NFT3 2022: Year Recap

Shashwat Eternal
Root Network
Published in
6 min readDec 21, 2022

Happy incoming holidays InterStellars!

We’ve all had a remarkable year, to say the least. Market meltdowns and numerous implosions aside, web3 has successfully entered the mass public lexicon, and brands like Disney, Nike and more have begun to take our space seriously.

The year end has seen the DID space in particular see a lot of investor and analyst interest, which has of course been very gratifying for us to see while we released our beta product as well as SDK. Let’s have a look at some major milestones met this year:

Fundraise

Being a crypto native team with most members having crypto experience nearing a decade, we were able to close out our fundraise at a very smart time, leaving us well capitalised to focus and build regardless of the state of the market.

In Feb we announced the completion of our fundraise with Animoca Brands as lead investors alongside many respected investors in the space.

🏗Development / GTM:

NFT3 Beta Launch👽

NFT3 is proud to be one of the few products in the DID space that has successfully delivered an all-in-one DID suite with our beta already live and being used by 6k+ users. Go get your .isme now!👇

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NFT3 SDK Launch🌐

Being part of the DeData suite of web3 SaaS solutions stack, we are very conscious of the B2B side being the eventual primary driver of scale to the adoption of web3 technologies.

Keeping this in mind we have launched the NFT3 SDK where any developer can create DID dApps effortlessly, with a host of pre-created features including twitter verification for DIDs created through the NFT3 SDK.

Check out the NFT3 SDK here and get buidling.

Looking Forward🎯

With both our beta product as well as the SDK already live, development efforts are not at all slowing in pace — in fact they’re only heating up.

The Next Iteration of our Beta is Near🛸

We are hard at work on a more polished version of the beta product, which is coming sooner than you think. Get your .isme while you can — it’s about to get a whole lot cooler!

First Ever Credit Score for DeFi🏦

We are also working on a credit product codenamed NCredit that aims to bring undercollateralised lending to DeFi, and our plan is to collaborate with some of the top players in DeFi lending to usher in an era of credit based lending in DeFi. We would be the first project to ever do this.

It’s a daunting aim but we’re already hard at work and making progress while collabing with some amazing DeFi protocols (that we won’t mention yet 😜.)

📢Marketing / Community:

While we wanted to highlight the incredible tech progress we’ve made over the past year launching both products, let’s now cover the insane marketing efforts as well, which include but are not limited to exclusive chats with Edward Snowden at Berlin Blockchain Week and the launch of the first ever community-created repository for DID knowledge in the world.

Launched NFT3’s Podcast “The Most Important Thing”🎙🛸

The idea with our podcast is to constantly have engaging, deep conversations about the tides in our space and how to navigate them — with icons, builders and innovators from across the world.

To date we’ve had legends like Trevor Koverko and builders like Mindaugas Savickas stop by. Check out all our current episodes here, and be sure to follow us. Many more episodes coming soon!

NFT3 Lead Initiator Dylan Dewdney Spoke at NFT.NYC 2022

Our very own Dylan Dewdney was a speaker at NFT.NYC this year, and reperesented the importance of DID and NFT3 at perhaps one of the biggest stages in the web3 world.

NFT3 Sponsored the DeData Salon at Berlin Blockchain Week

At a meeting of the minds of some of the most reknowned web3 builders globally, NFT3 had major presence as co-organisers of the DeData Salon at Berlin Blockchain Week.

NFT3 Lead Initiator Dylan Dewdney Fireside Chat with Edward Snowden on the future of the Internet

No words are needed. Check out this iconic conversation that goes deep into the morals and machinations of what it takes to be building at the forefront if technology in a way that ensures we’re impacting the world in a massively positive way.

Launched The Ultimate Decentralised Identity Knowledge Base

The Ultimate Decentralised Identity Knowledge Base is a free, open-for-all hub of resources on Decentralized Identity, compiled by the combined efforts of the NFT3 team as well as the NFT3 $ISME InterStellars community.

Check it out here.

Lead Sponsors of Blockdown Croatia + Fireside Chat with CoinTelegraph

NFT3 sponsored the world’s first NFT-enabled web3 festival held in Croatia, and spread the NFT3 message amongst some of the elite people in crypto. In additon to giving the keynote address, lead initiator Dylan Dewdney also sat down with CoinTelegraph Chief Editor Kristina Cornér for a fireside chat.

Strategised GTM at Korea Blockchain Week with Lead Investors Animoca Brands (alongwith speaking gigs and marketing efforts)

The Future + Web3 Educational Course with Headstart Network Foundation

Headstart Network Foundation is an iconic volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation in India for startups. They have been helping every stakeholder in the startup ecosystem for 15 years in India, and currently work with the Indian central and state Govts, the Finland govt, corporates such as Microsoft, DBS, AWS and more.

NFT3 CMO Shashwat Eternal hosted their first ever foray into web3, with a three-part educational course called “The Future + web3”.

Check out all episodes here!
Ep 1. Music + web3 ft. Alive House and TokenTraxx

Ep 2. Entertainment + web3 ft. NftyPlay and Blocktickets

Ep 3. Social + web3 ft. Chingari and Ciety

NFT3 Fellows: Commemorating the Pillars of our Community

At NFT3 we’ve always believed in YOU being the central pillar of the future of the internet. That is why we are making what we are making. Naturally, this extends to our approach towards community as well, which is why we launched the NFT3 Fellowship, which is essentially a way of saying thank you to those who continue to support this journey with fervour and passion.

Check out our NFT3 Fellows here.

NFT3 Activation in Dubai and at BTC Miami

Being a global team has many advantages — one of which is that we can represent and spread the ISME brand all across the world at events where thought leaders from web3 are present. Check us out in Dubai and at BTC Miami.

Launched The NFT3 Swag Store: Special Christmas offers on $ISME Merch!

Go get your NFT3 Hoodies for the holidays for 20% off!

About NFT3

NFT3 is the First Unified Decentralized Identity and Credit Network for Web3.

NFT3s will become a direct monetization path for individuals to associate value on their terms with various aspects of their data journeys through life with different projects, individuals, social networks, companies, and institutions. Claim your .isme today!

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Shashwat Eternal
Root Network

Novelist + ex startup founder + full time marketer in web3 for 3 years. I write about growth, the collision of culture and technology, and optimistic futurism.