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New NFTs are being released every week. So how do you keep up and find the drops worth minting? In this issue of the Lazy newsletter we explore three tools for staying up-to-date on tomorrow’s NFTs.
NFT Scoring will appeal to collectors that favor analytics. Upcoming drops are ranked by number of Twitter and Discord followers along with mint price. There is a metric for community engagement as well.
Rarity Tools focuses on giving all the necessary information quickly: image samples, official links, minting price, etc. All on an infinite scroll which makes it easy to quickly go through dozens of projects. Rarity Tools picks up many projects that were not found on NFT Scoring.
NFT Calendar is worth a quick scan. It is less analytical and more curated. The upside is that there are many projects listed that were not on Rarity Tools or NFT Scoring. The downside is there isn’t much information given about why these particular projects were chosen. Still, it is a good idea to check NFT Calendar occasionally in search of gems.
These tools can be helpful in finding new NFTs. However, always do careful research: there is no guarantee that the future price of an NFT will exceed the initial mint price. In other words, only spend what you can afford to lose.
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👉🏼 Want to make an impact on the NFT scene? Here’s your chance: Lazy.com is hiring a web3 front-end developer with React experience. Tens of thousands of collectors use Lazy.com to display their NFTs. Shape what they see. Apply now by sending a sample of your work. 👀
Once you’ve curated your collection of NFTs, it is crucial to keep them safe. Clearly no one wants to get hacked. So how can you prevent it? This week we’re going to analyze three common hacks and how to avoid them.
1) Discord Hijack
In a Discord hijack, a hacked admin posts a link to a fake mint.
Imagine you’re hanging out in the Discord of a new and exciting NFT project when you see an urgent post from an admin announcing a surprise mint. Wow, right!? You rush to send your hard earned eth only to discover that the admin’s account had been hacked and the mint was fake. Welcome to the new wave of Discord hijacks.
This kind of attack is becoming more common. In recent days CryptoMories and Rare Bears were both hit. Protecting yourself from Discord hijacks can be difficult because the hackers will often move quickly and ban other admins who could alert the community to the fraud. The best defense is to be skeptical of any previously unannounced surprise mints.
2) Phishing Websites
The phishing site will ask for approval to transfer (ie, steal) your NFTs.
This time you’re hanging out on Twitter, proudly displaying your Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT, when you receive a message promising to animate your NFT. Very cool! When you visit the site, it prompts you to connect your wallet and submit a transaction. You accept and your BAYCs disappear forever. This week a Bored Ape Yacht Club member fell for this scam and lost 3 apes ($900K).
To guard against this type of hack it is important to remember that any transaction you sign or submit on a website could potentially interact with your NFT’s smart contract. That’s because smart contracts live on the blockchain and any website can interact with the contracts. So the best protection is to be wary of completing transactions on websites that you don’t 100% trust.
Oh, and by the way, if someone is offering to create an animated version of your BAYC then they don’t need you to submit a transaction on the blockchain. That’s why there is some truth to the old “right click, save as” meme.
3) MetaMask Compromise
The third kind of attack is more sophisticated than the other two and it has been proven to work against technically savvy crypto users. In fact, this week a prominent crypto VC fell victim and lost over a $1.7m worth of NFTs.
The hack begins with a phishing email or message pointing to what looks like a very interesting shared Google Doc. When the user clicks on the link, their computer is unwittingly infected with malware that compromises their MetaMask. Once the user’s MetaMask has been replaced with a malicious version, the hacker gains access to their wallet seed phrase and can also spoof transactions.
To protect against this attack, aside from not clicking on links, it is important to periodically check that your MetaMask has not been replaced with a malicious version. To do this, in Chrome, click Window -> Extensions and make sure that “Developer Mode” is ticked OFF.
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👉🏼 Want to make an impact on the NFT scene? Here’s your chance: Lazy.com is hiring a web3 front-end developer with React experience. Tens of thousands of collectors use Lazy.com to display their NFTs. Shape what they see. Apply now by sending a sample of your work. 👀
All eyes were on Bored Ape Yacht Club this week after the collection’s creators acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits and then airdropped ApeCoin. It will takes some time for the volatility to subside. Until then the full impact of these developments are unknown. One thing is for certain: NFTs are entering a new stage that few could have predicted.
