⚡ TFC Newsletter: 03/20/2023
Microsoft Tests Crypto Wallet in Edge Browser, Polygon + Immutable Gaming Launch, Wallet Security, Social Chats, Web3 Threat Detection, and more!
💡 Intro
🥳 Happy Monday! The crypto markets are holding strong, with BTC just under 28k and ETH still over $1700. Eyes will be on the FED update on Wednesday to see which way assets go.
Until then: there’s always exciting Web3 updates to cover, starting with one from Microsoft:
In super exciting news: Microsoft has added crypto capabilities as a Beta version within its latest Edge Browser update.
Important to note: not all features that get added as Beta versions end up shipped to the public. This one is also hidden so users cannot find it yet ( a security researcher discovered it.)
Still, it’s exciting that Microsoft is testing Web3 through this recent update.
Full list of crypto related features include:
Crypto wallet
Decentralized application explorer
Crypto news feed
Ability to buy crypto through Coinbase and Moonpay
This update would rival Microsoft Edge’s competitors of Opera Browser and Brave Browser. Both browsers already have built in crypto capabilities.
Edge has 5% of browser users worldwide which makes this update a great potential onboarding platform.
Full thread below from the security researcher:
In exciting news for Web3 gaming: Polygon Studios and Immutable have launched a major initiative that makes it easier for companies to build Web3 games.
Immutable currently services hundreds of game studios and millions of players through their platform.
Web3 gaming needs a lot of infrastructure improvements before it can go mainstream and updates like this will move it forward over time.
Polygon’s major zkEVM update is still slated to go live on mainnet on March 27th.
Note: there’s been a ton of rewards & airdrops for being early adopters of Web3 products and protocols like Starbucks Odyssey, Arbitrum, Aptos, Canto, Space ID and more.
The TFC team is thinking of launching a series of weekly posts that make it easy to discover and enter these.
We love your feedback, so if this is something you’re interested in let us know through a reply!
EOS EVM / $20M — EOS Network Ventures commits a $20 million investment to create apps and games on the EOS network, a decentralized open-source operating system. — Yahoo Finance
Onchain Trade / $0.7M— Onchain Trade, an Onchain money market & DEX, raised over S700,000 from a recently concluded IFO — Tweet
Bravo Ready / Strategic Investment — BRAVO READY, an independent web3 game studio, has announced a new strategic investment from Aptos Labs. — Business Wire
Perpy / $5M— Perpy, a Web3 Social Trading protocol, successfully raised $5 million through a soldout public token sale. — Tweet
TripleC / Undisclosed — TripleC, a GameFi incubation and distribution platform, has received a funding boost of an undisclosed amount from KuCoinLabs. — CoinGape
Composable Corp / $1.2M — Composable Corp,a development shop focused on building DeFi lending markets has raised $1.2M to support the development of Blueberry Protocol - a peer-to-peer lending market. — Coin Time
NeoCortexAI / Undisclosed — NeoCortexAI is a provider of AI and blockchain services that is supported by industry leaders such as Oddiyana Ventures, Triple Gem Capital, Ferreum Network and Farium Ventures. —Yahoo Finance
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Wallet Guard
"Open-source extension designed to simplify transactions & security."
Type of Product: Wallet Security
Purpose of Tool: Wallet Guard is a security companion for your crypto wallet. It acts as a browser extension that provides advanced multi-layered security measures to protect against scams and fraud. With Wallet Guard, you can browse at ease knowing that your online assets are secure.
Proactive detection on common web3 scams: Wallet Guard actively detects and warns you about common web3 scams to help keep your assets safe.
Verifies web3 marketplaces, NFTs, and DApps: Wallet Guard verifies the authenticity of web3 marketplaces, NFTs, and DApps to ensure that you are interacting with legitimate platforms.
Human-readable transaction insights: Wallet Guard provides human-readable insights into transactions to help you better understand what is happening with your assets.
Warnings on malicious transactions and signatures: Wallet Guard warns you about potentially malicious transactions and signatures to help prevent fraud.
Malicious Extension detection: Wallet Guard detects and warns you about potentially malicious browser extensions that could compromise the security of your assets.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Salsa
“Meet and chat through your POAPs"
Type of Product: Social
Purpose of Tool: Salsa is a wallet-to-wallet messaging app that utilizes POAP’s social graph to help users network and discover common interests with other web3 users. Users can send messages using just their wallet address.
