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

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 RD 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  Aims to build decentralized, autonomous agents and AI games, and has launched ArtemisML, a generative AI game development platform, and Inori Network, an AI coordination layer, as well as games such as Picturdle and ChatGPT Games.

Spire

Spire  is a zk Appchain network with atomic composability on Ethereum.

Strobe

Strobe  is a DeFi extension network that enables new permissionless and transparent marketplaces.

taralli labs

taralli labs  is a protocol that enables efficient and decentralized zk-based supply chains.

Tata Bazaar

Tata Bazaar  is a social commerce platform that connects the physical and digital worlds of fashion and beauty, yet to be launched.

TITLES

TITLES  is a creative tool powered by AI models trained by artists.

Tranched

Tranched is a platform that uses blockchain technology to automate private securitization transactions.

Tweed

Tweed   is a wallet and payment solution for users in a blockchain-based application.

Valyu Network

Valyu Network  can provide trusted data for artificial intelligence models and applications.

zkPassport

zkPassport  Can authenticate government-issued passports and selectively disclose information.

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