🏦 The ultimate DeFi wallet

GM everyone. This is 2036, the newsletter that pays you.

Today is Wallet Wednesday.

Yes, you know what that means. It's the easiest task we offer here at 2036. And it's every Wednesday.

So let's do it.

Wallet Wednesday is where we pay you to open a crypto wallet. We do this because your crypto journey always starts with a wallet. The best way to learn is by doing, said someone smart a long time ago.

Today's task is going to be slightly different than the previous ones.

Instead of a bitcoin wallet - we're going to open a DeFi wallet.

Okay, I'll bite - what's DeFi?

If bitcoin is digital gold, DeFi is digital Wall Street.

DeFi (decentralized finance) is a broad term for financial services that banks provide today - that you can now do on public blockchains like Ethereum.

We're talking lending, borrowing, staking, buying insurance, trading derivatives, YOLO'ing your savings on 100X futures, etc. BUT without an intermediary or bank and without any paperwork.

How I feel staking for 1,000% returns in a tiny liquidity pool on an obscure blockchain.

In future newsletters, we'll dive deeper into the weeds of DeFi. We'll explain the most interesting protocols, what whales are holding right now, and much more - so stay tuned.

For today, all you've gotta do is open a DeFi wallet.

✅ Task: earn $15 in ETH for opening a Metamask wallet

Yes! You guessed it. There are a few different DeFi wallets out there, but one stands out above the rest - Metamask.

You've probably heard of Metamask. And maybe you even have a wallet.

Metamask is the gold standard of web wallets for DeFi. It was initially built for Ethereum, but supports a bunch of networks today.

Metamask is a foundation for using DeFi and Web 3 in general. We'll be using it in future newsletters for other tasks too.

So if you already have an account - that's cool with us. You can submit that as well. And if you don't, here's your incentive to get started.

So here's today's task -

Step #1: Download and install Metamask. Simply follow the instructions to get started.

Step #2: Reply to this email with a screenshot of proof AND your public ETH address so we can pay you.

Blur out whatever you want, and DO NOT send us your secret recovery phrase. Make sure your ETH address is typed out - we won't copy it by hand from the screenshot (we got fat fingers here).

We'll select two submissions at random and send them $15 ETH each.

If you're feeling fancy today, you can pair your Metamask with an anti-phishing browser extension as we explain right here:

Once you have a Metamask wallet, you can also use Metamask's Portfolio app to get an overview of all your assets across all chains. Pretty cool.

And that's it for today boys and girls. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Tomorrow we'll look at some crypto price predictions from some OGs in the space.

I know. I'm excited too.

See you then,

Alex.