⚡ TFC Newsletter: 02/23/2023
Spotify Pilots NFT Gating With Playlists, Coinbase Creates New L2 Base, Web3 Job Board, On-Chain Bonds, NFT Botting Tool, Web3 Monitoring, and More!
💡 Intro
If you’ve been waiting for the next exciting addition of Web3 to a big company: it’s here with Spotify!
Popular NFT collection Creepz is one of the first collections to pilot the functionality. If you hold a Creepz NFT + connect your wallet, you can listen to an exclusive playlist on Spotify.
The pilot is rolled out to Android users in select countries and will likely expand to more NFT collections + locations as user testing continues.
In the 2nd exciting piece of news dropping today: Coinbase has launched an ETH Layer2 called Base that gives a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly way for anyone, anywhere, to build decentralized apps.
Don’t forget to pickup a free NFT from Zora that Coinbase launched, the mint closes on Sunday (direct link from Coinbase in 2nd tweet).
Indian web3 gaming studio Kratos raises seed round at $150M valuation, acquires IndiGG - Direct Announcement
Parisian startup Unikbase closed a €2 million funding round led by Weber Investissements to protect digital twins of physical objects using Web3 tokens - Tech.eu
AffineDeFi has raised $5.1 million in seed funding led by Jump Crypto and Hack VC to develop a DeFi yield offering - CoinDesk
Huma Finance raises $8.3M to launch the first Income-Backed Defi Protocol - Direct Announcement
Crypto investment firm PanteraCapital invested $10 million in metaverse game project Worldwide_WEB3, which allows users to bring in their existing NFT collections - CoinDesk
Chain Reaction raises another $70 million for blockchain and privacy chip - Direct Announcement
Houseparty co-founder raises $25.5 million for Ethereum 'town square' protocol - TheBlock
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Intropia
"Community-powered Web3 Recruitment"
Type of Product: Web3 Jobs Board
Purpose of Tool: Intropia is a job platform that connects contributors with the most exciting opportunities in Web3, aligning incentives and enabling co-ownership and collaboration from day one.
Introduce & Earn: Earn crypto for referring your friends to opportunities in the most promising web3 startups.
Community-driven Referral Recruitment: Anyone can earn rewards by sharing open positions or recommending the right candidates through Introduce & Earn.
Job Board: Contributors can explore and apply to exciting opportunities from 100+ leading organizations in Web3, such as Alchemy, Algorand, Balancer, Binance, Chainlink, ConsenSys, Ethereum Foundation, and more.
Turn Your Favorite Project into a Moonshot: Help your friend to find a new inspiring challenge and get recognized and rewarded.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: On January 25, 2023, the web3 startup formerly known as tr3butor rebranded to intropia. And on February 21, 2023, intropia officially launched live for all its users.
The company also successfully concluded an angel round, backed by influential web3 founders such as Konstantin Lomashuk (P2P), Marat Kichikov (Bitfury), Thanh Le (Coin98), Tritium (BadgerDAO), Max Krupyshev (Coinspaid), and Romano (Viacoin).
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Obligate
“On-chain bonds for regulated DeFi"
Type of Product: Lending
Purpose of Tool: Obligate is a startup offering blockchain-based regulated debt securities. It is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enables companies to issue on-chain bonds and commercial paper to investors, while allowing investors to invest in a wide range of digital debt assets backed by on-chain collateral.
Reduced Costs: Obligate eliminates the need for intermediaries such as paying and issuer agents, reducing the cost of a bond issuance by 80%.
Reduced Time: The platform also reduces the time for an issuance from weeks to hours.
Easy and Simple Investing: Investing in Obligate is an easy and straightforward way to earn money. Investors can subscribe to bond issuance programs and earn interest on the principal amount at maturity.
Arbitration Agreements: All transactions are subject to arbitration agreements, which forms part of the eNote Registration Agreement. This provides parties with business expertise, confidentiality, speed and quick finality in dispute resolution.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Obligate recently secured an additional $4 million in their seed extension round, with Blockchange Ventures and Circle Ventures joining Earlybird and SIX Fintech Ventures as investors. This brings the total amount raised in Obligate's seed round to more than $8.5 million.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Breeze
“Alpha, Automation, & Analytics Provided By Breeze"
Type of Product: NFT Tool
Purpose of Tool: Breeze provides users with an intuitive interface and automation tools to make purchasing NFTs easier and faster than ever before. Breeze features 24/7 support to help all users, consistent updates to keep up with the changing NFT space, and AES-256 wallet encryption to ensure users’ information is safe.
Signature / Captcha Support: Breeze is able to support the majority of releases that have a captcha or signature.
NFT Alpha: Step-by-step guides to help users prepare for big releases.
Task / Wallet Grouping: Users are able to organize their wallets and tasks within personally named groups.
Mass Transfer / Mass List: Mass transfer NFTs to one wallet, or switch between wallets and list, all within Breeze.
Disperse / Recollect: Disperse funds between wallets and collect them back to one wallet with a single click.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Sentio
"Monitor. Analyze. Diagnose. All in One Place”
Type of Product: Analytics
Purpose of Tool: Sentio is an end-to-end observability platform that helps users gain insights, secure assets, and troubleshoot transactions within their decentralized applications. This modern monitoring, alerting, and log management system comes as an integrated and hosted experience.
Data Collection: Sentio's type-safe and easy-to-use SDK allows users to collect and transform data based on smart contracts' events, transactions, traces, and states. All collected data is versioned for fast and easy iterations.
Real-time Dashboards: Users can build low-code, real-time dashboards in seconds with powerful transformation and aggregation functions. Dashboards allow users to visualize metrics and quickly zoom in and out on various timespans.
Real-time Alerts: Sentio allows users to set up real-time alerts that notify teams via Slack, Telegram, email, and webhooks so they can quickly react to critical events.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Sentio, led by CEO Fuyao Zhao, is currently in beta and has recently raised $6.4M in funding. This round of funding was headed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and also included Hashkey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Essence VC and GSR Ventures.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Sol-Incinerator | NFT Tool | Link to product
Gitcoin | Community | Link to product
Sharky | Loans | Link to product
Coinvise | NFT Tool | Link to product
Tensor | Trading | 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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