Optimism Dapps and Developer Tools

Forta is a real-time decentralized cybersecurity network running on Ethereum, Polygon, and multiple other blockchains. Founded in 2021, Forta was incubated by OpenZeppellin, and today is trusted by some of the largest web3 dapps including dYdX, Compound, Lido, and MakerDAO. With thousands of backers, hundreds of protocols, and standalone users, Forta's community-run security network has protected 10s of billions of valuable assets from exploits. Users can subscribe to dapp security monitoring for web3 projects they have an interest in, and web3 developers can use the Forta SDK to build threat detection bots, and set up nodes to extend the Forta network across chains.

Web3 Security Tools

Pantera was founded by former Tiger Management CFO Dan Morehead in 2013 when bitcoin was trading at $65. Pantera is notably the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States in focused exclusively on blockchain technology. Pantera has multiple funds including a venture capital fund and an early stage token fund. Pantera's notable venture investments include the decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Arbitrum, and Coinbase, the leading cryptocurrency exchange in the United States. Some of Pantera's early stage token investments include 0x, Cosmos, Polkadot, PsyOptions, Filecoin, and Livepeer.

Venture Capital Firms

Rainbow is a fun, easy, and secure Ethereum wallet that was founded in 2019 by Christian Baroni, Jin Chung, and Mike Demarais. Rainbow can be used to manage and display Ethereum-based assets, and connect to most of the popular NFT and DeFi applications in the Ethereum ecosystem. Rainbow is a mobile Ethereum wallet with a colorful and simple user interface that makes it the perfect wallet for beginners. With native support for ENS domain names and bridging to Layer 2s like Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism, Rainbow wallet is also a great choice for power users.

Web3 Wallets

Founded in 2020, Slingshot is a DeFi application that can be used to search for, send, receive and swap over 50k cryptocurrencies at the best prices, with 0% swap fees. Slingshot is available both on desktop (Slingshot Web App) and on mobile (Slingshot Wallet), with multi-chain and bridging support for the following networks: Arbitrum, Arbitrum Nova, Binance BNB Chain, Canto (bridging support coming soon), Optimism, and Polygon. Slingshot is continuously releasing enhanced product features and reward-driven participation opportunities for their growing community.

DeFi Dapps

Kraken is a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange and bank, founded in 2011. Users can invest in cryptocurrency and leverage Kraken's tools and features to grow their portfolio. Developers can use the REST API to connect to publicly endpoints. Kraken was one of the first bitcoin exchanges to be listed on Bloomberg Terminal and is reportedly valued at $10.8 billion USD, as of mid-summer 2022.

Trading Tools

As one of the first and largest Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges, Uniswap pioneered the concept of an automated market maker, which other decentralized exchanges are based on. Instead of using order books, Uniswap aggregates liquidity through pre-funded and user-funded liquidity pools (LPs).  First launched in 2018 by CEO Hayden Adams, Uniswap's ecosystem has now further expanded to include applications such as stablecoins, governance systems, and analytics platforms.

DeFi Dapps

Collab Land is a standardized bot for community management and engagement. The bot can be added to either Telegram or Discord communities. The most unique feature of the Collab Land is that it tracks and only gives membership access to those who hold your token, automatically kicking out anyone who sells them. 

NFT Tools

LayerZero is a protocol that facilitates interaction between separate blockchains and ecosystems. It does so with its underlying oracle and relayer that allows for cross-chain messaging and verification. LayerZero supports a wide array of blockchains including Aptos, Avalanche, Polygon, and Harmony.

DeFi Tools

Safe is a smart contract wallet that allows users to define a list of owner accounts and a quorum of owners required to confirm a transaction. However, it's underlying open source protocol and SDKs serve as a foundation for enabling Account Abstraction features such as Sponsored Transactions, Account Recovery, Transaction Batching, Fraud Monitoring and Spending Policies.

Web3 Wallets

Goldsky lets you build real-time data streams for your applications without the hassle of managing complex blockchain and data streaming infrastructure. Goldsky can index a blockchain or subgraph, transform the data to fit your needs, and stream the results into a data warehouse, webhooks or an API, all in real-time.

Infrastructure Tools

Alchemy provides the SDK and APIs to build multichain Web3 DApps, and the skills to use them through a community/university-like initiative. Developers can use the free tools to create smart contracts for multiple use cases and multiple blockchain targets. Alchemy has inspired +$100 Billion worth of transaction value on-chain, with north of 10M end users, and royalties upwards of $1,5B.

Infrastructure Tools

Chainlink is a DeFi oracle that gives Ethereum-based smart contracts access to real-world data and off-chain computation. Their products include data feeds, Verifiable Random Numbers (VRF), calling external APIs, and automated contracts. The protocol is meant to be able to verify whether the parameters of a smart contract with real-world data are independent of stakeholders. 

