Zircuit is a fully EVM-compatible zero-knowledge rollup. Backed by pioneering L2 research, the network’s unique hybrid architecture combines optimistic infrastructure with zero-knowledge proofs to give developers the best of both worlds. With cutting-edge performance and security at the sequencer level, users can explore new frontiers with faster transactions, reduced fees, and complete peace of mind. Zircuit will protect users at the sequencer level by monitoring the mempool for malicious transactions and preventing their inclusion into a block.
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.
The Sandbox is a decentralized, community-driven gaming ecosystem. Creators can share and monetize voxel assets and gaming experiences on the Ethereum blockchain.
Morpho is a lending protocol that combines the liquidity pool model used by Compound or AAVE with the capital efficiency of peer-to-peer matching engines used in order books. Morpho-Compound improves Compound by providing the same user experience, liquidity, and liquidation parameters, but with an increased APY due to peer-to-peer matchings.
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.
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.
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.
Rivalz Network is an AI-driven DePin RollApp for Personal Data Provenance. It provides a data source of verifiable personal, credential and behavioral data with embedded privacy and IP-rights. It is the first Player-to-AI network built on Dymension and powered by Celestia Labs.
Usual is a fiat-backed stablecoin protocol that plans to launch USD0, a permissionless and fully compliant stablecoin backed 1:1 by real-world assets (RWAs), and USUAL, a governance token that allows the community to guide the future evolution of the network. Usual addresses current stablecoin market issues by redistributing profits to the community, rewarding token holders with real yields generated by the RWAs.
BIO protocol is a financial layer for DeSci aimed at accelerating the flow of capital and talent into onchain science. bioDAOs can fundraise using the BIO protocol’s auction contracts and direct funding towards research initiatives, IP assets, and other biotech organizations.
Nodepay is the network infrastructure that provides decentralized bandwidth for AI training. By connecting to the Nodepay Network, users will be able to sell their unused internet to AI companies, enabling the efficient transfer of public training data, labeling, model sharing and remote distributed training.
DeAgentAI is a decentralized AI agent network that builds an AI feedback mechanism incentive protocol in Web3 to achieve "insight proof" by tightly coupling feedback with the training process, and is a network platform dedicated to building decentralization. The platform enables users to create and deploy their own AI agents, incentivizing high-quality agents through a token-based economy, thereby driving innovation and development in the field of artificial intelligence.
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.
Kaisar Network is a layer1 blockchain, employing PoPW and the KAI native token. Every transaction is part of the Proof of Physical Work (PoPW) consensus process. Kaisar's consensus process is built to stop fraud and achieve full decentralization. DePIN platform, complete with pre-built container templates designed to make it easy to train and scale bespoke AIs based on some of the most cutting-edge models available today.
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.
Balance is a Web3 experience infrastructure built by the Epal team for mass adoption, dedicated to providing a smooth Web3 transition experience for Web2 users. Balance leverages its user traffic pool to bring change to multiple industries, especially social and gaming, by combining blockchain and AI technologies. Developers can easily build and promote games and apps with powerful blockchain and AI tools, while users can enjoy a more personalized, diverse and interactive experience, driving the mass adoption of Web3 technology around the world.
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.
Bless is a shared computer protocol, powered by everyday devices automatically connects unused devices with computing tasks that need to be carried out. Users can now power the applications and websites they use automatically, and be rewarded for doing so.
Pipe Network is transforming media streaming with a decentralized Content Delivery Network (CDN) on Solana’s high-performance blockchain. This secure, scalable, and hyper-localized solution enables permissionless contributors to deploy Points of Presence (PoPs) in targeted regions, ensuring lightning-fast access to high-quality media and real-time 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.
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.
XION is a modular Generalized Abstraction layer purpose-built for consumer adoption, developed by Burnt. XION is intended to remove technical crypto barriers for consumers, providing a toolkit that includes seamless fiat on/off ramps, direct credit card purchases, familiar Web2 logins, safe account abstraction for mobile support, and zero gas fees.
Story Protocol is building web3 technology to revolutionize how narrative universes are created. Story Protocol's mission is to unleash an entirely new way to create, govern, and license IP on-chain, ultimately forming an ecosystem of “story legos” that can be remixed and composed. Story Protocol provides a streamlined framework to manage the entire lifecycle of IP development, enabling features like provenance tracking, frictionless licensing and revenue sharing. Made for creators across all media – prose, images, gaming, audio and more – applications built on Story Protocol give writers and artists the ability to track their work's provenance, allowing anyone to contribute and remix while capturing the value of their contributions.
Ondo Finance is dedicated to enhancing the safety, efficiency, and accessibility of financial services through institutional-grade on-chain offerings. Ondo Finance has a technology arm focused on developing on-chain financial software and an asset management arm that creates and manages tokenized products. It is also focused on incubating protocols that can support both tokenized real-world assets and traditional crypto.
