Best DeFi Projects for Startups - Page 8
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SushiSwap
SushiSwap
SushiSwap is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. Swap, earn, stack yields, lend, borrow, leverage all on one decentralized, community driven platform. Welcome home to DeFi. The most competitive rates for DeFi bluechips anywhere. Switch to other chains in one click. Isolated lending markets, elastic interest rates. Leverage long short or create your own market. An innovative ecosystem to use dapps gas-efficiently and gain extra yield. Onchain mini dapps. Earn governance rights and 0.05% of all swaps from all chains in one simple place. Accelerate your project with onsen. Find the best yields anywhere in DeFi hands down. -
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Mooniswap
Mooniswap
Mooniswap is a cutting-edge automated market maker (AMM), which redistributes earnings to liquidity pools, capitalizes on user slippages and protects traders from front-running attacks. Mooniswap is the next generation of an automated market maker with virtual balances — enabling liquidity providers to capture profits otherwise captured by arbitrageurs. The idea is fully realized in the Mooniswap design. The new AMM is capable of keeping most of the slippage revenue in the pool by maintaining virtual balances for different swap directions. -
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Compound
Compound Finance
Compound is an algorithmic, autonomous interest rate protocol built for developers, to unlock a universe of open financial applications. Higher returns, for you or your users. Balances held by your application can automatically earn the prevailing market rate. You can build interest directly into your product. Earn by the block. Expand functionality, without compromising liquidity. You can tokenize balances. Withdraw assets any time, or transfer balances to cold storage, other users, etc. Earn interest while assets are in cold storage. No trading fees, no slippage, no problem. Tapping into the Compound Protocol means you have access to a global liquidity pool per asset. Borrowing assets from the Compound Protocol has no time-duration; balances can be repayed at anytime, while interest is accumulating per block on the Ethereum network. -
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SnowSwap
SnowSwap
SnowSwap is a new decentralized exchange for swapping yield bearing stablecoins, built for yield bearing Yearn Finance assets. The aim is to eliminate steps from swapping stablecoins, when you want to swap to a different Yearn DeFi Vault. Instead of having to withdraw and deposit assets again, wasting Eth to high transaction fees. SnowSwap lets you trade between Yearn vaults directly, saving users a lot of trouble, cost, and time. SnowSwap uses Curve’s pooling algorithms but it goes well beyond just being a simple copy and paste fork. SnowSwap is an innovative use case for yield bearing stablecoin assets. -
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DODO
DODO
Invest your crypto assets with market-leading liquidity. DODO is a liquidity protocol powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm and built for capital efficiency. DODO’s contract-fillable liquidity is comparable to centralized exchanges (CEXs). DODO offers a low barrier-to-entry, pain-free token issuance mechanic for long tail assets. Developed by the DODO team, Proactive Market Maker (PMM) is an oracle-aided algorithm with an advanced pricing formula that provides contract-fillable liquidity. Traders get lower slippage with PMM than AMMs. There is reduced impermanent loss on DODO compared to other AMM platforms. On DODO, there is no AMM-specific impermanent loss caused by asset reallocation. LPs do need to beware of market/inventory risk associated with market making. -
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Nord Finance
Nord Finance
Nord Finance, a blockchain agnostic platform, is an advanced decentralized financial ecosystem focusing on simplifying decentralized finance products for users by highlighting traditional finance’s key attributes. Deployed on the Ethereum Network, it integrates multi-chain interoperability, thus proposing a plethora of financial primitives, which constitute savings, advisory, loans against assets, investment/funds management, and swaps. Receive highest yields for your stable coins with our dedicated smart protocol. Our multi-chain protocol's automated chain switching ensures you receive the best APYs. No upfront network fee for deposits, the smart contract absorbs the gas fee which is adjusted in the final APY. Allows optimizing returns through a multi-chain yield-farming mechanism for stable coin farming with the highest possible risk-adjusted returns. Users can either mine $NORD token via our liquidity mining program or purchase $NORD in later stages via exchanges. -
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Badger
Badger Finance
DAO dedicated to building products and infrastructure to bring Bitcoin to DeFi. Badger is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) with a single purpose: build the products and infrastructure necessary to accelerate Bitcoin as collateral across other blockchains. It’s meant to be an ecosystem DAO where projects and people from across DeFi can come together to collaborate and build the products our space needs. Shared ownership in the DAO will allow builders to have aligned incentives while decentralized governance can ensure those incentives remain fair to all parties. The idea is less competing and more collaborating. That’s why it’s important that it starts as a community-led initiative from day one. Any decisions are made through a governed vote including what, how, and when Badger DAO products are created. Equally important is ensuring there is a fair distribution of $BADGER to give all participants the opportunity to get involved and benefit. -