So, what’s next? In search of answers, we present three of this week’s best Twitter threads on the future of NFTs.
1) Overview of the NFT / Metaverse Landscape by @JavierAng_
We’ve been saying for awhile that NFTs are a lot more than profile pictures. In this recent thread, @JavierAng_ does a good job showing the true breadth of the NFT technology and scene. It serves as a helpful reminder that the future of NFTs will happen in many different fields: from marketplaces to identity layers and blockchains to DeFi. Read the full thread here.
2) “A few NFT trends I can’t stop thinking about” by @gregisenberg
Greg Isenberg shares a few thoughts on the NFT trends that have captured his imagination. Good ideas and good examples makes this an interesting read. Although, to be honest, Greg makes a couple arguments that we find hard to accept, we appreciated the provocation. Read the full thread here.
Curio, an app for NFT research, posted an analysis of whether collectors should sell their NFTs pre-reveal or post-reveal. The question is oddly specific and Curio has presented a lot of detailed analysis, which all makes this thread a satisfying read. It makes us wonder what kind of NFT analytics will be commonplace in the years ahead and how that will inform the behavior of NFT collectors. Read the full thread here.
These three perspectives on NFTs. Their opinions could be wrong. Always do your own research and come to your own conclusions.
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👉🏼 Want to make an impact on the NFT scene? Here’s your chance: Lazy.com is hiring a web3 front-end developer with React experience. Tens of thousands of collectors use Lazy.com to display their NFTs. Shape what they see. Apply now by sending a sample of your work. 👀
Serious NFT collecting requires a lot of research. There are countless new projects spread across several blockchains. How to keep track of them all? How to find the projects that are diamonds waiting to be discovered?
This week we dive into three research tools that will help you curate your dream NFT collection.
1) CryptoSlam!
First up, is CryptoSlam!, a great place to begin your research each day. The front page of CryptoSlam! gives an immediate overview of the NFT collections that are generating the most sales. Dig deeper by clicking on a collection, and CryptoSlam! provides detailed information on recent sales, how long the NFT was held before being sold, it’s rarity rank, etc. All super useful and interesting information.
2) Context
Next, check out Context. The beauty of this site is how information is presented. Context makes it easy to track the activity of NFT collectors. For example, you can see which NFTs CrytoPunk holders are buying and selling. Context does a great job surfacing useful information out of the flood of transactions happening every day on the blockchain.
3) Coniun
Finally, jump over to Coniun in search of new projects. Coniun has taken a similar approach to CryptoSlam! with a few notable differences. The most useful being their analytics on new mints. And they’ve done some work to automatically identify the new projects that are likely to be scams. Unlike CryptoSlam! and Context, full access to Coniun is not free.
These three tools can be helpful in identifying NFTs that are worth adding to your collection. However, always do careful research: some canny scammers can manipulate minting data or floor prices.
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Web3devs participated in PayID Hackathon: Make money move like email hosted by Devpost.
Unisend – Send money internationally for free
Inspiration
It’s quite hard, expensive, and slow to pay overseas developers.
What it does
Unisend allows you to send money to anywhere in the world for basically free via an XRP payment rails and PayId. This is done by using Dwolla and Plaid to withdraw money from the sender’s bank via ACH. Those funds are deposited into an exchange. The USD is immediately exchanged for XRP. The XRP tokens to the recipient’s exchange address which is on their PayId. The tokens are immediately sold once the webhook is triggered. From there, the funds are send to the recipients bank account.
How we built it
We used React for the frontend and Express NodeJS for the backend. We utilized numerous APIs including Plaid and Dwolla. These two APIs allow us to withdraw funds from a user’s US bank account via ACH. We also used the Indian banking API to handle their ACH equivalent.
Challenges we ran into
Setting up Dwolla and making it function with Plaid.
Smart contracts help you exchange money, property, shares, or anything of value in a transparent, conflict-free way while avoiding the services of a middleman.
Located in Memphis Tennessee United States of America.
About the Conference:
We’re a Finance tech conference brought together the best and brightest from the field of Finance under one roof on the 29th and 30th of August, 2019 in Orlando. We strive to provide a fruitful platform for Finance and Technology startups, SMEs, key decision-makers, researchers, investors and people from the media to interact and build meaningful alliances.
