⚡ Massive .SWOOSH Partnership, Discord Update, DeFi Yields, and more!
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💡 Intro
🥳 Happy Friday! A mostly flat end to the week for crypto markets, with BTC up %1.5 since last Friday.
🌎 Question To You All:
Now that the TFC community is almost at 6,000 readers, we’re thinking of opening a Discord.
We get asked questions frequently on tools through DMs and replies.
We’re always happy to answer them, but we know some of you are experts in specific crypto sectors and know a lot about tools as well!
This Discord would be open to All TFC readers and would:
Give an outlet for questions about tools in real time.
Picture this: A space where you can shoot your time sensitive questions about crypto tools and get real-time, accurate answer from the community.
This could be about anything - a security tool you're in dire need of, or a niche crypto tax tool that can specifically handle NFTs on BTC.
Be a place for talking & networking with other Web3 power users.
Give a resource for tutorials / help with using tools, which can be challenging.
We’re going to post this Monday & Tuesday as well so everyone sees it.
👉 If you like this idea, reply to this email with a simple “Y” so we know people are interested! If enough people reply, we’ll bring this to life.
Nike's Polygon-based .Swoosh gear is coming to Madden and FIFA, both EA Sports games.
Players will be able to customize their characters’ uniforms/look through their .SWOOSH NFTs.
This is has massive potential to improve public sentiment on Web3 and on Web3 gaming (if it goes well and is cool!).
🔥 Why It Matters
Opportunity to Showcase Benefits of On-Chain Assets To Mainstream:
Madden and FIFA have massive player bases. They’re some of the most popular Sports Game franchises.
FIFA alone had 150M accounts in 2022 (direct source from EA)
Upside for .SWOOSH Holders: If the integration goes well, .SWOOSH NFTs from the last launch should benefit.
Upside for Polygon: Once again, another big Web3 initiative is being powered by Polygon, due to its low cost in fees.
The tweet below from the CEO of Polygon explains more:
Hogwarts Labs / $8M — Hogwarts Labs, a dApps and Appchain developer, raised $8 million in a Pre-A funding round from leading investors including HashGlobal, Matrix Partners, Xin Family, DHVC, SevenX, Alliance, Sky9, NGC Ventures, and others. — Yahoo Finance
Demox Labs / $4.5M — Demox Labs, a pioneer in zero-knowledge technology, raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by HackVC, with participation from DCVC, Amplify Partners, Coinbase Ventures, CRV, OpenSea, and CSquared. — FinSMEs
Quantum Blockchain / $1.24M — Quantum Blockchain Technologies, London Stock Exchange AIM, raised £1,000,000 ($1,240,000) through a placement of 71,428,571 new ordinary shares at a price of 1.4 pence per share. — Yahoo Finance
M80 / $3M — Web3 Esports and gaming organization M80 secured $3 million in seed funding from a round led by ExpertDojo, with participation from VT Technology Ventures and Practical Venture Capital. — VentureBeat
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Nanoly
"Today’s best vaults on the DeFi."
Type of Product: DeFi Yield Analytics
Very useful tool for finding good vaults and yields.
Purpose of Tool: Nanoly (formerly Coindix) is a platform that enables users to find and maximize yield opportunities in the DeFi ecosystem. It does this by monitoring over 10,000 vaults across 27 different chains and offering advanced filtering capabilities to identify the best yield opportunities quickly. Nanoly also provides users with tools for portfolio management to track and manage their investments easily.
Monitoring: Monitors over 10,000 vaults across 27 different chains, allowing users to find the best yield opportunities quickly.
Filtering: Provides advanced filtering capabilities to filter through vault info such as APY, type of yield, and total value locked (TVL).
Interoperability: Designed for gathering pieces of the DeFi ecosystem in one place, allowing users access multiple projects in the same interface easily.
Portfolio Management: Offers tools for tracking and managing portfolios easily so that users can stay current on their investments and ensure optimal returns.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Spinamp
“Listen and collect web3 music on mobile and web."
Type of Product: Web3 Music
Purpose of Tool: Spinamp is a web3 music platform that allows users to listen and collect music minted across different platforms. It creates the best listening and collecting experience for onchain music, while also providing custom skins, playlists, artist profiles, and rewards to curators. Spinamp also provides APIs and SDKs to make it easier for applications to build with Music NFTs.
