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Jan 19, 2022

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau

New downloadable scorecard! Polygon is the faster, cheaper way to send transactions on Ethereum, and its MATIC token has exploded 100x in the last year, from $0.02 to over $2.00.

Paid subscribers can now get our new Blockchain Investor Scorecard where our analysts rated MATIC using our proven Investor Scorecard model. Download the Polygon (MATIC) Investor Scorecard here.

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Your Money is Growing

When we say Polygon is cheaper than Ethereum, we mean it. A transaction that may cost over $50 in gas fees on Ethereum may cost just pennies on Polygon.

Investor takeaway: Since the cost of doing business on Polygon is so much cheaper, more developers and projects are migrating to Polygon, and the price of the token continues to go up (see above).

But is MATIC a good buy? Download the scorecard to find out.

Whale Reads

David Swensen, the Greatest Institutional Investor of All Time (The Pomp Letter): Terrific column about genius investor David Swensen, who grew Yale's endowment from $1 billion to $31 billion over a 35-year period.

Investor takeaway: Though Swensen was not into crypto, his principles (have a purpose, diversify heavily, think long-term) are worth reading ... and following.

Block Market Daily

with Mati Greenspan

Hi Everyone,

It seems the longer we keep talking about the metaverse, the more people's perception of what that means changes, although our views might not always be aligned.

The main reason we can't agree on a singular definition for the term "metaverse" is that digital space seems to be incredibly intangible and rapidly evolving.

What blows my mind, however, is that by now, we all seem to agree far more than we disagree.

For example, I saw a project website today refer to all social media platforms as "metaversal," even though we know that the tech tycoons are firmly Web 2.0 platforms.

They do, however, provide us with the critical communications infrastructure required in order to build the next layer of the world wide web.

Diving in

So Twitter is decidedly not meta, nor is it metaversal.

Because I wanted to get more hands-on experience, my team and I have been increasingly spending time on platforms like Decentraland and The Sandbox.

These two sites seem to be the most commonly acknowledged as being part of the metaverse. No matter who you ask, Facebook does not seem to be a welcome participant in the decentralized web.

How about Twitter Spaces though? What about Discord or Telegram?

These places certainly seem to be the main meeting places for those building Web 3.0, but they still lack user-friendly integration with tokenized assets that are a main attraction of the new world.

Perhaps I need to spend more time in Decentraland and The Sandbox, but I don't find these games particularly fun. I think we're gonna need to explore this further.

Starting Next Week

Starting next week, the BMJ Newsletter will have a new schedule.

More specifically, analyst Alexandre Lores will write a column for us once a week, focused on interesting and useful blockchain use cases.

From all the feedback you have been sending regarding our analysts, we're quite confident that you're going to enjoy the new newsletter lineup.

Wishing you a pleasant evening!

Mati Greenspan

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