August 19, 2022

NFT or how to become a billionaire from home.

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Who is NFT?

NFT (*non-fungible token) - a type of token, each instance of which is unique and cannot be replaced by another similar token, although tokens are usually interchangeable by nature. A hackneyed example is the Mona Lisa, a painting that cannot be replaced, forged, etc.

A little about interchangeability :

Fungible (interchangeable) tokens are equal to each other, they can be used as currency. Example, bitcoin - exchange one bitcoin for another and you will have the same thing.

Semi-fungible tokens are almost indistinguishable from each other, but still unique. Example: cinema tickets, the price may be the same, but each seat is exactly unique.

Non-fungible tokens are completely unique, the tokenized object is a single copy.

NFTs allow buyers to support artists. They can't hang these digital items on their wall, but they can brag about their purchase of a famous collection/founder/artist, visit a small community of cool holdings and get special perks according to a roadmap.

As an example, the most popular collection at the moment - BAYC

BAYC is one of the most successful NFT projects where monkeys (which are selectively generated and have unique characteristics) are sold for millions of dollars.

BAYC sales recorded more than $1.43 billion. A collection of 10,000 unique digital collectibles residing on the Ethereum blockchain mined at 0.08 ETH each in April 2021, and today their minimum price, the lowest BAYC NFT price available on the market, rose to 92 ETH. At the moment there are 6,500 owners of this miracle.

A bit of backstory: In the summer of 2021, when NFTs gained popularity, especially with Profile Picture (PFP), the BAYC project was launched and sold out within 12 hours of the mint.
The most expensive BAYC ever sold was Bored Ape #232 for 1080.69 ETH ( $2.85kk$ ) on the NFT LooksRare marketplace in late January 2022.

The BAYC NFTs collection has gained notoriety because of high-profile purchases by celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Serena Willimas, Jimmy Fallon, Justin Baber, Eminem, NBA champion Stephen Curry, Neymar Jr. and rapper Post Malone.

BAYC NFTs are more than just digital collectibles. In their roadmap, the BAYC team lists a host of benefits for their owners.

One of the benefits of buying an NFT is that it allows you to financially support the artists you like. Buying an NFT also usually gives you some perks to use, such as setting a rare NFT on Twitter/Telegram as a point of life. This is by no means a wast of money, for most of the cool NFTs give you also to buy 500 servings of sushi and 200 or even more girls/boys(rofl, but the profits can be huge, as can the undermined mentality, depends on when you sell it).

Related Links:

A 4-volume book about nft.

2. Glossary

  • Launch - Launch the collection that is available for the mint.
  • Mint - turning a jpeg into an nft. When you mint, the nft "magically" materializes in your wallet.
  • Premint- is the right to zaminate the nft before the other members of the mint and avoid the gas wars
  • WL (whitelist) aka mintpass - escrow for participation in the premint. Most often it is a role in discord or a special nft, which confirms the right to the premint.
  • Public sale - is a stage in the project's launch, when the nft mint is available to anyone and everyone. It starts right after the premint.
  • Gas - the commission for miners required to complete a transaction on the Eth network.
  • Gaswar (gas war) - if a large number of people want to mint nft, the participants increase the chance of success by increasing the amount of gas that will be spent on the mint. Increasing the gas you pay a higher commission to the miner for the right to get into the block and mint nft.
  • PFP (profile picture) - avatar . Now most of the nfts in space are pfp projects, nft of which can be used as avatars in social networks.
  • Secondary market - buying nft second-hand on the nft merketplace.
  • Marketplace - platforms for nft trading (OS, Rarible, FND, etc.)
  • Listing - putting nft for sale on the marketplace.
  • Delisting - removal of nft from sale.
  • Floor - the lowest price for which you can buy a nft collection on the secondary market.
  • Floor sweeping - active redemption of the nft collection at the lowest price, thereby stimulating the growth of the price.
  • Reveal - often after a mint a stub with a conventional picture appears on the nft, which is displayed on all the nfts in the collection. After some time with the metadata update the nft is opened. Then you can see which nft you managed to minimize.
  • Rarity - the degree of rarity of the nft in the collection. Reflected in the price, following the logic that the rarer a nft is, the more expensive it is.
  • Trait - some characteristic element in a nft. Can add rarity. As an example, the laser from the eyes on pfp can be valued more because it gives a reference to bitcoin.
  • Gem (Gem) - a project that is guaranteed to make a profit on investment.
  • Flip (Flip) - selling nft immediately after a mint. Short-term.
  • Ape in - you get into a new collection by buying nft.
  • Degenerate (more often degen) - in nft degen has a positive connotation. It is a person who plays high stakes and makes rash decisions.
  • Paperhands - sell the nft much earlier than the peak price to a mini-plus. Or even minus. Big minus.
  • Hold - holding a nft in the hope of making a profit in the future. Long term.
  • Diamond hands - a sure hand who won't sell to the last one.
  • Shill - PR for a project on Discord or Twitter in hopes of finding a buyer.
  • Raffle - givaway, held in discord or Twitter, which gives a chance to win the wl or nft project.
  • Scam - Cheating to get your nft or crypto.
  • Rug pull - after a mint, the maidens drop their collection. They get in their Lambas and drive off into the California sunset - Never Gonna Give You Up.
  • Dox - is the disclosure of personal information. In nft, it's when they reveal the anonymity of project devs for example.
  • No brainer - when the project is so good that there is no need to analyze whether it will be profitable or not.
  • Blue chip - a project which is safe to invest in under any market conditions. CryptoPunks, BAYC, etc.
  • FOMO (fear of missing out) - understanding that you could earn a lot of $$ if you bought that nft. But you didn't. At first it hurts a lot, but then you don't pay attention.
  • DYOR (do your own research) - before you buy something, analyze and study the project yourself.
  • AMA (ask me anything) - sessions where the creators of the project (devs) answer any questions from the community. Held in space on Twitter or in the discord collection.
  • WTT (willing to trade) - ready to trade this nft for this. This is what they write in the dedicated discord channels dedicated to trade.
  • OTS (open to sell) - I want to sell this nft, as an example. Often this abbreviation can be found at sites that deal with the sale of the val.
  • OTB / WTB (open to buy / willing to buy) - want to buy. The same sales vl.
  • WTS (want to sell) - want to sell.
  • OTC (Over The Counter) - over-the-counter market.
  • Escrow (Guarantor) - a person who participates as a third party in transactions involving the sale or purchase of precious metals, thereby making the transaction safe.
  • FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) - after the mint, some people are dissatisfied with the result for various reasons. They start throwing mud at the project and behave in a very toxic way.
  • NGMI (not gonna make it) - literally: you won't make it. NGMI is left as a comment on a questionable project or on the comments of people who are papering nft.
  • WGMI (we're gonna make it) - we're gonna make it.
  • Bear market-the market is going down, we're going into hibernation
  • Bull market-a steadily growing market, the perfect pair for a hard wrench and project launch.
  • English auctions - the highest bid wins at the end
  • Dutch auctions - the price falls until someone buys.

