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Editorial A note from Lisa…

Where to begin? This month in crypto we have seen privacy coins in the news spotlight, mainly due to their use on the TOR Network, so Daniel Jimenez’s article on storage is A timely way to protect your data. Privacy and Data Protection will be key areas we see Governments and bureaucracy focus on over the coming months. As cryptocurrency regulations continue to evolve, we move through the frustrations of verification.

This issue, as always, has different ways to use and earn cryptocurrency, from walking to driving and also shows you ways to get into the USA housing market, something most just dream of. And now, because this magazine is FREE, you can share it with your NO-COINER friends and family and encourage them to take a deep dive into the abyss of the new and exciting ever-evolving cryptocurrency world... a WORLD BIGGER THAN BITCOIN!

With a host of new readers and praise across social media, it still feels amazing to be offering everyone this useful content for FREE. I remember my first foray into the crypto world. Everywhere I turned there was a new phrase or meme, which rendered me clueless as to what was going on. Not to mention the speed at which the cryptosphere produces (and reproduces!) If you’re in those shoes right now, it’s okay, we’ve all got to start somewhere and this Moon Mag gently introduces you to some of the most important and progressive projects that we’ve found. It also aims to educate and allows you to dip your digital feet into other tangents in crypto.

A note from Josh…

Perhaps you’ve come from a world of real estate? Have a read of our ‘real estate on the blockchain’ article in this edition.

As time moves on, you’ll move from being a crypto newb to a fully functioning crypto pro and well, the tables have turned again, only this time it’s a little more like this meme....

(Hint- share the Moon Mag with them) 😉

TRADERS PERSPECTIVE Too Big to Fail ?

Decentralized Storage: Why It Matters and What Options Are Offered

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Hivemapper & HONEY Token 16

A Galaxy of Credentials and G.O.A.Ts

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Real Estate on the Blockchain: Opportunities in the Tokenization of Real Estate Properties 34

The Crypto Calorie Cruncher 42

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All the content provided for you as part of the Moon Mag has been researched thoroughly and to the best of our ability however it is your choice, and your choice only, whether you wish to invest or participate in any of the projects. We cannot be held responsible for your decisions and the consequences of your actions. We do not provide financial advice. Please DYOR and above all, enjoy the content!

CONTRIBUTORS

DISCLAIMER

Aldrich Shillian Aldrich (or Rhys to those in the Signals group!) has been HODL’ing since 2017 and is proud of surviving bear markets, rug pulls and still trading successfully enough to have paid off all debts. Recently, he’s jumped head-on into NFT projects - particularly ones that combine his love of gaming.

Daniel Dudek Daniel Dudek is a data analyst and adjunct biology professor with a slight crypto addiction.

He loves researching geopolitics, NFTs, real world implementation, and impacts of Blockchain technology on various industries. Follow him @jr_dudek on Twitter!

Kel Udeala I’m a quantitative analyst and a mechanical engineer. I took an interest in crypto because my line of work led me down the financial trading and investment rabbit hole, and it’s only a matter of time before you reach crypto. I enjoy researching different crypto projects, and attempting to forecast their roles in the future financial and technology systems. I also find the volatility of the charts and the resulting crypto-Twitter posts very thrilling.

Daniel Jimenez Daniel has been a blockchain technology evangelist since 2012 and is a faithful believer in the Crypto ecosystem. Daniel also writes for Coin Telegraph!

Samantha Jimenez Freelance journalist dedicated to digital media, enthusiast of the crypto ecosystem and disruptive technologies. MDC writer since 2018, currently writer for CryptoTrendencia.

Mrinal B Proud rugpull survivor since 2016; gem hunter; technophile; found asking ‘wen-moon, wen-lambo’ on Twitter; fundamentals driven asymmetric investor; making ends meet in an IT company.

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TRADERS PERSPECTIVE

TOO BIG TO FAIL? BY

LISA N EDWARDS

Let’s look at history as it’s often repeated, and when repeated, the impact is usually further reaching with a wider impact. We all know Mt. Gox, QuadrigaCX as some of the most “famous” lessons in history regarding exchanges failing, but in an excerpt from bravenewcoin.com we see 11 years of failed central exchanges, showing they are much harder to run and remain profitable.

When your crypto is NOT your crypto!

If you have been in crypto for a while, you will know the saying, “NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR CRYPTO!” This post is not to cause panic, but it is also to make you aware of the dangers of having all your crypto on one exchange. Just like in issue 12 of the MoonMag, I discussed portfolio breakdown and the mindset of spreading the risk. In this article, I would like you to look at spreading your risk over exchanges.

If we think about the portfolio breakdown, there would be no way all of your crypto would have been in coins/tokens like BITCONNECT.

Or

TERRALUNA

So why would you have all your CRYPTO on one exchange? YOU SHOULDN’T!!! That’s the short answer.

This week, as I always do, I attempted to rebalance how much crypto I hold on exchanges, only to be greeted by compliance and restrictions from TOP TIER exchanges. Within my group, I have spoken to numerous people with similar issues, but it doesn’t have the same effect or emotional response if it is not directly affecting you. I have attached screenshots of the two exchanges I have personally dealt with.

As of writing this, I am still dealing with this, and this brings me to think, how will adoption ever move forward with newcomers when after having accounts with both exchanges for numerous years, they all of a sudden add restrictions for no clear reason? HUOBI asked me to verify to the highest level, which I did and then days later, went back to restrictions, which I find very weird.

UPDATE - restrictions lifted, seems they were following a transaction chain of stolen ETH… so someone down the line is in trouble.

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The Bitfinex one is slightly different, where I have decided to verify for my own safety purposes to avoid scammers stealing my identity, which has literally been a mind F$#% of questions with email after email asking me to log on and submit additional information, and everyday thinking what more could they need.

If I didn’t think this was actually a good exchange with probably the best trading interface, I would probably not persevere, but alas, I am jumping their hoops and, as of writing this article, still waiting on a decision.

My account with Bitfinex is from 2016 or 2017, and during the 2017 Bullrun highly sort after- in fact, some traders with multiple accounts were selling their additional accounts for 10,000USD.

A few security tips as well, complete the KYC, add 2FA, trading passwords and phishing codes. Use unique email addresses where possible - have security on these as well. And use strong UNIQUE passwords, so if one exchange is breached, hackers don’t get everything. I also recommend products like 1Password or Norton Password keeper. (not sponsored) Back to the main reason for writing this is to get readers into the mindset of spreading risk across exchanges. Like banks in the traditional world of finance - nothing is too big to fail, as noted here with a list of USA BANK FAILURES since 2008 in the USA. As we look to the future of crypto and preserve as new laws and regulations are brought in and as we continue to attempt to meet the requirements set out, always believe NOTHING IS TOO BIG TO FAIL - SO SPREAD YOUR RISK!

