HO HO HO, Merry Christmas Popula Friends! We hope you have a great holidays and are ready for an exciting new year ahead. This week, as we celebrate the holiday season, we're also taking stock of the past year and looking forward to the opportunities and challenges that 2024 will bring. We're excited to continue our mission of building a vibrant and inclusive ecosystem for all Popula users. Stay tuned for more updates and surprises in the coming weeks!

Yours sincerely,

Popula Team

Ecosystem and Industry Insights

The Best and Worst of Crypto in 2023: The Chopping Block
- Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest news. This week, after an incredibly eventful year for crypto, The Chopping Block crew makes its picks for the best and worst of 2023, including its biggest winners and losers, biggest surprises, best memes, best or worst pivots, biggest flops, best comeback stories, favourite podcast guests and predictions for 2024. Hear why some in the gang consider Solana the year’s biggest winner, Circle the biggest loser, MicroStrategy the best and worst pivot, Coinbase the best comeback and a renewed boom in crypto lending one of the top predictions for 2024. Spoiler: Points make it as one of the four’s favourite mechanics of 2023!
Ryan Selkis 2024 Crypto Predictions Finally Revealed
- Now in its 7th edition, Messari CEO Ryan Selkis and the rest of the Messari team present Crypto Theses 2024. In this video, Selkis chats with Ryan Sean Adams from Bankless about the main takeaways.

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Christmas Roundtable With Communities

This week, we had an insightful conversation around the evolution of web3 communities and the value of data with community builders at Popula.

We discussed a wide range of topics, including the differences between web3 and web2 communities, and the challenges and opportunities within the web3 space. Stay tuned for more!

Here’s the recap for the Roundtable👇🏻

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Popula Christmas Roundtable Recap: Web3 Communities and Data Value

On Dec 21, Popula hosted a Christmas Roundtable for Communities on Twitter Space, discussing the evolving world of web3 communities and the value of data with community builders on Popula. The...

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Community of the Week

NEARChan: NEARchan is the unofficial NEAR Protocol mascot. She is the work of NEARchan Guild, founded in the spring of 2021. She’s inspired by yuru-chara (mascots created for promotion) and the MoeMorphism movement of “somethingchans.” Their purpose is to bring NEARchan to life with community input and artist commissions.

NEARchan community on Popula is a safe space to Create and expand character stories around NEARChan. Share your love for the community, collaborate, and combine resources to create characters that reflect community values. Check it out here!

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We Wish You A Merry Christmas | Newsletter Issue #3