⚡ Token Unlocks To Watch In June, .SWOOSH Reveal Coming Soon, Smart Contract Repos, More!

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Jun 14, 2023

Adding onto price volatility from the SEC announcement, a number of token unlocks are set to occur in June that will shake up prices.

Some of the bigger names include (but are not limited to):

Blur: $64.6m $BLUR will be unlocked on 15 June
BitDAO: $79.9m worth of $BITDAO unlocks on 15 June
LooksRare: $2.2m $LOOKS is unlocking on 16 June
ApeCoin: $36.2m $APE is going to be unlocked on 17 June

Free Tools To Track Token Unlocks:

TokenUnlocks.App: This is our current favorite tool, as it has up to date data + an easy to use UI/UX that makes following upcoming events easy
DefiLlama’s Token Unlocks Page: A good alternative to the tool above, DeFiLlama’s page is not as exhaustive on the data side. But is a good supplement for TokenUnlocks.App.

The thread from Defi Mochi below is worth a read if you’re an active trader in alts:

.SWOOSH (Nike’s Web3 platform is hosting its first NFT reveal tomorrow.

The OF1 NFT drop from early June is set to reveal Thursday, June 15th at 12 PM PST.

As mentioned before: .SWOOSH is an important project to watch in Web3, even if you’re not an active part of it.

.SWOOSH has the potential to bring MANY new users into Web3 (as long as the platform is usable and the experiences they deliver are fun/useful).

GameOn / $1.7M — GameOn, a web3 superfan engagement platform, secures $1.7m in strategic financing from Lightning Capital and Flow, the blockchain platform by Dapper Labs, the creator of NBA Top Shot. — PR Newswire
BoomFi / $3.8M — Next-generation payments company, BoomFi, raises $3.8M in a Seed funding round with White Star Capital leading and participation from Passion Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, Kraken Ventures, GSR, Aquanow, and strategic advisors. — FinSMEs
Collectibles.com / $5M — Collectibles.com secures $5 million in a seed round led by Blockchange Ventures and featuring participation from GFR Fund, Peter Thiel, Blockwall Capital, private investors, and industry advisors. — PR Newswire
Nebeus / $1.29M — P2P crypto lending startup Nebeus exceeds its funding goal, raising €1.2 million (approximately $1.29 million) in its latest funding round, achieving a remarkable 126% of its target. — Finextra

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Alchemy's Smart Contracts Repository

"Explore the top verified and unverified contracts for Ethereum."

Type of Product: Smart Contract Lookup

Purpose of Tool: Alchemy's Smart Contracts Repository provides users with access to the top verified and unverified Ethereum contracts. It is designed to help developers write efficient and secure code by offering valuable insights into creating decentralized applications. The repository also offers users the ability to deploy their own smart contracts on Alchemy.

Features of Alchemy's Smart Contracts Repository:

Browse Smart Contracts By Category: Explore Verified token, router, oracle, non-fungible token (NFT), DeFi, DEX, and DAO smart contracts.
Search by smart contract name
Learn Smart Contract Information: Understand each contract's source code, ABI, bytecode and ownerships details.
Deploy Smart Contract on Alchemy: Create your own smart contracts using the intuitive interface provided by Alchemy's repository and manage them from a single dashboard.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: This is a brand new update this week from the Alchemy team, and is worth noting for when you need to pull/use contracts in the future.

Link to product | Link to TFC listing

DefiLlama NFT Aggregator

“Discover analytics on NFT royalties & revenue."

Type of Product: NFT Collection Analytics

Purpose of Tool: DefiLlama is the largest fully open-source and transparent DeFi data aggregator. It provides a comprehensive analytics dashboard for all decentralized finance related activities such as tracking TVL (total value locked) for projects like Ethereum, DEXs (decentralized exchanges), lending protocols, yield farming, and staking pools.

Additionally, DefiLlama now offers an NFT aggregator which allows users to explore the top NFT collections, marketplaces as well as NFT Earnings for each collection.

Features of DefiLlama's NFT Earnings Dashboard:

Graphical Representations: A graph showing an NFT collections, daily, weekly, monthly and cumulative earnings is offered as well.
Mint Earnings & Lifetime Royalties Earnings: Details on mint earnings as well as lifetime royalty earnings are provided by the dashboard.
Royalty from Past 30 Days: The dashboard displays royalty earned by collections over the past 30 days as well.
Total Lifetime Earnings :Users can view all time lifetime earnings for any particular collection using this feature.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Another recent update, DeFiLlama launched this on Monday. The data is not entirely accurate (the Moonbirds data is low for example) but the team typically fixes data over time.

Link to product | Link to TFC listing

Argus

“Trailblaze the internet of games"

Type of Product: Web3 Gaming

Purpose of Tool: Argus is a game developer and publisher that seeks to revolutionize the video game industry. By leveraging the collective expertise of its team of hackers and designers, Argus has created World Engine (WE) - a blockchain built from the ground up specifically for onchain games.

Dark Forest was Argus' first fully onchain MMORTS game developed upon Ethereum that inspired the creation of World Engine.

The WE platform provides developers with a robust infrastructure upon which they can create and customize their own open and interoperable game worlds. Furthermore, WE features a sharding architecture inspired by computationally intensive MMOs, allowing developers to spread out their workload across multiple shards.

Smart Contracts: Developers can use smart contracts to facilitate player interactions, creating systems like item marketplaces, guilds, mercenaries etc.
Sharding Architecture: Sharding allows developers to distribute game load across various shards to ensure optimal performance.
Cardinal Shard: Cardinal is a high-performance shard based on Entity-Component-System architecture that allows for efficient and familiar development experience for Crypto game devs without prior experience in this domain

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: The team behind Argus Labs is headed by the founder and CEO Scott Sunarto. On June 6th, 2023, Argus Labs received an investment of $10 million in seed funding from a variety of investors. This round was led by Haun Ventures and included Robot Ventures, Anagram, Dispersion Capital and Alchemy.

Additionally, there were several angel investors such as Scott Moore from Gitcoin, Siqi Chen from Sandbox VR and Sunny Aggarwal from Osmosis.

Link to product | Link to TFC listing

Boomfi

“Payments for innovators"

Type of Product: Crypto Payments

Purpose of Tool: Boomfi is an all-in-one solution for sending, accepting, and converting crypto payments. It offers a fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement system that allows businesses to collect payments in any pricing model. This includes one-time checkout, recurring payments, invoicing, and usage-based billing.

In addition, BoomFi provides pre-built performance dashboards and exports which are compatible with accounting systems as well as controls to help ensure compliant payment operations.

Payment links & Subscriptions: make it easy for customers to pay you however they want – be it with crypto or fiat currency.
Multi-party Settlement: easily facilitate multi-party settlements between multiple entities without having to transfer funds manually.
Free Trials & Discounts: offer free trials or discounts on products/services for customers who pay with crypto instead of traditional methods such as cash or card payment.
Token Gating: enable token gating for added security when accepting payments from third parties such as digital wallets or payment service providers (PSPs).
Performance Dashboard & Exports: get real time insights into your financial performance with customisabledashboards plus access ready made exports for accounting systems like QuickBooks Online or Xero

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: On June 13, 2023, BoomFi received an impressive funding round of $3.8 million from a group of investors including White Star Capital, Passion Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, Kraken Ventures, GSR, Aqua Now, Mantle Network and founders from Moonpay, Ramp Network and Transak.

The round was also backed by executives from Stripe, Revolut, Shift4 and Worldpay. Jack Tang and Michael Si-Co serves as co-founders and CEOs for Boomfi.

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