Adventure #59 - blocknative

Yo, before we get into today’s short deep dive, I got a question.

Would any of you want to do a guest post following the format for covering a business???

• You pick the business (could even be yours)

• You get full credit and can link to your profiles

If that sounds of interest, can you reply to this email?
Or connect with me on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitko7/ and please add something in the messag so I know (e.g. NEWSLETTER).

For expectations management:
ps writeup cannot be about an agency & I have the right to refuse your suggestion

Anyway, today's plan:

Use this framework to look into a business:
(1) The product
(2) The founding team
(3) Funding & Hiring

Current events + business talk
(4) Meme of the week
(5) Hustler's ambition

None of this is sponsored, I choose what to write about.
This is not financial advice either

Today is dedicated to Blocknative’s Gas Estimator

The Product

(i) problem

Gas wars are no fun.
But they’re even less fun when you have no idea wtf is going on.

🙂 ask me how I know 🙂 

Anyhow, it all got easier when I learned to blocknative.

It’s a bear market so you probably won’t need it for a while but thought I’d share

(ii) solution & demo

Blocknative’s gas estimator shows you the gas + suggests what priority fee to put down, depending on your urgency

The TLDR is - the further to the left, the higher your txn will go through, depending on the current gas.

It would be more expensive though so that’s the tradeoff.

There are YT vids about gas wars.

I’d ping one here but not sure which ones to recommend exactly.

Also, speaking of gas wars…
Who remembers the Otherside mint?? 😭 

There’s also more cool things.

For example - a heatmap which shows you the different gas prices during the day.

^ You can use that to see when people are most active.

The Blocknative team has more products but I won’t go into them now.

(iii) considerations

Will there even be a gas war anytime soon??

(iv) how you can benefit

• Learn the basics of gas

• Win gas wars

• Understand when people are active

The founding team

Matt Cutler: CEO and co-founder (LinkedIn)

➙ Founded collaborate[dot]come, exited to Cisco
➙ Then worked at Cisco for almost 5yrs
➙ CMO at Visible Measures Corp (grew the team from 15 to 150+)

Funding and Hiring

A) Funding - $15m in a Series A-1

B) Hiring - yes

For a DevOps/SRE Engineer - here

Favourite meme of the week

Hustler's Ambition

(A section dedicated to frameworks/ideas/tools)

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