⚡ TFC Newsletter: 10/17/2022

Aptos Mainnet launch, Blockchain Analytics, Aptos NFT Marketplace, NFT Live Data, Crypto Security, and more!

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ToolsForCrypto Admin
October 17, 2022

💡 Intro

Good news for NFT holders who like using Ledgers: Ledger is launching a new wallet called the Nano S Plus. It’s designed with NFT collectors’ needs in mind. This is only the 6th Ledger type created, since the original Ledger was made in 2016.

🥳 Happy Monday!

Exciting news to start the week, with Aptos officially launching their Mainnet today.

Aptos is a VC darling with over $350M in funding. It claims to be more scalable than other chains, due to Aptos being built on Move (a Rust based language).

👉 As with every hyped launch of a new chain, Aptos should have some good opportunities in first mover tools/NFTs/products.

We’ll be on the lookout for good finds, and post them here for the TFC community.

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Topaz

"Create, collect & explore NFTs on Aptos"

Type of Product: Aptos NFT Marketplace

Purpose of Tool: Topaz is an NFT marketplace built on the powerful Aptos blockchain, with a focus on safety and scalability. With Topaz, explore trending NFT collections on Aptos. If you want your project on the Aptos page, Join the Aptoz discord and apply to be a creator.

The Topaz Launchpad is a white-glove experience for artists and community builders who are interested in launching their NFT on Aptos. Topaz's Launchpad page (coming soon!) allows collectors to discover new and upcoming NFT art drops on Aptos.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: In Topaz, there is an activity called “One new challenge every week”. When you finish one task you will get a badge. After you verify your wallet and discord you will get your role immediately. Badges are airdropped every Thursday night after Aptos Devnet resets. Participate in Topaz's weekly events for a chance to get different roles in the future.

Footprint

"Blockchain analytics made simple"

Type of Product: Analytics

Purpose of Tool: Footprint is a flexible blockchain data analysis platforms built on the most relevant data science approaches and tools. They have come up with a unique approach to organizing data, including a flexible browser-based data analysis tool that does not require knowledge of any programming languages (more in Get started with Web application), as well as an API solution for those interested in software integration (more in How to use data API).

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Footprint’s plan & pricing consists of three different categories: Free, Business, and Team subscription plans.

  • Free - $0/month- 1G data limit per query- CSV upload 5 times- CSV download 5 times

  • Business - $299/month ($239 if pay yearly, saving 20%)- 10G data limit per query- Unlimited CSV uploads- Unlimited API uploads- Unlimited CSV downloads

  • Team (Custom Pricing)- 30G data limit per query- Customized data- Unlimited customized alerts- Unlimited customized dashboards

parsec

“DeFi & NFT Pro Analytics"

Type of Product: DeFi & NFT Analytics

Purpose of Tool: parsec provides more than 30 different components that generate unique & real-time insight into the DeFi market with expansive and custom functionality. Get access to:

  • Price Candles - chart indicators, fundamental data like lending originations, and fine grained contract data

  • DeFi Firehose - highly configurable stream of defi market data that includes trades, lp add/rms, lends, borrows, and liquidations

  • Trades Stream - track trades on a specific pair in realtime as they stream through

  • Portfolio Tracking - track your nav with fast and multi-account portfolio tracking that also tracks alternative asset locations

  • Liquidations Chart - realtime chart of liquidation prices for on chain shorts/longs

  • and more…

Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: Polychain Capital led Parsec's $1.25 million funding round, with participation from Robot Ventures, Volt Capital, Free Company as well as Eric Conner, Alex Pack and Will Price. Details of the round were included in a Medium post penned by founder Will Sheehan last January, 2021.

Before this seed round, Parsec had raised a small pre-seed from Polychain's incubator program.

Lossless

“Restoring Trust in Web3 Security"

Type of Product: Web3 Security

Purpose of Tool: Lossless is a trusted and safe DeFi ecosystem with minimal to no losses from hacks, exploits, or social engineering. Lossless protocol - is a piece of code that token creators insert into their tokens - this code empowers Lossless to freeze any fraudulent transaction based on a set of fraud identification parameters.

Lossless’s two-step process for recovering stolen funds:

  1. Urgent/instant freezing after a hack - rewards the one who identifies the hack and freezes the transaction.

  2. Longer/permanent freezing after a hack was verified by the Lossless - reverse the fraudulent transaction

Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: Last May 2021, a total of $2.245M was raised through a private sale round led by DAO Maker. Their brand new investors are made up of the following institutions, projects, and individuals such as DAO Maker, Master Ventures, X21, Magnus Capital, Hacken, Chandler Song and Ryan Fang (founders of ANKR and Bounce), Poolz, and CyberFi.

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