✋Hey Nimbus community,

🤑 Netflix has embedded QR codes that allow users to mint NFT in episodes of its new show series "Love, Death + Robots". The bad news is that the feature is only available to US users through a MetaMask wallet or Coinbase account.

✅ According to JPMorgan, the fair price of bitcoin is 28% higher than its current level at $38,000. If institutional investors decide that the moment to enter has indeed arrived, then the market is in for another rally. Another question is how long it will last.

🤓 American investor Bill Miller stated that investors should "ignore" Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett's unflattering comments about Bitcoin as the main point of investing is to make money. Thus, productive assets shouldn’t be the only factor.

🧐 Guys from Circle believe that the Fed should refuse to launch a digital dollar, arguing that could strangle private-sector efforts to manage their dollar-based tokens. On top of that, USDC is already meeting “many of the potential benefits” of CBDC.

🥳 A group of former executives from Binance has created a $100 million venture fund. The fund will be mainly focused on the metaverse and bringing greater crypto adoption to emerging markets like Latin America and Africa. Would you get on the train?

👋Hey Nimbus Community,

Everyone wants to get their hands on the next Cryptopunks or Azuki's before it's too late to Ape. But how do you define a value of an NFT? How do you know that an NFT is even valuable?

Although evaluating an NFT is complex as it depends on many factors, including utility and other factors. This is where the metric ✨The Floor Price✨ comes into play. 

🧮 Who sets the floor price? The creator is usually the one who sets the floor price. It can also be set by someone who owns an NFT in a particular project and decides to list it for sale on a secondary market at a lower price than the other sellers in that project.

⚠️It’s important to note that the floor price is volatile, which means that you should be prepared for unexpected rises and drops. In time, as a collection becomes famous, the floor price rises as well. As the lowest asking price you can pay for an item in a collection (unlike the average price), provided it’s not in auction at that time, the floor price is updated in real-time. 

💡Tracking floor prices is important and challenging, especially if you want to flip NFTs. NFT floor price tracking tools can help with that.

Here are some NFT evaluation tools that should help you keep on top of your game:
☑️For checking the floor price of your NFTs (Opensea) all at once: https://floorchecker.com
☑️For finding the latest NFTs that are being aped on the most: https://www.apefinder.app
☑️For researching/tracking the rarity of an NFT: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rarity-tool-researcher/gagfonbgflhdcnlefcmlpcblpkflkafl

✋Hey Nimbus community,

🌴 Arthur Hayes, one of the three co-founders and the CEO of BitMEX, published a new essay, confirming his prediction on Ethereum for $10,000. In his opinion, the market is already at the bottom, and the new ATH is only a matter of time. For BTC he forecasts $70 000.

🌚 One of the world's largest fast-food restaurant chains, Chipotle, will accept cryptocurrencies at 3,000 locations across the US. Customers will be able to buy a conditional burrito for one of 98 cryptocurrencies. Reminds us of the pizza for BTC story.

🔥 Binance is launching its own casino venture capital fund. According to Binance Labs, around $500 million have been raised for its debut start-up fund. Binance Labs plans to use the capital to invest in projects focused on infrastructure, NFT, and DAOs.

🏋️‍♀️ The manager of the George Soros fund said that digital assets are gradually becoming mainstream, and believes that ETH will become more in demand than Bitcoin after the transition to PoS. When do you think "The Merge” will finally take place?

🧗 In order to prevent negative effects on the economy, the UK Treasury might give the BoE authority to address the collapse of failed systemic stablecoins, under proposals being drawn up by the government to mitigate future fallouts in the cryptomarkets.

👋 Hello Nimbus Community, 

The development roadmap and strategic planning of the Nimbus Platform have evolved significantly over time. One of our key goals in 2022 is to accelerate the project growth by actively bootstrapping a community that truly believes in the project’s vision and prospers while doing so. 

Hence, the roadmap and each reward are designed to incentivize long-term protocol holders to create a flywheel where utility and incentives drive long-term participation, which further drives utility and attracts even more incentives. 

Nimbus token stability is one of the many parts of this new chapter aimed at accelerating protocol growth. In the spirit of that sentiment, we’re happy to announce that Nimbus Affiliate program V3.1 is to be updated to version 4.0 very soon, i.e. within one month. Here are 4 steps underlying the Nimbus Affiliate program that will help in promoting the stability of NBU and GNBU tokens:

✅ The Hard Staking period for the Nimbus Affiliate Program will be modified to 90 and 365 days

✅ Three rewards to Affiliate Program stakers will now accrue in NFT tokens, which will remain vested in the platform's liquidity pools for 90 or 365 days depending on the chosen staking pool

✔️One time Airdrop bonus will be distributed as Smart Staker NFT
✔️10% Staking amount given to users who join using referral links will be distributed in NFT tokens
✔️12% cashback will be distributed as Smart LP n-NFT

What does that mean for the community?

