Web3 Growth Series

If there were a juggernaut in the Web3 space, it is clearly MakerDAO. What they’ve enabled with the DAI stablecoin has changed the entire decentralized finance landscape (DeFi).

Redeemable DAI (or rDAI) is one platform enabling such returns, and their founder, Miao ZhiCheng thinks that by continuing to focus on end users and less on engineering tech, DeFi can continue to grow.

SuperRare co-founder Jonathan Perkins has seen just how powerful monetizing artwork linked on chain can be and thinks the digital collectibles space is about to explode.

Tokens can do a lot of things, but AlphaWallet founder Victor Zhang thinks they can do more. His company has built a mobile wallet that supports traditional uses of Ethereum tokens, but they’ve also built a scripting engine that can take tokens and make them “smart.”

Eidoo’s Vice President of Engineering, Emiliano Bonassi, believes that by doing as much as they are, the company positions itself for growth both horizontally across markets and vertically within current markets.

Livepeer CTO, Eric Tang, believes that by incentivizing people to run video encoding services on a distributed network it will be possible to build highly scalable video applications with no single point of failure.

Unlock wants to make it easy for people to start using crypto to pay for services. Their founder, Julien Genestoux, wants the entire Web3 community to start using Web3 products more frequently, and he built a product that makes doing so incredibly easy.

Don Mosites, Co-founder of AirSwap, believes that by solving the user experience issues of Web 3.0, the entire market will continue to grow.

One of the better-known protocols in the space is bZx. They have built an open finance protocol to power tokenized margin trading and lending.

Origin Protocol makes it easy for Web3 companies to launch decentralized marketplaces. The sharing economy has changed the way we do business.

Matthew Wright, growth & strategy lead at Argent, believes that in solving user experience, the entire industry can help people enjoy the benefits of crypto without needing to know, or worry about, all of its complexity.

Kyber is an on-chain liquidity protocol that enables cross-token interoperability. They allow users of your application pay in the token of their choice.

Permissionless finance is the driving force behind the entire DeFi movement, and Set Protocol has been one of the biggest players. Their CTO, Alex Soong, understands that despite DeFi’s significant attention...

It’s clear the team behind CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs, knows how to build a brand and build a following, even if it might come at the expense of network speeds.

How do you ensure sustainable development in a market that absolutely requires long-term commitments before there are any returns? Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin believes he has a solution.

Prize-linked savings systems may not be commonplace, but they are certainly not new in the world of finance. What Leighton Cusack, CEO of PoolTogether, has done, though, is take the idea and apply it to the Ethereum blockchain.

LinkDrop makes it easy to create customer acquisition campaigns that utilize crypto. Through a simple link, a company can onboard new users and even distribute crypto assets.

InstaDapp is working on solving this problem in a trustless way. InstaDapp CTO, Samyak Jain, believes that by providing a simple interface...

This is true both from a user perspective (getting people to know and use applications as they come out), but also from a development perspective. Terminal is solving the latter. CEO Harrison Hines...

OpenSea is one of the best known marketplaces for buying and selling Ethereum-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Their success directly impacts the block...

Matic, a layer two scaling solution, aims to solve both problems. By introducing a side chain protocol that leverages their own ERC-20 token, Matic is able to provide near-instant settlement of transactions at a significantly reduced cost.

There are a lot of things that need to go right for blockchain applications to succeed. There are so many moving parts that it could be overwhelming for some founders. Not for Alan Curtis of RADAR. Rather than let himself

3Box provides those tools. In fact, they provide an entire suite of tools that make building scalable Web3 applications that can compete with some of the best apps in the Web2 space.

CEO of Zerion, Evgeny Yurtaev, sees DeFi as a movement that should not be siloed like many of the Web2 companies in the past, and as such, he’s focused on building a platform that people love without locking them in.

Bison Trails supports or is developing support for dozens of protocols. Their CEO, Joe Lallouz, is bullish on the future of blockchain, but he believes it will take a lot of patience to get to where the entire industry has scaled.