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Polkastarter
Polkastarter is a decentralized platform that connects early-stage blockchain and Web3 projects with community members through Initial Decentralized Offerings (IDOs), allowing projects to raise capital while giving participants early access to promising tokens. It has expanded into a marketplace for trading rare collectibles, trading cards, and video games on-chain, with its native $POLS token used for staking, liquidity provision, and platform utility.
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Description
Polkastarter is a Web3 fundraising and collectibles platform built around its native token, $POLS. Its core offering is the IDO (Initial Decentralized Offering) launchpad, which connects early-stage crypto projects with community investors: projects raise capital and grow their communities while participants gain early access to token sales. Token holders can stake POLS or provide liquidity to ETH/POLS and BNB/POLS pairs to earn "POLS Power," which determines allowlist access to IDOs. Beyond token launches, Polkastarter operates the Polkastarter Marketplace, a platform for discovering, buying, and selling authenticated, on-chain rare trading cards, video games, and collectibles with secure escrow. POLS is listed on major exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Revolut, Bitvavo, KuCoin, Gate.io, MEXC, and decentralized exchanges like Uniswap and PancakeSwap, and the project reports over 50,000 token holders. Polkastarter's clients/users span early-stage crypto project teams seeking funding and community, as well as retail crypto investors and collectors participating in token sales and the collectibles marketplace.Grant Funding
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2020
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$875K