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OnlyFounders makes fundraising radically transparent. Campaigns are milestone-based, verifiable, and designed to build investor confidence. This guide walks founders through launching their campaign step by step.

The OnlyFounders Marketplace is the gateway for founders to showcase their startups to investors and service providers. Once your profile is complete, listing your startup is your first step to launching campaigns and attracting capital.

OnlyFounders allows service providers to connect with Web3 startups by creating a simple profile. This guide walks you through setting up your profile to offer services and get discovered by founders.

Anyone can explore OnlyFounders without logging in. But if you're ready to invest, track onchain campaigns, or manage your Web3 portfolio, you’ll need to create an investor profile. This guide outlines the essential steps to get started as an investor on the platform—fast, clear, and built for capital allocators.

OnlyFounders lets anyone explore startup campaigns without logging in. But to raise funds or launch your startup, creating a founder profile is the first step. This blog explains how to set it up in under 2 minutes and start your fundraising journey.

The pitch is dead. Proof is the new signal.

OnlyFounders has secured 1st place in EDU Chain Hackathon Semester 3, standing out from over 9,000 global entries. Our AI-native, proof-based capital engine isn’t theory—it’s live infrastructure built for founders who raise on conviction, not permission. This win is validation, but the real work starts now.

Innovative decentralized alternatives are increasingly challenging traditional venture capital models. Among these disruptors, OnlyFounders is a pioneering platform combining permissionless fundraising with educational finance (EduFi), decentralized finance (DeFi), and artificial intelligence in a unique ecosystem designed specifically for early-stage founders.

The next generation of builders won’t raise from VCs. They’ll raise from the crowd—powered by knowledge, verified on-chain, and backed by reputational capital. And the systems that enable this future? They’re being built now.

The Web3 accelerator ecosystem faces growing scrutiny as evidence emerges of systemic exploitation through predatory terms and collusion among venture capitalists. While accelerators position themselves as essential launchpads, their practices often prioritize investor returns over startup sustainability.

Your community isn't just your user base—it's the foundation upon which your entire project stands. Unlike traditional tech ventures where users interact primarily with a product, Web3 projects invite participants to become stakeholders, contributors, and evangelists.

With over $4.5 billion lost to smart contract exploits in 2024 alone, the stakes have never been higher. As blockchain adoption continues to accelerate across industries from finance to healthcare, founders must prioritize security as a foundational element rather than an afterthought.

PR Firepower Meets Founder-First Infrastructure. We’ve partnered with Bebop—our official PR & Media partner—to give founders what they actually need: mainstream visibility, credible press, and strategic narrative control. Web3 founders don’t just need capital. They need trust. That’s what Bebop delivers.

Launching a Web3 startup in 2025 isn’t just about deploying smart contracts and building a Telegram community. It’s become an expensive, murky, and sometimes predatory process driven by gatekeepers, inflated fees, and middlemen. For founders without deep pockets or insider access, this landscape can be financially ruinous before a token even hits the market.

OnlyFounders has partnered with Make APAC Great Again (MAGA) — the largest KOL and influencer collective in APAC — to help early-stage Web3 founders break into the region with trusted local expertise and high-impact community access.

In startup fundraising, your pitch is your first filter. It decides whether you’re taken seriously or written off. Investors see hundreds. If yours doesn’t punch through the noise, you’re out before you’ve even started. The pitch isn’t about bells and whistles. It’s about clarity, control, and conviction. Know your business. Know your numbers. Know your audience.

Intellectual property (IP) refers to legal rights that protect intangible assets—your inventions, brand, designs, and data. In Web3, where most innovation lives in code and creative logic, IP is the invisible layer that gives your startup control over its outputs.

OnlyFounders, the fundraising platform built *by* founders *for* founders, announces a strategic partnership with **Soken**, a product-first crypto development firm specializing in full-stack delivery, legal clarity, and token architecture. This collaboration gives early-stage Web3 startups more than advice. It gives them working infrastructure — ready to launch.

Web3 promised a revolution in how capital is raised and distributed-democratizing finance, empowering founders, and opening doors for retail investors. Yet, as the dust settles on hundreds of token launches, a troubling pattern emerges: launchpad malpractices often leave retail investors holding the bag, while founders lose control and value, and the true cost of fundraising is hidden behind complex mechanics and hype.

We're building the protocol layer for startup funding — trustless, transparent, and milestone-driven. Founders prove progress. Investors follow the signal. Retail gets real access without predatory mechanics. Every participant sees what’s happening in real-time.

In the Wild West of Web3, due diligence often takes a backseat to vibes, memes, and vaporware decks. At OnlyFounders, we’re rewriting that playbook. We don’t bet on narratives, rather, we bet on builders. And we’ve built a due diligence framework that cuts through the noise. This isn’t your cookie-cutter checklist. It’s a signal-maximizing, red-flag-surfacing, risk-adjusted way to evaluate Web3 startups and their founders with real weight. Here’s how we do it, and how you can too.

While Web3 offers unprecedented opportunities for financial freedom, digital ownership, and community participation, it also presents unique security challenges. With users having direct control over their assets and data, personal security responsibility becomes paramount.