It's hard to put this together in a way that doesn't sound conspiratorial, but I'll try anyway. It's up to you to DYOR. There is an obvious climate agenda that is promoted by major government and non-government organizations as well as non-profit action groups. Whether you believe in climate change or not, or whether it is man made, there are groups working to limit carbon emissions and something known as "carbon credits" now exists in two fields, regulated and non-regulated credits. Currently, some governments may require carbon emitters to purchase official carbon credits to offset their emissions but there is no global tax/standard on carbon emissions credits *yet. Blockchain technology is considered the "fourth industrial revolution" and coincides with some of the agendas promoted by the WEF and others. So it makes sense that popular blockchains are promoting themselves as carbon neutral or negative. Unfortunately, there are some groups that act to certify lands for carbon credits but the dark secret behind it is that these groups do not own the lands and they are unable to protect them in any way. I could create a project and sell carbon credits for 20 million hectares of trees in Guyana to a blockchain right now and get rich. It's all a scam until the UN creates a global carbon tax and carbon credit standard and regulates these credits. There are groups currently pushing BTC to go POS but it's unlikely that the majority of miners, which are in China and Russia, will play along so BTC might end up being forked again. That said, carbon neutral blockchains appear to be doing well because they are associated/partnered with large organizations like the WEF and others, so it makes sense to invest in projects like Celo, XRP, and CNDL that are involved in creating the new carbon credit blockchain standards.

I am really skeptical about ETH right now. Something seems fishy. They are making everyone lock up for ETH2 but there is no unlock date. What if the merge is unsuccessful? What if there is a market pump and you can't sell because your funds are locked? What if there is a dump when the unlock comes and everyone sells at once? The 4% staking APY isn't worth the risk for me, especially considering NEAR has 13% APY and no lock up and more upside. Also, there are a lot of new L1s coming out that are technically superior to Ethereum and have low or 0 transaction fees, like $CNDL.

We are in a bear market and that is the best time to accumulate projects that you believe in. But be aware that a lot of projects will die during a bear market. The projects that will be most successful are the ones that launch during the bear market and can appreciate in the next bull market, like Layer zero and Candle Chain. These are both launching right now and are an easy 10x.

Litecoin may have a brief pump now that it integrated privacy but long term, coins that do not offer smart contract functionality will not be successful. That's why I invested mainly in Hedera Hashgraph and Candle Chain. Hedera is scalable and has the best partners in the industry and Candle Chain has 0 transaction fees and is engineered to host metaverse DApps, including their own.

Yeah, I think the depeg and exit scam frightened off a lot of investors. A lot of people are back at square one collecting airdrops and bounties, like the one from Candle Chain and some on coinmarketcap and dappradar.

Terra was a scam from the start and CZ is holding the BTC reserves, they were never sold to support the peg. The silver lining is that anyone affected by Terra can claim a free airdrop from Candle Labs and there are bounties for the Luna devs from NEAR protocol and CandleLabsdotorg. I think BNB chain has a grants program too but Candle is the only one I am aware of that is giving out airdrops and bounties. I received mine over the weekend.

More details please. Consider joining the semillalabs discord and creating a team there. They have over 450 devs and marketers that can help. The discord link is on their twitter page. It's basically a project incubator, and that's what it looks like you need.

It's simple really. Large caps may be safer investments because they are more widely adopted but the industry as a whole is new, so it's completely possible that BTC and ETH are no longer in the top 10 a decade from now. Take a look at the dot com boom. Some websites like pets.com are no longer around, some are, like Amazon. You can make more by investing in the next amazon right now than by investing in a top 10 project, although the risk is higher. This is one reason why I invest in new L1 chains, like $CNDL and $HBAR. Candle Chain specifically is designed to host metaverse DApps. Hedera is partnered with several of the world's largest banking and tech companies, so that has a bright future as well.

IMO, the most important things to consider when investing in a project are:
The coin or token has utility
The team is real, honest and capable
The tokenomics are good
The project has solid financial backing

It's for these reasons that I invested in Hedera Hashgraph before and why I am investing in the Candle Labs presale now.

IMO, the most important things are that:
The coin or token has utility
The team is real, honest and capable
The tokenomics are good
The project has solid financial backing

It's for these reasons that I am investing in the Candle Labs presale.

Terra was a scam from the start and people are finally starting to realize that. It was hyped by VC and a couple prominent youtubers and these insiders were able to cash out using the Terra reserves before the collapse. Fortunately for retail investors, some projects are offering aidrops to Luna holders, like CandleLabs, and others are poaching developers- both $CNDL and NEAR protocol.

Projects and the community have left Luna and are moving to blockchains like NEAR, BNB chain, and Candlelabsdotorg. These chains are providing airdrops, bounties, and grants for developers.

CNDL, ATRI, DRC

CNDL is a metaverse token and an L1 EVM compatible chain, something that no other metaverse has done. $CNDL is built from the ground up to host other metaverse DApps.

It's not the end of the world... Luna and UST investors can still claim their $CNDL bounties.

The only thing you can do at this time is to file a police report and claim your $CNDL airdrop.

I would put my money in large caps like NEAR and IOTA, and a portion of it in microcaps like DRC and CNDL. Candle Chain specifically has the most upside because it is a new EVM compatible L1 with 0 fees that is engineered from the ground up to host metaverse DApps.

There will be no repeg and Do Kwon has already been outed as a scammer and is under criminal investigation in several countries. His developers migrated to $NEAR and Candle labs and these projects have grants programs set up for developers. NEAR for example is giving away millions of dollars and $CNDL is giving away a piece of the protocol itself, a stake in the chain.

Other chains, apart from open chain, were missing critical components that we recognize as blockchains today.

This is a joke right? The Luna contract will continue to print worthless coins to backstop a stablecoin that no one is using. That is, as long as there are still nodes and validators, which I don't think there are because most devs and part of the community already migrated to $CNDL and $BNB chains.

I'm sorry but if you fall for the Luna2 scam, you deserve to lose your money. At this point, all of the devs and most of the Luna community members have moved to other chains, like candlelabs dot org and NEAR, both of which have a bounty and grants program.