An overview of Alameda Research's investment landscape: public chain, DeFi, NFT and other fields are attacking from all sides

Alameda Research's investment projects in the encryption field cover public chains and ecological funds, CeFi, DeFi, data analysis and development tools, NFT and Metaverse, GameFi and many other fields, with a total of more than 160 projects.

Written by: Frank

As the first company in the encryption field co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried (hereinafter referred to as "SBF") after leaving Wall Street at the end of 2017, Alameda Research is now not only positioned as an encryption quantitative trading company, but also involved in investing in many blockchain projects and start-ups The company helps the entire Alameda Research/ FTX Group continue to expand.

At the beginning of its establishment, Alameda Research managed an amount of about US$100 million. Through cross-regional arbitrage operations in the Bitcoin market, it can earn tens of millions of US dollars in profits every day.

After SBF founded FTX in 2019, Alameda Research began to position itself as FTX's self-operated quantitative trading company, aiming to provide liquidity for the encryption market, and is also the team behind FTX and Serum.

At present, Alameda Research plays a role similar to a "think tank" in the entire ecology, and its business lines are trading business (quantitative trading + market maker), OTC business, research and analysis business, and investment business.

Alameda Research's investment landscape

According to incomplete statistics, Alameda Research's investment projects in the encryption field cover public chains and ecological funds, CeFi, DeFi, data analysis and development tools, NFT and Metaverse, GameFi and many other fields, with a total of more than 160 projects.

Among them, Alameda Research not only has a soft spot for exchanges, encrypted custody and brokerage institutions, trading and liquidity agreements in various regions, but also follows the pace of SBF's development of Solana's ecology in 2020, and projects on Solana's various tracks. Keep betting intensively .

Public Chain and Ecology (Layer1 & Layer2)

Solana is a high-performance underlying public chain. It was first developed in 2017 and is committed to improving the scalability of the public chain while ensuring decentralization and security.

Solana Labs aims to accelerate the development of projects on the Solana blockchain and set up a venture capital arm for the Solana ecosystem.

Fantom is a Layer1 network based on the aBFT consensus protocol, aiming to build a highly scalable blockchain ecosystem to promote decentralized, scalable and secure technologies.

NEAR Protocol completed a new round of financing of US$150 million in January this year, and Alameda Research participated in the investment.

Secret Network announced on January 19 this year the launch of a new US$225 million ecosystem fund and a US$175 million accelerator pool fund pool. Fund sources include DeFiance Capital, Alameda Research, CoinFund and HashKey.

Polygon announced on February 8 this year that it had completed a $450 million financing through the sale of MATIC tokens, with Alameda Research participating in the investment.

The Korean blockchain platform Klaytn Foundation announced on April 21 that Alameda Research joined the Klaytn blockchain ecosystem as a strategic partner and investor.

Arbitrum is an Ethereum Layer 2 expansion solution based on Optimistic Rollup.

StarkWare is a zero-knowledge proof technology development company that has launched StarkNet, an Ethereum layer-2 expansion network based on ZK Rollup, on the Ethereum mainnet.

CeFi

exchange

VALR is a South African cryptocurrency exchange. It completed a $50 million Series B round of financing at a valuation of $240 million in March this year. It plans to continue to expand in other markets such as Africa and India. It also plans to join traditional companies such as large banks, insurance companies and hedge funds. Financial institutions to assist in building the infrastructure of the exchange.

MARA , an African encryption exchange, plans to launch a Layer1 public chain powered by its native MARA token, and will launch its testnet in the fourth quarter.

Pintu is an Indonesian cryptocurrency exchange focused on simplifying the trading experience for beginners, the exchange is registered as a licensed crypto broker under the Indonesian Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency.

BitOasis is a cryptocurrency exchange based in the Middle East and North Africa region.

AscendEx ‎exchange‎‎ was founded in 2018, formerly known as BitMax‎‎, a digital asset financial platform founded by a group of Wall Street quantitative trading veterans.

CoinMENA is a Bahrain-based cryptocurrency exchange launched by Dina Saman, Talal Tabbaa, Yazan Barghuthi in early 2021. It is a fully regulated domestic cryptocurrency exchange authorized by the Central Bank of Bahrain. Services such as cryptocurrency purchases and transactions.

CryptoLocally is an African crypto exchange that allows users to simply buy and sell cryptocurrencies with their local currency.

UpBots is a trading ecosystem solution. It combines DEX and CEX to form a trading system, and integrates various DeFi protocols that support mortgage and lending, and supports seamless switching between robot trading and manual trading.

