Puffer is a decentralized native Liquid Restaking Protocol (nLRP) built on EigenLayer. It introduces native Liquid Restaking Tokens (nLRTs) that accrue PoS and restaking rewards. Nodes within the protocol leverage Puffer’s anti-slashing technology to enjoy reduced risk and increased capital efficiency, while supercharging their rewards through native restaking. Puffer's core mission is to maintain the "trusted neutrality" of Ethereum and enhance and maintain the decentralization of Ethereum.
Sonic is a layer-1 platform with a secure gateway to Ethereum and provides the fastest settlement layer for digital assets with over 10,000 TPS and has a one-second confirmation time for transactions.
CARV is a modular identity and data layer for gaming, AI, and ∞, revolutionizing how data is used and shared. To pioneer a future where data generates value for all, CARV has built CARV Protocol, the modular data layer integrated with 40+ chain ecosystems, and CARV Play, its flagship gaming and superapp.
World Liberty Financial is a crypto project started by the Trump family, that will build a lending service, including a credit account system built on Aave and the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate decentralized lending. The project will also include a new cryptocurrency called WLFI, a non-transferable governance token.
DeepBook is a shared, decentralized Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) built for the Sui ecosystem. It leverages Sui's performance to provide a low-latency, high-execution engine that spreads liquidity across the DeFi ecosystem.
Solv is a Decentralized Bitcoin Staking Protocol to unlock the full potential of Bitcoin assets through a liquidity consensus infrastructure. By addressing the fragmentation of BTC assets, yield opportunities, and custody solutions, Solv offers Bitcoin holders a gateway to BTCFi, continuously builds pathways and confidence for traditional funds to enter the crypto world.
Scroll is a zkEVM-based zkRollup on Ethereum that enables native compatibility for existing Ethereum applications and tools. It processes transactions off-chain and posts succinct proofs of correctness on-chain, resulting in higher throughput and lower costs compared to the Ethereum base layer.
Chainbase is an omnichain data network. Its core mission is to provide a transparent, reliable, permissionless data layer for the AI era. Through its modular design, it enables data interoperability and programmability across chains, making it easy to build and use data models.
Hyperliquid is a Order book perpetual DEX on Hyperliquid L1. Hyperliquid’s DeFi platform provides the ease of use of a centralized exchange (CEX), with a seamless UX, one-click trading and near-instant transactions. For more advanced traders, the platform offers partial take-profit (TP) and stop-loss (SL) orders and API support. Its native vaults open up market making and liquidation strategies to the community.
Humanity Protocol is a sybil-resistance network of blockchains that will onboard the first billion humans. Humanity Protocol provides developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity. Humanity Protocol is the human layer for Web3. This protocol uses cutting-edge palm recognition technology, as a less invasive identity verification alternative to methods like iris scans, and is easily accessible through smartphones, to establish Proof of Humanity in Web3 applications.
Aleo is a developer platform for building fully private, scalable, and cost-effective applications. It uses zero-knowledge cryptography to move smart contract execution off-chain, enabling a diverse range of decentralized applications that are both entirely private and can scale up to thousands of transactions per second.
Sui is a permissionless Layer 1 blockchain, designed from the ground up to enable creators and developers to build experiences that cater to the next billion users in Web3. It is horizontally scalable, enabling a wide range of application development with unrivaled speed and low cost.
Quai Network is an open-source, Proof-of-Work blockchain network that uses merged mining to increase throughput and security. Users of the Quai Network will benefit from fast transaction times without compromising decentralization and security. Miners will have competitive mining opportunities across all the blockchains within the network.
Grass is the flagship product from Wynd Network. Grass lets users monetize their internet connection by selling unused network resources — by selling their “view of the internet.” To individuals, it will appear as a web extension that is downloaded, left on, and forgotten about. It will do its work behind the scenes, helping others to acquire public web data in exchange for payment in the protocol’s native token.
Movement is a modular framework to build and deploy Move-based infrastructure, applications, and blockchains in any distributed environment. The team is building a suite of products and services that empower non-Move protocols to leverage the power of the Move Programming Language without writing a single line of Move code. The team’s first release, M1, redefines the L1 as a Vertically Composable and Horizontally Scalable Layer 1 Framework that is Solidity-compatible, connects EVM and Move liquidity, and lets builders customize modular and interoperable app-chains with a diverse base of users and liquidity accessible out of the box.
Monad is building a high-performance, Layer 1 blockchain for the next generation of decentralized applications. Monad's mission is to accelerate the disruptive force of decentralization by building a blockchain that is 100x to 1000x faster than its nearest competitors. This will alleviate severe bottlenecks in existing blockchains and enable more complex applications and wider adoption.
