Rootdata: A tool and data platform for discovering early-stage Web3 projects.

2023-02-03 22:51

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Original Title: "A Comprehensive Understanding of Rootdata: Powerful Web3 Early Project Discovery Tool and Data Platform"

Original Author: Gu Yu, ChainCatcher

How to discover high-quality early-stage Web3 projects and capture market trends is one of the most important topics in the cryptocurrency industry. Despite the recent downturn in the crypto market, it cannot stop those high-quality projects from continuing to develop and shine in the next cycle.

Meanwhile, the number of projects and information density in the Web3 industry continues to grow rapidly. As a result, a large number of on-chain data analysis tools have emerged, such as Dune and Nansen, which greatly assist users in analyzing on-chain data trends. However, for projects with complex information, on-chain data may not fully reflect the overall picture, and projects with actual effective on-chain data may be less than one-third of the overall Web3 projects.

How to view information about a project's investors, team, news, and more? How to understand the overall development of a public chain ecosystem? How to learn about the investment portfolio and preferences of a venture capital firm? In the past, there was no platform that could aggregate all this information, often requiring users to navigate through many different websites. Today, Rootdata is committed to helping Web3 enthusiasts and investors meet their information needs in a one-stop-shop manner, visualizing the relationships between projects, individuals, and venture capital firms, effectively improving users' efficiency in obtaining project information and early-stage project mining.

Starting from the investment and financing data in the cryptocurrency market, Rootdata sifts, filters, and optimizes the cluttered information in the current cryptocurrency industry. It presents project tags, blockchain networks, teams, investment backgrounds, related news, parent/subsidiary organizations, etc. in a visual and structured way, avoiding everyone from getting caught in the complex "information loop".

Currently, Rootdata has launched seven functional modules, including investment and financing, projects, investors, ecological map, tag map, tool navigation, and albums. In addition, many practical small functions are gradually being improved. This article will provide a detailed overview and explanation of all the functions of the Rootdata platform, helping users to better understand and use the product.

On the "Fundraising" page of Rootdata, almost all publicly available investment and financing records in the encryption industry to date are arranged in chronological order, totaling nearly 4000. At the same time, users can filter by different tags, financing scale, chain, round, and valuation, such as NFTFi projects with financing scale between 1 million and 5 million US dollars.

On the "Projects" page, Rootdata has collected over 6400 Web3 projects, sorted by the latest collection time by default (users can also choose comprehensive sorting based on project popularity). Users can find the latest Web3 projects here, with over 100 new projects added every week.

Meanwhile, users can also filter projects by different tags, chains, investors, coin issuance status, latest valuation, location, and operational status. For example, "DeFi projects on Solana that have not yet issued coins", "Testnet projects on Aptos", "Unreleased projects invested by Binance Labs", "NFT projects located in the UK", greatly improving the efficiency of project search.

Click on any project and users can enter the project homepage to view detailed information about the project, including its introduction, the chain it is on, financing records, related news, similar products, and more. All project introductions are compiled by professional analysts at Rootdata based on information from the project's official website, public reports, and internal verification, ensuring accuracy, comprehensiveness, and timeliness.

On the "Investors" page, Rootdata has collected over 3,000 investment institutions and individuals in the current Web3 field. They are categorized into different types based on their attributes, such as native crypto funds, traditional venture capital funds, crypto projects, and angel investors, making it easy for users to filter them by category. In addition, users can also filter by the establishment time and operation status of each institution.

On the "Ecosystem Map" page of Rootdata, Rootdata ranked over 150 Layer1/2 projects according to the number of ecological projects. Users can view the development status of any Layer1/2 ecology and specific ecological projects, and can also filter their ecological maps in detail according to sub-tags, rounds, valuations, and operational status, including offline projects and test network projects.

Using the Arbitrum ecosystem as an example, Rootdata has collected a total of 340 ecological projects. On this interface, users can still filter out their interested cryptocurrency projects based on segmentation tags, rounds, valuations, operational status, etc. Additionally, projects that have not yet been launched or are in the test network will also be specially marked.

On the "Tags Graph" page of Rootdata, all Web3 projects are classified into nine categories: infrastructure, DeFi, NFT, gaming, CeFi, DAO, tools & information services, social entertainment, and others. Each category has more vertical classifications and tags, such as NFTFi, NFT AMM, digital fashion, etc. under the NFT category, and investment DAO, service DAO, DAO solutions, etc. under the DAO category, to help readers find projects in specific areas.

On the "Charts" page, Rootdata visualizes massive investment and financing data, making it easy for users to understand the trend changes of primary market investment and financing within their selected time period, the number and amount of financing for each monthly and quarterly track, the top 10 projects with the largest financing scale, and the ecological situation of different public chains.

On the "Tools Navigation" page, Rootdata has organized a variety of popular data products and tool websites according to different functions and purposes, including comprehensive tools, DeFi tools, NFT tools, learning and education tools, etc., to enrich users' functional choices. The content within the link is not translated and is preserved as is.

On the "Collections" page of Rootdata, scattered data is clustered and integrated into a list of projects according to different features. Users can use this to learn about information such as "2022 Cryptocurrency Industry Death List", "Binance Historical Incubation Project List", "Coinbase Former Employee Entrepreneurship Project List", "YC Historical Incubation Project List", and more.

Using the "2022 Cryptocurrency Industry Death List" as an example, this collection includes a list of projects that announced the cessation of operations, bankruptcy, or long-term inability to use their websites in 2022. The list has been widely circulated on social media platforms such as Twitter.

In addition, there is also a very useful feature on the website homepage and Rootdata, which is the recently launched projects on the mainnet and testnet. Users can discover new investment, interaction, and innovation opportunities here.

As a concise and user-friendly data platform in the encryption industry, Rootdata hopes to help a wide range of encryption practitioners and enthusiasts discover more high-quality, interesting, and reliable projects in a timely manner through the systematic sorting of current market project information, and then explore the development rules and trends of the entire industry and track.