Users who truly believe in the Nimbus Platform vision can reap more rewards for their loyalty by participating in the Nimbus Affiliate Program 4.0. This long-term incentives relationship between the protocol and the users promotes Nimbus token stability. 

We're constantly working to push forward, and the Affiliate Program 4.0 is one of the steps to help improve the project's performance and ensure benefits for the Community. More details on the AP 4.0 will be published soon, so, stay tuned 😉

👋Hey Nimbus Community,

Terms like content creator, influencer, or blogger have been trending for a while now. 

The pandemic has led a larger public to various platforms, looking for digital experiences instead of real-life ones. And there’s a term encompassing all this, one that deserves a closer look from the viewpoint of the crypto world: ✨Creator Economy✨

Li Jin, Co-founder of Variant Fund,  Atelier Ventures, and a creator economy pioneer breaks the concept into four different cycles:

✔️Creator Economy 1.0 - The launch of the internet that enabled individuals to become creators

✔️Creator Economy 2.0 - Creators leveraging their following and outreach to monetize their work via advertisements and brand sponsorships 

✔️Creator Economy 3.0 - Creators became independent, being able to monetize their work directly from their audience/fans. 

✔️Creator Economy 4.0 - Creators and their audience/fans can create wealth together, where the future of the creator economy is headed, or it might actually already be here! Take NFTs, for example - the creator being able to sell their NFTs, and collectors being able to earn by holding, flipping, or leveraging the latest yield mechanics.

The intersection of the creator economy with blockchain enables the creators and the communities to realize collective potential and growth.

How?
The creator economy, or content economy, needs tools that surpass the limitations of platforms that don’t offer various options for creators to earn an income.

Blockchain and Web3 development are the next logical step. Here is how blockchain technology can help the creator economy:
✅NFT – Provided exclusivity. NFTs can be used to grant access to an event or an enhanced experience that would otherwise be unavailable
✅Asset ownership for fans, beyond traditional centralized platforms
✅Reduced streaming costs, paired with Web3 features – tipping, paid entry, live shopping
✅Incentivizing interactions with users without affecting their privacy
✅Smaller niches become viable. Blockchain makes that possible by reducing costs and censorship and increasing security.

👋 Hey Nimbus Community,

Just a small remind for you all 😉

Whenever you have certain issues or questions relating to the Platform's functionality, you can address them to the tech support team 👉
https://nimbusplatform.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals

✋ Hey Nimbus community,

🤝 The merging of PoW and PoS in the Ethereum Ropsten test network has been successful. That means that the Vitalik Buterin team can move forward with the transition to the PoS algorithm on the main network, which is scheduled for this summer.

💪 According to a Forbes survey, 30% of the "world's richest people" invest in crypto-assets. About 18% of those surveyed said they hold at least 1% of their wealth in cryptocurrencies. Curios fact, most of them are investing in the industry as an experiment.

👽 Chainlink developers announced the introduction of the LINK token-staking mechanism. Thus, the team looks forward to improving the security of the ecosystem. On top of that, the scope of staking will expand, and its structure will become more complex.

👎 One of South Korea's largest crypto exchanges, Upbit is delisting Litecoin (LTC). The main reason is that the recent update includes an option that allows users not to disclose transaction information. In other words, we are living a decadence of decentralization.

😎Talking about the NFT market, the Yuga Labs team has revoked the smart contract that allowed it to release unlimited NFTs of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection. According to EmperorTomatoKetchup, this update eliminates cybersecurity breaches.

👋Hey Nimbus community,

As you know, the Nimbus Affiliate Program is an essential part of our roadmap. We are grateful to you for helping us grow our community. The upcoming AP 4.0 will bring some changes to our referral structure, so we feel it’s important to review them and highlight the main points.

Read all about it right 👉 Here!

Less than three weeks remain until the Affiliate Program fully transitions to the new version i.e. AP 4.0. Now’s the time to make the most of AP 3.1 😉

👋Hello Nimbus Community,

Data has always been extremely valuable, with an intrinsic value that must be kept private. In the age of crypto and NFTs, metadata has become increasingly relevant. Why? 

Let’s figure out!

