⚡ TFC Newsletter: 12/05/2022

Polygon CEO Learnings, Lens acquires Sonar, Analytics Tooling, Web3 Social Aggregator, Staking, and more!

December 05, 2022

💡 Intro

🥳 Happy Monday! Now that 2022 is almost over, a lot of Web3 leaders are sharing their learnings over the past year.

Ryan Wyatt has a list below that’s a must read:

💡 Polygon CEO releases learnings from past year in Web3

Ryan Wyatt (ex head of Youtube Gaming, now CEO of Polygon) put together a very insightful list of his learnings at Polygon this year after his 1st year in Web3.

It’s a very honest assessment from one of the top builders in the space.

Our favorite line and a thesis we certainly agree with, is the Money Crypto vs Tech Crypto statement:

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Blockdaemon

"Institutional Grade Blockchain Infrastructure"

Type of Product: Developer Tool

Purpose of Tool: Blockdaemon supports the major and emerging protocols required by your projects. Plus, they provide an unmatched technical depth. This all combined guarantees stable uptime, around-the-clock coverage, and support for the most demanding blockchain use cases.

Blockdaemon powers the blockchain economy by providing world-class blockchain infrastructure to 60+ cutting-edge blockchain networks. This allows you to manage your node with their easy-to-use platform, backed by state-of-the-art security measures.

  • High Availability Load Balanced Dedicated Nodes | High availability, Load Balanced and Performant - the connectivity that exchanges, custodians, traders and analysts rely on for their blockchain access needs.

  • Blockdaemon's Ubiquity API | A high performance, multi-chain API for accessing blockchain data across multiple protocols using REST or Websockets. Ubiquity provides full historical data across all supported protocols.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: As of this writing, Blockdaemon manages 500+ Validating Nodes, 60+ Protocols supported, 55k+ nodes launched, and is currently the number 1 Institutional Staking Provider by Volume. On January 2022, Blockdaemon announced that it had closed a Series C funding round of USD $207 million with a post-money valuation of $3.25 billion.

Later on October 2022, CB Insights named Blockdaemon to its fifth-annual Fintech 250 ranking, showcasing the 250 most promising private fintech companies of 2022.

Yup

“Web3 Social Network"

Type of Product: Social

Purpose of Tool: Yup is a social network for curators where you can curate and share content across the web with the ability to earn money and the audience that you need. Yup works by building your taste profile through likes, ratings, and other reactions, turning it into capital. Make collections of different pieces of content, then earn YUP tokens for every audience that likes your content.

  • Make Collections | Collections are the best way to curate and share whatever you're into, whether it's NFTs, think pieces, or movies.

  • Universal Network | Yup overlays on your favorite social platforms, so likes and favorites automatically count towards your Yup score and earn you tokens.

  • Custom Feeds | Find the smartest tweets, the funniest YouTube videos, the best songs on Soundcloud, and more - all in one place.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Yup’s recent interaction on their platform have 7,737,000+ likes and ratings and counting, with over $4.1 million rewards earned by its users. Last year in October 2021, Yup, raised the sum of $3.5 million in seed funding which was led by Distributed Global, an early investor in crypto unicorns Dapper Labs, Audius, and Solana.

The funding round was co-led by other key investors in the digital currency ecosystem ranging from Dapper Labs to LD Capital, as well as angel investors including Danny Zuckerman (3box), Patrick Rivera (Mirror), amongst others.

Radiant

“Web3 No-Code Automation"

Type of Product: Developer Tool

Purpose of Tool: Radiant is a web3 automation hub enabling everyone to build web3-powered automation. Radiant Segment is an easy new way to segment your wallet and get a snapshot of other wallets that meet your criteria based on wallet NFT & Token portfolios. Simply import one or more tokens, set up filters and share the results with the communities you care about.

  • Apply Filters | Filter all wallets on the blockchain by filters like NFT-Traits, Token Amounts, and Holding Time.

  • Export Wallets | Discover, copy or export your wallet results

  • Share Results | Share a Public Link with your community, or simply download it.

  • Segment API & SDK (Coming Soon): Enabling everyone to integrate & build on top of Radiant Segments.

  • Actions: Trigger actions based on segments (Coming Soon): Airdrop an NFT, add to a whitelist, Token Gate & more.

Team / Funding / Backers Info / Transaction Amount: Radiant.so is currently on early access, and it’s first web3 segmentation tool, Segment, was just released a few weeks ago on November 2nd, 2022. Along with Segment’s launch, they gave away 33 out of 333 NFT Launch Passes for Segment Pro.

Gokustats

"Crypto Metrics That Matter in One Place"

Type of Product: Analytics

Purpose of Tool: Gokustats is a dashboard product that allows convenient analysis and comparison of major L1 blockchains. For each L1, the dashboard includes data on Fundamentals (addresses, transactions, TVL), Stablecoin flows, Social data (twitter followers), Trading behavior (price, market cap), and Valuation multiples. For select blockchains (such as Solana), the dashboards also include chain-specific KPIs like transactions per second (TPS), incidents, DEX volumes, and NFT trades.

Gokustats’ Sheets provides clean, reliable crypto data directly to Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets workbooks. They aggregate and clean the data from credible vendors to ensure you have the perfect metric at precisely the right time. Use Sheets for portfolio monitoring, market research, as a screener for potential investments, or to update your asset-specific financial models.

Team / Funding / Backers / Other Info: Artemis is composed of a small team of builders & investors from Venmo, Google, Microsoft, Venmo, Public Comps, Holocene Advisors, Insight Partners and Carlyle Group. Crypto builders and investors use Artemis as well such as North Island Ventures, Road Capital, Modular Capital, QuickNode, and more.

Core Team:

  • Jon Ma | Co-Founder & CEO

  • Anthony Yim | Co-Founder & CTO

  • Nirmal Krishnan | Founding Engineer

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