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Verse Network
Verse Network
Verse is a censorship resistant, front running resistant, high performance interconnected cloud for next gen DAO and DeFi. Less governance cost compared to DAOs on ETH enabling our ecosystem to track more valuable data. Record on-chain governance activities and bring off-chain social participation data on-chain from native forums and popular social mediums. STPT Holders are allowed to vote on key proposals in the ecosystem. Serves as gas fees for transaction and smart contract execution. Tuning collateralization ratio functions, price curve, and parameters such as different weightings on asset properties. A full suite of native tools and infrastructure built on Verse facilitates efficient decentralized decision-making for users, communities and organizations. -
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Socket Protocol
Socket Protocol
Socket Protocol is the first Chain Abstraction Protocol, offering a modular, extensible, and composable stack that enables chain-abstracted applications. Socket Protocol leverages Modular Order Flow Auctions (MOFA) to allow developers to Compose with any App, Users, and Asset across Chains. -
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Qredo
Qredo
Gain instant low-cost access to a growing ecosystem of trading, yield earning, and liquidity opportunities across multiple chains. Streamline DeFi trade flow by replacing network fees, multi-leg transactions and sign-offs with Qredo's unique implementation of multi-party computation (MPC). Fine tune governance to match existing corporate structures and asset management workflows. Trade, transfer and take custody of digital assets on a decentralized network. Bring your own governance, managed or self-custody. Instant transfers and cross-chain atomic swaps with greater capital efficiency and profitability. Maximize net returns with free deposits when securing assets on Qredo Network. Qredo is headquartered in London, UK, with development offices in Sofia, Bulgaria. Qredo is a well-funded, VC backed start-up with a clear mission and unprecedented demand for our products. -
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Accumulate
Accumulate
Accumulate is a new kind of blockchain protocol that is organized completely around identities. Accumulate Digital Identifiers (ADIs) can be assigned to organizations, devices people, or things. Accumulate’s multi-chain architecture enables greater throughput. The interconnected network of chains results in 70,000 transactions per second (TPS) which makes it one of the fastest protocols. Key hierarchies enable enterprise-grade security. Accumulate users can rotate, recreate, and reassign private keys when necessary. Using key hierarchies results in greater safety of assets. -
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zkLend
zkLend
zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining zk-rollup scalability, superior transaction speed, and cost savings with Ethereum's security. The protocol offers a dual solution, a permissioned and compliance-focused solution for institutional clients, and a permissionless service for DeFi users, all without sacrificing decentralization. zkLend believes that truly decentralized finance must be built on chains that are not only cheap, fast, and scalable but also secure and decentralized. zkLend is built with the conviction that Ethereum is the only decentralized solution and zk is the only technology that can scale without compromising on the properties that make Ethereum so unique. zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining zk-rollup scalability, superior transaction speed, and cost savings with Ethereum’s security. Users will be able to deposit their assets into a reserve pool, thereby providing liquidity to each money market. -
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Linea
Linea
Linea is a Layer 2 network purpose-built to strengthen Ethereum and expand the ETH economy. It operates as a zkEVM rollup, ensuring full Ethereum equivalence with rapid settlement and ultra-low fees. Every transaction on Linea burns ETH, reinforcing scarcity and supporting Ethereum’s long-term value. The ecosystem also enables native staking on bridged ETH, distributing yield to liquidity providers and fueling DeFi activity. With a tokenomics model that mirrors Ethereum’s Genesis distribution, Linea avoids insider extraction and directs value toward builders, users, and public goods. Trusted by leading financial institutions and Ethereum pioneers, Linea aligns capital efficiency with Ethereum’s future growth. -
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Mantle
Mantle
Build dApps with exceptional UX, all while relying on Ethereum's unrivaled security, with our high-performance Ethereum layer-2 network built with modular architecture. Experience high throughput with unrivaled security with Ethereum's roll-up technology — all in a familiar EVM environment. Mantle Liquidity Staking Protocol (LSP) is the second core product of Mantle ecosystem. Stake ETH and receive yield-bearing mETH (Mantle Staked Ether). As stewards of a significant treasury, and with the power to shape economic outcomes of Mantle products, we prioritize a value-oriented mindset, transparency, and accountability. -
