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In this episode, we have Igors Puntuss, CEO of Bulkestate, as our guest. Together with Igors, we discuss Bulkestate’s journey over the past five years, and the main things that investors should expect going forward. Bulkestate is one of my favorite platforms. Contrary to other players in the market, they have an understated approach and focus on delivery rather than hype.

Here are some of the main numbers from Bulkestate’s performance over the past years.

• Total funding volume originated as of 31.12.2021: € 24 307 835,00
• Total number of projects funded: 135
• Weighted average annual return: 14.33%
• Number of active investors: 10 171
• Capital lost: 0
• Repaid objects: 86
• Defaulted objects (Historically): 6%
• Delayed objects: 13%

Biggest project: Marijas Street 1 750 000 EUR with 740 investors and 17% return. That ended up being 2% more than planned.

With regard to group buying, here are the main stats:

• A total volume of group-buying deals: 14 992 883 EUR
• Number of group-buying deals: 4
• Total area sold in group-buying deals: 15 350.8 sq m
• Number of participants in group-buying deals: 83
• Total units sold: 95

Links

• Bulkestate is 5 years old

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In this episode, we welcome back Jalil from PunkScape for another round of NFT knowledge drops.

Following our more introductory first episode with Jalil, in this episode, we continue evolving some of the topics we touched upon previously as well as introduce some other very important concepts and guidelines that all NFT investors or creators should know about.

Some of the topics discussed:

• An exploration of NFT contracts on Etherscan.
• How metadata and images are stored on IPFS.
• What software was used to build the scapes?
• What’s happening behind the scenes in a project’s reveal stage?
• Potential for exploits, cheating, unfair advantages when a project is launched.
• Why ENS domains are important and how they fit into PunkScapes.
• Some innovations in the PunkScapes metadata, such as the date assigned to each scape.
• Upcoming PunkScape apps and functionality(animations, gallery, background builder etc).

Links

• Etherescan contract – PunkScape
• PunkScape token 1 on IPFS
• Example of PunkScape PNG file hosted on IPFS
• Pinata
• Cryptopunks contract
• Figma
• Affinity Designer
• Tom Sachs Rocket Factory

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In this episode, we welcome the founder of Kumo’s World, Kumo, who shares with us her journey and motivations for creating this collection of extremely cute characters, as well as the new features that are on the roadmap for the next few months.

About Kumo’s World

Kumo’s World is a fantastical place where you control the story. Go on adventures with the other explorers and discover the hidden gems the world of Kumo!

Here, you can let your inner child free and just be yourself without judgment.

We hold expeditions in our discord that are like text version of RPG, where the story follows the explorers actions. They have set challenges to overcome and with each challenge, they grow stronger as a team.

There will be factions where grouped resident classes will compete against each other in World leagues, as well as pets with special powers that can open up different realms for more adventures in unknown parts of world. A new currency kxwCoins will be in circulation post drop. These coins are only available through taking part in the leagues, explorations and community events. Shops will open in the future where the coins can be exchanged for items/pets.

Future roadmap includes children story books, merch, collabs with other similar projects, live events and many others to come!

Links

• Kumo x World

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In this episode, we welcome Jalil Wahdatehagh, the founder and artist behind the PunkScape NFT project to guide us through the remarkable world of non-fungible tokens.

How do we visualize value, what are and why digital identities are important, how NFTs can be used not only for visual art? These are just minor parts of the topics we discussed with Jalil. Of course, we covered the basics (well, they are not so basic after all):

• NFT minting process and ownership
• Algorithms and ideas behind NFTs
• How do NFT treasuries work?
• How NFT is a form of money?
• What are the prospects of NFT in the future?

Apart from that, we talked about PunkScape, the NFT project Jalil founded and now runs with his team, as well as other projects like the CryptoPunks.

If you are new to NFTs, jump over to the ‘How to Invest in NFTs’ article on my personal blog to learn more about the topic.

Links

• PunkScape on Twitter
• Jalil on Twitter