⚡ TFC Newsletter: 04/06/2023

Coinbase Launches Profiles, Celo x Google, Web3 Rewards, Crypto Tracking, Video DAOs, NFT Trading Terminals, and more!

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ToolsForCrypto Admin
April 10, 2023

💡 Intro

Note: Substack’s tweet embed feature is down, so all tweets below will be added as screenshots today.

If you try clicking on it and it doesn’t go to twitter: that’s why 😅.

Coinbase launches Web3 Profiles: Expanding on their recent social/community efforts, Coinbase released a Profiles view today.

Months ago, we covered their release of cb.id usernames and how they were free to claim.

Those same cb.id usernames can be used to create a dedicated profile now, which can be shared with friends + found by anyone online.

Claim yours by going to the link in this Coinbase Tweet

Celo has partnered with Google Cloud on providing cloud computing resources & workshops/accelerators to Web3 builders.

To date, over 3,700 tons of CO2 have been offset by the Celo blockchain since its mainnet launch on Earth Day 2020, and has been carbon-negative since Day 1.

“Google Cloud is focused on enabling the next wave of innovation in Web3, which is why we’re excited to expand our partnership with Celo to offer Google Cloud credits and guidance for their builder community,” said Richard Widmann, Head of Strategy, Web3, Google Cloud.

$CELO was up 7% on the news and 23% in the past week

  1. RACA / $16M — DWF Labs, an investment firm and market maker, has recently invested $16 million in RACA, a Web3 ecosystem. As part of the deal, DWF Labs has also acquired an undisclosed quantity of RACA tokens. — CoinDesk

  2. M^ZERO / $22.5M — Investors including Pantera Capital, Road Capital, AirTree, Standard Crypto, and others have contributed a total of $22.5 million in funding to M^ZERO LABS, a Neutral Value Transmission Framework. — Tweet

  3. Delphi Labs / $13.5M — Delphi Labs, a research firm in the crypto space, has secured $13.5 million in a funding round led by P2P, the company behind the liquid staking provider Lido. — CoinDesk

  4. DegenReborn / Strategic Funding — DegenReborn, a simulation game, has successfully secured strategic funding from P12, CyberConnect, Galxe, and Era7. — CoinCarp

  5. Polyhedra Network / $15M — In a pre-Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital, Polyhedra Network, a startup that offers Web3 infrastructure supported by zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, has raised $15 million. — CoinDesk

  6. Kryptview / $1.5M — Backed by prominent names in the crypto industry such as KuCoin, Bitpanda, GSR, and Serafund, Kryptview, a peer-to-peer scoring platform for cryptocurrencies, has raised $1.5 million in a Pre-Seed funding round. — FinSMEs

  7. ENS Vision / $2M — 1confirmation has led a Seed funding round that raised $2 million for ENS Vision, a platform that facilitates the development of the next generation of ENS (NFT) products. — Tweet

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Coin Stats

"Manage Your Crypto and DeFi Portfolio From One Place"

Type of Product: Portfolio Tracking

Purpose of Tool: Coin Stats is a free cryptocurrency portfolio management and DeFi wallet app that helps users track and sync their entire cryptocurrency portfolio in a single app with industry-leading security and access to DeFi.

  • Connect everything to CoinStats and manage all your holdings, transactions, and trades from one place.

  • Find the next great coin with access to the latest data about any cryptocurrency, links to their website, Reddit, Twitter, and up to date crypto news and updates from the coin teams.

  • Easily track and follow the LIVE prices of over 7,000 cryptocurrencies and access their extensive charts and analytical data. Select the exchange you’re using or look at average prices across all exchanges, and “favorite” coins you want to keep an eye on.

  • See your entire portfolio on one screen with setup of portfolio in CoinStats either by manually adding buy/sell transactions or syncing exchange or wallets for a live view.

  • Compare your portfolio with friends and track your gains over time by sharing one or more of your portfolios with your friends.

  • CoinStats brings all the crypto related news from over 40 sources to a single screen so you can easily stay on top of the market.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: On October 3, 2022, CoinStats has announced the commencement of their DeFi Literacy Month every October. The month-long event will feature a variety of lectures, articles, and other exclusive content from industry professionals. Through CoinStats Rewards, users will gain access to insider push notifications and be able to learn more about the details of decentralized finance (DeFi).

