Hero’s Journey
Where We’re Heading Next
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Where We’re Heading Next
Last updated
In September, Hero.io continued to make significant strides in product development, technical enhancements, and community engagement, achieving major milestones across the board.
Product Milestone We released the closed beta version of Hero AI Search to early-access users. If you're interested in trying it out, let us know!
Additionally, we have published our whitepaper, which you are currently reading.
Tech Achievements
Integrated Tabular Outputs: Reduced response time and costs by implementing tabular data presentations.
User Feedback Initiative: Conducted over 30 user interviews to gather valuable insights for product improvement.
Expanded dApp Data: Added new data categories for 16,000 dApps, including downloads, user statistics, ratings, and reviews.
Enhanced Social Media Tracking: Increased the number of tracked social media accounts to 39,000.
Marketing and Outreach
Dubai AI x Web3 Festival: Presented Hero.io at a dedicated booth, enhancing our industry presence.
Token2049 Events: Organized three side events with over 250 attendees, leading to 1,000+ new registrations for the Hero.io waitlist.
Mount Kilimanjaro Expedition: Completed a unique campaign by placing the Hero.io flag atop Mount Kilimanjaro to celebrate our whitepaper release.
Team Expansion We strengthened our team by welcoming two new colleagues: a Design Lead and a Senior Front-End Developer.
Product Milestone Hero AI Search was demonstrated live at Web3Summit Berlin, gathering valuable user feedback. Additionally, the Hero Wallet—a non-custodial wallet with multichain support, NFT display, and market alerts—is now available as a browser extension and on the website. It will soon integrate with Hero Private Browser and Hero AI Search.
Outreach Hero.io is on the road this September, meeting supporters in Dubai and Singapore at various events, including Web3 x AI. We've partnered with Near, Spectral, and Masa to bring advanced insights on Cambridge University’s AI research for crypto.
Tech Achievements
Trained 5 AI models to assess crypto project health.
Integrated an Ethereum AI model for natural language on-chain queries.
Processed 2 years and 10 months' worth of YouTube video transcripts.
Expanded our tracked database to include 20k individuals (founders, investors, influencers).
Token Update Our smart contracts were audited by Certik, revealing no security issues.
Team Expansion We hired a Hero Browser Design Lead and a Dedicated System Administrator to further our development goals.
In July, Hero.io made significant advancements toward expanding our ecosystem with major business, product, and community milestones.
Business Milestone Hero.io acquired Cryptopay.io, a licensed EU VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider), allowing us to integrate crypto payment capabilities under the HeroPay brand. HeroPay provides merchants with online crypto payment services, offering bank deposits in 38 countries, support for 90+ wallets, and flexible settlement options in USD, EUR, GBP, and cryptocurrencies.
Product Milestone We released the live demo version of Hero AI Search, showcasing its ability to outperform generalist LLMs such as ChatGPT and Gemini. The demo highlights its domain-specific knowledge, superior handling of complex market queries requiring combinatorial logic, and its multi-modal output, including interactive charts and dynamic graphs for price information and chart indicators.
Community Growth Hero.io’s community grew significantly, with 11,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) and 7,000 subscribers on Telegram.
Additional Key Achievements
Technical Improvements: Integrated conversational memory to handle 3x longer conversations without losing context and reduced system latency by 62%, enhancing response speed.
Chart Analytics: Developed an advanced chart analytics expert capable of calculating and displaying five key signals, offering users natural language explanations for market trends (e.g., bullish/bearish outlooks).
Expanded Data Sets: Added significant new data, including 15.5K dApps, token allocation data for 1.6K tokens (covering 19.1K groups), 2.6K fundraising rounds, and business information for 2.5K crypto projects.
Tokenomics: Completed the $HERO smart contract, which is currently undergoing auditing. We also finalized the draft of our whitepaper, scheduled for release in September.
Outreach: Co-hosted an AI-focused side event at EthCC Brussels with over 400 registrations.
Team Expansion: Welcomed five new team members, including a lead Flutter mobile engineer, a senior Chromium developer, two UI/UX designers, and a senior product designer.
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June 2024 was a pivotal month for Hero.io, during which our team successfully delivered several key milestones across product development, communications, marketing, and investment efforts.
Key company and investment highlights include Cambridge AI Studio Apta.chat securing a $2.15M investment from Coinvesting Holdings. This partnership further strengthens our collaboration with Apta, a cutting-edge AI research studio. Their team's extensive research background and top-tier Cambridge PhD talent ensure that Hero.io provides unmatched AI search accuracy and reliability. Apta.chat also achieved a significant product milestone, releasing the internal MVP of their AI Search platform, which we are currently testing and refining to reach the Closed Beta stage.
On the product side, we made substantial progress:
Released the internal MVP of Hero AI Search.
Developed an embedding space RAG-based model for fundamental knowledge search and a natural language-to-database model for multitask live market search.
Finalized the data set for Hero AI Search’s first version, which includes: 16,406 crypto projects, 5,350 individuals (staff/board members), 295 chains/ecosystems, 62,336 websites/social media accounts, 1,776 distinct blockchain sites/explorers, 6,354 employment/board membership associations, and 5,524 whitepapers.
We also executed a strategic communications plan, launching Hero.io across multiple platforms to raise awareness of our product and vision. In parallel, we prepared our high-level pitch deck and $HERO token introduction, kickstarted discussions for the token raise, and welcomed a seasoned communications expert to the team.
Sources:
Cambridge AI Studio Apta.chat receives $2.15M investment from Coinvesting Holdings
The Crypto Future is AI: Hero.io Joins Forces with Cambridge Startup Apta