Web3 Payment & Feature Integrator for Web2 Platforms
Develop a middleware service or API suite that allows traditional Web2 businesses (e.g., newsletter platforms, e-commerce, content platforms) to seamlessly integrate Web3 functionalities, starting with crypto payments, to expand their market reach and offer new growth opportunities to their users.
Opportunity5.9
Why now
Stripe's massive entry into crypto payments ('threw the whole f***ing thing at you and went into everything') validates the market and creates a need for easier integration by Web2 platforms; 'number of businesses building on web3 rails... massively scaled.'
Market gap
Bridging the chasm for Web2 platforms to easily adopt Web3 functionalities without needing deep crypto expertise or building from scratch.
Mid-to-high, potentially recurring subscription/transaction fees, could be significant given Stripe's validation.
Founder
Experienced payment processing or API developers with strong Web3 understanding and regulatory knowledge.
Scores
Problem
8.0
Feasibility
7.0
Why now
9.0
Go-to-market
8.0
Confidence
9.0
Proof signals
Stripe... giving these sets of apis is like you know a huge stamp of approval for like so many big companies
number of businesses building on web 3 rails or building crypto native rails has like 10x
They don't want someone to come in and be the like stripe of crypto (defensive/offensive move)
Substack for their newsletter or ConvertKit... they want to be able to collect you know in crypto right like there are people that are subscribers that want to be able to pay in crypto and that was never enabled through sub stack convertkit anywhere but now with stripe offering all of these new crypto features these traditionally web 2 business models actually have an opportunity to now integrate with more web3 features
More inclusive, capture more customers, new growth opportunities, new levers
Keyword demand
Keyword
Volume
Growth
web3 payments
70/mo
-64% YoY
crypto integration
10/mo
-86% YoY
blockchain for business
320/mo
-46% YoY
nft commerce
10/mo
-100% YoY
US English Google Ads volume from DataForSEO; growth uses returned monthly search history.
Source episode
The Future of Gaming | Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Studios8:04
I mean the industrial logic behind it is very strong for them you know they probably saw what a lot of us have seen that the number of businesses building on web 3 rails or building crypto native rails has like 10x