⚡ TFC Newsletter: 02/14/2023
BLUR Airdrop Is Here, Polygon zkEVM To Go Live in Match, Launch Calendars, ETH Authentication Tooling, Bridging Platform, and more!
💡 Intro
Today’s the day: the BLUR airdrop has finally happened!
Blur became the most used NFT aggregator and marketplace mainly off hyping their future airdrop and today, traders can finally claim their BLUR tokens.
If you’ve used BLUR over the past months for trading: you can now claim your tokens and you have 60 days to do so.
It’s currently trading at $.50 after initially pumping to over $4.
Note: as with any airdrop, there’s a couple things you should be careful of:
Scams: there are a TON of scams on Twitter and Discord around the airdrop, namely around fake contracts. Make sure you’re using the real contract address.
Influencers pumping it: Influencers are claiming a ton of tokens (as they typically trade a lot). There’s a direct incentive to tweet & hype it up for them, so be careful of pumps.
Overall: this airdrop should be a temporary boost for the NFT space as there’s now more liquidity to trade with.
Today: Polygon announced their zkEVM mainnet is going live March 27th.
Polygon is already much cheaper to use than ETH, but this will make it even cheaper and faster. According to a core dev: Polygon (MATIC) zkEVM can process 10,000 transactions for $1.
An opportunity to watch for: The projects that are first to build on Polygon’s zkEVM should get a lot of attention and hype.
Full details from Polygon are below in their blog:
Taurus (enterprise-grade infrastructure to issue, custody and trade any digital assets including cryptocurrencies with staking) raises $65M - PRNewsWire
Caldera raises $9M to enable Web3 at scale from Sequoia Capital and Dragonfly - Mirror
Crypto Startup Monad Labs Aims to Create Next ‘Ethereum Killer’ After Raising $19M - CoinDesk
Orb Labs has completed a $4.5 million seed round to power the next wave of blockchain interoperability - Announcement
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Ape O’Clock
"The most complete yield farm, gamefi, play-to-earn and dApp launch calendar."
Type of Product: Launch Calendar
Purpose of Tool: Ape O’Clock is a comprehensive yield farm, gamefi, play-to-earn and dApp launch calendar. It features listings of yield farms, NFTs, gamefi / play to earn, ROI dapps and miners, and token launches on all blockchains.
Listings of New Launches: Ape O’Clock has listings of new launches on all blockchains. Projects must have not already launched to be listed on the calendar.
Research Assistance: Ape O’Clock provides information on projects that have been audited or reviewed to assist readers in doing their research.
Hall of Shame: The “Hall of Shame” is where rugged and abandoned projects are moved off of the main calendar. This allows readers to see current, viable projects on the homepage.
Great tool for finding upcoming Defi, gamefi, and NFT launches in an easy to view calendar.
Note: most of these are degen type launches, always be careful!
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Sign-In with Ethereum
“Your Keys. Your Identifier."
Type of Product: Authentication Tool
Purpose of Tool: Sign-In with Ethereum is a form of authentication that enables users to control their digital identity with their Ethereum account and ENS profile instead of relying on a traditional intermediary. Sign-In with Ethereum offers an array of features to authenticate Ethereum accounts. It allows for the creation of cookie-based web sessions to manage metadata associated with the account.
Benefits For Web2: brings users a sense of control over their identities and introduces them to Web3. Additionally, it provides a strict specification and associated tooling to simplify the integration process.
Benefits For Web3: Benefits For Web2: brings users a sense of control over their identities and introduces them to Web3. Additionally, it provides a strict specification and associated tooling to simplify the integration process.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Shopify has recently announced the launch of their integration with Sign-In with Ethereum (SIWE). Merchants can easily hook up the SIWE feature on Shopify wallet connect and customers can then click a “sign-in with Ethereum” button to connect their addresses via SIWE’s partnered intermediaries such as Coinbase, Fortmatic, WalletConnect, Portis and Torus.
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Toki
“The next generation of customer retention + acquisition is about working together"
Type of Product: Creator Tooling
Purpose of Tool: Toki is an engagement platform that helps brands gamify their customer's experience with engaging activities, challenges and airdrops. Brands can customize the entire experience to fit their brand look and feel, plus create alliances with other likeminded brands to boost loyalty. Toki allows for a Web2 or Web3 experience, guaranteeing at least 8x ROI.
Activate Customers: Activate customers with activities, challenges and airdrops.
Web2/Web3: Toki is the only platform that allows for a Web2 or Web3 experience.
Analytics: Outstanding analytics to track performance.
Reward Activities: 30+ reward activities.
Integrations: 15+ integrations available.
NFTs: Connect to Toki to deliver perks to your holders.
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Bungee
"Bridge your assets through the best route.”
Type of Product: Cross-Chain Bridging
Purpose of Tool: Bungee is a bridge aggregator that offers optimized routes for cross-chain swaps. It allows users to optimize their route based on the maximum output on the destination chain, the lowest GAS fees, and the fastest bridging time.
Optimized Routes: Bungee helps users find the most efficient and cost-effective routes for their cross-chain swaps.
Refuel: Bungee's Refuel feature auto-detects if users don't have native tokens on the destination chain and airdrops them in exchange for native tokens on the source chain. This ensures users always have the GAS they need to complete the bridging.
Security: Bungee is also planning to integrate security features to ensure a safe and secure bridging experience.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Bungee recently announced a partnership with Layer3 to improve its multi-chain bridging experience. Bungee is powered by Socket, a comprehensive interoperability stack which enables asset and data transference across chains, allowing developers to create cross-chain applications.
Also just today: Bungee’s Refuel crossed 300k txns.
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