Powering the Future of Web3

A Web3 social media ecosystem that lets users collaboratively create and monetize digital assets with complete control.

Who We Empower

Creators

Decentralized publishing, Ownership Verification, NFT-powered Subscriptions, Token-driven Community, DAO-based Governance

Developers

Open-source community, build Dapp, create the future

Investors

Be part of the Web3 innovation movement and reap rewards

Our Partners & Supporters

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Our Vision and Mission

Matters Lab was established in 2018, with the mission to create a freer and fairer creator ecosystem through the next evolution of the Internet, Web3.

Let's create a more equal, decentralized, and trustless world together.

Creator Economy in Web3

Projects Spotlight

Matters.News

The massively popular decentralized publishing platform that redefines the creator economy

Matters.News is the community space where most users first enter Matterverse, providing an interface as familiar as Web2 applications but as powerful as Web3 Dapp.

To empower creators, the open-sourced platform is based on InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system.

Today, Matters.News is growing with more than 80,000 creators and 6 million monthly page views committed to user experience, quality content, and free speech.

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Traveloggers

Traveloggers are dynamic NFTs used as avatars and notebooks, where users can take turns writing content on Ethereum and trade the resulting NFT. It is the first Dapp built on Matters' "Logbook" protocol, allowing users to collaborate on digital assets sequentially. The project was a massive success with pre-order selling out within 10 minutes and now trading on Open Sea.

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Non-fiction Writing Award

Matters and the Renaissance Foundation launched the Non-fiction Writing Award to support independent writers bravely writing at the frontline of the era.

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The Space

The Space Project brings together NFT, Harberger Tax, and Universal Basic Income concepts in an open-source community. Launching 2022.

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Press Coverage

Rest of World

“Blockchain allows Matters users to collectively determine its rules, and to decide what content has value...Matters is one of the few remaining online venues where users from across the political spectrum can engage in discussion and debate.”

The Protocol

"Matters give Chinese citizens a way to speak out that cannot be erased by censors."

Columbia Journalism Review

“The [Chinese-language media’s] attempts to adopt new technology to weather financial and political turbulence can inspire the West...allowing Matters users to trade NFT avatars empower users to independently open censorship-resilient sites, turning their work into a part of the Ethereum blockchain as a public ledger and selling it.”

Behind Matters Lab

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Founder, CEOJieping Zhang
Co-founder, CTOGuo Liu
Co-founder, OperationBeryl Liu
Product ManagerZeck Li
UI/UX DesignerYihan Huang
Data ScientistXia
Product EngineerRobert Lu
Sr. Software EngineerTomas Cheng
Developer (PT)Charlie
Community HeadLee
CommunityYingshin Lee
CommunityDobby Will
EventXY
EventXinan He

Our Latest Blogs:

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NFT is more than a bubble: It’s changing the Internet

Author: Jieping Zhang, Annie

NFTs are exploding in popularity in the cryptocurrency market, with sales of more than 2.5 billion U.S. dollars as of July 2021, up from 13.7 million U.S. dollars in the first half of 2020.

Much talk has been going on about an “NFT bubble” and …

Three reasons why NFT is the next evolution of art collection

Author: Jieping Zhang, Annie

Since 2021, NFTs (Non-Fungible Token) has exploded in popularity, mesmerizing the general public, artists, gamers and other creatives in the entertainment and media sectors. The media called the popularity of NFTs “strange and iconic”. …