FLock.io aims to build a decentralized, privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence. It has proposed a research initiative called Federated Learning Blocks (FLocks for short), which uses blockchain as a coordination platform among data holders to conduct Machine Learning while keeping data local and private. By replacing the central entity that collects data and organizes machine learning with blockchain, FLocks aims to empower users to mine insights from their own data and monetize at their own discretion.
GaiaNet is a decentralized network that provides secure, censorship-resistant, and monetizable AI agents that incorporate each individual’s proprietary knowledge and skills while preserving privacy. Instead of setting up centralized servers, GaiaNet is building a distributed network of edge-computing nodes controlled by individuals and businesses, to host fine-tuned AI models, based on the node operator’s proprietary domain knowledge and expertise.
Yala connects Bitcoin liquidity with a meta yield stablecoin. Designed as both a potent asset and a liquidity enhancer, the stablecoin, yUSD, operates across various ecosystems, increasing efficiency without the need for bridges or relocating the underlying Bitcoin. Yala empowers Bitcoin holders and ecosystem participants with expanded utility, all while maintaining the security of Bitcoin’s infrastructure.
DeagentAI is a AI-based layer focused on artificial intelligence, dedicated to building a decentralized network platform. This platform enables users to create and deploy their own AI agents, incentivizing the creation of high-quality agents through a token-based economy, thus driving innovation and development in the field of artificial intelligence.
Dione is a Layer1 blockchain enabling renewable energy trade. The two primary Dione goals are to:Reduce the carbon footprint caused by the energy sector around the World. Facilitate and incentivize retail consumers to become prosumers and run their energy business.
Ethena is building derivative infrastructure to enable Ethereum to transform into the Global Internet Bond via delta-neutral positions on stETH, to create the first crypto-native, yield bearing stablecoin: USDE.
deBridge is a secure interoperability layer for Web3 that enables decentralized transfers of arbitrary messages and value between various blockchains. Validation of cross-chain transactions is performed by a network of independent validators, elected by and working for deBridge governance. These validators maintain the blockchain infrastructure and each run a deBridge node to sign all transactions that pass through deBridge smart contracts in different blockchains.
Vana is an AI identity generation application that allows users to create a digital character and support its use in different applications, while the digital character is private and can only be controlled by the user who created it and their authorized accounts.
Berachain is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain built on Proof-of-Liquidity consensus. Proof-of-Liquidity is a novel consensus mechanism that aims to align network incentives, creating strong synergy between Berachain validators and the ecosystem of projects. Berachain's technology is built on Polaris, a high-performance blockchain framework for building EVM-compatible chains on-top of the CometBFT consensus engine.
EigenLayer is a protocol built on Ethereum that introduces restaking, a new primitive in cryptoeconomic security. This primitive enables the rehypothecation of ETH on the consensus layer. Users who stake ETH can opt-in to EigenLayer smart contracts to restake their ETH and extend cryptoeconomic security to additional applications on the network. Part of EigenLayer's potential lies in its ability to aggregate and extend cryptoeconomic security through restaking, and to validate new applications being built on top of Ethereum.
Theoriq is a modular and composable AI Agent Base Layer for machine learning and related complex data-driven computations for Web3. It is partnering with leading Web3 protocols as design partners to apply machine learning to DeFi, gaming, social, and data infrastructure.
Reef Chain is a Layer 1, EVM-compatible blockchain based on Substrate. Its infrastructure also enables EVM extensions, allowing for native token bridging, scheduled calls (e.g., recurring payments), and in-place code upgrades of smart contracts. With lower gas costs and turbo-fast transactions, thanks to the Nominated Proof of Stake consensus mechanism, Reef offers high scalability and affordable transactions to the NFT, Metaverse, GameFi, and DeFi communities.
Pell Network aims to create a decentralized token economy security leasing platform for the Bitcoin ecosystem. By constructing a network that aggregates native BTC Stake and LSD Restake services, it allows stakers to choose to validate new software modules built upon the Pell Network ecosystem. Stakers opt-in by granting Pell Network smart contracts the ability to impose additional reduction conditions on their staked assets, thereby allowing for the expansion of cryptographic economic security.
Babylon is a layer 1 blockchain founded by Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project's mission is to bring Bitcoin's unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains without any extra energy cost. The team consists of Stanford researchers and experienced developers, as well as seasoned business advisors.
Advertising Time Token (ATT) is a Web3.0 project that merges RWA and DePin technologies. It utilizes a unique DA-AIOT-P (Decentralized Asset-AI Internet of Things-Payment) mechanism to build a new digital advertising ecosystem that integrates physical advertising assets, e-commerce merchants, user resources, and digital technology. The ecosystem currently centers around an LED screen in Hong Kong's Lan Kwai Fong and is expanding across key commercial areas in Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, and Europe.
