Happy Anniversary To The Community
Launchpool The Regulatory-Compliant, Guaranteed Allocation Platform Celebrates Its First Anniversary! 🥂
On Tuesday 22nd February, Launchpool celebrated its first year anniversary! These past twelve months have indeed been exciting here at Launchpool. We have experienced exponential growth for both the Launchpool project and the Community as a whole. Our commitment to ensuring an egalitarian approach to early stage investing continues and we remain steadfast in ensuring a fair and accessible investing landscape, for all LPOOLers: both big and small.
Back in August 2021, we expanded the range of our investment opportunities by launching our very own Incubator: Launchpool Labs. This newest addition meant that the most loyal Launchpool community members, could now gain access to exclusive pre-Seed and Seed allocations, via a unique NFT-tier system. The first of these projects are now at the final stages of development and we are eager to see their successful launch.
In addition to the pre-IDO platform and our Incubator, we are happy to announce that in the coming weeks, the first Launchpool Web3 Techstars Accelerator Projects will be revealed. This blockchain-focused accelerator programme, in partnership with Techstars, seeks to merge the traditional world of investment to Crypto. The accelerator will work with ten startups each year over an intensive three-month period; where startups will receive funding, hands-on mentorship from Techstars, Alphabit, and Launchpool.
We take this time to thank all of you, our loyal Launchpool Community, for your continued support; without you this wouldn't be possible. While we’ve faced many challenges over the past year within the industry, we have continued to grow, expand, and learn all at once.
Keep following our Official Twitter page to be among the first to know when updates are announced. We look forward to strengthening our partnerships and to build the Launchpool Project into the Investment Platform of choice.
Happy Anniversary!!!
Hints & Tips - Dextools
Alongside General Security And Privacy Advice, From Time To Time We Want To Share A Handy Tip From The Team.
As our Launchpool Alumni projects go on to complete their token generation events and DEX listings, our Community often wants to track the price of their tokens from the day of release. So our tip for this is to use dextools.io to do just that.
Dextools is often the first platform that tracks the price of new tokens when they first begin trading on Uniswap, Sushiswap or Pancakeswap (BSC). With integrated tradingview charts, details on liquidity, market cap, volume and holders there is plenty to look at when a new project goes live. Whilst other providers of a similar service charge a fee, or ask you to hold a certain number of tokens, there is a #free to use version of Dextools with all the basic features you would need.
Launchpool is not affiliated with Dextools - we just use it ourselves!
Hints & Tips - Trust The Block, Not The Clock
About time: How to monitor block numbers when investing on Launchpool and Launchpool Labs
Launchpool uses smart contracts to facilitate community investment in the early stages of crypto projects. Smart contracts are executed when pre-defined blocks are mined on the blockchain. The smart contract is controlled by block time, not clock time. The contracts are coded to execute when a certain block number is mined on the block chain.
To take an example, when we set-up an Allocation Mining Event on the BSC chain, we input one block number to execute the opening of the deposit window, and then another block number to execute the transition from the deposit window to the start of rewards being mined.
In total we input four block numbers into the smart contract to run an AME:
Deposit window opens
Rewards begin
Rewards end and payment window opens
Payment window closes
Read Our Full Guide To Understanding Block Numbers
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🗞️ In other Crypto news….. 📰
Sotheby’s Rugged, Afghans Use Crypto To Evade Censorship, Puma Jumps Into The Crypto Space
👀 Sotheby’s Rugged 🤨
The famous auction house Sotheby’s was aiming to host a multi-NFT crypto punks collection before the seller surprisingly delisted it.
The seller “0x650d”, only left the message “nvm, decided to hodl”. This is the first time a major NFT sale has been canceled. Apparently, even the world’s biggest auction house can be rugged.
🌎 Afghans Use Crypto To Evade Censorship 🌎
Cointelegraph is reporting that the people of Afganistan are utilizing crypto to evade the restrictions posed by the Taliban and the U.S..
Services like Paypal and Venmo and the international payment network SWIFT, are unavailable in the country and thus, people have had to switch to things like BUSD and other cryptocurrencies to trade and get paid from overseas.
This seems to prove the theory that cryptocurrencies can be a liberating force even under hostile rulers and governments.
😽 Puma Jumps Into The Crypto Space 🎉
International shoe brand Puma has recently rebranded their twitter account name to Puma.eth, adding itself to the massive list of people who’ve claimed their .eth ENS name. Eth users who want to donate or transfer money to an ENS user can simply input their name when sending money, rather than rely on a long 0x address.
Puma has been active in the NFT space so it will be interesting to see what their next move will be.
That’s all for this week! Watch your inbox for next week’s Pop Up Press!
For more news about the projects we are launching on Launchpool, keep an eye on our Twitter, Telegram, Reddit, and of course come visit us at our Website and App. For Launchpool Labs, keep in touch with developments and meet the first Cohort in our Discord channel.