🔮 The 10 Best Web3 Design Inspiration Sites
By: Chip Dong Lim
Tags: Web3, Design Trends, Blockchain, Finance, Crypto

As former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey recently tweeted “You don’t own web3 but venture capitalists do” and Marc Andreessen blocked him after the Web3 comments, it is opening up discussions in the community about whether Web3 is really decentralized. However, it is undeniable that Web3 really brings fresh changes in terms of both technologies and design trends — which is really interesting to learn for UX/UI practitioners like me. Below I present to you an awesome list of Web3 companies and hopefully give you inspirations for designing effective messaging on the web platform.

01 Cosmos

Before Cosmos, blockchains were siloed and unable to communicate with each other. Cosmos aims to solve this by decentralized network of independent parallel blockchains that can scale, interoperate with each other, and handle large amounts of transactions.

02 Axies Infinity

Axie is a popular blockchain game in which players buy pet NFTs (Axies), breed them, battle with them, and trade them. It has successfully blazed the play-to-earn path, because rather than selling game items or copies, the developers of Axies focus on growing the player-to-player economy and take small fees to monetize.

03 After Party

Founded by creators, for creators, Afterparty is committed to providing the most powerful Web3 tools that help creators build and maintain meaningful relationships with their fan and supporter communities, including an NFT marketplace through which creators can offer NFT collections. Afterparty’s platform also gives creators the ability to host intimate, live experiences for their most dedicated fans and create exclusive NFT tokens.

04 DeSo Foundation

The DeSo blockchain is supported by the non-profit DeSo Foundation, whose broad mission is to support the decentralization of social media.

05 Foundation App

Foundation is a creative playground for artists, curators and collectors to experience the new creative economy. Creative community can showcase their work to collectors and anyone who wanted to support creators’ work.

06 Llama

For Bounty Hunters, they can collectively join forces to form their own Services DAOs–think of these as organizations that provide outsourced help to DAOs that don’t have the required skills on hand. Llama is such a platform that allows Bounty Hunters to “Contribute-to-earn” using their functional knowledge in treasury management.

07 Snapshot

Snapshot is an off-chain gasless multi-governance client with easy to verify and hard to contest results.

08 Juicebox

With Juicebox, projects are built and maintained by motivated punks getting paid transparently, and funded by a community of users and patrons who are rewarded as the projects they support to succeed. Juicebox believes that the future will be led by creators, and owned by communities.

09 Alchemy

‘AWS for blockchain’ Alchemy wants to do for blockchain and Web3 what AWS (Amazon Web Services) did for the internet. ​​The startup’s goal is to be the starting place for developers considering building a product on top of a blockchain or mainstream blockchain applications. It has reached profitability and raised $250M from a16z leading the financing.

10 RabbitHole

Currently, blockchain technologies are opaque to average consumers, especially on financial transactions. However, to make decentralized identity useful and widespread, it is important to map off-chain experiences and affiliations on-chain, such as people’s educational accomplishments, professional achievements, or fanships. RabbitHole allows users to record professional achievements on-chain.

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