DeFi Tools

Alchemy University (previously Chainshot) offers a suite of web3 education courses including a FREE, 3-week Javascript for blockchain beginners course and a FREE 7-week Ethereum Developer Bootcamp. The web3 JavaScript crash course covers the basics of programming through advanced topics to prepare developers for learning Solidity and building Ethereum dapps. The Ethereum Developer Bootcamp includes interactive coding challenges, video lessons, projects and expert instructors that teach you how to build smart contracts, master solidity, and become a web3 developer. Mint your NFT today to enroll in Alchemy University!

Web3 Developer Tools

Our friend lost his Ape, so we built a tool that shows a preview of what will enter and exit your wallet, before you sign. Web3 is hard to use. Self-custody and interacting directly with the blockchain today is overly complicated for the consumer, leading to the average user losing their funds and quitting the ecosystem. UX today is fraught with “gotchas” and pitfalls. Fire is a Chrome extension that simulates transactions, showing you exactly what will go in and out of your wallet before you sign the contract. All under your control with your current wallet.

Web3 Wallet Tools

Aave protocol allows users to borrow and lend from over 30 Ethereum-based assets.  Aave Protocol users can switch between stable and variable rates, depending on their preference and the state of the market, and take out flash loans.  Aave also provides pools for real-world assets, like real estate, cargo and freight invoices, and payment advances with the use of its partner company, Centrifuge. Their governance token AAVE lets users vote on Aave Improvement Proposals (AIPs).

DeFi Dapps

With Alchemy's NFT, API developers don't need to build their ideas from scratch. A single request/line replaces tens of lines of code. Developers can build custom NFT tracking apps, marketplaces, or even minting platforms with secure token transactions. The Alchemy NFT API is benchmarked to perform up to17-times faster than market competitors and spots more than double the usage.

NFT Tools

With OKX Wallet, you can explore Web3 and take control of your crypto, NFTs, and digital assets all in one secure wallet.  The key features of OKX Wallet include: (1.) Simple: The simplest way to explore Web3. Store ,trade, earn, and manage crypto, NFTs, and digital assets across 50+ blockchains.; (2.) Powerful: Built-in access to multi-chain DEX, NFT Marketplace, Earn, and thousands of dAapps. Manage your digital assets across OKX Exchange and Web3 Wallet seamlessly under one unified experience.; (3.) Secure: Complete control of your crypto, keys, and data – exclusive access to your funds; choose what to share and what to keep private.

Web3 Wallets

Coinbase wallet is an EVM compatible software wallet, launched in 2018 by the creators of the Coinbase platform. Users can purchase ERC-20 tokens, NFTs and take part in airdrops. Developers can use Coinbase wallet to connect directly to testnet faucets in a wallet extension and integrate into dapps and protocols for lending and payment. 

Web3 Wallets

Lit can be used to read and write data between blockchains and off-chain platforms, facilitating encryption, access control, and automation for the open web via programmatic signing. On a fundamental level, Lit is an attempt to decentralize public key cryptography. This includes building apps with private data using identity-based encryption, facilitating more seamless onboarding experiences for non-crypto natives with MPC wallets, and more. To learn more, visit [our developer documentation](https://developer.litprotocol.com/).

Identity Tools

With the goal of bringing blockchain to a Billion people, the parent company Alchemy introduced an investment firm called Alchemy ventures. Alchemy ventures is a VC funding empowering developers and communities that are building gaming, metaverse, Defi, or web3 applications using Blockchain Technology.

Venture Capital Firms

Create unlimited DeFi portfolios by bundling wallets across over 40 chains and over 500 protocols! Connect your wallet and get an in-depth view of your DeFi holdings powered by data from Nansen. Gain insights from Nansen's 240 million labeled wallets and comprehensive data analytics. 

Trading Tools

The Alchemy SDK is considered the best web3 development platform on the market.  Simple, efficient, and comprehensive, the Alchemy SDK is easiest way to create and connect your dapp to the blockchain.  Developers can use the Alchemy SDK to access a variety of web3 tools for APIs, NFTs, wallets, data analytics, and much more.  Offering multi-chain support and its best-in-class infrastructure, Alchemy’s SDK is an all-around powerhouse for dapp development. 

Web3 Developer Tools

Coinbase Global, Inc., branded Coinbase, is an American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform. Users can buy, sell, earn, borrow cryptocurrency, use the Coinbase Wallet to store cryptocurrency as well as collect NFTs and trade derivatives. Developers can access the Coinbase cloud for developer tools and API.

Trading Tools

Apex Wallet is an Ethereum wallet that supports wallet-to-wallet in-app messaging. Users can use it for in-wallet messaging to securely send messages to friends, communicate with specific NFT holders, or communicate with members of a shared DAO. Apex offers in-app web3 messaging as well as security features to blur the contents of your wallet, a simple user interface, and colorful sections for viewing NFTs.

