A look at the 25 finalist projects of a16z Crypto Spring Startup Accelerator

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2024-03-27 11:09

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Original author: a16z Crypto

Original compilation: Peng SUN, Foresight News

On March 26, a16z Crypto announced its encryption The CSX Spring 2024 program launches in London this week, with 25 projects taking part in a 10-week course. These 25 projects cover different tracks of infrastructure, consumer applications, DeFi, payments, games, development tools and DePIN.

AminoChain

AminoChain is a decentralized biological sample marketplace that connects biobanks, clinical sites and biopharmaceutical companies.

Collar Networks

Collar Networks is a liquidation-free lending solution designed to solve the liquidation problem and the impossible triangle problem of DeFi lending (stability of borrowed assets, collateral liquidation and high LTV). Collar helps borrowers connect with market makers through the on-chain inquiry process to form a collaborative lending arrangement (COLlaborative Lending ARrangement), which allows borrowers to temporarily give up upside risks above the cap to protect their downside below a certain floor price risk, below which the borrower can withdraw his stablecoin loan.

Compass Labs

Compass Labs is a new standard interface for DeFi, aiming to provide a set of tools to allow investors and developers to safely access DeFi. Currently, Compass Labs has launched two solutions, Simulation Platform and Blockchain Data, and has supported Uniswap and Aave.

Hungry Cats Studio

Hungry Cats Studio is a cryptography team focused on research and implementation. It is committed to polynomial commitment schemes, proof synthesis, ZKML, signature schemes, etc., and provides a safe and reliable AI workflow for verification.

Launcher

Launcher is a crypto product search and platform for building smart contract mini-applications.

MagicBlock

MagicBlock is an on-chain game framework on Solana and SVM, specially designed for building on-chain games on Solana/SVM.

NEBRA Labs

NEBRA Labs is an R&D organization that scales and writes proof verification on the blockchain.

Neynar

Neynar is a Farcaster developer infrastructure that provides a codeless, multi-step framework builder. Currently, both Neynar v1 and v2 APIs are online.

NodeKit

NodeKit Build shared sequencers to help Rollup achieve decentralization and improve interoperability.

Nosh

Nosh It is a decentralized food delivery protocol. The App is currently available on Google Play and App Store.

OpenLayer

OpenLayer extends Web3 with optimistic verifiable computation

OpenTrade

OpenTrade is an institutional loan and income product for the new digital economy.

Playmint

Playmint is committed to building full-chain games and is currently developing the full-chain MMO game Downstream.

Roux

Roux is a cooking platform for the digital age.

Sablier

Sablier is a token distribution protocol on Ethereum that provides infrastructure for token distribution in Web3 and aims to facilitate per-second payments for cryptocurrency. The protocol utilizes a set of non-upgradeable smart contracts that prioritize security, censorship resistance, self-hosting, and functionality without the need for trusted intermediaries that may selectively restrict access. Sablier has launched two versions: V1 and V2.

Scrypted

Scrypted Aiming to build decentralized, autonomous agents and AI games, it has now launched the generative AI game development platform ArtemisML and the AI coordination layer Inori Network, as well as games such as Picturdle and ChatGPT Games.