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Tomb Chain
Tomb Chain
Trade up to 50x leverage directly from your wallet. Stake your stablecoins and earn, the best place to stake your USDC or FUSDT to earn. Tomb Chain is an eco-friendly protocol built on top of the fastest blockchain, which is Fantom. You can bring your stablecoins to Fantom through Felix Exchange, or using Multichain from other chains. This website makes the process of staking and earning on DeFi much easier than going in by yourself in the traditional manner. Confirm a transaction to approve the stablecoin to be used and then you can select the amount you want to deposit. Once you insert the amount you want to deposit to earn, deposit and confirm another transaction on your wallet. Your stables can then be deposited again on this website and you can compound your farming experience. -
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SX Network
SX Network
SX’s mission is simple, we aim to slash betting costs by 90% from 4.8% to 0.5%. This represents a 10x improvement from the industry standard odds. In simple terms, this means a $100 bet on a 50–50 outcome pays you $99 in profit, a 10% higher payout for bettors. SX Network is a peer-to-peer betting exchange that allows all users to both offer and take bets. This is different from traditional sportsbooks where users can only take bets offered by the company running the site. This peer-to-peer model of betting leads to better odds and removes the ability of owners to exploit the users for profit. SX Bet is built on its own custom EVM-compatible blockchain, making it the first ever fully integrated betting app chain. SX treats sports betting like a financial market where you can win, not a casino where you can only lose. Every time a user wins a bet, they not only receive their winnings but also earn SX tokens. -
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Blast
Blast
The only Ethereum L2 with native yield for ETH and stablecoins. Blast yield comes from ETH staking and RWA protocols. The yield from these decentralized protocols is passed back to Blast users automatically. The default interest rate on other L2s is 0%. Our goal as contributors is to grow the on-chain economy with the highest-yield L2 possible. Community members who join our mission will have the opportunity to earn the Blast Airdrop. Blast only became possible this year following Ethereum's Shanghai upgrade. ETH yield from L1 staking, initially Lido, is automatically transferred to users via rebasing ETH on the L2. -
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Manta Network
Manta Network
Manta Pacific leverages Celestia and a modified OP stack to deliver a cutting-edge technical infrastructure offering extraordinary scalability paired with low gas fees. Combined with Manta Pacific's universal circuits, Manta Pacific delivers an unrivaled environment for building and deploying ZK applications and dApps. From DeFi to gaming to social, apps deploying on Manta are designed to bring the best experience and value to real users. The Manta ecosystem grants program is designed to explore and grow new and valuable use cases to solve pain points faced by real users. Manta Network’s zkSBTs allow users to verify in a trustless, decentralized manner without exposing any details. zkSBTs such as the zkBAB and zkGalxe passports deliver a seamless on-chain KYC verification without any need to scan passports or enter sensitive personal information. -
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Scroll
Scroll
Scroll is designed by and for Ethereum developers. A swift, reliable and scalable Layer 2 blockchain, Scroll extends Ethereum's capabilities, enabling apps to scale without any surprises. Thanks to bytecode-level compatibility, existing Ethereum apps can migrate onto Scroll as-is, and at a significantly reduced cost. Our open development approach combines the best ideas among value-aligned contributors and leads to more secure and better-designed systems. Scroll is forging a community-driven path to redefine and evolve Ethereum’s roadmap. Scroll uses advanced zero-knowledge-proof technology, battle-tested EVM models, and rigorous audits to ensure that our foundation is rooted in security and reliability. By prioritizing code security through open source collaboration, Scroll protects our developers and users against vulnerabilities. -
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Merlin Chain
Merlin Chain
Merlin Chain will bring innovation and utilities on Layer2 with those native Layer1 assets. Merlin Chain offers low fees and high scalability as an EVM-compatible chain, ensuring swift transaction processing and enhancing transaction liquidity. Merlin Chain supports popular Bitcoin protocols such as BRC20, BRC420, Bitmap, Atomicals, Pipe, Stamp, and more, enabling a more extensive user base to interact on Bitcoin Layer2. Merlin Chain has implemented ZK-Rollup to enhance efficiency and scalability, with sequencer nodes responsibly managing data transmission via decentralized Oracles, ensuring transparency and security. Merlin Chain continues its commitment to fair launches and community-driven native innovations on Layer2, dedicated to delivering unique solutions designed for the Bitcoin network and its users. -
