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This report covers the latest developments in the NFT market in the first half of 2023, including market overview, micro trends, whale analysis, profit methods, and NFTFi.
The NFT market is cooling down, but traditional brands are accelerating their entry into NFT. Since 2022, more and more traditional brands have actively embraced NFT, and existing brands have gained good income from NFT. What are the forms of traditional brand layout NFT? How is it different from NFT projects native to the encrypted market? How is the operation of NFT projects issued by traditional brands? This article will sort out one by one.
This article will introduce ten basic learning paths to help every novice outside the circle or new players quickly enter the circle. I hope that after actually trying these paths, you can have some insights of your own and feel the joy of truly becoming an NFT insider.
When art starts to flatter power, it ceases to be art. From this point of view, although Pepe the Frog is small and the avatars of the Cypherpunks are crude, they observe the era in a distributed manner and try to interact with the era. When they are upset, they will also unscrupulously raise the middle finger to the era-a middle finger that is distributed, untraceable, and protected by technology. Even if people are like ants, everyone has the impulse to respond to the times, which proves that we have lived enthusiastically or decadently. Therefore, with the code, people have separated small universes. In these universes, dreams are priced in the form of NFT, and you can pick them up. At least in our own small universe, you and I have the opportunity to have a heroic dream for 15 minutes.
Leibniz said that no two leaves are exactly alike in the world. This sentence is expressed in today's fashionable technology carrier: each of us is an NFT. Perhaps you find it difficult to understand why these useless or even aesthetically pleasing pictures are so valuable? Under the impact of the recent encryption cold wave, NF, which was once in full swing, suddenly fell to the altar. It would be short-sighted to confuse NFT with the notorious tulip bubble in history. Hegel once said, "To be is to be rational." Discussions and analyzes on the value and prospects of NFT have become commonplace, and the answers are different. Here, we want to go back to the source and connect the development track of NFT with several characters and stories to answer some doubts in your mind.
This article highlights why market inefficiencies exist, why market microstructure matters, and why NFTs are not immune to arbitrage. Inefficient markets are always arbitraged by traders who see a profit opportunity. The inherently digital nature of NFTs, as seen in Bitcoin and later tokens, speeds up this process. Additionally, the paper will share some brief thoughts on the future of culture as capital and cultural arbitrage from a market perspective, and how efficient markets can help eliminate widespread fraud in emerging asset classes.
NFT itself is a token standard on the chain, including several protocols such as ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155, etc., so it is a very direct and robust logical chain transmission to regard it as an investment product and want to further extend and explore its financial attributes and derivatives. Then the question is: (1) Can the financialization of NFT solve the demand? (2) To what extent can NFT financialization open up the NFT demand side? This article believes that the financialization of NFT can help expand and increase demand to a large extent.
This article will start with the discussion of the origin of NFT and the basic knowledge of the track, summarize the historical milestones of the NFT track, introduce the current situation of the NFT market, and describe it in conjunction with recent mergers and acquisitions at the transaction level; it will also summarize the latest policy updates and changes in attitudes towards royalties on various platforms, in-depth analysis of the latest related technology updates in the field, and an overview of the entire track and its future development direction.
The non-homogeneity and difficult-to-pricing characteristics of NFT make NFT have problems such as low liquidity, which further leads to excessively high capital thresholds and insufficient capital utilization. In addition to NFT holders can only sell at a lower price when there is a shortage of funds, or cannot participate in some blue-chip projects due to the small amount of funds, they will also suffer liquidity losses due to difficult valuations. In order to solve these problems of NFT, the market has recently proposed the concept of NFTFi, trying to increase the liquidity, priceability, utilization and compatibility of NFT in a financial way, in order to create a better NFT player experience.
At present, most users are concentrated in the market and aggregator fields with the lowest operating threshold, but these two fields have not fully demonstrated the greatest capital efficiency. From the analysis of the operating threshold, when more users join the NFT field, it can be predicted that the next round of market hotspots will focus on the NFT leasing field. Although lending and liquidity pool projects with high operating thresholds can effectively improve capital efficiency, how to attract users' attention and make users feel the importance of these functions is a direction that projects need to carefully consider.
In the battle between P2P and P2Pool, the improvement of oracle machine and clearing mechanism will make P2Pool stand out. However, whether it is ChainLink or Banksea, which independently builds oracles, due to NFT liquidity problems, it is difficult to ensure that the liquidation is completed at the auction house at an accurate price even if the quotation is accurate. Therefore, Abacus’s peer incentive method can better reflect the market value consensus.
Therefore, although there will be many breakthrough projects in NFTFi in the near future, issues such as how to independently rate different NFTs and establish liquidity will develop in the direction of market consensus and centralized auction venues. At the same time, the biggest tipping point of lending and liquidity usually comes from the high-risk operation of loan items, which leads to a gradual increase in scenarios that require precision and accurate pricing. Therefore, the author also recommends paying attention to risk control when using NFT for derivatives operations. Excessive risk exposure will lead to a large number of liquidations under the premise of limited current infrastructure.
NFTFI is still in a very early stage. Although NFT fragmentation and the like should be able to expand to non-holding users, but like the previous mainstream NFT lending and NFT leasing projects, they are basically vying for the 20,000 "big players". Only by strengthening the connection between NFT and the core assets of the industry, and attracting shallow speculative liquidity through deep and permanent liquidity, can the value flow and value growth of NFT be truly realized.
