⚡ TFC Newsletter: 02/09/2023
Reddit Superbowl NFTs Surpass 1M Minted, Outlier Ventures Cohort Announced, BTC NFTs Wallet, QuickAlerts, Wallet Watching, and more!
💡 Intro
In exciting news for Web3 adoption: over 1M Reddit Superbowl NFTs have now been minted!
Reddit has revealed the playbook for onboarding users into Web3, and a large part of that has been from calling them “digital collectibles” instead of NFTs + making collecting them super easy through the website.
If you have a Reddit account: don’t forget to collect yours!
And if you want one but don’t use Reddit: they’re free to collect once you make an account.
Total on-chain stats for Reddit NFTs are below:
Incubators are a great way to find projects early, especially after cohorts are announced after an incubator session starts.
Outlier Ventures has just announced their latest cohort, here’s a quick overview of the projects and sectors we think are the most useful:
Blockless: a dApp development and performance platform with ZK verifiable execution.
Haha.me: a new mobile app for trading nfts, getting notifications, setting limit orders, and more.
Cryptologic: an ML driven platform that alerts web3 companies and users of issues
Oddin is a Web3 user acquisition platform based on wallet behaviour and IP data.
The full list is in this tweet thread and features mostly infra + onboarding + loyalty platforms, so check it out if you’re interested in those!
Dymension, a modular blockchain that leverages Cosmos's and Celestia's technologies, raised $6.7 million in a seed funding round - TheBlock
Mino Games has raised $15 million to create its Dimensionals collectible character game with Web3 features - VentureBeat
Vault, a music platform built with web3 technology, raised a $4 million Series A led by Placeholder VC - TheBlock
Sesame Labs Raises $4.5M to Bring Its Web3 Marketing Platform to Market - NFTGators
Coincover raises $30M to help protect digital assets from hacks and human error - Techcrunch
Fierce, a high yield fintech app, raised $10M in seed funding from Pendrell, AP Capital, Wheelhouse Digital Studios and others - BusinessWire
Bitkraft, Fabric Ventures lead $6.5 million round into web3 loyalty platform Cub3 -TheBlock
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Sparrow
"A Bitcoin wallet designed for financial self sovereignty."
Type of Product: BTC Wallet
Purpose of Tool: Sparrow provides users with a secure, private, and intuitive Bitcoin wallet experience. Sparrow makes it easy to analyze Bitcoin transactions with its UTXO model. Labels can be applied to inputs and outputs, and Sparrow will apply the labels to all relevant transactions when sending.
Provides full support for single sig and multisig wallets on common script types, as well as a range of connection options, such as public servers, Bitcoin Core and private Electrum servers.
Standards-based and supports all common hardware wallets in USB and air-gapped modes. Coin and fee control is also available, with comprehensive coin selection and labeling of all transactions, inputs, and outputs.
Sparrow Wallet is what most people are using for BTC NFTs currently.
Note: it certainly requires more technical setup than most wallet apps, so if you’re setting it up: make sure to double check instructions!
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Just Today: Sparrow released version 1.7.2 with Taproot support on Bitcoin Core. The update also included wallet fingerprints displayed as lifehashes on passphrase entry, BIP329 wallet labels import and export, and Tapsigner and Satscard support. BIP329. This will make it easier to migrate between different wallet implementations using seeds, output descriptors, and label exports.
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Webacy Wallet Watch
“Get notified of activity across all your wallets"
Type of Product: Wallet Alerts
Purpose of Tool: Webacy Wallet Watch is a monitoring tool that provides users with real-time notifications and alerts for their web3 wallet activity. With Wallet Watch, users can access unlimited wallets and stay up to date on all of their wallet activity with live notifications.
Live Notifications: Get real-time notifications for important transactions and wallet activity.
SMS and Email Alerts: Receive SMS and email alerts for any inbound or outbound transactions or interactions.
Unlimited Wallets: Monitor multiple wallets all in one dashboard.
Panic Button: Trigger a Panic Button if you ever flag anything as suspicious.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Webacy recently announced the successful completion of a $4 million seed funding round, led by Web3-focused investment firm gmjp. This round was led by entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, his brother AJ Vaynerchuk, and Mozilla Ventures. In addition, Webacy announced partnerships with MetaverseHQ, VaynerSports Pass, and Arculus hardware wallet brand.
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Quicknode QuickAlerts
"Real-time alerts for on-chain events.”
Type of Product: Alerts Tool
Launch Date: Just this week
Purpose of Tool: Quicknode QuickAlerts is a real-time blockchain alerting platform that enables users to keep track of and respond to on-chain events as soon as they happen. With QuickAlerts, users can monitor and react to events related to NFTs, tokens, smart contracts, and wallets in real time.
NFTs: Receive real-time notifications for critical NFT events, including when they are minted, transferred, or added to collections.
Tokens: Always be the first to know about changes to relevant tokens, price oracles, and liquidity pools.
Smart Contracts: Set up alerts for smart contract updates, including deployments, transfers, or custom-defined activities that matter to you.
Wallets: Stay on top of transactions to and from specific wallet addresses. Track your digital assets and keep your wallet secure.
QuickNode provides developers with tools and services to build and deploy decentralized applications through elastic APIs, powerful analytics, and a knowledge base of articles.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: QuickNode announced the closing of a $60 million Series B funding round led by 10T Holdings with participation from Tiger Global, Seven Seven Six, Protocol Labs, and QED, among others, valuing the company at $800M. This follows QuickNode's successful $5.3M+ Seed Round financing led by Internet pioneer and Reddit.com co-founder Alexis Ohanian and his Seven Seven Six fund in May 2021.
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Atlas
“Unlimited scale. Unlimited security."
Type of Product: Developer Tool
Purpose of Tool: Atlas offers Ethereum-level security while being able to handle thousands of transactions per second for apps. It is currently in private beta and provides users with the ability to create a blockchain, deploy smart contracts, connect to their ecosystems, and benefit from increased scalability.
Create a Blockchain: Atlas enables users to launch an EVM-compatible blockchain that automatically rolls up state changes to Ethereum every few minutes.
Deploy Smart Contracts: Easily deploy solidity-based smart contracts using Atlas’s command line tool or quick-deploy interface.
Connect to Your Ecosystem: Integrate blockchain data from your contracts into an app or website using Atlas’s APIs.
Ecosystem Support: Scale to millions of transactions with Atlas’s shared blockchains that force apps to compete for block space.
Scalability: Enjoy the lowest gas fees of any scaling solution with Atlas.
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Shyft | Dev Tool | Link to product
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Stacks Foundation | Blockchain Engineer | Link to position
Polygon | Software Engineer | Link to position
ClubRare | Growth Marketing Manager | Link to position
Outlier Ventures | Head of Investments | Link to position
Binance | Senior Data Engineer | Link to position
Ava Labs | Research Analyst | Link to position
Chainlink | Engineering Manager | Link to position
OpenSea | Senior Software Engineer | Link to position
Risk Labs | Head Sales Engineer | Link to position
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