Steven Bartlett launches new platform paving the way for web3 projects

Steven Bartlett, the co-founder of Social Chain, has today launched a new technology platform for building NFT and Web3 apps alongside the founding CTO of Bebo.

Thirdweb provides tools to build, launch and manage Web3 projects “without writing a line of code.”

The platform equips creators, artists, developers, game studios and entrepreneurs with a suite of tools to seamlessly add features to Web 3 projects including NFTs, social tokens & currencies, marketplaces (for buying and selling tokens), and NFT lootboxes & drops-in a matter of clicks.

Steven and Furqan Rydhan, founding CTO of Bebo and AppLovin, have closed a funding round worth $5m (£3.8m) to launch the platform.

Steven said: “Web3 is not just the future, it’s also the present.

“We’re currently witnessing one of the greatest technological shifts of our lifetime; it’s happening before our eyes and it’s going to touch every major industry and everyone’s life.

“We built thirdweb to allow entrepreneurs, developers, brands and creators to unlock the potential of this 3rd iteration of the internet in the easiest way possible – without having to learn a brand new coding language and without needing to hire a completely new team.

“In the same way that Stripe made payments easy for builders and creators, thirdweb makes Web3 easy, unintimidating and accessible.”

Furqan added: “It’s inevitable that web3 will be the foundation for the next wave of the internet, and we’re excited to be providing the tools to build decentralized apps easily.”

Investment for the platform came from business leaders including entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk; Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover; Soona Amhaz, founder of Volt Capital; and Packy Mccormick, founder of Not Boring.

The new capital will be used to hire both on the technical and growth teams and will focus on marketing and video assets to educate users on its tools.