⚡️ ThunderDome is the latest SocialFi app built on Fantom(Soon to be Sonic), and with some tweaks, it could be a massive success within the ecosystem! 🚀 With the right improvements, it might spread like wildfire across cryptoTwitter (X). 🔥 The app boasts an incredibly fast user interface, a smooth user experience, and it’s already super addictive—all while still in its early adopter phase. 🎯

Here’s how it works  👇

🚀 The force behind SocialFi is two-fold:

1️⃣ Creators earn 💰 based on their success—good content & engagement get rewarded! 🌟

2️⃣ By buying a ticket, early followers get access and a stake in their favorite account’s growth. 📈

Of course, there are plenty more incentive models at play! 

🎟️ What are tickets?

Tickets act as an investment in a creator!

By buying a ticket, holders can access a private group chat with that creator/account. 💬🤝

5% of buy/sell fees go straight to the creator! 💸🔥

Tickets are bought on a bonding curve, which is broken down in the image below 👀⬇️

To get started, go to: https://thunderdome.so > Connect your X account > Top off your hot wallet >  Buy ticket > Browse topics

#️⃣ What are topics?

Topics are purchasable hashtags, like #fantom. 🔖

To create a hashtag topic, just search the tag to generate the topic room. This opens up buying/selling for the topic. 🎯 Anyone can join in and chat within these topics! 💬

For now, though, there’s limited utility for #topics. ⬇️

💡 Developer Team Suggestions for TOPICS:

Add more utility to owning topic hashtags, such as:

• Require a 1 $FTM subscription fee to post in a topic, giving 30-day access. 🗓️💰
• Fee gets shared with topic owners based on their holdings. 📊💸
• If you own a topic, you can pin it to your top menu for easy access. 📌✨
• Ability to hide a topic chat if needed for privacy or organization. 🔒👀

💡 New User Advice:

• If you can afford it, buy multiple tickets for creators you like. 🎟️

• 📈 Asthe platform grows, prices will skyrocket, and you’ll want to sell.

• If you hold only 1 ticket, you’ll hesitate selling as you lose access to the group chat! 💬

• For those hunting alpha, keep an eye on the 'New' section. 🕵️‍♂️🔍

💭 Final Thoughts:

• There’s something incredibly addicting about watching the activity feed of buys/sells. 📊👀 It’s like seeing the pulse of what everyone’s doing across the application, and you just can’t look away! 🔄💥

• Keep refreshing the “new” feed to catch fresh accounts when they sign up. 🆕👤 But don’t forget to check the connected X handle to make sure they are the real deal! ✅🔗 You don’t want to follow a fake accounts! 🙅‍♂️

⚠️ Disclaimer: This is not financial advice! 🚫💸 Always do your own research before investing any money into anything. 🔍💡 While early investors could potentially see huge gains, 💰🚀 remember that this comes with a lot of risk! 🎯💥 As the saying goes, no risk usually means no reward. 🏆 But make sure you're fully informed before diving in! 👌

👉 Get Started Today... Enter Fantoms Thunderdome

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What are stablecoins?

A stablecoin is a type of digital currency designed to make transacting with crypto more practical. Most stablecoins are pegged to a fiat currency like USD or EUR. Because of this, stablecoins have acted as a gateway into using blockchain and digital assets for payments amongst users concerned with cryptocurrency price volatility. 

Like many digital assets, stablecoins can provide broad, inclusive access to the financial system, and enable the fast and efficient movement of value. In 2022, fiat backed stablecoins transacted $6.87T, eclipsing both Mastercard and PayPal in terms of moving value across networks.

How do stablecoins work for payments?

Using stablecoins for payments combines the benefits of blockchain technology — namely greater security, transparency, cost efficiency, and speed — with the trust and familiarity of traditional fiat or local currency.

As demand for stablecoins grows, particularly as cash use experiences a historic low, more individuals and businesses are considering these assets as payment alternatives. The number of Americans who say they did not use cash to make a purchase in a typical week is now 41%, up from 29% in 2018. Business owners are increasingly finding the switch to stablecoin payments advantageous, noting rising consumer demand, faster checkouts, lower labor costs and increased security.

The trend towards stablecoin use is driven by the benefits of blockchain technology that add improvement over credit-card and other traditional payment types. 

Stablecoins reduce the role of intermediaries in the current financial system and support direct transactions between merchants and consumers, reducing intermediary costs. Because stablecoins are cryptographically secure, users can settle transactions almost instantaneously without double-spending or other problematic settlement facilitation. 

Because stablecoins are built on distributed ledger technology, they offer programmability to payments via smart contracts which can inspire useful product or service innovation and link the traditional Web2 economy with the future of finance—Web3.

Adoption of new digital payment methods offers significant benefits to customers and society: improved efficiency, greater competition, expanded financial inclusion, and innovation. 

Stablecoin market at-a-glance

The fiat-backed stablecoin market cap today is over $100 billion. While the stablecoin market is still largely dominated by a couple incumbents—namely Circle’s USDC and Tether’s USDT—newer stablecoin issuers like PayPal (PYUSD) and Ripple (RLUSD) have more recently come onto the scene with USD-backed stablecoins. 

Ripple USD is purpose-built for payments, designed to maintain a constant value of one US dollar. It is fully backed by a segregated reserve of cash and cash equivalents, and is redeemable 1:1 for US dollars. RLUSD is issued on the XRP Ledger and Ethereum blockchains, enabling instant payouts and easy fiat-stablecoin on/off ramps. For exchanges, remittance and money transfer providers, or payment service providers (PSPs) that want to hold, buy and trade USD on-chain, RLUSD provides fast settlement, multi-chain issuance, and programmable finance—opening up a whole new world of use cases and revenue streams.

Ripple USD is built with regulatory compliance as a defining feature, bringing with it an opportunity for developers, payment providers, exchanges and others to benefit from the stability and transparency Ripple is uniquely able to provide. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of crypto and finance, and a proven track record working with regulators and policymakers across the globe, Ripple is accelerating the digital asset economy with RLUSD.

What about stablecoin regulation?

On-trend with the rest of the global crypto industry, regulation of this new asset class has already begun to take shape, and tends to merit more political support than crypto regulation more broadly. Stablecoin regulation is quickly progressing across the globe, from North America and Europe to Asia, and more recently, the UAE. 

The U.S. is witnessing regulatory progress with recent bipartisan support for the 'Clarity of Payments Stablecoin Act'. If passed, the legislation could unlock stablecoin innovation led by private players in the blockchain industry, allowing anyone with consumer distribution (social, commerce, finance) to partner with a regulated stablecoin issuer.

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