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Thala Labs is building the next DeFi liquidity hub on Aptos with Move.

Thala Labs

Minterest is a ground-breaking lending protocol built by industry leaders to service billions in TVL and to challenge existing DeFi incumbents. The protocol gives users a decentralised token money market, combined with a uniquely fair incentive structure that will facilitate and promote widespread adoption of DeFi. By utilising its own buy back mechanism, the protocol passes on 100% of revenue generated to its community of active participants.

It is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol built on Polkadot. Its unique design attracts and rewards long term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance.

Minterest

Decentralized exchanges offer trustless non-custodial trading, improved transparency, and inter-exchange sharing of liquidity. Despite these fundamental advantages, decentralized exchanges today account for a negligible percentage of the overall transaction volume. This lack of adoption is due to a combination of several factors: barrier to entry, performance and usability issues, susceptibility to arbitrage, and a lack of economic incentives for liquidity sharing.

Hydro is a network layer protocol for high performance decentralized exchanges and marketplaces with built-in incentives for coordination.

The Hydro Protocol (HOT) defines the rules for executing decentralized orders and provides the mechanism for order matching. Hydro utilizes 'Federated Liquidity Pools' (FLP) to address the issue of liquidity sharing among various decentralized exchanges.

Hydro

Larix is the lending gateway of Solana, the borrowing and lending protocol on the Solana blockchain. We adopted a dynamic interest rate model and created more capital-efficient risk management pools, as such a broad selection of collateral types can be fully utilized in a safe way. Furthermore, the rewarding system based on a delicately designed token economy enables continuous incentive allocation to boost real demands.

Larix

Bastion Protocol is NEAR’s next DeFi Primitive. Bringing Lending to Aurora. It is an algorithmic, DeFi lending protocol on Aurora, NEAR’s gasless EVM layer.

Bastion differentiates with a focus on composability, tokenomics, algorithmic risk optimization, and UX. Building on NEAR enables Bastion to have ultra-low transaction fees, greater capital efficiency, fast transactions and precise liquidations.

Currently, NEAR’s DeFi ecosystem mainly consists of AMMs. Bastion is bringing the next DeFi primitive to NEAR, allowing users to finally make their assets productive through lending, or achieving leverage through borrowing.

Bastion

BEYOND FINANCE, is a novel way to access synthetic assets, bringing the traditional financial services to the global crypto community.

Beyond’s DEX will simplify Synthetic products trade, and provide new opportunities.

BEYOND FINANCE is led by a team of portfolio managers, investment research analysts and experienced blockchain developers from financial hubs across Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and USA.

Beyond Finance

zeroDAO, interoperability optimized. Enabling gasless bitcoin bridging across various networks. With the launch of $ZERO and the DAO, the community will be empowered to govern the ZERO protocol.

The zeroDAO community maintains zeroBRIDGE as a trading hub, enabling a user to swap from BTC to ETH or BTC to USDC on all major networks, without the need to have additional gas funds. The zeroDAO protocol values security, speed, and reliability above all else, ensuring users can safely and quickly move funds across chains.

zeroDAO

Astra Protocol is a Decentralized Compliance Layer for the Web3 Economy. Our mission is to equip all DeFi smart contracts with a fully decentralized compliance layer, including KYC & AML capabilities, to act as a tool to resolve real-world compliance issues using the expertise of trusted legal firms.

As DeFi continues to grow, it needs to adhere to the rules determined by society. DeFi protocols will need to invest in a compliance layer now, otherwise control of the ecosystem will be lost.

According to the World Economic Forum ‘The power of technology to resolve disputes is exceeded by the power of technology to generate disputes.’ Without a powerful on-chain dispute resolution platform, De-Fi is too high risk. Our solution is ASTRA.

Astra Protocol

Bonded Finance diverged from old guard business tenets which typically ask, “what can we capture,” and replaced it with “what can we contribute?” We believe that the pathway to success for the crypto economy is through collaboration. This mindset is not just a belief system but is fundamentally built into our operational model and the very mechanics of our smart contract financial products.

When unstable atoms share, transfer and manage electrons to fill their outer shell, it is known as covalent bonding while ionic bonding is when bonds are formed by two oppositely charged ions. These principles inspired the architecture of our smart instruments. A well-managed, shared basket of volatile assets can create a stable ecosystem while bonding lenders and borrowers, despite their opposite agendas, allows for a sharing of resources and creates lasting, sustainable growth and value.

Our desire to add value and contribute has been laborious as we experimented with lending products while watching the space crawl, walk and occasionally stumble. After months of pivoting and market observation, it became clear that there is a gaping hole in DeFi. As more and more assets are being put to work, there is an inordinate and truly inefficient amount of untapped liquidity and resources in altcoins. Certainly, Uniswap and AMMs have breathed much needed life into many early stage projects, however, the ability to aggregate and earn for many, has been absent. Providing a way to put alternative coins to work is the essence of Bonded Finance.

We have created smart instruments that generate incentives, can reduce downside exposure and effectively realize value in a vast but largely untargeted market.

Our pioneering innovation and contribution leverages the untapped altcoin market place, in order to create theoretically unlimited total value locked or TVL. Given the proliferation of new projects, we believe that a suite of smart contract instruments could go a long way in securing value.

Bonded Finance

Parallel Finance is a decentralized lending protocol built on top of the polkadot ecosystem. Our unique approach will allow users to earn "double interests" from staking and lending their tokens simultaneously.

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