Project Name
Wat
Project Category
Build & Integrate
Proposal Earmark
New Outreach
Proposal Description
Fully bootstrapped, we distributed the Wat API keys to more than 20 projects, from trader.xyz to Reservoir,
We are insanely proud of what we have done so far, without any funding.
Try it by yourself by searching for “Doodles” on Reservoir without Wat, and then Reservoir with Wat.
The result is absolutely fantastic.
Dedicating a large chunk of our most valuable asset --time-- in the last months, we are in an alarming situation where we can’t maintain product development and ensure activity growth without funding.
Servers, operation platforms, and ML training is very expensive.
We believe in a future where we empower the Ocean protocol with our model, and support data builders in their journey.
This is feasible and will require support with this 8,000$ grant.
ALL the funding will be used for model training, API scalability, and hosting expenses. We know we ship an even much better product with this funding, and will be absolutely grateful for the Ocean community support.
Grant Deliverables
- Maintain the API during the next 4 months
- Offer free API key for all (proved) Ocean community members
- Deployment of a complementary other machine learning model
Project Description
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Wat is a powerful search engine for NFTs
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We ambition to connect humans to web3
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We compute thousands of NFT endpoints and make them accessible via natural language
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We are building an infrastructure powering NFT-related user’s experiences
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Our API offers the best search engine for NFT developers
Problem: NFT search is a mess
- 1. Current search solutions are a shame
- 2. Builders don’t know how to make a good search engine…
- 3. … and they don’t even have the resources to build one
Solution: Wat API
- 1. We make search 10x better
- 2. We do it for them
- 3. and aggregate data to be the best
Final Product
- A consumer-facing application to search, discover and get recommendations
- The app allows you to purchase NFT thanks to partner API. We try to offer the greatest experience from search to buy
- An API for developers to supercharge their search bar in a minute
- Can be integrated in 3min into a wallet, marketplace, social app
Value Add Criteria
- We offer free API keys for Ocean community members
- We leverage Ocean products and offer feedback to the builders
- We commit to organizing an AMA and tutorial session to share more about our AI model
Core Team
Andrei Eden
CEO/Co-Founder
Product @ Leading DeFi protocol
Background in Economics and Finance
Hal
CTO/Co-Founder
PhD in ML
Ex-Google, Apple, and more
Sansil
Front lead
Front end at Vercel
Mukesh
Back-end Lead
Funding Requested
3000
Minimum Funding Requested
3000
Wallet Address
0x9E9F61B9E5F1C811fa03C2365C61c9A7b934889C
