For most of the big guys I know, one stand out hobby they have is playing video games. Some say it helps them escape problems. They seek companionship and relief with the virtual engagement that gaming offers them.

Meanwhile there's excitement for crypto enthusiasts with the innovation of blockchain gaming and its play-to-earn features where users earn in-game crypto currency which are converted into fiat. For instance, Engines of Fury and other gaming projects have seen where tokens are rewarded as a bonus to users.

With popular gaming projects like Sandbox, Gods Unchained, Axie Infinity, Decentraland, I've been wondering if there are people who simply play virtual games just for the fun of it with no interest in getting rewards in crypto that could be converted to cash.

There seem to be a standstill in the recent crypto market as investors patiently awaits the bull run. However, I can clearly point out that there are numerous ways to explore crypto projects especially before they get listed on exchanges. It's something I intentionally explored like taking part in token presales, airdrops, Pre-Market trading as well as Launchpool and Launchpad events on crypto exchanges.

I'm amazed at the different user centric and frictionless lending protocols available that's helping to onboard the masses into the DeFi space.

Imagine ZeroLend that's currently trending is a lending protocol within the zkSync ecosystem, their poist for transparent and secure borrowing and lending of digital assets makes for my amazement how blockchain is alternating traditional finance. It makes me think about the Future of blockchain. Will BlockChain ever replace traditional banks?

Although I've known about OTC "trading" but I felt it was predominantly for stable coins like USDT or more prominent coins like Bitcoin and ethereum in large volume.

More interestingly, it's now clear to me that significantly more than half of the volume in crypto trade is on OTC looking at China alone and other countries with restrictions on cryptocurrency trading.

And now, I just stumbled upon one of the exchanges innovation of Pre-Market trading which feels like a latest innovation to me. I glean on the CEX announcement about trading Merlin Chain (MERL) in Pre-Market before their official listing.

From what I have read, their platform will facilitate a form of P2P between buyers and sellers enabling them to acquire coins at optimal price.

Does anyone have experience with OTC trading of Crypto other than BTC, USDT or experience of Pre-Market Trading?

Tokens backed by AI are emerging so strongly, hitting the crypto market with several pegs and concepts along with surging price action. It seems its growth pace is outperforming that of Btc, I dare to say.

Looking at CoinGecko's data the value of AI coins market combined, has grown over $26.4 Billion from about 2.7 billion in few months. And I'm wondering what makes AI token work differently from traditional cryptocurrencies to attract the kind of attention it's gathering.

In recent search for promising tokens I've come across some AI tokens with interesting concepts like Nosana AI project planning to have a GPU grid for renting computing power for other AI projects. eTukTuk project looks great with the idea of electric vehicle. I found Artificial Liquid intelligence also, the project looking to empower AI owners in their ecosystem. Then Delysium, an AI- powered open-world framework.

As expected the list can't be complete without meme on the list, right? I found Scotty the AI. To add also, while surfing X Today, I came across ChatAI token trending across social media for their listing announcement on different CEX today.

What makes these tokens attractive to investors that everyone seem to be showing interest in them? It this all about the good price movement and how profitable they can be?