Decentralized Storage:

Why It Matters and What Options Are Offered written by Daniel Jimenez

The rapid transformation towards a more digital era undoubtedly represents a great challenge for many companies and individuals around the world with respect to the use and storage of both private and public data.

News stories of the leaking of the private data of millions of users on social networks like Facebook are becoming commonplace, while at the same time the monopoly of data in the hands of a few centralized companies in all corners of the world becomes digital gold for the enrichment of a few.

However, with the entry of blockchain technology and the use of decentralized and distributed servers around the world, the storage of this sensitive data can now introduce radical change if we take advantage of the existing opportunities in the industry.

What is decentralized storage?

Decentralized storage is the ability to store fragmented data on different nodes located in a P2P network. Decentralized data storage systems are a platform that allow us to securely store our information on a P2P network.

Thus, each node within the network can ensure the existence of and access to the data on a certain platform.

Origin of decentralized storage It should be noted that efforts to achieve these decentralized data storage systems have been in existence for some years, with the aim of returning to the Internet the spirit of security, privacy, and freedom with which it was founded in the 1990s.

The first networks that tried to achieve the decentralization of the Internet through P2P file sharing and open source, such as Napster, Gnutella, and Freenet, did not have adequate infrastructure, since they depended on central servers in some cases or did not have capable software to efficiently source the data among the distributed nodes.

With victories and defeats, decentralized Internet protocols have advanced, including those for data storage. However, the large data processing centers continue to dominate the Internet, being an essential part for their operation. Those who develop applications or platforms to exchange web content find few options outside the centers of the aforementioned large companies.

However, the search for alternatives to improve the way we transfer, download and store files has begun to present a new landscape thanks to blockchain networks. Projects like Swarm, IPFS, Sia, Storj or RIF Storage are moving in that direction.

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Basic principles of the foundation for decentralized storage systems The basic principle of decentralized storage systems is to create a network of distributed computers capable of working together to store and retrieve previously fragmented and encrypted information.

Within this foundation, a key role for some decentralized options is played by the IPFS (Inter Planetary File System) project, a P2P protocol capable of dispensing with the controls and limitations of the central services that currently predominate on the Internet.

In general, the framework for a decentralized storage network on which many blockchain projects for this sector are based can be summarized as shown below, based on the IPFS principle:

Current data storage market The data storage market has been monopolized by a few technology giants such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung or Alibaba for some time, through cloud storage solutions offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

In 2017, the global cloud storage market was worth around $30 billion and it steadily rose to more than $61 billion in 2020. It is projected that this market will grow to more than $76 billion in 2021. With a CAGR of 26.2 percent for the 2021 to 2028 period, it forecast to balloon to more than $390 billion by 2028. While this unprecedented growth can, in large part, be attributed to the pandemic, this industry was on a healthy upward trajectory long before 2020.

At the level of expenses for infrastructure to satisfy the growth of the market, IDC expects spending on compute and storage cloud infrastructure to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.6% over the 2021-2026 forecast period, reaching $133.7 billion in 2026 and accounting for 68.6% of total compute and storage infrastructure spend.

Currently 90% of businesses run some form of cloud storage. But despite this upward trajectory, 75% of companies have concerns related to the security of their sensitive data stored in the cloud.

Incidents like the Facebook data leak and breaches of 2018 and 2021, respectively, brought to light the weaknesses of centralized storage systems.

With a centralized storage system, a company’s data is stored on the central host server. Hosts can monitor, censor or even disclose any data to third parties. Naturally, the company loses the ability to control and customize its data storage settings.

This lack of control and customization poses a

drawback for both businesses and users with more complex data needs.

The Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) recorded 32,002 security incidents and 3,950 data breaches in 2020, with 58% of breaches involving personal information.

Advantages of decentralized storage As a result of the eruption of blockchain technology in the industry, decentralized options have been showing that they are capable of improving the underlying weaknesses in the centralized protocols used for the storage of the new digital gold.

As the adoption of blockchain technology becomes more popular, so does the use of these types of decentralized protocols, which have been gaining traction over time as their use cases improve.

Let’s see some advantages of using decentralized systems for data storage:

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● Lower costs: No significant investment in data centers is required, making it a less expensive solution than centralized storage ● Load balancing: Distributed storage systems can cache frequently used data locally, thus avoiding having to connect to the server regularly. ● Greater security: Being a P2P network, each node has only a fragment of the data stored in the decentralized systems. This avoids a single point of failure ● High reliability: Decentralized clouds have less downtime because data is spread across unrelated nodes. Even if one server goes down, you can recover your data from other nodes.

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Key players in decentralized storage Ever since the concept of decentralized storage was introduced to blockchain technology, some players have been struggling to entice users to use their decentralized options as opposed to the usual tech monopolies for cloud storage.

Some of them offer their own internal tokens as a form of payment for using a part of their available storage space, others as an incentive to build and maintain the P2P decentralized storage network. Let’s look at some representative options on the market.

Filecoin The platform allows users to securely store large amounts of data and earn passive income using the internal storage of their device. It exists on the Ethereum blockchain, which has become incredibly popular for DeFi projects.

Filecoin uses two consensus mechanisms within its network. Proof of Space-time (PoST) and Proof of Replication (PoRep). This service is built by Protocol Labs and runs on top of IPFS. The native token of the protocol is $FIL, which is currently at number 33 in the general ranking of the cryptocurrency market, with a growth of just over 45% in the last 24 hours.

It is worth noting that $FIL is currently at a fairly cheap price compared to its ATH reached last April 2021, when it managed to average in the $200 band.

This protocol is one of the cheapest in the industry in terms of average cost in USD per TiB/year of cloud storage.

Swarm Swarm is a distributed storage platform and content distribution service on the Ethereum blockchain, constituting a native base layer of the Ethereum Web3 stack. It proposes a peer-to-peer storage solution that is constantly operational, resistant to DDOS attacks, fault tolerant, resistant to censorship and self-sufficient thanks to its native incentive system.

Swarm has an incentive protocol called Swarm Accounting Protocol (SWAP), which is an “eye for an eye” system where nodes count the amount of data they request and serve. If a node is asked for a lot of shards, SWAP will issue a payment request through a second layer payment solution like Raiden.