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Mode Network
Mode Network
Mode is the Ethereum L2 that rewards you for growing the network via new economic mechanisms. Mode is building a new on-chain economy that rewards contribution to network growth. Developers earn a proportion of sequencer fees that go through their contracts. Mode’s smart treasury will power automated rewards across the ecosystem. Mode is built on the modular OP stack and is a member of the super chain alongside base and OP mainnet. Experience seamless, user-centric blockchain engagement on the mode network with mode name service. The mode bridge allows you to transfer your assets between L1 and mode. -
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opBNB
opBNB
opBNB is a high-performance layer-2 solution within the BNB ecosystem, built using the OP stack. Leveraging its block size of 100M, opBNB's gas fees remain stable and low cost, making it a great solution for widespread adoption across multiple digital environments. From gaming and decentralized exchanges to daily use and digital collectibles, opBNB caters to a diverse set of needs while delivering optimal performance. Gamers typically demand highly responsive experiences, for example, imagine looting an in-game asset after completing a combat scenario, but then having to wait dozens of seconds or even minutes for the game to respond and grant you the item. An experience like that would make the game largely unappealing and frustrating to play. -
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Dogechain
Dogechain
Dogechain supercharges $Dogecoin to bring crypto applications like NFTs, games, and DeFi to the $Dogecoin community. $Dogecoin has very limited access to these applications (or any other dApps) - Dogechain fixes this. With Dogechain, Dogecoin holders can do more than simply hodl and wait for Dogecoin to moon. Dogechain users can use $Dogecoin for gas fees. Dogechain brings utility to Dogecoin users tired of simply hodling $Dogecoin. The blockchain uses POS consensus to provide cheap fees and fast transactions. Doge holders deserve to remain competitive with the latest advancements in the crypto industry. Dogechain imbues Doge with superpowers and plugs it into DeFi, NFTs, games, and more. Dogechain tokens are easily accessible on multiple top centralized and decentralized exchanges. -
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Unichain
Unichain
Unichain is a DeFi-native Ethereum L2, optimized to be the home for liquidity across chains. Unichain is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform designed as an Ethereum Layer 2 solution, focused on liquidity and cost efficiency. It offers faster, cheaper transactions with 1-second block times and aims to reduce transaction fees by 20x compared to Ethereum. Built on the OP Stack, it promotes scalability, open-source innovations, and future enhancements like Provable Block Building. Unichain targets developers and users in the DeFi space, providing resources for smart contract deployment and liquidity pool creation. Informed by our experience building the world's largest decentralized trading protocol. Unichain is built on the OP stack. Technical innovations introduced by Unichain are open source, and available for any rollup to adopt. A network of full nodes monitors and verifies the actions of the sequencer, bringing faster transactions and more decentralization to Unichain. -
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Ava Protocol
Ava Protocol
Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer Actively Validated Service (AVS) that enables seamless autonomous transactions for Ethereum and beyond. It empowers developers to enhance crypto transactions with intelligent automation, enhanced privacy, effortless composability, and significant cost savings. Key features include intelligent automation, where transactions execute autonomously based on predefined conditions, and enhanced privacy through advanced Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) protection mechanisms, safeguarding against front-running and privacy breaches. The protocol also offers composability, allowing developers to combine smart contract calls without writing code, and cost efficiency, achieving up to 90% savings on gas fees. Ava Protocol's modular technology stack comprises a customizable Studio for designing automated strategies, a robust SDK for integrating private transactions, and the EigenLayer AVS network powered by restaked ETH. -
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Rootstock
Rootstock
Rootstock is a pioneering Bitcoin sidechain that integrates Ethereum-compatible smart contract capabilities with Bitcoin's robust security. As an open source platform, it leverages Bitcoin's proof-of-work consensus mechanism, achieving over 60% of Bitcoin's hashing power through merged mining. This integration allows developers to deploy EVM-compatible smart contracts, enabling the creation of decentralized applications secured by Bitcoin's network. Rootstock's native currency, RBTC, is pegged 1:1 to Bitcoin, facilitating seamless interaction with DeFi protocols and dApps on the Rootstock network for activities such as minting, swaps, and gas fees. The PowPeg protocol ensures secure and efficient two-way transfers between Bitcoin and Rootstock, enhancing interoperability. Rootstock's ecosystem encompasses a diverse range of applications, from swapping and staking with platforms like Sushi to yield optimization with Beefy and trading on Oku. -
