President/Chairman of the Cryptocurrency Club (CC) in Ateneo de Manila University | Cooperator of the PaLiga DAO Marketing Sport Cooperative | @SteezyApeGang
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
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#OKINA IS 🔑
EVERYONE ❤️👇🏼
This is not an NFT bear market.
We are not “building in the bear”…
We are in the infancy/developmental phases, trying to understand what works and what doesn’t.
THIS ISN’T CYCLICAL. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we can get back to “offensive strategies".
We’re too early to be able to identify what this space in time is…other than understanding that this is “formation “.
Metrics, analysis and charts cannot live here…yet.
THIS IS A FORMATIVE PERIOD.
THIS IS A TIME FOR EXCITEMENT, NOT HESITATION.
Let’s build.
@okinalabs
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Amazon: Cadabra
Best Buy: Sound of Music
eBay: Auction Web
Facebook: Meta
Google: BackRub
Instagram: Burbn
Netflix: Kibble
Nike: Blue Ribbon Sports
Pepsi: Brad’s Drink
Playboy: Stag Party
7-Eleven: Tote’m Stores
Snapchat: Picaboo
Starbucks: Cargo House
Target: Goodfellow
Tinder: Matchbox
X: Twitter