Cheltenham, Australia, December 29th, 2023, Chainwire

DRIFT, the studio and accompanying token behind the Web3 game Payout Pursuit, sold out in the first round of the presale in just two hours.

The new project, created by a veteran and fully doxxed team, has announced that the second presale round will take place on January 3rd, at 12pm EST (5pm UTC). 

The team behind DRIFT has implemented a unique tokenomic structure around the project, in which the success of the game benefits the studio token and vice versa, but sell pressure is reduced through two-way insulation between the game and the studio.

The team’s experience in Web3 gaming and NFT publishing has lent them unique insights into which tokenomic models work, and which don’t. Given their track record and deep understanding of the wider crypto landscape, the team behind DRIFT was always focused on developing a project attractive to Web3 gamers and non-gamers. 

Following the success of DRIFT’s first presale round, the core team and developers are working on plans to scale, while remaining committed to their grassroots, organic approach to partnerships and community-building.

According to DRIFT’s CEO, Josh Chand: “The community really resonated with the idea of a studio token, rather than an in-game token, as well as a cross-chain gaming experience. The real benefit of this tokenomic model is that gamers and non-gamers can all participate in the studio’s endeavors.”

The team behind DRIFT also operates Influ3nce and its Amba$$ador program. This initiative enables Key Opinion Leaders in the Web3 space to financially benefit by actively involving their followers and communities in projects they endorse.

Many investors in the presale participated in the Ambassador program, which operates on a revenue-share basis to reward members of the community that support the project directly.

Community engagement remains a key plank for the DRIFT project. However, according to Chand, quality is the most important factor in the success of any project. He emphasizes: “We’ve had some early success, but we’re not resting on our laurels. We understand that communities are built around quality projects—in the end, quality really counts.”

The second round of the presale kicks off on January 3rd, 12pm EST (5pm UTC).

About DRIFT

DRIFT is the studio token behind the Drift studio. Drift is a Web3 game studio, which already has a ready-to-play Beta version of its game, Payout Pursuit. 

The DRIFT token has utility for gamers and non-gamers. Gamers who hold DRIFT will be able to customize their gaming experience with NFT skins and other features. Non-gamers who stake DRIFT receive a percentage of game revenue, and the token also receives Liquidity from a percentage of game revenue. 

The Drift project has been developed by a highly experienced, fully doxxed Web3 team, with multiple successes in the Web3 space.

For more information: Official Website | Payout Pursuit | Influ3nce | Amba$$ador | Twitter | Telegram

Contact

Head of Marketing
Paul de Havilland
DRIFT
paul.dehavilland@drifttoken.io

Zug, Switzerland, December 22nd, 2023, Chainwire

Secured Finance aims to surpass the conventional constraints of traditional DeFi lending models, introducing a fresh perspective to the bond market. Through the adoption of an order book-based system, the team has focused its attention on improving overall market transparency and efficiency.

The platform aims to enable the seamless integration of institutional and retail users into the DeFi ecosystem, ensuring secure and simple crypto lending, borrowing, and derivatives. Secured Finance wants to set itself apart in the fast-paced world of DeFi through features such as streamlined lending, transparent pricing, and counterparty risk reduction.

What does Secured Finance offer?

The platform goes beyond mere trading, as Secured Finance concentrates on conducting all processes, from bond issuance to settlement, on the blockchain which helps them establish a comprehensive ecosystem. According to Secured Finance Founder and CEO, Masa Kikuchi, “By using blockchain technology, the system improves overall transparency and security and helps the platform achieve immediate and low-cost settlements while also providing investors with stable returns.”

Perhaps most importantly, however, Secured Finance is making history by being the first to open a cryptocurrency-denominated bond market. This is a first in both DeFi and TradFi, as presently nobody can trade BTC and ETH bonds elsewhere as public-chain-based bond settlement systems don’t exist yet.

The platform also introduces standardized OTC products with on-chain order book-based price discovery, ensuring fair interest rates with minimal gas costs. Establishing a reliable yield curve through user-driven order book systems for efficient collateral management and hedging is also feasible, as is bridging DeFi technologies with interbank standards to create a transparent and open financial infrastructure.

