Founded in 2018, Worshipper Capital (Worshipper) is a blockchain venture capital firm from Singapore that has an AUM of $7M, including Litentry, Bandot, Alchemy, Métis, Nodle, NFTMart, TrustBase, Torum, xNFT, TheForce.Trade and Re-NFT and the current fund size is $2M.
We are also an accelerator for high-quality blockchain projects and provide crypto advisory services to our clients that particularly target at the buoyant Chinese market. Our services include equity & token capital raising, crypto-exchange listings (IEO), brand management and community building.
1. Main Business
I. Capital Raising
In partnership with over 50 investment companies, Worshipper helps promising projects in acquiring capital to accelerate development in its early stages. In addition, Worshipper is able to facilitate token listing on top 100 Chinese crypto-exchanges.
II. Brand Management
Worshipper’s team of brand and marketing specialists has the capability to build a project’s brand through a comprehensive publicity campaign in the following ways:
Digital Marketing
· Awareness Building:
o Media coverage by top Chinese crypto media
o KOL (industry experts and influencers) promotion
· Credibility Enhancement: fundamental analysis reports by research house and rating agencies
· Investor Community Growth: Organize AMA sessions (Ask-Me-Anything)
Online & Offline Events
· Developer Community Growth: Hackathons and technical meetups
· Major Events: Conferences and Webinars
III. Community Building
Worshipper aids projects in developing communities within their ecosystem to drive active engagement and interest. Key activities include:
· Airdrops Campaign
· Community Ambassadors Selection Campaign
· Ideation and popularization of Mascot
· Testnet bug bounty campaign
2. Our Network Worshipper has an established and massive network of partners to ensure the success of projects’ fund raising, branding and community campaigns.
I. Investment funds:
· IOSG, NGC, DFG, Candaq, Polkafund etc.
II. Crypto-Exchanges:
· Chinese exchanges on Coinmarketcap’s Top 100 list
III. Media Outlets:
· CoinTelegraph China, ChainNews, JINSE.com, ODaily etc.
IV. Rating Agencies:
· TokenInsight, Happyblock, Onetop etc.
V. Crypto Communities:
· Network of over 100 communities of over 500,000 members
3. Case Study on Polkadot (DOT) The suite of value-added services of Worshipper has accelerated the growth of numerous projects. For example, our successful collaboration with Polkadot contributed significantly to the project’s success in China, witnessing DOT accelerating to rank 6th crypto-asset by market capitalization. Services rendered include:
I. Venture Capital
· Community Financing:
Worshipper assisted Polkadot related projects in completing the round of community financing and contributed to Layer 2 DAO based project in raising funds in the Chinese market.
(Events partnered with top Chinese blockchain media JINSE)
II. Brand Management
· Brand Management (Media-Partnered events)
In December 2020, Worshipper co-organised an event with JINSE.com featuring 17 projects on Polkadot. Participants include notable projects such as Crust, Acala, Darwinia and Phala, OpenSquare and Litentry.
On the first week, the events were covered by several leading blockchain media and were streamed to over 500 thousand viewers – further bolstering the brand identity of Polkadot and the participating projects.
In the following week, investment firms Candaq, Nova, wallet firm Cobo, and exchanges BiKi and MXC.com – were invited and participated in the event. Roundtable discussions were organised among investment firms, exchanges and communities. The activity attracted the attention of many crypto news outlets in China, increasing the awareness for Polkadot in the Chinese crypto market.
· Brand Management (Media-Partnered AMA)
JINSE AMA
· Organised an AMA session for Polkadot’s DeFi projects. The AMA was hosted by Chinese leading crypto media, JINSE Finance.
The livestream saw an audience of over 10,000 viewers, including many financial investment firms.
III. Community Building
Developer Boot Camp Polkadot Hackathon
· Polkadot Ecosystem Community Building:
Partnered with media outlets, financial institutions and the tech community, Worshipper hosted a few events that raised great interests of Polkadot (DOT) among public in China.
The events include Polkadot Developer Boot Camp, Hackathon and Ecosystem Support Fund that Huobi Inno Labs announced on 8th December 2020. Event partners include Polkadot Club, PolkaBase, Trustbase and ChainNews.
More than 800 developers attended the Boot Camp, sparking a lot of new ideas and discussions among the attendees. The collaborative Hackathon with JINSE attracted lots of great developers from all over the world to compete.
4. Project Submission If your blockchain project is at early stage of development looking to spearhead its presence in the Chinese market and looking for accelerator services including but not limited to funding, the project launch and its marketing, community building and brand management in China, please reach out to us by:
Twitter: @WorshipperCap
Email:contact@worshippercapital.com
Website:www.worshippercapital.com
