The Insider #132

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NFT News

• Chimpers team attends Licensing Expo Las Vegas (the world’s largest licensing trade show). The expo brings together all key decision makers from every facet of the $340B licensing industry, attracting leading retailers, licensees and manufacturers to connect with exhibiting brand owners and agents to discover brands and develop exciting new customer products. This is a huge win for Chimpers. They are positioning and working to grow their IP. Bonus points, Chimpers boot is between food court and Pudgy Penguins’ booth. (source)

• Solana based gaming metaverse Star Atlas introduces “Surge”, a new first person shooter game. After the investments they collected years ago with spaceship sales etc. it’s finally nice to see the game coming out. Looks like they pivoted to another genre but will be following them closely. (source)

Crypto News

• Liquidity moves from Bitcoin to memecoins, analysts are calling it the weirdest bull market ever. I say this is just the beginning of the bull cycle. Though rise of memecoins has definitely been incredible. The mania does not stop. Presales seemingly came to an end but it did not stop the memecoin wave. We’ll most likely see the liquidity shifting back to large caps in the upcoming weeks. (source)

• Memeland announces Memenet, the meme network. Memenet is a blockchain that offers a safe, low-cost and degen-friendly way to build on chain. Memenet is being incubated inside of Memeland, leveraging their ecperience. $MEME will be it’s native gas token. (source)

Macro News

• X is adding a job tab. It’s currently in beta. (source)

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