Standart

What is a standard? A standard is the unique mechanics of a token spelled out in a smart contract. Example: you have created a token for a game item (decentralized gaming is now booming) and you want it to be tradable on marketplaces for game items. But the marketplaces don't know how to address the features within your contract, they need a separate smart contract to support your token. Knowing how to interact with standards, the creators of other dApps (decentralized applications) have put everything needed to work with a token on a particular standard in their code.

There are plenty of standards, and a new token standard can be created by absolutely any new user and if it will solve some important problem, it can become an official Ethereum standard (another way to leave your mark).

Link to a cool article to read about common standards here

Now let's get a little more familiar with ERC-20.

"ERC20" refers to the scripting standard used in the Ethereum blockchain (click there and you'll be taken to the article about Ethereum). This technical standard dictates a series of rules and actions that an Ethereum token or smart contract must follow, as well as the steps required to implement it. It is perhaps easiest to think of ERC20 as a set of basic principles and features that any new token created on the Ethereum network must follow.

The ERC20 token is the standard used to create and issue smart contracts in the Ethereum blockchain. Smart contracts can then be used to create smart properties or tokenized assets that people can invest in. The ERC20 standard has been the dominant way to create new tokens in the cryptocurrency space for some time. It has been especially popular with ICOs and crowdfunding companies. Currently, tens of thousands of different tokens have been issued that operate under the ERC20 standard.

"+" Ethereum

* Great liquidity, people are willing to mine anything.

"-" Ethereum

* High commission.

3.1. Solana.

Solana runs on a hybrid confirmation protocol (PoS) and a concept that solana calls PoH. Proof-of-history is a method for confirming that transactions are in the correct sequence. This system reduces latency and increases throughput because slot leaders can transmit transactions to the rest of the validators in real time, rather than waiting for the entire block to be filled and sent immediately. Proof-of-stake is an algorithm that allows a blockchain to maintain accurate information about all its participants.

Solana, it is an open-source blockchain, which means that developers can use it in different ways. That's why it's possible to create NFTs

"+" Solana:

The Ethereum network has become congested and extremely expensive to use. Solana offers what Ethereum can't currently offer - fast transactions at virtually no cost.

Lots of people willing to mince goats, i.e. great liquidity.

"-" Solana:

constant overloading of the system.

3.3. Near.

Near Protocol is a DApp platform and Ethereum competitor that bets on convenience for developers and users. Its blockchain supports smart contracts and supports the PoS mechanism. NEAR is a proprietary NEAR Protocol token that is used to store data on the platform as well as transaction fees. NEAR Protocol's goal of building a crypto ecosystem around its innovative technical solution is being successfully implemented. Several high-end crypto DApps have already been created on NEAR.

Near is convenient because NEAR transactions are fast (1 to 2 seconds) and cost only a few cents. There's also Mintbase.

