Zima Red 2020 Content Recap

Note: This is not financial advice, and the views expressed in this blog do not represent the views of my firm Sfermion.

2020 was a huge year for the NFT space. Trade volumes nearly 4x’ed and the number of users more than doubled (actually determining the number of NFT users is hard so I generally use OpenSea as a rough estimate for users because it’s the top NFT exchange. OpenSea users Jan 2020 to Jan 2021: ~13k users to ~35k users).

On top of the massive market growth, it was a huge year for Zima Red. The Zima Red podcast grew from ~50 listens per episode and is now around ~350 listens per episode. Although small total numbers that is still 600% growth!

The Zima Red newsletter growth rate was even crazier. From 67 subscribers on January 1, 2020, to 1,222 subscribers on January 1, 2021. That is a 1,723% growth rate. The number of reads per post increased dramatically as well, from ~100 reads per post to now ~1,100 reads per post.

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I wanted to use this newsletter as a recap of all the content I produced in 2020. Each piece of content acts as a small slice of NFT history. Some of the podcasts guests were on before starting their own companies, some of the content dove into data that now looks ancient. For example, Axie infinity weekly volume being ~$7,000 in January of 2020!! (Weekly volume is now around $200k 🤯)

Zima Red Podcasts 2020

• Conlan - Accelerating The Emergence Of The Metaverse - Zima Red ep. 3:

• Spidymonkey - Master Builder and NFT Realist - Zima Red ep. 4

• Jiho - Advancing The NFT Frontier - Zima Red ep. 5

• Devil - Community, Culture and Creativity - Zima Red ep. 6

• Dan - Show Me The Data -Zima Red ep. 7

• Artur - Metaverse Maximalist - Zima Red ep. 8

• Baus - Mission-Driven Founder - Zima Red ep. 9

• James - The Google Of NFTs - Zima Red ep. 10

• Trislit - The Gamers Gamer - Zima Red ep. 11

• Sebastien & Nathan - Blockchain Metaverse: The $1 Trillion Dollar Opportunity - Zima Red ep. 12

• Joel - NFT Market > Crypto Market - Zima Red ep. 13

• n0shot - Changing The Paradigm Of Art - Zima Red ep. 14

• Duncan & Griffin - The Next Billion - Zima Red ep. 15

• Toxsam - The Metaverse Architect - Zima Red ep. 16

• Donnie Dinch - Crypto Wallets = The New Email - Zima Red ep. 17

• Avaer - The Metaverse Is Already Here - Zima Red ep. 18

• Brian Flynn - Thinker, Operator, Builder - Zima Red ep. 19

• WhaleShark - $Whale Social Currency - Hotseat ep. 1

• Jake Brukhman - Crypto Investment Manager & Crypto Art Collector - ep 20

• Chris Bell - Real Estate Investor Turned Virtual Land Investor - Zima Red ep. 21

• Max Brody - Universal Creative Income - The Future Of Work - Zima Red ep. 22

• Anorak - On The Virtual Forefront - ep 23

• Brett Shear - Crypto Founder And Art Whale - ep 24

• Edward Thomson - PhD In Astrophysics Turned Decentralization Diehard - ep 25

• Jason Bailey - The Convergence Of Art And Tech - ep 26

• John Egan - Identifying and Exploring Our Inevitable Virtual Future - ep. 27

• Nate and Carolin - Tokenizing The World With Mintbase - ep 28

• Aleks Larsen - How A +$300m Blockchain Venture Fund Operates - ep 29

• Stephen & Mads - The Future Of Finance With NFTfi - Zima Red ep 30

  I have 14 more podcast episodes but I have reached the email limit length so check them out here - Zima Red podcast

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Zima Red Newsletters 2020

• NFT Proof-of-Work - Jan 2020

• NFT Proof-of-Work Art Edition - Jan 2020

• 📈💻📉Are Non-Fungible Tokens Price Performance Correlated To The Crypto Markets?