Cryptocurrencies.AI (Aldrin) adopts a centralized + decentralized hybrid model, utilizing centralized exchange integration to provide traders with additional liquidity and user experience.

Asset Management & Fund

SEBA is a Swiss crypto bank focused on institutions, providing services such as custody, trading, lending and investment management, and is also exploring lending and custody services in the NFT market and the DeFi market.

Voyager Digital is a crypto asset broker with over $225 million in liquidity, including about $175 million in cash and another $50 million in cryptocurrencies.

Pangea Fund , an encrypted hedge fund founded by former Messari analyst Ryan Watkins and Daniel Cheung, who previously worked at Jennison Associates LLC, will only focus on "long-only" (long-only) strategies. To open a long position on the token.

Paradigm is an institutional liquidity network for derivatives traders in the CeFi and DeFi fields, allowing users to customize the trading layout, provide a modular interactive interface, and trade multiple tools side by side. The project is based on protocol-based transactions, provides front-end interfaces and order matching engines, allows exchanges and traders to enter a single global liquidity pool, and abstracts proprietary liquidity models. At the same time, Paradigm provides developers with a platform and financial tools to realize settlement logic, supports spot, derivatives transactions and loans, etc., has offline order relay for on-chain settlement, and distributes fees proportional to contract usage to developers.

Efficient Frontier is a cryptocurrency market maker that conducts hundreds of thousands of transactions and hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions through its system every day, aiming to build the world's most powerful autonomous trading system for digital assets.

Folkvang is an encrypted high-frequency quantitative trading company that relies on computers and algorithm-based trading strategies.

Archax is a regulated UK crypto asset company, the first to be registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Satori Research is a digital asset trading and consulting company established in 2020, which provides fund management, market making, research and consulting services specializing in market-neutral quantitative strategies.

OVEX is a South African cryptocurrency broker whose products include over-the-counter trading desks and electronic inquiry orders (instant buy and sell), crypto interest accounts.

Anchorage is a cryptocurrency custodian and the first cryptocurrency company to receive approval from the US national banking regulator.

Oxygen is a Swiss DeFi prime brokerage firm aiming to build an ecosystem linking DeFi tools with a registered user base of over 100 million.

DeFi

Trading & Liquidity

Serum is a decentralized exchange built on Solana, aiming to become a comprehensive decentralized trading infrastructure.

1inch is an aggregation transaction protocol on the chain, which aggregates Uniswap, Uniswap2, Kyber, Curve, Oasis, 0x, dForce Swap and other transaction protocols, which can help route almost all DeFi transactions. By integrating with various DEX service providers, 1inch users can get Lower transaction costs and transaction latency.

Zebec Protocol is a programmable cash flow protocol in the Solana ecosystem. It supports sending funds in real-time and continuous payment. It can be used in payroll, investment and other scenarios, providing people with the freedom to obtain and use wages immediately without relying on current delays. An intermediary institution that makes a profit from the transaction.

Ref Finance is the AMM and stable currency exchange market of the NEAR ecosystem, aiming to provide one-stop DeFi services for the NEAR ecosystem. It will focus on the centralized liquidity function in the second half of 2022 and launch the Zap Swap function, allowing anyone Access any LP tokens in operation.

Sommelier is a liquidity management protocol for Uniswap V3 that uses a Cosmos-based network of validators to manage positions.

Saddle Finance is an automated market maker tool designed for price-pegged crypto assets.

pSTAKE Finance is a liquid staking product under the Cosmos-based interoperability protocol Persistence, PoS token holders can deposit their tokens on the pSTAKE application to mint 1:1 pegged ERC-20 wrapped unstaked Token pTOKEN (such as pATOM), pTOKEN can be transferred to other wallets or smart contracts on the Ethereum network to generate additional income.

Zenlink is an underlying cross-chain DEX protocol based on Polkadot, and is committed to becoming Polkadot's DEX combination center. By accessing the open and universal cross-chain DEX protocol Zenlink DEX Protocol based on Substrate, all parallel chains can build DEX with one click and realize liquidity sharing.

Bonfida is a decentralized trading platform built on Solana and its decentralized exchange Serum. It is positioned as Serum's "front-end interface", and transactions are routed to Serum to share depth.

Slope Finance is a DEX built for the community. Based on Solana, it provides community users with fast, near-zero handling fees and the ultimate mobile trading experience. Its Slope Wallet is the first cross-terminal wallet developed for the Solana ecosystem. It is now available in the App Store, Google Play and Chrome extensions. Slope DEX is the first mobile DEX based on Serum and Solana.

DODO is a decentralized exchange using a proactive market-making algorithm (PMM).