Web3 Wallets

The initial protocol of the 1inch Network is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that sources liquidity from various exchanges and is capable of splitting a single trade transaction across multiple DEXes. Smart contract technology empowers this aggregator enabling users to optimize and customize their trades. The 1inch Network was launched at the ETHGlobal New York hackathon in May 2019 with the release of its Aggregation Protocol v1. Since then, the 1inch Network has developed additional DeFi tools such as the Liquidity Protocol, the Limit Order Protocol, P2P transactions, the Fusion mode, and the 1inch Wallet app.

DeFi Dapps

Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. It was founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.  They invest in seed to late-stage technology companies across bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies aspiring to American dynamism. a16z manages $35 billion in assets across multiple funds.

Venture Capital Firms

Founders Fund was launched in 2005 with the mission to invest in smart people solving difficult problems. Founders Fund is led by technology innovators including Peter Thiel, Brian Singerman, and Joey Krug. Founders Fund has invested in multiple digital assets and web3 products including Bitcoin, Paxos, Bullish, and most recently, Block Green, a lending protocol for Bitcoin miners lacking access to capital. Founders Fund most notably earned $1.8B from Bitcoin investments that were sold during the 2021 bull market.

Venture Capital Firms

The Cookbook is a community-sourced collection of smart contracts for developers to download code and use to their liking. Users can browse a growing number of smart contracts by searching use cases or blockchains. Developers can offer new smart contracts, contribute to quality-checking existing contracts and add support for more chains through a discord community. Cookbook also supports Metis, Cronos, Ethereum Classic, Aurora, Fantom, Fuse, Milkomeda, Boba, Moonbeam, and Moonriver.

Solidity Tools

Create Web3 DApp is an npx package that allows developers to create anything from a simple, barebones dApp to a feature-rich decentralized platform, in ~2 minutes. The create-web3-dapp package is a NextJs-based framework, compatible with the most used blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Solana, that helps web3 developers build a decentralized production-ready application at lightning speed, using pre-made React components, webhooks, and APIs. For more information, read the create-web3-docs on docs.alchemy.com.

DeFi Tools

Delphi Digital is an independent research boutique providing institutional-grade analysis on the digital asset market. Users can use Delphi’s research to make informed investment decisions about their favorite web3 projects.  Industry-leading research insights provide a deeper understanding of critical concepts within the crypto ecosystem.  Delphi Digital is actually an umbrella company for several entities including a research firm, venture firm, and asset creation firm. 

DeFi Tools

Dfns is the most secure wallet-as-a-service infra founded in 2020 in Paris. Dfns is Techstars-backed, SOC 2-certified, and has raised over $20M since its creation. Dfns is an API-first KMS designed to provide app developers with secure, plug-and-play access to blockchains based on an decentralized, MPC-driven key management network with built-in recovery mechanisms, operated by error-and-attack-resilient tier 3+/4 data centers. Dfns is designed with focus on developer experience to maximize programmability, minimize high-touch implementations, and provide granular sets of permissions, controls and policies via secure API credentials (encrypted WebAuthn 2FA). We support 40+ blockchains and 1,000+ tokens.

Web3 Wallet Tools

The team behind veDAO, a Fantom-native protocol spearheaded by Andre Conje, created Velodrome Finance to serve as one of the pillar of DeFi protocols within the Solidly ecosystem. Users with Ethereum-native wallets can interact swiftly with the Velodrome Finance interface. The DeFi protocol has many products and offerings including swapping, vesting, bribing, and liquidity pool.

DeFi Dapps

Coinbase ventures support exceptional entrepreneurs, working to advance the crypto/Web3 ecosystem and Coinbase's mission of increasing global economic freedom. They work with founding teams from the beginning and invest broadly across all sectors of the crypto economy. They've invested in hundreds of teams that are working on everything from layer 1 protocols to Web3 infrastructure, centralized on-ramps, decentralized finance, NFTs, metaverse technologies, developer tooling, and more.

Venture Capital Firms

Created by Binance and its U.S. partner BAM Trading Services, Binance.US is a cryptocurrency exchange for residents of the United States. Users on the platform can buy, sell, trade, convert and stake over 120 popular cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Cardano (ADA).

Trading Tools

The ethos of Connext is to herald a time when the end users would not even know the actual chain they are using, as it aims to strike a high-level composability in the blockchain industry. Connext has a decentralized network of routers that earn as they facilitate the activities of the bridge and secure it at the same time.

DeFi Tools

Taho provides Open Source tooling for the ecosystem, is community owned vs. centralized corporate ownership, applies radical transparency, and is committed to improving wallet UX and Web3 onboarding.

Web3 Wallets

Candide is one of the arrays of new wallets sitting on the Optimism blockchain. It abstracted a lot of technicalities and made the use of wallets friendlier. Candide built a simpler and more user-driven wallet by merging the good sides of both centralized and decentralized exchanges. With Candide, an end has come to forgetting seed phrases and losing access to wallets. It has an in-built means where users can confirm their ownership of wallets and access them again. 