Its native token is $BZZ, which is ranked at number 565 in the general cryptocurrency ranking, with an average market capitalization of $26 million.

Its current price is relatively low if we consider its maximum peak reached last June 2021, when it managed to trade at an average of close to $60 per token.

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Arweave Arweave itself is a blockchain-like peer-to-peer (P2P) storage protocol that offers extra storage capacities available on PCs acting as Arweave clients. The application that enables data storage and other functionality is called permaweb. The permaweb is an immutable environment for storing webpages and other types of data such as static files. Those who wish to store data are required to pay a one-time fee using AR tokens, which are available from most crypto exchanges.

Arweave is 100% community-operated and is designed to work only with Linux.

Its $AR token is currently trading in the $15 band, which is within the top 100 of the overall cryptocurrency market ranking.

Similar to the rest of the storage tokens, $AR is well below its ATH reached last November 2022 when it peaked at $90 per token.

Sia Conceived in early 2013 from an MIT Hack event and subsequently launched two years later, Sia is one of the forerunners of decentralized storage alongside Storj and Filecoin.

Sia works by segmenting the files to be stored into 30 parts using a technology called Reed-Solomon erasure coding, the same technology used on CDs and DVDs. This technology allows Sia to redundantly split files, where 10 out of 30 segments are enough to fully recover a user’s files.

Those who use the Sia network have micropayment channels, similar to those of the Lightning Network in Bitcoin. In this way, those who want to buy decentralized storage can pay with Siacoin and those who offer memory space on their computers can deposit Siacoin in smart contracts as collateral.

Currently its $SC token is outside the top 100 ranking, but it is still a benchmark in the sector, and one of the cheapest in this market to acquire today.

Storj Storj is one of the most popular decentralized cloud storage platforms in the world, with tens of thousands of users. Founded in 2014 and launched in 2018, this network allows you to store your data in a private and encrypted format (specifically using AES-256-GCM symmetric encryption).

The objective of this project is to develop a market based on a decentralized storage system, where participants can make use of the space in the internal memory of their computers to create a globally distributed storage cloud.

The project has a homonymous cryptocurrency designed to boost the incentive system ($STORJ), which is currently ranked 126th in the general cryptocurrency ranking.

Other decentralized storage options The above examples are just a sample of the growing decentralized storage ecosystem that is emerging in the blockchain industry.

Some other good examples are Bittorrent Filesystems (BTFS), MaidSafe, Utopia, Burst and RIF Storage (Swarm).

With increased security, transparency, and user control, decentralized storage platforms could truly become the next industry giant when it comes to cloud storage.

Along with their native tokens and coins, these platforms make a healthy contribution to the crypto market, giving people the ability to store their data securely.

Becoming a node, investing in one of these tokens, or simply paying for a distributed storage service can put you at an advantage in the growing decentralized digital data industry.

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Hivemapper & HONEY Token

The Solana-based Hivemapper and its HONEY token seek to decentralise the global mapping system. Think Google maps, but on the blockchain, and decentralised. The project aims to ultimately democratise an industry currently controlled by monopolies and governments that take our data for free and seeks to do so by incorporating builtin crypto incentives, eliminating gatekeepers and allowing contribution from the public.

California-based Hivemapper Inc., the Hivemapper project developers, aim to address problems associated with the current Web 2.0 mapping economy. For example, the high cost of APIs means companies like Google, which provides such services, continues to increase fees due to a lack of competition. Maps become outdated because of the high expense required for such services. Providers use private and sensitive customer location data to improve their maps without compensation. And, finally, there exists the

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probability of forced censorship and modification to satisfy politicians and landowners.

The blockchain infrastructure and crypto incentives solve these problems by dramatically reducing the costs associated with providing such services and can ensure global scalability. Furthermore, due to the Solana blockchain’s scalability, costeffectiveness and speed, the project developers have chosen to deploy Hivemapper on Solana.

The Hivemapper economic model and infrastructure consists of the consumers who buy map credits in the form of HONEY tokens to access high-quality and up-to-date map data and the contributors who earn HONEY tokens from providing these services. The contributors further consist of four key types – Dashcam, Map Quality Assurance (QA), Map Annotators, and Map Annotation QA.

Dashcam contributors are drivers who use highquality dashcams connected to the Hivemapper software to provide 4k street-level imagery. By installing a simple 4K dashcam on a car or truck, a dashcam contributor can earn cryptocurrency (HONEY), own part of the decentralised global map, and cost-effectively support the world’s critical geospatial infrastructure.

Map QA ensures the usefulness of the image and geolocation data collected via the dashcams. This QA measure ensures the proper installation of data collection devices to avoid obstructed views, solar glare, night-time capture, excessive rain, and

intentional spam (duplicates, fakes and alterations).

Map annotators make granular contributions such as editing traffic signs, building boundaries, and street names, while Map Annotation QA contributors ensure the validity and quality of the annotations.

The QA tasks rely on both human feedback and machine feedback. The machine feedback autoscreens data signals such as location attestation using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Location Triangulation (LoRa) using the Helium decentralised wireless network.

Hivemapper crypto miner dashcams, Source: Hivemapper

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Hivemapper Economic Model, Source: Hivemapper

Hivemapper Route Novelty Incentive, Source: Hivemapper

The project leverages concepts like region multipliers, freshness multipliers, route novelty multipliers, and annotation rewards to incentivise the mapping of under-mapped areas or encourage a focus on mapping areas of particular interest, such as regions based on consumer demand and economic activity.

Data All Data Is Current at Time of Writing Circulating Supply: TBD Max Supply: 10,000,000,000 Total Supply: 10,000,000,000 Contract Addresses: TBD

Token Allocation Investors: 20% Team (Employees): 20% Development (Security & Operations): 15% Foundation: 5% Community (Rewards & Contributions): 40% Website https://hivemapper.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Hivemapper Telegram https://t.me/+UnMYghleJYQwOGEx Blog https://blog.hivemapper.com/ Discord https://discord.com/invite/FRWMKyy5v2 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/hivemapper Github https://github.com/hivemapper

Where to Purchase HONEY Token Orca Solana DEX

Hivemapper will launch its mainnet beta in the second half of 2022. After this period and following a global launch, the HONEY token will become the only reward mechanism for the project. Given that the project is Solana-based, it is reasonable to assume it will become first available on Solana’s top decentralised exchange – Orca – for trading.

