TFC Newsletter: 09/22/2022
Coinbase enters Web3 Dev Ecosystem, Web3 Domain Names, Decentralized Publishing, Blockchain data, and more!
💡 Intro
⚒️ Product Launch Today
Coinbase has entered the Web3 Developer Ecosystem, with their launch of Node yesterday. Many companies (now including Coinbase) are competing to power Web3 Infrastructure. With how lucrative it is for AWS to power Web2 infra: it makes sense!
💸 Fundraising Today
Crypto Analytics Firm Messari Raises $35M in Funding Round Led by Brevan Howard Digital
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🔥 New Products on TFC today!
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The Graph
"APIs for a vibrant decentralized future"
Type of Product: Developer Tool
Purpose of Tool: The Graph is a web3 protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data with GraphQL. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible.
Subgraphs can be composed into a global graph of all the world's public information. This data can be transformed, organized, and shared across applications for anyone to query with just a few keystrokes.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: The Graph was founded in 2018 by Yaniv Tal, Jannis Pohlmann and Brandon Ramirez, who previously worked together on several startups that focused on creating developer tools.
The Graph is backed by leading names in the space such as Framework, ParaFi Capital, DTC Capital, Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Collider, Lemniscap, Reciprocal, & more.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Paragraph
"Web3 newsletters & publishing"
Type of Product: Web3 Social
Purpose of Tool: With Paragraph, write content, create a newsletter, grow your audience, foster a community, and get paid directly by your readers - no matter if they're on web2 or web3. Create token-gated newsletters with Paragraph. Memberships based on NFTs or ERC20 tokens - instead of paid subscriptions - unlock entirely new ways of community engagement, growth, and monetization.
Paragraph turns your subscribers into members. NFTs give your audience ownership in your community, and help supercharge your growth & earning potential.
Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Paragraph allows you to get paid directly by your community. When you enable payments, you can charge your users a recurring subscription fee for access to your best posts for 5% per paid subscription.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
Utopia
“Collaborative payroll and expense management for DAOs"
Type of Product: Payroll Management
Purpose of Tool: Utopia is a collaborative payroll and expense management for DAOs
Automate payroll
-Schedule recurring payments to team members and core contributors in USD or token values. Set it and forget it with customizable start and end dates.
Manage expenses
-Empower contributors with frictionless expense and reimbursement requests that can be accepted for signing by any admin.
Organize contributors
-Invite contributors and manage roles and working groups, plus easily understand past contributions and total compensation for each contributor.
Gasless transactions & Transparency
-Batch execute payments in a single multi-sig transaction - without paying gas. -Analytics dashboard gives members full transparency into real-time financial reporting and treasury management
Ensure compliance
-A suite of compliance features, including tax withholdings on local, state, and federal levels in 11,000+ tax jurisdictions and end-of-year W2 & 1099 filings.
Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: Utopia Labs is a team of four founders who met on Discord and Twitter over the past few months. The CEO Kaito Cunningham recently worked at crypto firm M31 and is in the On Deck Catalyst program. Utopia’s co-founders Pryce Adade Yebesi, Alexander Wu and Jason Chong also have held a scattering of tech builder background gigs, from Facebook internships to LunchClub to Microsoft.
Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting such as: SquiggleDAO, Illuvium, FWB, PleasrDAO, Tracer, Yield Guild, & Badger.
Link to product | Link to TFC listing Tenderly
Unstoppable Domains
“Building decentralized digital identities for the world"
Type of Product: Web3 Domains
Purpose of Tool: Unstoppable Domains is creating NFT domains that put you back in control of your data, which are domain names with superpowers. Your Unstoppable domain is your cryptocurrency address, your login to the decentralized web, and your universal username.
Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: Unstoppable Domains has 2.5M+ Domains Registered, 275+ Coins + Tokens Supported, & 400+Integrations. Their investors include Draper Associates, BoostVC, Coinbase Ventures, and Protocol Labs.
Executive Team:
Matthew Gould - Founder & CEO
Bogdan Gusiev - Founder & CTO
Sandy Carter - SVP for Business Development and Channel Chief
Ray Utech - VP of Finance
Link to product | Link to TFC listing
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👷Open Web3 Jobs
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Evmos | Business Development Manager | Link to position
Phala Network | Community Manager | Link to position
ENS | Project Manager | Link to position
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