How to Choose a Crypto Launchpad?

Launchpads vary in their offerings, providing different benefits to both investors and project owners.

They don't just facilitate fundraising, they also foster community engagement by offering incentives such as free giveaways or exclusive access to token sales, which contribute to the hype and momentum behind new projects.

However, determining which launchpad to use, whether you are a project owner or investor, involves considering a wide range of factors:

🟣Security and Legitimacy
Prioritize platforms with a solid reputation for security and legitimacy. Do your research to ensure the platform you choose is trustworthy.

🟣Project’s Performance
While past performance doesn't guarantee future success, it can be indicative of reliability.
Look for launchpads with a track record of incubating high-quality projects.

🟣Token Support
Consider whether the launchpad supports ICOs, IDOs, IEOs, or a combination. Ensure it aligns with your investment preferences.

🟣Blockchain Compatibility
Check which blockchain(s) the launchpad supports. The success of a project may depend on the underlying blockchain's viability.

🟣Trading Fees
Compare trading fees across different platforms to ensure cost-effectiveness when participating in token sales.

Here you can see all the parameters of the top launchpads based on multiple criteria and make a decision on which one suits you best!

🫢A lot of launchpads attract big communities of retail investors who want to make big gains post-presale and earn X on the launch moment.

However, few of them utilize effective mechanics to ensure that the community not only holds tokens longer but also remains highly interested in supporting the token price for an extended period.

We see this as a problem even with the top launchpads, and we are considering how we can contribute to ensuring that projects from our ecosystem shine not only after closed rounds but also after IDO/ICO.

Do you know any launchpads that meet these criteria?

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Hey there! We're excited to begin announcing the VC representatives for our Pitch Session on April 24th

💎Our first participant is Valeria Cheboksarova,
Partner at WebWise VC

WebWise is a Web3 and AI VC has been in this market since the last cycle with strong DeFi expertise & long-term investment thesis.

WebWise have impressive added value support for founders in pre-launch & post-launch promo of portfolio companies to over 150k engaged community from 100+ countries.

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Also, don't forget to tune in to our Pitch Session live on YouTube on April 24th, 14:00 UTC

📊Supply-Side Tokenomics

InnMind official tokenomics partner, Coinstruct.tech shares deep insights about the supply-side tokenomics tactics.

🟡What are the right choices for vesting terms & cliffs, token distribution and token pricing?

🟡What FDV (Fully Diluted Valuation) to target and how to overcome excessive inflation, but to fairly reward users and guarantee a solid ROI for investors?

Get the answers here ⏩ https://blog.innmind.com/supply-side-tokenomics-supply-distribution-optimization-for-price-performance-cost-efficiency/

💫Introducing the following VC participating in our upcoming Pitch Session:

Ivan Maltsev, General Partner at 3x Capital

3x Capital - is an investment and advisory firm focused on web3 startups.

Firm was established in 2021 by 3 partners: Dima, Taras and Ivan. As of now team has invested in 52 ventures and did 25 successful exits.

Noteworthy among our investments are prominent names such as Mina, Flow, Immutable X, Biconomy, Umee, Tevaera, and others.

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Don't forget to tune in to our Pitch Session live on YouTube on April 24th, 14:00 UTC🙏

… Raise your hands 😂

Pavel Durov on Token2049 stage today.

🪐Introducing the following VC participating in our upcoming Pitch Session:

Bernie Kong, co-founder of Langrenus Fund

Langrenus Fund is a boutique investment institute, leading in Web 3.0 Investment, SPAC Advisory, Capital Raise, and M&A for Emerging growth companies since 2019.

Investing in Web3 early stage, vertical agnostic (except GameFi, NFT and Metaverse)


🚀Excited to join our regular pitch sessions? Apply here

Don't forget to tune in to our Pitch Session live on YouTube on April 24th, 14:00 UTC🙏

🚀The wild west of Layer 2 solutions

Ethereum’s scalability journey seems as a never-ending story starting with the rise of crypto-kitties, followed by the breakthrough of DeFi and still being as the forefront challenge for Ethereum’s network.

Layer-2 chains and their plethora of implementations is being offered as a sustainable solution to the scalability issue of Ethereum, being faster, more cost-effective and better suitable for real world decentralized applications.

Currently, more than 30 L2 chains exist in the ecosystem, competing against each other in multiple fronts; user activity, TVL, project launches and many more. Of course, user activity is not mutually exclusive, however liquidity is!

🚰 Liquidity fragmentation across the many L2 chains is being identified as a gap in today’s web3 ecosystem, striving towards world wide adoption by eliminating friction and barriers for the users.

The challenges of liquidity fragmentation:

1️⃣ Potential increases in transaction costs and delays when interacting with multiple bridges
2️⃣ Using multiple cross-chains bridges increases the exposure to potential hacks
3️⃣ Increase complexity of DeFi yield strategies

The vibrant community of web3 with its innovative founders is already tackling the problem of liquidity fragmentation, creating applications that aim to break the isolated pools of liquidity in L2 chains, promoting the seamless exchange of assets with 1-click solutions!