Listen directly through a music player as you collect
Custom skins and playlists crafted by artists
Profiles merge music from various platforms into one profile
Spinamp Rewards allow curators to get paid when songs are collected through their playlist
Trending Tracks and Playlists show what Music NFTs perform best across the sector at large
Open infra for playlisting and curation support wider composability
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Just yesterday on June 1st, Spinamp has secured $1.2M in funding to develop a Music NFT Player, with Coop Records, Archetype, NoiseDAO, Fire Eyes DAO, 1kx and various other investors involved.
The platform aggregates and indexes Music NFTs from over 30 different platforms and artist-owned contracts such as Sound, Catalog, Nina, Zora and OpenSea Collections.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Leo Wallet
“Privacy-first wallet for a privacy-first network."
Type of Product: Privacy Wallet
Purpose of Tool: Leo Wallet is a premier privacy-preserving wallet for the Aleo network. It offers enhanced security and privacy through its ability to generate zero-knowledge proofs directly in the user's browser. This enables users to view, send, and receive tokens securely and privately. Additionally, Leo Wallet facilitates development of privacy-focused programs by enabling developers to create, deploy, sign, and transfer such programs.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Leo Wallet is capable of generating zero-knowledge proofs directly in the user’s browser - allowing for secure viewing, sending & receiving tokens without compromising on privacy.
Development Support: The platform provides developers with the necessary tools & resources they need to create & deploy their own privacy-focused applications.
Browser Compatibility: Currently available only on chromium based browsers like Chrome, Brave & Edge; mobile support is currently being developed as well.
Transaction Speed: Transactions take longer than conventional wallets due to the uniqeness of Aleo network which requires generation of cryptographically secure proof before submitting it to the chain.
DApp Connectivity: Users can connect their Leo Wallets with any dApp that utilizes the Leo Wallet Adapter for seamless integration.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Leo Wallet is created by Demox Labs, specifically designed to work seamlessly with zero-knowledge blockchains and had already amassed over 40,000 customers on its waitlist before being rolled out on Aleo's network.
Just today: Demox Labs recently announced the successful completion of a $4.5 million pre-seed funding round and the launch of Leo Wallet. The fundraising effort was spearheaded by HackVC and featured contributions from DCVC, Amplify Partners, Coinbase Ventures, CRV, OpenSea, and CSquared.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
SuperSpaces
"Web3 Community Growth Platform build for Twitter Spaces”
Type of Product: Twitter Spaces Analytics
This is a tool that has very useful Twitter Space analytics.
We use it to find good Web3 spaces to listen to (as well as see what trends people are covering in Spaces).
Purpose of Tool: SuperSpaces is a Web3 growth platform designed to help creators, influencers, and community builders grow their audience on Twitter. It combines live audio and on-chain data to enable users to uncover valuable insights about their Spaces, engage with those who matter most, track personal KPIs, and collect Tokens of Appreciation (TOAP) as rewards for showing up.
Unlock rich insights from your Spaces – gain deep understanding about when people come in or drop off, or which moments were most engaging. Also get breakdowns of emojis used.
Engage with those who matter most – segment your audience by who attended, retweeted or commented on your Spaces the most. Automatically create tweets to give shoutouts in your community.
Track personal KPIs – become a data-driven community builder with personalized dashboards that help you check how your Spaces contribute to growth.
Collect Tokens of Appreciation (TOAP) – reward loyal fans by collecting special community moments on Twitter Spaces as TOAP tokens.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: On May 31, 2023, SuperSpaces.AI announced the launch of their 'Voice of Polygon' campaign. The campaign invites individuals to join the Polygon leaderboard challenge in June and compete for a chance to win NFTs, other prizes worth thousands of dollars and even secure paid internships.
Over a hundred participants have already signed up for the challenge with $5000 in prizes and eight internships available as incentives. Learn more about the campaign here: Link
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
OpenSea | On-Chain Analytics Engineer | Link to position
OKX | Data Analyst - Trading Team | Link to position
Illuvium | QA Web Tester | Link to position
Evmos | Software Engineer, Full Stack | Link to position
Chainflip Labs | Senior Full Stack Engineer for Web3 | Link to position
Paxos | Product Manager – Tokenization | Link to position
LayerZero | Business Development Representative - Defi | Link to position
Chiliz | Twitter Specialist | Link to position
Coinbase | Senior Software Engineer | Link to position
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