Polygon brings MILLIONs into Web3
Hackers targeted big billionaires and monkeys? What's going on? Check this one out.
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This post is written in collab with the UNFUNNIEST daily crypto newsletter — the doodhwala
Here’s what we’ve got for you today:
America’s Zerodha asks Polygon bhai for web3 help
BAYC called out by Anonymous
NFT prices gonna crash because of Anonymous?
Spot the odd one out:
President of Iran (Ebrahim Raisi)
President of Russia (Vladimir Putin)
Bored Ape Yacht Club, a monkey NFT collection
These 3 were the targets of Anonymous’ latest videos.
Anonymous? Nope, we’re not talking about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, or your (fake) girlfriend.
We’re talking about this creepy group.
This group recently called out Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection.
It’s not because they screwed up flipping NFTs (BAYC floor price is down nearly 50% in 4 months yikes!)
But because of the symbolism of the NFT collection.
Here’s what Anonymous said in their call-out video:
“Anonymous is certain that the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection and the Yuga Labs’ brand are infected with not one or two but dozens of esoteric symbolism and dog whistles reflecting Nazism, Racism, Simianization, and Paedophile support.”
Those are big words, but let me break this down for ya:
They’re basically saying that Yuga Labs is:
using images from Nazism (you know the ideology of used by the dude with the worst mustache eva - Hitler)
promoting racism (by using monkeys with gold teeth as the primary animal on the NFTs — bored apes, mutant apes, etc.)
promoting Jewish hate (using the name “Gargamel” to hide the founder’s identity)
I mean, check this out:
On the left is the logo of BAYC.
In the center is the logo of SS Totenkopf, a Nazi secret service.
On the right is the overlay, which looks
Yeah, this is not a good look for Yuga Labs.
Yuga Labs is the BIGGEST company in the NFT space. They’re behind 4 of the top-5 NFT collections.
They’ve even launched:
a metaverse (Otherside)
a native token (ApeCoin)
a blockchain (ApeChain — coming soon)
Anonymous even called out Yuga Labs’ NFT holders to dump their NFTs and dissociate from the company.
See if you know these small time NFT-holding celebrities:
⚽️ Neymar, Memphis Depay
🏀 Step Curry, Shaquille O’Neal, Mark Cuban
🎤 Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Drake, The Chainsmokers
🤡 Justin Bieber, Logan Paul, KSI
Celebs are known for not associating with anything that’ll hurt their brand, so the question is —
Will they dump their NFTs?
And
Will this cause a crash in NFT prices?
👀
Polygon brings MILLIONs into Web3
Okay look, web3 has a problem. ⚠️
It’s the same as getting into an Air India flight at 9 AM on a Monday.
🛃 onboarding 🛃
How tf can you get someone from their fiat currency bank account → to use DeFi?!?
Crypto exchanges have been tryna solving this for years.
Everyone from Binance to CoinDCX is looking for a solution.
But it looks like an unlikely company’s got the answer
WHOOO?
🌿 Robinhood 🌿
Robinhood is a zero-commission brokerage company based in the US.
They’re like Zerodha but with 2 main differences:
they have 10x the amount of users
they support crypto + stock trading
And now they wanna onboard their users into web3!
But isn’t crypto trading and using web3 different?
Nope.
❌ Crypto trading is simply trading financial assets using a third party like an exchange (Binance) or a brokerage (Robinhood).
✅ Using web3 means using web3 protocols that are built on open source blockhains, using decentralized currencies like ETH, SOL, MATIC, etc.
It’s like saying playing FIFA on the PS5 is the same as playing the world cup. 🤣
Robinhood is allowing users to go from Crypto trading → Web3
Another way of saying this is:
Robinhood is allowing users to go from CeFi → DeFi
And they’re doing this through apna very own Polygon.
Robinhood is launching its web3 wallet through an integration with Polygon.
This will allow their users to:
use DApps
send and receive cryptos
onboard into web3
Since they’re using Polygon, the fees are also hella cheap and transactions super fast.
This is massive because it allows users to go from:
Fiat bank account → Centralised brokerage (Robinhood) → Web3 wallet (through Polygon)
We’re so SUPER EXCITED for this. 🤝
DAO of the Week: Friends With Benefits
Do you have any friends with benefits? 😏
If you don’t, then you don't have to worry.
Web3 is offering solutions for that as well.
But it's not what you expect.
It’s actually… better than you expected.
Let us introduce you to Friends With Benefits- A group of Web3-focused thinkers, builders, creators, and friends.
A community of like-minded people who come together on Discord and IRL to discuss their visions for the future.
So how can you join this close-knit community?
It's a simple three-step process:
Complete the member application
Join their Discord server
Once you are approved, buy 75 $FWB tokens
If you are interested…you can apply here!
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Will see you guys next Friday. Till then
Unbank yourself.
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