Web3 Snapshot: 10 Token Gating Projects
With web3 and crypto, "token gating" is now a thing. What is token gating? Well, let's start by explaining the concept of a token. Web3 tokens are digital assets representing, art, music, videos, articles, etc., that live on a blockchain, a public, decentralized network of numerous peer-to-peer nodes or servers. The blockchain holds and protects digital records from censoring. If you have a token in your crypto-wallet, your ownership of that asset is part of a public record stored on the blockchain. Since you can prove your ownership of a token, that token can be used as a key to unlock nearly anything from access to an article, entrance to a restaurant, to admittance to an exclusive club - this is token gating.
We asked a humanDAO Pocket Assistant to pull together a list of 10 Token Gating Projects. Here is what they found!
Community Management | Software
Collab.Land is an add-on bot that a moderator of a Discord or Telegram-based crypto community can download. The bot manages access to the community by verifying ownership of digital assets specified by an admin of the group. If a member sells the asset that allowed them access, the bot will boot them from the community.
Security | Protocol
Lit is open source, decentralized cryptography for access control, computation, and encryption. You can store encrypted, private data on the open web and use Lit to provision decentralized keys to users based on on-chain data, like the assets they hold in their wallet.
Community Management | Software
Guild provides token-enabled membership with a real-time query engine. You create a guild and define the membership requirements, and Guild lets in qualified members only. Then give your guild access to Discord, Telegram, management tools or games.
Security | Software
Tokenproof allows users to prove ownership of NFTs and pass through a token gate without connecting or even carrying their wallet. Tokenproof's app can be used by verifiers to grant access to events, services and other token gates.
Digital Content | IRL Experiences | Virtual Experiences
PROOF Collective NFT holders (there are only 1000!) will gain membership which includes access to their private Discord, early access to the PROOF podcast, in-person events, and other collaborations created exclusively for PROOF Collective members.
Membership Club | IRL Experiences
Flyfish Club (FFC) is the world's first member's only private dining club. Membership can be granted and purchased on the blockchain as an NFT. Token holders will gain unlimited access to the restaurant and various culinary, cultural, and social experiences in the lower east side neighborhood of Manhattan.
NFT Project | Digital Content | Virtual Experiences
Stoner Cats is an adult cartoon developed by Orchard Farm Productions (Mila Kunis’s production company with her partners Cami Curtis and Lisa Sterbakov). The only way to watch is to hold a Stoner Cats TOKEn. The NFT also grants you access to an exclusive club of Stoner Cats co-creators. You get to see what goes on behind the scenes and storyboarding sessions, vote on what happens next in the story, and even receive custom merch!
NFT Project | IRL Experiences
Virtual Experiences | Physical Products
Creature World's NFT Art Collection of the same name contains 10,000 unique creatures. Holding a single creature gives you access to all Creature World exclusive experiences including a digital realm you can explore with your creature, participatory art projects, and irl events like a bouncy house adventure course in NYC! Holding a creature also scores you a customized Creature World varsity jacket - a conversation starter for sure!
NFT Project | Digital Content
Virtual Experiences | Physical Products
Azuki NFT holders gain membership access to a special metaverse known as “The Garden.” A website also has a shop where members can purchase wearables and other items. Other perks include exclusive airdrops and experiences, such as live metaverse concerts, and other events.
Community Management | Software
That's right! CharmVerse is a token gating project, too! If you don't know about us, CharmVerse is a Web3 community platform for members, collaboration and governance. It is a place for community contributors to coordinate day-to-day work, sign in with crypto wallets, and unlock workspaces with custom tokens/NFTs.