The crypto market crash made the coin market suffer significant losses in terms of finance and users’ trust. Leading crypto solutions like Flow (FLOW) and Aave (AAVE) suffered a significant loss and are still figuring out how to get back to potential clients. Many analysts suggest becoming part of new and novel crypto projects as new currencies come with innovative features and have a minimum margin of loss. One such new token is the Big Eyes Coin (BIG). The project aims to skyrocket the crypto world with utilities and meager rates. Dig into the following write-up to know what each token has to offer.
Flow (FLOW) – Own, Trade, Exchange and Stake Crypto Assets
Flow (FLOW) is the native token of the Flow blockchain network. FLOW is essential to conserving and running the Flow blockchain. It was launched to deliver a blockchain that provides dependable decentralization and sharding. FLOW also promises to offer scalable solutions and apps for games and other digital assets. FLOW tokens are deployed as the frontline payment currency of dApps (Decentralized Applications) running on the Flow blockchain. These dApps could even suffice as incentives when users earn. Additionally, token holders can stake tokens and become nodes. This makes them become authorized to participate in the management of the FLOW platform. The platform rewards these users with a mixture of newly minted FLOW tokens and a fraction of the transaction fees.
Aave (AAVE) – Easy Borrowing Platform
Aave (AAVE) is a DeFi protocol that enables users to lend and borrow assets. The platform offers profit and ease to both parties. Lenders earn by placing digital assets into properly fashioned liquidity pools, and borrowers use their crypto assets as collateral to obtain a quick loan. AAVE was one of the most significant projects regarding the total cap of crypto locked in its platform during the decentralized finance fever in the summer of 2020.
AAVE is an ERC-20 compatible Token empowering the Aave ecosystem. It enables users to borrow and lend in over 20 cryptocurrencies. AAVE offers loans as the first uncollateralized loan-giving platform in the DeFi world. Token holders are given the flexibility of choosing either a fixed or a variable installment for loan payback. Additionally, as a part of its AGD Drop campaign, users are awarded the roles of liquidity provider and active voter and become community champions.
Big Eyes Coin (BIG) – Transforming DeFi Space
Big Eyes Coin (BIG) is a meme token and decentralized finance (DeFi) coin that intends to make digital assets easy to exchange and trade. BIG is a community-oriented token whose success depends on the actions of its beneficiaries and members. They contribute periodically and in small amounts to propagate BIG’s ecosystem and the promised charity projects. One of the welfare programs is to protect the oceans and marine life from the effects of pollution and overfishing.
Besides charity, this cute project also offers utilities. BIG offers token exchange services that are tax-free and also have attractive purchase schemes.
The cat-themed platform also offers token distribution and NFTs for the token exchange. BIG provides many ways for its holders to generate passive income in the Big Eyes ecosystem. The BIG token empowers the cute Big Eyes ecosystem. Being a community-empowering platform, it allows users to contribute to the decisions that involve extension and updates for the ecosystem. It also enables token holders’ participation in numerous activities, including long-term contributions such as NFTs, tax-free token trades, and token distribution. Moreover, the platform intends to break into the list of top NFT providers to access exclusive NFTs.
How to Purchase BIG?
According to company reports, BIG has had one of the most successful presales in crypto history. It is currently in the seventh stage of the presale. It has raised over $11 million in the presale with no indications of slowing down. Users can purchase BIG tokens through a trust wallet app or MetaMask wallets. Once the presale ends, they will automatically transfer to the users’ crypto wallets. The BIG platform is here to provide entertainment, utilities, and charity. Besides this, the tokens are available for meager rates making it a good crypto project amid this bear market. Furthermore, you can employ the code BIGsave515 for a BIG bonus.
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Last year, 2022, I spent five months in Nigeria. I left in August.
I had spent some time in a remote and rural part of Imo State. I was working for a company with a wide range of assets concerning the palm oil industry. My main role was to see a specific modernization program to fruition, but meanwhile, I had responsibility to keep a wide range of assets ticking over.
