A Year In Review — Charged Particles
Everybody is aware of that point strikes otherwise within the crypto area. For us, 2021 started again in 2019…
It was a heat day at ETH Waterloo and Rob Secord was musing in regards to the concept of NFTs holding interest-bearing property. Later, when he began considering extra severely about this idea, he realized that eGift playing cards could possibly be represented as NFTs with the flexibility to develop in worth. One of many most important issues he was making an attempt to resolve on the time was enabling small companies to obtain income by way of present playing cards in order that they may maintain their companies open throughout slower instances. For instance, a $50 eGift card (as a NFT) = $25 stays in card incomes curiosity by way of DeFi protocols, and $25 to the enterprise instantly with retailer credit score. By early 2020 Charged Particles was conceived!
In February 2020 we acquired “DeFiNFT” as our Twitter deal with — lengthy earlier than most have been contemplating the intersection of DeFi and NFTs. Our co-founders Ben Lakoff and Rob Secord met throughout Kernel in July 2020. Then In October 2020 Ben and Rob went full drive into Charged Particles.
Our pre-seed funding spherical started in December 2020 closing at $750k in February when our protocol formally went stay on mainnet. In the identical month, we organized the Big Bang launch celebration in Cryptovoxels, one of many largest Metaverse occasions ever, the place 100 ETH value of NFTs have been offered in an hour. February was an eventful month certainly!
We continued throwing these huge Metaverse occasions that drew 1000’s of individuals together with Zero Gravity in March 2021 the place featured artist Shytoshi Kusama listed 5 NFTs on the market with 5 billion $SHIB nested in every (valued at round $175k every at time of writing. We additionally noticed IMT promote an NFT-shirt for two.5 ETH, making it one of many high ten costliest t-shirts ever offered.
This was adopted by the launch of the Pandora’s Box Nested NFT in April 2021 created by The Guild which was offered for 42 ETH. At first of Might 2021 we closed our seed spherical at $1M, launched our IDO on Polkastarter and listed IONX on Uniswap.
The summer time introduced with it quite a lot of big milestones together with going stay on Polygon, launching a liquidity rewards program for IONX staking, and crossing the five hundred ETH mark in NFT gross sales.
This 12 months we’ve got shaped many strategic partnerships with all kinds of various crypto and NFT associated sub-sectors.
Music
Unchained Music, Ashby Projects, Bars and Melody, Beacon Bloom, Intro to Music Theory
Making a extra balanced and equitable music trade is one thing that we’re very keen about. The event of our music partnerships, guild, and onboarding pipeline continues to develop demonstrates the distinctive place our expertise places us in to disrupt the trade. In 2022 we’ll proceed to assist form new mechanisms and requirements for Music NFTs and the position the trade has within the Metaverse
Gaming
AnRkey, Polygon Studios Lepricon, Exceedme, DeFi Gaming Coalition, Book of Alchemy, Exo Jump
Gaming and DeFi NFTs have a particular connection and with our partnerships we intend to proceed exploring new horizons corresponding to nested in-game property that develop in energy “cost”, absolutely furnished Metaverse parcels, gamified merchandise crafting, present baskets for gaming tournaments, loot packing containers for markets, wearable units, and a lot extra.
Monetary/DeFi
Aave, NFTrade.com, Totem Fi, NFT Trader, xFund, MatrixSwap, NiftyPay, ReNFT, Drops, Derace
Our partnership with DeFi and Monetary corporations have opened new alternatives corresponding to swapping nested NFTs, staking, vesting, lending-borrowing, and even renting them out.
Infrastructural
Polygon, Kylin, Rarible DAO, Mine Network, Huddln, EPNS, RARA Social
Our infrastructural partnerships are supposed to take DeFi and nested NFTs to a different degree opening up alternatives to new use instances and progressive integrations. We’re glad to to be a bit of the puzzle that’s NFT infrastructure together with the businesses talked about above. We glance to additional increasing our place within the higher crypto sphere.
Distinctive Partnerships
SportsIcon, Birds for Sofia, SuperBid, BlindBoxes, The Guild
One-of-a-kind performance attracts bold companions with distinctive concepts. This 12 months has seen numerous out-of-the-box tasks corresponding to giant collaborative tasks, NFTs with baked-in utility, artwork with rising cultural worth, and rather more. Innovators discover their approach into our neighborhood.
