• NFT Gaming

  • DerbyStars

    • NFT Gaming

  • Spaceloot

    • Similar to the concept of LOOT on ETH. Owners of Spaceloot can form their own narrative. 

    • Twitter

  • Hero NFT

  • DeviantsNFT

    • NFT Card Game based on real world events

• Others / Art

  • Placebo

    • Gems..?

  • Terra Cards by we-NFT

  • Terra Whales

    • Augmented Reality (AR) NFTs

  • Fantasy Investar

    • Fantasy Sports x NFTs

  • Tales of Terra

  • Terra Racers

    • F1 Racing-inspired NFTs

  • TerraFITS

    • NFT Collection of 365 unique outfits around the world

    • Launching on Talis

  • XYZ

    • Each NFT represents a unique set of coordinates

  • Terra Village

    • No details thus far

  • Terra Waifu

    • Anime-inspired NFTs

Related:

• List of projects from recent Spacecamp (Terra Hackathon) event by Midas

• Full Terra ecosystem (mapped out by SmartStake)

• Savings / Borrowing / Lending

  • Anchor Protocol

    • Allows Terra stablecoin deposits to earn stable yield (20% today), powered by block rewards of leading proof-of-stake blockchains.

    • Official Docs

    • Article

  • Orion.Money

    • Enabling ERC-20 stablecoins to earn stable yield through Anchor Protocol

    • Litepaper

    • Article

AMM / Marketplaces

• TerraSwap

  • The OG Dex on Terra; enabling the swapping of TeFi Assets

• Loop

  • AMM with content creation arm powered by the community (and incentivised through LOOPR tokens)

  • Whitepaper

  • Article

• AstroPort

  • AMM with Dual Incentive LPs. Stablecoin pools. Less slippage, better curves.

  • Litepaper

• Stardust

  • Decentralized limit order book trading for Terra Assets

  • Article

• Talis

  • Platform for artists to sell their creations (NFTs)

  • Whitepaper

• Forge Protocol

  • NFT Marketplace on Terra

  • Article

• OnePlanet

  • NFT Marketplace on Terra

  • Article

• Andromeda

  • NFT Platform (no details yet)

Investing

• Mirror

  • DeFi Platform for Synthetic Assets

  • Official Docs

• Mars 

  • Decentralised bank where users can lend and borrow any form of value

  • Litepaper

  • Article

• Prism 

  • Derivatives protocol that allows users to manage the risks associated with volatile prices and unstable yields in a simple and capital-efficient manner by ‘refracting’ digital assets into two distinct parts: a yield component and a principal component.

  • Whitepaper

  • Article

• Nebula 

  • Enabling exposure to synthetic assets through ETFs

    • Tweet Thread

    • How to leverage on Nebula

• Sigma 

  • Mint & Trade Collateralized Options

  • Article

• Nexus

  • Allowing users to maximise their yields on Anchor and Mirror through easy LTV management (Anchor) and execution of Delta Neutral Strategies (Mirror)

  • Litepaper

• Kujira (previously Harpoon)

  • Bidding for at-risk assets

  • Article

• Spar Protocol

  • Asset management platform; decentralized hedge fund pool.

  • Article

• Yield Aggregator / Optimisers

  • Spectrum

    • Yield optimiser. Facilitates auto-compounding / auto-staking of governance tokens to supercharge returns

    • Docs

  • ApolloDAO

    • Yield Aggregator for TeFi Assets. Warchest will be funded for deployment by DAO members

    • Article

• Launchpads

  • Pylon ($MINE)

    • Launchpad. Lossless investing through fixed yields of Anchor and liquidity lockup

      • Official Docs

      • Article

    • Projects set to launch on Pylon include:

      • TerraWorld ($TWD)

      • Valkyrie ($VKR)

      • Nexus ($Psi)

      • Nebula ($NEB)

      • Galactic Punk

        • This is not a launch per-se, but a lottery pool

• StarTerra

  • Launchpad with Gamification mechanics

    • Whitepaper

    • Projects set to launch on StarTerra include:

      • Loop Finance

Others

• Ozone 

• Insurance. Facilitates levered coverage of technical failure risks in the Terra DeFi ecosystem

  • Whitepaper

    • Article

• Stader

  • Staking Yield Optimiser for $LUNA. Allows for convenient airdrop collection and compounding staking rewards

  • Article

• White Whale

  • Enabling retail access to the LUNA/TerraSDR arbitrage opportunities; while simultaneously helping to ensure TerraSDR maintains peg

  • Article

• Valkyrie

  • Social referral marketing and rewards distribution through the blockchain

  • Whitepaper

• Suberra

  • Perpetual subscriptions to services through upfront ‘deposits’, leveraging on Anchor Protocol’s fixed, stable yield

