Cross Chain Weekly #24
Google is now a blockchain company, Polygon's biz dev team keeps winning, & Sei's White Paper
Gm fam. Welcome to the Cross Chain Weekly - the weekly email that makes you a smarter cross chain insider. We’re HODLin it down in a coffee shop in Lisbon this morning as we connect with some of the top cross chain buildooors between the action of EthLisbon and Solana Breakpoint. If you missed our most attended event of the year on Halloween night, the CCC intern put together some highlights below. You won’t believe the costume one guy showed up in…
Trigger warning maxis; the future is cross chain, so let’s dive in.
All Eyes Are On… Our Partners
Dev Help Dev
Academic Dive
Marketing: something as foreign to the blockchain space as is cross chain security. All jokes aside… marketing is yet to be fully prioritized in a highly technical space like blockchain. Some projects think marketing consists of spending on PR agencies or fake social media likes, while others fall into the trap of hiring bot armies. Matti from Zee Prime gives us some insight on how to craft a community focused marketing approach:
Serve a tight core audience, not your entire audience
Focus your efforts on niche podcasts, blogs, and communities
Entertain your community, offer free value to those that are loyal
Using your token as a reward is lazy, build a plan independent of free handouts
To read the full strategy, checkout his post here.
Inside the Coalition
News from Outside the Coalition
Recent Funding & Acquisitions
Out Run the Rat Race
5 new job openings added to the Cross Chain Talent Collective
Ex-Coinbase crew teases waitlist for blockchain monitoring platform
Ex-Amazon developer launches this cross chain decentralized oracle
Upcoming Events
Interop by Axelar // Miami, Feb. 20 - 22
MiamiWeb3 Summit // Miami, Nov. 28-30
The Cross Chain Coalition Web3 Demo Day // Virtual, Jan. 11
Inside Jokes
The Cross Chain Coalition (CCC) is a collective of builders that have united together to educate developers on cross chain infrastructure. The CCC aims to expand awareness and increase education for cross chain development. Join us in our journey to turn every blockchain engineer into a crosschain engineer.