The rise of NFT influencer and content creator Wale, aka Wale Swoosh or Wale Moca as many know him, began with an insatiable curiosity about NFTs in 2021. The young German has grown his X audience from a humble beginning to 112,000+ followers with his deep dive threads into NFTs, particularly on the PFP and collectible side of the market.
Wale is the researcher and resident for the prominent NFT project Azuki, the collection he proudly reps as his PFP. More recently he was appointed an adviser to Mocaverse by Animoca Brands.
Wale recalls minting his first NFT and flipping it for a few hundred dollars in early 2021, and being “immediately hooked.”
“I bought some Bitcoin and ETH before I joined the NFT space quite a while back but that was more about buying it and you forgetting about it. I didn’t really check the price every day. I didn’t pay too much attention to what’s going on in crypto in general,” says Wale.
“Then I saw this NFT thing pop up. None of my IRL friends or family were really interested in it but I started to pay attention. I had got my ETH and thought I’d give it a try, booth minting new NFTs and buying off secondary. I actually flipped some early NFTs for a couple hundred bucks. It was crazy money for me at the time, and flips happening the same day or within a short timeframe.”
Wale Azuki PFP
At the time Wale was studying at a German University and yet to graduate. Despite making gains on NFT trading, he was hesitant to jump into Web3 full-time as he had an existing job at a German car manufacturer.
“I had this decision, there was this new NFT thing that I thought was interesting and where I made a lot of money. More money than I ever made in my life back then. But I also sensed that it was something that felt very unreal, the whole space. If people were around in 2021 and 2022, and if it was kind of your first cycle where you were really involved and not just…
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