• Minerva

  • DAO exploring utility of NFTs on Terra

  • Article

• TerraFirma

  • Democratising Real-World Real Estate as Fractionalised NFTs

• Terra World ($TWD)

  • NFT Metaverse for Work

• Tsunami Protocol

  • DeFi Data market, aggregator, and storage solution

• Angel

  • Perpetual charity endowments by leveraging on stable yields provided by Anchor Protocol

• fan$quad

  • Decentralized crowdfunding for the creative industry

• LOTA

  • Decentralised Lottery System

  • Official Docs

  • Bull/Bear: Neutral. What’s good is that it adds another use case for UST, and as we know, increased demand for UST means decreased supply of LUNA, increasing upward price pressure for LUNA.

• Altered

  • Stablecoin that algorithmically adjusts supply to maintain peg to USD

  • Official Docs

• BetTerra

  • Betting (Gambling) Platform for good

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The 2 most important points of this announcement are:

1. No more downloading of Binance app on App Store and Play Store

2. No more P2P transactions (i.e. on-ramp and off-ramp) with SGD as the base currency

The above will be effective by 12 noon this Friday (10 Sep)

What should I do?

Firstly, please don’t panic. Your funds and tokens are not going to disappear. Being the market leader, Binance has every vested interest not to slay the cow that is giving it milk.

If ever Binance were to fully shut off its operations, it will likely do so in an orderly manner and give users ample time to unwind positions and withdraw their assets.

On this note, please be reminded to store your tokens in your own wallet. Always remember: #notyourkeysnotyourcoins

What’s more, please don’t forget that our gahmen has a stake in Binance too.

With Binance P2P gone, what are my options?

Well, to on-ramp (and off-ramp) there are 2 ideas I have in mind.

1. On-ramp via FTX

   FTX is an excellent centralised exchange (CEX) with many of the offerings that Binance (albeit with a limited Futures option). You can on-ramp via FTX by following these steps

   

2. Off-ramp via Huobi P2P

   Selling crypto to fiat normally favours the sellers, so you might want to check out this P2P alternative to Binance.

No mobile app how can? What if I still want to trade on the go?

Well, as shared above, FTX and Huobi are some of the leading Centralised Exchanges (CEX) in the world. My take is to open as many of these CEX as you can as you will never know when you might need to them to trade some fringe cryptos (e.g. INSUR is only available on Huobi now, and many SPL tokens are trading primarily on FTX).

Take your pick from this list here of exchanges available. If you choose to open an account from the link I provided in the list, you will be eligible for fee discounts (varies from exchange to exchange) when you perform spot trades.

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As the saying goes - not your keys, not your coins.

So what exactly are wallets and specifically, why should you get a hardware wallet?

In the decentralized world of crypto, there are no banks or financial institutions (after all, it is meant to be decentralized). What this means for you as a user is that you have full self-custody of your own funds.

If your funds go missing, get hacked (stolen), or if you transferred coins to the wrong address, no one can help you.

In my opinion, this is a small price to pay for many benefits of decentralization; including:

• not having many unnecessary middle men take fees along the way (i.e. cost savings in the long run),

• no longer having to deal with the inefficiencies of traditional finance (TradFi) such as waiting 2 days for money transfers

• being able to transact any time of the day and week (yes, including weekends when banks are typically closed!)

If you plan to hold for the long term, After you have purchased your funds on a centralized exchange such as Binance.com, the next step would be to transfer your coins/tokens into your own wallet so that no one else would be able to access those funds but you.

Why can’t I leave it on the exchange?

Well, exchanges, after all, are centralized bodies and they too fall victim to the woes of other centralized bodies (such as loss of funds from hacks, key team members fleeing with funds, or even temporary freezing of coin withdrawals).

The name of the game is control. To prevent the above from happening to you, you need to own your own wallet.

What are wallets?

Wallets are just a means for you to store your cryptocurrency digital assets.

A wallet will typically have 2 addresses.

1. A public key which you can freely share with anyone so that you may receive funds (think of this like your bank account number

2. A private key which you should never share with anyone (think of this as your internet banking login and password)

Wa, why so complicated one?

After all, it is called Cryptocurrencies for a reason. There is cryptography (read: secret spy stuff) involved and this technology allows for the whole decentralisation in the first place.

Do note that nothing is ever stored on your wallet. Your wallet only stores the information of where your funds may be located on the blockchain.

What kind of wallets are there

There are 2 main types of wallets.

1. Software wallets (like Metamask and Trustwallet)

2. Hardware wallets (Nano Ledger and Safepal)

Software wallets are typically free while hardware wallets typically cost US$80.

