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Ergo
Ergo Platform
Ergo builds advanced cryptographic features and radically new DeFi functionality on the rock-solid foundations laid by a decade of blockchain theory and development. Ergo draws on ten years of blockchain development, complementing tried and tested principles with the best peer-reviewed academic research into cryptography, consensus models and digital currencies. We start with solid blockchain basics and implement new and powerful cryptography natively. Our team has a solid background in core development with cryptocurrencies and blockchain frameworks including Nxt, Scorex and Waves, and our lean approach means we can prioritise new features and requirements quickly. -
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MuesliSwap
MuesliSwap
A decentralized exchange for Cardano and smartBCH. On a mission towards a decentralized future. MuesliSwap has launched as one of the first decentralized exchanges on Smart Bitcoin Cash. Since then, we have been working hard to bring the rest of the Muesli ecosystem to life. We're excited to announce that we will soon be launching on Cardano. The MuesliSwap ecosystem is powered by MILK. Because Muesli operates on two blockchains, there are two independent governance tokens. MuesliSwap is a decentralized exchange that will operate on both Cardano and Smart Bitcoin Cash. Our goal is to enable the exchange of tokens for anyone in a truly decentralized way! -
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AstroSwap
Astro Swap
This is the first ever DEX built on a Cardano network which ensures that when trading…you reach new frontiers. It’s incubated by BlueZilla and powered by the WagyuSwap team — it’s a good thing too. Better to be safe than starry. AstroSwap is a groundbreaking, first interstellar DEX. This decentralized exchange is on a mission to launch on ADAPad. -
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Swapz
Swapz
Swapz is a convenient, fast, and ultra secure way to execute instant cross-chain swaps of stablecoins across all EVM blockchains. By being the ONE platform to swap stablecoins quickly and securely across ALL networks, Swapz taps into a $126.5B market. Swapz requires NO KYC. And it never will. Your finances, your right. Whenever you see a trading opportunity on a different chain, Swapz lets you quickly swap your stables into that network to make that winning trade. By connecting all EVM compatible chains, Swapz enables savvy crypto traders to swap their way to a life-changing fortune, free from the shackles of centralization. The future of web 3.0 will consist of interlinked blockchains that can exchange value and information seamlessly between them. Swapz will be a natural conduit for these value highways connecting the multi-chain DeFi of the future. -
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BenSwap
BenSwap
BenSwap is the first decentralized exchange (DEX) on the SmartBCH chain. Green Ben (EBEN) is the utility and governance token of BenSwap (SmartBCH). 1. BenSwap is one of the top DEXes on SmartBCH in terms of the market cap, transactions, total value locked (TVL) and other statistics. 2. BenSwap is the first project on the SmartBCH chain to pass the Certik audit. More audits will be carried out in the future as the project develops. 3. BenSwap is the first project on the SmartBCH chain listed on the centralized exchange (CEX). It has been listed on CoinW. More CEX listings are planned in the future. 4. BenSwap is one of the most popular projects on the SmartBCH chain and has been listed on many platforms, such as vfat.tools, CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko, DefiLlama, and MyToken to provide analytical statistics for users. -
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TangoSwap
TangoSwap.Cash
Trade, launch, stake, farm, invest, automate, build on the premier DeFi platform of smartBCH. Tango, Moves like Cash. Trade without borders instantly. Fully open-source. 5 second block times, low fees, truly decentralized. Be your own bank. Focus on gaining highest marketshare and providing best rewards to liquidity providers. Tango is a smartBCH exchange, and a suite of tools to help empower the individual. Our main product is TangoSwap, the exchange, which is based on the popular SushiSwap exchange. -
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MistSwap
MistSwap
Trade, launch, stake, farm, invest, automate, build on the premier DeFi platform of smartBCH. Trade without borders instantly. Fully open-source. 5 second block times, low fees, truly decentralized. Be your own bank. Focus on gaining highest marketshare and providing best rewards to liquidity providers. Mist is a smartBCH exchange, and a suite of tools to help empower the individual. Our main product is MistSwap, the exchange, which is based on the popular SushiSwap exchange. -
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CoinEx Smart Chain (CSC)
CoinEx
Based on PoS consensus protocol, CoinEx Smart Chain is decentralized and energy efficient. CSC makes it easy to build your own decentralized applications. DApps on Ethereum can be directly migrated to CSC. Support up to 101 nodes based on the ranking of staked CET. Secondly block generating time with extremely low transaction fees. With the release of CSC Ecological Supportive Plan by CoinEx Smart Chain Foundation, we encourage developers to create their own DApps on CSC and guarantee multi-dimensional support in funding, tech, market and other resources for quality projects. -
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DOEX
DOEX