Furthermore, Secured Finance aims to provide a genuine and transparent yield curve for informed decision-making and risk management. The platform also enhances composability and scalability by enabling the interpolation of interest rates and leveraging derivatives through a unified yield curve. Finally, Secured Finance’s standard supports zero-coupon bond issuance and trading, facilitating fixed-rate loans and efficient hedging opportunities.

What about future goals?

Looking ahead, Secured Finance aspires to transcend being merely a platform, as the aim is to set a new benchmark in the financial realm. This benchmark embodies principles of transparency, efficiency, and accessibility, which means that Secured Finance’s objective is to foster greater inclusivity in financial services and dismantle barriers entrenched in traditional markets.

The order book system transforms decision-making, enabling informed investments. Secured Finance’s roadmap focuses on growth, expansion, and innovative product development post-mainnet launch, solidifying its leadership in financial innovation. The mainnet launch, scheduled on December 15th, 2023, marks a significant milestone for Secured Finance, and it will be supported by successful fundraising efforts, enhancing the platform’s trust and market position.

Ultimately, this innovative journey is synonymous with innovation, transformation, and leadership in finance. Secured Finance does not want to simply participate in the financial market narrative, as instead, the focus is on writing the next chapter of it while being at the forefront.

About Secured Finance

Secured Finance is revolutionizing financial markets, bridging traditional and crypto markets with transparent, efficient solutions. Its innovative order book system addresses Ethereum challenges, enhancing on-chain management. Essentially, Secured Finance envisions a mature cryptocurrency market, with a fully on-chain advantage providing a competitive edge. The order book system extends benefits to P2P transactions, offering stability and expanded market potential.

In the bond market, Secured Finance’s yield curve aids in anticipating trends, contributing to diversified investment strategies and improved risk management. The platform enables fixed interest rates by tackling ETH gas costs, enhancing liquidity, and offering flexibility in OTC derivatives. The Ethereum choice balances liquidity and innovation. 

With Secured Finance, transparency is key, with on-chain systems ensuring fair interest rate determination. A lengthy and thorough Q&A session highlighted several operational aspects of the platform, all of which emphasized transparency, innovation, and risk management. As previously mentioned, the platform is also the first project to enable crypto bond trading in the history of finance.

Put simply, this journey is about spearheading market evolution. Similar to how Bitcoin (BTC) redefined the concept of money, Secured Finance aims to reshape the perception of the bond market as well as the broader financial landscape via stability, efficiency, and transparency, ushering in a new era of financial possibilities.

For more information, visit Secured Finance’s official website along with the GitHub, X, YouTube, Discord, Guild, and Galxe channels. For email-related inquiries, feel free to use contact@secured-finance.com.

Contact

Secured Finance Contact
contact@secured-finance.com

Tel Aviv, Israel, December 21st, 2023, Chainwire

Addressable, Web3 growth marketing leader, announced today the successful closure of its second funding round this year, reaching a total of $13.5 million so far. The infusion of capital will enable Addressable to supercharge its Web3 Growth Suite and expand its service to new ad networks and blockchains, solidifying its status as the Web3 growth marketing category leader.

This significant milestone is based on Addressable’s strong momentum in its journey toward solving the Web3 Growth problem for businesses. The funding round was led by BITKRAFT Ventures, with participation from strategic investor Karatage, joining existing investors Viola Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Mensch Capital Partners, North Island Ventures, and several other strategic investors. 

Addressable’s capabilities have expanded significantly, enabling the attribution of crypto wallet owners across 400,000 websites, including Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Yahoo Finance. Addressable now spans three new ad networks, including Unity, Pubmatic, and Magnite, in addition to the initial coverage of the Twitter ad network. This expansion enables Addressable to provide more comprehensive and targeted paid ad campaigns across social networks, websites, and mobile apps.

Additionally, Addressable’s 1-Click SDK Installation, approved by Google and available on Google Tag Manager, simplifies the integration process for marketers, allowing for effortless tracking of website conversions, wallet connects, and blockchain conversions. Integrations with the Twitter Pixel, DSP pixels, Mixpanel, and Google Analytics further streamline conversion event tracking.

“Addressable’s commitment to revolutionizing Web3 Growth remains steadfast, and it becomes even more important in the current market,” stated Tomer Sharoni, co-founder and CEO at Addressable. 