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QuickSwap
QuickSwap
Next-gen Layer 2 DEX. Trade at lightning-fast speeds with near-zero gas fees. QuickSwap runs on the Polygon (previously Matic) blockchain network. Trade Polygon-based tokens on QuickSwap, or use the Polygon bridge to convert ERC-20 tokens to Polygon. -
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DeFiChain
DeFiChain
Decentralized finance enabled on Bitcoin. A blockchain dedicated to fast, intelligent and transparent financial services, accessible by everyone. From trust-based to trust-less, decentralized finance overcomes what Fintech could not solve in traditional finance. Wide range of crypto-economic financial operations. Unparalleled high transaction throughput for all transactions. Turing-incomplete for reduced attack vectors. Rapidly create a variety of DeFi apps on one chain. Reliable decentralized governance, on and off-chain. Immutable by anchoring to the Bitcoin blockchain. Designed and engineered for decentralized finance dApps. Swap and arbitrage on the DEX, mine liquidity for up to 100x high yields, and more, with the DeFiChain wallet app. Available for Windows, macOS and Linux. The $DFI coin is an integral unit of account in DeFiChain. -
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Soldex.ai
Soldex
Scalable and Decentralized Exchange. Governed by the DeFi Community. Built on Solana. Cryptocurrencies continue to be an extremely interesting phenomenon. Digital coins continue to be an incredibly profitable investment tool, capable of generating huge profits on cryptocurrency exchanges or when investing in these assets over the long term. Soldex.ai will work on all market conditions 24/7 with emotionless machine-learning and neural network algorithms. It’s like hiring an expert to do crypto trading for you while you can sit back and watch. The estimated number of global crypto users has passed 100 million - and boomers are now getting drawn to bitcoin too, reports find. The ultimate goal of SOLDEX academy is to build a strong and vibrant Solana DeFi community. Our Vision is to be an educational resource, designed to help new users become familiar with Solana and DeFI and its key concepts. -
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ShibaSwap
Shiba
SHIB, LEASH, and BONE, come together to create ShibaSwap, the next evolution in DeFi platforms. ShibaSwap gives users the ability to DIG (provide liquidity), BURY (stake), and SWAP tokens to gain WOOF Returns through our sophisticated and innovative passive income reward system. Our platform also allows the ShibArmy to access upcoming NFTs and additional tools, such as portfolio trackers, to make navigating the crypto world simple and intuitive. -
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Vesper Finance
Vesper Finance
Vesper provides a suite of yield-generating products, focused on accessibility, optimization, and longevity. Effortlessly grow your digital assets. Vesper keeps you on-strategy to help you HODL better. Currently offering conservative pools for ETH, WBTC, and USDC. Hold one crypto, earn another! Ideal for income-generating strategies. Take advantage of crypto’s most stable earnings alongside your DeFi holdings. Build a pool that our community loves and earn revenue from its fees. -
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Dfyn
Dfyn Network
Cross-chain bridges are key to ecosystem growth. By preventing fragmentation of liquidity across chains they improve efficiency and price discovery. Dfyn AMMs are optimized for supporting ultra-fast, gasless transactions atop multiple chains. Dfyn’s AMMs nodes tap into Router’s XCLP (Cross-chain Liquidity Protocol), thus plugging into a liquidity super-mesh. Launched initially on Polygon, Dfyn will soon expand to BSC, HEC, AVALANCHE, POLKADOT, ALGORAND, and more. Customizable market-making toolkit addresses common AMM issues. Dfyn’s Layer 2 technical launchpad will allow creators to launch their tokens on multiple chains, initiate farming plays and vesting with no code tools, stake contracts on Dfyn and undertake creatively designed Layer 2 IDO strategies in the absence of high ETH fees. Dfyn's node-runner platform will enable blockchain evangelists to run their own Dfyn node on the blockchain to earn passive income from fees collection. -
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ApeSwap
ApeSwap
ApeSwap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and AMM built on the Binance Smart Chain network. ApeSwap was built by DeFi Apes and also features an NFT marketplace. -
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Dexlab
Dexlab
Dexlab is a decentralized exchange where the best Solana projects mint and list their tokens. Dexlab makes launching on Solana easy with a token minting lab, a launchpad and a dedicated DEX for all listings What is Dexlab? Dexlab is an integrated DEX platform that provides a GUI to issue Solana-based tokens without the need to code. It leverages the Serum Decentralized Exchange (DEX)'s central order book to support ultra-fast transactions, shared liquidity, and new features for monetization. The SPL CLI is the primary method to create and manage Solana tokens. Currently, it lacks the linkage to be able to manage environment settings, token sales, market listings, and token information. With Dexlab's GUI, one will be able to manage these settings, and be able to do everything from token issuance to adjusting utility settings. -
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Drift
Drift Protocol
