👋 Bonjour from NFT PARIS

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Here’s your reason to believe for today:

• 🇫🇷 From Paris with LOVE

• 😬 Is Solana NGMI?

• 📈 Uniswap ❤️ L2s

• 🙏 Please open an FD

• 🤣 Milky Meme Of The Day

LFG! 🔥

❤️ From Paris with LOVE

Bonjour c'est le laitier.

On vient vers vous en direct de la ville de l'amour - Paris.

Oh wait, we don’t have to speak retreat French anymore. 😯

My bad. I thought the doodhwala was still at NFT Paris talking to some cool (and very weird) degens about:

• NFTs

• The metaverse

• Putting 🥛 on the blockchain

That’s right! Your boy the doodhwala was TOTALLY at Paris this weekend. 👇

So, what did we do when we were at the (totally real) Paris for NFT Paris?

❌ Eat some baguettes❌ Participate in some protests❌ Become a demented philosopher

✅ Get you a lowdown on the top NFT things that happened at NFT 🇫🇷 Paris.

Let’s hit it 👇

⎸⎸⎸ Adidas sneakers NFTs soon

Adidas.

That sports giant that spells out as:

ADIDAS = All Day I Dream About Sipping Doodh.

The global VP of Adidas Studio Erika Wykes-Sneyd said the sportswear company wants to enter web3 by dropping digital versions of their sneakers. 👟

This is how it'll work:

• Adidas creates digital sneakers for NFT collections

• Drops these digital creators for the NFT communities

• Community members can buy it only if they hold the NFT or specific cryptos

Rather than build out its own metaverse, Adidas will likely style other communities’ NFT.

And Adidas has got solid WEB3 credentials:

🐵 Proud owners of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT #8774.🧥 Launched virtual wear for BAYC, MAYC, and a few other NFT collections.

Weird virtual wear like this 👇

💳 Salesforce connecting Wallets and brands

Salesforce.

Isn’t that the most boring name for a company?

TF is Sales force?!? Issac Newton’s sales team?!? 🤜

Salesforce makes customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies.

OMG it’s worse! 😂

But seriously, Salesforce wants to make technology for brands entering web3, according to their web3 lead Marc Mathieu.

And they wanna start with → Wallets 👝

Why wallets?

When a web2 brand comes into web3, they wanna do cool things like:

• launch a token

• do an NFT drop

• build a metaverse

• partner with the doodhwala

But there’s one problem 🙋‍♂️

Web2 customers don’t have wallets 🤝 Web2 brands don’t have a wallet solution.

Enter Salesforce who wanna build wallets, which they call “a new data layer” to connect web customers with web3 brands.

📸 NFT-gating FOR the new age media

Alright, this one is closer to our 🤍

Web2 media is kinda flawed. Most companies rely on programmatic advertisements to make money.

These are ads that are made FOR you 🫵 and only you.

For example, these are the ads I get:

• On Amazon: “How to Make Friends”

• On Coursera: “Courses to no YOLO into crypto”

• On Instagram: “Extra soaking tissue papers to dry all tears”

wait what? 😭

But these kinda ads that sell user data to centralized companies is a problem for media companies.

And the media company → NFT NOW is tryna solve it. b💡

At NFT Paris, NFT NOW launched the NOW PASS, an NFT ticket for the content they produce.

This gives users access to:

• IRL and virtual events

• Engage with the content

• Create content as co-creators

Honestly, as a fellow media company (but smaller and funnier 💁‍♂️) we wanna do the same thing eventually with our content — create a rewards mechanism for the community.

Kudos to the NFT NOW team on launching this. 👏

Other cool 💩 that happened

Mrs. President drops in

Brigitte Macron, the wife of Emmanuel Macron, an important person in 🇫🇷 was at NFT Paris.

Stolen art at NFT Paris

A digital artist — Blake Wood — claims the NFT Paris organisers stole his artwork.

Mosh PIT: NFT style

A bunch of NFT degens got together to show their (honestly) whacky moves.

