Erindale.xyz – GoDaddy customer – (United Kingdom)
The .xyz community is home to many talented visual creatives and design professionals using .xyz to showcase their work and further their careers. Visual effects specialist ChristopherKerr.xyz showcases his professional film and television experience. Programmer Rosenbloomboom.xyz shares their Unity3D, C++, JavaScript, and Ionic-based gaming projects. Visual effects (VFX) designer Yue Jia uses Realtime.xyz to share his experiences as a real-time VFX artist and to host online courses for aspiring VFX creators looking to develop their skills. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to an accomplished designer who displays their 3D design experience on a personal website with a memorable and unique FirstName.xyz domain: Erindale.xyz.
Erindale.xyz is the personal website of Erindale Woodford, a skilled 3D designer, artist, and software instructor living in Manchester, England. Erindale teaches coursework in Blender, a leading 3D computer graphics software toolset, through their popular YouTube channel, which has over 32,000 subscribers and over one million views. With a focus on 3D design’s usage for the built environment (like buildings and spaces created or modified by people), Erindale specializes in Geometry Nodes and Sverchok tools in the Blender suite.
Each project in Erindale’s portfolio demonstrates a strong skill set that may intrigue aspiring designers and catch the attention of potential collaborators. One project, titled Blender Splash, details Erindale’s accomplishment in having 3D design work selected and immortalized on the Blender splash screen. When a user opens the Blender software application, the splash screen appears in the center of the window, and contains options to create new projects or open recently opened files. The splash itself is a vivid piece of graphic art designed using Blender, and is updated on occasions such as new version updates and launches. Erindale’s splash artwork was used for Blender version 2.93, and features a sunlit work table inside a potting shed. The still life shows ornate vessels of flowers primed for a floral arrangement. Everything in the scene is created using Blender’s Geometry Nodes tool. Another lifelike project, called Pit Camper, is one of Erindale’s personal side projects aimed to be used as the main setting for a pending animated film titled “The Pit.” The setting is of a realistic, muddied camper positioned in rocky terrain. The camper is complete with a lounge chair perched on top for catching summer rays.
Erindale’s widely used YouTube channel features over 100 resourceful video tutorials, including the most popular title, “Procedural Bricks with Blender 2.9 – Blender Shader Node Tutorial,” which now has 56K views. Throughout Erindale.xyz, there are helpful links to Erindale’s YouTube tutorials. For example, Erindale’s portfolio contains a project titled Environments, featuring rich landscapes of a wooded trail, intricate rock formations, and an intimate rope bridge. In the project description, Erindale explains that creating foliage distributions has become more straightforward with the use of Geometry Nodes and points those interested in learning how to replicate the rope bridge scene to visit their “Parametric Rope Bridge for Blender 3.0” tutorial on YouTube. Over on Erindale’s Blog page, visitors can read a post about Erindale’s passion for teaching and their thoughtful development of coursework for other educational platforms, like Canopy Games and Futurly. This post also provides links to the online courses, including options like “Blender Creative Suite,” “Geometry Nodes,” and “Blender for Parametric Design.”
With Erindale’s realistic 3D projects and valuable experiences cohesively displayed on Erindale.xyz, website visitors can discover a variety of work examples and take advantage of online training opportunities. The straightforward navigation makes it easy for visitors to get a strong sense of Erindale’s abilities and expertise, and even consider Erindale for collaboration.
Many accomplished visual artists like Erindale are showcasing their skillful work on .xyz domains. You can see more of Erindale’s work and take advantage of their online instruction by following them on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, or by visiting Erindale.xyz.
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(source: Namebio.com)
| Total dollar value: $796,418.00 |
| Average price: $2,718.15 |
| Low Price: $100.00 |
| High Price: $79,888.00 |
| Maximum SLD characters: 20 |
| 2C – 5 3L – 87 (29.69%) 4L – 26 (8.87 %) |
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Paradigm.xyz – Cloudflare customer – (United States)
The .xyz community continues to grow with unique blockchain and crypto-focused businesses founded by accomplished tech entrepreneurs. Newly rebranded Block.xyz, co-founded by technology billionaire and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, develops popular financial services including leading credit card reader Square and Bitcoin-focused Square Crypto project Spiral.xyz. DAO-governed Universe.xyz, co-founded by early Ethereum investor Tim Kang, helps you mint NFTs and launch your own community-driven NFT universe. Crypto wallet Monolith.xyz, founded by Dutch entrepreneur and investor Mel Gelderman, aims to make it easier for users to buy, store, and spend their cryptocurrency in the real world. This week’s #WebsiteWednesday features the company website of record-breaking Web3-focused venture capital firm co-founded by Forbes-featured billionaire Fred Ehrsam: Paradigm.xyz.
