It’s been a week of dynamic duos.
First, there was Coinbase and Circle.
Now, it’s Solana and Shopify.
This is giving bull market vibes already. Are YOU ready?
Let’s go! Welcome to your weekend wonderland of crypto news.
Here’s what’s in today’s issue:
- My portfolio updates.
- Rebecca shares her thoughts on Solana teaming up with Shopify, BRICS gaining 6 new members, Base and Optimism making a decentralization pact, Binance FUD & Robinhood could be stockpiling BTC.
- Altcoin Alpha by David.
- Airdrop of the week by Jesse.
- Jesse has a deep dive on the top 5 Binance Labs’ altcoin gems.
- Sam has a report for you on who Beeple is.
- In case you missed it by Rebecca.
For any crypto related questions please comment on the website.
Lark’s Portfolio
Buys and Sells
I bought more Chainlink at $6.18 and $6.30. I know that markets are shit, but I think LINK will be a big winner this cycle. I don’t know how long this will take, but I have a feeling that these purchases are going to pay off in the future.
I added a little Bitcoin around $26,500.
I sold HIGH from staking rewards accrued. Currently sitting in USDC.
I claimed some of my Polkadot auction rewards on Binance and sold them. Redemption date for my DOT is coming in late October. I may be tempted to sell my DOT when this happens.
Farming
Back to work on the farm this week after taking last week off due to being ill.
Friend Tech
I got on Friend Tech. Not a big fan of their model to be honest. Share prices get way too expensive way too fast.
My shares were sniped by bots and soard to $500 per share within 2 minutes. Doesn’t make a lot of sense and totally prices out regular users.
I don’t plan on using it very much. I just created an account to farm a possible future airdrop.
Chainflip
Is a protocol that I made a venture investment into like 2 years ago. They are getting close to mainnet and will likely do an airdrop. So I went to https://demo.chainflip.io/ and did a testnet transaction.
Shardeum
I connected to the network here https://docs.shardeum.org/network/endpoints#shardeum-sphinx-dapp-1x
I requested SHM for the testnet here https://discord.gg/shardeum
I tried interacting with dApps Swapped Finance https://app.swapped.finance/swap and Ice Cream Swap https://icecreamswap.com/?chainId=8081 and Chainhash https://alpha.chainhash.io/ – however there was some issue with the testnet and all the transactions failed.
New paradigm on money vibes. LOL. Anyway, will try again next week.
Starknet
I bridged funds to Starknet via https://starkgate.starknet.io/
I then did a swap and added liquidity on Jedi Swap https://app.jediswap.xyz/#/swap
I also did some swaps on 10k Swap https://10kswap.com/swap
For what it’s worth Starknet has been the most “buggy” network so far that I have tried.
Keeping Up
- Mantle: Swaps on Reax, Agni, and FusionX.
- Base: Swap on Baseswap and used Friend Tech as well as a new one called Dackie Swap https://www.dackieswap.xyz/?chain=base – I also provided liquidity into the ETH/USDC pool.
- Linea: Swap on Horizon and did a swap on a new one called Lynex https://app.lynex.fi/swap
- Polygon zkEVM: Swap on Quickswap and on a new one called Mantis https://app.mantissa.finance/#/swap – I also deposited some USDC into…
