⚡ TFC Newsletter: 01/18/2023
Rarible Launches Polygon NFT Marketplace Builder, Web3 Data Analytics Viewer, Dao Proposals Calander, Lens Protocol Tooling, DAO Financing, and more!
💡 Intro
Adding to our comment yesterday about momentum for Polygon this week: Rarible has launched a NFT Marketplace Builder that’s 100% free + catered towards Polygon NFTs.
NFT collections on Polygon can launch their own customized marketplace now and also enforce Royalties through it. Collections like the one below have already adopted it:
Sleepagotchi, a mobile app that helps gamify sleep via nfts, raised $3.5M from 6th Man Ventures, Shima Capital, 1kx and others - Tweet Announcement
Metahood raised $3M to be the Zillow of the Metaverse from Volt Capital, Flamingo DAO, and Neon DAO - Decrypto
Polygon-backed web3 gaming platform Intella X raises $12 million ahead of Q1 launch - The Block
pieFi Raises $4.6 Million, Launches Upside.coop, and Co-Publishes White Paper on Regulatory Clarity in Web3 - PR Newswire
Fintech Firm Arch Starts Crypto Lending Product, Raises $2.75M - Coindesk
Crypto content play Collective Shift raises $1.5m at $15m valuation - Financial Review
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Flipside
"Learn. Earn. Repeat."
Type of Product: Web3 Analytics
Purpose of Tool: Flipside is a Community Enabled Crypto Analytics platform that allows users to create and share data insights about crypto projects. It offers pre-modeled and labeled blockchain data for users to explore, create queries, and visualize. Flipside also offers structured bounty programs to reward on-demand analytics.
Web App: The Flipside web app is an in-browser SQL editor that allows users to explore data, create visualizations, and publish dashboards.
API/SDKs: Flipside offers a REST API and SDKs in JavaScript, Python, and R, to access data programmatically.
Data Shares: Users can access Flipside’s Snowflake Data Shares to build with large datasets joined with their own internal data.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Flipside Crypto raised $7.1 million in a seed financing, led by Galaxy Digital Ventures on September 2019. Other participants included Collaborative Fund, CMT Digital, Avon Ventures, True Ventures, Founder Collective, Digital Currency Group, Castle Island and Boston Seed.
Led by Dave Balter, CEO, over 75 cryptocurrency organizations have signed up to receive Flipside Analytics and over 2,500 customers utilize FCAS Tracker.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Boardroom
“Shape the future of the protocols you own."
Type of Product: DAO Tooling
Purpose of Tool: Boardroom is a suite of tools designed to help token holders make faster, smarter, and more informed decisions. The Boardroom Portal is a list of all Upcoming Dao Proposals filtered by Date.
Tracking: token holders can stay up to date on relevant discussions, proposals, and events on their portals and receive notifications.
Contextualizing: Token holders can also gain greater context about proposals and voters by browsing project hubs and profiles.
Engaging: Boardroom makes it easy to cast and delegate votes across different governance systems from a single interface.
Governing: provides users with the ability to connect to hundreds of DAOs and build powerful applications and interfaces using their Governance API.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Boardroom announced a $2.2 million funding round on October 2020 led by Standard Crypto, with additional participation from Variant, CoinFund, Framework and Slow Ventures.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
LensPort.io
“Discover, collect, and trade Lens Protocol posts"
Type of Product: Social + Marketplace
Purpose of Tool: LensPort.io is a social and marketplace platform that enables users to discover, collect, and sell posts. Built on the Lens Protocol, users are able to invest in creators they support and share their work with other users.
The platform also features a post activity feed, which allows users to keep track of mints, transfers, listings, sales, offers, and bids for posts. Additionally, there is a 2.5% fee for each NFT sale incurred by the seller, part of which goes to partner Lens Protocol apps from which the post originated.
Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: LensPort 2.0 was released in November 2022, bringing with it a huge update. This update included a Lens social timeline, easy gas-less posting and following, and top collectors for profiles.
With the release of LensPort 2.0, it has now become a marketplace and a complete Lens social app. To celebrate, a 500 MATIC giveaway was also included.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Arbor
"Borrow on your terms with no liquidation.”
Type of Product: Dao Finance
Purpose of Tool: Arbor is a fixed-rate financing platform that enables creditworthy Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) to borrow stablecoins against their project tokens as collateral.
The platform allows DAOs to manage their liquidity needs without going through the traditional banking system, enabling them to access financing in a more cost-effective and transparent manner.
Loan Terms: fixed-rate financing, with customizable loan terms, including loan duration and repayment schedule.
Security: All loans are secured by the collateral of the DAO’s project tokens and are monitored by smart contracts.
Yields: Arbor offers lenders sustainable, fixed yields and token price upside through lending and options.
Transparency: All transactions are recorded on the blockchain and can be tracked and verified.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Arbor Finance announced their $5M seed raise from Parafi Capital, Nascent, and more, which took place on April 2022. As of now, Arbor’s Current Metrics is $3,095,567 in debts raised, with one current bond and one repaid bond, and no defaulted bonds.
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NFT Scoring | Builder Community | Link to product
ThirdWeb | Events Tools | Link to product
BlockWallet | Dev Tool | Link to product
Across | NFT Tool | Link to product
Cookbook | DEX | Link to product
CoinList | Data Engineer | Link to position
Uniswap | Community Lead | Link to position
Reddit | Solidity Engineer in Crypto Security | Link to position
Okcoin | Product Manager | Link to position
Fireblocks | Senior Financial Analyst | Link to position
Interlay | Community Manager | Link to position
Niftys | Account Manager | Link to position
MetaStreet Labs | Solidity Engineer | Link to position
Nethermind | DevOps Engineer | Link to position
Oasis Protocol | Head of Marketing | Link to position
Zora | Finance Lead | Link to position
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