Nick Chong

Initia is a network for 0-to-1 omnichain rollups built by fusing a novel L1 with an interwoven application-specific L2 infrastructure system. The Initia Platform provides product ready rollups that enables teams to build scalable and sovereign systems while eliminating the UX complexities end users face when interacting with a modular multi-chain universe. Initia’s ownership of the full tech stack allows for a suite of chain-level mechanisms that align the economic interests across users, developers, L2 app chains, and the L1.

Thruster is Blast's native DEX to benefit traders, LPS and developers with Blast native yields, custom liquidity solutions and a simpler user interface/user experience.

Phi is a social gaming metaverse focused on "on-chain identities" created using ENS and verified wallet activity. It enables users to easily visualize their on-chain identities and incentivizes them to interact with various Web3 protocols, providing positive feedback for all protocols and thereby accelerating the network effect of Web3. With Phi, users can generate personalized spaces using their ENS and claim in-game objects based on their wallet activity. These objects can then be used to build Web3 worlds that demonstrate their on-chain identities.

Chibi Clash is building a Web3 gaming universe centered around its flagship auto battler game. Inspired by the gameplay of Hearthstone Battlegrounds and the art style of MapleStory, Chibi Clash Auto Battler is an asynchronous PvP game in which players recruit, upgrade, and send their troops into battle.

Retrograde, formerly deployed on Terra, is a governance and yield optimization platform that allowed users to receive liquid forms of locked tokens. Retrograde had nearly $50 million in TVL at its peak. The project was unable to fully launch due to the Terra collapse.

Bastion is a Lending and Stableswap protocol built on Aurora, the EVM-compatible layer of NEAR. By leveraging Aurora, Bastion can create an autonomous interest-rate engine with superior capital efficiency, low slippage swaps, fast transactions, ultra-low fees, precise liquidations, and benefit from the user experience of NEAR.

A Far Away Realm (AFAR) is a third-person metaverse open world with mini-games and social features. Users will be placed in a social hub, where they can chat with other players and hang out. There, they have the option to take part in a competition that includes shooting, racing, etc. This competition consists of four rounds, and the player with the most points at the end wins. Players can level up and receive a variety of rewards. In addition to its core gameplay, players can also take on the roles of landowner, base defender (similar to Clash of Clans), or merchant, flying an NFT Spaceship to the NFT Marketplace in space.

Hubble Exchange is the first Multi-Collateral, Cross-Margin Perpetual Futures protocol on Avalanche.

Galleon is an asset management guild aiming to research, design, and create best-in-class thematic, leveraged, and yield-based structured products on-chain across all EVM-based networks.

Ancient8 is the infrastructure for GameFi, with a focus on software and community. It is building GameFi Identity and Launchpad products to serve as the marketing distribution channel for GameFi and Metaverse projects, in order to onboard millions of users. Moreover, Ancient8 manages Vietnam's largest blockchain gaming guild, and enables everyone to construct the Metaverse through blockchain software products, guild scholarships, blockchain education, institutional-grade research, and community engagement. Its vision is to democratize social and financial access in the Metaverse.

Vesta is a Layer 2 lending protocol that enables users to get maximum liquidity against their collateral without paying interest. They can lock up their collateral and issue Vesta's stablecoin VST to their own Ethereum address, and then transfer those tokens to any other Ethereum address.

Lemma is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with two products: a "leveraged" basis trading vault and USDL, a stablecoin that is fully decentralized, 100% capital efficient and USD-pegged. Lemma uses a market-neutral derivatives position to issue a stablecoin and generate a sustainable yield. It will issue LEMMA tokens to manage governance for the stablecoin. Holders will be able to set risk parameters, prioritize the roadmap, and propose new features, among other things.

Thales is an ecosystem project of Synthetix, building support for trading binary options and on-chain derivatives on the Ethereum network. In late 2020, core contributors of Synthetix started looking for an external team to develop a binary options trading platform, which would become Thales. It was given seed funding from the SynthetixDAO to initiate the project.

Holograph is an omnichain tokenization protocol, enabling asset issuers to mint natively composable omnichain tokens. Holograph works by burning tokens on the source chain, sending a message via a messaging protocol to the destination chain, and then reminting the same number of tokens to the same contract address. This unifies liquidity, eliminates slippage, and preserves fungibility across blockchains.

Babylon Finance is an Ethereum-based asset management platform that leverages these features to enable individuals and groups to create investment communities. This allows participants with similar interests to invest in DeFi together. Community members (investors) can either be passive and simply deposit their capital or take an active role in voting on and creating strategies, while also receiving a share of the profits for doing so.