The Sinopsis: 7 Areas That Will Change In Crypto

Sino Global Capital's Newsletter Edition No. 1. This week's edition delves into how the crypto landscape will change, the launch of ChatGPT, and the rise of decentralized social media platforms.

Dec 05, 2022

Our First Newsletter

SGC believes in staying in touch with the community.

We want to keep you in the loop about what we are building, and what we are doing to help Web3 and crypto to scale and onboard the next billion users.

This is the first edition of a bi-weekly newsletter that will include the latest updates in the crypto ecosystem, what we are bullish on, our newest investment theses and educational content and recommended reads.

Insights

How These 7 Areas Will Look in 2025

Ian Wittkopp, COO and Head of Investments at Sino, shared his insights on how the crypto landscape has historically changed across cycles and how tracking changes from past cycles can help predict how the crypto ecosystem will look in 2025.

Ian looked at evolution across:

technology
use cases
fundraising
market structure/participants
regulation
business models
founder background

Ian dives into this subject in the Twitter thread below:

iWitty @ianw888

What will the crypto ecosystem look like in 2025? How will crypto change across different dimensions and how can you position yourself as a builder or investor? A thinking framework on what comes next 🧵

A Look Into Decentralized Social Media Platforms

Hans Xiang, Senior Investment Associate at Sino, shared his thoughts on the nascent industry of SocialFi, and Lens Protocol, the social arm of Aave that wants to decentralize social media and has recently experienced plenty of growth.

Read it Here

Will Artificial Intelligence Shape the Future of Blockchain?

OpenAI recently launched the ChatGPT chatbot, which uses the GPT-3 language model to generate conversational responses in real time.

It has already been used for a range of tasks, such as answering questions and writing code for applications. The rise of this technology calls into question how it will interact with blockchain technology.

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Sino’s Updates

Sui Delegation Program

The SUI team has the advantage of observing best practices from other ecosystems in areas like community focused delegation programs. Delegation programs are key to ensuring that smaller teams can obtain stake and maintain operations on SUI and the chain is decentralized. When delegation is in the hands of more parties the Nakamoto coefficient, a measure of blockchain decentralization, increases.

Go Learn About it Here

Earn With ArDrive

🐘🔗ArDrive.arweave.dev @ardriveapp

Quick question, are you in the top 50 uploaders to ArDrive this week? If yes, you're going to get some ARDRIVE Tokens 🫡 If not, there's still 12 hours to participate this week - better get uploading 👉 ardrive.io/start #ArDriveInferno 🔥🐘

Arweave is known for its B2B transactions, as volume has been driven by programs like Candy Machine from Metaplex, which allows NFT metadata to be batch uploaded onto Arweave.

Strong builders, like ArDrive, have been creating consumer-facing applications that are going in the direction of ‘Google Drive for Arweave.’ ArDrive is an amazing product and you could earn some AR rewards backing some old photos.

The Graph Partners With Polygon

The Graph makes blockchain data easily accessible, and is now adding support to Polygon.

Polygon - MATIC 💜 @0xPolygon

DRUM ROLL PLEASE…🥁🥁 We are excited to announce that the @graphprotocol is adding support for #Polygon on The Graph Network 🤩 Soon, users will be able to rely on FULLY decentralized APIs to power 👏🏾 their 👏🏾 dApps 👏🏾 🌐: polygon.technology/blog/polygon-i…

Boosted APR With pStake

Persistence | XPRT 🦾 @PersistenceOne

2/ Highlights ♦️@dexter_zone announced the release on @PersistenceOne. ♦️ stkATOM’s launch was announced by pSTAKE, with a boosted APR initiative. ♦️ @MultiplexLabs became an active validator on the Persistence network. ♦️ The Persistence Core-1 Chain was upgraded to v4.

Legends of Venari

An exclusive event is now live.

Legends of Venari @LegendsOfVenari

Cozomo de’ Medici Exclusive Event is now live! ✨ Explore Caerras to aid Cozare and the Providence in rounding up the escaped new Venari Hybrids Inferis! 🍎🥩Buy exclusive baits, and enjoy 💰 $5,000 worth of bounties! ⌛️2-week runtime! Good luck Full details 👇 1/6 🧵

Pine IDO Announcement

Pine Protocol🌲 | NFTfi @PineProtocol

1/ NO BEARS IN THIS PINE FOREST🚇🚨 $PINE IDO ANNOUNCEMENT After 1 amazing year, the $PINE token sale is finally launching tomorrow on @impossiblefi Launchpad. ⚠️ Staking starts 17/11/22, 10:00 AM UTC Your favorite NFT lending app has had a massive year. Let’s review!👇

On Sino’s Podcast: The Feedback Loop

On the latest episode of The Feedback Loop, our host Mona Hamdy sits down with Robel Efrem to talk about all things esports, blockchain, and entrepreneurship.