Why should I pay when I can get a wallet for free?

Well, you pay for what you get.

Whilst there is fundamentally nothing wrong with a software wallet, because the private key to the wallet resides on same device that you are interacting with the internet world from, there is a chance your private key may be compromised.

This can happen in many ways including phishing attacks where you may be none the wiser. After all, a bank employee in Singapore did fall victim to a social engineering attack and shared details of 1,100 customers.

*Still think you’re clever enough to outsmart the scammers?*

What’s worse, you may even foolishly store the private keys on the cloud and create another vector of attack for hackers.

**Enter hardware wallets**

Hardware wallets allow you to sign for transactions without ever exposing your private key. This helps solve for the issues I listed above.

Popular hardware wallets include Ledger Nano S (Desktop / Laptop only) and Safepal S1 (Mobile only).

In my opinion, the Ledger Nano S works great for most use cases although there is a slight hindrance that it can only store up to 3 apps at any point of time. This shortcoming is fine if you intend to hodl a few coins. If you’d like to hold more, simply uninstall the app to free up space so you may install another. And no, your assets won’t be lost if you delete the app on the Ledger Nano S.

The Safepal S1, however, is great if you intend to perform more DeFi-related transactions on the ETH, BSC, and TRX network. In addition, it’s able to function completely on your mobile (major plus for convenience!)

One key note: Never ever store your 24 word seed phrase online, and never show them to anyone.

Do note that you should only ever buy your hardware wallets from the official store or their authorized resellers. Never ever buy your hardware wallet from a third-party. You will never know if they have tampered with the hardware wallet.

Seed Phrase Storage and Protection

You can either write your seed phrase on a piece of paper (and please laminate it) or purchase a steel seed container that is fire-proof, waterproof, stupidity-proof etc. There are many products out there, but the ones that top my list are Cryptosteel (US$110) and Cobo Tablet Plus (US$60). Yes, the price is mighty expensive. But if your assets are of a certain size, think of this as an insurance. How much are you willing to pay for a good night’s sleep?

If you are willing to ape into a shitcoin with $500, what is $150 to protect your entire crypto investment?

But yes, if you are only ever going to invest a couple of hundred bucks, then don’t get these protection instruments. My personal take is that getting a hardware wallet only makes sense if the cost is less than 2% of your overall investment.

Wonder no more.

Step 1: Open a Brokerage account

There are many brokerage accounts in Singapore, but the most commonly used ones are

1. Binance.com,

2. CoinHako,

3. Kucoin

4. Gemini.

There are so many, which should I choose?

I’d strongly Binance.com for the low fees and widest selection of coins. The reason why there are so many exchanges is because of.. competition! Everyone is vying for the tons of dollars that retail investors spend trading cryptocurrencies. But with the largest exchange in the world (by a far margin), you won’t go wrong with Binance.com.

Step 2: Funding fiat to your brokerage

There are many ways to convert fiat (your cash) into crypto. Here are some of the most commonly used ways in Singapore

(In order of recommendation)

1. Direct transfer of USD from local bank to Binance.com

2. Direct P2P exchange of currencies on Binance.com

3. Transfer SGD to Gemini and to buy a stablecoin (DAI)

4. Borrowing against stock positions on IBKR and performing option #1 on this list

Elaboration TBC

The laziest ways would be #1, #4, #6
Followed by #2, #5 (need to decide which shitcoins to hold and what LP’s to farm and where to farm)
Credits to Wilsrug

I personally dabble in #8 and #6 only.

There is no 1 way to win in crypto. It all depends on your risk tolerance, objective and willingness to put in the time and work. There is nothing wrong in being lazy, but you can’t expect to get outsized returns with minimal effort as well.

In my following articles, I will attempt to dive into each of these in detail.

In particular, I believe that #8 and #6 holds the most potential for most Singaporeans.

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And why should it be?

Every week we hear our co-workers and friends mentioning a friend’s 3rd aunt’s son making it big in crypto and driving a Lambo fresh out of the factory.

Can’t that be me too?

Well, sure. 1 out of every 10,000 people may see some success investing in the crypto world, but so will 1 out of every 10,000 monkeys making a pick on a random shitcoin in the space.

The truth of the matter is that you can never borrow conviction.The conviction to hodl (read: hold) on to your position no matter how stormy the markets can be (and trust me, it can get real volatile here) so that you can even see your investment go up 10x to 100x.

How do you get conviction, you ask?

Well the name of the game is Knowledge. And knowledge, as they say, is Power.

So what should you do? Read. Read. and Read.

Read more about the ‘Why’ for Crypto here.

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1. Guide for Noobs

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