Adventure #21 - Breadcrumbs.app

Hey there👋My mission is to fuel innovation and support ambitious founders!

And today is our last issue of 2022 and releasing on Christmas day so I'll keep it short.

Today's plan:

Use this framework to look into a business:(1) The company (/product)(2) The founding team(3) Funding and Hiring(4) Why the business excites me

Current events + business talk(5) Meme + NFT Market(6) Hustler's ambition

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

Today is dedicated to Breadcrumbs.app

The company (/product)

Breadcrumbs is an analytics-based software that visualizes blockchain transactions. Extremely simple yet powerful, I learned of it through zachxbt's investigations

Below is an example of Franklin (BAYC whale) and visualization of how he moves his $

And all these points are ones that you can move around so it can fit your needs.Let's look at another example. Ape #9724 was stolen earlier today. Below is the address of the scammer 0x24dbD481CbA8FA77066BEbccf0c4b0DCF52b7904

The scammer accepted a 71.5 weth offer and then moved the funds as seen below

On the image you can't see how $ goes to each account but when you click on the lines, you get a lot more details. Well, maybe the paid version has those details? Idk.The below screenshot is etherscan showing the scammers movement

You can also join investigations as a team, do monitoring, and loads of other things. What I've shown you is the MVP (in my opinion). There are loads of investigative resources too

Overall, if you really want to understand what's happening on the blockchain, I'd strongly recommend adding Breadcrumbs to your tech stack💯

The founding team

Lorne Lantz - CEO (his LinkedIn, his Twitter)• founded Breadcrumbs in 2019• previously, advisor to Spartan Group (big VC firm)• his prev startup (Snappay) got selected by Innotribe as a top 10 fintech startup in the world, out of 400 applicants

Rieya Piscano - COO (her LinkedIn)• worked for the UN for over 4 years• over 3 years of exp as a project manager• with Breadcrumbs since May 2021

Funding and Hiring

A) FundingYes - $1.6million in a seed round

B) HiringNo jobs advertised on their website, linkedin, or discord.

Why this business excites me

I just love how simple it is to use, the free version is more than enough. I'm also really getting into data visualization so tools like this are definitely on my radar. If anyone knows how to do a graph on Dune analytics, let's chat.

Favourite meme of the week

This is a meme within a meme, unfortunately

Quick market things

1/ SBF gets a $250 mil bail - who would've thought....2/ Yuga hired a new CEO (ex Activision)3/ Trial of Jimmy the Monkey + loads of volume on Yuga assets4/ Wolf game finally out (the first actual DeFi game??)5/ Rolling Loud releasing an NFT collection as a lifetime passes

My on-chain activityOh man, this week was a bit of a ride... Thought I'd sell my llama, it didn't work.Then bought 2 Degen Access Passes at 0.4eth each (now at 0.2069eth). #rekt

Rationale was to get on the free mint by Alienqueen's free mint but since the floor drop, it counted as if I'd minted 2 at 0.2 hahaha. Anyhow, I sold both of them, then had change of heart and bought back 1....^ Seemed to be the right call as floor is now 0.315eth. Also got some free mints from cool artists. Screenshot below shows the recent additions

Also minted Man U for £30, pretty cool! And didn't need to have tez wallet.

Also, since it's the final newsletter of the year, I wanted to make it extra positive.Below, you'll find the achievements of some of my LinkedIn frens:

1. Brian - connected with many amazingly talented people in web3

2. Tyron - launched apespace.io, hit 300k monthly customers after 6 months

3. Jeff - Became a full-time Web3 content writer & made great friends along the way

4. Janina - Launched a podcast where Web3 builders talk about their why, what & how

5. Sanjar - gained greater clarity

6. Salim - Assembled his agency & started giving LinkedIn consultations

7. Isai - Launched Web3 Recruiting Agency

8. Aman - contributed to building Ternoa despite health issues and losing his job

9. Valeriy - stayed in crypto for a year

10. Josephine - Founded Swiss NFT Association to bring the web3 community

11. Rik - organised Codefrombali.com

12. Michael - Launched LetsGoCure, bringing treatments and cures to life

13. Koby - got his company (Nefertiti) featured on Binance news

14. Michael - stayed relentless & committed despite fear, found traction despite all odds

15. Antonio - Started The Builders of Web3 show

Hustler's Ambition

A section dedicated to business frameworks/ideas/tools

I found this FREE website design course - it's only valid for 21 more hours so I hope you see this in time. Apparently, the guy is the real deal

Got a few other banger resources but it's Christmas and I don't want to overload you with cool things. Will defo have a banger for next Sunday (1st of January)🚀

Wishing you a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year!

See you next Sunday👋- Mitko