RAMP DEFI is a cross-chain liquidity unlocking scheme that allows non-ERC-20 token holders to mortgage digital assets and make effective use of them (Farming and lending).

Sifchain is a full-chain decentralized exchange based on the Cosmos SDK, which can achieve compatibility with Ethereum on the Cosmos network and bring liquidity on Ethereum to other Cosmos projects such as Sifchain, Kava, and Akash.

3Commas is a smart trading terminal and automated trading bot that provides retail traders with the ability to build automated bots to trade cryptocurrencies across multiple trading venues.

ParaSwap is a DEX aggregator that provides the best DEX prices for DeFi traders and DApps.

Nerve Finance is an Automated Market Maker (AMM) designed for trading stablecoins and pegged assets on the BNB Chain‎.

Impossible Finance is a DeFi incubator on BNB Chain, aiming to support the launch of new DeFi projects through its own AMM liquidity protocol by establishing a multi-chain ecosystem.

Balancer is a decentralized transaction protocol based on a fund exchange pool. It allows anyone to provide liquidity to the existing Balancer fund pool, and also allows anyone to create a liquidity pool by themselves. In addition, each Balancer fund pool is an autonomous Balanced index funds.

Revenue & Management

Katana is Solana's ecological risk return protocol, designed to help users obtain the best passive returns in DeFi. On May 24, Katana has launched Katana Treasury, a DAO revenue management tool, as a solution specially built for DAOs for revenue generation, risk management and analysis, which can be customized for DAO's specific capital demand preferences.

Founded by brothers Paul and DJ Sengh during the Solana Ignition Hackathon in October 2021, Delta One aims to provide users with an automated, low-risk way to earn income by investing in a basket of crypto options.

Solrise Finance is a Solana-based fund management and investment agreement that supports users to allocate funds among managed funds, participate in DeFi and reduce transaction costs, and also allows users to create their own funds.

Symmetry is a decentralized index protocol and portfolio management platform based on Solana. Users can create their own indexes through Symmetry, or purchase indexes created by others.

Prysm is a social investment platform focused on cryptocurrencies, DeFi and NFT. Users can follow the best investors, create profiles and set investment types they are interested in.

Tulip Protocol (formerly known as SolFarm) is a Solana ecological revenue aggregator that currently provides 3 revenue products: Vaults, Lending and Leveraged Farming.

APY.Finance is a DeFi liquidity mining aggregation platform that allows users to earn income in a "risk/return optimal way" through various DeFi products.

Stacked is a retail-friendly passive investment tool for encrypted assets. Users can directly invest in ready-made strategies and realize automatic buying and selling and position management. These strategies come from top hedge funds and traders, and the actual trading behavior takes place on Stacked Partners (Coinbase, FTX, Binance, etc.).

Lending & Derivatives

Aurigami is a decentralized lending market in the Aurora ecosystem, which can turn idle assets on Aurora into interest-bearing auTokens, and achieve leverage effects through mortgage lending, so that borrowed funds can be deployed elsewhere to obtain additional income, making Users can lend, borrow and earn interest on digital assets.

zkLend is an L2 money market protocol built on StarkNet, providing two solutions, one is a compliance-centric solution for institutional clients, and the other is a permissionless service for DeFi users. zkLend is not yet online. Co-founder Brian Fu has 15 years of working experience in Bloomberg and Standard Chartered Bank.

Jet Protocol is a Solana ecological lending agreement, focusing on innovative loan products and cross-chain interest rate arbitrage.

Parallel Finance is a decentralized currency market that provides lending and pledge products for the Polkadot ecosystem and brings more liquidity to the Polkadot ecosystem. Depositors can lend funds and pledge at the same time, earning double interest, and borrowers can mortgage to borrow money.

Ratio Finance , incubated by Rarestone Capital, allows users to mint stablecoins (USDr) by staking assets to expand their liquidity supply capabilities.

PsyOptions is a physically delivered American-style options protocol that does not make any assumptions about the trading and pricing of options, and supports any Solana SPL assets, whether tokens, NFTs or tokenized stocks, previously held in Solana and Serum. Awarded in the pine event.

Drift Protocol is a Solana ecological perpetual futures trading platform. It has two major features: one is mixed margin, users can use the assets held in the account as margin to open positions without exchanging them into stable coins; the other is a dynamic automatic market maker , provide higher liquidity, reduce slippage, and enable users to obtain market orders.

Solend is a Solana ecological lending agreement, users can mortgage assets on Solana to obtain loans.

