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12 Pivotal Moments that took the #NFT Industry exponential.
Not just money - we're talking Industry Progress & WTF Moments.
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2/ #Decentraland goes public - Feb 20th
First impressions were, empty, lonely, buggy, crashes, not much to do, etc.
Now there's HQ's, Top DJ Events, 100+ Galleries and
December so far had over 5k weekly visitors.
I wrote a post-launch
3/ $WHALE Launches May 3rd - A social currency backed by $2M+ of #NFT assets by @WhaleShark_Pro & @whale_community.
People across all NFT projects & platforms were incentivized to work together.
A top social currency by market cap, volume AND community.
https://t.co/7RZ4QyNu8N
4/ @trevorjonesart Picasso's Bull sells for $55k on @niftygateway.
A record sale at the time for a single Art NFT. Many in the broader NFT space started to pay attention from here.
The drop totalled ~ $75k with a Silver /10 recently going for $19.5k! on 8th Dec, (from $750)
5/ Eth fees Sky rocket - Mid 2020
With Activity on ETH going berserk, ETH fees went from average $0.20 per transaction to now ~$5.4. More with NFTs.
This forced NFT projects, (especially gaming), to prioritize scaling/L2 while it was still 'ok' to trade Art as most are $300+
Not just money - we're talking Industry Progress & WTF Moments.
1/ Thread š
2/ #Decentraland goes public - Feb 20th
First impressions were, empty, lonely, buggy, crashes, not much to do, etc.
Now there's HQ's, Top DJ Events, 100+ Galleries and
December so far had over 5k weekly visitors.
I wrote a post-launch
3/ $WHALE Launches May 3rd - A social currency backed by $2M+ of #NFT assets by @WhaleShark_Pro & @whale_community.
People across all NFT projects & platforms were incentivized to work together.
A top social currency by market cap, volume AND community.
https://t.co/7RZ4QyNu8N
$WHALE ENTERS NFT & CRYPTO LAND
— WhaleShark.Pro (@WhaleShark_Pro) May 2, 2020
A revolutionary Social Currency that is backed by over 2,900 of the most valuable NFT assets in the World.
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4/ @trevorjonesart Picasso's Bull sells for $55k on @niftygateway.
A record sale at the time for a single Art NFT. Many in the broader NFT space started to pay attention from here.
The drop totalled ~ $75k with a Silver /10 recently going for $19.5k! on 8th Dec, (from $750)
5/ Eth fees Sky rocket - Mid 2020
With Activity on ETH going berserk, ETH fees went from average $0.20 per transaction to now ~$5.4. More with NFTs.
This forced NFT projects, (especially gaming), to prioritize scaling/L2 while it was still 'ok' to trade Art as most are $300+
>more than half of all robinhood users own some gamestop stock
Okay, this is starting to make sense, I'm about to do a massive infodump in the comments, get ready folks.
The tl;dr is this: Melvin Capital made an overleveraged short on gamestop last week which was floated to 140% of all available shares. Since xmas GME has been doing well thanks to console releases and so on. Few days ago, a new CEO from Chewys got on board and price 2x to $40
A user on reddit, deepfuckingvalue had been holding it and buying various pulls on the stock since last year as a YOLO option with a possible initial investment of $56,000. It has since ballooned to tens of millions if he sells it at all.
So, with that redditor being popular last week as well as the leveraged shorts that Melvin explicitly went on youtube/social media to call resulted in WSB jumping on them for even daring to short it. As such, media attention started to pop up and speculation happened.
On Friday, the 21st, a gameplan was made to pump the stock up to initiate the beginning of a short squeeze and prevent the shorts from profiting for melvin & citron (another hedge fund that also shorted GME). For whatever reason, the stock price jumped up to $69 at EOD.
Okay, this is starting to make sense, I'm about to do a massive infodump in the comments, get ready folks.
More than half of all Robinhood users own at least some GameStop stock.
— Motherboard (@motherboard) January 28, 2021
They are now unable to freely trade it; the app is only allowing users to close out their positions. https://t.co/DgN1H496wx
The tl;dr is this: Melvin Capital made an overleveraged short on gamestop last week which was floated to 140% of all available shares. Since xmas GME has been doing well thanks to console releases and so on. Few days ago, a new CEO from Chewys got on board and price 2x to $40
A user on reddit, deepfuckingvalue had been holding it and buying various pulls on the stock since last year as a YOLO option with a possible initial investment of $56,000. It has since ballooned to tens of millions if he sells it at all.