Web3 Wallets

Certain blockchain operations can be time consuming, if not impossible, for non-devs: (1.) swap or mint without frontend; automatically collect and reinvest DeFi yield; (2.) schedule buy or sell on a DEX; (3.) on-chain data analysis; etc. web3cli is a command-line tool designed for these tasks. It supports EVM chains out of the box and, soon, tokens and contracts. web3cli is for crypto enthusiasts such as DeFi and NFTs degens, Web3 gamers, chain analysts, etc who need to interact directly with the blockchain in a scriptable way. The only requirement is a terminal. The foundations of web3cli and some useful commands are ready. Token send & swap commands are next to come, followed in Q1 2023 by the first commands to analyze on-chain data.

Web3 Developer Tools

Portals is a yield and protocol aggregator API providing transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data for DeFi assets. Portals.fi manages the intricacies associated with composability and ensures that exchanging transferrable assets in web3 is as simple as signing an order, regardless of the complexity (or chain) of the underlying assets. Traders do not need to initiate and babysit multistep transactions, worry about gas, or defend against MEV.

Web3 Developer Tools

Trail of Bits is a blockchain auditing company and open source web3 security tool developer offering a variety of services and products. Trail of Bits helps blockchain companies harden smart contracts, understand contract storage and manage, and identify many potential vulnerabilities. Trail of Bits also builds industry-leading tools for web3 developers including multiple open source web3 security tools like Slither, Manticore, and Echidna.

Web3 Security Tools

Zerion is a web3 smart, social wallet, and investing tool that allows anyone with a mobile phone to manage their DeFi and NFT portfolios, with support for every chain and thousands of protocols. Users are offered a single point of entry for managing their digital assets, including NFTs, thanks to a relentless focus on user-centered design and a technology stack that aggregates across every major wallet, network, and decentralized exchange. Because Zerion is non-custodial, users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach reduces the risk of centralization and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since its inception.

Web3 Wallets

Sigma Prime has an extensive history in penetration testing of corporate networks, cloud infra, web applications, and are a leading provider of Ethereum smart contract security assessments. Sigma Prime founded and maintains Lighthouse, an open-source implementation of the Ethereum 2.0 specification written in Rust, and are heavily involved in Ethereum 2.0 engineering and research. Sigma Prime contributes to various open source projects and research efforts in the blockchain ecosystem. Our work has been published in several research papers and blog articles. Some of Sigma Prime's clients include Chainlink, Dapper, and AlphaWallet.

Web3 Security Tools

Messari is the leading provider of crypto market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto/Web3 with confidence. Users can utilize Messari products to get the most accurate and up-to-date information about the Web3 industry.  Messari Pro offers advanced research and analytics tools for professional investors and Web3 enthusiasts.  Messari has the financial backing of some of the most prominent individuals and venture firms in the industry. 

DeFi Tools

Zapper is democratizing the blockchain by allowing users to track their wallets, follow other wallets, and discover all the great applications that Web3 offers through its innovative explorer dashboard.  Discover the most popular NFTs, Defi dapps, and DAOs that Web3 has to offer all in one place. Zapper also allows users to swap tokens or move them to another blockchain network through the Zapper Bridge. 

Trading Tools

Sushiswap is an automated market maker that enables swapping between different cryptocurrencies and tokens through automated liquidity pools across EVM-compatible blockchain networks and Layer-2 solutions. Sushi is one of the largest DeFi solutions and recently has expanded its DeFi offerings, even more, using its native token SUSHI.

DeFi Dapps

Alchemy Notify is a handy toolkit of APIs that register interested parties to notifications and updates when events take place on-chain. Users can set up notifications to get updates when tokens enter a known wallet address. Developers can build notifications into dApps to keep teams up to date with events happening on a blockchain.

Infrastructure Tools

Cyfrin is group of developers dedicated to enhancing the web3 developer experience that was co-founded by Patrick Collins. Cyfrin offers code reviews that go through smart contracts, tests, and documentation to give developers everything they need to be ready for a full audit. Code reviews include a report of best practices and how to improve code and a checklist on what needs to be done before deploying to mainnet or going for a full audit. Full audits comb through every line of code to make sure that code performs as intended.

Web3 Security Tools

Boardroom is a management dashboard built for active DAO participants and stakeholders. The success and sustainability of DAOs rely on the participation and decision-making of its community, but information is currently siloed across myriad solutions. Boardroom provides voters with access to a comprehensive and user-friendly governance dashboard to increase transparency and participation in the decision-making of your project. Boardroom's Governance API also makes this data accessible to any developer, and the 'Teams' functionality helps organizations have a greater impact with governance management software built to streamline tracking, voting, communications, and reporting workflows.