Arrow Markets is an AMM options protocol based on Avalanche, which creates and settles decentralized options contracts through AMM, removes all middlemen from brokers to clearing agencies in the traditional options trading process, and transfers the saved costs to the system users, aiming to democratize the benefits of traditional options market makers.

Perpetual Protocol is a decentralized derivatives trading protocol. Earlier this month, it released a governance proposal to apply for the allocation of 9 million OPs to promote its development on the Optimism network. Specifically, it will be used to motivate lenders to lend to market makers and liquidity mining , Incentives to build applications using Perp as a base layer.

01 Exchange is a Solana-based derivatives trading platform, featuring "perpetual contracts" and "power perpetuals", which can support hundreds of currency transactions and dozens of different currencies as margins, and support cross-chain Deposit; In addition, through integration with Serum, 01 Exchange users can use the order book to trade and get the same interactive experience as the centralized platform.

Linear Finance is a cross-chain compatible (Ethereum and BNB Chain) decentralized synthetic asset protocol that allows users to obtain synthetic functions of various assets, including digital assets, commodities and market indices.

Cega is a Solana-based DeFi derivatives protocol founded by former UBS derivatives trader Arisa Toyosaki, which can create exotic derivative contracts and consumer-oriented pledge products for retail investors. The first exotic option product that Cega has launched is the Fixed Coupon (FCN), which is a basket of puts and a call with knock-in and knock-out barriers.

Float Capital is a synthetic asset protocol based on Polygon and Avalanche that allows users to mint tokenized long or short leveraged positions without liquidation and without excessive collateralization and transaction fees.

dTrade (renamed Firefly Exchange) is a derivatives platform based on Polkadot. It supports on-chain settlement to realize leveraged derivatives transactions without custody and counterparty risks.

Persistence aims to tokenize real-world assets through NFT and use them as collateral to facilitate the lending of encrypted assets (such as stablecoins), thereby supporting open financing for institutions. The project's goal is to integrate DeFi with traditional Connect with finance and use the power of DeFi to solve financing problems in the real world.

Opium is a general and comprehensive on-chain derivatives protocol that allows users to create, liquidate and trade any decentralized derivatives.

Hedget is a decentralized options trading protocol launched by the blockchain project Chromia, which allows investors to create and trade different option products on the chain, and can hedge against price fluctuations and risks brought about by mortgage positions.

MCDEX is a decentralized perpetual contract trading platform, which is currently on the BNB Chain and Abritrum network.

Horizon Finance is an interest rate trading platform designed to allow all decentralized finance participants to manage their APY and interest rate exposure, and to advance the industry by building key components in the decentralized financial system.

Port Finance is a Solana ecological lending agreement that provides users with competitive loans and interest rate derivative products, allowing users to use leveraged positions.

Alchemix is a DeFi protocol that uses the synthetic asset token model to help users obtain future income from deposits, allowing users to withdraw part of their temporary pledged stablecoin deposits.

Wallet & Infrastructure

Strata Protocol is a Solana ecological token issuance and management protocol, founded by software developer Noah Prince, with the goal of making it easier for developers to issue tokens on Solana. It provides a no-code solution for users to issue and sell tokens, as well as offer tokens in exchange for donations.

Liquality is a non-custodial multi-chain wallet with built-in atomic swap (Atomic Swap) function. It was incubated by ConsenSys, the Ethereum technology research and development company that incubated MetaMask. It currently supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Rootstock, NEAR and Polygon.

XDEFI is a multi-chain wallet with a built-in DEX and cross-chain aggregator. It currently supports network assets such as Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, THORChain, Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash.

SundaeSwap Labs is the Cardano ecological DeFi platform development team. Its products include SundaeSwap, a decentralized trading platform using AMM on Cardano, and will also develop more DeFi platforms on Cardano.

Blocto is a cross-chain smart wallet, which aims to become the entrance for users to enter digital currency, DApp and NFT. It has supported networks such as BNB Chain, Ethereum, Flow, Solana and Tron, and embedded cross-chain DEX Bloctoswap, and provides other DApps Provide wallet SDK solutions.

MathWallet (MathWallet) is a general-purpose encrypted asset wallet. Its products include App wallet, web wallet, browser plug-in wallet, hardware wallet, etc., and supports more than 20 public chains, decentralized cross-chain transactions, and builds a Multi-chain DApp ecosystem, and participate in the node ecology of multiple PoS public chains.

Maps.me is a travel and map application with a built-in wallet supported by the Solana public chain, which can provide DeFi services such as asset exchange, interest earning, and real-time transfer.

Frontier is a DeFi mobile application designed to provide integrated services for mobile access to multiple DeFi applications.

