Todays write up is a little all over the place, of course its still all NFT related & as always includes an airdrop. First I have to talk about the elephant in the room that is Major companies such as Visa, Bud Wiser, and others getting involved with NFTs.
Other ten this I have some tips for new Hive users about Hive engine, some of the other Hive exchanges, and services. Hive is a great thing, but its not obvious so some of its finer points can be easily overlooked.
NFT legitimacy
Those in the investment end of crypto look upon NFTs with skepticisms, as they represent a subjective and thus a fickle market.
Though it is a Fickle market it is a consumer market & there are companies in that sector already involved with NFTs. While previously there where mostly entertainment based business or celebrity's in NFTs now Visa, Budweiser, and even Charmin toilet paper getting involved with NFTs.
Sony has made WAX NFTs a few times and Splinterlands cards sell side by side with baseball cards. Snoop dog has NFTs there are even J and silent bob NFT cameo roles in an upcoming film. When talking NFTs a few years ago these where a fad nothing more.
Businesses are starting to see the potential afforded to them with NFT production. In time I predict the NFT markets becomes more streamlined and easier to access. Start getting into specifics such as file type and we can start seeing the full potential of NFTs.
Companies utilize them currently almost as a publicity stunt meant to bring awareness to their brand or image. Where as say snoop dogg or Kevin smith are utilizing them for their distribution mechanisms and earnings potential. Of course it helps their image but its also a great way to distribute certain entertainment such as music and comics.
Crypto can get complicated which makes it intimidating, but as society begins to see what NFTs are capable of they will become the driving factor in the crypto industry this is truly what I believe.
A link to the news about the Crypto Punk Visa bought for $150,000 worth of ETH earlier this week.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/23/visa-buys-cryptopunk-nft-for-150000.html
Crypto Hit the News for NFTs again its almost like they are more popular then crypto at this point. The two are linked and almost one & the same in certain cases as NFTs are on blockchain.
Switching gears a little has anyone heard of Milkomeda? This service which is named after the combination of 2 galaxy names combined together Andromeda & the Milky Way Milkomeda Is combination of the Cardano & ETH block chains.
Given that ADA is an up and coming NFT producer & ETH is the old titan of that industry this combination of the 2 is bound to be great for both.
For those looking for the full story check out this episode of Crypto & Coffee.
Splinterlands update today
Yeah I know no one wants down time from the best block chain game in the world Splinterlands. However todays update is special as guild brawls are beginning the 2.0 phase.
I hope everyone found a guild because this is going to get good. The guilds will be getting the Barracks to train, the guild store A place to spend our guild brawl rewards, & the introduction of 32 new Guild brawl only Gladiator cards.
Links to all these articles below
Store
@cryptomancer/splinterlands-guild-store-a-place-to-spend-your-brawl-rewards
Barracks
@cryptomancer/splinterlands-barracks-train-your-teams-to-perform-better-in-brawls
Gladiators
@cryptomancer/splinterlands-gladiators-introducing-a-whole-new-set-of-32-brawl-specific-cards
The news on the update
@splinterlands/guild-brawls-phase-2-release-today-and-other-updates
Now as far as I know the update begins today starting at
5 - 6 PM ET / 21:00 - 22:00 UTC. There will also be an update involving season rewards being put into place at the end of the month.
As always I insist you hear these things directly from the devs or company please try the links above.
For the last part of this section I figured I would let everyone know despite the fact that quest potions use DEC instead of credits I still use them daily.
Now I'm in gold rank 3 while I could not justify this expenditure at say bronze rank you see the number of chests I get is far greater at this level.
I have been getting skunked lately but I trust it will all work out in due time patience is important. Especially with this game try try try again eventually you succeed.
With all the new updates scheduled for the future such as new reward cards and the new packs which will eventually launch.
So while to many the Pack potions are worthless at the moment think about it as building a surplus for the new packs.
This way when the new packs hit the shelves you will have the best odds when opening them.
Here is an old pro tip for those new to Splinterlands, when you buy packs on Hive engine you may want to transfer them to game.
This can be done a few ways
If you hit the convert button on your pack on the opening portal page in game
Then select hive engine
Or if on mobile and have to utilize Hive engine transfer to
steemmonsters
Leave the memo blank and this should transfer the pack to your linked game account.
You would have to pair a WAX address to your game account for a transfer from WAX. This again can be done from the portal page on your game account but just select WAX instead.
However there is yet another work around if this is not an option WAX has its own Splinterlands page with Splinterlands tools.
https://splinterlands.atomichub.io/tools/overview/splinterlands
This link will take you right to this page just sign in with WAX, once there hit deposit to game.
Make sure its to you Hive account select the asset you wish to transfer then click deposit. Works for cards or packs Hopefully this helps new users a little confused on the process.
Hive tips
Lets keep this New user helping train of thought rolling, There are a few exchanges for Hive users other then Hive Engine.
