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GM. This is Milk Road. We’re here to do two things: Drink milk. Talk crypto.

(And we’re all outta milk).

Here’s what we got for you today:

CRYPTO TAKES THE #1 SPOT ON THE EPIC GAMES STORE 🎮

Get us our bib.

Looks like we might have some words to eat.

ICYMI: On Tuesday, we listed a bunch of takeaways from our time at Permissionless III in Salt Lake City.

The first takeaway on that list? 

“Gaming isn’t back…but it also isn’t dead.”

Yuh. We might have to walk the first part of that statement back – and it’s all thanks to one game: “Off The Grid.”

This thing launched in February – the basic overview going something like this:

Fast forward to today…

(Ok, that’s one game – who cares?) Here’s why it matters:

Crypto gaming isn’t a winner-take-all sector. Quite the opposite. If product market fit can be found by one title/game studio – others will no doubt rush in to build/compete.

The Epic Games Store alone has ~75M monthly active users – many of which will happily play multiple titles per day/week/month.

All it takes is one kick-ass game to prove that players are open to blockchain integrated titles, to bring interest back to the sector…and it looks like Off The Grid could be it.

Around the same time Off The Grid took the #1 spot in Epic Games, GameFi just so happened to re-enter the top 3 crypto narratives by mindshare. 👇

It’s still early days yet, and this hype could easily fade…

But for right now, it’s starting to feel like crypto gaming might be back.

COTD: $BTC WHALES ARE ACCUMULATING LIKE IT’S Q4 2020 💰

Holy hell – whale accumulation is at record highs!

The last time this happened was in Q4 2020 (right before $BTC skyrocketed) 👇

Ok, so what’re we looking at here, exactly?

That purple line represents the ‘realized cap’ of Bitcoin whale wallets (aka: wallets holding 1,000 Bitcoin or more).

The ‘realized cap’ tracks the average purchase price these wallets bought $BTC at – and right now, the average purchase price of these whale wallets matches the current price of Bitcoin.

Meaning that on average – they’re not in profit or loss, but at break even…

Here’s why this is worth getting excited about:

These whales are hovering around break-even…yet it appears they’re continuing to accumulate – with the $BTC ETFs hitting the highest 7-day net-inflows since July!

Which hints that there’s a collection of deep-pocketed people out there that still see (potentially significant) upside in $BTC.

…and the last time we were in similar market conditions and saw whale wallets hitting break even on their realized cap was in Q4 of 2020. 

That was the same period that $BTC moved from ~$10k, to ~$40k – before launching up to $69k in 2021.

Not a bad way to start the weekend imo…

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