DAWN is a decentralized wireless network for delivering Internet service. Through the protocol and hardware, property owners or residents have the opportunity to buy and sell Internet capacity in the area around them – empowering users to operate as their own Internet provider. The decentralized nature of DAWN facilitates a trustless system of exchange that employs proof of backhaul, location, and frequency.
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.
ai16z is an AI venture fund that uses an AI model to simulate the investment decisions of a16z partner Marc Andreessen and invests through the advice of DAO members. The weight of investment advice depends on the number of tokens held by members and the success rate of their historical recommendations.
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.
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.
Somnia is an L1 blockchain and a set of omnichain protocols that connect metaverses, enabling a new, open, and unified virtual society. Somnia opens up endless possibilities for builders to create content that is portable and remixable content by upgrading existing NFTs. Somnia was developed by the Virtual Society Foundation (VSF), a nonprofit organization initiated by MSquared, and Improbable.
Open Loot is an end-to-end solution to launch games with robust Web3 economies. Open Loot handles all NFT and token management for the partners and provides a super accessible experience for players.
Gaea is a Layer 3 public blockchain project built on Ethereum, aiming to create a decentralized ecosystem by leveraging unused network resources for AI training and development. Its goal is to provide a platform for AI-driven data sharing and processing.
At the base of Fluid lies the Liquidity Layer, which serves as the foundation upon which other protocols can be built. This layer serves as a central hub where liquidity from all protocols is consolidated. It facilitates automated limits for protocols, manages utilization rates, and can deploy various rate models. The Liquidity Layer allows protocols to deposit, withdraw, borrow, and payback. End-users interact with the protocols, which in turn interact with the Liquidity layer.
Network3 is building a dedicated AI Layer2. It designed to help AI developers worldwide, to inference, train and validate models in scale quickly, conveniently, and efficiently through AI model optimization and compression, federated learning, edge computing, and confidential computing.
Wormhole is a decentralized, universal message-passing protocol that enables developers and users of cross chain applications to leverage the advantages of multiple ecosystems.
Ether.Fi is a liquid staking protocol that allows stakers to retain control of their keys while delegating staking to node operators and earning rewards. Ethereum stakers who use Ether.Fi are also granted an NFT representation of every validator generated. These NFTs enable the storage of metadata, which Ether.Fi hopes developers will use to create additional staking infrastructure.
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.
Instadapp is a DeFi portal that aggregates major DeFi protocols using a smart wallet layer and bridge contracts, making complex cross-protocol transactions simple and seamless.
OpenLayer is a modular authentic data layer designed to modernize traditional data flows. Contributed to by everyone and every device, OpenLayer offers a modular solution that coordinates data collection, validation, and transformation, catering both web2 and web3 companies.
MemeFi is a Web3 Social Tech game that stacks a complex social economy layer on top of PvP & PvE gameplay. Keys are acess tokens to a share of rewards from a specific player. Owning a key allows users capitalize on yield from players' gameplay activity, increasing their return.
Karak Network is a restaking protocol that allows users to deposit any asset to the platform in order to provide slashable security to various products and services built atop Karak, such as data availability layers, blockchains, oracles, and more. Kernel Protocol presents a solution where it creates Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs) that are composed of indexes for each of the main asset categories on Karak. This mitigates liquidity fragmentation compared to making specific LRTs for each and every individual asset, while also presenting enough variation in asset choice for an end LRT user, reflecting the diversity of restaking opportunities available on Karak.
Virtuals Protocol is a decentralized factory that makes all sorts of AI characters (that can respond via text, voice and motion) for different virtual worlds, like games or online spaces. VIRTUAL Protocol aligns incentives for the decentralized creation and monetization of AI personas for every virtual interaction (gaming, metaverses, online interactions, or beyond).
Sei is a general purpose, open-source Layer 1 blockchain specialized for the exchange of digital assets. Sei addresses the exchange scalability problem by building the first Layer 1 specialized for trading, optimizing every layer of the stack to offer the best infrastructure for the exchange of digital assets.
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.
IoTeX is a DePIN modular infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and real-world data to blockchains. IoTeX's middleware solution W3bstream provides the computation and verification of real-world data, bringing it on-chain while offering the modularity and customizability builders need to facilitate mass adoption. As the leading provider of DePIN infrastructure, IoTeX facilitates new rewards from devices and on/off-chain activity for users, turns personal devices into communal economies, and tokenizes the "data of everything." Backed by a global team of 60+ research scientists and engineers, IoTeX combines its EVM-compatible L1 blockchain, off-chain compute middleware, and open hardware to connect billions of smart devices, machines and sensors, and dApps across the physical and digital world.
