As crypto has evolved and matured over the last 15 years, many of its promises have – contrary to popular opinion – come to fruition to a nontrivial degree. Every day millions of users globally bring their wallets to applications where they take onchain actions, with sovereignty over their own assets and data.
Many of these actions happen as a result of a user interacting with an app, protocol, or asset directly. But crypto’s open, composable, and permissionless nature means that all of these actions can just as easily be packaged up and presented as embedded experiences while retaining their full functionality.
These conditions have created the opportunity for a product like Daylight. At its core, Daylight is a feed of personalized transaction recommendations that can be presented to users in a variety of apps & wallets via an API integration. These recommendations take the form of mints, claims, quests and more – with new transaction types emerging as crypto’s apps become more varied. Provided with a wallet address, Daylight can ingest a user’s onchain activity and use it to help them find useful and personalized things to do onchain.
Today, Daylight powers recommendations on the ‘Home’ and ‘Discover’ pages for many of the most popular wallets, reaching over 6 million active addresses every month. Wallets, though, are just one type of application that knows of a user’s address, and this feed can actually be wielded by any internet application that is “address-aware” (meaning that it has users with a known blockchain wallet address).

Daylight’s discovery engine helps apps give users a better experience, and it also presents a revenue opportunity as onchain transactions are often quite valuable operations and Daylight can help app partners enter this flow. Furthermore, because of crypto’s open and composable nature, value flows can be stacked and embedded permissionlessly, opening up an infinite canvas for connecting value across applications and experiences.
For example, every time a mint takes place on Zora, the protocol pays out both the creator and the referring site. These rules are transparent and baked into the protocol, and rewards are paid out automatically upon every mint. To the extent that conduits like Daylight deliver transaction volumes to protocols like Zora, they earn a share of those rewards, and can further share them with their distribution partners, all without needing to establish a business relationship up-front. Referral flows like this are common in web2 but they require trust and contractual agreements, and are slow to pay out. Crypto’s openness, on the other hand, lets anyone step into this flow, creating a more inclusive and efficient value chain.
As crypto grows, there will be more and more eyeballs on and time spent in apps that are address-aware. This will present both an opportunity to suggest more actions to users and also an opportunity to understand users in much more detail. The result may be something that resembles the architecture of the web2 ad/referrals ecosystem, but it will likely also be materially different, given the open, composable, and address-aware nature of web3. We are excited to find out.
The dynamic and open-ended nature of the growth and discovery problems in web3 are part of what impressed us with the Daylight team. Co-founders Kyle and Morley have spent time across web2 and web3 organizations, have a deep understanding of wallets, and approach the space with immense pragmatism. We are very excited to get to partner with them and lead Daylight’s $6m Seed financing alongside our friends at 1kx. Daylight is hiring and will use this capital to expand to more surfaces. You can also use Daylight directly to find interesting things to do onchain.
/daylight is hiring. The endgame: the crypto ad network - one of the biggest opportunities in crypto. Ads drive 17% of US GDP, and they will drive a significant portion of onchain GDP. All past attempts at creating a crypto ad network have failed to bootstrap the network because they couldn't get reach. We found the way to wedge on reach - onchain for you: personalized transaction recs on the home pages of wallet apps like Coinbase Wallet, Metamask, Zerion, OKX Wallet, and more. @morley and I have been working together for 6 years in crypto - it's hard to find a founding team this tight who has been in the industry this long - and @usv led our recent round. We are looking for two staff backend engineers with deep experience designing and scaling REST APIs. Our API serves tens of thousands of requests per second, summarizing millions of rows of offchain data and terabytes of onchain data in 750ms or less. Come grow onchain GDP with us. https://careers.daylight.xyz/
Read more on what we are building here: https://blog.usv.com/daylight
Congrats on all your success Kyle! I love Daylight sm
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Incredibly excited to announce our investment in Daylight and to work with @kyle @morley and team! Starting with a personalized transaction recommendation API, Daylight is working to grow onchain GDP. More thoughts here: https://blog.usv.com/daylight
@morley & I are excited to announce @daylight's $6M round led by @usv and co-led by @1kxnetwork! We are the “onchain for you” API that powers personalized recommendations in apps like Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Zerion and OKX Wallet. Our mission: grow onchain GDP. We are hiring!
Daylight is like the home tabs of Netflix or Spotify, but with things to do onchain instead of movies or music. Every month we make transaction recommendations to >6M addresses, and our goal is to drive transacting users for our partners.
We are hiring staff-level backend engineers with deep experience designing REST APIs. We serve tens of thousands of requests per second, summarizing millions of rows of offchain data and terabytes of onchain data in hundreds of milliseconds. Learn more: https://careers.daylight.xyz
We are grateful to be backed in this round by USV and 1kx with participation from Framework Ventures and Chapter One, and we are just getting started - powering the front doors of the onchain world is the first step in our mission to drive 5% of all onchain GDP.
We are excited to have incredible angels like @evg (Zerion), @vadim (Zerion), @corbin.eth (early Consensys), @idobn (Blockaid), @r4zn1v (Blockaid), @nir (Yup), and @helloshreyas (Llama) participating.
Congrats !
Huge congrats!!!!!🥳
congrats! that's huge
Congratulations!!
congrats, fid 303
Congratulations! Huge news. I remember when you had the Genie airdrop in daylight years ago. Love the hustle
HELL. YES. DUDE. CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!
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congrats!
Wow, super exciting. Love how your product has evolved.
congratulations @kyle @morley!
Congrats!!
awesome! congrats kyle
Lfg congrats dude 🔥🔥🔥
awesome man! congrats 👏
huge, congrats!!
congrats!
Congrats!
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congrats guys!
Congratulations 🎉 Kyle and Daylight
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absolutely massive. congrats!!!
Congrats Kyle!
Congrats Kyle! Well deserved
Congrats!
congrats!!
Huge 💥
Amazing Kyle!
Congrats!
Congrats so deserved
Congrats! Well deserved
congrats! love the daylight product + mission 🫶
Congratulations to you Kyle… More wins
congrats!
Congratulations Kyle
Congrats!
Congrats!! Kyle and the Daylight team are amazing to work with
Grateful to work with you, Kai!
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