Daily Recap

Wednesday, June 16th, 2021

Cathy Hackl’s Weekly Metaverse Roundup 👾

I wanted to share Cathy Hackl’s round up of weekly Metaverse news. Cathy is one of the leading authorities on Metaverses, NFTs, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality.

Click here to read here weekly roundup.

Laurie Segall @LaurieSegall

In our latest piece for @60Minutes, @CathyHackl breaks down the metaverse.. and why we should be paying attention.

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The rise of Gajesh, the 13 year-old blockchain prodigy

Gajesh Naik is a blockchain developer who has been building a one-stop shop for DeFi on Polygon. His platform, Polygaj, has an AMM (decentralized exchange), single-sided staking pools, yield farms, auto-compounding vaults, an NFT marketplace, and a lottery-style game designed by Gaj himself.

Even more impressive is his roadmap for the rest of 2021. Gajesh is gaining attention from big players & crypto media outlets.

Here’s his advice on how to get started as a blockchain developer. Easy enough, right?

gajesh.eth 🌋 @robogajesh

How to be a Blockchain Developer? Thread 🧵 1) Learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript Recommend learning on @freeCodeCamp 2) Learn React.js There are tuts on React on FreeCodeCamp YT 3) Build some React apps 4) Learn Solidity (you’ll can find courses on Udemy and Coursera)

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The World Bank rejects El Salvador’s request for help on Bitcoin implementation

The World Bank said on Wednesday it could not assist El Salvador’s bitcoin implementation, citing environmental and transparency drawbacks.

Despite these claims, El Salvador has already expressed interest in mining via geothermal energy. Additionally, transparency is one of Bitcoin’s key features. All transactions are publicly auditable via the Bitcoin ledger, which can be viewed by running a node or by visiting a block explorer.

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AxieInfinity continues to lead the charge in the play-to-earn revolution

Play-to-earn gaming is a model that allows users to reap real-world financial rewards by playing video games. AxieInfinity has seen a major uptick in users, and last week in-game sales surpassed other top NFT projects; namely NBA Top Shot and CryptoPunks.

The Dapp List 🦉 | $WISE @thedapplist

1/ In the first edition of 'Down the Rabbit Hole', we bring you @AxieInfinity 🐇 Web3 community is witnessing a massive wave of NFT adoption, & Axie Infinity surpasses all others with off-the-chart stats. Learn more about them 🐰 blog.thedapplist.com/insights/down-…

blog.thedapplist.comDown the Rabbit Hole - Rise of Axie Infinity - The Dapp ListAxie Infinity is rapidly making its presence known as a play-to-earn NFT game among the gamers and it’s phenomenal how the community is responding and making cute axies their virtual pets.

Here’s an 18-minute mini-documentary about the play-to-earn gaming model, and how a community in the Philippines played AxieInfinity to get by during the pandemic.

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Why borrow in DeFi?

Lending and borrowing protocols, like Aave and Compound, allow users to deposit crypto assets and borrow against them. But why would anyone want to take on a crypto loan in the first place? Edgar Moreau breaks it down here.

That’s all for today.

Onward,

Josh