While the data you see is regulated direct information, metadata is unregulated abstract information about the original data. Here’s a perfect illustration to help you understand and think about metadata more clearly.  

How is metadata relevant to blockchain? Every block contains a block header or metadata that ensures the validation of the block. 

To get an idea of block metadata, here is what it contains:

✔️The current version 
✔️The previous block header hash
✔️The Merkle root hash
✔️The time when the block was created
✔️nBits
✔️nonce – a random value that the creator of the block can manipulate

In order to put metadata on the blockchain, especially large amounts of it, while maintaining privacy, a hash is created to reference the file holding the actual data.

The importance of metadata

Metadata is crucial in transactions, as it can contain instructions on managing a particular asset. It can certify the ownership and exchange of assets, the amount of assets transferred, and their value.

Metadata is also extremely important for NFTs because it describes their essential properties, like identification elements and other aspects that the creator considers important. An NFT’s metadata is its core, and It can be developed according to the ERC721 or ERC1155 standard, is pinned to the protocol, and returned to the smart contract as a hash.

✋Hey Nimbus community,

🤔Capgemini research suggests that 71% of High-net-worth individuals have invested in digital assets. Most of those individuals are below 40s. According to the report, the wealth management industry is seeing an influx of investments into digital assets.

😔Qryptoquant analysts believe that capitulation is likely still ahead, despite other indicators ('pain' - NUL/NUPL, MVRV & Pull Multiple, etc.) suggesting the bottom should be either in or near. The crypto winter is coming, but how long it will last this time?

🙈 Investors fear that a liquidity crisis at cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius could end up triggering a broader contagion that could bring down other major players in the market. Did you know Celsius owns numerous assets in the DeFi world, including staked ether?

👌A bit of optimism: The president of the Central African Republic says that understanding BTC is crucial to acknowledge its disruptive power to bring long-term prosperity. In late April 2022, the CAR government officially recognized BTC as a legal currency.

🧠 Amidst the global financial crisis, Brazil is considering accepting cryptocurrencies as payment. It is not clear if the bill will succeed but it will surely help the asset class to be recognized worldwide. The bad news is that regulation will also increase.

👋Hello Nimbus Community,

Anyone familiar with social media knows about profile pictures and how important that first impression can be. With NFTs being used increasingly as profile pictures, it’s a good time to look deeper into this popular term: ✨PFP✨

What is PFP?

PFP is an acronym used in social media, meaning ‘Profile Picture’ or ‘Picture for Proof.’ It represents the image a person uses for their social media accounts, making it easier to link their online activity to a particular profile.

With NFTs becoming a phenomenon, it’s not surprising using them as profile pictures has become a hot trend. Hence the new term PFP NFT – profile picture non-fungible tokens (sometimes abbreviated PFPs).

The inspiration

Using NFTs as profile pictures or digital avatars started from CryptoPunks and their unique characters linked to crypto tokens to prove ownership. After that, people started using various NFTs as PFPs for their social media accounts. 

When Twitter offered the possibility to verify if the NFT used as a profile picture is actually owned by the user, the relation between NFTs and social media became even tighter. Celebrities and influencers started displaying their NFT collections on their accounts, and even regular users began to show off their newly acquired NFTs to get new followers.

Top success

The Bored Ape Yacht Club collection is still the most popular example of PFP NFTs. The fun apes took on immediately, and sometimes you even got particular perks along with owning the NFT. Celebrities like Eminem, Timbaland, or Neymar Jr using their Bored Ape NFTs as Twitter profile pictures pushed the trend even further.

Using NFTs as literal profile pictures on Twitter and other social media platforms is undoubtedly an easy and popular way to display your NFTs and boast about ownership. After all, if you spent the money on that ape, for example, you want to show it off. 

👋 Hey Nimbus Community,

📢 Staking APY Update:

As the Nimbus Platform matures, the current Staking rates on the Nimbus Platform will decrease starting from July 1.

Why?

This measure is taken in order to align the future roadmap and token price stabilization linearly.

The new APYs will be as follows:
✅ NBU Hard Staking (60 days) - 15% APY
✅ NBU Hard Staking (180 days) - 20% APY
✅ NBU Soft Staking - 5% APY
✅ GNBU Soft Staking - 5% APY
✅ GNBU Hard Staking (90 days) - 7% APY
✅ GNBU Hard Staking (180 days) - 9% APY

⭐️ Note:
Users who stake before July 1 will continue to receive rewards according to the original APYs.

Stay tuned as you will be able to get more rewards with the launch of the updated Affiliate Program version (v4.0) and n-NFT Smart Staker 😉