The view from the DeFi Summit
A fast-paced news update from the Launchpool team.
Dare to DeFi
This week we were proud to sponsor, and participate in, the world’s biggest DeFi festival; The Defi Summit. It was the largest gathering of the decentralised finance community ever held (even Mark Cuban dropped in, and was on stage for a conversation about NFTs).
Launchpool was a Blue Diamond Sponsor of the summit. Our Head of Community and Growth, Roxana Nasoi, participated in round tables, a fireside chat, gave a keynote, and offered a quick demo on how the Launchpool dApp works, as well as a first look at Launchpool Labs (the incubator website and the four types of NFTs that will act as access cards to long-term deals).
We also co-sponsored a giveaway with other projects, where $500 worth of LPOOL tokens were up for grabs by DeFi Summit participants, alongside a basket of various tokens.
Lots and lots of eyes from across the industry on Launchpool! We welcome the new joiners to our community.
See the highlights from Launchpool on YouTube:
Panel: Meet the Launchpads behind Top IDO Launches
Fireside Chat: Be Your own VC. Decentralised Incubator with Launchpool Labs
DeFi Summit Demo Day
Every day Launchpool is scouting for founders and projects to work with for the benefit of the community. Whether that’s a project that is ready to launch on Launchpool, or an early stage project that we can incubate through Launchpool Labs.
So we were over the moon to be able to sponsor and host the Demo Day, where projects from a variety of chains pitched their concepts to the industry and community. Pitches were heard from projects building on Solana, Cosmos, Binance Smart Chain, Polkadot, Bitcoin and Ethereum.
We have news about one of the projects from Demo Day working closely with Launchpool - keep an eye out for an announcement in the weeks ahead.
Keynote: Opening up DeFi Demo Day
NFT reveal for Launchpool Labs & Website Sneak Peek
Closing up the KuCoin Trading Competition
To celebrate the listing of the native Launchpool token, $LPOOL, on top #5 cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin, we funded a 10,000 $LPOOL prize pool for a trading competition.
The competition closes on the 18th, and the winners will be contacted directly by the exchange.
A reminder that you can now trade $LPOOL with USDT and BTC pairs on the exchange.
Meet the team
Each week we will introduce you to one of Launchpool’s team members. This week - our latest joiner!
Laura Walsh comes from a varied background in Government, INGO's, and media. She is also seasoned hand in the blockchain space. From 2018 to 2021 she worked with the NEM Foundation (now NEM Group) in several different roles varying from country lead to the Executive Committee. After a brief contract with NEAR Foundation, she found her way to Launchpool as the new COO.
Laura holds a Masters in International Development Studies from Chulalaongkorn University, a certificate in International Dev Studies from University of British Columbia, a Japanese Language and Culture certificate from the Hokkaido University of Education and a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Mary's University.
Follow Laura on Twitter
Hints, tips, tools and FYIs: Cowswap – Beating the Bots.
Front-running bots on AMMs, like Uniswap, can take a bite out of your wallet. The bot sees the transaction waiting in the mempool, making a quick transaction before yours, and pocketing a small difference.
You can see this happening on every coin. You can avoid this by using CowSwap, it hides your trades from the mempool, so the bots can't see them. We aren’t affiliated with Cowswap, but members of the team use it, so check it out.
That’s it for what has been another busy week for the business. For news about projects we are launching on Launchpool keep an eye on our Twitter, Telegram and of course come visit us at our website and app
Launchpool Team