Cielo allows you to curate and segment onchain information on the EVM and Solana. The ultimate activity feed and wallet tracker
SocialFi Is a Social Construct
Blockchain VCs love a good narrative and few are more compelling than SocialFi. The portmanteau combines the right buzzwords – social and finance – while remaining vague enough to constitute anything and everything.To quote Chat GPT: “SocialFi, a combination of "Social" and "Finance," refers to a new paradigm in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space where social media and financial services intersect. It leverages decentralized finance (DeFi) principles to create platforms where users can i...
SocialFi Is a Social Construct
Blockchain VCs love a good narrative and few are more compelling than SocialFi. The portmanteau combines the right buzzwords – social and finance – while remaining vague enough to constitute anything and everything.To quote Chat GPT: “SocialFi, a combination of "Social" and "Finance," refers to a new paradigm in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space where social media and financial services intersect. It leverages decentralized finance (DeFi) principles to create platforms where users can i...
To Cosmos + Beyond: Cielo's Quest to Track Everything
Having successfully exited beta, it’s time to reveal where we’re headed next in Cielo’s quest to track everything. Today, Cielo’s onchain discovery dashboard enables hundreds of wallets to be tracked for free across 21 blockchains including Solana. Soon, it’ll allow you to do a whole lot more from Cosmos to Bitcoin. Redesigned from the ground up, the Cielo web app is the product of six months of intensive development. It features a sleek UI, token alerts, themed lists, and a wallet discovery ...
To Cosmos + Beyond: Cielo's Quest to Track Everything
Having successfully exited beta, it’s time to reveal where we’re headed next in Cielo’s quest to track everything. Today, Cielo’s onchain discovery dashboard enables hundreds of wallets to be tracked for free across 21 blockchains including Solana. Soon, it’ll allow you to do a whole lot more from Cosmos to Bitcoin. Redesigned from the ground up, the Cielo web app is the product of six months of intensive development. It features a sleek UI, token alerts, themed lists, and a wallet discovery ...
Forget Building for Tomorrow: The Future of Finance Is Now
Crypto is obsessed with the future. We’re building the future of finance. We’re paving the way to global participation. Or a particular favorite: We’re onboarding the next billion to web3. This focus on the future is understandable when the KPIs in the here and now don’t look so rosy. Who cares if only 10 people are roaming your metaverse? 10 years from now, the whole world will be vibing here. All flippancy aside, it’s natural that crypto should be forward-facing. Challenging the status quo ...
Forget Building for Tomorrow: The Future of Finance Is Now
Crypto is obsessed with the future. We’re building the future of finance. We’re paving the way to global participation. Or a particular favorite: We’re onboarding the next billion to web3. This focus on the future is understandable when the KPIs in the here and now don’t look so rosy. Who cares if only 10 people are roaming your metaverse? 10 years from now, the whole world will be vibing here. All flippancy aside, it’s natural that crypto should be forward-facing. Challenging the status quo ...
Developing for Degenerates: An Onchain Manifesto
Why Real Utility vs Speculative Usage is a false dichotomyCrypto is a seething mass of contradictions. We love privacy yet broadcast everything onchain. We mistrust TradFi but trust them to send orange coin. We despise pump and dumps but love selling the top. Nowhere is this contradiction more pronounced than when debating what constitutes “real” usage. Is 10,000 apes sending ETH through a one-way contract the future of Base or the beginning of the end? On the one hand, crypto’s 14 years old ...
Developing for Degenerates: An Onchain Manifesto
Why Real Utility vs Speculative Usage is a false dichotomyCrypto is a seething mass of contradictions. We love privacy yet broadcast everything onchain. We mistrust TradFi but trust them to send orange coin. We despise pump and dumps but love selling the top. Nowhere is this contradiction more pronounced than when debating what constitutes “real” usage. Is 10,000 apes sending ETH through a one-way contract the future of Base or the beginning of the end? On the one hand, crypto’s 14 years old ...
Exploring the zkSync Ecosystem With Cielo
These are exciting times for zkSync – and Cielo. The former is witnessing record transaction volume and soaring TVL as users explore the hottest new L2 in town. Cielo, for its part, is shipping new features at a rate of knots and adding integrations including support for Art Blocks, Ambient Finance, Polygon zkEVM, and zkSync. Put Cielo and zkSync together and beautiful things happen, like the ability to discern how other users are interacting with its ecosystem and which protocols and tokens ...
Exploring the zkSync Ecosystem With Cielo
These are exciting times for zkSync – and Cielo. The former is witnessing record transaction volume and soaring TVL as users explore the hottest new L2 in town. Cielo, for its part, is shipping new features at a rate of knots and adding integrations including support for Art Blocks, Ambient Finance, Polygon zkEVM, and zkSync. Put Cielo and zkSync together and beautiful things happen, like the ability to discern how other users are interacting with its ecosystem and which protocols and tokens ...
