A fresh start to better discover the Web3 ecosystem
Today, we are pleased to announce that Relation has launched a brand new website with a highly stylish logo after a month of preparation. Relation has now enabled the unlocking of the personalized Web3 social graph. Relation has completed a seed round of funding at a valuation of US$20 million, it has successfully secured capital backing from Hashkey Capital, SNZ, Signum Capital, and others. With a team of over 20 full-time members, our vision is to provide the most powerful and data-enriched social graph for the global multi-chain ecosystem, jointly explore a new paradigm of people and organizations, relationships and behaviors in the next generation of the Web3 Internet, and become the next generation of social infrastructure for Web3.
The new design of the Relation logo is simple and generous, with dots as the elements and a hexagonal shape, expressing a rounded world and an attitude of cooperation and symbiosis. The dots in the middle represent the indispensable social relationships in the Web3 world. At the same time, the pink fading to purple turns static into dynamic, expressing the once, twice, and even N degrees of interpersonal relationships that arise as the social relationships deepen, which is the core of Relation's focus. From the overall Roadmap perspective, we will continue to expand more tools and services and attract more ecological participants to join us, always adhering to a cooperative and symbiotic win-win attitude and growing together with Web3.
Redefining data sovereignty and exploring the value of Web3 social data
The current development of the Internet has deviated from its initial design. As users move from being recipients of information to participants, their digital behaviors on the web are recorded and in the form of data assets held by tech companies. Online personal data never belongs to them, instead, it becomes a profit-making tool for the Big Names. Yes, technology-based giants such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter benefit from the vast amount of data available, taking control of your world with their algorithms. Imagine if one day they went out of business and shut down our social accounts, all the dynamics we have posted, and the network of relationships we have built would disappear with them. It's a shame to say that we create data that we never really had.
Likewise, strong isolation exists among the Internet oligarchs, they protect user data in their own way. We cannot easily export the information and network of relationships from Twitter to Facebook. We need to recreate accounts and spend more time building a new network of relationships. There is no better way we can do it.
We believe that Web3, an evolution of the current Internet, is a very creative era. Based on blockchain technology and native tokens, it offers a decentralized, open, and boundless way of interacting with people. Instead of creating multiple identities on various centralized platforms, we can associate all user on-chain addresses with a unified decentralized digital identity, enabling users to store and manage their data and digital assets based on privacy protocols and keys. It will empower individuals by taking back data sovereignty, gaining the benefits of the data they created, and owning control of their data.
Relation's vision of One person, One private key, One data space, One data sovereignty, All in one, is to give Web3 users control over their data. We decouple social relationship data from the Web3 application and store it in data space that the user is in full control of. Users can store, manage and modify any data in the data space, including contacts, game assets, DAO identities, wallet assets, and DApp authorizations. Users can determine the content, scope, and length of open access to their social relationship data through the permissions management suite. We will help the user earn rewards through Data to earn in our subsequent plans.
Relation One supports unlocking the social graph and building a social network on Web3
Relation One is a social DApp built by Relation Labs for Web3 users to easily manage their social relationship data and get friend matching and interest recommendation services. Its built-in one-stop social features include personal profile management, on-chain identity management, P2P chat, group chat, DAO, NFT avatar display, friend invitation, private domain game rank, etc. Currently, users are supported to log in quickly through wallet applications such as MetaMask, Internet Identity, and Polkadot. In the future, more wallet login portals from the public chain ecosystem will be integrated, making it easy for any crypto user to experience the social applications of Relation One. For now, Relation Labs will subsidize a 1T Gas Fee per user to create a private data-space with 0 cost interaction.
After adding a multi-chain address on Relation One, users will quickly get an exclusive Web3 personality tag. They can get accurate matching of friends on the chain and recommend services for enthusiasts with the same interests, forming a personal-centric visual Web3 social graph and quickly building a social network they know and trust in the Web3 world. In the future, users can easily get all push notifications sent from connected DApps or NFTs, on the corresponding chains in Relation One. Users get a better engagement experience when using new applications without creating data repeatedly.
