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Summary
This Tuesday episode of All Things Crypto opened with day-one results from the Bitperp paper trading competition, which runs on a testnet demo account with 100,000 BTP tokens up for grabs, plus feedback on cumulative versus individual positions. The panel then talked about Chainlink CCIP connecting private blockchains with public ones, why LINK's price has lagged its long list of institutional partners, and what oracles, ENS and cross-chain messaging do. The Scroll airdrop got a lot of time: speakers described it as disappointing for many users and explained how airdrop criteria and farming have changed, with Fuel Network and Eclipse mentioned as projects to watch. Other news covered the Avalanche Visa card and crypto card rewards, a study linking gambling issues and FOMO to harm in crypto, trading psychology, ApeChain and Unichain, and the upcoming Stacks Nakamoto upgrade. The show closed with host updates and a plug for NatNat's Friday space. All of this is discussion, not financial advice.
Chapters
Competition explained: app.bitperp.io, testnet demo account, 100,000 BTP tokens in prizesMomentAt 0:11:14 on X
Product feedback: cumulative positions versus individual positions and bracketsMomentAt 0:14:03 on X
Why Chainlink's price lags its partnerships: liquidity, market cycle and supplyMomentAt 0:22:04 on X
Oracles as sources of truth, the ENS connection, and CCIP compared with LayerZeroMomentAt 0:27:20 on X
Key quotes
“In a way, it's good because if you're in this project prior to, like, liquidity coming in or things taking off, then you're in a in a good solid position.”
NatNat0:22:36Share on X
“It's gonna be okay, Chainlink army. It's gonna be alright.”
Landy0:24:57Share on X
“These are the sources of truth at the end of the day.”
Dave0:27:20Share on X
“don't expect nothing. Like, lower your expect... Expectations to zero, but you don't get disappointed.”
Kool0:31:34Share on X
“I guess the whole goal for crypto is using crypto without knowing knowing you're using crypto. That's the idea. That's mass adoption there.”
Excerpts
Show opens, New York edition of All Things Crypto
- 0:05:20 Dave to you. What's good, my boy? Welcome, everybody, to another, New York edition. I am not going back to Cali despite, contrary to popular belief or my music choice. I just like B. G. Welcome to another episode of all…
- 0:05:52 NatNat wanna talk out? No. You got... I've been training a little bit. I've got two wins and one loss. I can take those losses like a woman. I don't need to run for my losses. Okay.
- 0:06:17 Kool Yeah. I am alive. I am getting already. Oh, it's all good, but thank goodness it's fake money, man. Because then if he was, my wife would've probably asked for the... Ask for the divorce right now, bro. Man, this point…
Day-one results of the Bitperp paper trading competition
- 0:07:11 Dave Mhmm. At one point, Matt's like, the screen is frozen. I'm like, hit refresh. Oh, dude. You try... You're staring at your wins. That shit's gonna be mad red when you hit refresh. How did it turn? Wait. Alright. Let's…
- 0:09:12 Landy it. I I pulled a little bit. Just a little bit. But that... That's also... I I wasn't really checking on it, so I kinda missed an opportunity to go long on the the little bit of a a dip earlier. This morning, I was…
- 0:10:16 NatNat Okay. I just have one opened right now. That one, I'm down, like, 20% off.
Competition explained: app.bitperp.io, testnet demo account, 100,000 BTP tokens in prizes
- 0:11:14 Dave you want the hell Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna I'm gonna pin up the I'm gonna pin up the link in a second, but it's app.bitperp.io. Guys, for anybody that is new here that is listening, what we are doing is…
- 0:12:54 NatNat I sent you guys a a DM. I don't know if you guys saw it earlier with regards to, like, the price action. It did freeze a little bit for, like, twenty minutes this morning.
- 0:13:55 NatNat Yeah. I just need you to I just I just need you to stop posting them. Like, I posted. I already posted. It's supposed to.
Product feedback: cumulative positions versus individual positions and brackets
- 0:15:04 Dave Yeah. Definitely, like, spot on, bro. I'm with you. At one point yesterday, I said to myself, like, am I really gonna leave these positions overnight? For the record, I would never, like, ever... Like, in my life…
- 0:16:03 Dave But listen. You want... This is where you wanna be able to try stuff out. Okay? You definitely wanna be able to try this stuff out. I had a ball, like, putting this stuff on. As I was on the phone, like, like, all last…
- 0:16:34 Kool link up in again. Yeah. The link for... But it's perfect. He's gonna create an account and all that stuff. Try test nets. It's it's so so cool, man. You guys try it out. It's in the pin polls. You guys have the…
Chainlink CCIP lets private blockchains communicate with other blockchains
- 0:16:55 Dave Let's go. Alright. I wanted to jump into some news. We've missed a lot of news, and there's been some crazy things that have been happening, obviously, over the last couple of days. But we obviously wanted to bring you…
- 0:18:31 Kool I can read it. It's it's crazy, man. It's crazy. So Chainlink allows allows for blockchains to talk to each other. It takes price feed. There's a lot more than that. Chainlink is being used by institutional arms, man…
- 0:21:55 Dave Yeah. I'm I'm in agreement with you, dude. I'm in agreement. I don't know if it's like a... Is it like a tokenomics thing? Is there just too many... I mean, I I don't know what kind of Yep.
