Falling down the crypto rabbithole

Vlad Collak
Block Space
Published in
5 min readJan 2, 2022

There is no shortage of resources for anyone who is falling down the crypto rabbithole. Here is just another list of interesting articles, people, communities, projects, tools, etc. This list is not meant to be comprehensive and I can guarantee that many of your favorite projects or people are missing. :)

Learning Resources

Influencers, SME, News

Communities

  • Seed Club — Seed Club is a DAO that builds and invests in communities. We’re building a future where the value created by communities on the internet is captured by people, not platforms.
  • Mirror.xyz — web3 blogging platform

Games

Gaming and NFT

Blockchains

NFT Explorers, Tools, Research

  • Rarity tools — find NFTs and explore collection attributes like rarity
  • NonFungible — Real-time project rankings, asset price evolution, advanced market analysis
  • dAPP Radar — find dApps across various blockchains
  • Nansen.ai — Analyzes and labels 100M+ Ethereum wallets and their activity to make smarter investment decisions.
  • The Graph — The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying networks like Ethereum and IPFS. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, making data easily accessible.
  • Prysm — explore popular NFT collections or ERC20s held by various addresses or view assets for a particular address

NFT Marketplaces and NFT creation tools

  • WAX — WAX provides everything a brand needs to launch a successful NFT collection — from games and dApps to exchanges, digital marketplaces and more
  • Rarible — NFT marketplace
  • NFTify.- empowers anyone to be an NFT entrepreneur with our feature-rich and ready-made marketplace solution. No coding required.
  • Metaplex: Metaplex empowers creators and brands to build direct relationships with their audiences. NFTs powered by Metaplex engage and provide utilities to decentralized communities everywhere.Metaplex is a decentralized protocol paired with an open-source web framework that lets artists, brands and creators launch self-hosted NFT storefronts as as building a website — all without writing any code. Metaplex’s Candy Machine launches NFT sales without a hiccup.
  • Mintable — NFT marketplace
  • Enjin- Individuals — NFT wallet; Businesses — Our end-to-end solution allows you to create blockchain projects and experiences that make using NFTs feel effortless for everyone; Developers — Versatile SDKs, a robust API, and development tools to help you create NFT-powered projects — no blockchain coding experience required.
  • RMRK (pronounced “remark”) is a set of NFT legos that give NFTs infinite extensibility, hosted on the Kusama blockchain, Polkadot’s canary network, without the need for parachains or smart contracts.
  • Xooa — low code platform that enables companies to launch NFTs and deploy them to Ethereum or Polygon.
  • POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol) — organizers of events can give NFTs as proofs of attendance.

Wallets

Multisig

Storage

  • Pinata — the cloud wasn’t built for this. Pinata was. Storing and managing your NFT media just got easier.
  • IPFS — peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.

Other

  • Robonomics network — open-source platform for IoT applications. They support a new generation of internet technologies (web3).

Developer tools and APIs

Blockchains

  • Infura — APIs and Developer Tools that provide access to the Ethereum and IPFS networks
  • Alchemy — APIs to Ethereum and other chains. Debugging and monitoring tools.
  • Moralis — APIs to build & scale dApps without the cost & complexity.
  • CyberConnect — Social graph SDKs — The CyberConnect Protocol is designed for developers to create, access, and easily build upon decentralized social graphs on Ethereum and Solana. By using dApps built upon the protocol, your users will be freed from centralized databases owned by network operators. Your users’ data will become portable, self-sovereign, and blockchain-agnostic.
  • Dynamic — Dynamic is your multi-chain wallet-based authentication and authorization platform.

TradFi with Crypto

  • Prime Trust — crypto and traditional finance custodian, on/odd ramps, payment rails, KYC/KYB. Companies like Strike.me leverage them.
  • Plaid — bank authentication to enable on/off fiat ramps

Developer Tutorials

Bitcoin

Lightning Network (dev focused)

Taxes

  • ZenLedger — “Use our cryptocurrency tax software to easily track your trades, see your profits, and never overpay on your crypto taxes again.”

Blockchain & Consultants and Agencies

Test Faucets (receive free crypto on test networks)

Mining

Brick Mortar and eCommerce & Crypto

Flexa — enables accepting crypto in physical and digital stores. Good article on that.

News

Rekt — latest crypto exploits and and security news

Market Makers

Interesting Startups

EnergyWeb — blockchain for the Energy industry around renewable energy. Their product GreenProof “makes it easy to establish a transparent audit trail proving that a given unit of energy or a given product (e.g., electricity, hydrogen, carbon offsets, aviation fuel, green steel) is in fact “green.””

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Vlad Collak
Block Space

Technology entrepreneur who loves both technology and startups. You can find me at www.collak.net