MCS Alpha - Issue #1

🌟 Welcome to MCS Alpha - Everything you need to give your portfolio an advantage.

MCS Alpha is for our premium subscribers - but in order to celebrate the inaugural issue, we’re making this one free.

Let’s dive right in to the good stuff.

🌐 USDC 🌐

USDC is a stablecoin - pegged to the USD. It’s used for when crypto holders want to de-risk their portfolio (sell) but don’t want to cash back into USD. It’s also one of the most efficient ways to transfer fund across the globe.

Alpha? About a stablecoin? Doesn’t the price always stay at $1.00? How can my portfolio benefit from that?

USDC is on the rise, gaining traction across various ecosystems. Tracking USDC's movements could offer profitable opportunities in the spaces it enters.

USDC Partnered with Visa - and since has expanded the settlement pilot program to Solana. Watch out for Solana during the next bull run - especially if Visa’s usage of the network increases.

🎉 Cosmos and USDC 🎉

Native USDC is coming to the Cosmos Ecosystem.

The Cosmos Ecosystem = a network of interoperable blockchains. Explore it here

Currently The Cosmos Ecosystem only has bridged stablecoins, and some small, native ones like IST and USK. Whales and large players won’t touch bridged stablecoins - they’re too risky.

Native USDC is coming through Noble, an asset-issuance Cosmos chain.

Noble will route USDC throughout the cosmos and instantly give 50+ chains a secure, native stablecoin.

🤔 Speaking of Cosmos 🤔

The gaming giant behind PUBG (30 million monthly active users), Krafton, announced that they are building their own metaverse project and payment settlement layer in The Cosmos Ecosystem.

30 million users? Enough said.

🚀 dYdX and Cosmos 🚀

dYdX is the number 1 on-chain derivatives platform in all of crypto. They were and Ethereum based project but decided to create their own chain. This gives them the most flexibility with the services they can offer.

dYdX will use native USDC issued by Noble. Other Cosmos assets will be listed on the exchange, and tokens will be able to flow from blockchain to blockchain using IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication)

This move will bring more volume and liquidity to the cosmos than ever.

Theoretically, this liquidity will flow into other projects on Cosmos. Explore the ecosystem and find some gems. https://info.osmosis.zone/tokens

Which ones do we like? That’s for another time.

🐕 DogeCoin 🐕

I hate meme coins. Designed to enrich their founders and their price action is based solely on hype and FOMO. If you can get in early, good for you. Remember to take profits.

Despite my despise for them, here I am, writing about one.

DogeCoin, the grandfather of meme coins, may soon be getting one of the biggest and most practical use-cases in all of crypto.

This use-case comes by way of Elon and X (twitter). By the way, follow me on X HERE

Elon and X have been acquiring money transmitter licenses in all 50 states. It has yet to be decided what “money” on x will look like - but its safe to say that DogeCoin is a contender. If DogeCoin is integrated with X, it’s current market cap of 8.9 billion USD will look like a joke.

🛡️ Airdrop 🔒

A potential airdrop that I’m looking at is De.Fi @DeDotFi

De.Fi is a multi-functional platform that includes a wallet tracker, shield, interactive dashboards, scanner, and many other features. They claim to be the first Web3 antivirus and security solution that utilizes machine learning technology.

Airdrop or not, the project is worth exploring.

A similarly categorized project is Arkham @ArkhamIntel, and their airdrop was a huge success for users.

Users of Arkham received ~$160 worth of Arkham tokens each. Each friend invite returned $150 worth of tokens.

Back to De.Fi

It hasn't been announced yet how you can qualify for the airdrop. The easiest way to benefit is by using the tools and features of the project.

1. Scanner
Check tokens or NFTs for exploits

2. Swaps
Swap some tokens on De.Fi’s interface

3. Shield
Protect your wallet - paste your public address and explore your wallet’s vulnerabilities

Go to the site, set up a profile, and interact with the app once per week.

Perhaps you’ll be thanking yourself in a few months.

That’s all for today - I hope you enjoyed the first issue of MCS Alpha.

We’ll be back next Wednesday with more Alpha.

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