Mintbase is a platform that aims to simplify the creation of NFT . First, it doesn't require any technical knowledge. Users can sell their digital art, musicians can create and sell NFT music, and event organizers can sell tickets.

The main disadvantage is the low liquidity when compared to its big brothers and the small number of buyers.

4. Trading platforms for NFT.

Who are they and why?

Marketplaces are platforms for selling creativity in the form of NFT(or else it's not clear). There are many NFT trading platforms already in existence.

The main types of NFT platforms are:

Universal non-interchangeable websites.
These types of NFT trading platforms are similar to Avito for NFT, you can find any NFT collection there. These platforms are easy to enter, and they attract a lot of users who can buy your tokens.

Niche Marketplaces.
Narrowly targeted marketplaces. The KLKTN marketplace is dedicated exclusively to K-Pop, anime and J-culture, it's the place where you can find dedicated NFT sellers and buyers.

Collectibles.
Sometimes NFTs can present items for collections, such as baseball cards, clothing in games, or even access rights to an event such as a live concert.

An example of NFT trading platforms:

OpenSea.
OpenSea is the leader in NFT sales. (kinda cool really).
OpenSea has all sorts of digital assets available on the platform +free registration and view extensive offerings. It also supports artists/founders and has an easy to use process. The marketplace supports over 150 different payment tokens. For an introduction to the world of NFT, OpenSea is a great starting point.

Rariblе.
Rarible is another large marketplace for all kinds of NFT, similar to OpenSea . All kinds of art, videos, collectibles and music can be bought, sold or created on the platform. However, unlike OpenSea, you will need to use your own Rarible token to buy and sell on the marketplace. Rarible is built on the Ethereum blockchain (although illustrations can be managed on OpenSea as well with Rarible tokens). One of my favorite platforms.

SuperRare.
SuperRare also creates a marketplace for digital creators. The site includes artwork, videos and 3D images. Collectors can purchase artwork using Ethereum.
SuperRare recently announced its own namesake token based on the Ethereum blockchain. The tokens will be used to find and support new talent for the marketplace. Like Rarible, SuperRare NFT can also be bought and sold on the OpenSea.

Foundation.
Foundation was developed as a simple way to bid on digital art. Sales are made using Ethereum. More than $100 million of NFT has been sold since the marketplace launched in early 2021.
The Foundation community invites artists to the platform, and buyers just need an Ethereum-funded cryptocurrency wallet to start making purchases. If you're looking for a quick and easy way to start creating your own NFTs, the Foundation probably isn't the best place to start, but there's plenty of artwork on the market that can be viewed in a simple format.

Axie Marketplace.
Axie Marketplace is Axie Infinity's online video game store. Axies are mythical creatures that can be bought and trained and then put into battle against other players to earn rewards. In the Axie Marketplace, players can buy new Axies, as well as whole lands and other items as NFTs for use in the game. Axie Infinity tokens (called Axie Shards) are built on the Ethereum blockchain. Thus, they can be bought and sold on various other NFT markets, as well as on some cryptocurrency exchanges, such as Coinbase Global.

Larva Labs.
Larva Labs is best known for the CryptoPunks NFT viral project.

They were originally given away for free back in 2017, but since then some CryptoPunk have been sold for millions of dollars. Larva Labs has other digital art projects, such as Autoglyphs, as well as other Ethereum blockchain-based app development projects.

Larva Labs' CryptoPunks NFTs are sold out, but they can be found and bought on the secondary market. Nevertheless, Larva Labs' various projects are worth keeping an eye on, including Meebits, which can be bid on directly from the company's embedded marketplace.

A little bit about Punks:

CryptoPunks is the earliest project
developed on the Ethereum blockchain. It consists of 10,000 algorithmically generated x24-24 pixel portraits with random attributes.

Initially, CryptoPunk could be purchased for free (except for the transfer fee), the rarity of digital portraits and the increased demand for NFT caused the price to skyrocket.

The project was created by Larva Labs, a two-person team of devs(developers) working on everything from mobile games and utilities to web infrastructure, digital design and art. The team developed a pixel character generator inspired by the London punk scene and cyberpunk movies and novels.

They generated 10,000 unique characters and placed them on the Ethereum blockchain in 2017. Anyone could get CryptoPunk for free. They would only have to pay a gas fee to cover computational energy, which was much lower before NFT and [DeFi] took off. Larva Labs kept 1,000 portables for themselves, but the rest were quickly dismantled. The only way to buy CryptoPunk today is to buy it directly from its owner.

CryptoPunk #7804 - brought in over $7.5 million.

NBA Top Shot.
NBA Top Shot is a project of the National Basketball Association and the Women's National Basketball Association in the NFT world. Their market offers collectible moments (video clips and highlights) and artwork.
The NBA has built it as a closed marketplace (you can only buy and sell on Top Shot) using the Flow blockchain created by Dapper Labs. You can register and buy directly from the Top Shot Marketplace. By the way, collectible moments can be purchased for just a few dollars.