“We’re thrilled to lead Addressable’s new investment round. As the gaming industry continues to evolve and expand its digital footprint, it’s evident that Web3 technologies will play a crucial role in shaping the future of user engagement. Addressable’s innovative Web3 growth suite stands out as a game-changer, offering marketers powerful tools to navigate this dynamic landscape and create profitable user growth at scale. We’re excited to support Addressable’s mission to power marketers and look forward to accelerating the impact their platform already has in the gaming industry and beyond. The Addressable team distinguishes itself through its battle-tested magic in data and product development, along with a world-class track record in execution,” says Malte Barth, founding general partner at BITKRAFT Ventures.

Addressable currently serves over 50 customers and has flawlessly executed over 750 campaigns, and is excited to unveil enhancements that include tailored playbooks for Gaming, DeFi, Blockchain Infrastructure, Services, and Exchanges.

“In the early stages of engaging Web3 gamers, targeted marketing has been key to our success. By leveraging insights from both traditional gamers and Web3 gamers, we’ve refined our approach to user acquisition. Addressable’s Web3 Growth Suite has delivered early promising results in enhancing our marketing strategies, particularly in the precise targeting of our gaming audience. The platform’s role in our marketing efforts, especially in the transition from traditional to Web3 gamer engagement, has been noteworthy. Addressable’s ability to identify and connect with potential gaming customers aligns well with our objectives, making it a valuable tool for our future gaming campaigns”, said Michael Migliero, CMO of Big Time Studios.

Founded in June 2022 by Tomer Sharoni, Tomer Shlomo, and Dr. Asaf Nadler, Addressable is a testament to their profound expertise in data analytics and AI. Together, they have over 20 publications spanning blockchain, machine learning, and big data. The Addressable team comprises 24 employees, distributed across their offices in Tel Aviv, New York, London and Madrid.

About Addressable

Founded in June 2022 by Tomer Sharoni, Tomer Shlomo, and Dr. Asaf Nadler, Addressable is the Web3 growth marketing industry leader. Addressable allows marketers across the space to target and market directly to Web3 audiences by associating blockchain and social data, analyzing on-chain and off-chain behavior, and using big data for precise performance tracking.

Contact

COO
Asaf Nadler
Addressable
anadler@addressable.io

Redmond, Washington, United States, December 18th, 2023, Chainwire

Metagood, a blockchain technology and digital assets company, announced the successful completion of a $5 million series seed funding round aimed at advancing its Osura marketplace, focused on art within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

“Osura is embarking on a groundbreaking collaboration with artists to immortalize their creations on Bitcoin, the blockchain synonymous with unparalleled security and longevity,” said Danny Yang, CEO of Metagood. “I’ve been building on Bitcoin for over a decade and couldn’t be more excited about the possibilities that lie ahead for us on the Ordinals protocol which is simple, elegant and powerful.”

Spearheaded by Sora Ventures, the series seed round saw participation from key investors including ACTAI Ventures, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, UTXO Management, London Real Ventures, and Peach.xyz, among others.

The Ordinals protocol, which is only a year old, has unlocked an important market for storing and securing high-value assets on the Bitcoin blockchain. Osura is building the infrastructure for launching and trading assets developed on the Ordinals protocol, starting with art on Bitcoin.

“Embracing art on Bitcoin marks a stride into digital ownership, paving the way for real-world assets to seamlessly transact on the blockchain,” remarked Bill Tai, legendary venture capitalist and Metagood Chairman. “As witnessed in other chains with the advent of non-fungible tokens (NFTs,) we anticipate Bitcoin’s journey toward parallel explosive growth and are already seeing Bitcoin surpass other chains in recent NFT trading volumes.” 

This funding milestone, part of Metagood’s larger financing endeavor of $10 million, marks a new era in propelling the development of more technology and product innovations within Osura. Metagood aims to redefine industry standards by merging technology, art, and community engagement in the Bitcoin digital asset marketplace.

“Metagood is setting the gold standard for technical innovation in the Ordinals market,” stated Jason Fang, Founder and Managing Partner at Sora Ventures. “Sora Ventures stands firm in the conviction that the most valuable digital artifacts will find their home on Bitcoin. Leading the round for Metagood is not just an opportunity but a testament to our unwavering belief in the Ordinals space.”

