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The SymmetricalOwn Your Identity ft. Disco 🪩
Modern life is a series of database entries. Whether it’s work, pleasure, dating, or friendship — today, life happens on applications. This is not a far cry from how older generations lived. After all, there were always neighborhood coffee shops, town squares, offices, local shelters, etc. They’re just online now. During this transition, we lost one thing — the control over our identity, and thus, our personhood. While the interactions of the past afforded us the ability to decide what inform...
The SymmetricalHow to Reward Users on Web3 Social
We are excited to announce that Wav3s is the recipient of our second grant. Congratulations to the team!web2 social → web3 socialAdvertising is a major driving force behind traditional social media. These platforms are typically optimized for ads through their ad-centric algorithms, which often prioritizes advertising at the expense of user experience. Web3 social represents a new era in social media where users have more control over their data and more options to choose from when it comes t...
The SymmetricalHow Brands Can Engage With Their Fans
We are pleased to announce that Heat Check is the recipient of our first grant. Congratulations!Why Heat Check?When it comes to consumer engagement, sports is obviously the most active industry. With brand deals, broadcasting rights, video games, and more, the scale at which the industry operates is massive. It is estimated that 15 million people watch the NBA finals alone. But the problem sports teams have is understanding who their fans are. Ex-core members of Krause House DAO, an ambitious...
We are a genZ DAO on the forefront of the internet.
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We are excited to announce that Forum is the recipient of our third grant. Congratulations to the team!
The biggest challenge facing web3 is the way in which web2 has shaped consumer behavior and expectations.
The mobile and social gold rush was spearheaded by businesses that focus on generating revenue by keeping consumers on their platforms. In doing so, they created apps that we spend hours on, but with minimal privacy and no true ownership of our activity on their platforms.
When addressing the flaws of this model, we risk affecting the experience we have all come to love. Due to this, wallets and seed phrases can be overwhelming for the average consumer. The strong precedent set by web2 applications only makes consumers more reluctant to try new things.
Instead of creating a platform that requires investment clubs to come together in a group chat, Forum enables group chats to become investment clubs.
Any friend group wanting to invest together only needs to download the Forum application, without the need for multiple applications that have become standard for investment clubs or investment DAOs.
The folks at Forum are also aware of the UX imperative, and have made their app extremely simple to use. They have even done away with the tedious requirements of managing seed phrases and private keys altogether.
The Forum application uses ERC-4337, which allows for wallet setup using Face ID instead of a seed phrase. This does not imply weaker security or diluted decentralization.
The wallet setup uses Face ID (which is stored only on the device), providing the same level of security as any consumer-grade mobile banking application. This can even be more secure than conventional wallets. Face ID is used to create a passkey, a new type of credential encrypted and stored in the device, used to create signatures verified on-chain on the ERC-4337 contract.
This method eradicates the possibility of phishing attacks since there is no way to give away your seed phrase. The passkey is designed to work only with specific applications, and there is a guardian-based recovery method that allows account access recovery from a fresh device.
Forum has made strong progress, championing the cause of account abstraction with their work on ERC-4337, contributing to the broader Ethereum ecosystem. They have an iOS application with a simple portfolio tracker and the ability to create groups and add friends.
They aim to ship the chat and in-built trade execution commands soon, along with Android and a web application later this year.
The Symmetrical is excited to partner with Decentralised.co for this grant, and we can’t wait to see the impact Forum will have in onboarding the next wave of web3 users.
Forum is actively fundraising right now. If you or anyone you know is interested in funding promising web3 projects, we urge you to reach out to them on Twitter.
Our mission at The Symmetrical is to find and support the projects that will fulfill our vision of connecting web3 to 1 million GenZ. Follow us on Twitter for regular updates, and apply here to receive a grant.
We are excited to announce that Forum is the recipient of our third grant. Congratulations to the team!
The biggest challenge facing web3 is the way in which web2 has shaped consumer behavior and expectations.
The mobile and social gold rush was spearheaded by businesses that focus on generating revenue by keeping consumers on their platforms. In doing so, they created apps that we spend hours on, but with minimal privacy and no true ownership of our activity on their platforms.
When addressing the flaws of this model, we risk affecting the experience we have all come to love. Due to this, wallets and seed phrases can be overwhelming for the average consumer. The strong precedent set by web2 applications only makes consumers more reluctant to try new things.
Instead of creating a platform that requires investment clubs to come together in a group chat, Forum enables group chats to become investment clubs.
Any friend group wanting to invest together only needs to download the Forum application, without the need for multiple applications that have become standard for investment clubs or investment DAOs.
The folks at Forum are also aware of the UX imperative, and have made their app extremely simple to use. They have even done away with the tedious requirements of managing seed phrases and private keys altogether.
The Forum application uses ERC-4337, which allows for wallet setup using Face ID instead of a seed phrase. This does not imply weaker security or diluted decentralization.
The wallet setup uses Face ID (which is stored only on the device), providing the same level of security as any consumer-grade mobile banking application. This can even be more secure than conventional wallets. Face ID is used to create a passkey, a new type of credential encrypted and stored in the device, used to create signatures verified on-chain on the ERC-4337 contract.
This method eradicates the possibility of phishing attacks since there is no way to give away your seed phrase. The passkey is designed to work only with specific applications, and there is a guardian-based recovery method that allows account access recovery from a fresh device.
Forum has made strong progress, championing the cause of account abstraction with their work on ERC-4337, contributing to the broader Ethereum ecosystem. They have an iOS application with a simple portfolio tracker and the ability to create groups and add friends.
They aim to ship the chat and in-built trade execution commands soon, along with Android and a web application later this year.
The Symmetrical is excited to partner with Decentralised.co for this grant, and we can’t wait to see the impact Forum will have in onboarding the next wave of web3 users.
Forum is actively fundraising right now. If you or anyone you know is interested in funding promising web3 projects, we urge you to reach out to them on Twitter.
Our mission at The Symmetrical is to find and support the projects that will fulfill our vision of connecting web3 to 1 million GenZ. Follow us on Twitter for regular updates, and apply here to receive a grant.
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