Thread by @zapper_fi

1/ Introducing Zapper Protocol ⚡️

An open protocol incentivizing the interpretation and contextualization of onchain information

Powered by $ZAP

2/ Vision

Our vision of the future is one of onchain literacy - with people around the world connecting via new economic opportunities.

By making Ethereum readable, we're revealing to everyone what it truly is.

Ethereum is a social network, and we're surfacing it. ⚡️

3/ Onchain literacy is freedom.

Somewhere onchain, there’s an opportunity to create meaningful connections - just like participating in DeFi in 2019, or creating the generative art ecosystem in 2020.

Yet we can’t properly navigate this world - it’s full of hexes and bits and our experience of it is very fragmented.

4/ Early Origins

4 years ago, we started along this journey as a DeFi portfolio aggregator - with the goal of surfacing your onchain assets and positions across the various protocols.

But we realized something… how will we be able to surface everything when there are 1 million apps? 100m apps?

Combined with the emergence of new important sectors and primitives such as NFTs, Onchain Social, Gaming - we knew we had to do something.

5/ Protocol

Zapper Protocol aims to solve this problem.

And today, we’re opening up the first part of the protocol - interpretation, allowing anyone to contribute and help us make blockchains readable.

You can dive in here
protocol.zapper.xyz

6/ Introducing Indexing Templates

Over the years, we’ve iterated numerous times attempting to find ways to open up our interpretation layer, and allowing everyone to add a new integration for a DeFi protocol, or surface human-readable transactions.

They don’t require any knowledge of code, only an insatiable curiosity for understanding what is onchain.

At launch, there will exist 2 types of interpreters: Position Interpreters and Event Interpreters, with more planned soon;

7/ Position Interpreters

Position interpreters allow anyone to add missing positions or balances to Zapper.

You can start integrating new DeFi protocols by visiting the guide here.

protocol.zapper.xyz/docs/interpret…

8/ Event Interpreters

Event Interpreters translate complex onchain transactions into easy-to-understand, human-readable outputs.

Check out our detailed guide here! 📘
protocol.zapper.xyz/docs/Interpret…

9/ Call-to-arms ⚔️⚡️

Now is the best time to start interpreting Zapper! We welcome anyone that resonates with our mission and wants to help us surface blockchains

Learn how to start contributing:
protocol.zapper.xyz/docs/Interpret…

/10 A protocol powered by $ZAP

$ZAP will be launched in Q4 - serving as an incentive to interpret onchain information and power the entire Zapper ecosystem.

/11

As we approach the launch, more details will be revealed - in the meantime we welcome anyone to our community that wants to help us shape the future of Zapper and the protocol.

Let’s build Zapper, together. 💜⚡️

/12 Future Plans

We plan to unveil more details as to how builders will be able to leverage human-readable data in their own applications via our new open GraphQL API. (~Q4)

As for your well beloved dashboard, expect more social features to be built on the protocol’s growing interpreted onchain dataset.

13/

This is the last post in this thread. Be very weary of potential scams and posts claiming to issue a Zapper airdrop.

Only trust communications coming from our official X account.

On that note, it's time to get $ZAP'd ⚡️