• Monday

    • Gitlab q4 earnings, expected 70.3m, got 77.8. https://ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gitlab-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-fiscal-2022.
    • GPDR compliance for websites getting EU traffic.
    • The “Solana dApp Scaffold Next” template repo is pretty good.
      • Wallet integration, state management, notifications, examples.
    • _app and _document to override the default next app and document, of course. Not necessary, can just have a single index home page. But if you want context managers for diff pages, global css, document html tags, etc – customize these.
    • 100000010 = 258 in decimal = Ă in ascii tables (utf-16, of course barely too big for utf-8). 1m inflow and 10% growth, every year.
    • Looked into digital business cards. Some with QR code, some with photo/email/etc. No obvious market leader. Mobilo offers a (paid) card, HiHello and Blinq look to be free apps.
    • Went to Solana Hacker House. Kickoff day. Work section, food/drink, recruiting section, stage, merch store, NFT gallery, standing social section, massage, lounge.
    • Carta’s report of first-funds from 2021: https://carta.com/blog/fund-i-report-2021-year-in-review/.
      • 3.9b on carta total in 2021 for first funds.
      • No clear standout for first-fund size. Pretty spread. Funding comes in all sizes.
      • Most popular location: CA. Miami got a big relative jump in 2021 though.
    • Programmed NFTs.
      • They have triggers. Maybe it’s a trigger from the owner (eg transfer), or a trigger from an event (eg sports outcome).
      • Cardinal (solana) is big for this – can revoke, expire, transfer to beneficiary, many.
      • A prime example: royalties. These are enabled by the programmability of NFTs. You can do anything else possible with contracts/programs.
    • Squads.
      • https://squads.so/.
      • Multisig vaults. Start with the DAO use case. Imagine having 10 individuals with hot wallets who want to start a company together. You don’t want a single person to have control, you don’t want to write infra yourself to manage this. Just create a Squad and it will set up a vault and you can control which addresses have which percentages, what quorum is needed for change. Gives in-platform voting, etc. Lots of integrations for anything you might want to do with a collection of accounts.
      • Gnosis is biggest on eth: https://gnosis.io/.
    • Flipside looks to be a bounty program? https://flipsidecrypto.xyz/.
    • Cogni is a banking app for digital assets: https://getcogni.com/.
      • Not sure the differentiator. Is this just a custodial wallet?
      • Plus a credit line, it looks like.
      • And a streaming enabler, allowing direct deposit into the account.
    • Katana is a solana protocol for yield vaults. https://katana.so/.
      • Passive yield is generated from price action strategies (eg covered calls, put sells, etc), not liquidity mining. The vault runs a strategy actively so you don’t have to.
      • Most projected APYs are ~25%.
    • Rove. Like BAT, but for the entertainment industry. As a consumer, you earn for consuming. As a producer, you collect portions for use.
      • https://rove.live/.
      • Single ROVE token for all, just like basic attention token. Not a specific token, like earning BB for watching breaking bad or something.
      • Then ROVE is used as an economy for music labels, film studios, concert halls, sports arenas, etc. Access for all types of entertainment.
      • Integrated with Moonpay. Single click. Don’t have to be a developer, and don’t have to know crypto.