25 Web3 Social Projects To Watch In 2021
Roundup #7: Emerging Platforms and Tools for Creative, Culture, and Social Businesses
Yeehaw my friends,
The future of social on the Internet is among us.
Today I’m outlining the projects and people building the future of social, creator, and culture economies on the web.
I will be bringing you the most important information you need to know about all of the projects listed here today. Expect more in depth analysis and coverage of both the platforms and people creating them.
The next era of social on the web will look very different, and will not be obvious at first due to the nature of how web3 works.
I can assure you that one of the web3 social projects I cover will end up reshaping our lives and careers.
My goal is to uncover this for you far before the rest of the world knows.
For everyone who is on this list…
I will be launching a PR and marketing program to help spread the word about your projects and the greater web3 social space. I will be using my own time and resources to help you grow. DM or shout at me on Twitter if you want to be the first to know the details about how it will work. You can find me @jeffkauffmanjr.
Here are the projects you should be watching in 2021.
Forefront
About: Aggregator of web3 social projects. Forefront’s 2020 year in review is a must read.
Website: forefront.news
Twitter: @forefront__
Key Leaders: @carlosecgomes
Seed Club
About: Social token incubator.
Website: seedclub.xyz
Twitter: @seedclubhq
Key Leaders: @thattallguy, @joonian
Roll
About: Social token issuer. Building the movement from user-generated content to user-generated capital.
Website: tryroll.com
Twitter: @tryrollhq
Key Leaders: @Bradley_Miles_
Rally
About: Social token issuer. For creators building next-gen engagement economies.
Website: rally.io
Twitter: @rally_io
Key Leaders: @KevinChou, @joonian, @lilsusie
Fyooz
About: Social token issuer. Become a token. Give your fans and followers a new way to connect that has never existed before. Get tokenized now.
Website: fyooz.io
Twitter: @fyoozapp
This company has made a big splash but they seem to be more flash than substance. My prediction is that this company will be known for how not to execute social token strategies and potentially give the industry a bad image.
MeTokens
About: Token Issuer. Tokenize yourself and capture all your value in a single market you fully own and control.
Website: stakeonme.com
Twitter: @meTokens
Key Leaders: @CBobRobison
Audius
About: A platform that gives musicians unparalleled ownership of the music they create.
Website: audius.co
Twitter: @AudiusProject
Key Leaders: @roneilr, @Cooopahtroopa, @JesseGrushack
Rarible
About: The first community-owned NFT marketplace. Create, sell or collect digital items secured with blockchain.
Website: rarible.com
Twitter: @rariblecom
Key Leaders: @insider0x
Catalog
About: Reclaiming music ownership for artists.
Website: catalog.works
Twitter: @catalogworks
Key Leaders: @jzstern, @mikemckain_
Unite
About: A platform to distribute tokens to reward social media engagement.
Website: unite.community
Twitter: @unite_cmty
Key Leaders: @alxcnwy
Coinvise
About: Financial infrastructure for social tokens. Mint, distribute and integrate social tokens.
Website: coinvise.co
Twitter: @CoinviseCo
Key Leaders: @0xjenil
Collab.Land
About: Collab.Land leverages the power of identity through crypto currency to create a social space unique to a specific network of humans. If they sell, the bot boots them.
Website: collab.land
Twitter: @Collab_Land_
Key Leaders: @OKDunc
Snapshot
About: Governance tooling. Empowering communities with tools to vote and run DeFi and social token projects.
Website: snapshot.page
Twitter: @SnapshotLabs
Key Leaders: @bonustrack87
Gnosis
About: Gnosis builds new market mechanisms for decentralized finance. Our three interoperable product lines allow you to securely create, trade, and hold digital assets on Ethereum.
Website: gnosis.io
Twitter: @gnosisPM
Key Leaders: @koeppelmann, @StefanDGeorge, @auryn_macmillan
SourceCred
About: A tool for communities to measure and reward value creation.
Website: sourcecred.io
Twitter: @sourcecred
Key Leaders: @decentralion, @META_DREAMER, @CortanaV
MintGate
About: A better model for monetizing online content anywhere on the Internet using a token subscription model. A social home for your tokenized community.
Website: mintgate.app
Twitter: @mintgate_app
Key Leaders: @jadbox, @david_tomu, @JKim_Tran
DAOfi
About: DAOfi provides the economic contracts to power new types of community alignment. Key reading material from the founder.
Website: daofi.org
Twitter: @DAOfiDEX
Key Leaders: @alee
Llama
About: Llama gives community operators a dashboard to keep track of inflows and outflows to better record how social tokens are spent on any given month.
Website: coming soon
Twitter: @llamacommunity_
Key Leaders: @HelloShreyas
Yup
About: Money and clout for your likes and ratings. A curation tool for the web, allowing you to earn social capital for your influence.
Website: yup.io
Twitter: @yup_io
Key Leaders: @_kabessa
Outpost
About: A open source newsletter protocol allowing authors to gate content behind a token-permissioned threshold.
Website: outpost-protocol.com
Twitter: @OutpostProtocol
Key Leaders: @sam__hatem
COMING SOON
The following will be launching in 2021. You can sign up for each to get early access.
Mirror
About: Publishing platform for writers.
Website: mirror.xyz
Twitter: @viamirror
Key Leaders: @strangechances, @Iiterature
Remember when Blogger launched? It was the first time blogging was made easy and brought web2 social to life, before Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter? This feels like it could be that for web3, but bigger.
Showtime
About: “Draw the Curtains”. Read the manifesto.
Website: tryshowtime.com
Twitter: @TryShowtime
Key Leaders: @AlexMasmej
Personally I’m super pumped about seeing this come to life.
Myco
About: A platform for groups to create and distribute value, together.
Website: myco.space
Twitter: @mycodotspace
Key Leaders: @sam__hatem
Zora
About: Internet Renaissance. A protocol to create, share and exchange universal and valuable media
Website: zora.co
Twitter: @ourZORA
Key Leaders: @js_horne, @tbtstl, @brxckinridge
Calaxy
About: Offers high profile individuals a means of tokenizing themselves and their upside in a web3 income sharing agreement (ISA).
Website: calaxy.com
Twitter: @CalaxyApp
Key Leaders: @SDinwiddie_25
There you have it, 25 web3 projects operating at the center of community and creativity.
Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to build a social listening dashboard that tracks all of these platforms and their founders like a hawk! If you’d like early access to the dashboard please send me a DM on Twitter.
If there’s a project that didn’t make it on this list but you think it should be included and tracked on my social listening dashboard, please let me know what it is.
We haven’t even scratched the surface of web3 community and creativity. This is an exciting time to see an entirely new industry and ecosystem come to life before our eyes.
-Jeff
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Twitter: @jeffkauffmanjr