Nifty Gateway.
Nifty Gateway has facilitated the sale of some of the most popular digital artists such as Beeple and singer/musician Grimes. It is a platform powered by the Gemini crypto exchange (controlled by the Winklevoss twins). NFT, known as Nifties, is built on Ethereum.

In addition, Nifty Gateway also hosts any purchased NFTs, which means that NFTs are not stored in your own wallet, but are actually stored in Nifty Gateway and Gemini. While this may not work for NFT collectors who want more flexibility in their art investments, Nifty purchases and sales can also be made in fiat currency (such as U.S. dollars) without purchasing cryptocurrency in advance.

Mintable
Mintable, backed by Mark Cuban, aims to become an open marketplace similar to OpenSea. To participate in buying and selling NFT on Mintable, you will need Ethereum. The platform also supports Mintable NFT for creators of all types (from photographers to musicians) who want to sell their work as a digital asset.

A novice collector or NFT creator will first need to purchase Ethereum from a crypto exchange and then connect their wallet to Mintable to facilitate bidding and buying in the marketplace.

Theta.
Theta is a blockchain platform created for the decentralized distribution of video and television on the Internet. The Theta Drop NFT marketplace came out in 2021 with World Poker Tour digital collectibles. The World Poker Tour was one of the first users of ThetaTV and uses the platform to stream content.

Theta uses its own blockchain technology.

To participate in the Theta Drop NFT trading platform, you will need to purchase a Theta token . Various crypto exchanges, such as Binance, support Theta, and tokens and NFTs purchased with them can be stored in a cryptocurrency wallet as well as Theta's own cryptocurrency wallet app.

4.1. Opensea.


Let's talk a bit about the marketplace where everything happens

OpenSea is a decentralized marketplace for the purchase, sale and exchange of NFT tokens (and one of the first to this day)

OpenSea offers a marketplace where creators and collectors alike can buy, sell and create all kinds of NFTs.

Before you sign up for OS, I suggest :

1. keep a wallet for storing currency and NFTs metamask is best. Setting up a metamask is much easier than you think, you just need to keep a certain security and privacy in use

2. pay off the currency we need (in our case this is ether, and we buy it on the exchange, for example coinbase.

How to buy currency on QB

3. Create an account, connect a purse and go to trade

Trading NFT on OpenSea
Trading on OpenSea is a minimal trust operation. You don't need to trust that your counterparty will behave honestly, and you don't even need to trust OpenSea. Your transactions will depend on technology, not reputation, and smart contracts, not third parties.

In addition, transactions in OpenSea are atomic, meaning the transaction is done in its entirety or nothing happens. The typical "if you do this, I'll do that" contractual agreement occurs regardless of which party has to go out and act first. OpenSea uses the "Wyvern protocol." This protocol is a set of smart contracts that have been tried and tested in real-world environments. The Wyvern protocol allows users to exchange state changes, such as NFT ownership state, for cryptocurrency ownership state. Thus, when a seller sells an NFT, it instantly goes to the buyer.

-Okay, that makes sense, but how do I buy the NFT itself?

To buy anything from OpenSea or any other NFT marketplace, you'll need a wallet such as Metamask. Although OpenSea stores additional information on its servers, it does not store your NFTs. The address in the blockchain owns your NFTs, and you own the address through your private key or initial phrase.

-Okay, so how do I buy ether to buy NFTs?

ETH is the largest altcoin that runs on its own blockchain.

You can buy it either by making a deposit to exchange, such as Coinbase (you can also buy it with EXMO, but I have not tested it and I can not say how reliable the exchange is), or by credit card, or directly in the expanding purse. How to buy ether, you can check here.

4.1.1 OpenSea listings.

When you are ready to sell, there are three options for listing your items.

Fixed-price listings.
This listing is a typical "buy now" scenario, similar to an Amazon listing. The seller sets the price and keeps the item listed until it is purchased or the seller decides to cancel.

English auction.
When people hear the words "English auction," they may think of a snobby art auction. But an English auction is similar to an eBay auction. The seller sets a minimum price and hopes that bids will go up so he can accept the highest price.

Sometimes a good strategy is to start bidding from scratch to get the attention of buyers. OpenSea also offers a reserve price feature to prevent a listing from selling too low. Nevertheless, sellers remain in power. They can accept the highest bid when they are ready to sell.

Dutch auction.
To set up a Dutch auction, sellers need to set the starting price, the ending price, and the duration. The strategy here is to set the price above the market price and allow the price to go down over time. Once the price drops to match the buyer's estimate, they can grab it instantly. The strategy is to get the sale while the item is still above market price.

OpenSea also offers no-gas transactions, where the highest bidder gets the NFT in an English auction. Neither the buyer nor the seller has to pay for gas to complete these transactions.

4.2. Magic Eden.

Magic Eden is a decentralized NFT buying and selling platform that allows users to buy, sell and trade unique digital assets. It is built on the Solana blockchain (an open-source blockchain designed to support scalable decentralized applications)
The blockchain can process more than 65,000 transactions per second and has a lock time of one second. Its main competitor, Ethereum, can only process 30 transactions per second and has a lock time of 15 seconds.
Many collectors and funders chose Solana because of its faster transaction times and lower costs than Ethereum, but the network has had more outages and reliability issues over the past year.

