🎁 Saturday Special: Shell, Stack, Skills

Namaskara, this is doodhwala. The crypto newsletter that’s feels like an epic Mountain Dew ad.

You know the one where Hrithik Roshan flies his bike from one hill to another.

Yeah, that one. Darr ke aagey DOODH hai. 🥛

Today is Saturday. (thank God!) 😇

That means we need to SWITCH up our DAILY boring routine. 😎

These last couple of weeks were taken over by the FTX drama and then the eventual users’ trauma.

So today we want to talk about the TOP 5 interesting things we read, watched or listened to this week.

(It may or may not be related to the FTX drama 🙃)

• The Web3 Creator Tool Stack

• How to be an NFT degen

• SBF's text messages *revealed*

• Shell makes a move into BITCOIN

• Nike and Adidas battle it out in Web3

1️⃣ The Web3 Creator Tool Stack

The Web3 Developer Tool Stack is pretty clear by now.

There are so many articles highlighting Web 2 alternatives to Web 3 development.

But what about the Web 3 Creator stack?

We creators want a stack too. (not just a fat stack of cash 🥲)

So what are the tools that we creators can use to get the most out of Web 3’s awesome incentive mechanisms?

Our man, Adam Levy, laid it all out in this super awesome blog post! (you also get to mint a free NFT when you read it 😎)

Who tf is Adam Levy tho?

• Creator of Mint, a podcast documenting the web3 creator economy

• Interviewed top minds in Web3 like Anatoly, Coopatroopa, Alex Svanevik, etc

• A SUPER web3 native creator himself using NFTs and blockchains to bring in more audience

In this great post, he shows how he uses on-chain data and analytics to understand his audience preferences and create amazing content catered to that.

He also shows how you can mint “Podcast NFTs”. 🔥

Yup, super fun idea. Go see it for yourself! 🥛

2️⃣ How to be an NFT degen

Look, I know that you want to call yourself an NFT degen.

I understand. We also want to do the same.

But to be a true NFT degen, unfortunately, you need to put in the work.

You can’t just say “oooh Azuki, oooh Moonbirds, oooh Dabangg NFTs” and call yourself an NFT degen, AAKASH! 🤦‍♂️

So how do you even get started on this degenerate journey?

The Bankless team shows you how. 🥛

In their recent newsletter, they talk about something called as an “NFT Skill Tree”.

It’s basically all the skillsets you can acquire “from advancing through all the main categories of NFT right now”.

Categories like:

• Analytics

• Gaming

• Curation

They also give simple actions you can take IMMEDIATELY to get going on this journey.

Like doodhwala, Bankless is ALL ABOUT THE ACTION. 🔥

📢 Huddle up crypto bros, Juan Benet is coming to 🇮🇳

What are your plans for 29th and 30th Nov? 🤔

Wanna hang out with the coolest web3 folks in town? 😎

Then join your friendly neighbourhood doodhwalas🥛for #FILBangalore 🚀

Here’s the super exciting lineup for this event and it’ll surely keep you on your toes:

• Juan Benet - CEO, Protocol Labs and Creator Filecoin & IPFS

• Sarah Thiam - Developer Advocate, Filecoin Virtual Machine

• Fabrizio Guespe - DevRel Engineer, LensProtocol

• Susmit - CTO & Research Lead, Huddle01

• Ayush Ranjan, CEO, Huddle01

• ZX - Lead, CryptoEconLab

And so many more along with some great workshops and tracks for you to take part in and BUIDL ON!

So register here for #FILBangalore and come out to Sheraton Grand in Whitefield, Bangalore on November 29th & 30th! 🥛

Click on the banner to register and LFG 🔥🔥🔥

The event is invite-based only and slots are filling up soon.

3️⃣ SBF's text messages *revealed*

We know we said, we won't talk about the FTX mess, but this is too good!

SBF's text messages to a journalist went public and damn were they 🌶

It's like that time when you were a kid and mom asked you who ate the cake, and you say, "Idk, bhaiya must've eaten it," with frosting around your mouth. 🙈

FTX's "loans" to Alameda started after it got margin called during the LUNA thing (I don't even know what to call it anymore 🥲)

And then "messy accounting" took over. Which is a fancy way of saying, "I YOLOed everyone's money to cover my behind, my bad."

All that "ethical" stuff SBF was all about - helping dolphins, global warming, and preventing pandemics.

Yeah, they were all a sham. In his own words:

4️⃣ Shell makes a move into BITCOIN

Shell. That's the oil company with the waay-too-expensive fuel and the 24-hours deli. 😍

Yeah, they're getting into Bitcoin.

They're not buying Bitcoin, no that's what electric vehicle companies like Tesla do.

But old-school oil company is getting into — mining and conferences.

🛠 Mining: Shell will launch lubricant and cooling solutions for Bitcoin miners.🎤 Conferences: Shell will sponsor the 2023 and 2023 Bitcoin Conferences.

Why is this a big deal? 2 reasons.

1️⃣ Notoriety

Shell is a huge company:

• $200 billion market cap

• 44,000 stations world wide

• present in over 100 countries

Having the backing of a giant like Shell for Bitcoin's proof-of-work consensus is massive.

2️⃣ Accessibility

Now every Joe, Juan, or Jai can walk up to their local Shell Select and go, "Can I get a coffee for the road, a bag of Lays, Magic Masala of course, and a lubricant for my Antminer S19 Pro."

How cool is that?

5️⃣ Nike and Adidas battle it out in Web3

This week, sporting giants Nike and Adidas stepped up to the web3 playing field.

Nike

Nike launched an NFT marketplace called Swoosh. Yeah, their NFT marketplace is the name of their logo. This logo.

Users can buy virtual clothing, oversized hoodies, and even Jordans on the NFT marketplace for their avatars.

Our very own Fipkart is doing the same thing with their metaverse called Flipverse.

Adidas

Adidas, specifically adidas Originals, the casual wear brand is launching a digital wearables collection.

This will have — 16 jackets as NFTs called "Virtual Gear."

Back in May 2022, when LUNA blew up, adidas causally airdropped 30,000 NFTs worth $23 million (Rs 190 crore).

The holders now receive a free random Virtual Gear NFT which can be burned or sold (current floor of 0.3 ETH or $360.)

Nike's NFT marketplace 🤝 Adidas' NFTs.

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That’s all for today bhaiyo aur bheno! Naale Sigona!

Aakash "Dahi Cheeni" Athawasya & Arvind "Doodh Peda" Krishna

Yo! Our legal and financial advisors (aka our good ol’ conscience) have asked us to add this boring disclaimer.

None of what you read here is financial advice. We aren’t here to get you to buy or sell a crypto. We’re only here to tell you what’s up in crypto today and make you laugh. So, if you screwed up on a trade, that’s on you G. Stay safe in the markets.