Hope you had a great week last week! I learned how to do my first TikTok dances with some ex-Samsara teammates. Totally going to put myself on blast here but lmk what you think:

albert @thatguyintech

this was fun

Web3 Links of the Week

OpenSea surpassed $3.5B in monthly ETH trading volume, a new all-time-high
- This dune.xyz graph will forever be a favorite: https://dune.xyz/rchen8/opensea
- It’s actually at $4.7B monthly volume for January and the month isn’t even over yet..

OHM prices are down 91% from its ATH
- OHM aims to provide algorithmic liquidity as a service to DeFi dAPPs.
- From what I can understand so far, you can stake crypto as collateral to create $OHM tokens — and then you can stake those $OHM tokens to earn more interest in the form of $OHM tokens.
- There are lots of forks of this kind of DeFi 2.0 model, Wonderland (with $TIME token) being one of them.
- Wonderland announced they’d be moving away from the OHM system to try and build something more sustainable.
  Daniele never asks to DM @danielesesta
  1) It is $TIME to move away from the $OHM model, as everyone saw is good exclusively to fundraising but as much as we try to make it sustainable it becomes unreasonable.
  8:58 PM ∙ Jan 17, 2022
  3,467Likes509Retweets
Budweiser (yeah the beer company) traded a NounsDAO NFT for a superbowl ad
- i really want to see this ad when it comes out
  Nouns ⌐◨-◨ @nounsdao
  Noun 179 was acquired by the Nouns Foundation for the 'prominent beverage company' specified in prop 33. Foundation participation in the daily auction was related to the special circumstances of the partnership, and the 127 ETH will be refunded via proposal at the DAOs discretion
  6:28 PM ∙ Jan 19, 2022
  222Likes30Retweets
Facebook and Instagram are going to allow users to create, display, and sell NFTs.
- The next 3-5 years is going to be insane. Every company is going to try having an NFT strategy.
And how could I finish this section without giving a shoutout to Twitter’s new NFT profile pictures??
Twitter Blue @TwitterBlue
gm! You asked (a lot), so we made it. Now rolling out in Labs: NFT Profile Pictures on iOS
6:09 PM ∙ Jan 20, 2022
30,093Likes10,543Retweets

Something Interesting..

I’m hiring a video editor, so Nikil put me in touch with Jon Youshaei, an amazing content creator. He gave me super useful advice on how to vet video editors using an application screening process and trial edit. Basically, it’s really important to find a detail-oriented editor, and there are lots of subtle tests you can use to weed out the ones who aren’t. And when it comes to evaluation, it’s super useful to hire a couple of editors and have them all edit the same set of footage — and then you pick the results that match your vision most closely.

I’m armed with these tactics as well as a game plan for how I want to build out my personal channel as well as the Alchemy YouTube channel and I’m ready to start pumping content out again :)

This Week's Web3 Challenge

For devs.. this MetaMask announcement is a very exciting update.

MetaMask @MetaMask

🎁Web3 developers: We’re excited to announce the launch of MetaMask Flask: a developer-focused distribution of MetaMask for experimenting with our most cutting-edge features. 🔊 Not a developer? Don't worry about it, Flask isn’t for you. metamask.io/flask/

Try and make something with MetaMask Flask!

Cool Stuff Around the Web

Here’s a really great podcast show that I love, called The Business of Family with Mike Boyd. It explores how really wealthy families manage to keep the family together and how they build a culture of strong motivation and responsibility even when kids are born into a mountain of money. Very thoughtful material.

Also, a shoutout to Yuri for this great motivational tweet:

yuri lee 🇰🇷 @codingyuri

like 90% of content creation is just showing up...you don’t have to make informative threads every fucking day just show the fuck up!! consistency is appreciated

I’m really trying to just show up every week with these newsletters. 👉🏼👈🏼 🥺

That’s it for now! Listen to any good music lately? Let me know in the comments :)

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