Let's get to know the skeleton a bit:
- Launchpad: this feature allows users to create NFTs in minutes, without the need for extensive NFT knowledge or development experience. Currently, the platform only accepts a limited number of projects; however, that will change in the future.
- Upcoming launches: instead of looking for the next NFT drop from your favorite creator, Magic Eden gives you a list of upcoming launches so you can stay informed.
- Popular Collections: to make sure you're aware of the NFT projects that are currently profitable , Popular Collections shows the latest and most popular NFT projects on the Solana blockchain. This makes it easy for you to browse, recognize and invest in the latest projects.
- Auction: this is a feature that allows customers to get their NFT right away, without waiting for the seller to lower the price. In addition, it also provides users with minimum sales commissions, as well as commission bonuses for those who regularly participate in auctions and successfully bid on many types of items.

BUYING YOUR FIRST JPEG. (this makes you even cooler now)

To buy NFTs at Magic Eden, you first need to connect your wallet to the platform: Phantom, Math Wallet, Slope Wallet, Solflare.

Once your wallet is connected, you can view the available NFTs and select the ones you want to buy and click the "buy now" button.
Once you've done that, you'll need to approve the transaction in your wallet and VSE. Congratulations, you are now the owner of the NFT purchased from Magic Eden. (it doesn't get any cooler than that)

4.3. MINT.

Mint is the initial single-price NFT sale based on the lottery principle, which means you can get a very common and cheap picture as well as a very rare and expensive one.

When it comes to navigating the NFT, Mint as a term can seem confusing because it refers to :

1. To a collection that becomes part of a blockchain.
2. To the collector who buys an item from that collection for the first time.

We'll teach you the latter.

One of the main advantages of an NFT mint is that investors can buy a collection at the first opportunity. This means they have the best chance of making a profit if the NFT collection skyrockets in value as soon as it's placed on secondary markets like OpenSea.

4.3.1. Premint.

Who is this Premint? It's a new format of glim. The platform offers more flexible condition settings for creators, it also screens out bots much better. As we learned above, our NFT, can be obtained through wl or through public.

Since almost all of the public will be taken by softies, it's much easier to get an og with a guaranteed mint or to win it in a raffle on Premint.

For example in some project Gutz_NFT there will be the following conditions:

1 - 5000 will go to the public

2 - 3000 goes to wl

3 - 1000 will go to raffle (Premint)

From this it is clear that you need to aboot Premint.

- Saudis 0 - 1.5 ETH x15

- Potatoz 0 - 0.6 ETH x6

- Niffera 0 - 100000 ETH x????

In order to aboot wisely you will need:

¬ A Twitter account with a lag of 90 days, or preferably a year.

¬ To have at least 100 subscribers on the account.

¬ 1 acre = 1 ip.

It is worth to pay attention to:

Also it is not necessary to throw money from a purse on a purse, it all checks.

For each account, change the proxy.

If you want to transfer money from wallet, then use exchanger and then throw to the second address.

Purse1 - - - Exchange - - - Purse2

4.4 Auctions.

English Auctions.
OpenSea will automatically end the transaction if the auction ends above 1 ETH, with OpenSea paying a gas fee in the process. If the auction ends below 1 ETH, the seller must accept the highest bid. The seller is not required to complete the transaction.

Bidding during an English auction is the same as bidding on a fixed-price listing. The seller can accept it at any time, and you will need WETH - just as if you were making an offer on a fixed-price listing.

Note: Any bids made in the last 10 minutes of the auction will extend each auction by another 10 minutes.

Popular auctions are often updated with new bids made in the last 10 minutes.

You can cancel an auction at any time, but you will need to pay a gas fee to do so.

Dutch Auctions
Dutch auctions are similar to fixed-price listings, but the price drops over time. You can buy at any time in a specified currency or make an offer.

Package

Used when you want to sell several of your NFTs to the same buyer. When you bundle multiple NFTs, only one transaction is required rather than multiple transactions, which means the buyer saves paying multiple gas fees.

Reserve Price.
Auctions cannot have a reserve price below 1 ETH because OpenSea covers the gas when the auction is successfully completed.

A seller can always accept an offer below the reserve price at any time during or after the auction, but they will have to pay the gas to do so.

You can't change the reserve price once the auction starts.

5. Projects.

How to check the project ?
1. Site - a simple visual check is needed here - how well it works, what font is used, check the pictures, photos of team members and art for their originality (through search by picture), the name of the site itself in the address bar, clickability of links and the logic of the construction of the site.
2) Blockchain - if the network is just gaining momentum, but is already recognized by experts as promising - a project on such a network can already give X's simply following the growth of its blockchain token.
Investors - of course, the presence of significant funds that pour money into the project will not allow the developers to relax and will definitely try to squeeze the maximum out of it, and this is to our advantage. Today there is a gradation or definition of "Tier", which reflects the level of "coolness" of the fund, partner or backer. And the more such partnerships a project has, the higher the tier, the more promising your investment may be. Each fund values its reputation, has its own portfolio, tools and criteria for assessing the projects in which it invests money of its investors.