Nexus Network is a massively-parallelized proof mining network. It is a world-scale instantiation of the Nexus zkVM, designed to run at a trillion CPU cycles per second, given enough computing power connected to it. The Nexus zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) is a modular, extensible, open-source, highly-parallelized, prover-optimized, contributor-friendly, zkVM written in Rust, focused on performance and security.
Celestia is a modular blockchain network whose goal is to build a scalable data availability layer, enabling the next generation of scalable blockchain architectures - modular blockchains. Celestia scales by decoupling execution from consensus and introducing a new primitive, data availability sampling. It's built to enable anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain with minimal overhead.
BOOK OF MEME is an experimental project poised to redefine web3 culture by amalgamating memes, decentralized storage solutions, and degen shitcoin trading and gambling.
StarkNet is a permissionless, decentralized Validity-Rollup (also known as a "ZK-Rollup"). It operates as an L2 network over Ethereum, enabling any dApp to achieve unlimited scalability for its computations without compromising Ethereum's composability and security. This is possible due to StarkNet's reliance on the safest and most scalable cryptographic proof system: STARK.
The Uniswap is a decentralized exchange protocol that provides liquidity and facilitates the trading of tokens. It eliminates the need for trusted intermediaries and unnecessary forms of rent extraction, enabling safe, accessible, and efficient exchange activities.
Worldcoin is a new global cryptocurrency aiming to become the largest and most inclusive cryptocurrency network in the world by giving Worldcoin to everyone for free. Worldcoin has built a device called the Orb, which captures an image of a person's eyes and converts it into a short numeric code, making it possible to check if the person has already signed up. If not, they will receive their free share of Worldcoin. The original image will not need to be stored or uploaded.
Fuel is a UTXO-based modular execution layer that brings globally accessible scale to Ethereum. As a modular execution layer, Fuel can achieve global throughput that is not possible with monolithic chains, while still inheriting security from Ethereum.
Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform that lets users trade on the world's most highly-debated topics (e.g. coronavirus, politics, current events, etc). On Polymarket, users can build a portfolio based on their forecasts and earn a return if they are correct. When users buy shares in a market, they are expressing their own knowledge, research, and view of the future. Market prices reflect what traders think are the odds of future events, turning trading activity into actionable insights to help people make better decisions. Thus, Polymarket is a leading source of unbiased and real-time data about future events.
Arkham is building an intelligence platform that provides information on the real-world entities and individuals behind crypto market activity. They have developed a tool which enables users to search, filter, and sort crypto trades and transactions by value, token, time, and counterparty. Arkham is a Series A startup with over $12 million raised from investors including the founders of Palantir and OpenAI, and VCs including Geoff Lewis at Bedrock and Tim Draper.
Hemi Network is a modular Layer 2 network facilitating Ethereum smart contract functionality secured by the Bitcoin network. The chain introduces the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), which integrates a full Bitcoin node within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) — Ethereum’s core smart contract engine. HVM allows developers to create smart contracts that interact with Bitcoin’s state, unlocking Bitcoin-based DeFi applications including staking, lending markets, and democratized MEV marketplaces.
Flappy Bird is a Telegram based game that was originally launched in 2013. After a group of loyal fans secured the legal rights to the game, the Flappy Bird Foundation was created to integrate Web3 features. The game allows players to mine points for local tokens to airdrop later. These points are earned based on active time within the mini-app, as well as successfully ducking and diving between those famous green pipes.
Caduceus is a decentralized edge rendering metaverse protocol that promises to marry edge computing technology with blockchain, providing more immersive experiences in the metaverse while ensuring user privacy through decentralization.
TON (The Open Network) is a fully decentralized Layer-1 blockchain designed by Telegram. It offers ultra-fast transactions, minimal fees, easy-to-use apps, and is eco-friendly.
LayerZero is an Omnichain Interoperability Protocol designed for lightweight message passing across chains. It provides authentic and guaranteed message delivery with configurable trustlessness, implemented as a set of gas-efficient, non-upgradable smart contracts.
StarryNift is a co-creation metaverse platform enhanced by AI, delivering an immersive 3D virtual experience for playing, creating, and socializing. Its vision is to create a gamified 3D metaverse and unlock new ways for creators, collectors, and investors to explore the world of Game+Art+Defi+NFT. By collaborating with emerging artists and studios to produce limited-edition art pieces or combining trendy elements to make derivative works, StarryNift offers creators, collectors, and investors more creative assets and facilitates NFT circulation.
