[Music]  all right what is that banjo and welcome  in today's today's edition of in the  game i am your host hustle and as always  we'll be diving into the crypto gaming  landscape and markets today as there is  a pivotal event across crypto this week  obviously unless you're living under a  rock or if you're new to the industry  the eth merge is right around the corner  this week the eth merge will take place  and that that is a massive catalyst in  the market i'm going to show you proof  in the pudding of the last couple of  events that have triggered massive  massive by the rumors sell the news  events and why i think if the eth merge  is no different and one of the only  catalysts propping up this market at  this time and why i think patience will  pay off in this time period where if you  wait after the merge let the market play  out my thesis is you will see much  better prices for long-term accumulation  we'll discuss all that and more in this  edition without further ado let's get in  the game  t-minus 15 seconds guidance is internal  12 11 10  9  ignition sequence starts  [Music]  is  [Music]  hustle wise  [Music]  all right and let's dive right into it  be sure to like the video if you enjoy  the show and be sure to subscribe to the  channel for crypto shows here every  single day on crypto banter and shout  out to the sponsors of in the game  animoka brands one of the biggest web 3  gaming companies in the world unix  gaming one of the leading web3 gaming  infrastructures as well as mexi the  official exchange of the in the game  show so let's go ahead and dive right  into it over the weekend we actually saw  brian armstrong from coinbase and  coinbase themselves come out with a  partnership with enthusiast gaming and  anyone who's in really touched with the  gaming space at the moment knows that ev  it's a first person shooter has been  really coming up in the scene as far as  an easy on-boarding game and the guys  are from addicting games  you would have played in the computer  lab as a kid that was what i was coming  up on and that website fueled so many uh  different games and many game  experiences for me to be able to  participate in so whenever uh they  brought this game to the web three space  eevee.io which is a first person shooter  that really was something that a lot of  people have caught hold to and you can  play on any device and as you see here  they'll provide enthusiast gaming who is  behind ev.i o with wallet capability  blockchain nodes fiat to crypto ramps  and i think that the reason i wanted to  highlight this is because coinbase  really flopped on their nft marketplace  anyone who remembers the the memes that  were coming out the comment section in  the nft marketplace it was just so weird  you know it was very differently played  than i thought that they should have  played it and nobody uses coinbase for  nfts so maybe coinbase can aim their  infrastructure towards gaming and find a  little bit of more traction there i  think that might be a better avenue for  them and they definitely have the  resources and the capital to be able to  fund and you know fuel provide these  games with a lot of different tools uh  in their belt so i hope to see them  pivot that direction obviously  enthusiast gaming partnered with adidas  hbo max universal so that was big news  in my opinion in the gaming space and i  hope to see coinbase leaning towards  gaming a little more as brian armstrong  was pointing out and i want to talk  about the markets in this edition so you  know we're looking at the markets  relatively green you know playing out  before the eth merge this is my bear  market gaming watch list that we have  been putting together all bear market  you know this whole entire time while  the market has been dipping we have been  you know researching diving into these  projects and most of them you know you  get down here some of them are  down for the 24 hours but a lot of them  are up for the week and we're still  seeing a lot of green in the markets  leading up to the e merge obviously eth  merge about midweek this week that is a  major catalyst that has been delayed a  couple times and people are really  looking ahead to and i want to point you  to on the show i have been talking about  why i think this is a massive buy the  rumor sell the news event i'm going to  show you the proof and the pudding over  the last year of at least these are two  major major ones that occurred and  there's a couple others that i will  describe after this  we see avalanche year to date and if you  look here avax was about 66 dollars it  runs all the way up to 102  between march and april bear in mind  this was not a bullish time period the  market was not in a bullish trend at  this moment in time avalanche was on its  own accord so it goes from  march 14th to 67  all the way from april 2nd to 102  well if you go look at what those key  dates were the barcelona avalanche  summit ironically falls on the 22nd to  the 27th what was the top of avalanche  the top of avalanche here in this last  little run uh in the bear market was a  hundred and two dollars on april 2nd you  know why that was the catalyst it's  because after all the news comes out  avalanche subnets hit you know defy  kingdoms crabata they were coming out on  the subnet there was a lot of hype  around the chain they were allowed to  announcing a lot of new games that were  going to build infrastructure on  avalanche subnets but the thing about  these catalyst guys is after these occur  there's nothing else to look forward to  so what happens they move on they go to  the next narrative people will try to  swim to that next narrative and  obviously once that narrative was gone  it just plays back into the market cycle  which was extremely bearish sentiment  and now we're seeing 21  on avalanche but that's not the only  example you know obviously the the prime  example we could take a look at was last  fall right before the bull run you know  the bull market was in the prime last  october and november i would say but  leading up to the bull market cardano  was announcing their smart contracts  obviously this is the infamous one up to  three dollars on september 2nd  we're looking at three dollars in this  time period what was happening in this  time period well september 13th they  launched the smart contracts after the  successful hard fork so when there's all  these hype driven events into the market  but it's all priced