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Core Team The Hivemapper project team comprises a highly qualified core team and advisers from top-tier tech projects. Project advisers include Raj Gokal and Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-Founders of Solana; Amir Halem, Founder of Helium Network; Jaron Waldman, former Apple Maps Executive; Elie Seidman, former CEO of Tinder; Spencer Rascoff, former CEO of Zillow, and many more.

Ariel Seidman CEO and Co-Founder at Hivemapper LinkedIn As the CEO and Co-Founder of Hivemapper, Ariel coordinates the engineering and business development teams. Before founding Hivemapper in 2015, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of Gigwalk, a brand intelligence platform that raised over $8M in venture capital from Harrison Metal, Greylock, and August Capital. Ariel has worked as Director of Product Management at Yahoo!, contributing to ‘Yahoo! Search’ and ‘Yahoo! Maps’ development. He also worked as Principal Product Manager at Oracle’s Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) solutions called Oracle Siebel.

John Pallera Operations Manager at Hivemapper LinkedIn John is the Operations Manager at Hivemapper; before this role, he also worked as the Network Operations Lead at Hivemapper.

He has also worked as the Product Operations Manager and the Operations Business Intelligence Manager at LawChamps.

LawChamps is a platform that helps attorneys to succeed with an end-to-end, turnkey solution to build their practices, including well-matched leads, online reputation management, website development and more for business and personal matters. LawChamps is the Shopify of the legal industry. Before his roles at LawChamps, John worked at Fin, a B2B platform delivering actionable, cross-application insights for operations teams. While at Fin, he worked in various roles, culminating in his position as the Project Manager for Operations and Internal Growth. John has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Global Business from the University of South California.

Ari Bruck Head of Hardware Products at Hivemapper LinkedIn Ari is the Head of Hardware Products at Hivemapper. Before this role, he was Senior Principal Design Engineer at Cadence Design Systems. Cadence’s Intelligent System Design strategy helps customers develop differentiated products – from chips to boards to intelligent systems – in mobile, consumer, cloud, data centre, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments. He has also worked at Oracle as a CPU Verification Engineer, a CPU Logic Design Engineer, and at Intel Corporation as a Front-End Design Automation Technician. Ari holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin.

Jinglun D. Software Engineer at Hivemapper LinkedIn Jinglun is a Full Stack Software Engineer at Hivemapper.

He has worked in the same role at Argo Group, Crum & Forster and MoonRanger. Argo Group and Crum & Forster are U.S.-focused insurance products and services providers.

MoonRanger is a Carnegie Mellon University team landing the world’s first micro-rover set to explore the Moon’s south pole in 2023. Jinglun has also held the role of Front-End Developer as part of an internship at Carnegie Mellon’s Lunar rover research efforts. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Knox College in Computer Science, Visual Communication, Graphic Design, and a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Software Engineering.

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What does HONEY do for investors?

The HONEY token will interest both ecosystem contributors and token holders when it launches. Ecosystem contributors can mine HONEY tokens by providing quality imagery, conducting quality reviews of the collected imagery, annotating generated maps and imagery, validating that the annotations are correct, and contributing to product development as the project seeks to become decentralised.

These activities will have various multipliers depending on the need of the map consumers. On the other hand, token holders will share in the value accrual mechanism of the token if the development team realises their vision. For instance, the project has a burn and mint system with a net emissions model, which aims to create a sustainable marketplace between product creators (contributors) and consumers.

Consumers buy and burn the token to access goods and services – in Hivemapper’s case, collected data or the ability to set priorities for upcoming data collection.

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The mechanics are such that they buy and burn existing tokens, giving them credits. When customers use their system credit, their usage is tracked so that specific creators can be allocated associated rewards.

In the end, there will be 10 billion tokens circulating perpetually. Hence, as the project’s consumer base grows, the circulating token supply may become more valuable due to supply/demand dynamics, benefiting token holders in the process.

Hivemapper Marketplace Model, Source: Hivemapper

Hivemapper Contributor Mining Mechanism, Source: Hivemapper

Market opportunity Maps are essential to the world’s technology infrastructure and represent a $300B market, according to research conducted by Hivemapper Inc. This market capitalisation may seem small compared to other potential markets crypto is disrupting. Notwithstanding, the current market capitalisation is an estimate specifically concerning developed economies. The African continent, with a population of 1.2 billion, the Asian continent, with a population of 4.5 billion, and Latin America, with a population of 665 million, are primed for explosive growth in infrastructure in the short and medium term. With increasing population comes an increasing need for transport infrastructure, in turn, a need to map the developing region continually. This scenario could lead to explosive growth in mapping solutions and could be the catalyst to increase the market capitalisation of such services significantly. Opensource mapping solutions are already making a difference in developing countries, aiding humanitarian endeavours and scientific research (See the image below for example).

Changes in the mapped areas in OpenStreetMap for Kampala, Uganda, from 2016 to 2018, Source: World Bank, OpenStreetMap

Additionally, cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets is skyrocketing (as shown in the image below). With a growing community of global mappers leveraging solutions such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) for open-source community-driven mapping, there is a significant opportunity for Hivemapper to make a critical impact in these emerging economies.

Crypto Adoption Index Heatmap, Source: Chainalysis

We’ve already witnessed the play-to-earn economy, with projects like Axie Infinity drawing players who participated in such economies on a full-time work basis. With Hivemapper, one could see a project that brings “work-to-earn” (pun intended), bringing immediate real-world value to the blockchain economy.

Everyone can participate regardless of their region – Uber, Bolt and Lyft drivers, delivery drivers, and even non-drivers who prefer to do map annotation and quality assurance can all potentially earn additional streams of income from the project.

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The roadmap The Hivemapper Mapping Network Foundation will launch in 2022. It will be a global not-for-profit organisation that governs and maintains the Hivemapper decentralised mapping network and the underlying open mapping technologies. Over time, the foundation will take on many of the responsibilities held by Hivemapper Inc., making the project decentralised and open source.

The Hivemapper testnet alpha will take place throughout the summer of 2022, and participants will be rewarded in cash until the mainnet launch at which point rewards will be in HONEY tokens going forward. After mainnet launches in 32 cities in 19 countries, the project will begin expanding globally.

Hivemapper Foundation Objectives, Source: Hivemapper

Hivemapper Roadmap, Source: Hivemapper

Conclusion Given the high cost of geospatial mapping, increasing prices from companies like Google who offer such services, and the proliferation of blockchain technology, Hivemapper is a welcome addition to a class of projects categorised as ‘Proof-of-Real-Work’, which provide real-world infrastructure and value.

