PLUS: How Reddit did an NFT rollout the RIGHT way June 03, 2023 | [Read Online]( GM. This is Milk Road. Weâre like that super honest friend that lets you know when you have broccoli in your teeth - we tell it like it is. Itâs Saturday, yâall. Letâs get it: - Bursting the rug pull bubble 𫧠- XRPâs 11th birthday ð - Redditâs NFT playbook ð - The crypto founder found dead ðª Prices as of 9:20 AM ET. TOOL OF THE WEEK: BUBBLEMAPS 𫧠Gather around Roaders, the Milk Manâs here to walk you through a tool that makes [blockchain]( data easier to read than Captain Underpants⦠Hereâs 3 cool ways to use a little thing called Bubblemaps: 1/ Spot rug pulls Rug pull - two words that give almost any crypto investor PTSD. And the sad truth is that they are too easy to create, and everywhere. Well, Bubblemaps is the king when it comes to finding red flags. And hereâs a quick guide on how you can spot em yourself in only a few minutes: [tw profile: Cyril - DeFi] Cyril - DeFi @cyrilXBT [tw]
Replying to@cyrilXBT First, head over to @bubblemaps ⢠Pick a token you want to investigate into
⢠Type it into the search bar
⢠Look for the dev's wallet to find if there inter linking wallets In this example, I'll be using $LOYAL and investigating wallets linked to the project Jun 2, 2023 30 Likes 7 Retweets 1 Replies 2/ Track the relationship between wallets Imagine that the top holder of a token is Joe, but you donât know the second is Joeâs mom and the third is Joeâs grandma. She doesnât even know what a digital wallet is! Each [wallet]( is separate, but Joe is in control of all of these tokens. And you never want a holder to have too much of the supply. Bubblemaps shows you how wallets were funded and any links they may have. In one scam, a top wallet only owned 3% of the supply, but they were tied to almost 25% of it: Bubblemaps Take a guess how this ended⦠3/ Spot inflated volume and wash trading Wash trading is when fake trades are made to boost different statistics or drive FOMO. And [wash trading]( has become a big problem. People are estimating that ~60% of all NFT trades in 2022 were wash trades. But when you put it into bubbles, wash trading can be pretty simple to break down. [It helped expose]( a notorious [NFT]( project Squiggles by showing how a few wallets were responsible for most of the secondary market sales. So what? Blockchains are meant to be fully transparent and open source. But while all blockchain data is available, bad actors are getting really good at covering their trails. And look, we know we just spat a whole lotta praise for Bubblemaps. But they didnât pay us to - we just really like what theyâre doing. All for that âMâ word - mass adoption. XRP LAUNCHED 11 YEARS AGO ð Pssst! Itâs a certain someoneâs birthday⦠At the ripe old age of 11 is⦠XRP. AKA the 6th largest cryptocurrency by market cap created by Rippleâs founders. Meanwhile, I ate too much cake and vomited in the bouncy house on my 11th birthday. To celebrate, letâs go down memory lane - and see where XRPâs headed. 1/ XRP was created before its founders built Ripple The two are technically separate from each other. Ripple just holds most of XRPâs 100B supply (the founders hold the rest.) Rippleâs known for cross-border payments. Banks like BoA & Santander use its RippleNet (real-time platform) for that. Itâs built on XRP Ledger, the blockchain that the XRP token is native on. Oh and Ripple was co-founded by the same guy that created Mt. Gox. #UltraFunFact 2/ Critics have called the XRP network not truly decentralized because: - Only an approved ~1,500 people validate transactions. Versus anyone being able to validate on Bitcoin, etc. - XRP tokens havenât been created since 2012. Rippleâs founders hold the power to release some into circulation every month to keep the supply stable. 3/ XRPâs price peaked at $3.84 after the 2017 crypto bull run Then the 2018 bear market dragged it down, and⦠4/ The SEC sued Ripple in 2020. CoinMarketCap It said founders were illegally offering XRP as an unregistered security. Exchanges like Coinbase delisted the coin. So what will its 12th year look like? Well, the SEC/Ripple lawsuit is due to wrap up this month⦠and Rippleâs expected to win. That prediction has already been driving XRPâs price up in the last few months. You know what that means! Weâre hittin Vegas for the next birthday, baby. DIGITAL COLLECTIBLES IN, NFTS OUT ð Big brands getting into NFTs is nothing new. Weâve seen it all folks... the good, the bad and the ultimate top signal: Twitter And while there have been a lot of swings and misses, Redditâs rollout tells a different story. Whatâs happening? Reddit NFTs just passed 10M holders. Thatâs 10M wallets being created on the Polygon network. 4x the amount of people that transacted on [OpenSea]( by the end of last year. Redditâs gotten ~$33M in sales revenue. Not too shabby for less than a year. Howâd they do it? First off, they never say NFTs, wallets or any other lingo. If Web3 is gonna be accepted by the masses, we gotta drop all those buzzwords. Redditâs also made them inexpensive. A far cry from the standard 10K collection that prides itself on exclusivity and high prices. It doesnât hurt that theyâre kinda cute, too. MILK & COOKIES ðª [A crypto founder was found dead this week.]( John Forsyth founded ONFO coin and had been missing for a week. [The OpenAI CTOâs Twitter account was hacked to promote a fraudulent crypto token.]( So was Fortniteâs official Twitter account. Câmon Elon⦠[Nikeâs dot swoosh is teaming up with Electronic Arts sports.]( Weâre HERE for that Web3 gaming interoperability [Circleâs launching a native USDC on Arbitrum next week.]( Itâll make it a lot faster to trade. MILKY MEMES 𤣠Share Milk Road You currently have 0 referrals, only 1 away from receiving The Next 10x Opportunity in Crypto for 2023. 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