This question comes out of sheer curiosity. Let me explain the logic ..

Love it or hate it, web3/crypto is pushing boundaries of what financial transparency is. Never before has such a large number of people been comfortable with totally exposing their entire investment history. But many, if not most, do it anonymously. Although you don’t know who the ape-avatared person on twitter really is, you 100% know how well they’ve picked what crypto/NFTs to buy. That's enough to know if they're BS or worth listening to.

Commonstock is without a doubt the closest thing traditional finance has to web3. It brings transparency to traditional financial in a way no one has ever done before. It has made people comfortable exposing their trading history. And it’s done so while staying neutral (e.g. it’s not trying to compete with existing brokerages - it embraces them). That's made it lightyears ahead of unverified screenshots on WallStreetBets and far more objective than sites like Public whose ultimate goal is to compete with other brokerages.

That led me to wonder… while Commonstock has been very aligned with web3 psychology when it comes to being transparent about trading history, anonymity in traditional finance has largely been unexplored. On CS, you have to reveal (for the most part) who you really are (“doxxing” yourself in web3 parlance). Even if that’s not a requirement, it’s the vibe.

But what if it wasn’t? How would you feel if the portfolio you were tracking was a totally anonymous identity. If you knew that CS guaranteed the trading history was verified and accurate, would it matter? Or would you be hesitant to trust it without a real identity tied to it?

I'm genuinely curious, and would love the community's thoughts on it.

The thing about NFTs that I don't think the general public gets yet is that they will make "crypto" accessible/interesting to the mainstream, and it'll have nothing to do with "currency" (or BTC).

When they get there, they probably wont be called NFTs. They'll be concert tickets, or sticker packs. They'll be the things we buy digitally, except instead of paying Snapchat for filters, you'll buy the filters and resell them when you're done with them.

You might have noticed some things looking a little different when logging into Commonstock today. We've launched a new home page feed, which shows you the best of what's happening on Commonstock, sorted by what's been upvoted the most (upvotes are equivalent to Likes).

There's a ton of great content posted to Commonstock every day, but for many of us, we miss it because we don't follow the author or it quickly is replaced with other posts and memos. Since the old feed was primarily based on who you were following, there was a lot of great stuff that no one was seeing.

Content in this feed can be sorted in two ways: Top and New.

Top content is initially what has been upvoted the most (though we'll be highlighting things with tons of comments/discussions too).

New is sorted by when it was posted.

You can also look at it in various timeframes (Recent, Past Week, Past Month...).

Absolutely. We've moved (and improved) the old feed into the Following tab. This feed will only show you content from who you follow and what assets you own.

This is the first of several planned changes over the next few months to improve how content is discovered on Commonstock (yes, we're working on ways to filter out asset classes you aren't interested in).

Hope you enjoy it! As always, send feedback!

For anyone interested in NFTs, Art Blocks is a top curator of great artists and runs drops several times a week. By the time the stuff shows up on Opensea, the floor tends to be higher than the highest mint price (not always). And we seem to be in an NFT bubble so this isn't investment advice. These are only worth what someone is willing to pay.

That said, tomorrow there are two drops.

Worth checking out!

If you’re interested in the NFT space, a few of us are kicking off a chat group here: https://share.commonstock.com/share?invite=dRwxfH

Update on this: Week 1 was $MSFT and weeks 2,3,4 was $ETH.X. Commonstock community loves buying the dip 😊

There are too many crypto projects to track, but this one caught my ear. Alchemix ($ALCX.X) essentially issues loans that repay themselves with future interest.

Put $10k into Alchemix, immediately withdraw $5k, and the $5k will be repaid over the next 2-3 years using future yield on the $10k.

If interested, check out @kevin’s podcast with the founder https://www.modern.finance/alchemix/

I'm excited to start a fun experiment. For the next year, I'll be investing in the top trending asset every week. Here's how it'll work:

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I'll do this every week for the next 52 weeks. Let's go!

Finding a brokerage to use for this has been slightly challenging. I need a brokerage that supports fractional shares and crypto investments and connects to Commonstock. I'd also prefer a simple UI since I dont need complex tools for this. Here's what I've explored:

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Right now, working on getting the SoFi account connected but will see. If I can't get it set in the next day, I'll make my first purchase next week.

I'd love any feedback on this, and if there's a brokerage I should look at that I might not have considered.

I’m all for $BTC.X going up, but I’m excited for a time when the market matures and we don’t see major swings when Elon says things https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/investing/elon-musk-bitcoin-intl-hnk/index.html

I’ve been through a bunch of these, but this one feels especially swift and especially clobbering. I’d say buy the dip, but it feels like there’s more dippin’ to be done over the next few months / years.

The difference this time for me is, I think crypto has proven utility more than ever before, and I’m more confident than ever in a lot of the core projects.