Hivemapper can potentially disrupt the mapping services of Google and Apple and, at the same time, provide additional income for drivers already working in industries such as Uber. Furthermore, with cryptocurrency proliferation in emerging economies, booming population growth leading to infrastructure growth, and a young and entrepreneurial population, Hivemapper could be one of the first movers in these economies, leveraging the economies’ exponential growth potential. The project could tap into an industry that will be worth multiples of hundreds of billions in the coming years, possibly accruing significant value for ecosystem contributors and token holders.

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A Galaxy of Credentials and G.O.A.Ts written by Rhys

Web 2.0 has been characterized by data. Big data, advertising data, cookies, clicks, profiles… Nearly every interaction we have with Web2 platforms and products generates reams of data about our activity and interactions, creating a digital fingerprint that covers little snapshots of what we do, how we do it and sometimes even the why we’ve done those things. Outside of Web 2.0 too, we also see massive amounts of data being held about us everywhere – from qualification records, event attendance, financial records, and everything in between. The list of who and what generates and keeps data on us is seemingly never-ending.

The problem with all this data scraping is that while most of it is created and stored to offer some sort of service to us, that data is often not owned by us and we struggle to take control of it.

For example, on social media (probably among the biggest data scrapers out there), your engagement with something on Facebook does not link well to your engagement with something on Twitter as that data is not shared between the two platforms. You could be engaging with a company on Facebook in some respect, perhaps promoting their business, while doing the same on Twitter and it looks like two completely different interactions for the company itself. Workarounds for this exist – but they’re just that. Workarounds.

Perhaps a more pertinent example might be your financial relationships. We will engage with lots of different financial transactions in each day, week or month that builds up a picture of who we are and what we do, or how responsible we can be. But when it comes to approaching a bank or lender for a new account, or a loan, they only consider limited amounts of the data that we know we generate about our financial affairs. This usually is in the form of a credit report, which aggregates a lot of this individual data gathering from banks, lenders, and credit agencies into one place for lenders. Which is great but… It’s a workaround, again, and doesn’t take enough into account. Classically, if you want to get a mortgage, banks often can’t take into consideration your rent payment history because this data is simply not available to them except in a small number of cases. This sort of evidence of financial stability could be crucial to decision making but just isn’t reported by most letting agents or landlords.

So why do things like this matter? Well for starters, all this data is about us, but we have no real way of engaging with it or controlling it. Bringing that data together would be tedious and time-consuming in a lot of cases and while aggregators exist, they’re often paywalled like credit reports tend to be. Aggregation also brings a third-party into the mix which adds time and expense onto any given

data need. Should a company need access to your full social media profile to prove you’ve posted a promotion for them, or just the post in question?

You’d say the latter surely, but most third-party tools won’t know what they’re specifically looking for until they search everything first. We end up with problems of access, of aggregation, and of overreach when trying to share data with traditional platforms.

Project Galaxy aims to offer a better solution to the Web3 market. They recognise that Web3 will create even more data than before, but in a more open, interrogable way. From this comes opportunities for both companies and users to make important data or interactions into credentials that can be further used to make decisions on, or opportunities for, those with certain track records or data profiles.

They have created tools for companies that can incentivise engagement and data sharing via their platform, which in turn offers users evidence of their interactions, their data, and even rewards for taking part in activities. Through this, they can provide projects new ways to build their communities outside of the token generation model and drive longer-term relationships with participants through campaigns and credentials. Long term, this network of credentials can be tapped into by developers to deliver new, exciting products built off the back of a more open data standard.

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Retooling for Web3 Project Galaxy, then, wants to help crypto projects bring their communities together under a common framework for the collective good this sort of data could do. Their stated goal for users is to become something of a LinkedIn for Web3, providing a passport of your engagement and interactions across the ecosystem. It’s something the space clearly believes in, with the team being backed with funding from Binance Launchpool. The Galaxy ecosystem is already rich with campaigns, case studies and projects using the platform.

So how are they doing this and offering value to projects and users alike? And how do they offer Web3 tools while accepting that some of the richest data is still in Web 2.0 systems?

Broadly speaking, Project Galaxy’s offering can be broken down into four key components: Galaxy ID On-chain Achievement Tokens (or OATs) Credentials The GAL token In a bit of a twist (for crypto projects anyway), the GAL token is one of the smallest parts of the overall Galaxy system. The real meat of the project revolves around the first three items; Galaxy ID, OATs, and credentials.

Looking first at Galaxy ID, this is the “LinkedIn” part of Project Galaxy and is where the average user’s journey will most likely start.

It represents your presence on Project Galaxy and everything that entails, something of

a digital pinboard for you to attach all your on-chain achievements, credentials, and engagements. Every engagement you have with Project Galaxy offerings will link back to here and can then be used by companies to help build new products or campaigns. It’s like your username for the Galaxy ecosystem.

Perhaps you want to reward your most loyal followers or want to airdrop some AMA participants a few tokens as a thank-you.

Galaxy ID records will help developers do just this. Not only that, but Project Galaxy have developed integrations with Discord, Github and Twitter to try and build something of a bridge to those Web 2.0 spaces that are still in heavy use by crypto communities. These integrations can help support the campaigns developers will then look to build – like ensuring those claiming rewards are part of your Discord community.

Galaxy ID brings together the second and third key components for an individual. If we’re thinking of the ID as being the username and pinboard, then OATs and credentials are the items you’ll end up pinning to be proudly displayed next to your username. They both represent a form of on-chain activity which can be linked back to your Galaxy ID, with OATs being awarded and credentials being curated. Essentially, they both represent your engagement with something on-chain, but one is more akin to an event wristband/ticket (the OATs) while the other is like an attendance log to that same event (credentials). OATs are a bit more active, while credentials are somewhat passive.

The GOAT of the Ecosystem Starting with Galaxy’s OATs, these On-chain Achievement Tokens are one of the tools Project Galaxy offers to developers to help build communities and loyalty. These are NFTs that a developer can offer for you taking part in certain tasks or actions in support of the project. For example, you might want folks to follow your Twitter, join the Discord and register for an account.

In exchange for completing these (which can be tracked by the Project Galaxy integrations), the user can then mint the OAT NFT for that project – and this OAT can then be proudly displayed as part of their Galaxy ID. For the user, these mints are free, removing the usual gas-fee barrier from someone taking part. Over time, their Galaxy ID will be populated by OATs representing their Web3 history and track record of engagement. It allows users to track their achievements on their crypto journey, a sort of “I was there” token, or more accurately, a “I did this” token. Being an NFT however, they are transferrable, which we’ll get into a bit below.