One of my personal favorites which works with both Steem engine & Hive engine accounts.
https://dswap.trade/dashboard
Though the selection on Dswap is a little limited they allow for simplistic trading immediately from asset to asset.
Say you wanted aa simple swap from DEC to Doge this is one of the easier ways to do that. Granted its Swap.Doge or Pegged DOGE a wrapped version of DOGE on HIVE which functions in much the same way DOGE does and can be withdrew to a DOGE wallet.
All SWAP or PEGGED assets on HIVE function like this to the best of my knowledge.
next up is Tribal DEX
https://tribaldex.com/
Another Hive exchange offering options for liquidity and NFT
management. Though not great for new users those a little more experienced may want to check out their diesel pools.
see the pools with the Liquidity pool reward as the description implies have an added incentive for providing liquidity.
Nothing has changed I'm still not a financial advisor, please use caution when using liquidity pools as it can result in a financial loss.
last but certainly not least we have Leo Dex and by extension Cub Finance.
https://leodex.io/market/LEO
https://cubdefi.com/
Leo Dex operates in a similar fashion to Hive Engine exchange but is Leo oriented. The CUB Finance is based on BSC not HIVE and it operates similar to Pancake Swap.
https://leofinance.io/
The link above is the leofinance Blog or Tribe, you can earn LEO by blogging there or Hash tagging leofinance on you posts to Hive.
Their LEO is also an ETH wrapped token & this is why I think LEO is closest to being able to fork from HIVE.
https://leopedia.io/
LeoPidia is a great resource for new users with a great deal of Leo Crypto and Hive info.
Drip & mining Coins
Crypto that mines crypto its like financial inception but its almost common place on the HIVE blockchain.
Though this list only contains a fraction of the Mining or Drip coins (BTW when I refer to a drip coin its a Coin that pays out several assets instead of one).
Here are some of my favorite Mining coins
Though no where near all of them I have a little colection going of Mining coins all of which mine one particular coin either randomly or daily. You have to stake all mining coins and most drip coins for them to work.
Some of my favorite drip coins
The DHEDGE and BRO dont require staking neither does INDEX.
I'm sure I missed a great many coins these are simply reflective of what I own. Even with this meager colection I generate Crypto Daily into my Hive wallet.
That's just a small chunk of what my account makes daily and I publish delegate to curation and supply upvote mana. You would be shocked the opportunities afforded to you by Hive you simply have to know about them.
Hive faucets
Yeah Hive actually has a few faucets my preferred one is Gift Giver as its directly deposited to your Hive account and is officially linked to Hive. With both Delegation services and an hourly faucet Gift Giver is awesome.
https://giftgiver.site/
This other faucet doesn't seem as good but it has an extensive coin list including LEO and HIVE.
https://coinfaucet.net/?ref=4e6a49344d54673d
Did I miss something important?
I like to learn so If you noticed something important is missing, or you have questions, comments, or concerns. Dont forget to shout them out in the comments Ill try my best to respond to everything I can.
Single claim NFT airdrop URL
This is a airdrop of 6 NFTs on a first come first serve basis and can only be claimed by a single lucky reader. If you the lucky one that receives the airdrop and there is less then 6 NFTs check you WAX wallet white list settings.
https://wax.atomichub.io/trading/link/315702?key=5JjXZHsJqZzcaEhFy2yresRqsAtPiCpVGTTphHRYpB8y2W86gdD
Keep that promo sticker it gives you access to the next sale for the Zombie coin NFT colection.
Once claimed please let the other readers know in the comments it helps.
When my posts do well airdrops get bigger so please re blog, like, comment, and subscribe to get more large airdrops just like this one.
Perhaps your interested in purchasing any of my NFTs from my ever expanding collection you may do so here.
My stock constantly rotates so it changes daily
https://wax.atomichub.io/explorer/account/akyqy.wam
Prospectors topping the NFT sale value for 3 days now also a free to play game check it out at the link below. BTW they have roulette so the Martingale system works here however no site reward and its not a large project so doing this could be detrimental. this game is free it makes real crypto give it a shot its not bad honestly you can make quite a bit on it.
https://prospectors.io?waxref=akyqy.wam
more free WAX games, rewarding free NFTs/Crypto
https://rplanet.io/
https://collect.social/referral?r=akyqy.wam
Rising star is a totally free HIVE game no input for steady output my kind of investment.
https://www.risingstargame.com?referrer=chubb149
Oh I guess now Torum to
https://www.torum.com/signup?referral_code=chubb149
Thunder Token is free to mine off a phone app & recently it was bridged with BSC as well as being Bridged with ETH already so its currently shooting up in value. You can still produce it for free here's my referral link.
https://mining.thundercore.com/referCode?referralCode=WMONVM
HIVE games
https://www.cryptobrewmaster.io/game/invite?ref=3d5efa435682425384e9aeb6236ab07e&code=AlphaBonus