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    Market commentary, 20.12.2021

    By Patrick Heusser on 20. December 2021 Market Review

    Recurring market commentary on what’s happening in the crypto markets, summarized by the Crypto Broker team at Crypto Finance AG.

    Market commentary

    Good Morning!

    This weekend was all about gaming and the Metaverse for me. On the gaming front, I was trying to get my head around the math of the mini-game score on Star Atlas.

    Star Atlas mini-game

    The hype was big, but only because people did not read the whitepaper or the announcement about what exactly the mini-game would be. In the first phase of the mini-game, you can stake your NFTs (only the ships) and earn ATLAS (the in-game currency). Each ship has a different yield. But it follows the initial offering price, so the higher the price of the ship, the higher the yield.

    However, there is a catch. To be able to deploy your ship (stake it) you need to prepare it with food, fuel, ammunition, and repair toolkits. You can buy these things at the marketplace with ATLAS. When you deploy your ship, your food stock, fuel, ammunition, and repair toolkits decrease. There is no easy way to calculate the net yield of your fleet. You need to prepare some Google Sheets calculations to figure out what you will earn. An example of a Google Sheets calculation is here.

    Now, you can probably see why many "gamers" were pretty disappointed by the first phase of the game. There is nothing for them to do. It's all boring economics and calculations (which I love by the way...). Maybe you remember my first commentary about Star Atlas, where I also mentioned the economic paper of the game.

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    Let us now move on to some more fun topics. Adidas launched their metaverse NFT drop of 30,000 pieces. Obviously, I did not get any at the drop, or at the early access sale that took place on December 14th (most of the NFTs went to well-programmed bots).

    Adidas NFT on the Opensea marketplace

    I bought my GMONEY NFT on OpenSea in the secondary market. I also joined the discord channel since I wanted to figure out what the NFT can unlock for me. Disappointingly, there is not much info out there. There is a great deal of speculation, though, on the discord chats (including a scam that went around Friday / Saturday - never accept any direct messages on discord if you do not know the person). I'll keep you posted if I figure out what I can do with my GMONEY NFT.

    Have a good week, and Happy Holidays!


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    Patrick Heusser

      Patrick Heusser is Head of Trading at Crypto Broker AG. Prior to joining the company, Patrick worked as an Interest Rate Trader at UBS and held various positions in the IRCC (interest rate, commodity and foreign exchange trading) in London, New York, Singapore and Zurich. Patrick is an expert in trading and risk management. He also gained experience in other areas, such as building start-up companies. Patrick has a degree in banking from a business school. He has also taken various courses in technical chart analysis.

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