Credentials, by contrast, are all about things already taking place on chain. Credentials can be

things like snapshots of token holders in support of campaigns or OAT claimants, a bit of a fixed-point upon which to anchor something. Credentials can be used as evidence for completing campaigns and offering OATs, or as additional data points that may be useful to developers down the line, such as liquidation records from Defi protocols.

For example, that token holder snapshot over the course of a campaign would allow developers to filter users who can claim an OAT that has holding a token as one of the criteria. Credentials could even be created to snapshot OAT holders at specific timepoints to show who’s holding onto their project OATs over time and supporting the community longer-term.

Through these two tools, developers have new options for building communities outside of the standard token generation and sale, or NFT mints with their associated barriers. Not every project has a sound reason to sell these things to you, after all. For a user, the barriers to entry like minting fees or token cost are removed, and better ways of supporting projects helpfully can be opened.

Over the long term, developers can use previous OATs as a key or ticket into newer campaigns and opportunities. Galaxy OATs and credentials are already being used to identify participants in previous events or offerings for airdrops, further OATs or things like whitelist spots.

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Through these two tools, developers have new options for building communities outside of the standard token generation and sale, or NFT mints with their associated barriers. Not every project has a sound reason to sell these things to you, after all. For a user, the barriers to entry like minting fees or token cost are removed, and better ways of supporting projects helpfully can be opened.

Over the long term, developers can use previous OATs as a key or ticket into newer campaigns and opportunities. Galaxy OATs and credentials are already being used to identify participants in previous events or offerings for airdrops, further OATs or things like whitelist spots.

You can see that over time, some of those early OATs could become valuable as they act as a gateway into bigger or better rewards, or even into different projects entirely that others might want a part of. Here is where their value as an NFT can be derived. While credentials are relatively immutable, OATs can be transferred (or even sold) on marketplaces to others. The intention for Galaxy is not necessarily to encourage the marketisation of these OATs over the long term, but for a user, it adds potential future value to their early interactions and offers a potential reward for supporting projects early or over time. The emphasis of OATs is less about the monetisation of each interaction, but the option will always be there.

Additionally for users, by encouraging projects to use OATs, Galaxy creates a sort of curated list of projects that look to reward and feed back to their communities. The campaigns page on the Project Galaxy website is a smorgasbord of projects and events to get involved in, offering OATs for simple

things like website registrations or token trading. It can be a great way to locate new and interesting projects or models and be rewarded for it in the meantime.

The Galaxy token Finally, underpinning a lot of this is the Galaxy token. While less important for the average user and community member, the GAL token is used to pay platform fees for projects using Galaxy tools. It also acts as an incentive for credential curators, rewarding those who might find useful data to build into the Galaxy ecosystem, such as token holder snapshots or event attendees. This is a developing usecase for the token with the kinks still being ironed out – and is still unlikely to be of mainstream interest – but to regulars to the Galaxy ecosystem, or developers who might want to support the data aggregation to cover their own platform fees, it could prove a neat feedback loop.

The token’s strength then rises with the platform’s adoption. As more projects build using Galaxy tools, the Galaxy community and userbase will grow. This, in turn, could drive more projects to build on Galaxy as the number of potential adopters swells, and therefore more buying pressure on the Galaxy token. The token itself has relatively little use outside the most ardent Galaxy supporter (who can use it to participate in DAO-like voting to support the platform), but if you believe in the growth of the ecosystem, it’s an additional way to build exposure to Galaxy past the collection of OATs and engagement with campaigns.

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Galaxy’s recent delivery of the token concludes a lot of their initial roadmap, with further integrations and upgrades to build on their early developmental success. With the Galaxy DAO incoming, the token will be given that additional usecase for interested investors or community members, securing its long-term place in the ecosystem as other tools are developed. It’s a sign of a strong record of delivery that the token is actually one of the latest things to have been created by the Galaxy team. They’ve prioritised their main project resources (the credential network, developer tools and OATs) over token creation and given themselves a reassuring track record for investors to look at – with more items incoming to get excited about and some confidence that they will be delivered.

Roadmap Q2 2022 Galaxy DAO Launch Governed by GAL Token Holders Discord Bot for Auto Discord AMA Participants Credential Creation Campaign Geofencing Feature Galaxy Website UI Upgrade Q3 2022 Application Modules Dashboard V2 Launch Credential Oracle Launch Credential Data Tag System Launch Q4 2022 Permissionless Credential and Campaign Creation Private Credential Data Support Snapshot.org OAT Campaign Plugin Q1 2023 Galaxy Credential Network V2 Launch with Credential Curation System Governance

Links worth checking out Project Galaxy’s main site: https://galaxy.eco/ Galaxy ID registration: https://galaxy.eco/galaxyid/ Live campaigns for OATs: https://galaxy.eco/campaigns Technical documentation (including $GAL tokenomics):

https://docs.galaxy.eco/ Coinmarketcap for $GAL:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/project-galaxy/ Project Galaxy Medium: Project Galaxy – Medium Binance Research for Galaxy: https://research.binance.com/

en/projects/project-galaxy

Team Charles Wayn – Co-Founder and Strategy Lead Before co-founding Project Galaxy, Charles was the co-founder and CEO of DLive.tv. After DLive merged with BitTorrent in 2019, Charles became the VP of Interactive Entertainment at BitTorrent, heading up several streaming business units including DLive.tv, DLive Protocol and the Two App.

Harry Zhang – Co-Founder and Project Lead Zhang was the COO and co-founder of Lino Network, as well as the cofounder of DLive. At Lino and DLive, Harry oversaw the team and created the product that served more than 10 million monthly active users.

Conclusion Project Galaxy has a lofty goal, but is already well on the way to providing a comprehensive solution to long-standing issues with data aggregation and decision making. As Web3 endeavours to provide increasingly automated tools via smart contracts, having that data easily packaged and aggregated will become more and more important over time. Galaxy’s method of incentivising this data aggregation – via rewarding credential curation and OATs for engaged users – will over time make itself a highly useful data ecosystem for developers to interrogate, build on and create with.

For the average user, there’s finally the opportunity to be rewarded for your data, and for you to be able to share it more broadly with other companies and products you want to engage with. For the crypto native, having a digital CV of your Web3 work or achievements could be huge in the future. And with Project Galaxy, we’re already seeing the fruits of their vision – delivering rapidly on their ambition, with extensive backing to achieve their goals. A whole Galaxy of opportunities await.

