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Anndy Lian comments on NFT sales falling below US$1 billion | 3AC files for bankruptcy | Stablecoins

Anndy Lian comments on NFT sales falling below US$1 billion | 3AC files for bankruptcy | Stablecoins

This video is featured on The Daily Forkast, July 4th, 2022, presented by Joel Flynn for the latest in blockchain & crypto news. The following were highlighted:

Monthly NFT sales fall below US$1 billion for the first time in a year. (https://forkast.news/monthly-nft-sales-below-1billion-12-months/)

Meanwhile, Three Arrows Capital files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the US.
(https://forkast.news/headlines/three-arrows-capital-chapter-15-bankruptcy/)

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX doubles down on BlockFi bailout.
(https://forkast.news/headlines/blockfi-deal-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-clients/)

And finally, experts weigh in on the future of stablecoins.

Experts who commented on this video include:
Anndy Lian, Chief Digital Advisor, Mongolian Productivity Organization
Annabelle Huang, Managing Partner, Amber Group
Jason P Gottlieb, Chair of Digital Assets, Morrison Cohen
Trent Barnes, Principal, Zerocap

00:37 – Monthly NFT sales fall below US$1 billion for the first time in a year.
03:12 – Three Arrows Capital files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the US.
04:00 – Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX doubles down on BlockFi bailout.
09:23 – Experts weigh in on the future of stablecoins.

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Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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Monthly NFT sales fall below US$1 billion for first time in 12 months

Monthly NFT sales fall below US$1 billion for first time in 12 months

Crypto industry sales are slumping, but it’s not just hedge funds and lenders that have been hit hard by the crypto winter. The NFT industry has also begun to feel the chill.

The troubles at crypto hedge funds and lenders were a center of attention in June, but business in the non-fungible token (NFT) market also got hit, with monthly sales dipping below US$1 billion for the first time in 12 months, according to NFT data aggregators CryptoSlam.

For context, June last year was the same month that Axie Infinity exploded in popularity, putting NFTs and play-to-earn gaming on the map in the process.

Plummeting crypto prices share some of the blame for the poor NFT sales, but unique monthly buyers in June also fell almost 50% from a high of more than 1 million in January and now stand at less than 600,000 for the first time since July 2021.

In another telling sign, the floor price for a Bored Ape Yacht Club — one of the biggest NFT collections — fell below US$100,000 for the first time in over a year in mid-June to a low of US$86,277. That’s almost an 80% plunge from a high of more than US$400,000 in late May.

“The NFT market has not been immune to the crypto market (and business) turbulence and when coupled with [traditional finance] downturn — in particular the tech stocks crash — it is a perfect storm for loss of confidence,” Jonathon Miller, Australian managing director of crypto exchange Kraken, told Forkast in shared written commentary.

The 70% drop this year in the price of Ether, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, also influenced NFT trading, as it’s the native token of Ethereum, the most popular blockchain for hosting NFTs. Ether prices traded around US$1,055 on Monday in Asia.

However, after a volatile few weeks, crypto prices held relatively steady over the weekend, with all major coins fluctuating no more than 1% in the 24 hours through Monday afternoon in Asia.

Bitcoin held steady around US$19,300 over the weekend after dropping below US$19,000 for the first time since December 2020 on Friday to change hands at US$19,133 at press time. Amid this NFT market downturn, Kraken is set to join the likes of Binance and Coinbase by opening the waitlist for its own NFT marketplace set for full release in the next few months.

“The seeming collapse of closed book lending businesses may be viewed in the long run as a reminder that open transparent infrastructure is ultimately the foundation upon which a new wave of digital financial tools will be built,” Miller said.

“The projects and businesses that stay as true to this as possible are the ones that can weather the storm,” he said.

Another way NFT marketplaces or exchanges can stand out from the crowd is by specializing and offering unique services, for instance by focusing on sports-based NFTs, according to Anndy Lian, Chief Digital Advisor, Mongolian Productivity Organization, and a blockchain author.

“I think the NFT market could recover faster than the crypto original market,” said Lian, highlighting partnership deals between Binance and Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo as a sign of what’s to come.

“All these moves, which cost perhaps hundreds of millions, are telling us that this will be a big strategy,” he added. “We cannot just depend on what you see in crypto native; you need to bring in new blood.”

Original Source: https://forkast.news/monthly-nft-sales-below-1billion-12-months/

Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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How Significant Is Instagram’s NFT Launch? What are the things you should look out for?

How Significant Is Instagram’s NFT Launch? What are the things you should look out for?

Earlier this month the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced that he will start beta testing NFT functions with a small group of users in the US.  Mosseri also confirmed there will be no fees for posting or sharing NFTs on Instagram.  Any NFT digital collectibles shared in Instagram will appear as tagged photos or profiles, and when clicked, you will be able to view creator and artwork details.  Instagram supports the display of NFTs created on the Ethereum and Polygon as well as on Flow and Solana in the future.  It will also support the use of third-party encrypted wallets such as Rainbow, MetaMask and Trust Wallet, with support for more crypto wallets planned in the future.