• NFT Data Dump Sundays - Jan 2020

• NFT Proof-of-Work - Feb 2020

• NFT Scene - Podcasts & Updates

• NFT Proof-of-Work Art Edition - Feb 2020

• NFT Data Dump Sundays - Feb 2020

• 🛠📈💸Cryptovoxels Investment Thoughts

• 🌈🏙💰Metaverse Advertising Marketplace + New Podcast With Trislit

• NFT Proof-of-Work - March 2020

• NFT Proof-of-Work Art Edition - March 2020

• The History of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

• 👍🌊👟Enabling Greater Liquidity For Limited Edition Goods (Digital & Physical)

• 💎🕸🖥 The Scarce Web

• 🐱🚀👨‍👩‍👧‍👦NFTs Will Introduce Crypto To The Mainstream

• NFT Proof-of-Work - April 2020

• NFT Proof-of-Work Art Edition - April 2020

• 🏞💵💎NFT Art - Secondary Sale Valuation

• 🎮💰📲The Internet Turned Everyone Into A Blogger And Video Games Will Turn Everyone Into Investors

• 🏆📸🔨Exploring "Proof-of-Work" Within The Non-Fungible Token Space

• NFT Data Dump Sundays - April 2020

• NFT Proof-of-Work - May 2020

• NFT Proof-of-Work Art Edition - May 2020

• 📲🚀📈Non-Fungible Tokens: A Convergence of Technology Will Unlock the Next Billion-Dollar Asset Class

• 📊👟📈Culture Markets

• 🏞🌍🌅A Call For More Open, Blockchain-Based Virtual Worlds

• 🙋‍♀️👑🙋‍♂️How To Create Evangelists (For Your NFT Project)

• 💻🌃🧙‍♂️Crypto Will Change Value, NFTs Will Change Society

• 🏡🏞📈Why Blockchain-Based Virtual Worlds Will Accrue The Greatest Aggregate Value Within The NFT Space

• 🕵️‍♂️📊💰Exploring Non-Fungible Token Business Models

• 🌇🚀🏙Blockchain-Based Virtual Worlds As The Next Gaming Platforms

• 🌅The Metaverse Golden Age

• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🏔📲Non-Fungible Tokens Directly Touch Upon Innate Pieces Of Human Nature

• 🖼❤️🌎Art & Altruism - Bringing In The Masses With Cryptograph

• 🔮⚖️🛡Major Risks Of The Current NFT Ecosystem

• 🎮📈🧙‍♂️Blockchain Gaming: The Next Crypto Narrative?

• Sfermion - A Metaverse-Native Investment Firm

• 🌈🌍🖼 Foundation - The Holy Grail of User-Experience Design

• 🕵️‍♂️⛓📊Exploring On-Chain Data To Find The Best NFT Traders

• 🤓💰📊New Funding Methods and Markets For NFTs

• ⚡️📈💪How To Supercharge The Growth Of NFTs And Crypto

• 🤓🌈🌃 Quick Overview Of The NFT Ecosystem

• 👩‍🌾💎👨‍🌾Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Farming

• 👫🖼📊 Exploring The Social Token Revolution

• Lessons From Minecraft: Achieving Alpha with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

• 💻🚀💎DAI vs. ETH - Should Non-Fungible Token Markets Adopt Stablecoins?

• 😎📈💎 How To Easily Get NonFungible Token (NFT) Market Exposure

• 🤯⚡️😜 How The NFT Ecosystem Can Step Up Their Marketing Game

• MetaCast Group - Promoting The NFT Ecosystem Through Content

• 🌈🛸📈 Fantasy Venture NFT Portfolio

• 📊🤓✅ NFT Survey Results - 96 Respondents Are Looking To Spend +$1.9m On NFTs In 2021!

• 🖨💸💎 Modern Monetary Theory Is Here - Long Scarce Digital Goods

• 📱👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💰 The "TikTok/Pinduoduo" of NFTs?

• 🌆🌎📈 Metaverse-Native VS Incumbent

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Wow, that was more content than I thought.

Well buckle up for 2021 because I don’t expect to be slowing down, subscribe here if you want to jump on onboard 🚀