⚡ TFC Newsletter: 02/22/2023
Tracking Twitter Influencers' Crypto Activity, Metamask Adds L2 Bridging, Crypto Search Engine, Web3 Security, and more!
💡 Intro
Ever wonder what Twitter accounts and influencers actually hold for crypto/nfts? Or what their transactions are?
Copy-trading influencers is a massive help for trading, as some have inside info or trade right before big announcements.
Arkham Intelligence (security platform with 12$M in funding) just launched a feature to allow anyone to track the activity of Twitter handles.
It’s a super cool feature and one we haven’t seen implemented elsewhere yet.
After searching for a handle on platform, users can:
View their top counterparties
Query and filter recent transactions
Review their exchange usage and volume
Visualize their on-chain activities
Set alerts for their transactions
If you trade on Arbitrum or Optimism, you’re in luck!
Today: Metamask added bridging support direct in dapp, making it easy to bridge to those L2s securely and safely.
Having popular wallets like Metamask add support for bridging is great as it typically requires using external platforms which can pose security risks.
Den raises $2.8M in funding to build the fastest multisig for onchain teams - CoinDesk
Multichain wallet Blocto has closed a Series A funding round at a valuation of $80 million - TheBlock
Curio Raises $2.9 Million Seed Round to Build Composable Gaming Ecosystem - BusinessWire
Lightspeed leads $6.4 million seed round into web3 observability platform - TheBlock
Web3 database developer Polybase raises $2 million in pre-seed funding - TheBlock
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Kaito AI
"Democratize Information in Crypto"
Type of Product: Crypto Search Engine
Purpose of Tool: Kaito AI is an AI-powered search engine for the crypto industry that aggregates fragmented information into one place. Through AI-based technologies and the advanced language models of ChatGPT/GPT-3, Kaito offers a superior search experience compared to current alternatives.
Aggregates fragmented information into one place
Optimizes search engine through ranking, topic mining, personalization, recommendation, and speech-to-text transcription
Integrates ChatGPT/GPT-3 for additional search experience
Generates AI-generated content for users
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Kaito is a company founded by CEO Yu Hu, and it recently raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital with other participants including Sequoia Capital, Jane Street, Mirana Ventures, Folius Ventures and Alpha Lab Capital. The funds will be used to grow the team and develop the product further, and the company is in talks with OpenAI, Binance and Dragonfly for its next round of funding.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Token Sniffer
“DeFi validation metrics and scam detection."
Type of Product: Analytics
Purpose of Tool: Token Sniffer is an established, authoritative platform that works to identify and prevent smart contract scams. It provides users with a comprehensive suite of tools and data to ensure that their digital assets are safe and secure. TokenSniffer offers a Smell Test to quickly verify the legitimacy of a token, a Token Score to rate the risk level of a token, and a Scam Status feature to alert users of any potential scams.
Get token: Get info about a token and its contract source code to find out whether it's been flagged as a scam. You can also get on-chain metrics such as top holders and liquidity, as well as Smell Test results.
Malicious Listings: See a list of all scam tokens—not available in subscription plans.
Address Insight: Check out the scam tokens that have been deployed from an address.
Malicious Addresses: Find out which addresses have deployed a scam token—again, not available in subscription plans.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Token Sniffer is a smart contract scam scanner acquired by Solidus Labs and integrated to its Web3 AML solutions. It actively monitors 2,017,839 tokens and 244,468 scams, and was recently cited by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and in Senate Banking Committee testimonies.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Chainstack
“Fast and reliable Blockchain Infrastructure"
Type of Product: Dev Tool
Purpose of Tool: Chainstack is a cloud-based platform that helps businesses of all sizes build, run, and scale blockchain applications. With Chainstack, users can quickly deploy their desired blockchain infrastructure to any cloud provider, data center, or private hosting environment. Chainstack also provides enterprise-grade security and an easy-to-use network management and operation tools to help users grow their network and invite other members.
Flexibility to deploy anywhere – Deploy networks to Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, private hosting, or own cloud
Freedom to choose – Build and deploy on the blockchain protocol that meets your needs
Enterprise-grade security – Secure node connections and key security best-practices built in
Optimised for growth – Grow your network by inviting other members to deploy their own infrastructure through simple network management and operation tools
Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: Chainstack has been awarded a $60K grant from The Graph Foundation to develop and open-source standardized deployment tooling and best practices for The Graph nodes using Kubernetes. The grant was chosen among more than 200 applications from over 10 countries and will help to further automate Kubernetes.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
WatchTower by Sec3
"End-to-End Web3 Security”
Type of Product: Security
Purpose of Tool: WatchTower by Sec3 is a real-time security monitoring system designed to detect and alert users to suspicious on-chain activity. With its built-in CircuitBreaker, WatchTower can also prevent malicious transactions and secure funds.
Pro-active Monitoring: Utilizing sec3’s smart monitor engine and Solana programming model, WatchTower is able to pre-emptively detect suspicious attacks.
Customized Monitoring: WatchTower is able to monitor customized security policies, such as protocol-specific cross-transaction rules, and cross-chain invariants.
Anomaly Monitoring: Through continuous learning and auto-tuned invariants, WatchTower can detect abnormal transactions.
Built-in Monitors: WatchTower also includes a variety of built-in monitors for common malicious activities, such as abnormal token transfers, rug pulls, flash loans, fake input accounts and round-trip-trades.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Sec3 recently secured $10 million in a seed funding round, led by Multicoin Capital and supported by Sanctor Capital and Essence VC. A variety of angel investors participated, including Santiago Santos, formerly of ParaFi Capital, and Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Gokustats | Analytics | Link to product
Fleek | Dev Tool | Link to product
Kiln | DeFi Staking | Link to product
Footprint Analytics | NFT Tool | Link to product
Crypto Packaged Goods | Community | Link to product
Den | Software Engineer | Link to position
MoonPay | Graphic Designer | Link to position
Phantom Wallet | DevOps Engineer | Link to position
Paxos | Treasury Analyst | Link to position
Alchemy | Growth Engineer | Link to position
Nansen | Head of Demand Generation | Link to position
Polygon | Blockchain Engineer | Link to position
LayerZero Labs | VC Analyst | Link to position
Fireblocks | Business Operations Manager | Link to position
Magic Eden | Product Designer | Link to position
Decentraland | Sr. Data Engineer | Link to position
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