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Real Estate on the Blockchain:

Opportunities in the Tokenization of Real Estate Properties written by Daniel Jimenez

For some time now, real estate tokenization has been taking place in the real estate market, a trend that continues to gain more and more prominence among the different actors in this trillion-dollar sector.

In simple words, real estate tokenization consists of transforming a real estate asset into a token (unit of value), which is then converted into a digital asset (cryptocurrency).

The advantages of using the blockchain in this industry are several: from greater transparency and liquidity to cost savings by streamlining contracting and notary processes, distributed ledger technology (DLT) is making a strong breakthrough in the real estate sector.

According to a study carried out by the firm Security Token Market, in the United States alone the capitalization of the tokenized real estate market amounted to USD 30 billion, which highlights the significant opportunity for all those interested in joining this growing sector of the blockchain industry.

Opportunities in the Real Estate Blockchain Thanks to the power of blockchain technology and decentralized ledgers, it is possible for any investor regardless of size to now be part of the juicy real estate business.

Real estate tokenization allows investors to geographically diversify their real estate investments to take advantage of strong markets in the US and the world.

There are different types of real estate investments in which interested parties can allocate part of their portfolio, including:

• • • • •

● multi-family housing ● storage units ● office buildings ● undeveloped land ● business development projects

Tokenization opens quality real estate to more investors and with smaller investment amounts.

Investment sponsors receive access to a new pool of investors and retail investors have more choice and flexibility.

How Tokenized Real Estate Investment Works Tokenized real estate offerings follow the same traditional industry standards. They do this by using special purpose investment vehicles (SPVs), usually structured as limited liability companies (LLCs).

For blockchain-based real estate deals, the LLC’s ownership is split into security tokens (STOs), which are registered on the blockchain and scheduled for issuance (placement) under smart contracts.

In order to comply with existing regulations in the real estate sector, tokenization platforms carry out know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) controls, in order to comply with the costly process of creating a public value.

However, STOs are not the only instrument within blockchain technology that actors within the real estate business (agents, platforms, and owners) are using to help diversify this sector.

Currently NFTs are also emerging as options for fractional real estate trading making them more affordable for smaller investors especially in the metaverse.

NFT house for sale in Florida As metaverse platforms continue to grow and more people begin to visit these worlds, digital land owners make a profit by renting land, selling it, building virtual properties or businesses, leasing it, or trading it for other NFTs. Thus, as the lines between digital and physical realities become increasingly blurred, NFT land continues to position itself as the equally lucrative sibling to traditional real estate.

Options in the Real Estate Blockchain Because physical real estate is a regulated industry, there are some good platforms to get started in this world. Let’s look at some examples.

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Republic: This platform offers highly vetted startup opportunities in real estate, in addition to other sectors such as video games and crypto startups. Republic allows investors to help boostrap new projects, startups and crypto projects and reap the rewards down the line.

RealT: RealT is a fractional real estate investment platform that allows investors around the world to invest in the US real estate market through a fully compliant, token-based blockchain network.

The platform allows investors to buy into tokenized properties with permissionless Ethereum and maintain access to cash flows and low maintenance ownership via RealTokens, allowing owners to access rent payments weekly through the US-Dollar stablecoin xDai or Ethereum.

Propy: Propy is a real estate marketplace that uses smart contracts to enact international property transactions.

The company’s platform enables buyers, sellers and agents to use a series of smart contracts that help speed up the real estate process — one that is often hindered by international legalities. In Propy, you can list a property as an NFT.

Propy has processed $4bn in transactions for consumers and agents from Compass, eXp, The Agency, Redfin, KW, Remax, Realty Austin, ACME, and others.

Real Estate Options in the Metaverse There is no doubt that the million dollar sales of virtual properties in the different blockchain metaverses are causing great interest from real estate investors, both traditional and newer interested in this emerging market.

If you are looking for a new way to invest in real estate, you may want to consider non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in real estate companies.

Some good options to invest in are: Decentraland: Created in 2015, this virtual world has its plots in the form of NFTs called ‘land’, which can be acquired with the native token of the MANA platform.

Decentraland is deployed on the Ethereum blockchain and is one of the pioneers in the virtual real estate sector, being one of the first metaverses available in the decentralized industry.

The Sandbox: The Sandbox is another revolutionary virtual world powered by Ethereum blockchain technology where players can build their own gaming experiences from scratch using readily available or prebuilt building blocks. Here, you will be required to use $SAND, the utility token and currency of the platform to buy land and assets from their marketplace.

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Somnium Space: Founded in 2017 and launched in 2018, this platform combines blockchain technology with virtual reality (VR) allowing users to buy and customize virtual properties such as bare land, parks, and buildings.

Upland: Upland is a virtual land marketplace that uses real-world addresses to map the property market. This allows users to trade their earned lands for real US dollars. Upland also allows players to collaborate with other members of the gaming community by earning profit and making new friends through its in-game businesses.

Upland How To Buy & Mint Properties

Conclusion The real estate market continues to grow despite the adverse conditions it may face in some depressed economies. In May 2022 alone the market cap reached $194 million in monthly market cap.

According to a Cointelegraph report, the aggregate market capitalization of all security tokens exceeds $16.4 billion, of which real estate currently accounts for around 1.2%.

While the tokenized real estate market may seem small now, it is the fastest growing sector within the security token segment.

If the growth in real estate prices and sales in digital real estate in the different blockchain metaverses is added to the above, the opportunities are quite extensive and can be taken advantage of by any investor, regardless of their size or geographical location.

According to the Security Token Market, 89% of the STOs present in the industry are represented by the Residential and Commercial real estate segments, an example of how promising blockchain-based real estate is.

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The Crypto Calorie Cruncher written by by Samantha Jimenez

Following the rise of play-to-earn games, a new trend has emerged within the crypto ecosystem known as move-to-earn, which combines gaming and cryptocurrencies and the fitness world.

Move to earn platforms reward those who perform certain “physical” activities, such as walking, jogging, or running in the “real world.” The main goal behind these projects aims to inspire millions of people to lead a healthier lifestyle, connect them with Web3 and fight climate change.

To do so, they combine: • • •

GPS: using satellite information to track the player’s movement to grant them the benefits.

Non-fungible tokens: as in play-to-earn, the characters with which they participate are NFT. ●Blockchain: the entire game operation and fund management gets completed through the blockchain.

