#France#Niger | 🇳🇪❌🇫🇷 In Niger, protesters have gathered near a French Military Base.
Locals are threatening to storm the base if the French forces do not leave the territory within a week.
Video: Reuters
“We have decided to invite the
• Argentine Republic 🇦🇷
• Arab Republic of Egypt 🇪🇬
• F Democratic Republic of Ethiopia 🇪🇹
• Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷
• Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
• United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
to become full members of #BRICS from 1 January 2024.”
His Excellency President @CyrilRamaphosa
XV #BRICS Summit
#BRICSSummit2023
BRICS is a diverse group of nations.
It is an equal partnership of countries that have differing views but a shared vision for a better world.
As the five #BRICS members, we have reached agreement on the guiding principles, standards, criteria and procedures of the #BRICS expansion process.
We have consensus on the first phase of this expansion process.
We have decided to invite the Argentine Republic, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to become full members of #BRICS from 1 January 2024.
https://t.co/qblMY0UGDM
BREAKING NEWS
THE DEVELOPMENT BANK SET UP BY THE BRICS NATIONS PLANS TO BEGIN LENDING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND BRAZILIAN CURRENCIES AS PART OF A PLAN TO REDUCE RELIANCE ON THE DOLLAR
Welcome to day one.
Insights on the State of NFTs Today
1) Hype is dead 💀
Azuki + Elementals, Captainz reveal, Ether mint, & DeGods S3 all crumbled after hype
2) Utility is dead 💀
NFTs delivering utility are all down bad. BAYC is approaching 1/2 of a floor punk
3) Liquidity is dead 💀
Not much liquidity going to NFTs outside of Blur farmers. No one wants to buy NFTs rn
4) Royalties are dead 💀
Then there’s Opensea making royalties optional for NFT creators as a response to Blur bringing royalties down to 0.5%
Are NFTs dead? Not really.
Why? What’s alive?
A) Provenance & Art - Punks, Artblocks (Squiggle, Ringer, Fidenza, etc) perform better than PFPs
B) Community - while floor prices are spiraling, strong communities remain.
This is one of the best use cases on why PFPs will remain to be relevant - tribalism
C) Building - this is the perfect time to build for the next wave & beyond. We’re seeing different efforts being exerted by projects towards opening up the floodgates for mainstream adoption. Yuga building games & lore, and Pudgy Penguins building IP & toys are just some of the examples
Situation looks bleak rn for NFTs but it’s not the end of the road. Bullish on what’s to come for NFTs
… But til then, we all need to figure out ways to survive to remain in the game
To put things into perspective:
BAYC's 30d volume = $26.5M
MAYC's 30d volume = $18M
BAKC's 30d volume = $4.07M
Otherdeed for Otherside 30d volume = $1.6M
Meebits = $972K
Otherdeed Expanded 30d volume = $943K
Otherside Koda 30d volume = $765K
Total Volume = $52.85M
OpenSea's 30d volume = $66.7M
If all of the above contracts are migrated, then OpenSea's volume would drop significantly and lose out on there 2.5% fee which based on the number above would have been $1.32M over the last 30 days..
I stand with @yugalabs and they won't be the only collections. OpenSea wants to play games, then lets play games..
Sources: OpenSea Analytics and https://t.co/GWGJRUAH9p
This is the new affordable housing market ...
These are $100,000 tiny homes, with no garages, being built in a new neighbourhood in San Antonio, Texas 🚨🚨🚨
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This is an extraordinary speech from Zambian opposition leader, Fred M'membe, addressing Kamala Harris and the evil US Empire that has assassinated progressive African leaders, plundered resources.