After a $2 million pre-seed round, Salsa, a web3-native messaging platform that aids users in discovering and connecting with relevant individuals and businesses, has made its mobile app available in a public beta.
By integrating social proof from on-chain data to contextualize wallet-native messages, the new Salsa mobile application aids web3 users in establishing meaningful connections. Although web3 users produce important data on-chain, they presently converse on web2 platforms like Telegram and Discord since those platforms don’t have native support for the data. A fragmented user experience and impersonation schemes are the outcomes of this.
Salsa’s wallet-based login confirms on-chain ownership and identifies user commonalities. In addition to being helpful for those trying to improve their networking, combining web3 data and messages is crucial for marketers to engage their audience entirely. Salsa ensures that NFTs, the CRM of the future, lead to connections rather than simply insights.
With POAP, the most well-liked web3 protocol for creating digital treasures linked to real-world experiences, Salsa is thrilled to announce its public beta. Brands like Adidas, eBay, Goldman Sachs, and Vogue utilize POAP to manufacture digital artefacts that signify attendance at an event, establish connections with other people, and provide proof of participation. POAP offers deep insights into a user’s interests in web3 technologies. Salsa has released a direct interface with the POAP mobile app and makes it simple to create and claim POAPs immediately within the Salsa app.
“From the inception of POAP in 2018, we have fantasized about a communications system that adheres to the four tenets of web3: immutability, trustlessness, and credible neutrality. Along with the Salsa team, we look forward to developing the peer-to-peer chat paradigm for the coming generation, “Patricio Worthalter, the creator of POAP and a Salsa investor, adds.
According to Helena Gagern, co-founder and CEO of Salsa, “Salsa focuses on non-financial assets that convert Ethereum addresses into individuals to meet.” Our goal is to demonstrate to web3 users the human aspect of the platform, which is unaffected by stock market speculation.
Grace Wang and Helena Gagern founded Salsa in June 2022. IDEO CoLab VC and Inflection.xyz co-led a $2 million pre-seed round, and Superscrypt provided additional funding. Angel investors Nader Al-Naji, Gmoney, Liam Horne, Dan Romero, Balaji Srinivasan, Henri Stern, Khan Tasinga, Wieland Holfelder, and Patricio Worthalter also supported the venture. “In our sector, the necessity for a crypto-native communication system is becoming increasingly evident since interacting off-chain and exchanging currency and data causes friction, inefficiencies, and high costs. We are delighted to assist Grace and Helena, a unique pair of co-founders with the complementary technical and market knowledge and an excellent rapport, in their endeavours, “John Zannos from Inflection.xyz states.