DAO Tools

UniPass’ mission is to help Web3 apps effortlessly onboard Web2 users. It is a non-custodial smart contract wallet that frees users from seed phrase and gas. Unipass is developing wallet SDKs for all platforms and all kinds of use cases, such as Web3 games and loyalty program like Starbucks Odyssey, to help with the mass adoption of Web3.

Web3 Wallets

MixBytes' mission is to making DeFi more efficient and secure. MixBytes' auditing services include investigations into all types of logical errors, inconsistencies, and vulnerabilities, as well as recommendations to address each of them. A group of security engineers are involved in working on the audit, and they check the provided source code independently to: audit the project architecture, review code against a vulnerabilities checklist, check code for security model compliance, prepare a report, fixe bugs, re-audit contracts, and a prepare a final code verification and public audit report. Customers include Aave, Yearn Finance, Curve, 1inch, PowerPool, and more!

Web3 Security Tools

Fireblocks combines MPC-CMP with hardware isolation to create a multi-layer security technology. This eliminates a single point of failure and insulates digital assets from cyber-attacks, internal collusion, and human error. Customers and investors want instant access to funds. Fireblocks' MPC-CMP algorithm helps you meet client SLAs regardless of your wallet configuration. Send and receive transactions at scale without massive operating costs. 

Web3 Wallet Tools

WatchPug is a smart contract security team with the goal of elevating the security, privacy, and usability of the current DeFi ecosystem. WatchPug offers  in-depth smart contract security audits as well as 1-day security reviews.

Web3 Security Tools

Spearbit is a decentralized network of security experts that offer web3 security consulting services. Spearbit's network is sourced from top talent from everywhere in the web3 ecosystem, and is heavily invested in mentoring new security researchers, who get the opportunity to work alongside and learn from some of the most prominent names in the industry. Spearbit offers one-off security reviews by hand-selected team of experts and recurring security reviews in the form of a retainer agreements.

Web3 Security Tools

Founded in 2014, Ledger is the global platform for digital  assets and web3. Over 20% of the world’s crypto assets are  secured through Ledger Nanos. Headquartered in Paris and  Vierzon, with offices in London, New-York, Singapore and  Portland, Ledger has a team of more than 700 professionals  developing a variety of products and services to enable  individuals and companies to securely buy, store, swap and  manage crypto assets - including the Ledger hardware wallets  line with more than 5 million units already sold in more than    180 countries. Ledger combines a hardware wallet: Nano S Plus or Nano X and the  Ledger Live app to offer consumers the easiest way to start their  crypto journey while maintaining full control over their  digital assets. With its ease of use, Ledger allows a user to  begin investing in digital assets and ultimately, achieve  financial freedom in a safe and stress-free environment, with  additional education provided by its Academy. In addition to  consumer products, Ledger has also developed Ledger Enterprise,  a digital asset custody and security solution for institutional  investors and financial players.

Web3 Wallets

With a team of 60+ certified engineers, Hacken provides solutions encompassing all aspects of blockchain security, such as Smart Contract Audit, Blockchain Protocol Audit, dApp Audit, Penetration Testing, and CCSS Audit. Since 2017, Hacken has been raising the bar for blockchain security by contributing to security standards and championing transparency in 1,200+ Web3 projects.

Web3 Security Tools

BitGo is an institutional digital asset custody, trading, and financial management service provider. Traders can secure private wallets and custody credentials with BitGo. Developers can bring the functionality of BitGo into their use case applications by calling APIs and connecting webhooks from the open-source projects

Web3 Wallet Tools

Launched in 2019, MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. It enables users to purchase and sell cryptocurrencies using traditional payment platforms (i.e. Visa, Mastercard, etc.). In its line of products, MoonPay also provides a business payment on-ramp and an NFT payment processor. 

Web3 Wallet Tools

Stackup makes it easy for developers to use account abstraction and smart contract wallets to simplify blockchain for their users. Using Stackup's SDKs and EIP-4337 infrastructure, developers can create custom transaction experiences. Stackup enables gasless transactions, allows you to instantly create wallets for your users using social logins on any EVM blockchain, and lets you make any sequence of transactions one click.

Web3 Wallets

Blockchain applications face a UX problem - they are difficult to use, especially for users with a non-crypto background. The Sequence SDK has plug-in features to make this experience much more seamless for users, including gasless transactions, batched transactions, and embeddable wallet solutions that are personalized to look like your application. It is very easy to implement into your existing dapp. 

Web3 Wallets

Add beautiful authentication flows in minutes and serve every user, whether they have a wallet or not, across mobile and desktop. Stop wrangling brittle wallet connectors and worrying about whether your users are connected, to what chain, and with what wallet. With just a few lines of code, securely onboard all users, whether they have a wallet or not, and get back to focusing on your core product.