Despite the decentralized nature of crypto, centralized derivatives exchanges still remain dominant - they're already fast, familiar and reliable. So far, the DEX trading experience hasn't met that standard. Slippage is high for large orders, transferring funds between platforms is subject to massive gas fees, and low liquidity leads to poor pricing. Drift’s goal is to bring a state-of-the-art trader-centric experience from centralized exchanges on-chain. We're a team of experienced traders and builders from DeFi and traditional finance working together to make this a reality. Powered by Solana’s low latency blockchain. Take multiple positions using a single pool of collateral. Immediate liquidity from listing. Trade instantly. When you trade against Drift’s vAMM, you know exactly the price you transact at. -
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Convex
Convex
Convex allows Curve.fi liquidity providers to earn trading fees and claim boosted CRV without locking CRV themselves. Liquidity providers can receive boosted CRV and liquidity mining rewards with minimal effort. If you would like to stake CRV, Convex lets users receive trading fees as well as a share of boosted CRV received by liquidity providers. This allows for a better balance between liquidity providers and CRV stakers as well as better capital efficiency. Convex has no withdrawal fees and minimal performance fees which is used to pay for gas and distributed to CVX stakers. CRV stakers and liquidity providers also receive liquidity mining rewards in the form of CVX. Convex allows liquidity providers to earn trading fees and claim boosted CRV without locking CRV themselves. -
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Autofarm
Autofarm
Autofarm is a one-stop DeFi suite comprising of 6 main products (Autofarm - yield optimizer/vaults, AutoSwap DEX Aggregator, AutoPortfolio, AutoTrade, AutoAnalytics & farmfolio - intelligent portfolio dashboard). Autofarm ecosystem is currently available on BSC, HECO, Polygon, Avalanche, Fantom, Moonriver & OKEx with Arbitrium, xDai, Harmony in the pipeline. -
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Cryptex
Cryptex
Total crypto market capitalization. TCAP gives holders real-time price exposure to total cryptocurrency market cap. It's a new, 200% fully backed, fully collateralized asset that’s both audited and accurately representative of the entire cryptocurrency complex by total market capitalization. CTX is a governance token that powers and secures the Cryptex protocol. Holders of CTX can vote on protocol upgrades for TCAP as well as all future products within the Cryptex ecosystem. Provide liquidity to TCAP pairs on Sushiswap and earn a portion of the trading fees. Create and approve a vault, add collateral and begin minting TCAP. -
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SwapMatic
SwapMatic
Swap aggregator that always finds the best price from the markets. Earn rewards by holding #swapman NFT and staking $SWAM. Farming APY 100% in liquidity pools. -
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Fire Protocol
Fire Protocol
FireProtocol and Polkadot share the similar features such as high scalability, high interoperability, high throughput. Based on ssubstrate, FireProtocol supports hundreds of mainstream crypto assets from leading Blockchains via our cross-chain hub, enabling cross-chain bridging between different ecosystems. Fire Protocol combines trading, lending and borrowing into one integrated platform, enhancing liquidity and improving liquidation process. Liquidity providers's shares on DEXes are accepted as collateral. Unlock unused LP tokens and improve capital efficiency. As an infrastructure for all leading DeFi protocols and DeFi users, FireProtocol provides the best-in-class trading services and cross-chain solutions. Liquidity providers’ LP shares on DEXes can also be used as collateral on Fire Protocol, unlocking unused LP tokens and improve capital efficiency. -
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BunnyPark
BunnyPark
BunnyPark is a DeFi + NFT project deployed on BSC focusing on NFT SaaSization and product standardization that allows the output of NFT development standards, diverse gameplay, product rules and application values into a series of standard smart contracts. Being the Lego provider in the NFT sector, we can provide many NFT and GameFi developer teams and artists quick combinations to create NFT product platforms. BunnyPark owns an independent "SaaS" incubation fund. We are always open to accepting applications from development teams and artists. The successful teams who pass our review will receive fundings, R&D, mathematical models, operations and other comprehensive support provided by the incubation fund. BunnyPark owns an independent "SaaS" incubation fund. We are always open to accepting applications from development teams and artists. -
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Belt Finance
Belt Finance
Belt has put heavy investment and utmost focus into security. Belt has multiple audits, a thriving bug bounty system, and an open, experienced team. Belt’s vaults spread your deposits across the top DeFi protocols in each ecosystem, letting you earn optimized returns from all of them simultaneously. Taking advantage of our ample liquidity, Belt’s stableswap AMM gives you the best rates on trades of major stablecoins, with low slippage and fees. Belt Finance is currently available on Binance Smart Chain, HECO Chain, and Klaytn, with even more chains to come. Take advantage of our services on every chain. Users do not actively need to move their assets around between protocols to find the best yield, as Belt Finance vaults do it for them. This guarantees the highest reliable yield possible as it provides an amalgamation of many parts of the DeFi ecosystem. As Belt Finance grows to include more strategies, assets, and chains, this effect is expected to continually grow. -
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Agoric
Agoric