🔥Have a great week ahead, stay safe and don't forget to buckle up!
The cryptoverse is on the rise🔥

🪐Please welcome the next VC participating in our Pitch Session:

Dr. Ankur Pathak, Founding Principal at London Real Ventures

London Real Ventures is
the world's first media
powered Investment Firm.

The fund invests in promising Web3 projects, bringing immense value to its portfolio through media boost⚡️

🚀Excited to join our regular pitch sessions? Apply here

Don't forget to tune in to our Pitch Session live on YouTube on April 24th, 14:00 UTC🙏

🚩Scam of the month: ZKasino

Remember, any protocol, any team, could scam you.
And that's exactly what happened recently.

ZKasino team told users about their "unique" technologies and launched a liquidity program, where users were encouraged to deposit their ETH into a pool with a lock-up period, and in the future receive back both their locked ETH and ZKAS project tokens.

But things took a turn for the worse when, just a couple of days before the ZKAS listing, the terms were changed.

Under the new terms, users lose the ability to retrieve their ETH, and instead only receive ZKAS with a 5% unlock at TGE.

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More controversy:

Venture capital firm Big Brain has added to the controversy as well, claiming in an April 21 X post that ZKasino “appears to be fraudulent” and it “never invested in ZKasino” but was offered a pro-rata token distribution that it had not received and “will not opt to receive.”

This came after ZKasino claimed in an X post in March to have closed a Series A investment round at a $350 million valuation with backing from crypto exchange MEXC and venture firm Big Brain Holdings, among others.

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All listings were canceled. Users collectively lost 10,500 ETH, equivalent to $30 million, and the team simply withdrew these funds to Lido.

Any project can scam for one reason or another, so always remember to DYOR!

🪐Please welcome the next VC participating in our Pitch Session:

Apostol Boujev, Investment Analyst at Scytale Ventures

Scytale Digital is one of the leading digital asset managers in Europe, investing in early-stage blockchain and crypto projects for its venture funds.

Don't forget to tune in to our Pitch Session live on YouTube on April 24th, 14:00 UTC🙏

⚡️Welcome our Pitch Session’s special guest:

Hugo May, Head of Research at Polkastarter

Polkastarter is the leading decentralized fundraising platform built for cross-chain token pools and bids, offering a permissionless environment.

With Polkastarter, crypto projects can increase their reach, grow their communities and receive support from crypto's most well-versed experts.

Don't forget to tune in to our Pitch Session live on YouTube on April 24th, 14:00 UTC🙏

🤝 Crypto VC Pitching Session⚡️

Today, at 14:00 UTC, we start a livestream where the hottest web3 startups will pitch pre-seed, seed and strategic rounds to crypto VCs and get funding!

🔜 Climax AI | Consumer app, SocialFi

18+ content creation platform disrupting the adult entertainment industry using AI-driven innovation in a Web3 ecosystem.

🔜 Nexis | L1

L1 blockchain built for real-time data access for AI and Machine Learning + cross-chain liquidity and interoperability of smart contracts.

🔜 DigNow | AI, Data Analytics

a two-layer solution; the data warehouse aggregating on-chain and off-chain data and the ML model producing investment analysis.

🔜 zkCross | DeFi Infra

enables seamless liquidity transfers across Dapps & Blockchains with a single click.

🔜 DataLayer | L1

L1 blockchain that introduces local chains to provide dedicated block space to users, purposefully built for high-frequency, low-latency use cases like AI, DEPIN, and gaming.

Participating Investors:

👤WebWise VC |👤Paper Ventures | 👤London Real Ventures | 👤3x Capital | 👤Langrenus Fund | 👤Scytale Ventures | 👤Polkastarter |👤 and many more investors watching live!

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Institutional capital is coming back into the sector⚡️

Pantera Capital is looking to raise more than $1 billion
for a new fund that offers investors exposure to a “full spectrum” of blockchain-based assets.

Slated for an April 2025 launch, the Pantera Fund V is set to serve as the firm’s ‘all-in-one’ fund, a slight change of tune from its existing Liquid Token Fund, Early Stage Token Fund, Bitcoin Fund and Venture Funds — which offer a more specific investment focus.

Startup equity, early-stage tokens, and liquid tokens are among the asset types that would be included in the Pantera Fund V, according to Pantera’s website.

A $1 billion raise would be the largest for the cryptocurrency industry since May 2022, when Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz raised a record-setting $4.5 billion.

VC firm Paradigm is also reportedly negotiating a raise of up to $850 million for a new cryptocurrency fund, which — combined with Pantera — could signal that more institutional capital is coming back into the sector following a market rebound in 2023💫

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