What is Shadow? Shadow is an infrastructure project that helps developers easily build their protocols and projects. Shadow has successfully raised capital up to $9M from the famous investment fund Paradigm and received a lot of attention from the community.
So what is so interesting about Shadow that attracts both users, developers and investment funds? Let’s find out together in the article below.
Shadow Overview
What is Shadow?
Shadow is a platform that helps reduce the time and cost of indexing and analyzing on-chain data. With Shadow, developers will have more data to deploy products quickly and at minimal cost. Currently, Shadow is only available on Ethereum but will quickly expand to Arbitrum, Base, Optimism and Poylgon before 2024.
Shadow also allows developers to modify the source code of deployed Smartcontracts without consuming gas, and functions to monitor that Smartcontract works when changed in real time is called Shadow Fork. Shadow provides developers with tools to:
- Access to developer data through standard RPC methods.
- Extend any Smartcontract based on change history and tracking functionality.
- View data from new transactions in real time.
- Export historical data quickly.
- Easily deploy a Shadow Fork.
Development Roadmap
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Core Team
Alvin Hsia: Co Founder & CEO
- Alvin earned his Bachelor’s degree, Business Economics, Computer Major at UCLA. Previously, Alvin studied Finance and Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- Right after graduating, Alvin worked as Product & BD at Udemy – a global platform for online teaching and learning. Then, Alvin started his career with the Sceneshot project – a social and local app that shows you real-life screenshots for 2 years.
- After leaving his brainchild, Alvin was in charge of product design and Product Manager at Edmodo – the world’s largest K-12 education platform with more than 80 million teachers and students globally.
- Alvin also has more than 5 years working with Airbnb – a global room rental service with many different roles such as Production Director, Product Manager, Senior Product Manager,…
- Until 2020, Alvin officially participated in the Crypto market when in charge of Product at Goldfinch – a lending platform connecting DeFi & CeFi, Paradigm – a famous investment fund.
- By January 2023, Alvin began building Shadow.
Emily Hsia: Founder & CTO
- Emily earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
- Emily has worked for more than 5 years at Airbnb similar to Alvin with mainly technical roles such as Software Engineer, Technical Director,…
- Involved in DeFi, Emily also worked as a Software Engineer at Goldfinch and briefly worked at Paradigm.
- Together with Alvin, Emily began building Shadow in January 2023.
Investor
- December 5, 2023: Shadow successfully raised $9M from Paradigm investment fund.
Tokenomics
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Exchanges
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Project Information Channel
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/_shadowxyz
- Website:
Summary
Shadow is an important infrastructure project that brings new innovations to Blockchain without compromising security and safety. Hopefully through this article everyone can understand more about what Shadow is?