In recent years, the NFT track has attracted great attention from many investors. Especially in 2022, NFT will further accelerate the speed of ecological aggregation, and the entire track will become mature. From review updates to zero-royalty reforms, brand joint names, and then to mergers and acquisitions, the ecology is making multi-dimensional efforts to expand. Up to now, the NFT ecology has been basically perfected. Under the market background of the bear market in 2022, the relevant data of NFT has fluctuated greatly, and the overall market data has continued to decline, so it has also produced voices that NFT is about to enter a recession. At present, the NFT market has entered a period of stability and transformation, and it still needs time to settle down to continue to take root. What is the current market situation, what is the competitive landscape of market participants including centralized exchanges, and what are their future development bottlenecks and prospects? This article will deeply analyze the NFT market and the NFT business of centralized exchanges.
Royalty is becoming a new dimension of competition in the NFT trading market. Do you want to set a royalty? What percentage of royalties is reasonable? Who should pay the royalties? These issues have become key issues affecting the next development of the NFT trading market. But before discussing these issues, it is necessary to have a general understanding of NFT royalties.
NFT has now become the best bridge connecting traditional brands and the encryption circle. Brands provide new value to NFT, and NFT injects new vitality into brands. So, can these branded NFTs achieve a win-win situation among brands, users, and the encrypted market? How big is the gold-absorbing ability and investment potential of brand NFT?
Royalties provide a decent income for artists and creators, and if you can make money off royalties, that's great, but it's not enforceable, and it's not suitable for a blockchain. This article will explain why relying on royalties is unsustainable, and how artists can think about more reliable monetization mechanisms.
Looking back on the development of NFT, from no one interested in it to chatting and mining day and night in order to get the whitelist of the project, to the healthy competition of the NFT trading platform to continuously reduce the handling fee, to the sudden arrival of Freemint in May, and now to custom royalties and 0 royalties. Over the past year, the platform and users have continued to improve, and the market has continued to expand. However, NFT is still at a very early stage, and the controversy over royalties today will be settled one day because the market has reached a consensus. The needs of practitioners and users will continue to drive the continuous evolution and optimization of the NFT industry.
As an NFT trading market, spot trading is the foundation. How to provide users with a high-quality and comfortable trading experience is the key to market competition. The future NFT trading market will be a multi-functional aggregated one-stop market integrating diversified spot trading (pending order + Pool + rarity trading), leverage (loan + futures), and LaunchPad. In addition, multi-chain will be an important narrative in the context of the NFT bear market. As the functions of a single NFT trading market continue to increase and the multi-chain process accelerates, this is essentially a competition for the right to speak on the track by trading platforms, but there is still a long way to go to truly have continuous track pricing capabilities.
Earlier, Yuga Labs, the creator of the strongest IP in the NFT field, officially announced that it will launch the NFT series "TwelveFold" on the Bitcoin blockchain based on the Ordinal protocol, adding a catalyst to the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem. So has Ethereum fallen out of favor? How to build a strong community ecology? In addition to technology, this article will sort out and analyze how Yuga Labs has become the community hegemon in the fierce battle step by step through the observation and communication of Yuga Labs at the Consensus Consensus Conference in the United States.
In an NFT industry characterized by rapid changes, projects that consistently bring value to the community are good projects that can stand the test of time and withstand market fluctuations. While some NFT projects have given up on development or broken their promises to holders, or have simply not reached the heights expected, Yuga Labs has become a leading project dedicated to providing value and helping its community of NFT holders grow. This report will delve into the Yuga Labs ecosystem and analyze the reasons for its continued success.
OpenSea is a Silicon Valley investment case that can be written into textbooks, and its activities in the capital market almost follow the growth path of YC to its incubated companies. OpenSea has always been small and beautiful. For most of 2020, there were only 7 team members. Even in 2021, the team will only have 37 people.
This article first discusses the current opportunities and challenges of Blur, then discusses what we can learn from Blur from the perspective of Web3.0 entrepreneurship and investment, digs into the details of the project, and finally briefly discusses potential investment opportunities around Blur.
Beating incumbents in the face of intense competition requires more than product and user experience improvements—it requires sophisticated incentives to guide and increase user adoption. Over the past few years, ideas for using tokens to build networks have emerged, including incentivizing growth or loyalty of participants, capturing value, or providing core utility for various types of products. Common token play focuses on one-time retrospective airdrops to incentivize participation and reward early users; to ongoing liquidity mining projects that reward users for performing certain actions. Researching Blur reveals a more complex token distribution design that offers staged rewards to queue the growth of the network.
Many NFT holders and creators are pondering a question: How can digital images be promoted as a form of social media? With this question in mind, let’s take a look at how Doodles gained a firm foothold in the faltering crypto market and developed into the next generation of “entertainment empire”.
NFT lending is an NFT financial product that occurs during the holding phase. Its core mechanism is to allow holders to use idle NFTs as collateral to lend short-term funds without selling NFTs, and obtain liquidity in exchange for encrypted currency or legal currency. While enjoying the benefits of holding NFTs, they can obtain benefits and improve the efficiency of capital utilization. This article will mainly focus on the current focus of the industry in NFT indirect transactions - the direction of NFT lending.
Some people may ask, what is the origin of Larva Labs, why its NFT projects are so looted, and why its NFT projects can kill seven in and seven out in today's huge and chaotic NFT trading market?
CC0 also liberates the restrictions of copying, dissemination, and secondary creation. The self-propagation effect allows the project party to enjoy the traffic dividend without hard promotion, and quickly accumulates a large amount of attention, funds, and talents. The more people join, the more creations will be stimulated, eventually forming a positive flywheel.