Identity Tools

Router Protocol is a cross-chain interoperability layer connecting different blockchains. Currently, Router Protocol's infrastructure is live on nine different EVM chains: Ethereum, BSC, Fantom, Polygon, Optimism, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Aurora, and Kava. Router Protocol's current offerings are: (1.) Flagship DApp: Voyager provides any asset to any asset cross-chain swap; and (2.) CrossTalk: Creates a communication layer for cross-chain smart contracts and enables use cases such as cross-chain lending, staking, etc. For more information, visit our docs!

DeFi Tools

Made for budding investors, researchers and contributors, Pentacle delivers real-time data on yield opportunities, audits, risk management, integrations, governance, treasuries, team members, jobs, grants and bounties. Using Pentacle, you can zoom in on a project, zoom out to compare – or take a voyage of discovery by following relations mapped through projects, people, skill levels and topics. You can also make a list of favorites, add private notes and trace your browsing history. Thus, Pentacle provides verified information, safe links and helpful learning tools in your crypto quest.

Infrastructure Tools

Save money and win prizes! PoolTogether is a savings account with superpowers. Deposit USDC for a chance to win. Participate in daily prize draws, and withdraw your deposit any time - even if you don't win. No Loss!

DeFi Dapps

Cask Protocol is a decentralized non-custodial protocol for powering money flow automation in web3. Money flows include NFT subscriptions, auto investing (DCA), recurring peer-to-peer payments, and automatic decentralized protocol interactions. Cask Protocol believes that automation is key to web3 adoption and is committed to building additional automations to bring value to web3. 

Web3 Wallet Tools

The first thing any beginner Web3 developer needs is a high-quality connection to the blockchain. Ankr offers high-performance RPC API connections to 30+ blockchains with advanced tools and services that builders can use to take their projects to the next level. With high-performance node infrastructure distributed across the globe, Ankr powers decentralized applications for the fastest, most reliable experience possible.

Infrastructure Tools

Karma offers a plethora of tools for DAO communities and contributors. For contributors, Karma allows users to garner a Karma score based on the quantity and quality of their DAO contributions. For DAOs, Karma offers a ranking system, whereby the top contributors in the DAO earn the highest Karma score.  The benefit of Karma's reputation system is that it gets visibility into a DAO's contributor activity, allows DAOs to discover upcoming contributors, and compensate its most active contributors. For contributors, Karma serves as a great way to broadcast your quantifiable impact on a DAO community. 

DAO Tools

Gelato is Web3’s decentralized backend empowering builders to create augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless & off-chain aware.Leading Web3 projects rely on Gelato to power the execution of millions of transactions across DeFi, NFT and Gaming. Gelato is operated by a decentralized network of Node Operators that enable web3 projects to overcome the limitations that smart contracts are facing today. These include (1.) Automating smart contracts by scheduling repeatedly executing tasks with Gelato's Automate Service; (2.) Executing gasless transactions with Gelato's Relay service; and (3.) Accessing off-chain data that trigger transactions.

DeFi Tools

LunarCrush provides social intelligence to the cryptocurrency industry. There is a vast amount of information to keep up with, ranging from bitcoin to thousands of other altcoins. As an investor, staying on top of this can be difficult. LunarCrush filters out the noise in the cryptocurrency world by listening to everything that happens and distilling it into easily digestible bite-sized chunks.

DeFi Tools

Coinalyze is a free, independently owned website committed to assisting the cryptocurrency trading community by providing unique research and analytical tools that provide current data to assist you in making informed trading decisions. Users can find helpful features including Futures Markets Data: Open Interest, Funding Rate, and Liquidations. The platform has hundreds of the top cryptocurrencies available for viewing. 

DeFi Tools

Launched by Tony Kogias in early 2022, the Optimism Goerli Faucet is a free tool that provides developers with ETH and DAI on the Optimism Goerli Testnet. This allows developers to accurately test with dApps and tools in an environment where on-chain transactions will not cost any tangible value. In order to use the faucet, users must connect a one month old Github account. This measure prevents bots from farming testnet assets. Every withdrawal gives the user 0.2 ETH and 100 DAI on the Optimism Goerli Testnet. 

Infrastructure Tools

Coin Particle is a data visualization platform that displays cryptocurrencies based on volatility.  Users can utilize their dashboard to easily identify which currency’s have had the largest movements in a given time period.  The cryptocurrencies are displayed as bubbles, with the largest bubbles representing the highest volatility and the smallest representing the least.  The platform has an IOS and Android app and can be changed to view different coin categories over different periods. 

DeFi Tools

CertiK is a blockchain security technology company at the forefront of research and development. CertiK is a pioneer in blockchain security, employing cutting-edge Formal Verification technology on smart contracts and blockchains. It protects and monitors blockchain protocols and smart contracts by leveraging best-in-class artificial intelligence (AI) technology. CertiK was founded in 2018 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University with the goal of securing the web3 world. 

