News From Our Partners
Taiko
Taiko has launched industry-leading community development programming. According to a May report by Electric Capital, Taiko is among the teams with the highest growth of full-time developers in the last quarter.
This month Taiko kicked off“ Tea with Taiko” to provide a more focused and interactive session for the community. Through workshops and focused sessions, participants dive deeper into specific topics and gain more knowledge and connection with each other.
Take a deep dive into Taiko protocol design in a recent blog post and learn more about Taiko’s new open research initiative — the ZK Research Digest. We look forward to seeing what new innovations and contributions arise from Taiko and the team’s stellar community activation programming.
Airstack
What if you could search Ethereum as easily as asking ChatGPT? We are proud to announce our partnership with Airstack. Airstack helps developers easily integrate on-chain & off-chain data into apps, skipping the complexities of web3 data integration. Developers can query on-chain and off-chain data sources using natural language, saving time and lowering the barrier to entry for new applications.
The team announced a successful raise of $7m in early-stage financing across 2 pre-seed rounds led by Superscrypt with backing from WWVentures, NGC Ventures, and more.
Read the announcement coverage by Coindesk here.
Read our partnership announcement with Airstack here.
With a recent ETH Global hackathon tour with incredible results, the team is actively looking to hire across multiple positions. Learn more about Airstack and keep up to date with the team by following below:
AssetDash
On May 23rd AssetDash minted its flagship Vanta NFT collection on Magic Eden at a price of 5.5 SOL. The 10k collection sold out in 18 minutes. Through the Vanta NFT, AssetDash aims to offer premium benefits to early adopters and supporters.
Similar to a “Black Card” in traditional finance, owners of the Vanta NFT will be treated as the most premier member group within the app. The NFT grants access to premium features and utility including a rewards multiplier, exclusive Vanta drops and deals, and access to a token-gated community. A PFP collection is planned for Vanta holders, and we look forward to what the AssetDash team has in store as they set out to redefine community development and NFT utility!
Learn more about AssetDash Vanta here
BLOCKLORDS
BLOCKLORDS launched the Community Beta of its medieval play-to-earn strategy game. Early participants are eligible for Founders Society, an exclusive group for the most devoted community members.
With only 100 spots available, Founders Society members receive a unique role in the BLOCKLORDS Discord server, access to a private chat, quarterly Ask-Me-Anything sessions with the BLOCKLORDS Founders, and automatic whitelist privileges for upcoming mints. In addition to Founders Society, the team is running weekly bounty giveaways for players active in the beta.
Check out what’s new at Blocklords by joining their Discord here
Dolomite
Dolomite announced a successful $2.5m seed round led by Draper Goren Holm and NGC Ventures with participation from Coinbase Ventures, WWVentures, RR2 Capital, 6th Man Ventures, Token Metrics Ventures, Orchard Street Capital, and more. This comes as Dolomite has hit $1 million in total value borrowed, and over $500k in plvGP deposited. We look forward to supporting Dolomites’ growth into the future!
Read our Partnership announcement with Dolomite here.
Insrt Finance
The Insrt team has successfully deployed 12 ShardVaults featuring top collections: BAYC, Cryptopunks, Miladys, Chrome Squiggles and more. ShardVaults from Insrt Finance allow users to become partial owners of Bluechip NFTs at a lower entry price by fractionalizing ownership. The blue chips are also deployed into NFT financial infrastructure to generate yield for Vault participants. Looking ahead, the Insrt team is launching Season 1 this June — This launch will offer new product features and a referral program to further Insrt Finance’s mission as a key player in NFT Finance.
Find out more about Season 1 and follow what’s happening in the Insrt ecosystem by joining their Discord and following them on Twitter.
LunarCrush
LunarCrush is literally sending NFTs to the moon with the launch of their Nakamoto_1 NFT collection. Collectors embark on a journey to unlock an Android NFT, granting access to a token-gated community, a LunarCrush Pro account, events, merch, and more. As a part of the campaign, a crypto wallet is being sent to the moon on a SpaceX rocket kicking off an interplanetary scavenger hunt.
Learn more about LunarCrush Nakamoto1 here.
Ethos Wallet
The Ethos Wallet team announced a strategic partnership with Mysten Labs — the creator of the Sui blockchain. After many months on testnet, Sui launched its mainnet on May 3rd. Ethos Wallet and its accompanying native applications are exclusively available on Sui, leveraging the blockchain’s Move programming language, unrivaled speed, and enhanced security to grow and scale its capabilities for developers and end users.
The Ethos community hit over 250k followers on Twitter and the team is rapidly expanding its suite of applications to serve as a home base for web3. We look forward to continuing to support the Ethos team and their growth!
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WWVentures Announcements
Partnership announcement with Airstack; click here for the full article.
Partnership announcement with Dolomite; click here for the full article.
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