Often you will have to work on Twitter. All the information is there, so read the materials below, they are very important for your reserch.


5.1 Influencers.

One of the most important factors in the Nft,crypto space. Influencers are people who share info. This can be either a stake to buy something, or useful educational info. In the ru segment, infles usually live in tg. In en, everyone is on Twitter. Since practically all the projects come to us from the en segment, it turns out that it is necessary to use twitter in order to search and follow the projects before anyone else.

5.2. OG & Whitelist.

OG.

An early user, in most cases such people are encouraged with a pre-mint for OG, or a whitelist. That's exactly what we need, because we'll be able to mint earlier than the publisher and for less.

If you don't get either of those things, expect to find it much easier to get Vl.

How do you find gems early on?

Keep a 24/7 eye on various artists, funders, holders and popular projects(preferably bluechips). Have covered all the points above.

Whitelist.
The pass to paradise during the NFT mint is the Whitelist. It provides access to the presale, which occurs either a few days or a few hours before the public(public sale).

Pre-sale prices at the mint are often lower than at the public sale. But the low price is not the only reason whitelists are in high demand. Having a guaranteed NFT mint slot relieves the pressure from competition for mint during a public sale when the collection has a limited supply

Eligibility requirements for whitelisting vary depending on NFT projects. They will usually be listed in the "announcements" in the discord
project (if not there, you can ask in the general, the moderators will always help you), and the link to join the project Discord will be published in the project's Twitter feed (usually you have to catch the link, but sometimes it is in the header)

The NFT project can also give Wytlists on Twitter to those who help spread the word by tweeting about an upcoming collection (retweets, asset)

But there are projects that give Wl for buying their merch, like my beloved Invisible Friends

I got WL, what's next?

If you got on the whitelist, congratulations! You'll be able to minet NFT during presale by going to their website, plugging in your crypto wallet, and clicking the appropriate button to buy.

By the way, NFT have certain degrees of rarity, sometimes you can choose a rarer NFT by yourself, but in many cases you get into a lottery, where NFT are not yet shown and the rarity is after the public sale, when the whole collection will be mined.

Secondary markets are open to trade immediately after the pre-sale, and so you can sell or buy an undisclosed NFT before the public sale if you want a quick flip for sushi and girl/boy.

The mechanics of a public sale are similar to a pre-sale - you plug in your wallet and mince - but you may well not mince an NFT if there is too much demand. Not to mention that unrestrained demand can cause gas prices to skyrocket.

The public sale works on a first-come, first-served basis. To be the first person to be served, experienced NFT traders will participate in "gaswars." This involves giving ever-higher donations to miners in the hope that their transactions will be processed faster than others. The scary part is that you still have to pay for gas even if your transaction fails, so you have to proceed with caution. Blockchain does not issue refunds. To all of the above, it's worth remembering that there's no guarantee that your NFT will be worth more than the public or pre-sale prices when you try to sell it on the secondary market!

6. Bluechip.

It is a safe long-term investment that brings a steady return on the principal invested.

If we are talking about companies: Coca Cola, Disney and General Motors, are considered bluechips by TradFi.

Let me tell you a little about bluechips in nft CryptoPunks is an OG NFT project that has been around since 2017. NFT's most successful project to date, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC).

CyberKongz and CrypToadz are good examples of other successful pixel projects. Well, and the heavy deluxe Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs

Factors by which you can predict bluechip:

Art
Artist and brand
Developers and utility
Minimum price and sales volume
Celebrity endorsements
Society

7. Solidity.

Solidity is a special language developed by a bunch of progers for writing smart contracts.

In fact the language is much easier to learn than it seems and is a mix of Python, C++ and JavaS (if you are a proggy beginner, I advise you to start from studying these Japanese to make working with solidity easier). Solidity is used for writing smart contracts, creating applications for finance, art, real estate, games, social networks and crowdfunding, but I will talk only about smart contracts.

8. Smart contracts.

Smart contracts are lines of code written on the solidity itself and are required to fulfill certain conditions in the contract. However, it is worth remembering that each smart contract transaction requires a certain amount of gas. Each user can set the amount of gas he is willing to spend for each smart contract. The more you pay, the faster the transaction will be executed and verified by the miners.

Coding a smart contract requires programming languages. Blockchain almost always determines the choice.

Solidity, C++, Go, Rust, Javascript, C, Vyper, DAML

Integrated development environments help write and test code. They can be web-based (no installation/configuration required) or desktop-based.

Remix, SettleMint and EthFiddle (web interface), Visual Studio Code and Atom (desktop)

Frameworks are required for efficient testing and deployment of smart contracts. The choice of framework depends on the developer's preference and experience.

