⚡ TFC Newsletter: 01/11/2023

Lens Protocol Adds Token Gating, Web3 Accelerators to Watch, Real World Assets With DeFi, Web3 Wallet, No-Code Tooling, and more!

💡 Intro

Just today: Lens Protocol added a much-requested feature for token gating posts on their protocol.

Token-gating is Web3 native and as we all know: provides some great benefits, so it’s great to see a top decentralized protocol roll this out!

Funding might be slowing down in Web3: but there’s still many accelerators to check out!

Why To Follow Accelerators:

  • If you’re a builder: Get access to mentors, learn from other builders, receive funding etc

  • If you’re a trader/investor/web3 enthusiast: Pay attention to the teams/projects coming out of accelerators. They typically have momentum + are worth watching for investment & trends.

LongHash Ventures is launching their accelerator with the following use cases:

  • Cross-chain payments

  • Account Abstraction smart contract wallets

  • Cross-chain gaming

TechCrunch and Cross Chain Coalition are featuring 12 Web3 projects tomorrow:

Also: applications for Outlier Ventures’ Accelerator closes tomorrow: don’t miss it! Link here if interested in building: link

  1. C14, a Digital Asset Firm Enabling Fiat to Crypto Transfers, Has Raised $2.5 Million led by General Catalyst - Axios

  2. DeBox, the "Web3 version of Patreon" has completed a $2M raise in seed round financing, led by Singapore fund ABCDE - Tweet Link

  3. Metatrust Labs raising $10M in their seed round to improve Web3 security

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RWA.xyz

"Analytics on Real-World Assets"

Type of Product: Analytics

Purpose of Tool: RWA.xyz is a platform that provides analytics on real-world assets within the realm of DeFi. The platform aims to provide data and information that investors need to invest in the next wave of crypto adoption, with a focus on real-world assets. This includes information on global metrics, loan details, and information on the different RWA DeFi protocols available, as well as information on the borrowers of these loans.

  • Offers information on the borrowers of these loans, including details on their track records, which can help investors understand the risk associated with a particular loan.

  • The protocols information provided can help users understand the different approaches and tokenomics of RWA DeFi protocols which can help user identify the best protocol to invest in.

  • The loans information provided on RWA.xyz can help users to identify who is the underwriter, and what are the terms and loan recourse. This can help users to understand the risk and return of a particular loan.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Rwa.xyz, a new startup that recently launched in December 2022, is continuously adding new features to its platform. Some of the upcoming features include:

  • Detailed analysis of pools offered by prominent players in the RWA market such as Goldfinch, Credix, and Maple Finance

  • Comprehensive statistics for protocols, lenders, and borrowers

  • Historical performance data for all investments

Assure Wallet

“Wallet, Quote & Swap, all in Assure."

Type of Product: Wallet, Asset Manager

Purpose of Tool: Assure is a multi-chain wallet and asset management platform that allows users to securely store, manage, and trade their digital assets across multiple blockchain networks. It features a holographic display that provides an overview of all of a user's Token, DeFi, and NFT assets, making it easy to track and manage their portfolio.

Assure offers a variety of features and benefits to users, including:

  • The ability to purchase, transfer, exchange, and realize assets accretion

  • Seamless integration with major centralized exchanges (CeFi) for easy trading

  • Quick and easy connection to DApps for expanded reach in the crypto world

  • A dedicated liquidity aggregator that uses smart algorithms to match the best routes for users to get the best orders soon, as well as aggregation of exchange channels and public cross-chain pools for free and secure swap of multi-chain assets

  • A unique order splitting algorithm that optimizes the swap experience for large orders

  • The ability to use the Swap pending order function allowing for easy and convenient trading with one click.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Assure is a one-stop asset management service offering reliability and efficiency across 50+ countries and 5 continents. With 107,667 global users and total assets of $2,624,748,570, Assure has achieved a trading volume of $11,662,103,373 in the last 30 days.

Enzyme

“Discover, deploy, and manage with ease"

Type of Product: Developer Tool

Purpose of Tool: Enzyme is a no-code tool that allows creators, developers, and businesses to design and launch smart contracts without writing any code. It aims to make the process of creating and managing smart contracts as easy as possible, allowing even those with no blockchain experience to get started.

  • Zero transaction fees: Enzyme doesn't charge transaction fees for any of the publicly available smart contracts, meaning users only pay the deployment gas fee.

  • Bring Your Own Contract: Enzyme allows users to import any external public smart contract and manage it with ease.

  • Dashboards: Enzyme provides easy-to-use dashboards for managing every aspect of smart contracts, whether they were created with Enzyme or imported from an external source. Both public and private dashboards are available.

  • Click to deploy: Enzyme makes it easy for users to deploy their smart contracts without needing any blockchain experience. A simple form and a click is all that's needed.

MSafe

"Secure Wallet Services for Decentralized Financial Systems

Type of Product: Wallet

Purpose of Tool: MSafe is a multi-signature, non-custodial digital assets management solution built on Move. MSafe offers a range of features and benefits that make it an ideal platform for securely managing and safeguarding digital assets. Its features include treasury management, smart contract deployment and update, protocol admin control, and a dApp store integration.

With MSafe, users can securely manage and store their digital assets and enjoy the added benefits of decentralization and improved security. MSafe's features and benefits also make it an ideal platform for developers, as it provides a secure and reliable platform for deploying and managing smart contracts, and for enabling protocol controls.

In addition, MSafe's dApp store integration makes it easy to access and interact with third-party dApps, with enhanced security through MSafe.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Founded in Aug 2022, MSafe is the first to launch a multi-sig wallet solution on the Aptos/Move ecosystem, and is backed by some of the most notable Web3 and Web2 investors such as Jump Crypto, Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and more.

MSafe has recently completed a $5 million USD seed round led by Jump Crypto with participation from Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Superscrypt, Redpoint Ventures, SV Angel, Shima Capital, and Spartan Group.

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