Welcome to the final episode of NFT Update on the main channel!
I'm your host Deezy.
I'm Justin. Man, you scared me. I was like, "This is it."
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But you have the farewell episode.
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- I remember the first time I sat in this chair. - Yeah.
- When was it? Like, three or four months ago? - We were so young and dumb then.
- We were so stupid then. - Times have changed.
- Crypto has changed. - Yeah. But now, look at us.
- You know? - Yeah.
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Yeah, from one of the early episodes,
I want to bring back some old merch for, you know, from the early days.
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In today's episode, we're going to do a really, really cool project, sports-NFT-related,
and very, very important tips to navigate the Cardano NFT system.
We put out some short content, but we want to, you know,
put out a nice long video just kind of explaining just four quick tools
that'll help you, you know, be able to get these NFTs
when there's a little bit of an overloaded blockchain.
Yeah, Cardano is a little clunky,
but I think they're working all their issues out,
but in the meantime, I think it is good to have these, you know, tips
- to kind of navigate through that space, for sure. - Yeah.
But we got a project to talk about.
- A little sponsored segment. - We do.
What do we got going on? It's hoop life, right?
- It's the Ballies. - Ballies NFT built on Binance Smart Chain.
So pretty cool.
Art looks pretty cool.
It's essentially going to be a basketball game inside of the metaverse.
It's 9,999 unique NFTs actually created by an award-winning artist.
Now, did you play any basketball games way back in the day like Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo,
- anything like that? - No, no, no. I played horse.
- Okay. You played in real life? - Yeah, I played in real life horse.
Basketball wasn't my sports, but I did play NBA Jam.
- So if you're going to bring up video games, - Yeah.
Sega NBA Jam's it's heating up, you're on fire, all those--
You know what's cool about NBA Jam is? You know, they didn't have five-on-five, right?
Wasn't it-- it was a three-on-three or something like that?
- Or--? Yeah. - I don't. I can't remember now,
but I feel like it was either three-on-three or five-on-five.
Yeah, so this game is kind of similar.
- They're going to do one-on-one, - Uh-huh.
- three-on-three and five-on-five. - Five-on-five.
So however you want. Like, more of a street-baller-type thing.
One-on-one, I'm going to cross you up. I'm going to dunk in your face.
- Do the one-on-one if you want. - Yeah.
If you're a team, fundamentals, defense wins the game, you know?
Go five.
If you're in the middle, do the 3v3.
- It's a play-to-earn too. So, like, in these-- - Yeah. A little play-to-earn action,
whether it's a tournament or just some one-on-one games,
it's play-to-earn.
You're going to be earning some tokens on the Binance Smart Chain network.
So that's pretty cool.
But these NFTs, going back to those, so you get a base NFT.
- So you get-- - Oh, yeah.
How do you tell the difference between the Michael Jordan
and, you know, that benchwarmer who's like a middle school player?
Okay.
So you get the base, the base NFT,
and then after that, you get a layered 1 NFT,
- which is your attack and defense. - Okay.
So depending on your player,
- depending on his-- - So their ability to foul?
They'll like-- they'll, you know, they'll hack the guy's arm, you know.
When you say attack, you mean they fight on the court or is this like scoring ability?
- Scoring ability. Yeah, I don't think-- - Oh, okay.
I don't think they're, like, killing each other on the court.
Now, I don't know. The game's still in beta.
- But maybe they are. - Who knows? Maybe, you know?
- Like, if you demand it, you know? - Yeah. Who knows where it's going to go?
No, but, yeah, so scoring ability versus defense, okay.
- So you kind of see how, you know, everything plays out. - Yeah.
- A little bit of randomization with a little bit of skill added. - Yeah.
Yeah. Then your layer 2 is accessories and other ways to actually, like,
- power up and upgrade your player. - Oh.
- You get some cool shoes or something, right? - You get some cool shoes.
You could get those, like, 1980s NBA shorts.
The real high ones.
- Real short. - Yeah, yeah.
- You know, or maybe a head band. - It's for aerodynamics.
- You know? - Yeah, aerodynamics.
That's what they made them for.
Magic Johnson.
So I think it's going to be a very cool thing if they pull it off.
I know the game's in beta right now.
I'm looking forward to seeing-- I know we cover a lot of these metaverse games and NFT games,
so I'm very curious to see, like, how well they, you know, they pull this game off.
The team is pretty cool. I think they'll be pretty, you know, pretty successful.