DOEX is a global cryptocurrency exchange offering a comprehensive suite of digital asset services, including spot trading, fiat trading, and futures contracts. Established in 2022, it aims to provide secure and efficient trading experiences for users worldwide. The platform supports a wide array of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dogecoin, enabling users to trade with competitive fees. DOEX emphasizes security by implementing measures like cold wallets for offline fund management and semi-offline hot wallets with multi-signature technology. Additionally, it offers advanced trading features, including customizable leverage up to 125x, take-profit and stop-loss orders, and a one-click copy trading function that allows users to mirror the trades of experienced professionals. -
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Cropper
CropperFinance
Cropper is an automated market maker (AMM) built on the Solana blockchain which leverages the central order book of the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX) to enable lightning-fast trades, shared liquidity and new features for earning yield. By farmers, for farmers. With low fees and high-impact APRs, our full line of DeFi services give you everything you need in a few clicks. Our smart search delivers the fairest swap instantly. Explore a vast selection of labeled and permissionless farms. Earn rewards and gain access to exclusive opportunities with our 5 staking tiers. The fertilizer launcher is currently being improved. Our community is at the heart of everything we do. The first Croppers formed as a collective of serious farmers seeking access and decentralization of yield farming. Today, the Cropper Community is comprised of DeFi enthusiasts of all walks of the chain. Together, we pursue universal access to yield farming and all the harvests that come with it. -
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Gasp
Gasp
Gasp delivers omnichain liquidity, empowering efficient trading across blockchain networks through a modular rollup secured by Ethereum. Gasp garners the best crypto economic security from Ethereum through EigenLayer for cross-chain swap finality, making it one of the first DEX's built on EigenLayer. Deposits and liquidity are protected by rollup escape hatches, guaranteeing asset withdrawal in all circumstances. Gasp is the first Ethereum native cross-rollup protocol. Swap across any Ethereum L2s with ease. -
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Francium
Francium
Seeking the best yields across protocols should be simple - Francium provides Strategy Development Tools for our users to build yield strategies with ease. Earn variable, low-risk returns on your assets by depositing into our lending vaults. These assets are available to yield farmers for leveraging their positions. You can borrow assets from our lending pools, allowing you to leverage up to 3X. Borrowing interest is subtracted from your total return. As expected, higher yields and leverage increase volatility and potential risks, including liquidation, impermanent loss, etc. Monitors the pool for underwater leveraged farming positions (when equity collateral becomes too low, thus approaching the risk of default) and liquidates them. -
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CLV Wallet
Clover
Support multi-chain, cross-chain, multi-assets. Provide internal Swap and NFT Support with dApp market place. Multi-chain dApp interactive support for EVM networks, DOT/KSM + parachains, Solana. Always on functionality for connectivity for multiple networks. Users can connect to CLV, Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana, Binance Smart Chain, Fantom, Avalanche, Kusama, Edgeware and so many other blockchain. An "Always-on" functionality that allows users to simultaneously connect with Web3js-based dapps and Polkadotjs-based dapps and interact with all kinds of multi-chain cryptocurrencies and NFT assets. Enjoy a seamless DeFi experience with the ability to browse all kinds of dApps such as derivatives or loans deployed on CLV. EVM based assets can be cross-chain transfer to CLV chain and vice versa, which enable lower gas fee and faster transaction confirmation. -
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Paribus
Paribus
A cross-chain borrowing and lending protocol for NFTs, liquidity positions, and synthetic assets, powered by the Cardano blockchain. As DeFi moves forward, innovators are uncovering transformational ways to store and represent value on-chain. Paribus’ mission is to unlock the true potential of these assets, evolving them into interoperable financial instruments, capable of being used within DeFi protocols, on any chain. DeFi is consuming the traditional investment landscape and bringing new utility to areas that have remained unchanged for decades. Paribus is the protocol that brings all of these forces together, offering DeFi holders and investors a platform to extend the reach of their digital assets and positions, doubling down on their earning power. -
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MetaDEX
MetaDEX
We are convinced that the spirit of decentralization is only truly served if a project's control is handed to the community at the earliest viable moment. Therefore, we vow to continuously involve the community & distribute governance tokens to supporters of the project in proportion to the amount and duration of stake delegated to the MetaDEX pool. Continuous success as a DEX should be the fruit of high quality standards & great user experiences - not a result of locking in your customers & investors, and most definitely not because of high marketing expenses. If you sincerely think we are doing something the wrong way (technologically or ethically), please let us know. After all, this is your project too, if you want it to be. -
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Danaswap
Ardana
