I've been meaning to ask this question all along because lots of people have got different views on what is needed to be actively involved in crypto. Here are some of these tools mentioned:

1. Basic crypto knowledge
2. A reputable CEX for trading
3. A secure wallet for storage and other DeFi trades
4. A twitter account/ following verified crypto handles
5. A crypto mentor

Which of these do you think is not necessary or what else should be added as per basic tools?
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My pf has always been a mix odf DeFi tokens, p2e tokens and reputable exchange at atime depending on the trend. For instance, ETH, MAVIA, SOL and BGB are my priorities for now

KCGI is one of the biggest trading competition in the space where the best industry traders meet every year to compete for a huge prize pool. Though this is my first I intend participating as a team member, at the same time, I'm contemplating going in for futures rather than spot majorly because of the recent tides of the market. I feel TA could easily show the direction of the market in a bear like this.

Anyways, the prize pool for the competition this time around is huge(a total of $2.65million). This prize features:
1. an airbus
2. an iPhone 15 pro max
and other cash prizes.

Oh! Lest I forget, the competition is held by Bitget exchange!!

Looking at the article from Cointelegraph, Nansen and graphic analytics from TokenInsight about the latest success of Bitget after integrating BitKeep wallet ranking now among the top four largest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume (approximately $666 billion), it is obvious that the use of wallets is becoming more popular and important in the world of crypto. 2 of the first 3 also have their own wallet (Binance – Trust wallet; OKX – OKX wallet). That has also spurred the rebranding of bitget which has got bitkeep renamed as Bitget wallet and their slogan now changed to “trade smarter”.

Personally, this should be good news to the crypto world as the crash of FTX is now replaced by another high performing exchange which has highlighted the success of copy-trading that has helped new and reluctant traders to trade with high percentage of success.
Technically speaking, there have been a lot of debate about regulating the crypto industry for the benefit of increasing people’s confidence and reliance on the space and lots of countries have kickstarted that process already including UK, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, USA and many more.

My take though is that while regulation may take away its decentralized nature, it’ll also bring more sanity and confidence to a whole lot of crypto native and non-crypto natives alike.

Please do share your thoughts about the drive for crypto relevance  and success

Haha! Historically, it's been a hit in the upward trajectory and that has always been the thread in crypto space. Personally, I think with the Ripple triumph against SEC and the news of possible BTC spot ETF scheduled to go live in America & Europe and maybe the relaunch of FTX news, LTC might witness a massive ATH this time around

Well, listing date hasn't been confirmed yet and that might be liquidity-dependent.
Mode of participation involves signing up, hodl BGB in your portfolio between June 29 and July 4, commit those BGB to launchpad on July 5. Then you get your presale TYPE tokens

Oh yeah! Airdrops are actually goldmine and my favourites are CandyBomb and BGB super airdrop. I've got lots of income from there 

What I do is to do an extensive research on projects with crypto solutions, put them on my watchlist on my favourite exchange (which is actually Bitget and OKX), then begin a strategic DCA plan.
But sometimes it could be a new project I've been following for a long time like TypeIt (TYPE) or some DeFi projects like APT.
But if you are a trader, I recommend you backtest your Technical Analysis before you go on and trade