The Future of DeFi: What’s Next in the Next 12 Months?
#DeFi has already revolutionized the way we think about finance, but the journey is far from over. Over the next year, we might witness: 1️⃣ Enhanced User Experience: As platforms compete, expect more intuitive interfaces, seamless integrations, and gas fee optimization. 2️⃣ Rise of Real-World Assets: Tokenizing physical assets like real estate, commodities, or even art could unlock new liquidity pools. 3️⃣ Regulation and Compliance: Striking a balance between decentralization and regulatory dem
As we approach the end of 2024, the crypto space has seen some major milestones this year – from Bitcoin’s resilience to new blockchain innovations and emerging regulatory challenges.
Let’s brainstorm: 1️⃣ Which coins or projects are you most bullish on for 2025? 2️⃣ How do you see DeFi evolving in the next 12 months? 3️⃣ Will institutional adoption finally hit full steam, or will retail investors continue to dominate? 4️⃣ Is Web3 finally mainstream, or are we still in the “early days”?
Share your insights and predictions! Let’s keep the discussion respectful, informative, and forward-thinking.
### The New Era of Cryptocurrency: Telegram and Tap Apps
In the not-so-distant future, the world of finance was radically transformed by the advent of cryptocurrency. What began as an obscure interest among tech enthusiasts had blossomed into a global phenomenon, changing how people thought about money, transactions, and financial freedom. In this new era, two innovations stood out: the seamless integration of Telegram and the rise of Tap apps. Telegram, originally a messaging app, evolved into a central hub for all things crypto. With
How high will Ripple go, now that the SEC has partly lost its case?
On July 13, 2023, a New York District Judge ruled that Ripple's XRP is not a security, which was a partial win for the SEC. This ruling has caused the price of XRP to increase by 30% to 98%. However, it is important to note that Ripple's battle with the SEC is not over yet, so investors should be careful. The future price of XRP will depend on the outcome of the lawsuit. If Ripple wins the lawsuit, the price of XRP could go up, and if they lose, the price could go down.
Listen to Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. In an interview, they were asked to name one secret that led to their success. It wasn’t their mentors or technical skills. It wasn’t their luck. It was Focus.
Most entrepreneurs don’t have that. Like sunlight can’t burn a paper without being focused, you can’t make an impact without focus.
If you are normal, you can’t sit and focus to save your life. You can’t even read this without thinking. Most people don’t have the attention span to focus for one si
16 Surprising Facts About Cryptocurrency [That Even Some Experts Don’t Know]
1. The first commercial bitcoin transaction was for pizza
On May 22, 2010, a man in Florida paid 10,000 bitcoins (BTC) for two pizzas. This is generally recognized as the first bitcoin transaction for a commercial purpose.
At the time, 10,000 bitcoins were worth about $40, making one bitcoin worth a little less than half a cent. If you had that number of bitcoins in September 2022, you'd be a bitcoin millionaire. 10,000 bitcoins have a market value of more than $190 million.
2.The human nose can detect more than 1 trillion smells.
3.Frogs don't drink, they absorb water through their skin.
4.Honey is the only natural food that never spoils.
5.An elephant can smell water from 12 miles away.
6.Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
7.A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
8.The world’s oldest trees are more than 4,600 years old.
9.Planets have sounds. Jupiter sounds a bit like being underwater, Neptune sounds like ocean waves, and Saturn sounds like the background of a horror movie.
10. Antarctica is the only continent with no permanent human habitation.
❗️ Did your life change all that much after you made your first MILLION dollars ? 💸
Nothing suddenly changed… it was very gradual.
I took my whole family to dinner the night that I realized I was a millionaire. Only my wife and I knew why I was celebrating… she, rightfully, wasn’t impressed with the million dollar mark.
I thought it was pretty cool at the time. I thought highly of myself for a few hours, but then it was back to work the next morning just like nothing ever happened.
We have made many millions since then and it’s even less of a big deal than it was the first t
What are some of the most epic American marketing disasters?
In 2020, Burger King rolled out a new ad where they showed a burger rotting.
They showed a time lapse of the Whopper burger developing molds. The idea behind this was to prove that their products don't use artificial preservatives in their burgers.
The reason they felt they needed to do such an ad was because at that time there were trending videos of other burgers from other companies being left out uncovered for months and developing little to no mold, making people question the levels of ar
How did you make your first million dollars? What did you have to give up?
Nothing. At age 40, I had zero debt, and a few thousand in the bank. I worked 4 days a week, as a psychologist at a private psychiatric hospital. I also took a month paid leave, every year. I worked almost exclusively with violent, involuntary admissions. Most of which were the result of extreme drug or alcohol abuse. I was highly respected.
When I inherited $10k, I studied the stock market, read “Fortune 500” and “Forbes” magazines. I developed a strategy, and then waited for my chosen stock t
❗️ What does it feel like to earn your first MILLION dollars ? 💸
I didn’t notice.
The first five years of my career were spent in big law firms. The starting salary was $160K/year back then (now it’s $180K/year), and by the time I was in my fifth year I think it went up to about $250K/year. Plus bonuses.
My wife also worked for the first roughly ten years we were married. Her salary fluctuated from about $50K/year (as a public school teacher) to about $90K/year (as a freelance editor in educational publishing.) For the past couple years, she has scaled work
Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering at Osaka University have invented a new kind of walking robot that takes advantage of dynamic instability to navigate. By changing the flexibility of the couplings, the robot can be made to turn without the need for complex computational control systems. This work may assist the creation of rescue robots that are able to traverse uneven terrain.
Most animals on Earth have evolved a robust locomotion system using legs that
Poems, essays and even books -- is there anything the open AI platform ChatGPT can't handle? These new AI developments have inspired researchers at TU Delft and the Swiss technical university EPFL to dig a little deeper: For instance, can ChatGPT also design a robot? And is this a good thing for the design process, or are there risks? The researchers published their findings in Nature Machine Intelligence.
What are the greatest future challenges for humanity? This was the first question that Co
The informed consent process in biomedical research is biased towards people who can meet with clinical study staff during the working day. For those who have the availability to have a consent conversation, the time burden can be off-putting. Professor Eric Vilain, from the Department of Paediatrics, University of California, Irvine, USA, will tell the European Society of Human Genetics annual conference today (Tuesday 13 June) how results from his team's study of the use of a chatbot (GIA -- '
24: $0 - Broke neck in diving accident. Paralyzed from chest down. Began learning stocks. 25: $0 - Hired as an analyst by small brokerage at $1,000/mo. 26: $0 - Lost job. 28: $0 - Re-hired by different company at $500/mo. looking for defunct public companies to reverse merge with private companies wanting to go public. 29: $10k - Salary increased to $3k/mo. learned the biz inside and out. 30: $100k - Got stock in a few deals that worked out. Started my own company and did a few deals. 31: $1M -