in everything is  priced in you know remember the polka  dot narrative with the polka dot  parachains i think polka dot was 40 plus  dollars at that point uh and it is  substantially down i think 80 down at  this point not that other altcoins  aren't but that was definitely another  event that it was priced in it was by  the rumor and it was sell the news so i  don't want people to play into that same  narrative so what is my strategy leading  up to the merge  i think you know if you're out there and  you have any active deployed positions  that are in profit it might be advisable  to potentially take a look across the  board before the eve merger and do a  risk reward scenario in your head just  to evaluate you know should i take a  little bit off the table because this is  a massive catalyst in the market and  given the economic climate i truly don't  think that the bottom has been shown in  this bear market cycle i think that  after this little run that we're seeing  here with the eth merger we're going to  be in for some more pain and that means  better prices so if you took some  positions here at these recent bottoms  and you are swing trading up towards the  eighth merger i would potentially try to  take some profits off the table on some  positions i know obviously i'm not a  financial advisor this is not financial  advice i'm just guiding you through  exactly what i am doing inside of the  markets and i've taken a couple profits  you know and in this bear market time  you know leading up to the eth merger so  whenever i'm assessing my positions and  i got in on some positions very low and  now they're up 40 to 50 percent those  are things i've definitely taken off the  table potentially in security leading up  to the eth merger so i think if you want  to avoid volatility that would be the  smartest thing to do as a savvy investor  is definitely use that narrative of buy  the rumor sell the news so far in crypto  over the last four to five catalyst i  would say even beyond what i listed with  avalanche cardano at the phantom  conference last fall was infamous after  that it completely  completely tanked after the phantom  conference uh there's so many different  instances of these kind i think near is  potentially being shorted as we're  talking right now the near con is  happening at this very moment guys so  these conferences these events they  cause narrative driven  dumps because it's a buy the rumor sell  the news event and you could look back  as far as time the savvy investors  inside of both stocks traditional  markets and crypto markets utilize that  to their full advantage why because  retail is going to come in and retail is  going to say wow i saw the news headline  it must be about to blow up let's go but  the thing is it's already priced in the  savvy people have already taken profits  you want to be on that savvy side you  don't want to be on the retail side that  sees a news headline and then you hop in  that's what it pays it pays to pay  attention in the space so if you've been  you know watching the shows me ran  sheldon kyle miles you know you've  gotten all this information and wealth  of knowledge now in this market climate  you know to play into this merge if our  thesis plays out and i know like i know  i think kyle is pretty bearish i'm  pretty bearish as far as after the eth  merge i think we're gonna see lower  there's gonna be so many opportunities  if you're here soaking up building up  your watch list trimming the fat off of  your watch list so i think that is a  massive key to be looking at in this  market and i want to take a look at a  couple of projects and kind of just go  over the watch list on some key coins  that i am looking at we're seeing green  again today on polygon everyone knows i  think polygon is probably my top like  if there's a top 25 top 20 coin that i'm  looking to accumulate the heaviest it's  probably polygon right now with their  future of gaming behind them and  everything that ryan wyatt's brought to  the table uh with the gaming side and  today we see starbucks bringing their  rewards program over to polygon  hallelujah because i have said since the  beginning and on these shows with people  from the web 2 side that i think loyalty  programs are one of the best fits for  nft utility and traditional businesses  and we see starbucks taking the leap  here an experience that enables you to  earn and buy digital collectible stamps  to unlock new coveted coffee experiences  they're bringing their loyalty program  to the best proof of verification  method in the world  proof of ownership has never been more  efficient and never been more proof than  the blockchain so i think this is  fantastic integration applause to both  starbucks and polygon and this just only  drives me even more bullish on polygon  and as far as the rest of my watch list  guys obviously i'm eyeing up those coins  that i'm looking to take a dip after the  eve merger like sandbox like gala you  know even wax wax has so many users on  their platform major partnerships you  know with marvel and a couple other i  think mattel marvel bratz uh i think you  know a lot of trading cards go under wax  i know one of the biggest some of the  biggest games as far as  i think and player base splinterlands  and alien worlds they're both on wax so  wax has a lot of potential ultra vulcan  forged cedafy super farm these are ones  that you want to be studying up and  looking for their valuations after this  eighth merger and there could be massive  value across the entire watch list and i  always say  start from the top guys you never want a  dca from the bottom of your watch list  up and i'm talking about valuations  right start from the top money goes the  same money goes the same way from top to  bottom the money will flow from the top  of the market to the bottom of the  market which means the high caps to the  mid caps to the low caps so you can play  that safe accumulate those top coins  when you're comfortable after the eve  merge obviously i'll be here with you  every single step of the way to walk you  through my strategy as the eth merge  plays out but if you got value out of  this video if you got a little uh  knowledge on the trends behind buy the  rumors sell the news be sure to like the  video leave your comments down below  i'll answer some comments over the next  hour or two in the comment section down  below and 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