Meet the backers of our seed round.
This is one of the most important lessons that we have learned during our ventures in the Web 2.0 and early endeavour's, if you want to build something for the long run; create a support network for it.
After a very successful Community Launch, we started early discussions with a couple of long term NEAR token holders. As you have seen from the Messari report, NEAR is one of leading digital assets being held most by Venture Capital firms.
It was a natural event for the NEAR Ecosystem to surface the opportunity for us to interact with institutional investors, we could not have done it without the support from the Proximity Labs team and also our advisor network.
We are glad to welcome Dragonfly Capital, A&T Capital, Move Capital, Blockwall, D1 Ventures and Sky Vision Capital to the Meta Pool family, they will be helping us build the top liquid staking solution on the NEAR Protocol, working together side by side to support the DeFi ecosystem.
These are the people behind the institutions that are helping us grow the Meta Pool protocol and who we have thrusted will provide the right guidance to create value for the NEAR Ecosystem.
“We’re excited to support Meta Pool in their efforts to offer the leading decentralized liquid-staking solution on NEAR — a protocol we believe is foundational to helping grow NEAR’s nascent DeFi ecosystem.” — Ashwin Ramachandran — Dragonfly Capital
“We are excited in participating Meta Pool’s seed round as the team is ambitious in unleash liquidity on NEAR token. Meta Pool offers users a much lower barrier to entry, while maintaining secure and flexible gives it great prospects for further growth. We cannot wait to participate in the upcoming governance of $META.” — Jasmine Zhang, General Partner from A&T Capital
“We decided to invest in Meta Pool, because we believe it is important that a POS network is secured by a large share of coins being staked and Meta Pool allows everyday users to keep their NEAR token liquid while receiving the staking rewards and securing the network. It is key to basic network infrastructure in our view” —Blockwall Digital Assets
We are delighted to support Metapool as it enables greater liquidity for individuals to participate in the growing DeFi ecosystem on the Near Blockchain. One of the many reasons why SkyVision Capital backed MetaPool is due to the strong technical and product team who have a wealth of experience in the blockchain space — contributing to many prominent DeFi protocols. — Patrick Wu — Partner from SkyVision Capital
Building blocks for DeFi on NEAR
Most of our investors are part of the NEAR validator network, this will give us a glimpse on how institutional investors can leverage the capabilities of Meta Pool; we will be exploring different opportunities to help them build value to the NEAR Ecosystem and help improve the decentralization of the NEAR Protocol.
One key component of our partnership will be to establish stNEAR as the basic building block of all decentralized financial applications running on NEAR. We believe that this digital asset has the potential to unlock value for NEAR token holders.
We share a common vision on how on-chain applications should rely on DAO’s to put NEAR token holders in the middle of what a DeFi protocol does, by partnering with institutional investors to take part of the governance of the Meta Pool protocol we are diversifying our stakeholders and this will provide a much wider view on how to grow Meta Pool.
This diversity will guarantee that every region will have proper representation in the DAO governance. This will help us build a truly decentralized liquid staking platform and become a key infrastructure component in DeFi for the NEAR Protocol.
Global reach and growth
The seed round will allow us to expand our Ambassador program and create a world class team that can deliver products at lightning speed.
For a team that is based in Latin America, global reach is not an easy task. But the NEARverse has shown how a great Guild network can allow a small team to deliver on a global scale. We are really excited to be part of this growth that NEAR is experiencing. We are long on NEAR!
Most importantly it will help build a global network of NEAR supporters, this will allow us to stick to our mission — liberating the more than 400 million staked NEAR — these digital assets are locked and not flowing into the ecosystem.
Get involved
If you are a NEAR token holder, we invite you to stake on Meta Pool and participate in the DeFi ecosystem. We are very close to see our partnership with OIN Finance come to mainnet, which will allow everyone with stNEAR to use it as collateral to mint the first native NEAR stablecoin — USDO.
Right now we have regional chapters in Latin America, Korea, Vietnam, China, Russia, Philippines and Thailand, we want to expand to reach every corner of the globe. So let us know if you are interested in being part of our Ambassador program, join the Meta Pool Discord.
We are also expanding our team, so if you are interested in participating and collaborating with us, please join our Discord channel and ping SupportMetaPool ;)
Lots of things will be happening in the coming weeks, so make sure to subscribe to our Medium blog and follow us on Twitter — @Meta_Pool.
Keep on staking!