An automated market maker (AMM) decentralized exchange for stable multi-asset pools. Danaswap is highly capital efficient enabling swaps with minimal slippage while providing low-risk yield opportunities for liquidity providers. Swap between stablecoins and stable assets such as wrapped/synthetic Bitcoin with minimal slippage. Deposit your assets into a DanaSwap pool and earn a proportion of the market-making fees. Swap between international stablecoins such as dUSD, dEUR, dGBP and more. The governance token is rewarded to users for supporting the ecosystem through liquidity provision. DANA token holders can participate in polling and voting to influence the development of Ardana. -
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Sumer.money
Sumer
Non-fungible assets on different chains create liquidity walls for the financial Internet. Deposit supported Assets on any chain Sumer operates. Mint cross-chain fungible synthetic assets including stable coin, major cryptos and more. Trade, farm and spend the synthetic assets across multiple chains. -
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Wyvern Protocol
Wyvern Protocol
Trade any kind of digital asset — from rare virtual kittens to ENS names, land rights, or even smart contracts themselves. Wyvern Protocol powers the peer-to-peer exchange of digital assets. Trade any kind of non-fungible asset — from rare virtual kittens to ENS names, land rights, or even smart contracts. Wyvern can be deployed on any EVM-based blockchain, allowing developers to power their asset exchange. The Wyvern Protocol codebase is open source, permissively licensed, and third-party audited. Pick whichever method of sale you prefer: fixed price, Dutch auction, or something more exotic. Interface with the Exchange through a website, a mobile application, or a custom script. Trade any kind of non-fungible asset — from rare virtual kittens to ENS names, land rights, or even smart contracts. Trade ERC20 tokens, ERC721 NFTs, or custom assets in any combination. -
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DEUS Finance
DEUS Finance
DEUS Finance Evolution is a marketplace of decentralized financial services. We provide the infrastructure for others to build financial instruments, such as synthetic stock trading platforms, options and futures trading, and more. Asset trading, prediction markets, leverage trading & other financial instruments for end users. The DEUS ecosystem is powered by all major EVM chains while enabling seamless interoperability between all those chains. Currently, the DEUS token utility is embedded in the DEI stablecoin, and as a means of governance. Buying DEI will burn DEUS and selling DEI will mint DEUS. This system creates a deflationary force for the DEUS token, as the demand for DEI scales. The council is a collection of highly skilled and experienced DeFi experts brought together to discuss and review the whitepaper’s economics. Members of the council are responsible for contributing towards improving the DEUS ecosystem and driving innovation. -
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Truflation
Truflation
Governments and central banks are responsible for gathering information, calculating metrics, and reporting to the public. The way inflation is calculated changes often, favoring methods that report lower inflation rates. If it were calculated using methods discontinued in the 80s and 90s, the official inflation would be around 14% and 10%, respectively. The newest inflation indexes currently being tested by the Bureau of Labor Statistics report even lower inflation. Headline inflation you encounter in the news is the yearly change in CPI (Consumer Price Index). We've researched, deconstructed, and remastered the official CPI to create a metric that reflects the true price change in the market. The resulting US Truflation index offers daily inflation updates using the latest real market data, transparent and available to everyone through a decentralized blockchain oracle. -
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Saffron Finance
Saffron Finance
Risk Adjustment for Decentralized Finance: Saffron is a peer-to-peer risk adjustment protocol. Users customize their risk and return profiles by selecting their own degree of exposure to underlying platforms. In a decentralized way, liquidity providers (LPs), add capital to a system that requires liquidity for swaps. Yields can also be earned from lending, in which case the depositors are known as lenders. Saffron’s risk exchange allows any LP or lender to choose underlying yield and risk profiles to obtain a return based on their choice. This application provides insurance to the lower-risk tranche by offering a stablecoin as a backstop. LPs can sell insurance to lower-risk tranches and receive profit as additional yield for higher-risk tranches. This results in the transformation of yield from more risky assets into yield in a stablecoin or vice versa. DeFi-based risk adjustment platforms like Saffron have opened up new opportunities for alternative investing!Starting Price: $0 -
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Puzzle Swap
Puzzle Swap
DEX 2.0 built on Waves to support mega pools and bring a new light to DeFi experience. -
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DX25
DX25
Earn, swap, and stack yield with leverage on the most powerful decentralized exchange on MultiversX. Open the DeFi wormhole. Create the most powerful DEX across all the worlds in the multiverse. Unlock liquidity for your apps and maximize your DeFi experience with a multitude of trading and yield-earning opportunities. Unlock the true potential of MultiversX. Liquidity management reduces complexity for passive investors particularly keeping concentrated liquidity active. Our adaptable liquidity pools will support single-sided liquidity, giving the liquidity provider the maximum opportunity to participate. Orderbooks, charting, trade reports, the goal of our implementation is to make the transition to using DEX from CEX as user-friendly as possible. -
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UWU Protocol
