The early spring was a busy time at Zerion with lots of announcements. However, we already shared some alpha in the February update, covering several exciting features before they were formally revealed.

So in this joint update for March and April, we’ll quickly recap those features and will then review other things you might have missed. Let’s dive in!

Perks, multichain notifications and NFTs

In March, we officially announced Perks, multichain notifications, and multichain NFTs.

Perks is a new tab in Zerion Wallet that brings you allowlists, mints, airdrops, and other onchain opportunities that you qualify for. You can also easily check perks for your existing, older wallets by importing addresses into Zerion Wallet.

Multichain notifications were another major release. You probably already saw them on your smartphone. If you didn’t, you should follow more wallets. It’s a great way to stay on top of the market. The latest addition of dapp names makes notifications even more useful for monitoring what others are doing.

In March, we also presented multichain NFT tracking. Polygon, Optimism, Gnosis, and other L1s and L2s got the same NFT portfolio tracking treatment as the mainnet.

If you still don’t have JPEGs on L2s, you should check our guides to Polygon NFTs and Optimism NFTs.

Even better sign-in experience

In April, Zerion Wallet integrated Sign-in With Ethereum (aka SIWE). It’s a new standardized way to sign-in into Web3 and soon Web2 services.

Without going into technical details, SIWE makes message requests more accessible, human-readable, and secure. Just look at before and after and you’ll get the picture.

However, new features were not the only exciting news from the Zerion team.

An onchain brand for Web3 citizens

For years, the Zerion team looked for ways to engage with the community onchain. NFTs, POAPs, quizzes and quests, we’ve done it all.

Recently, we summarized key learnings and formulated our approach to building an onchain brand. That seminal post also launched Zerion Subscriber NFTs in partnership with Mirror.xyz. Holding this NFT enables access to gated content, early access, and other perks exclusively for subscriber NFT holders. Over 80k addresses minted it!

If you missed that, do not despair. You can still subscribe to this Mirror publication and will get all new posts in your inbox.

The Zerion Mirror publication is where all the fun happens, as you’ll see now.

Music NFTs jam

Over the past months, we doubled down on music NFTs.

We believe music NFTs are an emerging format akin to a digital version of vinyl records. It’s a new, highly customizable, and direct way for artists to engage with their fans. To help more artists join this space, we published an in-depth guide that shows how to create and sell music NFTs.

Discovery is a hugely important aspect of web3 music. Web3-native players like Oohlala and Spinamp aggregate this fragmented market, helping you to collect, organize, and listen to music NFTs. Zerion Wallet is now integrated in both of these apps.

You can learn more about this emerging space from our Web3 Wednesday session dedicated to music NFTs. That episode is also available as a Polygon NFT, which you can listen to right in your wallet.

The extension wallet waitlist hits 350k

The excitement around the upcoming Zerion Wallet browser extension got into overdrive: over 350,000 addresses signed up for the waitlist!

Don’t worry, there will be opportunities to try the extension before the main release. The key to that will be holding various NFTs (including of course, Zerion NFTs).

The campaign with the Smurfs’ Society is an example of how it will work.

Community love

We continued to engage with the community through regular calls in Twitter Spaces and in Zerion Discord.

This included sessions with Phi Land and ENS, where we discussed onchain identity.

In Discord, we also chatted with teams from CryptoTaxCalculator (helping you to learn about DeFi taxes), Socket (exploring bridging), and Galxe (talking about their onchain quests).

Zerion team members also went on to speak to other communities, for example, at Twitter Spaces hosted by ENS and SimpeHash.

This seems to pay off. For example, Zerion won Alchemy’s Web3’s community choice awards!

IRL events are another core part of our efforts to engage with the Web3 community. The next chance to catch up with Zerion team members will be at EDCON in Montenegro (19-23 May), SpaghettETH in Naples (24-26 May), and Epic Web3 in Lisbon (9 June).

Btw, all Zerion team members on Twitter now have the blue tag + Zerion logo — and our main Twitter account now has the verified gold badge.

That’s it for now. See you around!