Web3 Security Tools

Coin Metrics is the leading provider of crypto financial intelligence, providing network data, market data, index and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching cryptoassets. Users can use CoinMetrics data analytics platform to do industry research.  Developers can use CoinMetrics APIs to build their own web3 analytics applications.   CoinMetrics was founded in 2017 as an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains.

DeFi Tools

Token Metrics is an AI-driven crypto research platform which turns data into actionable investment insights. Users can get easily digestible analytics information about their favorite cryptocurrency projects and discover the best performing assets in certain catagorys.  Developers can use Token Metrics APIs to integrate top tier analytics into their dapps.  Token Metrics analytics platform features a Bull vs. Bear indicator that can be extremely helpful for gauging the general interest of an asset.  With 90,000 community members, 5000 users, and 50+ countries, Token Metrics is considered the best platform to get web3 analytics. 

DeFi Tools

With APY.vision users can track their liquidity pool gains and impermanent loss and get the data they need to know, such as when to enter and exit liquidity pools for maximum returns. Users benefit from APY.vision’s easily understandable user interface and can access pro features by holding APY.vision's community token, $VISION.  With several high-profile partnerships, APY.vision has an all-encompassing snapshot of the Web3 investing landscape. 

DeFi Tools

Started by Bungee, Socket is a Web3 privacy infrastructure for social interactions for crypto-related purposes. Users can track all bridge transactions across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Gnosis Chain, Fantom, Optimism, Arbitrum and Aurora. Developers can view the latest transactions on the website and use information for dapps.

Web3 Developer Tools

DeBank is a defi dashboard. Users can use it to track their portfolio, access data and analytics for decentralized lending protocols, stablecoins, margin trading platforms and DEXes. Developers can integrate API end-points including information about users, chains, protocols and tokens in their programmes.

Trading Tools

Transferring native tokens across several native blockchains in the Ethereum ecosystem gets easier with the surfacing of Across. Across allows users to tap into a rich network of relayers in moving funds across two distinct blockchains. Once the relayers approve the bridging, Across itself has an in-built optimistic validation.

DeFi Tools

LayerSwap is a unique bridge that can move funds from centralized exchanges to layer-2 blockchains. For instance, a user can move funds from FTX to Arbitrum mainnet.  Layer swap has an intuitive interface that is simple to use for swapping, and it makes cross-chain transactions easier, lessening transaction fees by almost 10%.

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Copper is an institutional cryptocurrency custody and brokerage platform registered in the United Kingdom and Wales. Its software platform is linked to well-known cryptocurrency exchanges such as Bitfinex, BitMEX, and Binance.  Copper employs a method of storing and transferring digital assets known as "Walled Garden," which combines cryptography, cold wallets, physical transferrence, and personal validation by authorized human system operators.

Web3 Wallet Tools

Many investors, including a16z and Solana, back Dynamic due to its applaudable market-driven product offerings. Dynamic offers APIs, SDKs, and dashboards for developers to use and in turn, manage users as well. The React library of Dynamic automatically detects the wallets that are installed on a machine and customizes those wallets to the brand identity of the project a developer is building.

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Opera Crypto Browser provides crypto enthusiasts and the crypto-savvy with a smooth and comfortable Web3 experience.  Users can take advantage of web3 focused features such as their dapp store, wallet linking, and top tier security.  Developers can produce additional built-in features to add to the Opera web3 ecosystem.  The browser also features a ‘Crypto Corner’ that helps users stay up-to-date on the latest web3 developments. 

Infrastructure Tools

Created by the same team behind Etherscan, Optimistic Ethereum explorer is an Optimism blockchain explorer. Users can search by filtering address, txn hash, batch or token. Developers use the API to build dapps, verify contacts and access blockchain data such as transactions, addresses, tokens, prices and other activities on the Optimism blockchain. The user-friendly front page offers information of past transactions, market cap and present ether price. 

Web3 Developer Tools

Launched by 0x labs, 0x Explorer is a blockchain explorer. Users can verify and analyze on-chain activity as well as monitor the expansion of the 0x ecosystem. Developers can use 0x explorer by using data on transaction tracking, liquidity source and chain breakdowns, and in-depth application metrics.

Web3 Developer Tools

Iron Bank is a capital-efficient decentralized lending platform that allows protocols and individuals to supply and borrow cryptocurrencies. By driving capital efficiency with trusted entities as the liquidity infrastructure and backbone for DeFi and CeFi, it is helping to build a better and safer DeFi lending ecosystem. Iron Bank uses smart contract automation to provide protocol-to-protocol lending through whitelisting, as well as undercollateralized and uncollateralized lending. 

DeFi Dapps

Tarot is a decentralized lending protocol in which users can participate as lenders or borrowers in isolated lending pools. Lenders can provide liquidity indirectly without the risk of impermanent loss. Lenders supply individual tokens to a lending pool, similar to single-sided staking, and earn a passive yield. Borrowers can use LP tokens as collateral in a lending pool to borrow and engage in leveraged yield farming with significantly increased LP rewards.