 

Source: see Tweet from May 9, 2002

Creators and developers participating in the beta can now share the NFTs they make or buy.  Users can share these NFTs in their feeds, stories, or messages.  According to Mosseri, only a few people currently have access to Instagram’s NFT beta test, which is designed to be able to gain important data feedback from the initial test and learn how to best integrate the buying and selling of these digital collectibles. While more NFT-related features will be rolled out in the future I believe that Instagram’s NFT rollout may be part of Instagram’s parent company Meta’s metaverse project, involving a deeper interaction in the future. As Mosseri tweeted a few days after the NFT announcement: “Power is shifting. Over the next 10 years, we are going to see a shift in power away from platforms and towards creators. There’s a lot we all can and should do to lean into that shift.”

 

What is the purpose of Instagram’s move?

I believe that the creator economy is very important for Instagram in the current market. While many creators in social media already have a variety of different ways to make money, many of them are unpredictable and dependent on the platform they use.  Therefore, there is a strong case to believe that Instagram will be able to attract creators to form a community. “I want to acknowledge upfront that NFTs and blockchain technologies are all about distributing trust and distributing power,” Mosseri admitted. “But Instagram is fundamentally a centralized platform, so there’s a tension there. One of the reasons why we’re starting small is we want to make sure that we can learn from the community. We want to make sure that we work out how to embrace those tenets of distributed trust and distributed power, despite the fact that we are, yes, a centralized platform.”

In the metaverse, people will buy, use NFTs for a variety of purposes, and share their experiences. Meta decided to start with NFTs because NFTs are an important link in the metaverse economy. I believe that since Facebook changed its name to Meta, they have been exploring a wider range of web3 technologies, and aim that through using these technologies, creation costs will be reduced, and the experience would be better. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that similar functionality will soon be available on Facebook and possibly other Meta apps in the future.  Zuckerberg added that Meta will work on augmented reality NFTs, or 3D NFTs.

In my view, Instagram’s foray into NFTs has been planned for quite a while. In 2021, Instagram hosted Creators Week, an invite-only virtual summit that Instagram describes in its invitations as a “private event for NFT creators.”  It’s also worth noting that Instagram’s NFT beta program launched not long after Twitter enabled NFT profile pictures for its premium users.  That said, Instagram and Twitter are not the only big tech companies entering the NFT space. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, said it may start using web3 technologies including NFTs in the near future to help YouTube creators monetize their work: “We’re always focused on expanding the YouTube ecosystem to help creators capitalize on emerging technologies, including things like NFTs, while continuing to strengthen and enhance the experiences creators and fans have on YouTube,” she confirmed in a letter published in January.

In the light of the developments, industry experts are all optimistic of Instagram’s moves on NFT. “I think Instagram can help users to understand NFT better. They are also indirectly introducing new users to the cryptocurrency space. Overall, this is a positive move and I hope more companies can do the same.” Jenny Zheng, Business Development lead at Bybit NFT Marketplace commented.

Anndy Lian, thought leader and Chairman at BigONE exchange said: “While Instagram isn’t the first social app to experiment with NFTs, the sheer size of its one billion (monthly active) user base gives it its biggest reach versus its competitors, which means that the addition of web3 technology it could potentially engage a whole new group of users.  And with Meta’s Facebook expected to add similar features in the near future, Meta will have a huge NFT presence in the social media space. I know Instagram can create more sparks in the NFT space. I am so looking forward.”

It is also worth noting that as the value of NFTs has fallen significantly since last year, so the number of users interested in the feature may be lower than expected.  As a striking example of this slowdown, on May 4, the Coinbase NFT marketplace opened, but since then only just over four thousand people have bought an NFT. So it remains to be seen whether Instagram and Facebook can turn things around and rekindle significant user enthusiasm for NFTs.

 

Original Source: https://www.benzinga.com/22/06/27870761/how-significant-is-instagrams-nft-launch-what-are-the-things-you-should-look-out-for

Anndy Lian is an early blockchain adopter and experienced serial entrepreneur who is known for his work in the government sector. He is a best selling book author- “NFT: From Zero to Hero” and “Blockchain Revolution 2030”.

Currently, he is appointed as the Chief Digital Advisor at Mongolia Productivity Organization, championing national digitization. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Chairman of BigONE Exchange, a global top 30 ranked crypto spot exchange and was also the Advisory Board Member for Hyundai DAC, the blockchain arm of South Korea’s largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor Group. Lian played a pivotal role as the Blockchain Advisor for Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), an intergovernmental organization committed to improving productivity in the Asia-Pacific region.

An avid supporter of incubating start-ups, Anndy has also been a private investor for the past eight years. With a growth investment mindset, Anndy strategically demonstrates this in the companies he chooses to be involved with. He believes that what he is doing through blockchain technology currently will revolutionise and redefine traditional businesses. He also believes that the blockchain industry has to be “redecentralised”.

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