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May 29, 2025 – Ego.tech, a pioneering Web3 platform, today announced the successful close of an oversubscribed $800,000 Pre-Seed funding round. This significant investment underscores strong confidence in Ego.tech's innovative approach to tokenizing digital identities and revolutionizing how individuals monetize their online presence and communities.
The round saw participation from a distinguished group of industry leaders and venture capitalists, including Hustle Fund, Raj Gokal (Co-Founder of Solana), Sam Lessin (Co-founder at Fin, GP at Slow Ventures), Antonio Juliano (Founder of dYdX), Zhuoxun Yin (Co-Founder of Magic Eden), Evgeny Gaevoy (CEO at Wintermute Trading), Marc Boiron (Chief Executive Officer at Polygon Labs), Maghnus Mareneck (Co-Founder at Skip Protocol), Jed Halfon (Chief Strategy Officer at Anza), Eugene Shen (Co-Founder and CTO of Plume), Sean Brown (Partner at Hack VC), Barry Plunkett (Co-Founder at Skip), se (Co-Founder at Fomo), and James Smits (Co-Founder at Andrena). This diverse backing highlights the broad appeal and disruptive potential of Ego.tech's vision across the Web3 ecosystem.
Unlocking the Value of Online Attention and Digital Selves
In an increasingly digital world, individuals spend significant time online, building extensive social equity and often earning income as creators. However, a standardized method to financialize these digital selves has been largely absent. Ego.tech addresses this fundamental challenge by introducing a novel asset class that fuses online attention with real-world fundamentals, empowering users to monetize their personas and communities.
"We believe there is an incredible amount of untapped value in financializing the social layer of the internet, and this is why we are building Ego," stated a representative for Ego.tech. The platform's core mission is to redefine digital engagement and investment strategies by allowing anyone to tokenize any internet profile.
How Ego.tech Works: Community-Powered Fair Launches and Profile Owner Incentives
Ego.tech introduces a unique mechanism for "Community-Powered Fair Launches" designed to democratize access to tokenized profiles and prevent insider dominance. Traditionally, communities often wait for profile owners to initiate token launches, leading to limited asset selection and susceptibility to "sniper-bots" that front-run new offerings.
Ego.tech's solution allows any user to initiate a token presale for any X (formerly Twitter) profile. These presales run for a fixed duration of 4 hours, selling 25% of the total token supply. There is no cap on the amount of SOL (Solana's native cryptocurrency) that can be raised, and all presale participants receive tokens at the same price, ensuring fairness. Crucially, only one token can ever be created for a specific X profile.
Following the presale, the raised SOL and an additional 25% of the token supply are used to establish a liquidity pool, making the token freely tradable.
Ego.tech is also meticulously designed to incentivize long-term engagement from profile owners. Upon claiming and endorsing their token, profile owners receive 5% of their token supply. An additional 45% is reserved for future milestones, encouraging sustained participation. Furthermore, once a token is successfully launched, profile owners are allocated 50% of the trading fees, enabling them to generate revenue without needing to sell their tokens. The platform plans to build tools that allow profile owners to share value back to their communities through dollar distributions, airdrops, and buybacks.
The Future: From Attention to Legitimate Financial Assets
Ego.tech envisions a future where tokens, initially acting as "voting machines" for tokenized attention, evolve into legitimate financial assets. Drawing inspiration from Benjamin Graham's adage, "In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine," Ego.tech aims to build the definitive financial layer for valuing anyone's presence, both online and offline.
The platform is committed to developing tools that help profile owners strengthen their brand, grow their community of token holders, demonstrate on-chain and off-chain financial success, and deliver tangible value back to their holders. Ultimately, Ego.tech's ambition is to create a world where everyone and everything on the internet has the opportunity to "go public," realizing the immense potential that accompanies such a shift.
Ego.tech operates within the rapidly expanding Solana ecosystem, leveraging its high performance and low transaction costs to facilitate seamless digital identity tokenization. The platform's focus on identity, social networking, and tokenization positions it at the forefront of Web3 innovation.
About Ego.tech
Ego.tech is a Web3 platform enabling the creation and trading of tokens linked to online profiles, effectively tokenizing digital identities. It introduces a novel asset class by fusing online attention with real-world fundamentals, empowering users to monetize their personas and communities. By allowing anyone to tokenize any internet profile, Ego.tech aims to redefine digital engagement and investment strategies. The platform successfully raised $800,000 in a Pre-Seed funding round in May 2025.
For more information and to launch or trade tokens, visit ego.tech.
Compiled by CMO Intern team