A Proof-of-Stake chain utilizing secure JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFi. Save time by using our pre-built smart contract components and dapps. They’re secure, composable, and let you get your project out the door pronto. Agoric offers a library of reusable, composable components coded by experienced community members just like you. Use familiar tooling to build smart contracts in secure JavaScript. As you grow, be confident your hiring pool of experienced developers won't run dry! By eliminating categories of complex security bugs, Agoric provides builders with a safer environment to quickly harden your contracts. We’ve been working in smart contracts for decades, since long before it was called a blockchain. Agoric was founded on open-source principles optimized for a booming, collaborative, public economy. Agoric components help keep your focus on building your application, not on complex protocol integrations and third-party code. -
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Taker
Taker Protocol
Taker is a liquidity protocol for novel crypto assets. It uses a quote-by-lock-in approach to price and allows asset holders to borrow stable coins. Taker starts with NFT assets to provide lending services for all kinds of novel crypto assets of the future. The Taker protocol designs a new model for NFT lending. Soon, NFT synthetic indexes will be introduced to DeFi NFT assets and stimulate the liquidity and turnovers of NFT’s. The Taker token ensures effective collaboration for holders to use their voting power and participate in community governance. The Layer 2 network is constructed using Polygon to reduce gas cost, improve asset turnovers, and expand data processing capacity. The network’s DeFi attributes and NFT ecology are supported by our protocol. We are working hard to implement the pool-based lending protocol, which will greatly improve the efficiency of NFT lending. -
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DeversiFi
DeversiFi
Our decentralized exchange is the easiest way to access DeFi opportunities on Ethereum: invest, trade, and send tokens without paying gas fees. What’s not to love? Getting started with DeversiFi couldn’t be simpler, whether you’re a crypto ninja or just starting out, our DEX really is the simplest way to access all the opportunities of decentralized finance. We’ve got a suite of tools to help you make the most of DeFi. From managing your crypto portfolio, to trading, swapping and sending assets and tokens and even putting your investments to work earning you rewards and interest, why not give DeversiFi a try today? View your entire crypto portfolio at the click of a button. With aggregated liquidity from other markets plus our AMMs, its trading the way it should be. Earn yield (interest) on your crypto investments at the click of a button. -
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Oasis Network
Oasis Protocol Foundation
The Oasis Network is a privacy-enabled blockchain platform for open finance and a responsible data economy. By bringing privacy and scalability to DeFi, the Oasis Network expands DeFi beyond early adopters to a mass market. It enables private smart contracts, high scalability, and the ability to tokenize data. This unlocks new use cases like private lending, undercollateralized loans, and private automated market makers. The Oasis Network’s unique combination of confidential computing and blockchain enables a new paradigm called Tokenized Data. With Tokenized Data users can earn rewards by staking their data with apps that want to analyze it or control how their most sensitive information is consumed by the services they use. The Oasis ParaTime scaling architecture supports fast transaction speed, high scalability, and large workloads by separating execution from consensus. ROSE is the native, capped supply utility and settlement token for the Oasis Network. -
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RadioShack DeFi
RadioShack
Our mission is to be the first protocol to bridge the gap in mainstream usage of DeFi. RadioShack is a 100 year old brand embedded into the global consciousness… and we are going to lead the way for blockchain tech to reach mainstream adoption by other large brands. There is a real generational gap between the average crypto buyer and the average business decision maker. This demographic difference creates a substantial psychological barrier to crypto adoption. We will be the bridge between the CEO’s who control the world’s corporations and the new world of cryptocurrencies. RadioShack DeFi will start with a swap. We believe this is the lowest hanging fruit that is full of opportunities. Our symbiosis with Atlas USV will allow us to offer the most efficient and competitive swap on the market. Other decentralized exchanges margins on swap fees are our opportunity. -
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SundaeSwap
SundaeSwap Labs
SundaeSwap is a native, scalable decentralized exchange and automated liquidity provision protocol. An ownerless marketplace for efficient cryptocurrency transactions. SundaeSwap is the sweetest decentralized exchange on Cardano and aiming to be the platform for future financial innovation. Join the community today! -
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ErgoDEX
ErgoDEX
A non-custodial, decentralized exchange that allows a quick, effortless and secure transfer of liquidity between the Ergo and Cardano networks. eUTXO model gives unique possibility to have shared liquidity among different types of exchanges on top of Ergo and Cardano ecosystems. Classic AMM on the Ergo ecosystem have already been developed and tested. Decentralized Orderbook coming soon. In ErgoDEX each actor is incentivized to fulfill his role as best as possible. Users benefit from DEX services, Liquidity providers from protocol fees and the DEX benefits from transaction fixed fees.