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The $325M DeFi Heist 💰
GM, This is the Milk Road. We show you 1-2 cool things about crypto, in less than 5 minutes a day.In Today's Email:🧾 A Big Tax Win For Crypto Investors💰 $325m Stolen in a DeFi Hack🎥 NFTs Just Outsold the Entire Movie Industry🎸 Coachella Going Full NFTBig Tax Win for Crypto InvestorsA husband and wife......
ETH Should Be Priced at $5k+
GM, This is the Milk Road. We show you 1-2 cool things about crypto, in less than 5 minutes a day.In Today's Email:📈 Why ETH should be priced at $5k+🤑 Put a portion of your paycheck into crypto🍣 Sushiswap Creator hints at his next thingWhy ETH Should be Priced at $5k+One reason that traditional investors......
Are DAOs gonna eat consulting?
GM, This is the Milk Road. We help you get smart about crypto, in less than 5 minutes a day. In Today's Email:💡 A cool use case for DAOs🎙️ Kanye West Says F**k no to NFTs🤑 Phantom Wallet is now worth $1b+A Cool Use Case For DAOsMost of you have heard of “DAOs”. It’s like a......
Soulbound NFTs are coming
GM, This is the Milk Road. We help you get smart about crypto, in less than 5 minutes a day. In Today's Email:💡 Vitalik's New NFT Idea🔗 On Chain Credentials🐦 What you might've missed on Twitter this weekend👨⚖️ Update on the Wonderland scandalVitalik's New NFT IdeaVitalik posted a blog with an NFT concept called “Soulbound” He got......
Wanna hear about the biggest scandal since OJ?
In Today's Email:📉 The DeFi Scandal💵 Funding FridayDrama in DeFiWanna hear about the scandal?Milk Road is like a True Crime episode. Here’s the setup:A crypto project launches. It has a cute name, mysterious founders, and people jump on board, speculating that this might be the next big thing. But…what happens when the “mysterious founder” turns out to......
Why is everyone talking about The Fed meeting?!
In Today's Email:👨⚖️ Why is everyone talking about the "Fed Meeting"?🧲 The Web3 talent magnetYou walk into a room, and these people are staring at you. Are you scared? Yes. Do you wonder why they are all white? Certainly. Did you break the rules of a nursing home? Perhaps. But don’t worry. You’re not in trouble. You......
Is The Bored Ape Yacht Club Worth $5B?
In Today's Email:🦍 Are Bored Apes worth $5b?🖼️ Memes, Memes, and MemesRumors have it that Bored Ape Yacht Club’s parent co, Yuga Labs, is doing an upcoming token launch with VCs buying in at a $5b valuation. Most people are saying that’s too high. After all, that’s worth more than Applebees, Denny’s, and IHOP combined!......
Special Edition 🎁
Let’s do something special today. Usually, the Milk Road email is a couple quick news nuggets and my reaction to them. Today is different. I sent an email to some of my smartest crypto friends asking them TWO QUESTIONS: We just had a big price pull back. What assets are you Buying? Selling? Holding? What’s......
The 3 Questions I Ask When Price 📉
In Today's Email:🔥 Shaan's take on the market💸 Robinhood launches a wallet📈 Chart of the day I saw a funny commercial this weekend. I was watching football (holy sh*t, amazing games) and a turbotax commercial came on. It’s a dude in a cubicle. He checks his phone and goes “wow. I’m a millionaire”He starts packing up his......
We’re all poor
In Today’s Email: 🐦 Twitter Launches Official NFT profile pics!🏠 Milo Mortgages💵 Funding FridayWho wants to go on a hike today? Maybe someplace with no cell phone signal so I don’t have to see ETH UNDER $3k...NOOOOOO Brb while I go move back into my moms basement. Alright. Sorry about that. I’m back. Let’s jump......
How is this much yield possible?!
In Today’s Email: 🏦 The Digital Vault Business🥊 Coinbase vs. Opensea💵 How is this much Yield possible?!Digital TwinsHolding anything valuable (like my Kobe rookie card) in my house is a huge pain But now, I can go send it to a vault and also sell it digitally and transfer ownership (and sell it fractionally)Two companies......
Crypto Companies Are Buying Banks!
In Today’s Email: 🏦 Crypto companies buying banks!🎮 Microsoft spends $69B on Activision🍁 Nelk Boys NFTBitmex (a crypto exchange) is Acquiring a 270-year old German BankIn crypto, they always said the "flippening" was ethereum surpassing bitcoin in market cap.What if it’s actually crypto exchanges buying banks and other financial institutions?Bitmex just announced that they’re buying a......
Coinbase does $2B per quarter! 🤯
In Today’s Email: Coinbase Makes $2B per quarter!Walmart Enters the Metaverse 🤷Scott Galloway on Web3Coinbase Makes $2B per quarter, with 50% ProfitsWhen companies are public, they have to disclose a bunch of data. That becomes business porn for people like us. We get to peek under the covers and see what’s there. Here’s some juicy......
What do NFTs and Tom Brady have in common? 🏈
What do NFTs and Tom Brady have in common? They're both making a super bowl appearance....(although Tom Brady's might just be in an FTX commercial 🤣) In Today’s Email: FTX raises a $2B Venture FundNouns Super Bowl CommercialGemini goes after the wealth manager marketFTX Raises a $2B FundHere’s 3 reasons I find this interesting: This......
What Joe Rogan Thinks of Axie Infinity
In Today’s Email: Is Defi Kingdoms the future of finance?The Fan Controlled Football League goes full web3Axie Infinity Makes a Guest Appearance on Joe RoganThe Crown $JEWEL of DefiFirst, we had pay-to-play games: we bought NBA 2K every year for $60.Then we had free-to-play games like Fortnite.Then we had play-to-earn games like Axie Infinity.Now we......
The Crypto Billionaire Who Just Passed The Wal-Mart Kids
In Today’s Email: Friends With Benefits launches a music festivalThe crypto dude worth ~$100B ! Friends With Benefits FestivalFor a couple years, I had a membership to The Battery in San Francisco. It was great. It’s a private members club. Like SoHo House in NYC. In one night at the Battery, I saw Dave Chappelle at the bar......
What Citadel’s Paradigm Investment Means
In Today’s Email: Citadel moving into crypto? Argentina inflation hits 52% Coinbase Offers Employees 4 ‘Recharge Weeks’Citadel Raises $1B+ From Paradigm and SequoiaCitadel is a market maker - essentially a used car salesman for the market. They buy an asset and hold it (ideally for as short as possible) until they can find a buyer......
OpenSea Gets Attacked
Shaan still has covid, so I’m flying solo on the email today (Ben)In Today’s Email: A “Vampire Attack” on OpenseaVote On My Deep DiveStartups That Caught My EyeOpenSea Vampire AttackOpenSea is the big dog when it comes to NFT trading (just valued at $13B), and that’s bringing on competition. In Web2.0 - if you launch......
The Case Against Web3
Shaan’s got covid (ouch.) - so I’ll be taking over the email this week (Ben). Reply to let me know what you think!In Today’s Email: The case against Web3What happens to your crypto when you dieThe Australian Open's NFTWhy Web3 Won't Work“Moxie”, the founder of Signal (the privacy focused Whatsapp) published a blog post pointing......
The Road To $10M
In Today’s Email: The Road to $10M Nas’s First NFT LaunchTwitter Gems 💎Turning $1M -> $10MI gave myself a challenge, to turn $1M into $10M this year in crypto. It’s not about the money, it’s about the learning and friends we make along the way. (Ok, it’s about the money)A couple clarifications:I’m not a day......