The infusion of capital will bolster the company’s efforts in forging partnerships with artists, advancing product enhancements on Osura, and expanding its engineering and marketing team to meet burgeoning client and user growth.

“With this new funding, Metagood is poised to elevate the Osura marketplace to new heights, further solidifying our standing as an industry leader in premium digital artifacts,” said Amanda Terry, Chief Operating Officer of Metagood. “As we navigate the exciting landscape leading up to the Bitcoin halving in April 2024, we believe the timing is impeccable for growing our team and advancing our commitment to innovation on Bitcoin.”

Metagood has a dynamic founding team with extensive experience building on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. CEO Danny Yang, a crypto industry veteran, previously founded Maicoin, Taiwan’s largest crypto exchange operating since 2013, and Blockseer, a blockchain analytics business used by customers including the FBI, US Secret Service, and the DHS sold in 2018. COO Amanda Terry, with a background in business development at Twitter and five successful startup acquisitions, brings invaluable expertise to the team as a digital media operator and startup investor. Chairman Bill Tai, a crypto pioneer since 2010, has an impressive track record as the first investor in Zoom and seed investor in Canva, Dapper Labs, and 23 publicly traded companies. 

Metagood launched the innovative 10,000 digital art collection OnChainMonkey (OCM) in a single Ethereum transaction in September 2021. In 2023, OnChainMonkey made history on Bitcoin with their pioneering inscriptions. Metagood helped advance the Ordinals protocol and continued to trailblaze with the Ordinal collections of OCM Dimensions and OCM Genesis on Bitcoin. Both collections demonstrated new innovative art on Bitcoin and they inscribed code libraries on Bitcoin (p5.js, Three.js) that use recursive inscriptions, a new type of modular programming enabled on Bitcoin, which saves on Bitcoin fees for other creators to also use.

Osura, Metagood’s NFT Marketplace, stands out as a premium Ordinals platform for art on Bitcoin. With a commitment to curating the finest digital artifacts, Osura debuted with two exceptional Bitcoin Ordinals NFT collections: OnChainMonkey (OCM) Dimensions 300 and the Asprey Bugatti Egg Collection. Metagood worked closely with iconic luxury brands Asprey Studio and Bugatti to create their first generative art collection on Bitcoin. In the new year, Metagood has an exciting lineup for artists launching on Osura in 2024 including Alexis André who created “Friendship Bracelets,” one of the most popular collections on Artblocks for their first collections on Bitcoin.

Metagood’s $10 million in financing to date includes a who’s who in crypto, art, finance including Marcos Bernat (Casa Batlló), Sebastien Borget (The Sandbox), Holly Branson (Virgin Unite), Dingaling (NFT Collector), Gabby Dizon (YGG), Roham Gharegozlou (Dapper Labs), Woody Harrelson, Casper Johansen (Spartan Group), Bobby Lee (BTCC), Charlie Lee (Litecoin), Apolo Ohno (Tribe Capital), Yat Siu (Animoca Brands), Matthew Tan (Etherscan), Stacy Warden (Algorand), Owen Wilson, Mark Yusko (Morgan Creek Capital), and many others. A partial list of investors can be found on the Metagood website at https://www.metagood.com/about-us.

About Metagood:

Metagood is a pioneering blockchain technology and digital assets company that sets a new standard for innovation in the crypto industry. With a focus on seamlessly blending technology, art, and community, Metagood is driving advancements in blockchain technology, particularly on Bitcoin, through initiatives such as their OnChainMonkey NFTs and the curated Osura marketplace for art on Bitcoin.

Through its innovative NFT collection OnChainMonkey, Metagood has created value and contributed to important causes, such as funding the successful evacuation of Sharbat Gula (known as “Afghan Girl” from the iconic 1984 National Geographic cover) and her family from Afghanistan, donating to humanitarian aid in Ukraine, Coral Reef conservation, and more. Metagood was recognized in Fast Company’s 2022 Best World Changing Ideas Awards for Impact Investing.

Contact

Metagood
hello@metagood.com