Razor Network is a decentralized oracle machine that allows developers to seamlessly access real-world data, including decentralized data for applications such as DeFi, lending, stablecoins, and identification.

Step Finance can visualize, analyze, execute and summarize transactions of all Solana contracts in one stop.

Solstarter is the IDO platform of the Solana ecosystem, which empowers Launchpad projects to increase liquidity in a fair and decentralized manner.

Coin98 Finance is a Vietnamese cryptocurrency company that is building a set of DeFi products in Vietnam. Its venture arm, Coin98 Ventures, operates the largest cryptocurrency fund in the country and also co-manages the Solana Ecosystem Fund with the Solana Foundation.

Solscan is a Solana ecological block explorer.

Router Protocol is a cross-chain liquidity aggregation platform designed to provide bridging infrastructure between L1 and L2 blockchain solutions, enabling users to seamlessly exchange assets from different networks in a near-instant and low-cost manner.

Payments & Stablecoins

MobileCoin is a privacy payment project designed to design a cryptocurrency for everyday transactions where no one can see the details of the transaction except the sender and receiver. The network went live on December 7, 2020, with encrypted messaging app Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike as its earliest technical advisor.

TrustToken is the stablecoin TUSD issuance platform and the operator of the DeFi lending agreement TrueFi.

UXD Protocol is an algorithmic stablecoin protocol in the Solana ecosystem. It uses perpetual contracts and the spot market to achieve a Delta neutral portfolio to stabilize the exchange rate. It also pays interest to users through the Delta neutral portfolio position. If the derivatives are lower than the spot price, some of the proceeds are used to keep the position fully hedged.

Parrot Protocol is a Solana ecological stablecoin project that aims to make the value locked in LP tokens accessible by creating a liquidity and lending network collateralized by LP tokens.

mStable is a stablecoin aggregation protocol. Users can inject other stablecoins (such as DAI, USDT, USDC) to mint stablecoins (such as mUSD) in the mStable protocol. Users can also destroy mUSD to redeem other stablecoins, and Pay a portion of the redemption fee.

Mercurial Finance is an on-chain stable asset protocol based on Solana, focusing on building a stablecoin infrastructure for Solana.

Sperax is an algorithmic stablecoin project on Arbitrum. The stablecoin Sperax USD (USDs) has been launched, which contains external collateral in the form of external encrypted assets and internal collateral in the form of SPA.

TRON DAO Reserve announced on May 6 that Alameda Research has become a member of TRON DAO Reserve and the first whitelist institution. TRON DAO Reserve is the custodian of TRON's ecological algorithm stablecoin USDD, which stabilizes USDD prices and decentralization through the pledge of reserve assets.

QuestBook is a crypto-donation platform that connects projects and developers, allowing projects to provide grants to developers and invest in an efficient and transparent manner. In addition, QuestBook is also committed to helping companies create small funds around the world, broadening the way developers find job opportunities.

Insurance

FairSide is a decentralized risk-based DeFi insurance protocol designed to provide members with comprehensive insurance covering multiple blockchains, projects and loss types, cryptocurrency holders will no longer need to manage multiple insurance policies, pay large premiums or wait for creation Through FairSide's unique offering, members are automatically insured without having to purchase a specific project policy.

InsurAce.io is a decentralized DeFi insurance agreement, which can provide "package" insurance services, and also has investment functions, which can provide users with guaranteed and profitable insurance services.

Union Finance is a blockchain technology platform that combines bundled insurance with a liquid secondary market through a multi-token model. It provides a series of structured risk products, including supporting claims for vulnerability exploits, and solving lending in DeFi Correlated smart contract risk between protocol portfolios.

Armor.Fi (renamed Ease.org) is a DeFi asset insurance aggregator built on Nexus Mutual, which is underwritten by Nexus, and users can pledge NXM to start their own underwriting services.

Cross-chain

ChainSwap is a heterogeneous cross-chain solution. As a cross-chain asset bridge and application center, it allows projects to aggregate and transfer cross-chain assets (homogeneous tokens, NFT).

Ren Protocol is a cross-chain project that adopts a decentralized witness solution. Its main product is RenVM. Currently, RenVM's cross-chain has supported networks such as Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Avalanche, Fantom, Polygon, and Arbitrum.

As a cross-chain smart contract platform, Clover Finance is committed to providing an easy-to-use blockchain infrastructure and creating a one-stop compatible EVM framework for Substrate-based applications to reduce the barriers to entry and costs for developers.

Umee Protocol is a cross-chain DeFi protocol launched by Brent Xu, former director of strategy and partnerships at Tendermint. It is developed based on Cosmos IBC and aims to introduce cross-chain DeFi use cases into the Cosmos and Ethereum ecosystems.

