Waterdrip Web3 Entrepreneurship Program (WWEP) is a college student training program jointly launched by Waterdrip Capital, Buidler DAO and Blockchain Academy. It aims to help young people who are interested in developing in Web3 grow into star entrepreneurs through a half-year, five-module training.
existin previous articles, we look back at the first half of WWEPs journey. During that time, we completed all 22 special instructor courses and related after-class AMA Space AMA where instructors answered questions, held a number of dynamic offline activities, and also successfully concluded the call for papers for the Web3 Research Report Contest. The selected research reports have also been published. At this stage, our students are provided with a variety of opportunities for learning, offline social interaction, and mentor exchanges. The entire WWEP journey has now come to an end.
Recently, we have just concluded the road show and selection of Web3 Entrepreneurship Demo Day in global universities. Startup Demo Day is the pinnacle of WWEP, bringing together student entrepreneurial projects from around the world. We received a total of more than 60 project roadshow registrations. After strict screening, 14 outstanding university Web3 entrepreneurial projects finally stood out. In the road show on August 31, 2023, we invited more than 30 of the world’s top investment institutions.Web3 Global University Entrepreneurship Demo DayIt aims to provide roadshow opportunities for students from major universities around the world who are interested in starting a business in the Web3 field, and help them develop better on the road to entrepreneurship.
In this Demo Day, investors from major top investment institutions provided professional reviews for each entrepreneurial project and provided valuable industry insights and suggestions.
The evaluation criteria cover five dimensions: product completion, technical feasibility, team background, business model and market analysis, with equal weight for each dimension. The final ranking is:
First place: NostrAsset
Prize: $10,000
Project Introduction: Asset infrastructure protocol based on Nostr and Lightning Network, supporting natural language Chat-To-Trade mode. Users can use Nostrs public and private keys to send and receive Taproot Assets and Sats at the Nostr protocol layer. The settlement and security of assets still rely on the Lightning Network. The Nostr Assets protocol itself does not issue assets, but only introduces assets to Nostr through the protocol.
Official website: https://test.nostrassets.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NostrAssets
Second place: Hookfi
Prize: $5,000
Project Introduction: HookFi is a hook-as-service platform. Leveraging the power of Uniswap V4 hook, HookFi enables users to build their own hooks/trading pool with 0 code and 100% safety.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hookfinances?s=21
Third place: Nextme
Prize: $5,000
Project Introduction: The Social Economy Network Connecting Everything.
Official website: https://nextme.one/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NextmeOne
Fourth place: LegalNow
Prize: 2000 USD
Project Introduction: LegalNow is a 24/7 AI contract expert for small businesses. LegalNow offers"lawyer-level" services, including "consultation guidance," "document drafting," and "risk assessment and modification," providing users with cost-effective, customized, and professional solutions for all their contract-related needs, handling the nitty-gritty work.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LegalNOW_AI
Fifth place: RΞSPECT BOT
Prize: 2000 USD
Project Introduction: RΞSPECT is a one-click telegram trading robot with customized on-chain automatic trading strategies. Its built-in non-custodial wallet, on-chain security services, quantitative trading signals, and multi-chain and multi-language support have greatly improved traders’ A full ecological trading experience, and helps traders achieve sustainable profits through bulls and bears.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/respect_coin
Official website: https://www.respectcoin.xyz/
Sixth place: Cosminmart
Prize: 2000 USD
Project Introduction: Cosminmart is a new Bitcoin ecosystem based on the RGB protocol and deployed on the Lightning Network. It is equipped with complete infrastructure, including Cosm Wallet; Cosm Market; Bitswap, etc. It will be combined with Nostr, WebLN and other protocols to promote the development of the LApp era.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cosminmart_com
Official website: https://www.cosminmart.com/#/
At the same time, after half a year of training, 160+ students have carefully completed each module training and actively participated. The final individual outstanding student rankings are currently announced, and they will also receive individual scholarships.
Waterdrip Capital provided over47, 000 USD scholarships to support these outstanding entrepreneurial teams. In addition, Startup Demo Day gotWeb3Port, Afflux, Bewater, Dengchain Community, Moon Landing Workshop, ScalingX, Whaling Ship Communitystrategic support, andAmazon Cloud Technology, OORT, Hamster, Footprint, dPrism, Tristansponsorship support. The support of these partners provides entrepreneurial projects with valuable resources and opportunities to help them succeed in the Web3 field.
WWEP has gone through a fulfilling and fruitful journey from project establishment to completion. The original intention of launching the project is to cultivate more outstanding Web3 talents in colleges and universities. The road to Web3 entrepreneurship for college students is long and arduous, but our mission is not over. . We look forward to seeing these outstanding entrepreneurial teams continue to grow and innovate in the Web3 field. We will continue to provide them with resources and opportunities to help them realize their entrepreneurial vision. At the same time, we will continue to actively participate in and promote the continuous development of the Web3 ecosystem and contribute to future innovation and achievements. This chapter of WWEP has come to an end, but we will continue to work with these outstanding entrepreneurs to write the future chapter of the Web3 field. Let us look forward to more exciting moments and achievements together, as well as the infinite possibilities brought by the Web3 era.