Wallet-to-wallet messaging: Users can send messages to each other using just their wallet address.
POAP’s social graph: Salsa utilizes POAP’s social graph to help users discover common interests with other web3 users.
Explore screen: The explore screen shows who collected your personal POAPs and what you share in common with another user.
Direct messaging: Tap on a user profile to start a DM or respond privately to a message on the feed. If the recipient is not on Salsa yet, you can easily invite them.
Notifications: Turn on notifications to stay in the loop. Only get notified of people you know IRL messaged you or there are major app updates.
Create animated POAPs: You can create spicy animated POAPs with 2 taps in the Salsa app. When you meet someone new you can share your POAP and prove your connection on chain.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: On February 16th, 2023, Salsa announced a $2 million in a pre-seed funding round. The funds will be used to expand Salsa’s newly launched mobile app which is currently available in beta.
The round was led by IDEO CoLab VC and Inflection.xyz and included participation from Superscrypt and several angel investors such as Nader Al-Naji, Liam Horne, Dan Romero, Balaji Srinivasan, Henri Stern, Khan Tasinga, Patricio Worthalter and Gmoney.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Altura
“Web3 infrastructure for games"
Type of Product: Web3 Infrastructure
Purpose of Tool: Altura is a platform that provides tools and solutions for game developers to integrate NFTs into their games. It simplifies the process of creating, updating and transferring NFTs in-game without technical complexity or costly investment. Altura also provides APIs and SDKs to simplify the integration of NFTs into games.
Built-in authentication tools: Altura’s built-in authentication tools secure your NFT economy, simplify user enrollment and instill trust in your player base.
Marketplace solutions: With Altura’s marketplace solutions, you have the flexibility to sell your NFTs on their thriving marketplace or create your own custom branded storefront with their white label solution.
Simplified Web3 integration: Altura simplifies the process of implementing Solidity, Web3.js, GraphQL, IPFS and managing blockchain nodes.
Community connection: Altura’s marketplace and community tools can help promote your game to a large audience of gamers and web3 enthusiasts. You can also list and sell your NFTs on the Altura marketplace where thousands of players buy, sell and trade daily.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Aegis
"Lossless Aegis. Proactive Web3 Security.”
Type of Product: Security
Purpose of Tool: Aegis is a platform that monitors smart contracts for suspicious activity. It uses AI-powered security coverage to provide real-time alerts and help prevent exploits as early as possible. By adding your smart contracts to Aegis, you can receive 24/7 monitoring and protection.
Security tracking: Aegis monitors custom events in smart contracts, changes in Total Value Locked (TVL), and performs contract backtesting for past incidents.
Hacker detection powered by AI: Aegis uses advanced artificial intelligence to detect potential hacker activity.
Real-time alerts: Receive alerts on Slack, Telegram, Phone, Email or through API in real-time when suspicious activity is detected.
Easy to use: Simply copy and paste the contract addresses you want to monitor into the Aegis watchlist. No coding is required!
Suitable for anyone: Aegis can be used by protocol teams for their own security or by traders who want to detect risks in their favored projects.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Aegis is a product of Lossless- a leader in Web3 security architecture and exploit mitigation tools. On May 25th, 2021, Lossless completed a private sale round that raised $2.245 million.
The round was led by DAO Maker and included new investors such as Master Ventures, X21, Magnus Capital, Hacken, Chandler Song and Ryan Fang (founders of ANKR and Bounce), Poolz and CyberFi.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Upstream | DAO Creator Tool | Link to product
Hyperspace | NFT Marketplace | Link to product
Gomu | NFT Creator Tool | Link to product
Ramp network | DEX | Link to product
Juno | Banking | Link to product
Gelato Network | Senior Partnership Manager | Link to position
Bebop | Front-End Engineer | Link to position
Wintermute | C++ Trading Platform Developer | Link to position
prePO | Web3 Marketing Lead | Link to position
Nethermind | UI/UX Developer | Link to position
Offchain Labs | Golang Engineer | Link to position
Ripple | Marketing Analyst Intern (Summer 2023) | Link to position
Bloxstaking | Social Media Manager | Link to position
Messari | Sr. Backend Engineer, API | Link to position
RabbitHole | Senior Product Designer (Crypto-Native) | Link to position
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