Grant ID: 33380vz
Summary:
WootzApp: Mobile web browsers with deep wallet integration
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How much funding are you looking for? (USD):
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Onboarding the next billion users to Blockchain. Are you going to ask them to use a desktop browser extension ? Most people dont have a desktop - especially in Asia. Their only device of accessing the internet is their mobile phone. That’s why you need a web browser build ground up for crypto (and which implements all of the browser specific EIP). The user does not need a wallet app and a browser app separately.
Wootzapp is the way that a hundred million NEW users will use the chain for the First Time. We want people to mint their first asset/NFT within 30 seconds of signing up for Wootzapp.
we are a fully opensource (GitHub - wootzapp/wootz-browser: Browser for Web3. No wallet needed. Safe & Open Source. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wootzapp.browser) mobile browser that is built for crypto. The wallet and everything else is integrated in. We have also implemented several EIP that were specific to browser integration and were waiting for Chrome to implement in.
for a new user to crypto - especially the billions of users in Asia who do NOT have a desktop computer or browser extensions - the way to use crypto is simply “use this browser, it has everything built in”.
If you visit a dapp website, our custom javascript-native bridge will popup and all the web3 functions will work automatically.
The goal of this proposal is to create a new web browser for the next billion users to interact with Web3 services such as IPFS, Filecoin, etc. You can think of this like Google Chrome built purposely to the needs of first time crypto users (and with better integration for Web3 services).
Our goal is to give the easiest possible onramp experience for the mainstream user (who is not crypto savvy) and then progressively draw him deeper over time into ZK rollups, Account Abstraction, etc.
We are looking to be the ultimate consumers of TheGraph. Sure developers can use it (and probably you have thought of it as a developer first API), but we are changing the paradigm of what a browser means in the web3 world. We want the user to traverse the web3 graph…just as easily as they traverse the web2 web today. How do you surface like transaction graph, liquidity movement, tracking wallets, liquidity, etc in a browser. That is the need of the moment…even more so after the market instability. People realise that they need more information (not less) and WootzApp+TheGraph can be the answer.
Have you applied for (or already received) funding from somewhere else?:
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What’s your vision for how your project will impact The Graph and/or web3?:
We are looking to be the ultimate consumers of TheGraph. Sure developers can use it (and probably you have thought of it as a developer first API), but we are changing the paradigm of what a browser means in the web3 world. We want the user to traverse the web3 graph…just as easily as they traverse the web2 web today. How do you surface like transaction graph, liquidity movement, tracking wallets, liquidity, etc in a browser. That is the need of the moment…even more so after the market instability. People realise that they need more information (not less) and WootzApp+TheGraph can be the answer.
Our goal is to build to 1 million users in the next 12 months and 5 million users by 2024. Those are all paying users of TheGraph with zero cost of marketing or acquisition.
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Why are you interested in contributing to The Graph and/or web3?:
Sandeep Srinivasa is a senior payments CXO with about 20 years experience in payments and startups. His last company was YCombinator and Lightspeed funded. His last company had about 3 million payment users. He is on the board of several national banking and federal regulatory boards in India. He is also named on semi-banking licenses by the banking regulator of India. He has spent a decade on payment APIs, regulations and compliance. With particular focus on onramp millions of users to payments.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeepss
https://github.com/sandys/
https://twitter.com/sandeepssrin
For me, the inevitable merging of tradfi and defi - with regulations, CBDC, etc is an opportunity to disrupt both worlds. Not just create one.
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