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- Figment.
- Enterprise-grade staking-as-a-service and nodes-as-a-service.
- Across >50 chains (all the big ones): https://www.figment.io/protocols.
- Built primary for developers (so they can focus on the app) as well as people seeking yield.
- Figment runs the nodes and offers APIs.
- Figment Prime is a portfolio management platform they offer. Dashboard, analytics, etc. For VCs, hedge funds, enterprise customers.
- Lorien Gabel CEO. Fidelity one of the investors.
- Blockchain as a service (= LaaS, Ledger as a Service, since BaaS = Banking as a Service).
- Remember gcp doesn’t have a product yet (but it’s in the works) – AWS and Azure both do. It’s what you’d expect; a network (nodes), services/APIs, datastore, security features.
- ConsenSys also offers Quorum, an open-source blockchain for business. https://consensys.net/quorum/
- AWS has probably the most complete solution.
- Supports >70 chains/partners.
- Stores with Amazon’s QLDB, quantum ledger database. Faster.
- Offers managed blockchains for Eth and Hyperledger Fabric. Used by a ton of big companies: verizon, sony, philips, more.
- Most common use cases: supply chain and value transaction.
- Sequence, a product from the company called Chain, is an LaaS offering as well: https://chain.com/
- Arweave.
- The infra to permaweb. Web3’s internet. Web2 was a network. Web3 is a storage solution. It keeps memory, all history of every address permanently.
- https://arwiki.wiki/#/en/the-permaweb
- It’s a blockchain, like any other L1. Immutable and permanent. BUT it’s optimized for storage in a lot of ways. Unlike other networks, where EVERY node has the full blockchain history, each node in arweave only has a subset.
- While it is PoW, it uses Proof of Access as well. You have a better chance of mining the new block (and getting the reward) if you locally store a randomly chosen block since genesis. This incentives nodes to store as much as possible, and as diverse as possible (“rare” blocks give a better chance of mining reward because fewer other nodes have them).
- SPoRA. Succinct proofs of random access. Favors data access speed as well. So a block storage on a local SSD wins over a remote storage solution.
- It costs money to store your data on arweave (just like gas on eth mainnet), but your data will be stored permanently. A small portion of this fee goes to the miners (~15%). The rest goes to an endowment pool which is a safety net to keep arweave alive (by paying storage costs/rewards) in case traffic slows or something.
- Native token is AR.
- To set up a miner: https://docs.arweave.org/info/mining/mining-guide.
- Filecoin is another big player in that market.
- Arweave itself does not encrypt anything on its blockchain. But you can of course use it for private data by:
- Encrypting the data yourself.
- Using an existing platform on top of ArWeave. ArDrive is the most common; basically gdrive but using arweave to store the data underneath. It offers encryption solutions for your data.
- 1inch gas refund program.
- Levels. Stake x of the 1inch token, get a % refund (distributed monthly) for all your transactions on their dex aggregator.
- Staking 100 = 25% refund.
- Staking 1,000 = 50% refund.
- Staking 10,000 = 75% refund.
- Staking 100,000 = 100% refund.
- Capped at 10k 1INCH token refund per month per person.
- Staking 1INCH doesn’t give an APY, it’s for voting rights in their DAO. It’s for governance, not profit. This gas refund program is the financial incentive to participate in their DAO.
- Onchainid.
- Exactly as it sounds. Aggregates a bunch of data from your identity in decentralized systems, then offers that data to other systems (lenders, spectral credit score, etc).
- This is good for eligibility, this is good for regulation, this is good for insurance, this is good for compliance, etc.
- They also plan to simplify the login process, helping with onboarding-type stuff. This makes sense, if they’re the source of truth for identity.
- Teller.
- Banking as a Service, BaaS. Connects your users’ bank accounts to your app.
- APIs, forms, many SDKs to integrate into your app. Shows users a simple, trusted login.
- Already integrated with all major banks.
- Integrated with Ramp as well.