In these kinds of situations I always feel the need to scrutinize and shadow all aspects of operations. On one particular night I decided to shadow security operations against palm fruit poachers.
At one stage of the patrol we came into unavoidable conflict with poachers. One of our group had his arm almost completely hacked off.
The next day, I was inside a palm fruit mill, and I slipped and fell inside a concrete recess. I busted up my legs some. I got some roadside medical attention in Amafor town, and was back on duty the next morning early.
Some questioned why I felt I needed to be so hands on. Leaked opinions ranged from being Brave, to being naïve or just plain crazy.
What exactly is Bravery?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary says it is ‘the quality or state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty’.
I think there are different kinds of Bravery. It is possible that sometimes we perceive the existence of Bravery where it may not be present, and we fail to see the presence of Bravery when it is.
The top picture represents the canvass that Dr. Kim begins to paint on. The bottom is her finished artwork.
Now, the thing we can see about Dr. Kim from the feature image, is that she could easily be producing endless pictures in different outfits, that are easy on the eyes.
They could be accompanied by endless stories about ‘being human’ or ‘being authentic’, and ‘on the way to work’ moral lessons. They are not.
Doctor Kimberley Abraham is an Oral Surgeon.
She is one of the most foremost in a country where I spent many formative years – Trinidad.
Her posts on LinkedIn frequently illustrate graphic Dental Surgery content. Though Dr. Kim’s description of herself as an ‘Oral Surgeon’ will also extend to pointing out that maintaining the health of this ecosystem does not just involve the teeth, it involves the whole mouth.
That type of content isn’t easy to win SM traction for, but Dr. Kim does it anyway. Where you see a train wreck separated by two lips, Doctor Kimberley Abraham sees the most amazing of rough diamonds, ready to be dug up, surface ground, and polished.
And yes, these posts do sometimes ‘tank’. but Dr. Kim will be on LinkedIn again soon, producing more of the same.
This, to me, is a type of BRAVERY.
The ‘Triangle of Fit’
How would I describe being BRAVE on LinkedIn? Well, for one, it’s about not trying to ‘game’ the system to get metrics, and grow community.
A runner up prize for being BRAVE on LinkedIn goes to Inez Willeboordse of Jobnet Africa. Posts are straight to the point. Videos start with a short intro.. followed by corporate slogan – ‘gain profit and time by finding them top 5% management candidates IN, not ON, the market’ and then directly into one of a series of customer challenges and what Jobnet Africa’s solution is.
A bit formulaic, and there are only a limited number of specific challenges that Inez feels sells JA best, so it can seem a bit repetitive, but that’s also important for product and brand reinforcement.
You won’t get any silly stories from Inez about someone being loaned a pair of shoes on the way to an interview, nonsense polls about toxic workplaces, nauseatingly repetitive content about the difference between a boss and a leader, or how a candidate dashed someone money for a taxi fare on the way to an interview, and ended up getting the job because ‘authentic’ qualities were important to the company culture and the person who was dashed the money was, lo and behold, the new boss!
Inez avoids producing this kind of content that is designed to drive LinkedIn metrics by resonating with the semi brain dead, and that makes her content appear to struggle with traction. She doesn’t allow that bother her, and that to me is being ‘LinkedIn BRAVE’.
Over the year, an interesting new feature is doing a ‘purposefully engineered’ poll, and then following up with a post some days later, using the poll results to drive the marketing thesis. Inez has also managed to secure a series of video interviews with satisfied clients. These very visual testimonies are huge and worth infinitely more than any business can say about itself.
The Triangle of Fit
The Triangle of Fit is important as an expression of value for anyone who has some level of Geo-Mobility.
The more locally a person wishes to stay to where they have been engrained with human qualities since birth, the less important the ‘GEO MARKET’ part is, and the triangle flattens to a straight line.
Unfortunately, on LinkedIn, the people that illustrate Geo Market most, are those that least need to demonstrate those credentials. They are flatliners. The people I feel most need to illustrate it, are those who make no effort to do so at all.
From personal experience in Nigeria, I have found those most needing to illustrate the apex side of the Triangle of Fit are expatriates from emerging economies in South Asia, ACEAN, China and The Middle East.
