Are You Ready For Web3?
51.0 | Metaverse Headlines, A Look Back at El Salvador, Chainlink, Amazon & A Conversation With Bryan Brinkman + more.
Web3 - Are You Ready?
Investing Headlines + Key Takeaways
Our Reflections: A Look Back (Part II)
A Conversation With 🎙 Bryan Brinkman
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As we near the end of 2021, we look back at highlights of the year and begin to think about 2022. Today it is our future and soon it will be our present. Which brings us to Web3, a future concept being built in our present that is not going away. It is evolving. It is coming. We think it’s important to start focusing and sharing it in greater detail.
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🟣 Coinbase Plans 'Identity Tools' to Access the Metaverse, Store Your NFTs
Key Takeaway: "At Coinbase, we want to help pull all the pieces of identity together—essentially creating an identity on-ramp into the Metaverse."
🟣 Polygon and Reddit co-founder launch $200 million Web3 initiative
Key Takeaway: Polygon and Seven Seven Six look to "contribute to a fair internet where users control their data and privacy".
🟣 Goldman Sachs: Metaverse must run on blockchain and heralds crypto tech as a huge disruptor
Key Takeaway: “Crypto technology will be at the heart of the metaverse, as it will allow people to securely own digital items across different virtual worlds.”
A Year in Review (Part ll)
Last week, we highlighted some of our fondest memories from the first several months of 2021. Today, we look back at our best Summer moments.
In May, our #1 cryptocurrency investment, Chainlink, unveiled the Chainlink 2.0 Whitepaper. Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network connecting real world data to blockchains and on-chain data. In Volume 20.0, we provided some of the details of the 2.0 Whitepaper and the excitement around the future roadmap of Chainlink’s capabilities and products:
In June, the world witnessed a monumental event: El Salvador legally made Bitcoin legal tender. In Volume 24.0, we provided the highlights of this historic moment:
On July 5th, one of the most iconic CEOs ever, Jeff Bezos, stepped down as Andy Jassy took over the reigns of Amazon. Bezos said “we chose that date because it’s sentimental for me, the day Amazon was incorporated in 1994, exactly 27 years ago.”
We highlighted Bezos as our first leader-driven investrly Spotlight in Volume 28.0. Amazon has changed business and consumer behavior as we know it, so it was our honor to write about a few of his accomplishments:
We understand investing is difficult, and one of our ambitions is to bridge the gap between retail and professional. In A Guide to Wall Street Lingo from August, we broke down the common terms and phrases used on CNBC and Fox Business to help you be a more informed investor:
Also in August, we launched “A Conversation With,” our podcast series! We’d like to thank all of our amazing guests and thousands of listeners for participating during our AMA sessions!
investrly is and always will be a community-driven publication. As we look to 2022, our goal will be to continue educating investors in our newsletters and podcasts, as well as many other platforms currently in the works. We sincerely thank you for your dedication as a subscriber!
The Audio Series 🎙 now on iTunes & Spotify!
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In Episode 10 of our “A Conversation With” podcast, we welcome Max Scruffur, a cryptocurrency investor and consultant. He explains his beginnings as a crypto investor, his macro and long-term perspective on the crypto industry, what he looks at when researching a crypto project as an investment and his take on NFTs. Click here to listen and learn from this enlightening conversation.
📆 Wednesday, 12/22 @ 7PM ET: Bryan Brinkman
This Wednesday, we welcome Bryan Brinkman, an NFT artist and advisor. Join us live on Twitter Spaces to learn more about Bryan and his projects.
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