The token pumped 30% forward of the funding announcement.
MadFi, the crew behind the Bonsai token –which MadFi says is Lens Protocol’s first memecoin – raised $1 million in an angel spherical.
Led by Palm Tree Crew (PTC) Crypto, the spherical included Avara Ventures, Social Graph Ventures, Mates With Advantages, and Polygon’s Sandeep Nailwal, amongst others.
“Believing that tokens can align platforms, creators and customers, MadFi goals to construct capabilities to help the creator economic system,” learn a press launch shared with The Defiant.
Bonsai–which launched on March 4–pumped forward of Friday’s announcement, clocking a 32% enhance Thursday. The token is down 25% previously 24 hours.
BONSAI has been on a rocket ship this final month, buying and selling for $0.08, with a 700% worth enhance previously 14 days. The token’s absolutely diluted valuation sits at $80 million, in response to Coingecko.
Bonsai is capitalizing on the memecoin mania that has been permeating the crypto trade. Whereas Solana and Base are infamous for his or her memecoins, the MadFi crew hopes Bonsai’s success might spell an identical story for the Lens ecosystem.
Natural Development
In keeping with the crew, BONSAI has been rising organically, with creators incomes over $240,000 in tokens, overtaking wMATIC because the foreign money of selection for monetizable content material. In March, Bonsai’s market share of monetized publications on Lens surpassed 75%, peaking at 90% final week.
“We’re excited to see BONSAI turn out to be the default foreign money on Lens,” mentioned Carlos Beltran, Co-founder and CEO, MadFi. “BONSAI demonstrates the facility of onchain networks coupled with nice content material,” he added.
Curiously, BONSAI is technically a “DN404”, which implies it’s a “Divisible NFT” –for each 100,000 tokens a pockets accrues, the holder will obtain 1 Bonsai NFT, mentioned Beltran. “It’s a brand new experiment and has but to turn out to be an official ERC (i.e.,going via a full EIP),” he added.
Lens Protocol underwent a large transformation after two years in beta, asserting on Feb. 27 it was going permissionless. Anybody can now mint a Lens profile to entry the protocol, and builders can create new use instances by tapping into the community’s already budding group.
UPDATED @ 11:35 am ET so as to add funding spherical was for $1M after crew despatched corrected PR.
