, Solana’s market cap has grown by ~62,000% to $53B.

DAOs are the future of companies. DAO = Decentralized Autonomous Organization. They are organizations run by code and a community of users.

Your 12-year-old cousin is playing games. You suddenly realized he made $18k last month. What just happened?

WTF is DeFi? And why are people making so much money from it? Here is how Decentralized Finance works in the crypto world. This article was inspired by our friends at Whiteboard Crypto. Click here to check out their videos!

NFTs used to be just art. Now it's becoming more than that. Here's the new web3 trend. NFT "utility".

Your favorite sports team releases a “token”. With this token, you can vote on team decisions - like jersey designs! As a fan, you will get to be more involved and maybe even make money on the tokens.

"Build it and they will come." That was the old method. Now, it is 👇 "Start audience first, then build with them."

At any moment, Twitter can remove your post. Maybe even ban your account. Why are they allowed to do that? Social media is currently “centralized”. But that may change soon.

You're building a cool AI (Artificial Intelligence) startup. Suddenly, your AI system fails. Or worse, it gets hacked in to. What went wrong?

Facebook changed its name to Meta. “A magical Zoom meeting that has all the playful release of Animal Crossing.” - Janet Murra This is one explanation of what the metaverse is. And this may be our future.

The music industry is broken. The industry makes $43 billion in revenue. And only 12% goes to the artists. Artists work tireless to create songs. And they don't see much of the profits. Blockchain can change that.

Uber is a car company that owns no cars. Facebook is a content company that creates no content. Airbnb is a real estate company that owns no real estate. We've all seen successful marketplaces. But how do you start a marketplace when you don't own or create anything?

You see an incredible startup. You want to invest. But they say you need to buy their "coin". What does that even mean? 🤔

"I want to build the next Amazon...but I don't know how to code." For all the non-technical people. And even technical people. Let me introduce you to No-Code

A Tesla without Elon Musk. A Facebook without Mark Zuckerberg. An Amazon without Jeff Bezos. Can you imagine these companies without their iconic leaders? I DAO(t) it 😂

Web 3.0 is decentralized, more private, and uses AI. Instead of having single centralized entities, there will be many decentralized organizations with decisions being made by the community.

"I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet. My brain is boiling with ideas!"

API changed how we build

The next level of NFTs are dynamic!