Socket, founded by Stanford graduate Eva Zhang in 2022 and based in New York City, builds Web3 privacy infrastructure for social interactions tied to crypto wallets. The product aims to let users discover people and projects without exposing wallet addresses or financial details, indexing previously unsearchable social information while preserving privacy. Zhang is currently the only full-time team member and the company plans to generate revenue in the short term by offering advanced querying functions to users while preserving privacy. Socket frames wallet addresses as an unsafe default social primitive that leaks financial privacy and creates risks like targeted surveillance, sybil attacks, and marketing/allowlist challenges. The startup is initially targeting users and projects that rely on tokens with social utility—governance tokens, social tokens, and NFTs—where community discoverability is critical. Competitors named in the article include smaller startups such as Disco and Big Whale Labs and incumbents like Twitter and Discord.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jul 2022