GameFi: the acronym for games and finance, is the paradigm of new games that reward users.

How to get started in Move to Earn games?

As in P2E titles, in M2E, you must have a noncustodial wallet (such as Metamask, for example) and deposit a certain amount of ethers (depending on each game) obtained in exchanges. Then, you will have to connect that wallet to the app of some of these games to acquire the NFT that will allow you to compete.

How does it work?

Now, how do moves-to-earn titles work? Trough different roads, depending on each platform, app, and project.

However, in general, the premise of move-toearn apps is simple: the more exercise you do, the more tokens you receive. These platforms use, as mentioned above, the GPS of cell phones (for walking, jogging, and running) or the camera and augmented reality services (for choreographies or gym sequences) to track the effort.

reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

This new trend of move-to-earn apps manages this system that invites people to do sports, train, or walk in exchange for crypto to inspire healthier lifestyles, fight against climate change and increase the adoption of dapps and other web tools3.

Most outstanding projects using Move To Earn Now, to correlate virtual and physical environments, smartphones play a fundamental role as communication interfaces with some of their tools, such as accelerometers, satellite positioning systems, and mobile networks that transmit data.

Move to Earn platforms work under concepts known in P2E: blockchain, NFT and GameFi, elements that manage to create robust systems in security and capabilities for decentralized developments.

The combination of exercises plus a device and cryptocurrency rewards gives the feeling of “playing” walking or sports. Some projects adapted the concept of “proof of work” from Bitcoin mining to “proof of workout”: a proof of exercise or training for which you receive an incentive in tokens.

Move-to-earn technology combines crypto engineering based on blockchain and the concepts of dapps and web3, adding the use of both fungible tokens (c) and non-fungible tokens (trainers, clothing, elements, gyms), and technologies inherent to modern devices, such as GPS, virtual

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Many of these games are still in the development phase and have been launched in their BETA version, gaining popularity.. Among the most popular projects are:

StepN Known as one of the pioneer projects of Move-to-Earn, it started operations in July 2021 and is currently operating in its beta version. During this year, StepN positioned itself excellently, even before its launch.

Developed on the Solana network, it has a token called STEPN, which is currently ranked 78th on CoinMarketCap.

The game rewards its users for walking as long as they have NFT pieces, which they can purchase on secondary marketplaces such as OpenSea, for a cost of more than 3 SOL.

Walken It is one of the most recent projects that launched its test version in June 2022, positioning its token WLKN within the CoinMarketCap listing as 2986.

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One of the advantages of Walken is that it allows access without making any investment. Rewards will soon be available for all types of users.

This game does not offer earnings directly for walking, but the steps taken during the day will be inputs for our pets, and these must fight with others to get the token, and the greater the distance walked, the stronger they will be. Walken works on the Solana network.

StepApp Launched in January 2022, it does not have a currently available app, but its NFTs are available for purchase through a whitelist, open to everyone who has purchased tokens from the project.

The project’s governance token is FitFi, positioned as CoinMarketCap 2780. Currently, there are two utility tokens, FAT and KCAL, the former of which can be accumulated daily on the website with no initial investment required.

StepApp, promises its users to get daily rewards for the number of steps walked, as long as they have an NFT. StepApp NFTs can be found on secondary markets starting at 0.025 ETH.

Dotmoovs For its part, Dotmoovs will reward its users for playing various sports, including freestyle soccer and dance, which are currently available. The project’s status is in beta and runs on the Polygon network.

The MOOV, the project’s governance token, is positioned as CoinMarketCap 908. The Move-to-Earn token works under an augmented reality algorithm.

Users compete directly with others through the metaverse, where the smartphone camera is necessary to interact. Access can be free, by purchasing NFT parts.

Amazy Amazy, for example, claims that its ambition is to get people away from their screens, given that cryptocurrency enthusiasts tend to be heavy technology users.

Thus, the crypto world continues to revolutionize the gaming scene by giving users the chance to take care of their health while earning money. The digital economy is becoming a reality, something unthinkable a few years ago.

According to AMAZY, many move-to-earn applications suffer from a high degree of centralization, which is unhealthy in the long run. AMAZY wants to move all NFT interactions to the blockchain, and it also created a DAO for users to vote on proposals to improve the game.

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Think To Earn Inite

In addition to these projects, Inite has conquered space within this new modality as a web3 lifestyle idea generation application with a fun game and social mechanisms to keep users engaged and rewarded.

Users are equipped with NFTs in the form of devices and, by generating new ideas, can collect additional IDEA tokens and NFTs. With Think2earn’s mechanics, Inite aims to facilitate a healthier lifestyle to fight addictive and cheap dopamine games, increasing the gaming ecosystem’s longevity and attracting more users to web3 as a whole.

Currently the Inite team announced the launch of its test network, along with a giveaway event, with rebates: $20 000 + $30 000. The giveaway will run for one month, and it is necessary and mandatory to install the application to participate, in addition to completing a series of tasks that you can extend through this link.

Think2earn wishes to be a new mechanic that will be very popular tomorrow as positive trends continue to push people to be better, smarter and more productive, benefiting society.

The growing threat of overpopulation and the rise of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are forcing people to become more competitive in the work market, training their brains constantly to stay ahead of the curve.

Understanding that when modern society evolves and becomes more advanced, its data becomes more complex and annoying, making IQ level a status symbol for many and increasingly difficult to concentrate on the daily amount of information received.

This is why the project insists that Think2Earn is the basis of “ideanomics,” a new developing economy.

Added Value To create a world of open-minded, deep-thinking people with tons of fascinating ideas is the added value of this application. They believe in the infinite possibilities and evolutionary progression of humanity.

If you force yourself to be creative every day, the brain sets up to make creativity a priority revealing endless possibilities previously hidden by your mind.

Promising future: Why dabble in Move To Earn and Think2Earn?

The new trend of Move-To-Earn and Think2Earn and cryptocurrency earning apps are exciting new ideas based on established concepts that have proven their ability to capture people’s imagination and have them long after the initial excitement has passed. If you are fit or want to get fit, you may think that M2E applications are the perfect solution to provide you with the opportunity to earn income simply by doing what you are already doing.

Similarly, mechanics with Think2Earn promise to be a trend that captures users as it conquers territory within the crypto space, thus being beneficial for strengthening and fostering intelligence.

According to forecasts, cryptocurrency earning apps will continue to grow in popularity, which means the user base will also increase. Now is the time to start with M2E applications while the cost of entry is still relatively low, which can help improve overall profits.

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