Paradigm.xyz is a Web3 and crypto-focused venture capital firm. This past November, Paradigm.xyz announced a $2.5 billion venture fund, the largest cryptocurrency fund as of publication. The San Francisco-based firm was founded by one of Forbes’ richest people in America, Fred Ehrsam, and former Sequoia Capital partner Matt Huang. Fred Ehrsam, known for co-founding the leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, has also created his own portfolio website at FEhrsam.xyz. He has appeared on such Forbes lists as 400 2021 Richest People in America and World’s Billionaires 2021, as well as Time Magazine’s 30 People Under 30 Changing the World. Fred departed Coinbase in 2017 before launching Paradigm.xyz, but remains on the Coinbase board and owns approximately 6% of its stock.
Paradigm.xyz is focused on investing in Web3-based companies, including emerging technology-focused platforms like DAOs, NFT marketplaces, and decentralized finance applications like cryptocurrency exchanges. In the first quarter of 2020, the firm led a $12 million funding for crypto wallet startup and previously featured member of the .xyz community, Argent.xyz1. The decentralized cryptocurrency wallet combines a simple interface with leading security features, designed to offer a better overall experience for crypto traders. Leading online cryptocurrency market analysis publication Bankless says “Argent offers a glimpse at the future of crypto wallets.”2 Decentralized finance protocol Uniswap is another example of a well-known company in Paradigm’s investment portfolio. This decentralized exchange protocol helps any user with a compatible crypto wallet and some ETH to easily swap crypto assets. Uniswap has grown to become the largest DeFi cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) by trading volume.3
Many accomplished tech entrepreneurs like Fred Ehrsam are launching their Web3-focused businesses and innovative projects on .xyz domains. We look forward to seeing more of Paradigm.xyz’s investments unfold. You can learn more by following them on LinkedIn and Twitter, and by visiting Paradigm.xyz.
1 https://www.coindesk.com/business/2020/03/09/paradigm-leads-12m-round-for-defi-friendly-wallet-startup/
2 https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-use-zksync
3https://www.statista.com/statistics/1263110/biggest-dex-in-the-world/
Since publishing this blog post, our friends at Prysm.xyz have changed their name to Lore.xyz! The redeveloped web3 platform is focused on collaboration and co-ownership, and aims to serve as an engine for culture creation and curation. Lore.xyz strives to helps groups work together, pool their resources, and co-own NTs and other digital assets.
You can read more about this exciting development here!
Prysm.xyz – Namecheap customer – (United States)
.XYZ has welcomed many Web3 platforms launching their social network-focused projects on our versatile domains. Crypto music publishing platform Sound.xyz aims to connect musicians with their supporters. Avatar design platform Davatar.xyz helps you to create a decentralized avatar for all of your digital wallets and crypto websites. DAO-designed platform Agora.xyz works to integrate social media with the ever-growing blockchain community. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to an innovative Web3 social networking platform aimed to make crypto investments more transparent: Prysm.xyz.
Prysm.xyz is a Web3 platform that raised $3 million to launch the public beta of their new social investing network.1 Users of the platform can look for crypto investment opportunities by following verified investors and seeing what they’re investing in. Prysm.xyz helps potential investors meet new people in the crypto space, connect with verified investors, and find new opportunities. Users can follow other members and then view their cryptocurrency and NFT transactions unfold on their feeds.
Profiles on Prysm.xyz are backed by on-chain track records which help you to verify the track records of “experts.” Users can connect their crypto wallet to follow each other’s profiles and receive a live feed of all on-chain investment transactions. Social feeds derived from crypto wallet activity can help users to view the investment activities of their friends and crypto influencers, and share in potentially lucrative opportunities. In addition to viewing the social feed, you can also view anyone’s profile page to see an overview of all of their transactions and their NFT and crypto ERC20 token holdings. Supporting the platform’s goal of transparency, you can also check out a user’s entire history of transaction posts, which you can sort by crypto ERC20 token transactions, NFT transactions, or both. ERC20 transactions include profitable token trades, percent of trades that were profitable, and an average rate of returns. NFT transactions include positive NFT resales and total number of a user’s minted NFTs.