UWU Protocol
UWU Protocol is a stablecoin protocol built on Stacks that offers zero-interest loans with no repayment date. Users can deposit STX as collateral and borrow up to 66% of their deposit in the form of UWU Cash (UWU), the fully-backed and unstoppable stablecoin of UWU Protocol. UWU Protocol is trust-minimized and governance-free. The protocol, and its assets, are censorship-resistant and cannot be frozen. The codebase of UWU Protocol is compact with less than 1,000 lines of code. Its contracts, licensed under GPLv3, are fully open-sourced. -
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Goat Protocol
Goat Protocol
Goat Protocol is transforming decentralized finance (DeFi) with efficient wealth management solutions. The platform provides users with unparalleled opportunities to maximize their returns through high APYs from curated yields, leveraging Uniswap v4’s hook features, and enabling auto-compounded multi-strategy vaults. Goat Protocol simplifies access to top-performing DeFi projects by offering multi-strategy yield vaults that act like robo-advisors. These vaults automatically allocate assets to the highest-performing yield strategies in DeFi. The Protocol ensures that users' assets are always allocated to the most lucrative yield bearing positions. This automated fund reallocation ensures investors earn maximum returns with minimal effort. Users benefit from optimized asset allocation and yield generation without the burden of staying constantly informed about the latest DeFi trends. -
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Lombard
Lombard Finance
Lombard Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enhances Bitcoin's utility by integrating it into the DeFi ecosystem through liquid staking. Their primary offering, LBTC, is a liquid staked Bitcoin token built on the Babylon network, allowing Bitcoin holders to stake their assets while maintaining liquidity for use across various DeFi platforms. -
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Pumpkin
Pumpkin.fun
Pumpkin is an innovative token launch platform designed to empower creators by simplifying the process of deploying tokens and engaging communities. With a user-friendly interface, users can launch tokens in under a minute without technical expertise. The platform offers features such as milestone progression, allowing creators to set community goals that unlock rewards at specific market caps, and on-platform staking to incentivize holding and reduce volatility. Additionally, Pumpkin provides real revenue opportunities through fee sharing, integrated staking, and strategic project milestones, all designed to support a project's foundation. The platform also introduces the PKIN token, which enables holders to participate in the platform's success by staking for a share of trading fees and accessing the Pumpkin Fund, a vault that accumulates a portion of every token created on the platform. Pumpkin aims to align creator and user incentives, driving growth and fostering community. -
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Kyber Network
Kyber Network
Kyber Network is a blockchain-based liquidity hub that connects liquidity from different sources to enable crypto trades at the best rates for any decentralized application. Kyber Network is the liquidity infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi). Kyber’s technology connects crypto liquidity from diverse sources to provide the best rates for takers such as Dapps, Wallets, DEX Aggregators, and Traders. DeFi’s first multi-chain DMM and the latest protocol powered by Kyber. Trade crypto at the best prices and earn more fees and rewards as a liquidity provider. Swap tokens at the best prices. Liquidity is aggregated from different decentralized exchanges to achieve the best price for any token swap on supported chains. Fees adjust based on market conditions (trade volume and price volatility) to reduce the impact of impermanent loss and maximise returns for liquidity providers. -
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Cream
C.R.E.A.M. Finance
CREAM Finance is a DeFi ecosystem focused on providing lending, exchange, payment, and asset tokenization services. CREAM also operates a permissionless and open-source protocol so any other internet participant can be a part of the development of the network, instead of just using it or locking up funds in smart contracts for staking rewards. Financial inclusion is among CREAM'S primary goals. And the objective is to be able to achieve it without compromising the safety and security of each user and their assets. CREAM is established on the Ethereum blockchain, it can take advantage of smart contracts that can be used to run Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVM). Such a set-up also allows the CREAM project to have better composability than other DeFi projects. EVMs can also help community users develop their own decentralized applications (Dapps) on top of the network. However, there is very little detail on the community’s plans for such at the moment -
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Curve Finance
Curve Finance
The Curve DAO will allow liquidity providers to take decisions on adding new pools, changing pool parameters, adding CRV incentives and many other aspects of the Curve protocol.The easiest way to understand Curve is to see it as an exchange. Its main goal is to let users and other decentralized protocols exchange stablecoins (DAI to USDC for example) through it with low fees and low slippage. Unlike exchanges out there that match a buyer and a seller, the behavior of Curve is different, it uses liquidity pools like Uniswap. To achieve this, Curve needs liquidity (tokens) which is rewarded by those who provide it. Curve is non-custodial meaning the Curve developers do not have access to your tokens.
