⚡ TFC Newsletter: 05/08/2023
Phantom Goes Multichain, Zapper On-Chain Feeds, Security, Degenscores, Gas Notifications, and more!
💡 Intro
🥳 Happy Monday!
🐸 Memecoin mania has been crazy the past 2 weeks but might be slowing down, as most of the major gainers took a sharp drop today (including $PEPE by 35%).
This latest Memecoin cycle has been so crazy that BTC Transactions have smashed their ATH in the past week, and the network has been completely clogged!
👉 Today we have some tools that will help you with trading during this time, including:
BlockNative: Gas Estimator + Notifications
DegenScore: On-chain Achievements
UniSat Wallet: BRC-20 wallet
WalletGuard Stormwatcher: Security Analyzer
Phantom Wallet Now Supports ETH and Polygon: In a major update to Phantom, the team added support for ETH and Polygon tokens & NFTs.
Phantom has over $100M in funding at a $1.2B valuation, which means major competition for other wallets like Metamask.
They also released a slew of UX updates & new features. After a week of using it, here’s what we’ve seen that we really like:
Account Customization: Being able to add labels and have multiple accounts like “Burner” or “DEX trading” or “Memecoins” is a game changer and makes it much easier to navigate daily activities.
Transaction Previews: These are now built into the wallet and are especially useful for burner activities.
Zapper Adds On-Chain Activity Feed: Zapper is still our favorite portfolio tracker for using on multiple wallets, due to its UX + price estimations + its free.
On Friday, they released a brand new feature thats worth noting. It allows you to easily track transactions from whales, accounts, founders, etc in a simple feed (no digging through Etherscan transactions)
For example: Zapper has a “Founders” feed that you can follow, that shows in real time the transactions of major founders like Pacman (from Blur).
Aether Games / $4.5M — Game development studio, Aether Games secured $4.5M in funding through a combination of token and equity funding, supported by Mysten Labs, Polygon, Magic Eden, and other investors. — Yahoo Finance
UXD / $5M — UXD Protocol invested $5M USDC from its insurance fund into Flux Finance, a decentralized lending pool. — Tweet
Metatime / $11M — Blockchain ecosystem Metatime secured $11M in investment through two seed sales, backed by Halkbank, Kalyon Holding, Yıldız Technical University, and more. — Crypto Daily
Artifact Labs / $3.25M — Artifact Labs, a Web3 company for recording historical blockchain data, raised $3.25M in a funding round led by Blue Pool Capital, with participation from Animoca Ventures. — CoinDesk
Webb / $7M — Webb Protocol, a privacy system for cross-blockchain asset transfers, secured $7M in seed funding from Polychain and Lemniscap as co-leads, along with investors Zeeprime and CMS Holdings. — PR Newswire
Siphon Lab / $1.2M — Crypto DeFi startup Siphon Lab raised $1.2M in a successful seed round led by Kima Ventures, with contributions from Waveline Capital, BT Growth Capital, Uno Ventures, Quidnet Ventures, Mava Ventures, and more. — ZyCrypto
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Blocknative Gas Fee Estimator
"Web3’s Most Accurate Gas Fee Prediction"
Type of Product: Gas Estimator + Notifications
Purpose of Tool: Blocknative's Gas Estimator is a tool that helps Ethereum and Polygon users predict accurate gas fees for their transactions. It enables users to avoid overpaying for gas by leveraging real-time mempool data and offering gas updates every second. The Estimator has a 4.7 rating with over 40,000 users.
A gas estimator + notification system is a life changer for traders, especially when gas fees are high (like right now during memecoin mania).
Changing the time of day you send transactions through, could save you hundreds of dollars a month to thousands.
If the transaction isn’t time sensitive: it’s worth sending it later.
Multiple Confidence Intervals: The Gas Estimator extension provides gas fee estimates at various confidence intervals.
Support for Different Transaction Types: Blocknative supports both Type 0 legacy transactions and Type 2 EIP-1559 transactions.
Visual Gas Tracker: The tool provides visual charts that show recent gas prices by block, broken down between base fee and priority fee. It also includes a 7-day gas price heatmap.
Blocknative's Gas Estimator provides real-time notifications for tracking ETH gas fees. Users can create a free account and set up alerts either through the browser extension or via WebSockets. The extension's settings panel allows users to configure gas notifications and track base fee, max fee, and priority fee types. Each time an alert is triggered, the user will receive a notification in their browser.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: On December 16, 2022, Blocknative raised $15M in Series A-1 funding. The funding round was supported by several key investors, including Blockchain Capital, Foundry Group, Rho, IOSG Ventures, Robot Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, HackVC, and Industry Ventures.
DegenScore
“Access opportunities with your on-chain skills."
Type of Product: On-chain Achievements
Purpose of Tool: DegenScore is a web3 platform that encourages users to engage with Defi smart contracts and protocols. It offers a super exciting and gamified way for users to check out and add context to their past transaction history. DegenScore issues a score relative to the amount of interaction a user's wallet has had with Defi smart contracts and protocols.
