November 27, 2023

Progressive Onboarding

↯ One idea to spark your curiosity

The first interaction users have with web3 products is increasingly littered with menus of options, often including dozens of wallets to choose from. These options are meant to signal optionality, flexibility, and familiarity for incoming users, but it forces them to compare, filter and choose at the onset. Our users are overwhelmed with tooling and starved of good experiences.

As a builder you must be opinionated about user activation: prioritize the options you offer, and strive to show the best ones. With every option you give, ask yourself “which of my users is this for?”

Web3’s coming of age, Privy

Funding

↯ Developer-friendly companies that announced new funding rounds

Zerve, a deep-tech startup building a collaborative development environment for data scientists and developers, raised $3.8m in pre-Seed funding.

Privy, a progressive authentication platform for web3 products, raised $18m in Series A funding.

AI21 Labs, creator of AI21 Studio that provides API access to Jurassic-2 and Task-Specific language models, raised $53m in Series C extension funding.