DuckDAO’s 2021-in-Review
Join us as we explore the happenings of this amazing year
We’re rapidly approaching the end of 2021 and all we can say is that it’s been a quacktacular year for the Ducks!🐥🐥
Our hats go off to our incredible community that showed tremendous promise and strength, helping propel DuckDAO and our project partners to new heights in every way imaginable.
To celebrate all that we’ve achieved, let’s take a look at some of our proudest milestones and accomplishments to date.
Ecosystem Growth
The DuckDAO team is proud to say that we’ve vastly grown our community and ecosystem this year — we’ve continued to become stronger and get more people involved in participating and contributing to our project.
Here are some of the accomplishments attributed to our ecosystem growth:
- More than 155,000 community members across Twitter and Telegram
- 5000+ of active $DDIM holders
- 4,025+ active $DUCK holders (not accounting for DuckTiers)
- Dozens of new and exciting partnerships
- 55+ successful IDOs
Partnerships
Our partners are key to not only helping our projects but also expanding upon DuckDAO’s strengths and service offerings. The quality and connections our partners bring directly translate into a huge value-add across the board for our ecosystem.
In the last year, we’ve added dozens of new partners with technology providers, plus a variety of industry and media leaders so we can continue marching forward with expanding upon our decentralized venture ecosystem.
All of our partnerships are carefully established and nutruted to bring maximum value to the projects and investors that we work with, not to mention our incredible community.
We Grew Our Portfolio Together
Ever since we started rolling up our sleeves during DuckDAO’s humble beginnings in 2020, our team had the vision to work with the very best and most promising blockchain startup projects.
Here’s a small sample of some of the flagship blockchain projects that have benefitted tremendously from our services:
- Bloktopia
- Lithium
- Void
- TryHards
- TotemFi
- Wanaka Farms
- Hashtagger
The majority of these projects have seriously solid technical and fundamental attributes, making them attractive long-term investments and opportunities. Needless to say, many of them also had phenomenal token price increases upon launch, demonstrating significant strength and impressing our Ducks from the get-go.
DuckDAO continues to maintain relationships and actively engage with them all, as we’re committed to serving and assisting our partners. We’re committed to providing them with growth with funding, marketing services, social media support, and more — to date, we’ve invested in 73 unique projects as a whole and have high expectations for that number to keep rising into 2022.
For a complete list of our portfolio, please visit our website.
DuckSTARTER & DLP Duck Token
We wanted to offer our partner projects and customers a more convenient and powerful way to conduct token sales on our platform. That’s where the creation of DuckSTARTER emerged, which would serve as our multi-chain exclusive token sale launchpad running on the Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Polkadot, and Polygon networks.
This year alone, we’re pleased to say that DuckSTARTER has been a huge success demonstrated by the statistics below:
- 58 projects have launched
- Raised over 6.5 million USDC across all projects
- More than 26 million $DUCK tokens staked across all 5 tiers for a total of 3,705 users owning DuckTiers.
DuckFARM
The deployment of DuckFARM was significant in that it gave our Duck community an opportunity to begin earning passive income through yield farming. DUCK and DDIM holders could now deposit their tokens alongside either ETH or USDC across a choice of four different liquidity pools to earn interest on their tokens.
Here’s a quick glimpse at some of the highlights on DuckFARM:
- Accumulated a total of over $7.2 million across 2,128 stakers
- Across all stakers, the average contribution was 3,500 USDC per person
Despite all of the great accomplishments associated with DuckFARM to date, we feel that we’re not living up to the promises made early on this year. In fact, we’d like to take a stance and ensure everyone that DuckFARM participants will be better taken care of in 2022.
The liquidity our community members provide to DuckFARM helps power the DuckDAO ecosystem, including the critical DuckSTARTER platform, so we want to make sure everyone is well taken care of and receives the maximum benefit from our yield farming platform.
The Push Towards Solana
As you may know, Solana has been 2021’s unicorn with its extremely efficient growth and resilience — it’s slowly but surely capturing the attention of many in crypto and beyond. To fully drive home the point that we’re dedicated to generating the Solana deal flow, we made the commitment to create a third venue through which investors and projects can engage with us, which will also hopefully enable DuckDAO to continue to grow.
The DuckSQUAD NFTs, created in partnership with Only1, just launched and we’re getting ready to present our first deal on the platform. 3,000 NFTs were minted, out of which only 500 provide access to the private group where the Solana deal flow is made available.
If you have a Balloon DuckSQUAD NFT, you can use this Telegram bot to join the private group! https://t.me/only1nftbot
This partnership with Only1 is yet another statement of the DuckDAO ecosystem’s strength and our dedication to creating long-term and fruitful relationships with projects we support — things don’t just end when supplying funds. In fact, what makes DuckDAO different is the very community on which it’s founded. The active investors who are constantly looking for new opportunities for exponential wealth, who dare get excited about the future, and are not afraid to make their voices heard.
The DuckSQUAD NFTs will extend the reach of our community and provide sufficient leverage and a demonstration of the commitment that will help all of us reach the next level.
There is a lot of value coming from DuckSQUAD NFTs and we hope you enjoy the ride!
Other Accomplishments
We know how important cross-chain interoperability is to everyone, especially as these features have picked up tremendous steam in 2021. That’s why decided to keep the party going with the development of DuckBRIDGE, a bridge platform allowing users to quickly and securely transfer assets across the Ethereum, BSC, and Polygon blockchains with ease.
Another key highlight of the year was the launch of our DuckSTORE, the go-to online shop where you can purchase all your favorite DuckDAO swag and merchandise. Available products include apparel (i.e. shirts, dresses, jackets), stickers, phone cases, hats, bags, and much more.
First DuckDAO Birthday
September 10, 2021, marked the first-ever DuckDAO birthday, where we officially hit one full year of being in business. To celebrate this important milestone, we gave away a wide variety of prizes in the form of cash rewards, NFTs, and token allocations.
A big shoutout goes to our partners for getting involved and helping contribute to our community to make this a special day!
An Exciting 2022 Lies Ahead
2021 was a fantastic year, and 2022 is right around the corner. We couldn’t be more proud and excited for our Duck community, and we expect our entire group to continue to grow and flourish moving forward.
2022 Roadmap is coming!
The team here at DuckDAO is hard at work developing the roadmap for 2022 — we’ll be painting a clearer picture of our key events and ultimate vision for how we expect the year to turn out.
Get excited, because we’ve got big plans to make next year a truly special one for both our community and partner projects!
Find Out More About DuckDAO🐥
DuckDAO is a community-backed digital asset incubator that provides promising early-stage crypto startups with the expertise, financial resources, and marketing power needed to fast-track their progress on the path to success.