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Botanix
Botanix
Botanix is a Bitcoin‑based blockchain platform whose live Mainnet delivers the foundational rails for a global, permissionless economy powered entirely by Bitcoin. It preserves Bitcoin’s sound, trustless, censorship‑resistant properties by leveraging Spiderchain, a decentralized network of independent operators that keeps funds safe from centralized control. Users can on‑board seamlessly via choice of compatible wallets, bridge BTC on‑chain to access the Botanix ecosystem, stake Bitcoin to earn real yield without ever selling, and transact or save securely in BTC using built‑in Lightning payments. Beyond basic transfers, Botanix supports DeFi‑style applications, including collateralized lending and borrowing of stablecoins, long and short positions through integrated trading protocols, and real‑time market access for tokens issued on the network. A comprehensive suite of developer tools, documentation, and explorer interfaces enables builders to deploy Bitcoin‑native applications. -
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Hemi
Hemi
Hemi is a breakthrough modular Layer-2 blockchain protocol that seamlessly merges Bitcoin’s rock-solid security with Ethereum’s versatile programmability by embedding a full Bitcoin node into an Ethereum-compatible EVM, known as the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM). This architecture allows developers to write Solidity smart contracts that natively access Bitcoin data without relying on bridges or synthetic assets. Using its proprietary Proof-of-Proof (PoP) consensus, Hemi achieves “superfinality,” anchoring transactions in Bitcoin blocks for high integrity and resistance to reorgs, all while maintaining fast finality. Its Hemi Bitcoin Kit (hBK) gives developers the tools to build truly Bitcoin-powered DeFi applications, such as lending, staking, automated market makers, MEV systems, and multi-chain DAOs, using real BTC as collateral or yield sources. -
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Bitlayer
Bitlayer
Bitlayer is a “BitVM”-based protocol intended to unlock more of Bitcoin’s full potential by enabling smart, multichain functionality layered on top of Bitcoin. It claims to have over $3 million in deposited BTC, more than $360 million in daily trading volume, and a multichain environment with thousands of users. It offers or plans features such as a Bridge to move assets, a DApp Center, and support for developers via documentation, a multisig wallet, and testnet tools. Bitlayer also presents itself as trusted by multiple partners and investors, has a roadmap, and supports community participation (leaderboards, job opportunities). Key components include protocol tools, security documentation, and explorations into integrating with other chains. The site emphasizes that Bitlayer is designed to facilitate multichain DeFi/DApp deployment on Bitcoin, with infrastructure for token scanning, testnets, and developer resources as central features. -
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Optimism
Optimism PBC
The new scalability stack for Ethereum. Instant transactions and scalable smart contracts. Optimism is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC): a for-profit corporation intended to produce a public benefit and operate in a responsible and sustainable manner. This means that we are obligated to balance the pecuniary interests of our stockholders with the best interests of those materially affected by our conduct, as well as a specific "public benefit charter" we incorporated with. The specific public benefit purpose of the Company is to enhance and enshrine fair access to public goods on the internet through the development of open source software. This charter represents our pledge to the Ethereum community to uphold its values by producing infrastructure which promotes the growth and sustainability of an ecosystem of public goods. -
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zkSync
Matter Labs
zkSync is Ethereum’s most user-centric ZK rollup. Unlike any other scaling approach, ZK rollup has no upper bound on the value it can securely handle in L2. Unlike optimistic rollups, all assets can be moved capital-efficiently and fast between ZK rollup and L1. zkSync has the lowest real tx costs across all existing and planned rollups. zkSync also supports meta-transactions, instant confirmations with economic finality, low-cost privacy, and more. Ease and fun of development are at the core of zkSync design. Integrate payments and atomic swaps in a few lines of code. Develop type-safe, functional style smart contracts on Zinc: a Rust-based framework. Deploy your existing EVM codebase with minimum modifications. -
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Stacks
Stacks
