⚡ TFC Newsletter: 01/25/2023
Farcaster 1.0 Launch On App Store, Arkham Launches on Polygon, DAO Tooling, DeFi Analytics, Web3 No-Code Tools, and more!
💡 Intro
In exciting news for the Web3 Social landscape: Farcaster has just launched on the iOS App Store today.
Farcaster is a top Web3 social app and while similar to Lens Protocol: typically has higher quality content but with a lower amount of users/posts.
Using the app has been challenging in the past as a client needed to be downloaded + setup manually. But with this launch: users can now download the app directly from the App Store.
Quick tip: Interested in trying it out? It’s still in closed beta: but the founder, Dan Romero, gives codes out on Twitter if you DM him (link below).
As Polygon is adopted by more and more NFT collections + tools, it’s becoming more important for the ecosystem around Polygon to developer further.
Arkham Intelligence is one of the coolest analytics tools we’ve found recently, and they just added support for the Polygon Network.
If you’re looking for on-chain analytics + better insights into addresses on Polygon: definitly check them out in the future.
Tholos raises $1.5 million to build highly usable and ultra-functional digital asset custody - Announcement Tweet
Crypto Infrastructure Firm Blockstream Raises $125M for Bitcoin Mining - CoinDesk
Crypto-focused investment firm a16z led a Series A funding round for game studio Voldex for an undisclosed amount - TheBlock
Bunzz Raises $4.5M Seed Round to Expand its Smart Contract Hub for DApp Development - Announcmenet
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Nanoly
"Today’s best vaults on the DeFi."
Type of Product: DeFi Analytics
Purpose of Tool: Nanoly (formerly Coindix) is an innovative platform that helps users to easily find the best yield opportunities in the DeFi ecosystem. It does this by monitoring over 10,000 vaults across 27 different chains and offering filters to quickly identify the best yield opportunities. Nanoly provides users with the tools to quickly find the best yield strategies, allowing them to maximize their returns.
Monitoring: Nanoly monitors over 10,000 vaults across 27 different chains, allowing users to quickly find the best yield opportunities.
Filtering: Users can filter through vault info to monitor APY across numerous protocols, type of yield, and total value locked (TVL).
Interoperability: Nanoly is designed to gather pieces of the DeFi ecosystem in one place, allowing users to easily access multiple projects in the same interface.
Portfolio Management: Nanoly provides users with the tools to easily track and manage their portfolios. This helps users stay up to date on their investments and ensure optimal returns.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info:
Core Team:
Batduck - Master Blockchain
Stedix - Master Interface
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Forward Protocol
“Create Blockchains, Subnets, and dApps with A No-Code Interface"
Type of Product: Developer Tool
Purpose of Tool: Forward Protocol is an easy-to-use blockchain operating system that handles the basic operations of your Web3 environment. With drag and drop technology, customizable templates and no technical knowledge, users can create from simple dApps to enterprise-level blockchain solutions.
Drag and Drop: Create blockchains, subnets and dApps with minimal technical knowledge.
Modular Architecture: Ready-to-deploy, fully customizable smart contracts and dApps.
Template-Driven Design: Choose the module suited to your platform and modify it to fit your use case.
Decentralization: Maintain independence from any third-party influence.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Forward Protocol has announced the successful completion of two rounds of funding, raising a total of $1.25 million. The investors include Bitcoin.com, CV VC, AU 21 Capital, X21, and GDA Capital. The seed round raised $500,000, and the private funding round raised an additional $700,000.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Blocknative
“Blockchain events before they happen"
Type of Product: Web3 Infra Platform
Purpose of Tool: Blocknative is a Web3 infrastructure provider that enables users to monitor and manage blockchain transactions. Blocknative operates a global network of nodes across multiple blockchains and provides access to pre-chain data through an easy-to-use API.
Nodes: Blocknative runs multiple client types including Geth, OpenEthereum, and Nethermind nodes.
Custom Telemetry: They run custom telemetry extensions built to reveal the inner workings of the peer-to-peer network.
Decoding: Blocknative enhances and extends the raw pre-chain payloads to provide value-added services like automatic decoding.
Speedups/Cancels: Blocknative provides real-time simulated payloads to reveal the internal transactions and net balance changes of addresses involved.
API: Blocknative provides access to pre-chain data through an easy-to-use API.
Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: Blocknative, a startup in the blockchain industry, announced that it has raised $15 million in a Series A-1 round. The funding was led by Blockchain Capital, Foundry Group, Rho, IOSG Ventures, Robot Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, HackVC, Industry Ventures and others.
This is in addition to the $12 million that Blocknative had previously raised from Foundry Group, Blockchain Capital Robot Ventures and other investors.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
DAO Manager
"Find the community where you belong”
Type of Product: DAO Tooling
Purpose of Tool: DAO Manager is an all-in-one community management tool that streamlines operations and fosters collaboration. It enables creators, gamers, dApps, and Web3/Web2 communities to manage discussions, proposals, bounties, payouts, rewards, and reputation.
Gating: DAO Manager provides token, task, and reputation based gating to open communities.
Task Management: Linked tasks and proposals can be created directly from the discussion.
Reputation Management: Badges and NFTs are in-built in DAO Manager, allowing users to browse through every single contribution at a member level.
Decision Making: DAO Manager integrates with third-party voting platforms, making it easy to make decisions in a decentralized manner.
Payouts: Built-in payout system supports the most common payout mechanisms.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: DAOLens was founded in January 2022 by Vikram Aditya and Apoorv Nandan. In June 15, 2022, the company raised $5M in Pre-Seed funding, which was led by Nexus Venture Partners, Better Ventures, and iSeed II, with participation from angel investors Simon Doherty, Arjun Sethi, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Raj Gokal, Gokul Rajaram, Kunal Shah, Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal, Manish Agarwal, Vishal Gupta, and Narendra Rathi.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
LunarCrush | Analytics | Link to product
CRYPTOTAG | Crypto Wallet | Link to product
Lens Protocol | Social | Link to product
Element | Marketplace | Link to product
Developer DAO | DAO | Link to product
CoW Protocol | Data Analytics Team Lead | Link to position
WalletConnect | Kotlin / Android Engineer | Link to position
Subspace Labs | Quality Assurance Engineer | Link to position
Usual Company | Senior Web3 Developer | Link to position
Aurora | Legal Counsel | Link to position
Monad Labs | Developer Relations Engineer | Link to position
DXdao | Treasury Manager | Link to position
Offchain Labs | Blockchain Developer | Link to position
prePO | UX Engineer | Link to position
Safe | Senior Data Analyst | Link to position
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