Hardhat, Truffle, Brownie, DappTools, ApeWorX

Test networks are used to put a protocol into a controlled environment and determine if it behaves properly.

Rinkeby, Goerli, Kovan, Hyperledger Umbra, Ropsten (Ropsten/Rinkeby runs on Ethereum)

Smartcontract wallets provide access to decentralized web3 applications and allow the developer to easily interact with Dapps.

Metamask, Phantom, Coinbase wallet

9. Safety.

Please read these articles on crypto security before reading the chapters on ragpools.

I don't advise you to enter crypto without familiarizing yourself with all types of scams.

https://vpnoverview.com/internet-safety/cybercrime/nft-scams/ - Security in nft

https://educoin.gitbook.io/evgencoin/servisy-i-ssylki/bezopasnost - Elementary safety rules.

Security when working with OTC (scammer infested place) https://teletype.in/@crypto_taverna/QpZJuJ_GqB

10. Fraud.

RUG PULLS
-type of scam in which devs close the project and go away with $ investors, usually occurs in decentralized (without a management body) ecosystems
I will tell you a little background before I introduce this type of scam.

In March 2022, the founders of a project such as Frosties, known as "the project consisting of 8888 animated nft ice cream) were arrested in connection with the money laundering (after receiving more than 1 million dollars from their community, Nguyen and Llacuna closed the project website, shut down the Discord server and transferred all income from sales to various purses. Those who invested in the project were unable to contact the developers and never received anything of what they were promised.)Now Nguyen and Llacuna face 20 years in prison each.

Before turning genius ragpull project, I advise you to look at NCET and put the idea out of your mind, because now everyone is brought to justice.

Check the full story here.

Let's analyze the types of ragpools (there are 2)

Complicated ragpool - when a funder uses scam code (smart contract contains hidden terms in its code, designed to deceive investors in order to steal money)

Easy ragpull-when the funder and his team quickly dump their assets, eventually depreciating the token and using the profits made from investors buying the cryptocurrency itself.

Distinguishing ragpull is easy enough these days, for there are special servers in the ds. If you are an investor, then you should get a lawyer and consult with a lawyer .

Since we touched on ragpulls, a little about the situation with Azuki. One clear day the funder of one of the big projects loved by all, decided to get his dirty laundry out and announced all his ragpoll projects, voshtrade and all the shit you shouldn't do. (you can check it out here)

10. Wash Trade.


In other words, "bogus trade"-trade in which the buyer and trader collude to mislead the market and artificially raise the price.

Example: schoolchildren created another ragpull on solana (something like ether, but much cheaper), run the benchmark and began to pump the price on the OTC, thereby arousing interest among minions

Or a more substantial example: CryptoPunk #9998 was sold for 124,457 ETH.An hour and a half later the seller sent the ether back to the buyer along with CryptoPunk NFT, which was sent back to the original wallet address. Later the jpeg was put up for sale on the market again for 250,000 ETH.

11. OTC.

An over-the-counter transaction is a transaction made by the parties directly, not through an exchange or a place where you can buy/sell WL, or offer your services.

How does this market work?

You go to a certain marketplace, look for an ad that suits you and contact the buyer/seller.

Then you agree on what guarantor (the third party who directly coordinates the transaction) you choose (here again, remember about security and check the user guarantor)

Further, the selected guarantor contacts you and creates a chat room, where there are you, the buyer / seller and directly the guarantor. You agree on the deal, make an exchange, give the % of the transaction the guarantor and go away.

Is it easy? Pretty

To shorten your ad and make life easier for yourself and others, buyers/sellers use abbreviations:

WTB - buy
WTS - sell
WL - whitelist
Escrow - sell through guarantor
DM me - message me
Example OTS:

@OTCBlack_Market

@doubletop_otc

@MarketICOBOG

@OTC_Bull

@chornyy_rynok

@mediasocialmarket

@BinanceNFTTrade

@ProfitOTC

@mudrevskiy_otc

@cake_otc_market

@NFTMarketSOL

@terncrypto_otc

Tools

TOOLS are some useful tools for working with collections (there is a brief description of this or that tool in the selection, I advise you to cut each tool and select for yourself the main ones)

Sunspot alerts when NFTs are quoted and sold on OpenSea, depending on the parameters you set.

ETHERSCAN allows you to view the details of any transaction that takes place in the Ethereum blockchain,provides access to all ERC-721 token contracts,gas fee checking,the functionality is HUGE, so I suggest you cut.

DUNE ANALYTICS free NFT analytics.

NFT BANK TOOLS for getting an overall assessment of your portfolio, as well as finding discounted NFTs.

NINJALERTS a smartphone app that can track all sorts of parameters. It is most often used to track the wallets of whales, influencers and media personalities so you know before anyone else what they are doing(very handy because of the notifications,but only available by subscription)

NANSEN heavy analytics(full functionality available by subscription)

NFT GO usually keeps track of the whales here, what's going on in the NFT market, addresses of the leaders, etc.