Stacks makes Bitcoin programmable, enabling decentralized apps and smart contracts that inherit all of Bitcoin’s powers. Build apps and smart contracts on Bitcoin. Stacks connects to Bitcoin, enabling you to build apps, smart contracts, and digital assets that are integrated with Bitcoin's security, capital, and network. Lock your STX temporarily to support the network’s security and consensus. As a reward, you’ll earn Bitcoin that miners transfer as part of Proof of Transfer. Stacks makes Bitcoin's $760B of capital programmable with smart contracts. Build a better financial system on top of Bitcoin that’s open, composable, and without intermediaries. Run your app’s logic on the blockchain with Clarity smart contracts. Clarity is a more secure and predictable language that prevents many bugs and exploits. Perfect for high-stakes code where bugs are not an option. -
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RSK
RSK Labs
RSK the safest smart contract blockchain platform secured by the Bitcoin Network. Bitcoin is the greatest DeFi opportunity and fully enabled on RSK, the most secure smart contract platform in the world. Bitcoin users now can lend, borrow, trade and earn interest on their Bitcoin. The future of finance is decentralized. RSK is the most secure contract platform in the world. RSK’s Contracts goal is to add value and functionality to the bitcoin Contracts ecosystem by enabling smart contracts, near instant Contracts payments, and higher scalability. RSK Blockchain is connected to Bitcoin through Merged Contracts Mining and the two-way peg also known as the bridge. Built on top of RSK, RIF aims to create the building blocks to construct a fully decentralized internet to enable Decentralized Sharing Economies in order to empower and protect the value of individuals through identity, payments, storage, communications, gateways services and the marketplace. -
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Lightning Network
Lightning Network
Bitcoin Lightning Network. Instant Payments. Lightning-fast blockchain payments without worrying about block confirmation times. Security is enforced by blockchain smart-contracts without creating a on-blockchain transaction for individual payments. Payment speed measured in milliseconds to seconds. Scalability. Capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network. Capacity blows away legacy payment rails by many orders of magnitude. Attaching payment per action/click is now possible without custodians. Low Cost. By transacting and settling off-blockchain, the Lightning Network allows for exceptionally low fees, which allows for emerging use cases such as instant micropayments. Cross Blockchains. Cross-chain atomic swaps can occur off-chain instantly with heterogeneous blockchain consensus rules. So long as the chains can support the same cryptographic hash function, it is possible to make transactions across blockchains. -
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Cartesi
Cartesi
Build smart contracts with mainstream software stacks. Take a productive leap from Solidity to the vast universe of software components supported by Linux. Enable million-fold computational scalability, data availability of large files and low transaction costs. All while preserving the strong security guarantees of Ethereum. From games where players conceal their data to Enterprise applications that run on sensitive data, preserve privacy on your DApps. Descartes executes massive computational tasks off-chain, on a Linux virtual machine fully specified by a smart contract. The results of the computations are fully verifiable and enforceable on-chain by honest Descartes node runners, preserving the strong security guarantees of the underlying blockchain. Defeat the scalability limits of Ethereum, with million-fold computational gains, while preserving the strong security guarantees of the blockchain. -
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Connext
Connext
Connext is the leading protocol for fast, fully noncustodial transfers and contract calls between EVM-compatible systems. At its core, Connext is a network of liquidity pools on different chains. Users swap value between these pools, similar to AMM DEXes like Uniswap. Connext routers act as the backbone of the network, providing liquidity for user swaps and earning fees in return. Developers can build on top of Connext to create seamless crosschain experiences. Drop-in our Widget to enable simple crosschain swaps in as little as five minutes. Alternatively, integrate with our lower-level API for more powerful features like crosschain contract calls! -
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DOS Network
DOS Network
Blockchain-empowered smart contracts are isolated from the internet world and cannot access external data directly. Computation within the smart contract is also excessively expensive and limited by resource capacity. A Decentralized Oracle service supporting multiple heterogeneous blockchains. DOS Network brings real-world data, event and computation power to smart contracts in a secure, reliable, efficient and scalable way. With DOS Network, many scenarios like flight delay insurance are able to achieve automatic indemnification by bringing external insured events to the on-chain insurance contract. Stablecoins and crypto derivatives require frequent usage of DOS Network to fetch real-time price feeds reliably and verifiably. DOS Network makes it easy for crypto lending platforms to get token exchange rates, import borrowers' social media data and trustlessly determine the interest rates on the fly.