DeFi Dapps

Sonne Finance is a decentralized lending protocol that provides financial services to individuals, institutions, and protocols.  It is a permissionless, open-source, and Optimistic protocol that serves users of Optimism. Users can put their assets up for the deposit, use them as collateral, and borrow against them.

DeFi Dapps

dForce is an interoperable open finance protocol matrix. The platform aims to provide users with the opportunity to earn yield, easily integrate DeFi, allow for quick withdrawal, facilitate large volume trades, and also serve as a permissionless lending platform. dforce intends to implement risk management on multiple levels, maintaining security audits of all dForce native protocols and launching bug bounties to encourage security researchers to identify vulnerabilities in dForce protocols.

DeFi Dapps

Perpetual protocol is a DeFi protocol that services its users with a perpetual futures option. The users can cross-margin various popular tokens with up to 10 times leverage. The liquidity providers will contribute to the pool and get the trading fees of other users as benefits. Bearing in mind that no code is 100% secure, the Perpetual protocol offers bug bounties to developers who find bugs in its open-source code base.

DeFi Dapps

dHEDGE is a decentralized set of open-source smart contracts operating on the Ethereum-based blockchains: Ethereum, Polygon and Optimism. It’s an asset management protocol that connects investors to investment managers in a censorship-resistant and non-custodial way.  dHEDGE aims to leverage blockchain technology to create a permissionless protocol for investors to retain full ownership over their investments while reaping the rewards of enabling the best managers to trade their capital.

DeFi Dapps

Beethoven is a decentralized exchange protocol that claims to be on track regarding the reengineering and reimagining of the entire decentralized finance landscape. Founded by an anonymous team, the users can use the protocol to invest in listed tokens and also trade them. Within the interface, Beethoven has an internal pool aggregator for the users to check, pick, and contribute to any liquidity pool they consider worthy of investing in. It also has various APIs for the developers to query subgraphs and verify pools.

DeFi Dapps

Developed by Semiotic Labs, Odos is a multi-chain protocol that collates and aggregates the availability of tokens across different decentralized exchanges and how much they are listed for. This is helpful for everyday users because manual research of prices of tokens across various DEXs can be exhausting. The scope of Odos is wide because it supports the DEXes on most EVM chains. Odos is unique as a DEX aggregator because it allows users to swap multiple token pairs in a single transaction.

DeFi Dapps

Hundred Finance is a decentralized application (dApp) that allows cryptocurrency lending and borrowing. It works with Chainlink oracles to ensure market health and stability while focusing on long-tail assets. Users of Hundred Finance can lend and borrow against their loan-to-value ratio, earning variable interest on the supply side and accruing interest on the borrowing side.

DeFi Dapps

Rubicon is an order book protocol for trading ERC-20 tokens. Trade with swaps, limit orders, market orders, and batch orders on an on-chain order book DEX.

DeFi Dapps

Pika is one of the DeFi protocols with the highest leverage as it offers up to 100 times leverage on trades.  The users can also swap tokens right in their wallets without even depositing at all. With the way Pika runs on layer-2 protocols, it costs lower gas compared to a direct transaction on the Ethereum mainnet. While it is a crypto trading protocol, Pika's product offerings are wider than Web3 because it further taps into non-Web3 assets.

DeFi Dapps

Galxe is building a credential data network that is open to all developers in Web3. This infrastructure addresses the needs of both on-chain and off-chain communities, empowering them to curate and contribute digital credentials to the network.   For off-chain credentials, Galxe integrates data sources from many orgs, including Snapshot, Twitter, and GitHub. For on-chain credentials, subgraph queries or static snapshots are used. 

Identity Tools

ChainJet provides an extensive collection of well tested automation modules for web3 protocols, dapps, and developer tools.  Users can utilize this collection of automation modules to reduce the time it takes for them to do certain repetitive processes or workflows.  Developers can creat their own modules and add them to the collection for other users to take advantage of.  ChainJet has 8 blockchains supported and integrates with hundreds of population dapps and web3 protocols. 

Infrastructure Tools

By allowing LPs and tokenized projects to optimize their DEX liquidity across multiple blockchains in seamless automation, Arrakis is attempting to solve problems it sees in other liquidity providers.  Uniswap v2 AMMs are inefficient and costly to subsidize and its next-gen AMMs (v3) improve liquidity but are complex and involve a risk for LPs.     Arrakis optimizes liquidity without the management overhead by deploying its automation strategies, resulting in less cost and complexity.  

DeFi Dapps

DIA (Decentralised Information Asset) is a cross-chain, end-to-end, open-source data and oracle platform for Web3. The platform allows developers to source and verify data from traditional and digital financial applications. The feeds provide information such as asset prices, metaverse data, lending rates and more.

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