So a story about two guy named Anil and Essien.
Anil comes from Uttar Pradesh, a place in India. He worked in Nigeria for almost 4 years in a company off the Abeokuta Expressway near Sango Ota. It made plastic water tanks, buckets, and crates for the brewing and CSD industries. Anil knew about ‘Rotational Equipment’ (RE) to a point of obsession and could tell you anything about any new design coming out anywhere. You could debate the merits of a particular engineering design with him for hours. He was 37 when he went to Nigeria, and had 12 years experience in three factories with RE at home. Anil was married with three children, none of which ever came to Nigeria.
Essien was from Uyo, Nigeria and reported directly to Anil. Essien had two passions, his membership of an up and coming church where he was an assistant pastor, called ‘Shallow Soul Ministries’ and his love of the latest Nigerian music, particularly if it was promoted by Don Jazzy. It’s unclear if Essien knew anything about RE. He never spoke about it to industry peers the way Anil did.
A few years passed. Their employer was affected by the Forex ban for supply chain imports. They weren’t able to source raw materials of consistent quality and in good time for efficient production continuity. The company closed. Both of them reached out to me for help in their job search. Despite 12 years relevant experience at home, Anil is looking to the Nigerian market for employment continuity, not his domestic one.
So.. I go on LinkedIn to see how their contributions over time measure up. I’m not too concerned about the bottom right aspect of the ‘Triangle of Fit’ because I know both from that factory, and that’s good enough for me. I want to probe Essiens’ content on Profession Fit, and I want to probe Anil’s content on Geo Market Fit. On Essiens’ I find several posts about events at ‘Shadow Soul Ministries’. I find a lot of comments on posts made by Don Jazzy’s production team. Nothing there at all about manufacture of plastic water tanks, buckets, or crates.
Meanwhile on Anils… I find a street carnival procession, somewhere in Uttar Pradesh. I find comments about a local election somewhere in Uttar Pradesh; photos of a relatives wedding in Uttar Pradesh; a goat being rescued by some folk in flash flood water, in Uttar Pradesh; a truck in trouble on a hillside road, an excavator tries to help recover it, both fall down the hill into a ravine somewhere in Uttar Pradesh… (non exhaustive list).
Where is his Geo Content? I’m not expecting to see Anil ‘getting down’ at a Don Jazzy event, or worshiping at Shallow Soul Ministries, but I’m expecting to be taken on some sort of content journey that shows four years assimilation effort in Nigeria, since its the market where he wants a reappointment. He hasn’t even got as far as ‘Weitin dey happen’. Meanwhile, Essiens’ content should more resemble the way Anil speaks about technical things.
They want me to expend my free time, and risk my reputation on recommending them, when they won’t even generate LinkedIn content showing they can recommend themselves. Both only made populist choices to retain resonance with legacy communities. Not good for their career necessarily, and not very LinkedIn Brave.
Tribalism in Nigeria as many other nations, is a complex dynamic that is almost akin to a fusion of xenophobia and racism. Navigating it to balance the recognition and appreciation of other tribes while at the same time, maintaining a sense of belonging to ones own, is politically challenging and delicate.
I’ve not come across anybody in respect of finding the right level here, who gets it better than Ndubuisi Ekekwe.
Ultimately a thesis should be able to stand on its own merits, not on the public perception of who is sponsoring it. In the challenging world we live in, this does not always become realized.
Prof. Ndubuisi however, is regularly forced to remind some of his respondents here about the importance of approaching content with impartiality.
He will frequently be drawn to say ‘Before you have read a word of my thesis, you have first read “Ndubuisi” ‘ (approximate wording). Meaning: Since names in Nigeria frequently reveal tribal origin, Prof. is cautioning the respondent to impartially analyse the content, rather than dismissing it as coming from the perspective of an Igbo centric ‘loading’.
