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🔑 Build a Web3 app without code

Launched in Dec 2021, thirdweb is the product of Social Chain founder Steven Bartlett and Bebo's CTO Furqan Rydhan.

Backed — to the tune of $5m — by a series of A-list investors including Gary Vaynerchuck, Shaan Puri, Ryan Hoover, Greg Isenberg, and Packy McCormick, thirdweb is enabling creators, artists, and entrepreneurs to easily build, launch and manage Web3 projects.

Here's everything you need to know about this emerging platform.

Introducing thirdweb

thirdweb provides a suite of tools allowing users to easily build Web3 projects. It also enables users to add features such as NFTs, marketplaces, and social tokens to their Web3 projects without writing a line of code.

According to Bartlett, he and Rydhan;

“Built thirdweb to allow entrepreneurs, developers, brands and creators to unlock the potential of this 3rd iteration of the internet in the easiest way possible — without having to learn a brand new coding language and without needing to hire a completely new team.

In the same way that Stripe made payments easy for builders and creators, thirdweb makes Web3 easy, unintimidating and accessible."

What is Web3?

Good question. Bartlett explains:

“Web1: all you could do was read information. Web2 introduced social networking — it connected us and turned readers into creators, but in the process it handed control of the internet to a few individuals.

Web3 is a version of the internet which will be owned by the people who use and build it, enabled by the blockchain and made possible by NFTs.

Art, concert tickets, digital fashion, music, video game collectibles and even your audience — you can now truly own these things, creating a trillion dollar digital economy that's consuming every single industry.”

What types of projects does thirdweb enable?

NFTs for membership

A large portion of thirdweb’s customer base is using the company’s services to manage NFTs for membership.

Using thirdweb’s technology, customers can create a collection of NFTs that act as a token to unlock future utility, which could be access to a private community, gated content, future product experiences, or digital experiences.

Take 100 Thieves — a big eSports team in the US that worked with the thirdweb team to build a simple platform for 100 Thieves users that enabled them to claim NFTs without having to step away from the platform to create an NFT wallet.

As a result, over 700,000 people claimed an NFT!

100 Thieves @100Thieves A championship isn't just for our players to celebrate. You believed in us. You cheered alongside us. We have a special gift for you. A commemorative digital 100 Thieves championship chain. Available now for free for everyone. Claim: collect.100thieves.com pic.twitter.com/oOBbfObUIy February 2nd 2022 416 Retweets 4,421 Likes

Web2 apps, Web3 features

It’s becoming more common to see businesses add Web3 features into their playbook.

For example, a SaaS business can allow people to gain early access to its platform with an NFT drop. Users could hold that token then sell it on to someone else once they've used it.

The SaaS business could take royalties from every secondary sale, making it both a fun experience for the user and a lucrative revenue model for the business.

DAOs

DAOs, or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, will often sell membership in the form of NFTs, and it is this concept that thirdweb can help launch for its customers.

Public marketplaces, PFP collections, and blockchain games

According to thirdweb, a recent customer of theirs is a brand wanting to build a marketplace for augmented reality (AR) NFTs. This will be the first of its kind—a marketplace where people can sell and trade NFTs that can be used in virtual reality games and platforms.

thirdweb is also facilitating the launch of large-scale NFT collections, and games that have digital economies.

So how does all of this relate to the no-code community?

Although it’s still early days, thirdweb has what they refer to as no-code features, low-code features, and SDKs (devkits for programmers).

One no-code example is a widget for people selling NFT collections. If you’re building without code, you can simply copy the widget code thirdweb will create for you and embed it on your site builder.

They can also guide you through adding a ‘Connect your wallet’ button on your site, so that your users can use their cryptocurrency without navigating away from your platform.

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