Excited users have been sharing their profiles on Twitter (similar to the profile sharing demonstrated by crypto publishing platform Mirror.xyz users). Most use a standard “Peep this profile @prysm_xyz” message, which includes a link to their profile for easy access to their overview.
Prysm.xyz is co-founded by former financial strategy manager Thomas Scaria and software engineer Shelby Thomas.
As Thomas told us,
The .xyz community is home to many innovative blockchain-based projects and the Web3 pioneers like Thomas and Shelby who bring them to life. Prysm.xyz is still in beta, but you can join the action now by connecting your wallet, or you can follow them on social media for updates about their final launch. You can learn more by following the platform on Twitter, LinkedIn, or by visiting Prysm.xyz.
1https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organizations/funding_total/prysm-924e
Fingerspelling.xyz – Namecheap customer – (United States)
.XYZ is the chosen domain extension for many mission-driven changemakers. JoyInc.xyz was founded by young Nigerian lawyer Chude Jideonwo to support better education, develop healthier psychology, and generate impactful social movements in Africa. ForceofNature.xyz is a youth-led non-profit organization dedicated to helping fellow young people realize their change-making potential in the face of climate change. Afritech.xyz is a program designed to connect early-stage tech startups in Africa to mentors and investors worldwide. In this week’s #WebsiteWednesday, we’ll introduce you to American Society for Deaf Children’s new online app designed to help parents communicate with their deaf children: Fingerspelling.xyz.
Fingerspelling.xyz is a fun and engaging resource created by non-profit organization American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC) to help families of deaf and hard of hearing children learn American Sign Language (ASL). ASDC is “committed to empowering diverse families with deaf children and youth by embracing full access to language-rich environments through mentoring, advocacy, resources, and collaborative networks.”1 Statistics indicate that nearly three out of 1,000 children in the US are born with hearing loss, and more than 90 percent of deaf children are born to hearing parents.2 ASDC worked with creative studio Hello Monday to build an innovative and educational website that teaches “fingerspelling” – a form of ASL in which individual letters are formed by the fingers to spell out words.
The web-based app is designed to be fun and encouraging for players of all ages to enjoy learning ASL. Once you start, you are given a word and the computer shows you a 3D model of how your hand should be positioned for each letter of the word. For example, a player could be given the word “clay” and asked to spell it. You are then prompted to sign the first letter. The app utilizes the user’s webcam to track their hand movements as they practice the hand positions of the ASL alphabet, while an algorithm trained on images of correct hand positions analyzes the accuracy. On the left-hand side of the screen, there is a 3D hand that shows you how your hand and fingers should be positioned. On the right-hand side is the feed from your web camera, and you then hold up your hand and mirror what the 3D hand shows a C looks like. There are indicators on the 3D hand that help you see if your fingers are positioned correctly. Once you succeed, you are advanced to the next letter.
Feedback on this innovative learning tool has been extremely positive. Organizations praise the website for its design and innovation. England’s FWA, whose mission is to “showcase cutting edge creativity, regardless of the medium or technology used” named Fingerspelling.xyz their “FWA of the month” in May 2021.3 That same month, global web design organization Awwwards named Fingerspelling.xyz their site of the day.4 A quick search on Twitter shows additional high praise.5 Stephen Shankland of CNET News tweeted “This is a marvelous way to learn the sign language alphabet. Computer camera tracks your hand and AI figures out your finger positions.”6
Fun online learning can help just about anyone master a new skill with the click of a mouse. Fingerspelling.xyz teaches the fundamentals of ASL and exemplifies ASDC’s mission of promoting the empowerment of families with deaf children by giving them a useful tool to help them communicate in a fun and engaging way. Their interest in making an app that can teach anyone to better communicate with those experiencing hearing loss is inspiring. You can visit the platform at Fingerspelling.xyz to learn more.
1https://deafchildren.org/about/core-values/
2https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics-hearing
3https://thefwa.com/cases/httpsfingerspellingxyz
4https://www.awwwards.com/sites/fingerspelling-xyz?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SOTD_promo&utm_content=fingerspelling-xyz
5https://twitter.com/search?q=fingerspelling.xyz&src=typed_query&f=top
6https://twitter.com/stshank/status/1435995692481200134?s=20