Why Chainlink's price lags its partnerships: liquidity, market cycle and supply
- 0:22:07 Kool It... It's just it's just the market value Chili right now. Right? I I just... I I don't know. I mean, the market the market... At least the crypto market values Bitcoins more. They value AI more, but they they don't…
- 0:23:47 Dave So let me just see this. So let me just get this straight. So your closed position p and l is how much?
- 0:24:29 Landy Yeah. I don't see the dollar amount there. But you can see the dollar amount. This is the open order screen. Those are the two open orders I have right now.
Oracles as sources of truth, the ENS connection, and CCIP compared with LayerZero
- 0:27:20 Dave And just so people understand, like, right, when when we say Oracle, right, some people might not understand what that is. But when we say Oracle, that's essentially what people are using to bring real... Essentially…
Scroll airdrop disappointment and claims about insider allocations
- 0:31:29 Kool No. No. This is one of the worst airdrops in a long time. But, I mean,
- 0:32:02 Kool Yeah, man. Yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. That's the team members right there, man. Watch what they do. They... So scroll came out to... Today. Claim was today. It was it was very disappointing for a lot of people…
- 0:35:04 Dave Man, man. But, like, is it even worth me fighting for, like, it... Like, for... I see it's at a dollar 17. I mean, were people getting, like, 50 tokens, a 100 tokens? I mean, even if it's, like, three, 400 tokens…
How the airdrop game has changed, plus Fuel Network and Eclipse
- 0:37:57 Kool No. It it is, man. It's it's changing a lot, man. It's changing a lot. So back four four years ago, interacting to making... People were making one one or two swaps on Uniswap, and you were getting $8,000 for that. No…
- 0:45:06 Kool That's a fact. I I I I don't think I've... I I... I've had McDonald's, like, six... Even ten years. I saw I saw it. There's a video, right, of of this McDonald's. I think they left they left the burger at at a house…
- 0:46:42 Dave I'm saying. Thank you, Aiden. You think getting these positions in the... You see all this green on my screen? You think this is easy? It feeds itself? No. This this thing needs food. This machine needs food.
Avalanche launches a Visa card and the panel discusses crypto card rewards
- 0:49:42 Dave Listen. I am not trying to slander McDonald's out here. Onto the next story. Come on, Bitcoin. Let's go Bitcoin. Okay. V... AVX. Alright? Let me just pull the story up real quick. Avalanche launches Visa card for…
- 0:52:27 Dave Oh, no. You're good. You're good. You're good. I thought you had too much rice and beans. I was like, god. Everybody excuse Nat Nat. It is what it is. Okay? Like, there's nobody nobody judge. But, yo,
- 0:53:12 Landy Yeah. I can't I can't do the rice and beans. And my my fiance is from south of the border as as she... As as her family likes to say as a joke. And I'm basically a walking ghost, and and then you give me some rice and…
Study on gambling addiction and FOMO-driven investors in crypto
- 0:55:49 Dave Alright. Fair enough. I gotta see what kind of the rewards this is. Yeah. I guess we'll we'll we'll check-in and see what's good. Okay. Listen to this one. You ready? As if we didn't know this. Gambling addiction and…
- 0:57:45 Landy Well, I feel as though this was describing you just a little bit earlier at a 150 x leverage, talking about how the market was going down and all your positions are down. And then finally, when it went back up, you're…
- 0:59:13 Dave You see? Isn't it so much more fun to be a DJ and have emotional breakdowns every other day? This is so much fun. You guys are so bored.
Trading psychology, emotions and rule-based systems
- 1:01:27 Landy I can tell you that that, believe it or not, that one of the reasons that a lot of people fail when they start to actually trade even traditional markets is because of emotions. And this is kind of ubiquitous. It's not…
- 1:05:31 Landy Yeah. To Nat Nat's point, like, you... There is a... I know people personally that, unfortunately, are no longer with us by their own hands, who were in markets, and they were very, very successful. And and even though…
- 1:07:46 Dave Why is everybody running today? I don't understand. What is going on? Oh, I break... And and Yeah. You broke up in the last part. You were, dumb money Netflix, and I think... I don't know what the last part was.
ApeChain layer three launch and Unichain
- 1:10:08 Dave Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That... We definitely do. Definitely go watch... Yo. YouTube. That's right. Been chill. Yeah, man. Like, I watch dumb money. Dumb money is crazy, man. Like, definitely go watch dumb money for…
- 1:13:33 NatNat you first, Nat. I mean, I like display. I'm not gonna lie. I like a... I I don't have any, but I I think just because it's up 83% within, like, a week doesn't mean that there's no room for growth, especially since…
- 1:16:21 NatNat love it. I think I think just add it to your watch list. It'll be very interesting to see how this develops. Could be a powerful play. Who knows?
Stacks Nakamoto upgrade, memecoins and Stack City on CoinGecko
- 1:21:17 Dave I think every day we're making a little more progress, but, yeah, I think, like, there's there's gonna be new ones that are gonna do crazy numbers because when the liquidity starts coming in, right, I think that's…
- 1:26:20 Dave Yeah, man. And and this is what I'm trying to do. Right? I'm... I have a I have a THON, like, top holders chat for everybody that knows that if you are a 1% holder or more, let me know. Shoot me a DM. I'll add you to…
- 1:29:54 Dave That's it. That's it. That's when you know you're doing something right. When people out there trying to mimic you and imitate everything you're doing, you know you're doing something right. Good shit, Nat. I'll…
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