UNIQ of project statistics (one of the best free tools)

SPR3ADSH33T'S INSIGHTS very handy thing, which few people use. for me (the girl who spends days in discord) is very convenient to use bots in DC for analytics (more functionality available on a subscription basis)

NFSEA TOOLS is a tool to find NFT deals, new projects, analysis of opened and not opened projects, it shows indicators of high or low probability of profit collection, which projects were issued and the percentage of the total number of tokens that were issued (more functionality requires a subscription)

Icy.tools is an ideal tool for newbies, with which you can easily analyze any collection (subscription required for more functions)

COMPASS ART is one of the tools above, but you can buy lifetime access (one of the best paid tools)

CRYPTOSCORES is a tool to find projects with rating system (I often check there new projects)

BitDegree is useful for finding and analyzing NFT collections from the market, also allows you to create your own NFT portfolio for further analysis (most of all I like the additional functionality in the form of guides, video materials and tutorials)

NFT OnChained I love this tool! Huge functionality: tracking low price listings, portfolio tracking, evaluating nft rarity, often check chart with known holders and screener.

NFT NERDS is highly recommended to check, created with the support of coders and very clever crypto-mathematics. It includes almost all popular tools, i.e. you can see what is happening in project in real time, works faster than OS, shows real flor, allows to buy in tool itself, takes +- 5 sec from listing detection to approval of transaction, has rarity rating and many others (although tools and cool, but most projects are absent and need to constantly ask them in DC to include this or that project (functionality is available by subscription)

SUPERSEA -free extension for Chrome which includes minimum prices, listing notifications, anti-fraud protection (more functionality available by subscription)

Moby for quick statistics, etc. I advise you to understand the functionality, for it is much more extensive than my vocabulary.

PAPERHANDS is a top tool, it calculates the worst and best deals, long term assets.

WGMI is one of the best tool for managing listings on marketplaces (I strongly recommend it, again available by subscription)

NFT STATISTICS free data about nft-collections(one of my favorite tools)

Flips.Finance project monitoring ( NFT CHARTS is also recommended, similar tool, but smaller projects)

Artacle - one and only tool for studying generative art (I think it will become trendy in the nearest future, so I advice to buy it for future)

Crypto.com allows you to track the most famous collections and coins.

NONFUNGIBLE only checks the history of the market (more extensive than you can imagine, I strongly advise to check)

Rarity.tools gives an estimate of rarity.

TRAIT SNIPER gives you access to rarity rating immediately after project opening,I advise you to look in their ds and extract for yourself a couple three strategies of other users (functionality is available by subscription)

NFT Drops calendar helps keep track of all upcoming drops, notifies you of draws, events and sales related to NFT,places your collections on the platform for sale.

DappRadar toils DeFi that you can use to manage your overall portfolio. Can estimate the total value of your NFT portfolio as well as give you additional information about each individual project you've invested in, such as the total amount spent, current assets, and gains and losses. (I recommend using ZERION or ZAPPER for NFT)

Upcoming NFT allows you to never miss upcoming releases, projects, events, promotions, auctions or raffles.

DegenScan-analytics, a lot of free stuff, by subscription opens a spectrum of useful tools (no, this is not advertising a compatriot, the product is surprisingly good for Russia)

NFT Evening is more useful for various NFT project founders, because it allows you to promote your event or NFT project to get publicity before the launch. There is also a calendar to keep you up to date on upcoming releases and NFT(but I like their articles on projects better). By the way, I don't advise newbies to use this toolkit if you haven't learned how to tell the ragpools apart yet.

FEES.WTF shows how many commissions you've spent

Coin Rivet is a collection of all the latest news related to NFT, DeFi, etc. In fact, there's quite a lot of calendar-related functionality there, I suggest you pay attention.

GENIE lists and buys many NFTs at a time.

NFT Pirates bidding bot (handy but quite expensive, not supported on MAC) ****SUDOSWAP is the cheapest way to make a private exchange in terms of gas fees compared to other available tools. The platform doesn't charge a swap fee, you only pay for gas.

SWAP.KIWI is another one for private swaps (in my opinion sudoswap is definitely better, and the advantage of this tool is the materials and articles that are included for newbies)

Coinzilla Marketplace is a tool to help promote your product. I did not go into the insides, so I will let you cut the ribbon.

Bitmedia - Another tool to promote your product.

Dgen.network is a news site with a lot of AMA. If you're good with English, you're welcome.

Cryptopanic - ALL existing news. No exaggerations! Very useful tool for analyzing what's going on.

Nftexplained - ideal platform for beginners, all articles are written for absolute noubos in crypto.

Artblocks - a platform focused on truly programmable generative content on demand, which is invariably stored on the Ethereum blockchain.

Metaversist - delving into NFT, blockchain and the Meta universe with one of the famous Influencers.

Nftlinks - news/events and more.

Special thanks to Nikmcfly for the links.

Nftsolana - very handy tool with ability to add project to google calendar. Degotts of course cool, but this tool is always in my heart.

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