Fileverse, the web3 startup looking to offer a suite of alternatives to Google products, released a collaborative document-sharing program last week. Dubbed ddocs, the system offers almost all of the features of Google’s popular online Google Docs application but boasts better privacy and a host of web3 features. 

“It's been a long time coming, to be honest,” Andreas Tsamados, founder of Fileverse, told The Block in a video interview. Fileverse was launched using multiple funding rounds from the decentralized crowdfunding platform Gitcoin in 2022. The team also raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed round from venture capital firm Factor and others including Gnosis Chain, on which Fileverse was built. 

The team describes ddocs as a serious competitor to Google’s docs application …