DegenScore Beacon: an Ethereum soulbound token that highlights a user's crypto skills and abilities. It is designed to identify a user's on-chain skill and reputation and make it available both on-chain and off-chain.
Beacon Traits: The parameters of these traits are designed by the DegenScore team with the goal of making someone's crypto abilities easy to understand and practical to use both on-chain and off-chain.
Exclusive Opportunities: DegenScore team is working together with multiple partner projects to bring exclusive opportunities to Beacon holders. Beacon holders can access new product launches, vault, NFT aggregators, and more.
Dox-resistant: Once a user has minted their Beacon, it is a non-transferable NFT that allows users to document their involvement with their favorite Web3 projects and share them with the rest of the Web3 community. It is a dox-resistant, native web3 credential.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Angelo Min is one of the Co-Founders of DegenScore. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder and CTO of Atomic.Blue and Dex.Blue. He also worked on marketing solutions at Google and conducted research at Turing Capital.
Degenscore has partnered with multiple projects since the introduction of Degenscore Beacon in November 2022: including Zapper, Phi, and ZKX.
UniSat Wallet
“Open Source Chrome Extension for Bitcoin Ordinals & brc-20."
Type of Product: BRC-20 Wallet
Purpose of Tool: UniSat Wallet is an open-source chrome extension for Bitcoin Ordinals and brc-20 that allows users to store, mint, and transfer their NFTs. It also enables users to view unconfirmed NFTs instantly by showing the most recent inscribed NFTs in the mempool.
Open-source Chrome Extension: UniSat Wallet is 100% open-source and can be found on GitHub. This means that the code is transparent and can be audited by anyone.
Instant Unconfirmed NFT Viewing: UniSat Wallet shows users their freshly created/received inscriptions in seconds, making it fast and convenient for daily usage.
Ordinals Output Management: UniSat Wallet manages Ordinals outputs separately from satoshi outputs, ensuring that inscriptions are never mistakenly sent within a typical coin transaction.
PSBT Support: UniSat Wallet is committed to supporting PSBT, which is crucial for building a trustless market on the Bitcoin blockchain.
In addition to these features, UniSat Wallet never stores users' seed phrases, passwords, or any private information.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: A few days ago on May 4, 2023, UniSat Wallet announced that they will be releasing the source code of their brc-20 indexer technology to the Ordinals and brc-20 ecosystem. This move is aimed at encouraging developers to build on top of their technology, which is licensed under the MIT license.
Stormwatcher by Wallet Guard
"The all-in-one web3 security extension”
Type of Product: Security
Purpose of Tool: Stormwatcher is the latest tool developed by Wallet Guard to provide users with an extra layer of protection against wallet drainers on websites. It works by leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms and data analysis techniques to identify malicious wallet drainers before a user connects their web3 wallet.
Proactive Phishing Detection: Stormwatcher uses advanced algorithms to analyze a website's content, structure, and behavior patterns to identify potential phishing scams. It provides a clear warning to the user before they connect their wallet, ensuring that they are always one step ahead of potential scammers.
Real-Time Alerts: Stormwatcher immediately alerts the user when it detects a wallet drainer on a website. This allows users to make informed decisions and avoid falling victim to phishing attacks.
Enhanced Security: Stormwatcher's ability to detect wallet drainers before a user connects their web3 wallet provides an essential layer of security. Users can explore the decentralized web without worrying about potential scammers, knowing that their digital assets are protected.
Easy to Use: Stormwatcher is user-friendly and easy to use. It seamlessly integrates with Wallet Guard's Phishing Protection tool and ensures that users can stay safe and secure while navigating the web3.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Wallet Guard is an open-source browser extension that is highly advanced and includes transaction simulation and proactive phishing detection.
Seven days ago on May 1st, Wallet Guard completed a pre-seed fundraising round, which had been led by Ethereal Ventures. Other participating investors included ConsenSys, IOSG Ventures, and notable figures in the Web3 industry such as Ben Chan from Chainlink and Dave Pazdan from Phantom.
Arweave | Analytics | Link to product
Ascenders | Metaverse Games | Link to product
Noox | Web3 Tool | Link to product
NFTEye | NFT Analytics | Link to product
GrizzlyFi | DeFi | Link to product
Sygma | Technical Product Lead | Link to position
O(1) Labs | Senior Technical Product Manager - Mina Protocol | Link to position
Talisman | UI/UX Product Designer | Link to position
WalletConnect | Full-Stack Data Engineer | Link to position
Nethermind | Internship Program | Link to position
Bluesky | Web Developer | Link to position
Glassnode | CRM Manager | Link to position
MetaMask | Product Designer - Portfolio, Assets, and NFTs | Link to position
Obol Labs | Technical Customer Success Manager | Link to position
Status | Activist Copywriter | Link to position
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