Yeah. So they got the beta games, and they're going to do beta rooms.
They have a metaverse plan with Enjin.
You know, that's going to be pretty big.
So I mean, they definitely want to keep growing.
They want to do lend-to-earn.
You can start lending out your players.
- They want to make it a DAO. - That makes me-- that reminds me of Axie.
- Yeah. - You know?
- Lending out your teams to play, - Grow--
- lending out your players to play, so it's-- - Yeah, yeah.
I'll give you-- I'll, you know, I'll give you my Jordan-esque equivalent here.
Also, plans for a token, and then the biggest thing of all,
- other sports eventually. - Okay.
So, you know, if you really did want those guys to fight,
- maybe they'll make a hockey game. - Yeah, maybe they will.
Take out that aggression on the football field.
So they definitely have, you know, a large roadmap. This is a multi-year play.
This going to be a long-term, you know, game for, you know, for the Binance Smart Chain system.
Yeah. I think it's going to be successful.
The drop's early February.
We're going to put the links in the descriptions for the website to keep up to date on that.
Make sure you're on the lookout for it. Binance Smart Chain,
so you're not going to have to deal with those pesky Ethereum transaction fees.
Yeah.
But alright, you ready for a step-by-step breakdown on how to get a Cardano NFT?
Of course.
- Yeah. I know I needed one a month ago. - All of us. Yeah.
- That's for sure. - Yeah. Let's do it!
Alright. So the first thing you do when you're buying an NFT, what do you do?
You've got to add funds to a wallet.
You know, you send it from an exchange like a Coinbase or Kraken.
But what do you use for a Cardano wallet?
What's your go-to?
My go-to, my first Cardano wallet, I remember it like it was yesterday,
- was the Nami wallet. - Yeah.
So I bought my ADA on KuCoin,
and I was able to send it over instantly to my Nami wallet,
very similar to the MetaMask for Ethereum network.
- So I was very used to that. - Yup.
The user experience was perfect.
I didn't have any issues.
So that was my first wallet. What about you?
Definitely Nami wallet as well, but there's a new contender,
- CCVault. - Oh, CCVault.
- I'll look into that. - So, yeah, definitely Nami or CCVault
just seems to be the way to go if you're trying to buy from, you know, a marketplace.
Now, if you're minting, you know, they, you know, then you go even deeper,
but those will do in a pinch when it comes to minting.
Sometimes, a drop is just so insane, you know,
everybody-- it's basically a crapshoot for everybody.
But, yeah, the first step, get your wallet,
Nami, CCVault,
and then the next step would be, you know, if it's in Ethereum,
- you would go to OpenSea to buy your NFT. - Or Rarible, yeah.
Yeah, but this is Cardano, so instead of that,
where would you go after you have the ADA on your wallet?
- My go-to Cardano NFT marketplace is JPG Store. - Yeah.
It's so easy.
It connects right away to your Nami wallet.
You're able to use it right there,
and it interacts just like MetaMask on OpenSea.
- Yeah, jpg.store. - Yeah.
And also, if you--
it's not as good in my opinion, but sometimes you can't get it, you know.
You're unable to get on the JPG Store, so you go to cnft.io,
but make sure you're clicking instant buy.
- It's the little lightning. - Yeah.
- So you want to hit the little lightning thing. - The little lighting bolt.
And that way, you know, you can get it quickly.
But, you know, sometimes, there's a little bit of a premium,
but JPG Store's very fast, very efficient, you know.
- I'm a big fan of JPG Store myself, for sure. - Yeah, me too.
Alright. So you got that, you know, you kind of know where to buy it,
but you like to snipe. You like to hunt.
You like to try to find those deals.
You like to search the rarity.
- You know? We got rarity.tools for ETH, - Yeah.
but again, we don't have that for Cardano, so we've got to go elsewhere.
Where do you go for your rarity?
- cnft.tools - Okay.
That's the place you go to break down rarity.
It'll actually break down the different traits on that site.
It'll break down the percentages.
So, like, you know, if you get the cat, the Boss Cat with a cigar in his mouth wearing bunny ears,
it might-- there might only be 10 of those.
It'll tell you that.
Whereas, you know, one with the diamond skin,
- there might be 100 of those. - Yeah.
So it breaks down the traits for you.
You know if it's going to be rare or not,
- and it ranks it right there on that site. - Yeah.
