Source: BNB Chain; Compiled by: Deng Tong, Golden Finance
Community-driven blockchain ecosystem BNB Chain announced 35 early projects selected for the 8th Season of the Most Valuable Builder (MVB) Accelerator Program. The 4-week accelerator program is jointly operated by BNB Chain, Binance Labs, and CMC Labs.
MVB continues to be committed to providing early Web3 builders with the resources and support they need to thrive in the BNB Chain ecosystem.
Last year's MVB project incubated 13 projects, and Binance Labs invested in 5 of the best performing projects in Season 7. These include Aggregata, Blum, Opinion Labs, SideKick, and Vooi. MVB remains a highly competitive project, with more than 500 applicants received in Season 8. 35 MVB Season 8 Accelerator teams were accepted after a selective process, listed alphabetically by sector:
Allo.xyz- Tokenization and trading of real-world assets (RWA) on the BNB chain. Allows the launch of financial assets on the RWA fund management and asset tokenization on the BNB chain.
Avalon - BTCFi Hub.
CarbonFi - Tokenized carbon credits with minting/redemption fees, designed to serve future emissions compliance institutions.
Evoq Finance - Pool-based P2P lending protocol leveraging the Venus Protocol on BSC.
Paimon - Providing retail investors with AI-driven portfolios in alternative assets traditionally reserved for institutions.
RateX - Next-generation yield marketplace with leveraged yield trading and fixed income strategies.
SparkleX - Through SparkleX, users can contribute their unused assets to provide liquidity to other applications and users.
uDEX - Expanding the horizons of social trading
Vanilla Finance - Making cryptocurrency trading easier with low-cost entry points using popular communication platforms like Telegram.
YieldFi - Closing the yield gap by tokenizing delta-neutral yield strategies and leveraging DeFi yield opportunities like lending and RWAs.
YieldNest - A next-generation liquidity rehypothecation protocol that provides BNB Chain users with easy-to-understand, risk-adjusted rehypothecation strategies.
Alaya AI - Receives data requests from AI developers and distributes annotation tasks to platform users through a gamified UI. APRO Oracle - A decentralized oracle service with Bitcoin-level security.
Balloon Dogs - BalloonDogs is a unified DeFi abstraction layer designed to remove the complexity of blockchain technology.
BAS (BNB Authentication Service) - BNB Authentication Service.
Blockus - An all-in-one platform for Web3 games that enables game studios to build quickly, reduce costs, and focus on gameplay.
Codatta - Enables AI and software companies to leverage cutting-edge data to train Large Language Models (LLMs), while enabling data creators to earn a revenue share from models trained using their data.
CodexField - Social wallet and storage platform with communication and DeFi integrations.
Infinity Ground - AI content creation and engagement platform for Web3 projects.
Matchain - Decentralizes AI, enhances privacy, unifies identity, and incentivizes Web2 to Web3 user onboarding through secure data monetization.
Yotta Labs - Decentralized Operating System (DeOS) that coordinates AI workloads across distributed GPU resources to meet the needs of AI computing at a lower cost.
Alias - An AI-driven ecosystem that leverages AI agent applications and decentralized data markets to enable scalable personalized services while ensuring user data privacy and security.
Alt.town - Facilitates the trading of the intellectual property value of virtual celebrities, provides a community platform for news and events, and introduces gamification features for creating and cultivating virtual assets.
Balance - Balance (Epal) connects users with companion gaming services and supports Web2 and Web3 game developers through publishing services and fan token solutions.
Bando - Enables users to use cryptocurrency directly in their already familiar wallets or dApps on any network of their choice.
Cat Gold Miner - Telegram mini-app game.
Four.meme - A fair launch platform for meme coins on the BNB chain.
Gameland - Provides a multi-agent system to assist in the creation and release of web3 games.
GamerBoom - A portal that provides support for Real Gamers and aims to bring billions of people to Web3.
GraFun - GraFun operates as a memecoin launchpad using its innovative Fair Curve model.
Meet48 - An interactive community platform for idol fans to interact.
Moso - Rewards platform.
Nomis - A one-stop shop for users to build, manage and leverage their on-chain reputation.
REVOX - Solving the adoption challenges of AI in Web3, uniquely positioned in the Web3 AI ecosystem.
TaleX - Decentralized content ecosystem and digital content asset exchange.
After the 4-week accelerator, 35 project teams will present and pitch their projects to investors on Demo Day.
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