Now we have since labored with creators, builders, innovators, and ___ from throughout a large number of industries and sectors together with artwork, music, gaming, charity, finance, and extra.
Notable Figures Onboarded Into NFTs utilizing Charged Particles this 12 months
Acquainted Faces from the NFT Ecosystem utilizing Charged Particles this 12 months
Fascinating Charged Particles use case realized this 12 months
A part of our decentralization course of has led to the creation of neighborhood lead Guilds that concentrate on completely different sectors, industries, use-cases, and tasks. Every of those have their very own Guild construction shifting in the direction of full DAO possession with month-to-month stipends which might be voted on by their members. Music, Gaming, Style, Restoration Ecology, Charity, and Visible Arts Guilds are repeatedly increasing exponentially. These collectives are constructing and innovating within the web3 area using the Charged Particles protocol, protecting all kinds of passions, led by some extremely motivated leaders. These are a number of the actually unbelievable tasks being constructed by their respective Guilds:
Unchained Music — a very free music distribution platform constructed on high of the Charged Particles protocol
Ashby Projects — a full service NFT company for the music trade
Grandmother Grove — a DeFi NFT engine to plant timber partnered with the Eden Mission
Book of Alchemy — an immersive world using DeFi NFTs for merchandise crafting, story telling, and lore constructing
DIGITALAX — a partnered Style DAO seeking to make the style trade extra equitable
Many extra are on the best way!
Firstly gotta give an enormous shout out to our founders Rob and Ben:
Rob Secord, our visionary founder and technical lead. He brings his 20 years of expertise as a full-stack engineer and 5 extra inside Fintech to the staff and continues to be a driving drive for the development of Ethereum Good Contracts, NFTs, and DeFi DApp improvement.
Ben Lakoff, our co-founder and enterprise lead, is a strong, unstoppable, and bold drive of nature. You will notice him showing on panels, podcasts, interviews, and AMAs on behalf of Charged Particles actually nonstop. One half social butterfly, one half cyborg, Ben is a key element in driving strategic relations with partnerships ahead.
This 12 months, we’ve loved the fast progress of our core staff.
Our product lead, Sam Casey, has been bringing a singular mixture of technical abilities and enterprise acumen to his management position, operating our software-engineer “crew of legends,” which incorporates the kindhearted and expressive Max Jackson, the centered and artistic Garrett Gehle, the sensible and analytical Ely0x, the inquisitive and jovial Kamran Choudhry in addition to the most recent addition to the staff, the down-to-Earth and quick-witted Scott Harlan
Our head of selling, Steve Neigut (yours actually), run’s level on our general tactical advertising technique, navigating our many partnerships, growing communications, optimizing logistics, and our inside staff dynamics. Priyanka Khanadali, our extremely devoted social media supervisor, retains our neighborhood within the loop about essential updates, occasions, tasks, and a lot extra. Rafael Hoekstra, PhD, venture supervisor and one-man-think-tank, helps to develop new options and use-cases in addition to taking lead on writing an ideal lots of our most impactful thought management articles.
In the meantime, Mango, our inventive director, passionately spearheads the general public dialog and propels innovation ahead round all issues Charged Particles and the higher web3 area. He conjures up us to suppose larger and factors in the direction of the equitable and inclusive future that blockchain guarantees. Danil Pan, our neighborhood supervisor, makes Charged Particles an open and welcoming area, bringing in artists and supporting new members with an open coronary heart.
Collectively all of us assist maintain this ship crusing easily.
From our Discord and Twitter to Forbes and Nasdaq, we wouldn’t be anyplace with out our unbelievable neighborhood and we’re excited to maintain constructing the longer term with you. In 2022 as we transfer in the direction of decentralized neighborhood possession, liquidity mining inside NFTs, additional improvement of instruments and assist (e.g. SDK / API) to combine our protocol, in addition to empowering artists and builders to innovate, neighborhood will stay the core focus of what we do. We’re on this collectively and that is solely only the start!
Charged Particles is a protocol that permits customers to deposit ERC-20, ERC-721, and ERC-1155 tokens into NFTs. A scarce NFT (e.g. Artwork, Collectible, Digital Actual Property, In-Recreation Merchandise, and so on.) can now be remodeled right into a basket holding quite a lot of different tokens. The Principal quantity will be time-locked contained in the NFT, and thru integration with Aave’s aTokens, the programmable yield from these DeFi yield-generating property is just some clicks away.
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