It's very similar to rarity.tools.
Alright, and speaking of ranks,
there's one thing we like to employ from the playbook,
and that's check the rankings, check the volume,
see where, you know, projects are heading on the way up.
Is the floor, you know, kind of reaching that bottom?
- Are we on that parabolic upswing where that NFT is going to 3X, 4X, 7X, 10X? - Yeah.
So what do you do when you, you know, you try to see basically like the OpenSea activity button
or a Nansen, what do you do for Cardano?
What's your go-to for that?
So when I want to find something that's going to, like, when it's going up in ranking
as far as volume goes or it tracks, like, volume and floor price as it's rising up,
I go to opencnft.io.
- Okay. So spelled the same? OpenSea? - No, no, no, no.
- Open with a letter C because it's Cardano. - Ah!
- Like the CNFT? - NFT-- Yeah.
- Makes sense. Yeah. - That's a good branding.
- That's a good name, opencnft.io, okay. - Dot-I-O.
So on that site, you can-- it ranks it,
whether you want 24-hour ranking, week ranking, month-long ranking,
it'll rank what's rising up as far as volume,
and if you can catch something before it's in the top 10, as far as ranking,
but you see it climbing,
maybe it's like No. 50 and all of a sudden, it pops to 40,
it's a really good opportunity then to go to that project
and maybe buy 10 off the floor.
I'm a big believer in buying off the floor if I'm looking to flip.
If I'm looking to, like, a long-term hold on NFT,
I might buy one with a little more rarity to it.
But anyways, that's how I pick the projects that are going to be coming up
and ones that are going to become more popular.
Are they rising up in rank in volume?
- Are these lessons from the playbook? - Those are playbook lessons. Yeah.
- Playbook lessons? - Playbook. Playbook lessons.
Alright. When are we going to make our own manual?
We've got to make one leather-bound.
- We've got to start writing these down. - Leather-bound. We have to get the coach's whistle
- and all that stuff. Yeah. - Okay.
I have an old Chuck E. Cheese shirt, you know.
If you watch our other channel, you know the Chuck E. Cheese story.
- I'm not going to get into it now. - It is a good one.
It is a good one, but, yeah,
you know the little vertical stripe Foot Locker style shirt?
They had the same thing there.
I like it. Yeah.
I don't have any weird costumes.
I'm not into costumes.
Well, you know, we at least have to get some aliens for Pluto Alliance.
- We could probably do that. - Alright. So the four-- just, again, to reiterate,
get Nami.
You know, you put your ADA on there.
Go to JPG Store.
Maybe cnft.io.
Check the rarity on cnft.tools.
And if you want to look more into the data and the rankings, go to opencnft.io.
That's it!
- Boom! That's the playbook. - And you can become a successful CNFT trader.
Yeah. I mean, I think, you know, ETH, the gas is real high.
You know, that's kind of where a lot of people are going.
It's pretty fun, you know, buying an NFT for two Cardano.
- You know? It's like $2. - Yeah. That's pretty cool.
- It's pretty-- - So I enjoy--
I enjoy the Cardano space.
Very popular communi-- oh,
what's your favorite-- real quick before we go, what's your favorite CNFT?
I mean, it has to be my Boss Cat.
Argh! You stole mine.
I mean, it's okay. We both like Boss Cats.
Alright, alright. What's your favorite non-Boss Cat NFT?
Oh, man. That's a tough one.
It's got to be Boss Cat.
Favorite non-- okay. I'll say it.
I just really like the Chilled Kongs' art.
Chilled Kongs' art looks pretty cool.
The apes on there, they went for more of a gorilla vibe instead of like a chimp vibe.
And I like that.
I like Bright Palz for art.
I like-- you know, this is a newer one, but I like BitFins for utility.
And I don't own one. I'm actually trying to flip into one.
I think SpaceBudz is kind of an OG. To me, it's the Punks.
I haven't got one yet, but, you know,
- maybe eventually. - Maybe.
If it dips down, I'm buying the dip for sure.
Nice! I like it.
- I think that's all we got. - Alright.
- The final episode. - Oh, man.
Make sure you go to the NFT Update and, you know,
that's where you can still see us continue to make fantastic content,
still putting out playbook lessons,
and, you know, we're trying to get you to stack them SATS,
and, you know, we'll go on the journey together.
Let's do it!
- Alright. We'll see you at the next channel. - Alright. Yeah.
Pluto is still a planet.