Mintify

“One Terminal, Many Economies"

Type of Product: Trading Terminal

Purpose of Tool: Mintify is a trading terminal for NFTs. It has been developed with a fast and scalable infrastructure and it can easily be integrated with public and private marketplaces. It allows users to customize the positioning and size of each module as well as the amount of columns they would like to use using the Module menu.

  1. Charting and Technical Analysis: Mintify provides a collection of modules and tools that allow users to perform Technical Analysis (TA) on NFT collections. This includes TradingView and ProChart, which users can customize to focus on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) they care about.

  2. Presets Dropdown: Mintify has created presets that allow users to quickly switch between trading layouts. This includes a sweeping mode preset, which prioritizes the table view of each collection and gives users more room to select tokens.

  3. Asset Class Dropdown: Users can switch the layout depending on the asset class they are trading. This allows users to access different KPIs when trading high value art such as Fidenzas, and find more information about the artist.

  4. Search & Shortcuts: Mintify has implemented a search feature that can be triggered by pressing CMD/CTRL+K at any point. The database is indexing all smart contracts and collections in real-time, and includes every deployed smart contract on each chain.

  5. Direct Messaging: The XMTP (DM) module allows users to message any ETH address that has opted in to receive DMs through the XMTP protocol. The first time users sign in, they will have to sign two transactions to enable DMs to their address.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: On October 20, 2022, a group of venture capital firms invested a total of $1.6 million in Mintify. Led by the digital asset-focused investment manager Arca, other investors included the Endeavor Fund, Alchemy Ventures, Psalion, GSR, and Fasanara. The exact valuation of the firm was not disclosed.

Blackbird

Type of Product: Rewards

Purpose of Tool: Blackbird is a loyalty, membership, and payment platform that seeks to revolutionize the restaurant experience. Its dedicated team is focused on creating a unique hospitality platform that will help restaurants and their customers stay connected in meaningful and ongoing ways.

The Blackbird platform is a great example of what can be built on a web3 stack when most of the web3 stuff is under the hood, invisible to the users but powering things that can’t happen on a web2 stack. Some people call this “web 2.5” but I just call it awesome.

  • Blackbird Card: This acts as a personal credential and is associated with individual restaurants. Each time you visit, your card will reflect your dining history and you can earn perks, rewards, gifts, and higher status.

  • Membership Options: Restaurants will have a free offering and premium offerings that can be earned by visiting the restaurant or making payments.

  • Rewards: Rewards can include gifts from the kitchen or bar, discounts, specialty dishes, access to private events, merchandise, member’s nights and more. Additionally, users are rewarded with $FLY, Blackbird’s native token, which can be used to redeem for premium memberships or withdrawn for use in other web3 applications.

Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: On Oct 6, 2022, Blackbird, the startup founded by Ben Leventhal, announced that it has raised $11 million in a seed funding round co-led by Union Square Ventures, Shine Capital and Multicoin Capital.

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures joined the board of Blackbird as part of the investment. Variant, the venture-capital arm of USDC issuer Circle, and digital product conglomerate IAC, have also invested in the round.

Joystream

"The video platform DAO”

Type of Product: Web3 Streaming Platform

Purpose of Tool: Joystream is an open source platform that utilizes blockchain technology to power multiple video streaming applications. It allows creators to reach a wider audience with the same account without extra effort, and users can easily spin up their own video community with a configurable feature set and no-code approach.

  • ATLAS: Open source codebase with rich feature set. Apps built from the Atlas codebase can offer a feature set that includes NFTs, Creator Rewards, and Creator Tokens Minting, with regular updates that add new features.

  • PAYOUTS: Rewards for publishing your videos. Creators can receive cash rewards from the Joystream DAO Council for publishing videos, with more popular videos receiving greater rewards.

  • VIDEO NFTS: Video monetisation with NFT sales and royalties. Videos can be turned into NFTs minted on the Joystream network and put up for sale, with options for fixed price, open auction, and timed auction. Creators can also receive a cut of the revenue when their NFTs are sold again on any app in the network.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: On March 23, 2022, Joystream announced that they had successfully raised $5.85 million in funding, bringing their total raise to approximately $13 million. The investment was made by over 30 investors, including Digital Currency Group, Hypersphere, DefiAlliance, and D1 Ventures, valuing the company at $60 million.

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