Web3devs blockchain development shop presents a demo of their new cryptocurrency payment gateway called
Full Payment Gateway for Cryptocurrency
In order for more merchants to adopt technologies like BitCoin, our industry needs to find the time to educate or make things simpler. Root Payments is here to help with both. This technology is easy to use, even without technical knowledge of how cryptocurrency works. No one understands how dollar valuations work, but we still use them every day. Our vision is to make cryptocurrency that easy.
Merchants point of view
Merchants don’t always understand why they need to accept alternative payments like cryptocurrency. It is even harder when there’s no easy way to implement a solution for them that works with their current transactional flow. We are taking on these issues to help the merchant make it ‘just work’ and ‘just get paid’
Love it or hate it, everyone was waiting to see what Facebook’s new Libra platform would look like when it was revealed today. I spent some time this morning going over their docs and examples and I found some things to be expected and some things that were a bit surprising.
Getting Started
It looks like for now, Facebook has a testnet up and running. The mainnet will be up sometime in 2020, so that gives developers plenty of time to learn the system and create apps on top of it. As expected, there is no way to run a real “node” in the classic sense of the term, where you can contribute directly to the network. You must currently connect to validator nodes. I couldn’t quickly determine what their process is for becoming a validator node, but I have a strong suspicion it consists of being a giant corporation and paying a small fortune. You can run your own validator network locally, but that is just your own network for development purposes and does not connect to the testnet or future mainnet.
Getting started was pretty quick and painless if you’re not afraid of the command line. I was connected to the test network and making transactions between Alice and Bob in less than 5 minutes. A lot of the tools and commands were very familiar and it does seem that Facebook is putting effort into giving developers what they’re used to in the blockchain world and not trying to reinvent the wheel. One really nice feature was that there is a testnet Faucet built right into the CLI. This helps us devs get up and running even faster.
Pseudonymity
One of the big questions looming about Libra was how anonymous was it going to be? Blockchain people love anonymity/pseudonymity, it’s one of the core belief pillars for a lot of people in the industry. And Facebook doesn’t exactly have a strong reputation in the privacy department.
I was happy to see that nowhere in the process of getting set up and making transactions was I prompted with a Facebook login. It seems Facebook so far is taking pseudonymity pretty seriously. So far. Keep in mind this is all currently on testnet. Things could be different when the mainnet launches.
Smart Contracts
As a dyed-in-the-wool Ethereum enthusiast, I was a bit disappointed in Libra’s smart contract capabilities. Ethereum’s smart contracts are the thing that made everything click for me about the potential future of blockchain technology, and it seems Libra’s “smart contracts” are a bit more akin to Stellar Smart Contracts, which are really more like multisig wallets than flexible smart contracts. There’s still a lot you can do with them, though. Everything from custom tokens to full auction websites can be built using this type of contract, but good luck going as far as projects like MakerDAO or Aragon on a limited system like this.
Open Source
Facebook seems to actually be making the effort to build a development community around Libra. Everything is open source, the documentation is excellent, and the developer tools are familiar. Once again, we’ll see if this holds up when they make the transition to mainnet, but I’m hopeful after today.
Conclusion
I’m remaining hopefully optimistic about Facebook’s new Libra platform. It seems like they’re headed in the right direction. And while I would never suggest Libra will overtake a fully open network like Ethereum, I’m sure it will have valid use cases that help move the needle with blockchain technology in general. I think the really exciting use cases of this technology will come from the WhatsApp world. Large sections of the world use WhatsApp to pay for quite literally everything they buy. Adding the possibility for conditional payments on top of that could open up billions of people to the benefits of blockchain technology. I’ll definitely be watching this project closely and learning more and more on the dev side. Let us know if you have the next great idea to be built on this platform and need some devs to put it together.
Today we are speaking with Drew Patel of Pollinate.
They were a top 3 winner in San Fran at EOS Hackathon 2018.
On this episode, we hear Drew’s story of how he started in the blockcahin space. How the team and idea for Pollinate formed in San Francisco. How Pollinate evolved after San Fran till now.
Blockchain Stack
Drew shares his current technical stack and what it takes to grab his interest in attending a hackathon.
Why Attend Hackathons
Connecting with amazing people like Drew is a big reason the web3devs team travels to hackathons around the world.
On web3talks, we talk about Blockchain technology and how the business world is adopting blockchain.
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