So, with that redditor being popular last week as well as the leveraged shorts that Melvin explicitly went on youtube/social media to call resulted in WSB jumping on them for even daring to short it. As such, media attention started to pop up and speculation happened.
On Friday, the 21st, a gameplan was made to pump the stock up to initiate the beginning of a short squeeze and prevent the shorts from profiting for melvin & citron (another hedge fund that also shorted GME). For whatever reason, the stock price jumped up to $69 at EOD.
Iād like to share a story about the benefits of investing in the private and public markets and how the private market mindset can help public equity investors.
2/A few years ago we invested in a private company called Meituan (3690 HK). Meituan is like doordash or Uber eats and we thought in China, with over 100 cities >1m pop, this would be a huge market. The other competitor was owned by Alibaba.
3/The company went public less than two years later at 70. We were ecstatic! Then the stock rapidly plunged to 40 based on renewed fears of competition with https://t.co/oVbw4yOOYV (Alibaba)
4/At the time we were locked up so there was nothing we could do. Today the stock is at almost 300 and $250B market cap. I fear what we might have done if not subjected to the lock up!
5/Whatās the learning? In the private markets, the focus -FIRST- is TAM (size of market), then second everything else. And the stock price is static unless there is a new round. So you have time to develop your thesis.
2/A few years ago we invested in a private company called Meituan (3690 HK). Meituan is like doordash or Uber eats and we thought in China, with over 100 cities >1m pop, this would be a huge market. The other competitor was owned by Alibaba.
3/The company went public less than two years later at 70. We were ecstatic! Then the stock rapidly plunged to 40 based on renewed fears of competition with https://t.co/oVbw4yOOYV (Alibaba)
4/At the time we were locked up so there was nothing we could do. Today the stock is at almost 300 and $250B market cap. I fear what we might have done if not subjected to the lock up!
5/Whatās the learning? In the private markets, the focus -FIRST- is TAM (size of market), then second everything else. And the stock price is static unless there is a new round. So you have time to develop your thesis.
1/ I love learning about the markets. There are some brilliant people Iāve found on Twitter who have provided great insights (among others):
@JeffSnider_AIP
@LynAldenContact
@LukeGromen
But this thread is (mostly) about @profplum99
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2/ Mike has an encyclopedic knowledge of market history. This interview by @DiMartinoBooth (who I also have a lot of respect for) puts that on clear display.
https://t.co/4hSd2TG4du
Mikeās explanation of passive investing and its effects on the markets was eye-opening.
3/ According to research conducted by Anadu et al for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, passive funds made up 48% of US equity assets under management in March 2020. That number was just 14% in 2005. Meaning 8.6% annualized growth over 15
4/ Per Mike, āpassive funds have this really simple algorithm: if you give me cash, I buy.ā No fundamental valuation, just buying the current market-weighted index, which means a stock gets greater representation in your fund the higher its current market value.
5/ Employers and pension fund managers are predictably contributing to IRAs through fixed salary percentages on a monthly basis. And passive funds typically hold tens of basis points of cash on the sidelines because, per Mike, āitās toxic to their business model.ā
@JeffSnider_AIP
@LynAldenContact
@LukeGromen
But this thread is (mostly) about @profplum99
ššššš
2/ Mike has an encyclopedic knowledge of market history. This interview by @DiMartinoBooth (who I also have a lot of respect for) puts that on clear display.
https://t.co/4hSd2TG4du
Mikeās explanation of passive investing and its effects on the markets was eye-opening.
3/ According to research conducted by Anadu et al for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, passive funds made up 48% of US equity assets under management in March 2020. That number was just 14% in 2005. Meaning 8.6% annualized growth over 15
4/ Per Mike, āpassive funds have this really simple algorithm: if you give me cash, I buy.ā No fundamental valuation, just buying the current market-weighted index, which means a stock gets greater representation in your fund the higher its current market value.
5/ Employers and pension fund managers are predictably contributing to IRAs through fixed salary percentages on a monthly basis. And passive funds typically hold tens of basis points of cash on the sidelines because, per Mike, āitās toxic to their business model.ā