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GBV 2023 展望
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GBV 2023 展望

生存是成功的前提。儘管 2022 年發生了的所有事情,儘管 DCG 的達摩克林之劍仍高懸在加密貨幣市場之上,我等仍在遊戲中。

我們在此闡述一下我們對 2023 年加密貨幣市場的展望。

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GBV 2023 Outlook
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GBV 2023 Outlook

Surviving is the prerequisite to making it. We are still here in the game, despite all that has happened in 2022, and notwithstanding the damoclean sword of DCG that hangs above the crypto market.

Here, we offer our outlook of the 2023 crypto market.

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The NFTFi Ecosystem
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The NFTFi Ecosystem

Loading NFTFi Summer, Soon^TM. Based on @alexgedevani honest work. I've created a map for the NFTFi ecosystem. With 300+ projects on the list across different L1s/L2s and NFT verticals. I'm boooolish the future NFTFi sector. There are a LOT more projects that I haven't covered

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The Playbook of Blue-chip NFTs
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The Playbook of Blue-chip NFTs

A playbook for blue-chip NFTs has emerged. By that playbook, blue-chip NFTs should eventually emerge as luxury brand objects. Given the size of the luxury brand market, we can expect many more blue-chips to emerge in the future. Mane tamen.

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The Half-life of a Game
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The Half-life of a Game

If DeFi protocols need to be sustainable, they, as games, must become unresolvable. Once people figured out how to play Olympus, the game was resolved, it forks see shorter and shorter time periods to peak market cap, and eventually the winners and losers are determined, and people leave.

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The Case for Music NFTs
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The Case for Music NFTs

NFTs make things into objects on the blockchain. With gatedness, music is poised to be tokenised and made into tradeable, securitizable financial assets.

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TraderJoe’s Modular Staking is a new Model in the Curve Wars
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TraderJoe’s Modular Staking is a new Model in the Curve Wars

Why are DEX tokens valuable? They are valuable because they have utility, and their utility is of course tied to the activity and functions on the DEX. Utility is best accrued to a token by stuffing as much use-cases as you can into the token, but the Curve Wars have taught us that people want modularity in DEX token for their peace of mind and yield calculation. Failure to modularise means parasites will accrue that value that should have been yours. TraderJoe has rejected to be the rock where barnacles grow - well, not a lot of barnacles.

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An Interview with Imperium Empires: What Makes a Good Blockchain Game?
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An Interview with Imperium Empires: What Makes a Good Blockchain Game?

Imperium Empires is an up-and-coming AAA blockchain game on the Avalanche blockchain, equipped with cinema-grade graphics and robust tokenomics to generate a hardcore galactic empire-building experience. In this in-depth interview, GBV discusses the philosophy and the intricacies of how to build a good in-game economy with crypto that maximises the gaming experience.

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A Prolegomenon on Olympus 
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A Prolegomenon on Olympus 

Olympus is an innovative solution to the problem of Mercenary Liquidity, though it was arguably known to be the first “ponzi”. In this article, we will explore in-depth its architectural design logic, how it solves the problem of mercenary liquidity, its goal to become the reserve currency of crypto, and its famous (3,3) game theoretic structure.

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TraderJoe: a Snapshot
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TraderJoe: a Snapshot

TraderJoe is a DeFi protocol and a DEX on the Avalanche blockchain, major competitor to Pangolin – “We combine DEX services with DeFi lending to offer leveraged trading. Our products are community driven which allows us to give fees collected from liquidation and swaps back to the users via our JOE/xJOE staking mechanism.

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Only1 Overview — Patreon on Solana
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Only1 Overview — Patreon on Solana

Only1 positions itself as "The first social NFT platform ", and will be launching on the 30th September, 2021. Only1, which could be described as "Patreon on Solana", offers some very exciting functionalities for creators, bringing the promise of web 3.0 and a crypto-powered creator economy closer to reality.

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The AMM universe in the on-chain world
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The AMM universe in the on-chain world

The AMM Universe in the On-Chain World is a completely different world compared to off-chain due to its limited size and transaction speed naturally presented in the decentralized blockchain world.

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Crypto Terminology
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Crypto Terminology

What does “Rekt” mean in Crypto? What are “sats”? What is “moon”? In this short piece we go through some of the most important terms in the Crypto community.

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