History - deep dive
From the ground up, grassroots early days, full conviction
Inception
As early Hedera community members and builders, we’ve been looking for ways to continue building up the Hedera ecosystem. The birth of the HBAR Foundation was a sign of the incentives brought on to support further development on Hedera and inspired us to to fulfil our grand vision for a disruptive ecosystem enabling tool for supporting and launching Hedera native projects & applications. September 2021 marking the birth of HeadStarter as a Launchpad and Accelerator of the Hedera Hashgraph ecosystem.
We couldn’t have been more flattered by the keen interest and plaudits for our project (only a concept at that time) at the Agora Blockchain summit. We won first runner up in a contest judged by an esteemed set of expert VC investors.
Reference: https://twitter.com/AgoraGBC/status/1460940222565335042?t=IiilC8jS2FP_Nv0jaS9vtA&s=19
Emergence from Stealth
Our presence at the AIBC Summit in Dubai was met with a warm reception from the Hedera community, leading to numerous partnerships and collaborations. Our vision and achievements were showcased to a global audience, helping to position HeadStarter as a key player in the Hedera ecosystem. You can find some of our featurings here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBkBIgVA60nPB69lqFzHLTIJebB1iaMgf
BuiDLing
All this time, we’ve been working in the shadows with one clear goal in mind, releasing a secure and reliable Launchpad platform that pushes the boundaries of crowdfunding and pioneers DeFi in the Hedera Ecosystem.
First we needed to build a supporting infrastructural framework, we built Venin JS SDK library(Rebranded from Strato) for internal use but open-sourced it to the world:
https://venin.buidlerlabs.com/
Hedera22 Hackathon
As part of our commitment to the community, we sponsored the community support challenge at the Hedera22 hackathon with a $5,000 bounty. The hackathon attracted significant interest, and we eagerly anticipated the innovative tools and solutions developed by participants.
Trailblazing Hedera DeFi
Following the launch of Hedera Smart Contracts 2.0 and Stader's $HBARX liquid staking, HeadStarter completed the first Hedera smart contract audit with Hacken, achieving top reviews.
Partnership announcements & HBAR Foundation
With multiple valued ecosystem partnerships, HeadStarter announced a resounding feature together with the HBAR Foundation as grantee and partner:
The HeadStarter $HST Token IDO & TGE
Onboarding early Hedera community to HeadStarter and accommodating them to DeFi and Smart contracts required proposing multiple IDO & INO events.
The HeadStarter INO features a significant innovation through the burnable utility NFTs of 4 rarities: Bronze, Silver, Gold & Exclusive.
There have been 2 rounds of Pre-Liquidity IDOs with the HeadStarter Main Round IDO featuring the TGE price of the $HST Token at 0.01$ and final swap ratio: 0.16522917 $HBAR = 1 $HST.
HeadStarter Token Market Capitalization at TGE < 450,000 USD.
HashGraph DeFi Alliance & Hedera DeFi OGs Airdrops campaign
Along with co-founders SaucerSwap & Stader Labs - The Hashgraph DeFi Alliance aims to connect, collaborate, and contribute to a sustainable DeFi ecosystem on Hedera. DeFi unlocks liquidity for inaccessible products and services, and the HDA drives global DeFi adoption through a trusted platform. The HDA offers guidance, support, and impactful initiatives to nurture thought leadership and meaningful solutions for real-world cases.
Publicly open-source contributions of the alliance can be found here: https://github.com/hashgraph/hashgraph-defi-alliance
The decision to perform the biggest airdrop on Hedera at the time was in line with our mission of enabling the Hedera Ecosystem and palpably seeing higher numbers in: mainnet accounts, projects, transactions & TVL (total value locked). The aidrop campaign totaled a >$40,000 distribution of $HST tokens to Hedera DeFi OGs:
- Participants in Stader V1 for minimum 500HBAR that still held 500 HBARX + - Holders of Saucerswap NFTs — PLANCK EPOCH COLLECTIBLES across 4 tiers.
$HST on Exchanges
The first listing for HeadStarter was on the BitMart Exchange CEX for our primary listing, as the largest exchange supporting Hedera native tokens at the time, accessible to a wide geography of users, including USA. The following trading pair is be available: HST/USDT:
SaucerSwap Listing & Farms
With the emergence of Sauceswap as the premier DEX and their go-live on Hedera Mainnet, HeadStarter was features with 2 pools: $HST-$HBAR & $HST-USDC. These pools were awarded early $SAUCE farming incentives.
The two pools have consistently lead HTS DEX liquidity as non-DEX tokens with ATHs of 1.4M in TVL.
Featuring early Hedera Projects at events & to investors
HeadStarter has continued to showcase the leading ecosystem project at various prestigious events around the world:
Agora Blockchain Congress - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 2022
Karate Combat
$KARATE went on to raise a $18 million funding round led by BITKRAFT Ventures, with additional participation from Delphi Digital, The Operating Group, Alpha Wave Global, Hashkey, Lattice, M13, Santiago R Santos, RookieXBT and others.
Heliswap
The $HELI token is the utility token of the 3rd biggest DEX on Hedera, brainchild of Mantra DAO & Limechain
AIBC Asia - Manila, Philippines, 19-22 July 2023
Astra Nova - Hedera GameFi project
Earthlings - Hedera GameFi & Metaverse Projects
Legends of the Past - Hedera GameFi Project
Web23 - Hedera WEB3 domains projects
Cryptobuidler’s Pitch Day 4 (powered by HeadStarter) - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 2023
Earthlings - Hedera GameFi & Metaverse Projects
Eleatek - On-chain data
Legends of the Past - Hedera GameFi Project
Sphera World - Sports collectables
Tomas.Finance - Institutional Web3 investments super-dApp
Hedera’s Growing Ecosystem: Innovations in Distributed Ledger Technology - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 8 Dec 2023
Earthlings - Hedera GameFi & Metaverse Projects
Legends of the Past - Hedera GameFi Project
Neuron Network - DePin
Tomas.Finance - Institutional Web3 investments super-dApp
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