I haven’t seen these many white dudes dancing and drinking 🍺 since Australia won the Ashes in 2021.

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😅 Is Solana NGMI?

What starts with an S and loves to go down on you? 😏

S-O-L-A-N-A.

Yup. 😎

Solana, the supposed “Ethereum-killer”, is a Layer-1 blockchain created for speed and scalability. ⚡️

But the BIG problem with this blockchain is that it just keeps going down.

Over the weekend, it went down for the 15th time since its launch in 2020. 😬

And the memes were just 🤌🤌🤌

So what caused it this time?

Solana Network was being upgraded from one version to another. (Like Windows 95 to 98)

But there was apparently an issue with the upgrade code in the newer version.

This caused the network to start “forking” by itself. 😅

Ultimately, this caused the network to stop processing user transactions completely for…

…OVER 17 HOURS! 🤯

But why did it take SO LONG to fix it? 🤔

It took so long to get back up because it is “decentralized.” 🤷‍♂️

Wait, Solana is decentralized? 😅

Let me explain.

There were 2️⃣ options for the network devs to fix this:

• Downgrade to the older version

• Restart the whole network

Okay, why didn't they just pick one and fix it?

Cuz they were debatin’ 👇

This argument is stretching it a little too far. 😂

Just because the community was debating and voting doesn't mean that you can overlook the fact that the network is down and can be restarted easily.

That is not decentralization. ⛔️

It’s like saying China is a democracy because they have “debates”. (Yeah, debates on what they want to eat for lunch 😒 Kung Pao Chicken or Chow Mein)

If Ethereum were to ever go down, you can’t call Vitalik bhai and tell him to turn it back on. 🤦‍♂️

But eventually, the devs decided to do what my mom did when her phone crashed and didn’t know what to do….RESTART IT. 👍

This whole incident shows that Solana has still a LONG way to go.

If they want wider adoption then the network can't keep going down like this.

Maybe it’s time they stop “chewing glass” and chew some badam.

It’s good for the brain. 🧠

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📈 Chaach and Charts: Uniswap ❤️ L2s

We gotta admit, we are suckas for great love stories. 🥲

• Jack and Rose from Titanic

• Romeo and Juliet from Shakspeare

• Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline from FTX

It’s a similar love story when it comes to the biggest DEX, Uniswap and Ethereum L2s (Layer 2s). 🤷‍♂️

Uniswap was doing good with 750k weekly transactions with just Ethereum.

Then it met L2s. 🔥

Polygon, Optimism, and Arbitrum took that number to 2 MILLION by end of 2022. 🤯

💔 → 750k

❤️ → 2 MILLION

Never underestimate the power of ❤️.

Text your beloved rn and tell them you love them as much Uniswap loves L2s. 😉

🛠 Resourcewala: Bruh, I got some primo Stake  

Staking in crypto might sound like a fancy way of cooking your steaks, but it’s actually a way of earning rewards while holding your crypto. 🔥

So, what exactly is staking?

This helps to secure the network and keep it running smoothly.

So put on your chef’s hat and get ready to stake those crypto steaks! 🥩 💰

🍼 Crypto Doodhshots: Mera Paas Keanu hai, Tumhare Paas Kya Hai?

• 🔴 Neo takes the RedPill: Keanu Reeves, star of "The Matrix", has praised cryptocurrencies as amazing tools for exchanges and distribution of resources.

• 💊 Coinfluenza: Pharma giant Pfizer partners with VitaDAO to speed up scientific research making it the first major pharmaceutical company to join a DAO.

• 🏦 De-Centralisation: Global organizations like the IMF and the BIS are working on a regulatory framework for cryptos.

• 🥩 FD Karwalo Beta: Lido Finance records largest daily stake inflow of over 150k ETH worth almost $240m.

• 🇺🇦 Raining Donations: Ukraine received almost $70M in crypto donations since Russia's invasion a year ago.

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That’s all for today bhaiyo aur bheno! Naale Sigona! Aakash "Dahi Cheeni" Athawasya & Arvind "Doodh Peda" Krishna

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