Swim Protocol is a multi-chain liquidity protocol established based on the cross-chain interoperability protocol Wormhole. It is used for cross-chain transfers of stable coins and has supported Solana, BNB Chain, Ethereum, Avalanche, and Polygon networks.

Orbit Chain is a cross-chain asset network, aiming to become a hub for cross-chain transactions of various types of encrypted currency assets.

OIN Finance is a DeFi project based on Ontology, which aims to build an Ethereum-centered DeFi ecosystem that can support decentralized cross-chain asset exchange. Its cross-chain architecture aims to promote OIN's DeFi ecology and other public chain DeFi ecology fusion.

Reef Finance is a cross-chain DeFi operating system. On March 16, 2021, there were disagreements over the "80 million US dollars" investment cooperation dispute. currency) received an investment worth $20 million.

prediction market

Hedgehog is a Solana-based decentralized forecasting platform capable of providing lightning-fast forecasts that generate passive income for LPs while providing users with a seamless experience.

Data Analysis and Development Tools

Elementus is a blockchain data analysis company that aims to provide blockchain compliance and data analysis solutions to government agencies, financial institutions, researchers and investors.

Messari is a blockchain data provider and crypto research organization.

Helium , a decentralized wireless network powered by cryptocurrencies, is currently focused on powering IoT devices and is on its way to 5G.

Spruce is a digital identity authentication company that allows users to control their own data through the network, and will increase the continuous development and improvement of its decentralized identity open source toolkit SpruceID and storage solution Kepler.

Syndica is a development company focused on expanding Solana's ecological infrastructure. The founder Ahmad is a former senior engineer at cryptocurrency analysis company Messari, and Danial Abbas was a researcher at 0x Labs. Syndica aims to provide the missing middle layer of Web3 through remote program call (RPC) nodes. These servers allow decentralized applications to read and write blockchain data. In addition, Syndica can also introduce tools and APIs for developers, including Advanced logs, audience and RPC usage analytics, and more.

Rangers Protocol (formerly Rocket Protocol) is a future-oriented virtual world blockchain infrastructure incubated by MixMarvel, a high-performance engine for complex development and data migration, fully compatible with Ethereum, professional support for NFT and complex applications, integration and expansion Cross-chain, NFT, EVM, distributed network protocol.

Lithium Finance is a private asset data oracle protocol that provides pricing on private illiquid assets.

Eden Network originated from Archer DAO, a project that provides arbitrage tools for Ethereum miners. It aims to serve its users by protecting users from front-running transactions and creating incentives for block producers after the implementation of EIP-1559. Allocate MEVs.

Covalent is a blockchain data query service platform that provides a unified API to make assets of all blockchain networks fully transparent and visible.

Astar Network (formerly Plasm) is the Polkadot ecological multi-chain smart contract center, which will realize a highly compatible and highly interoperable multi-chain smart contract center by connecting multiple Layer1 public chains and supporting multiple smart contract virtual machines.

Dune Analytics is a blockchain data analysis platform that can query, extract and visualize a large amount of data from the blockchain, covering real-time, on-chain quantitative indicators, graphs and K-lines in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, DeFi and NFT markets trend.

Web3

data

Project Galaxy is a Web3 credential data network. It collects credential data through multiple data sources in two dimensions, on-chain and off-chain, and manages the network, thus building a system based on Web3 DID (Decentralized ID).

Privacy & Computing

Manta Network is a plug-and-play privacy protection parachain designed to provide privacy services for the entire DeFi network.

Automata Network is a decentralized privacy service protocol. It can be said that DApps provide middleware stacks Witness and Conveyor to improve the privacy of the network without sacrificing scalability.

Fluence is a Web3 native computing platform, which can be regarded as a decentralized and permissionless AWS, which supports reading data from any public data source (IPFS, Filecoin, Arweave, Ceramic, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Flow, etc.) Compute and store the newly computed data back into any of these repositories.

Subspace Network is an open, scalable storage and computing platform that is fully interoperable with any first layer. Originally funded by the National Science Foundation and the Web3 Foundation.

Social & Content

Mask Network is a bridge to help users seamlessly transition from Web2 to Web3, allowing users to seamlessly send encrypted messages, cryptocurrencies, and even decentralized applications (such as DeFi, NFT, and DAO) on the platforms of traditional social giants.

Only1 is the NFT social platform of the Solana ecology. It uses NFT to eliminate the necessity of middlemen in the entire process, realize the organic combination of NFT and social activities, and directly connect fans and creators, so that all benefits can be shared with fans and creators .

