2021 is a boom year for Cryptocurrency, NFT, and Blockchain Investment. Consequently, there is a huge need for investors to uncover promising ideas in the early stages.
AdLunam, a first Proof-of-Attention Seedpad and IDO Launchpad for the Web 3.0 Attention Economy integrated with NFT technology, creates a continuously engaged investor community that trades relational investment for capital allocation. Investors are compensated appropriately for their time by correlating their degree of engagement (their Proof of Attention score) with their eligibility for distribution and access to project-specific communities and prizes. Projects can reserve their community reward spend for the crypto community’s most involved users, ensuring allocation is made to people who have a vested interest in the token beyond pump ‘n dump.
AdLunam intends to offer its first cohort of projects in the first quarter of the new year. They hope to use the Attention Economy to drive more connections between qualified investors and potential projects.
AdLunam Co-Founder Nadja Bester was interviewed by Justin Roberti about AdLunam’s new initiatives and aims for the year 2022.
“To understand IDO (Initial DEX Offering) platforms, we must talk about mangroves.
Mangroves are a loosely connected mishmash of tree species that share one extraordinary commonality: They grow in oxygen-poor soil that’s flooded with saltwater every time the tide comes in. What makes them so remarkable is that they’ve managed to flourish in an environment that would kill off even the hardiest tree. Crypto in its infancy is like a mangrove estuary.
So, where do IDO platforms fit in? Nurseries. Mangroves are nurseries par excellence. Estuaries that form around mangroves offer juveniles from different species and taxonomies protection against predators until they’re ready to venture out by themselves.
Similarly, the original purpose of a launchpad was to offer investors a buffer against predatory projects. After the 2018-2019 Wild West, investors needed protection, and this focus quickly expanded into offering new projects the support they need to grow independent and prosperous,” Bester said.
“When we were ideating the concept behind AdLunam, we were determined that it couldn’t be just another platform to add to the body count. We held ourselves to strict parameters: Either we reinvent how IDOs is done, or we’d be better off doing something else.
The problems we’d be solving… had to address real pain points that to date had remained unsolvable. Double points if it was a victim of the additive bias and could be solved without the need for millions of dollars and years down the black hole of R&D.
Our solution had to benefit our two stakeholder groups equally – the projects and the investors,” Bester said.
“Any project that’s gone through private fundraising rounds knows how valuable it is to have negotiation discussions with VCs in terms of the value-add and how important it is to be able to decline offers from institutional investors who don’t share your vision or values.
The ability to vet investors is crucial in ensuring a healthy cap table. Yet, as soon as it hits the retail investment round, projects are going in blind, with no way of knowing whether your retail investors are good or bad actors or whether they share the long-term vision for the project.
One of our key focus areas was to extend a project’s ability to do due diligence on their investors from the seed stage all the way up to IDO.
With AdLunam, projects get to hand-pick the investors they want to reward allocation to, basing their decisions on a dashboard of robust data analytics that offers a detailed overview of an investor’s profile,” Bester said.
“It is the Attention Economy. We’ve reluctantly accepted the idea that if it’s free, you are the product. Crypto has flipped that model on its head, and projects are literally paying to get investor attention. Projects end up spending vast marketing budgets on haphazard AMAs and giveaways, hoping to retain investor attention past these fleeting ‘retweet ‘n win’ moments.
There are vast swaths of crypto investors out for the hunt, hoping to win $10 here, $20 there. They’re not emotionally invested – or often even interested at all – in these brands… They play the odds, and the odds play them…
We knew that the rules of engagement between projects and investors had to give. These days, in a lot of ways, launchpads are skewed in favour of the tokens they list, and investors often pull at the short end of the stick. Thus was born our Engage-to-Earn model, a gamified approach to engagement whereby investors are continuously rewarded for the time and energy they invest in participating in crypto discussions or creating content…,” Bester said.
“Society is based largely on a zero-sum game principle. There can only be one winner. A non-zero-sum game is a more intelligent – and sustainable – long-term strategy… Win/win cooperation is essential if there’s going to be any sort of continuity. So, a project desires a win/win relationship with its investors, namely a shared long-term loyalty to token growth. As for a launchpad, a ready-made investor community lies at its core.
The question we asked ourselves was whether we could create a platform that gives both stakeholders what they deserve without depriving each other in the process. And I think we’ve managed to do just that,” Bester said.
“Proof of Attention is one-half of AdLunam’s Investor Profile NFT offering. The other is a Wallet Scorecard.
Proof of Attention is a formulaic approach to quantifying and qualifying investor engagement. Gamify Engage to Earn forms part of our ecosystem, a type of Grand Central Station out in space. Open to anyone, free to join and participate, an investor can build up a sizable presence here with nothing more than their social capital contributions.
An investor’s Wallet Scorecard, on the other hand, is a slow-burn qualifier. Our data collection includes aspects such as the age of the wallet, funds transfer frequency, and very importantly, how quickly an airdrop or allocation token is dumped. Over time, this builds up a revealing picture of an investor’s behavioural patterns, and projects can take this into consideration when extending allocation.
Together, an investor’s Engagement and Wallet Scores is represented as a dynamic NFT (dNFT) that holds their store of value as an investor, and the value of these dNFTs increase or decrease depending on their actions within the AdLunam ecosystem.
Investing into projects happens in the launchpad area of the AdLunam platform, exclusive by-invitation-only project spaces where projects can reward the top-standing investors of their choosing with airdrops, allocation, and community rewards,” Bester said.
“For investors, we have a 70/30 split. For higher tiers, 70% of an IDO’s allocation is guaranteed and relates to staking $LUNAM. Through our Seedpad, retail investors who lack access to early-stage deal flow will be able to connect with projects seeking sanction elements like points, badges, ranks, and leaderboards, making this a very dynamic environment in which engagement actions yield immediate results. The Engage to Earn model is built around the other 30%…
For projects, we offer a range of options. Launch your token through Launchpad. Kickstart your community early on through Seedpad. And if you’re a Web 2.0 company – startup or well-established – looking to pivot your offerings into Web 3, then Space Camp takes you through the entire pipeline, from initial advisory services to growing your community and launching your IDO.
We’re extremely bullish on this technology and this industry, and as a result, we have a vested interest in diversifying our product lines. We’re not a niche launchpad, and we have no intentions of shunning fantastic DeFi projects simply because the metaverse is the hype of the hour.
However, personally speaking, as a female-led company in a male-dominated industry, at a time when sustainable development is necessarily inserting itself into every conversation, with a track record of supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets, my door is open for projects who find themselves on the fringes of mainstream crypto,” Bester said.
Find more information about the project:
Website: https://adlunam.cc/
Telegram Announcement: https://t.me/adlunam_ann
Telegram Group: https://t.me/adlunamchat
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdLunamInc
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/4VpXGBnqd7
If you have any questions, suggestions, or ideas about the projects, please email ventures@coincu.com.
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