1 way many people get dumber over time is actually artery deterioration from food, worse bloodflow to brain = retarded
100 grams of berries before mcdonalds can save your iq in the long run, so can most other vegetables (recommend S tier veg such as cruciferous class)
I think one thing @Azuki could do rn is remove the 5% royalties.
Most of the remaining community members are trading up/down for different traits (or revealing gacha style) and it doesn't make sense to take 5% of each sale after minting for 40 million.
Hurts the last few.
For Azuki. The meta has changed.
OG Azuki becomes more like "a store of value." They will enjoy priority airdrop/mint and probably receive a higher yield when the metaverse token is announced.
Elementals are for PFP. More supply. Lower entry barrier.
It is sad to see many holders leaving, but new people are coming in, grabbing beautiful PFPs from the new collection.
The team made terrible mistakes in the communication part, but other than that, I am optimistic about Azuki.
I don't know how long it will take the market to digest the new meta, but when this (very) painful process completes, you will find Azuki in a much better position to march further.
I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵:
BTC outperformed QQQ (-4.55% vs. -8.6%) in October of 2018 too. Everyone was impressed that BTC held $6k for five months, just as they're impressed it's holding $18k rn.
In November 2018, it came at all once. BTC closed -37% and QQQ closed -0.26%.
Outperformance is overrated.