Subsocial is a Web3 platform based on the Substrate and IPFS technology stack, which can be used for decentralized social networks and marketplaces, with built-in monetization methods to power the social ecosystem.

Solcial is a decentralized social media platform of the Solana ecosystem, which aims to establish a center for sharing content, following news and trading assets in a review-free environment, with a focus on monetization opportunities for content creators.

Stocktwits is a social media platform for investors and traders that helps investors and traders understand real-time social comments on stocks, cryptocurrencies, futures and forex.

Jambo is a one-stop Web3 super application for African residents. It hopes to introduce African users into the Web3 financial ecosystem through games and DeFi services (including currency exchange and remittance), allowing them to obtain banking services through the blockchain and through decentralized transactions. Gain exposure to cryptocurrencies and enjoy blockchain games. Jambo expects to release its beta version in the second quarter and go live in the third quarter.

Nestcoin is an African Web3 startup that aims to build a platform for content creators to earn income while educating the startup’s subscribers.

Chingari is an Indian short video sharing platform. Users can get GARI tokens (GARI is based on the Solana blockchain) for watching or uploading content on the platform. These tokens can be used to unlock special content of creators or purchase voice or video with creators call experience. In addition, individuals can use GARI to buy and sell videos on the platform, aiming to provide content tokenization opportunities for the creator community.

NFTs and the Metaverse

Magic Eden is a Web3 native, community-driven NFT market on Solana. Any project that wants to build its own NFT market on top of Solana can directly use Magic Eden's white label solution. Currently, the NFT markets of Thugstore, Galactic Gecko and Raydium are managed by Magic Eden provides support.

DROPP (renamed reBASE this month) is a social NFT casting platform that aims to bring the metaverse into the real world and create a bridge between the virtual and real world, including DROPP LAND and DROPP 3D AR. Among them, DROPP 3D AR is a three-dimensional modeling tool that allows users to model in 3D through the application and display it in DROPP 3D space, and can also be displayed in real space as an AR object; DROPP LAND corresponds to the actual geographic location in the real world , users can use rental income, pledge token DROPP to get rewards or get exclusive airdrops, etc.

LiveArtX is an NFT platform for artists, collectors and galleries. Founded by art industry leaders including the former COO of Sotheby's and the former head of digital business at Christie's, holders of the utility token ART can gain access to the art world Opportunities, including exposure to physical and digital art, access to exclusive art experiences and events, early notification of Drop events, participation in platform curation, membership to LiveArt DAO, and more.

The Kingdom aims to be a metaverse with an open world, focusing on culture-led experiences through NFT collaborations, international brand collaborations, and building a global community. At the same time, as an interoperable Metaverse world, it supports the hosting of different projects throughout the ecosystem, enabling players to use their existing NFT assets to interact with the Metaverse.

StarryNift is a gamified large-scale co-creation Web3 platform and startup for integrating interesting digital collectibles with the Metaverse at the confluence of multiple worldviews.

Pine Protocol , as an NFT lending protocol, allows users to use NFT as collateral for permissionless instant lending of cryptocurrencies.

DoinGud is an NFT platform for content creators, curators, brands, and organizations to engage with audiences while creating social impact.

Alethea AI is committed to creating scalable, interactive intelligent NFTs (iNFTs), enabling iNFTs to access network intelligence through the Alethea protocol. Previously, Alethea AI and Robert Alice's first iNFT work "GPT-3 NFT" was successfully auctioned at Sotheby's Auction House for $478,000.

Burnt Finance is a Solana ecological NFT auction protocol, which allows users to mint, trade and auction various assets by themselves. The supported auction assets include synthetic assets, NFT, digital assets, etc. At the same time, it provides free access to all users, and can hold various forms of auctions such as English auctions and Dutch auctions.

Metaplex is the Solana ecological open source NFT standard protocol. The permissionless Metaplex can help users create and deploy NFT on Solana.

NFTBank is an NFT asset management platform that can be used as a portfolio management tool to monitor one's own NFT portfolio and help find investment opportunities.

Immutable X is a Layer 2 protocol specially developed for NFT on Ethereum. It is jointly developed by Immutable and the zero-knowledge proof technology development company StarkWare. It uses ZK Rollup technology to realize Gas-free casting and trading of NFT.

Hawku aims to build a market focused on the specific needs of gaming and utility NFTs, and provide potential buyers in this market with the real-time data needed to research such NFTs.