Ndubuisi Ekekwe puts himself in the firing line for this kind of targeting all the time. This is a type of LinkedIn BRAVE
As Francis Oguagu put it today: ‘Here, the message is irrelevant, it’s always about the messenger and his origin’
My final shout out is to the breaking news artists and subject matter expert journalism, especially on the tech side. This kind of content isn’t written to resonate with anyone in particular. In its most naked form, it doesn’t have a narrative. It isn’t anything in particular. It just ‘is’.
Thanks go to Peter Oluka and Joan Aimuengheuwa of TechEconomy Nigeria were the first to announce our creation and marketing of the first Web 3 domain in the world – 9jacom.
We would also like to thank Isaac Umunna at News Express Nigeria and Bukola Olanrewaju at Business Remarks for carrying stories about 9ja Cosmos.
A shout out also goes to George Onyewuchi for including us in his programs.
We can’t thank all the people we need to on LinkedIn, particularly those in the blockchain space, as we would inevitably leave out someone, resulting in the opposite of our intent, as you are many! You know who you are.
Media, Journalism and Information Dissemination can be tricky, and sometimes it can that you don’t get to write the news, the news gets to write you!
(Unless you happen to be in the US and go by the name of Tucker Carlson).
For me, well, I will keep with my articulation of ideas around Web 3, Blockchain, Metaverse and NFTs which I do understand not everyone agrees with.
For 2023, you will all have to work to find your own version of BRAVE, both in, and beyond LinkedIn
I will end from almost where I began… leaving you with a quote from Dr. Kimberley Abraham –
‘It’s human nature to talk about what we HATE about our jobs But since that negativity doesn’t do anyone any good, let’s do the opposite. What do you LOVE about your work?’
The biggest irony in the world of business is calling the hardest skills for most of us to master “soft skills”. In 2023, if you want that ascension in office, invest time and efforts to master the hardest skills which are abnormally captured as “soft skills”.
“Hard skills are abilities that let you tackle job-specific duties and responsibilities. Hard skills can be learned through courses, vocational training, and on the job. These skills are usually focused on specific tasks and processes such as the use of tools, equipment, or software.” (source)
“Soft skills relate to how you work. Soft skills include interpersonal (people) skills, communication skills, listening skills, time management, problem-solving, leadership, and empathy, among others. They are among the top skills employers seek in the candidates they hire because soft skills are important for just about every job”. (source)
Robots and modern machines are increasingly doing the “hard skills”, but the “soft skills” remain human-centric, putting humans at that level where nothing can easily substitute them. Hard skills make you better on specific tasks and processes, soft skills elevate you to organize people, processes and tools efficiently, and that is a higher call and more challenging. To thrive today at work, do not neglect them.
Yes, soft skills could be termed “soft” but there is nothing soft in a moving target. Do hard things better, become better with your “soft skills”
Brazil’s Leftwinger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as the 39th president of the Republic of Brazil on Sunday, after closely defeating his rightwing contender Jair Bolsonaro at the general election which held on October 2, 2022.
Lula’s victory with a 50.90% of the total votes cast denied the incumbent president, Jair Bolsonaro who came close second at 49.10%, his reelection bid.
Lula who had served the nation at the highest echelon of the executive arm of government for two consecutive terms between 2002 and 2010 has assumed office as President for the third time with a dramatic comeback since 12 years and after serving jail terms for corruption charges which was later overturned by the supreme court in 2021.
At his induction ceremony as the 39th President, Lula was said to have made the following remarks:
“Our message to Brazil is one of hope and reconstruction.
“The great edifice of rights, sovereignty and development that this nation built has been systematically demolished in recent years. And to re-erect this edifice, we are going to direct all our efforts.”
The new president was also reported to have briefly commented on a report about Bolsonaro’s administration which according to him would be sent to authorities for investigation based on the findings.
“Lula’s presidency is unlikely to be like his previous two mandates, coming after the tightest presidential race in more than three decades in Brazil and resistance to his taking office by some of his opponents, political analysts say” an AP news article stated.
A previous article reveals a popular belief that Lula’s reelection into power would influence a renewed relationship between Brazil and Africa due to Lula’s programmes during his tenures in the past which had favoured Africa.