In the next phase, Relation will bring in an economic model to enable revenue generation from users’ authorized data through a Data-to-Earn scheme. Users will be able to provide the value of their social data to the DApp side or relevant stakeholders through open licensing and share the corresponding revenue.
Relation Link Tool Suite for quick access to the Web3 Social Graph
Based on the development and operation of Relation One, Relation has provided a typical example of a Web3 social DApp, a pioneering exercise in exploring the value of Web3 social graph data. We have built the Relation Link Tool Suite to support all public chain DApps and their developers to quickly access Web3 social graph data and modularly combine the social components of Relation One like Lego. Relation aims to help DApps quickly explore business opportunities, increase social attributes, improve user stickiness and gain effective user growth in a cost-effective way.
We offer the open-source Relation Graph access query API, Relation Dashboard API, modular social functionality components, and multi-chain smart contract wallet solutions. Relation provides development scaffolding that is easy to develop, test, and deploy for developers. No developer is required to understand the underlying protocols, and contracts can be deployed efficiently with the help of our front-end templates, enabling low-code development.
We also explore diverse Web3 track DApps and tap into potential usage scenarios. For example, DID will acquire valuable on-chain users after linking the Relation Graph to co-construct a pervasive Web3 reputation system based on their social relationship data. Another example is that GameFi projects can integrate the chat function, invite friends function, Rank PK, and other functions of our social function component to increase the stickiness of their community users and expand their user base. Or even a SocialFi project can start a business quickly by adopting the open-source Relation One use case, without the high cost, leaving them more time and energy to focus on their business logic to better serve their users.
Relation Graph, the core engine of Relation
Relation Graph is the first graph database written in Rust and deployed on WASM and is the underlying core engine of Relation. As the basis for the construction of Relation Social Graph, it provides graph storage, graph query, graph computation, graph analysis, and basic database technology capabilities. It will extend with technical modules for graph visualization and graph neural networks. Using the graph database as the underlying storage engine for complex social data and providing a SPARQL query language interface, we help Web3 DApps achieve a higher-order data application paradigm and more granularly exploit the value of social relationship data.
Relation Graph is storing the authorized data of users and provides data interfaces to support data analysis and data mining in the upper layer. Relation Social Graph will synchronize after users update their authorization data and aggregate all users' authorization data with the public data in each blockchain network. It will eventually build an N-degree social relationship graph of users based on their on-chain behavior, asset status, and interest preferences in different blockchain networks. Users or other DApps can quickly get the Relation Social Graph analysis results without complicated calculations when they make deep queries. All these operations, which were not possible on the native blockchain, became a reality with the technical support of Relation Graph. We currently provide enriched data analysis modules based on the underlying graph database, including N-degree relationship recommendations, content subscription push, etc. We will subsequently support higher-order behavioral trend prediction, business intelligence, AI, and other data services.
We support developers to customize their graph databases to suit their business characteristics and help massive amounts of multi-chain user relationship data storage. Compared to SQL relational data, Relation Graph is more efficient than SQL relational data. As the development of Web3 social networks is not and should not be limited to one public chain, the Relation Social Graph will become more and more abundant as Relation moves towards a multi-chain ecosystem.
Relation, the new social networking paradigm
The Web3 era has begun and all kinds of applications are being reinvented. Along our way of exploration, we are surprised to find that the social graph can easily integrate with finance, games, NFT, and other DApps to form a complete closed-loop with stronger business and user connections. Relation is creating a new paradigm of social applications, making applications more sociable and bringing more people to Web3. We are on the way.
About Relation Labs
Relation’s long-term positioning is committed to being a social graph data value explorer onWeb3. Our vision is to provide the most powerful and wealthy social relationship graph for the global multi-chain ecosystem, jointly explore a new paradigm of people and organizations, relationships and behaviors in the Web3, and become the next-generation social infrastructure for Web3.
Keep an eye out for updates, enjoy our community and get ready for a Web3 future with Relation Labs.
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