Realy is a metaverse ecology characterized by "Live-to-earn". It has officially launched the metaverse city KOOOLA at the end of April. Realy has developed a "game screen" with AAA effects through Unreal Engine 4, and the 3D rendering effect in the overall virtual space is better than most existing virtual space metaverses. In addition, Realy is also committed to using culture as a link to enhance its connection with the real world, and through the governance of CityDAO, it will deeply empower the land to promote the development of its own Metaverse system business.

Perion is an NFT lending platform that mainly provides services such as purchasing, leasing and managing NFT assets to help players earn income in the game.

Artemis is a Solana-based decentralized mobile NFT social and trading platform, with its own in-app social community, allowing users to discuss, share and display their NFTs with friends and creators anytime, anywhere. Artemis also personalizes the user experience through data collected from on-chain data and interactions within our platform, increasing the value proposition to users, creators and projects.

Render Network is an encryption startup that provides rendering tools for NFT and metaverse projects. It has already handled rendering work for artists such as Beeple and Pak, and has now integrated support for networks such as Ethereum and Polygon.

Praxis is a computer city project that aims to build a new city organized around the computer revolution, allowing many people to work anywhere.

GameFi

game

Sipher is an NFT game with programmable expressions created by Vietnamese entrepreneur Nguyen Trung Tin. It has an encrypted game called "World of Sipheria". In this game, users will be able to use unique characters to fight other users. in-game rewards to improve their characters and eventually have their own metaverse.

STEPN was originally a "Move to Earn" game in the Solana ecosystem, and later expanded to the BNB Chain. It uses gamified finance (GameFi) to allow users to make money while running and help reduce carbon emissions. It will be officially launched at the end of December 2021 Since the beta version, it has become popular all over the world.

Heroes of Mavia is a P2E MMO strategy game developed by Skrice Studios, a Vietnamese blockchain game development studio. It allows players to buy land, build bases and fight with other players. The goal of the game is to earn the main token in the game RUBY.

Delysium is a Web3 MMO game, led by rct AI, a game-AI company incubated by Y-Combinator. It aims to create a high-quality game experience of "Fun to Play, Play and Earn" and a continuous economic system. Alpha and Beta releases with PVP tournaments mid-year.

Mirror World is an AI-driven chain game project. As a virtual world composed of a variety of game matrices, it includes the ARPG game "Mirrama" combined with Roguelike gameplay, and the casual PVP-based arena duel game "Brawl of Mirrors” and a game with SLG as the main genre.

Eizper Chain is a Solana-based multiplayer action role-playing chain game that combines adventure and arena combat. The mainnet version is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2022.

Elumia is a Solana ecological P2E game. As a new generation massively multiplayer online role-playing game, players can directly earn income through online games and participate in multiplayer dungeons, missions and intense player battles.

DeFi Land is a multi-chain P2E farming simulation game based on Solana. It aims to gamify DeFi, redesign all the functions of traditional DeFi, and create a user-friendly interactive game for beginners and ecological participants.

Genopet is a "Move-to-Earn" NFT game based on the Solana ecology. It extracts data from the user's mobile phone or wearable fitness device, and converts the user's state of life into the state of a pet in the game, and can get rewards in the game , to change the traditional "meaninglessly tapping the screen" gameplay.

game guild

GuildFi aims to connect games, NFTs and communities by developing Web3 infrastructure, taking gaming guilds to a new level and empowering all gaming communities. Thereby maximizing the lifetime benefits of players and achieving interoperability across the metaverse.

Cosmic Guild is a game guild, which currently has thousands of P2E scholars in Axie Infinity and Pegaxy games in the Philippines and Vietnam, and plans to build a competitive e-sports team.

infrastructure

GreenPark Sports is a social sports game developer founded in 2018 that provides sports and esports fans with virtual sports worlds and proving grounds designed to allow digitally native fans to interact with their favorite sports, teams and athletes.

Rainmaker Games aims to create a P2E gaming platform that connects potential players with NFT-owned guilds and lending services, introduces players to new blockchain-based games, and provides tools to recruit and manage players.

BlockchainSpace has created some tools to enable the P2E gaming community to increase income, obtain capital and improve its performance, aiming to connect gamers, guilds, game names and investors, and become a P2E gaming guild tool platform and infrastructure.

DAOs

DAOSquare is a Web3 incubator, aiming to help those innovators from 0 to 1 and to success from the three dimensions of capital, product and growth.

Coinshift is the infrastructure for Web3 treasury management. It currently provides a treasury management platform for DAOs and Web3 companies on Ethereum and Polygon. It is built on the multi-signature smart contract platform Gnosis Safe. The current V1 platform is more focused on payment, but it is building a Multi-chain funding infrastructure, will support Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Gnosis Chain, Optimism and Arbitrum.