Bloom Grant Application

Grant
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1. Contact information (Email or Telegram)

2. Project name

  • Bloom

3. Project website

4. Please provide a 200-word (or less) summary of your project, specifically outlining the problem(s) you aim to solve and your proposed solutions.

The onchain world is overwhelming and hard to keep up with. We pick and choose our subcultures, leveraging a myriad of tooling, wallets and explorers to extract utility and have fun. But the user experience is painful. We are faced with constant friction. We accept this because we are early adopters. But unlike us, most people aren’t comfortable leveraging multiple intricate tools or dedicating significant time to research.

Bloom is an all-in-one social hub for exploring the decentralised web, centered around a connected and social Web3 experience. No installation. No seed phases. Plug in your wallet or use it standalone. By surfacing onchain opportunities based on the things you own and the live activity of the people you follow, Bloom filters out the noise to highlight relevant content, helping you to stay informed and take action.

Bloom’s personalised portal is designed to address the key usability problems plaguing Web3 today, from seamless self-custody to DeFi yield entry. It’s the ultimate interface for navigating Web3 and bridges the gap between early adopters and mainstream.

5. Please provide a summary of the project that you are trying to build or have built. Please provide any links to a demo or git repository, if available.

Bloom’s vision is extensive but the initial goal centres around solving Web3 discovery.

We’re unlocking onchain alpha through the power of social intelligence. Bloom will surface live, actionable recommendations from the activity of the people you follow — combining data from onchain transactions, Farcaster, Lens, and Polymarket. Track friends, traders and KOLs and discover relevant copy trades, mints, trading signals, airdrops and more.

Bloom’s real-time analytics engine uses modern deep learning algorithms to filter and surface personalised, actionable alpha from onchain transactions, automatically filtering for spam and phishing.

From portfolio management to yield optimisation, human-readable transaction histories to pre-signing, Bloom refines each detail of the core Web3 flow.

We launched our previous product, a wallet, in April 2024. It’s an open-source native desktop app, with a Rust-based architecture thats extremely secure. The live product has 12K active users. We are currently heads down building our new product.

6. Please provide a summary of your project roadmap/timeline, and how you plan to utilize the grant.

The Bloom team is currently building our new product. Launch is scheduled for early Q1. The grant will supplement work on integrating RSS3 data feeds and developing our solution for surfacing onchain opportunities.

7. Please provide a short summary of your business model (if any).

This type of product unlocks an extensive set of revenue streams, capturing value at every stage of the Web3 interaction flow.

  • On/Off Ramping: Fees for token buying and selling via Bloom.
  • Swapping: Fees for swapping tokens via Bloom.
  • Bridging: Fees for bridging tokens between chains via Bloom.
  • NFTs: Fees for minting, buying or selling NFTs via Bloom.
  • DeFi Hub: A percentage fee on yield earned through Bloom’s DeFi assistant.
  • Ad Space: Leased to protocols, dApps and chains.
  • Pro subscription: Unlocks access to pro features including copytrading/yield rebalancing notifications, tax reporting and advanced portfolio tracking tools. The pro sub removes all fee markups on swapping, bridging, on/off ramping, and NFTs.
  • Affiliate fees: Affiliate fees for directing traffic to other protocols.

8. In which part of the grant are you interested? Please select all the items that capture your interest.

  • Baseline Grant ($1,500+)
  • Match Fund (Additional funding by Open Information Alliance members)
  • Technical and Strategic Advice
  • Community and Networking Support

9. Please provide a short summary about the team.

Our senior team have scaled wallets to 200K users, designed products for the world’s largest brands and architected software for the UK’s Ministry of Defence.

Charlie - Co-Founder & CEO: Building Open Source wallets and related protocols and tooling for 7 years. Former Director of Engineering at IOTA Foundation (an OG L1). Charlie Varley - Bloom | LinkedIn
Nicole - Co-Founder & CTO: Architected security-sensitive products for the UK’s Ministry of Defence. Former Technical Lead at IOTA Foundation. Nicole O'Brien - Bloom | LinkedIn nicole-obrien (Nicole O'Brien) · GitHub

10. Is there any additional information you’d like to provide for this application? Links to decks or files may also be provided here.

Shared with RSS3 team

11. Do you have a referral code (ask whoever invited you to apply)? Don’t worry if you don’t have one; it will not affect your application in any way.

Kate and Jeff from RSS3

12. Any additional material you’d like to provide for this application? (Attach in topic)

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