This week’s edition of ‘The Cortex Connection’ digs back into the content creator space, presenting curated content from some smaller accounts. Everyone has to start somewhere, and sometimes a fresh take on things gives us perspective and ideas we didn’t have before. It’s also fun to watch how newer content creators grow, try out new presentation styles, and adjust their production quality over time. YouTube is especially difficult to break into, so there’s a lot of respect due for those who can consistently create content through the bear, bull, and painfully sideways markets.
Of course, we must point out that this type of content should be viewed with a critical and objective mindset. Use the information provided as an additional tool to expand your understanding of the topics covered and of course, always do your own research before making any decisions based on their content.
Cryptocito
Cryptocito is a YouTube content creator who covers the Cosmos ecosystem, a network of interoperable blockchains that aim to create a decentralized internet of value. Cryptocito produces informative and engaging videos that explain the vision, technology and innovations of Cosmos and its projects. He also interviews prominent figures in the Cosmos community and provides insights and analysis on the latest developments and trends. He is also the Co-Founder of Cosmoverse, one of the largest Cosmos ecosystem conferences worldwide.
A Cosmos Primer, Update, and Price Projections
In this video, Cryptocito breaks down some of the basic unique selling propositions of the Cosmos ecosystem and provides an honest comparison of ATOM, the Cosmos ecosystem native token, against the tokens of other competing ecosystems. He also covers some upcoming updates to Cosmos and associated projects.
The Fastest Chains in Crypto
With all the different L1 and L2 chains available, there’s a ton of competition for adoption, and transactions per second (TPS) is a major factor that decides what users and developers will choose. Cryptocito reviews some of the major chains (including Cosmos of course) and gives an honest comparison of their theoretical, testing, and actual TPS as well as the pros and cons of each, including actual utility.
Taiki Maeda - The Humble Farmer
Taiki Maeda is a DeFi educator and content creator whose stated mission is to create high-quality, digestible content that helps separate signal from noise for DeFi and NFT enthusiasts.
Taiki graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor's in Business and pursued poker full-time after graduation. He fell in love with DeFi in 2020 and started making ad-free YouTube videos to educate the community as he learned along the way.
Taiki is fundamentals-driven and provides regular updates on DeFi trends in hopes to provide his viewers an edge in identifying new opportunities. He has a deep understanding of DeFi protocols and the underlying mechanics, and clearly breaks down his developing theses in his public YouTube videos with deeper dive content available through premium access to his website, FarmerTaiki.com.
PayPal’s Stablecoin - PYUSD
It seems every month there’s news of traditional finance institutions breaking into blockchain offerings. While PayPal has already broken into the crypto space, boasting an increase from about $600M in crypto assets on their balance sheet in 2022 to nearly $1B as of Q1 2023, they have now jumped into the stablecoin race with PYUSD. Taiki covers the news about PYUSD as well as his farming strategy for how to gain exposure to potential portfolio upside.
The End of the DeFi Bear Market is Here
In this video, Taiki breaks down his thesis as to why he believes the DeFi bear market is coming to an end. He covers what catalyzed the previous DeFi bull market in 2020, how the US FED interest rate increases affect TVL in the DeFI ecosystem, and what catalysts are building up to fuel the next DeFi bull market. Taiki provides the slides presented in the video in the description as well as links to his video on how to tap into the building narrative by getting on-chain exposure to MakerDAO accumulating US Treasuries on their balance sheet.
Kevin Svenson
Kevin Svenson is a cryptocurrency analyst and trader who has been featured in various media outlets and podcasts, contributing to CoinDesk, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Kevin has over a decade of experience in the financial industry, and maintains a pragmatic, data based approach to his analyses and creates public and premium content that includes trade data, historic market analysis, and macro price projections.
Positive Crypto Sentiment, Potential FED Pause, What’s Next?
In this video Kevin covers some of the latest fundamentals and how the forward-looking markets are digesting the latest major crypto announcements and how these movements correlate with the traditional markets.
Bitcoin vs the FED Balance Sheet
Kevin is very active on Twitter, regularly posting macro analyses and historic comparisons for Bitcoin and the traditional markets. In a recent post, he discusses the various phases Bitcoin has gone through since its inception, and what phases it is progressing through today. He compares this outlook against how the S&P has performed in the same timeframe and how both markets seem to respond to the state of the US Federal Reserve balance sheet at any given time.
Feedback!
We hope that the content above is both useful and informative as we shine a bit of light on newer content creators putting in the work to provide informative and actionable content while they polish their production quality and improve their style and delivery.
We strive to provide a wide variety of coverage in these editions of ‘The Cortex Connection’ and would love to hear suggestions from you for future releases. Head over to our Discord or any of our contacts listed below and share your favorite interviews and content creators that have inspired you and we’ll consider including them in future editions.
Keep learning, stay curious, and may your crypto journey be filled with exciting new discoveries!