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Here’s what we’re serving up today 🍲: a good crypto portfolio is 50% BTC, 50% ETH. But there’s another coin worth looking at.

Let’s dig in.

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Our job at 2036 is to bring you all the best opportunities and projects in crypto. We covered Ordinals before they were cool, and $PEPE before it 22X’d. 

On top of that, we break it down so your parents can understand.

We wouldn’t be doing our job if we didn’t bring you the most controversial top coin in the space.

It was the darling of now-disgraced FTX con-man Sam Bankman-Fried and crashed more times last year than my grandma’s car.

It could go to zero from here. Or it could 100X.

Yes - we’re talking about Solana.

Solana was originally dubbed an Ehtereum-killer. In hindsight, it looks like it mostly killed itself. After the collapse of FTX, it crashed 77% in a day.

But Solana is like a phoenix. And you can’t rise from the ashes if you don’t crash and burn in the first place.

Solana is (maybe) back.

It’s a blockchain, like bitcoin or Ethereum, designed to:

• keep transaction costs really low

• be super fast

… the exact opposite of Ethereum (very expensive) and Bitcoin (very slow).

Solana is positioning itself as the go-to blockchain for applications that need a lot of fast transactions- like gaming and NFTs.

So here’s what we like about Solana...

a/ the developers are actually solving problems. Every time Solana goes down, devs quickly get it up and solve the underlying issue.

b/ Solana has a strong team with a clear vision. It wants to become the Apple of crypto, were the first to release a crypto phone, and are investing in AI.

c/ Solana’s ecosystem is growing fast. It hosts regular hackathons (800 submissions last time), has a strong NFT ecosystem, great games in development, and is relentlessly pursuing partnerships.

But here’s what we don’t like about Solana…

Solana’s reputation has taken a hit. And most coins don’t come back to their previous All-Time Highs 🏅

I still remember EOS, the “Ethereum-killer” that raised $4 billion and literally went nowhere. PTSD-vibes.

On top of that, there are other blockchains being developed that compete directly with Solana.

New narratives tend to catch on faster and might be the darlings of the next bull market - like $AVAX, $LUNA and $SOL thrived in the last.

Those could leave Solana in the dust.

So now you’ve been warned.

That being said, Solana has a lot going for it. It’s worth exploring.

And that’s what we’ll pay you to do today.

📝 Task

Earn $15 in SOL for a simple crypto task

Phantom is the de facto Solana wallet. It will allow you to hold SOL, buy NFTs, play games, etc.

So our task today is a classic Wallet Wednesday with a spin… in the Solana ecosystem.

We’ll gradually start making the tasks more hands-on (e.g. borrowing, lending, earning yield, etc.)

We’ll tally all the participants in a Google sheet and mathematically choose a winner at random who’ll receive $15 in SOL.

So stay tuned 👀 We’ll announce the winner of today’s task in Friday’s email.

🍨 Dessert

Stories to read if you have FOMO

1/ The US is falling behind on crypto

2/ US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expects a slow decline in US dollar dominance

3/ Africa says bye to the US Dollar

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