Startups

Voltz Protocol is The Interest Rate Swap AMM. It is a novel defi primitive, powering leveraged interest rate swaps. The first ever synthetic interest rate swap AMM, Voltz AMM utilizes concentrated liquidity, creating a market that’s c.3000x more capital efficient.

Wintermute Trading

Stani Kulechov

Framework Ventures

Ryan Sean Adams

Julian Koh

Robot Ventures

mgnr

Entrepreneur First

Alan Howard

Amber Group

David Hoffman

Coinbase Ventures

Kain Warwick

Fabric Ventures

Artur Begyan

Simon Jones

Voltz Protocol

Injective Protocol is the first layer-2 decentralized exchange protocol that unlocks the full potential of decentralized derivatives and borderless DeFi. Injective Protocol enables fully decentralized trading without any restrictions, allowing individuals to trade on any derivative market of their choosing.

Injective Protocol

Synapse Protocol, formerly Nerve Finance, is the first StableSwap AMM on Binance Smart Chain, designed to allow trading stablecoins and pegged synthetic assets quickly with minimal slippage.

Synapse Protocol

100% Open Sourced for Wallets, Exchanges, and Social Media.

Loopring DEX

WannaSwap is an AMM on NEAR's Aurora EVM. Swap, Invest, Earn.

WannaSwap

OolongSwap, Brewing Boba Network’s first native AMM— more to earn, less to spend.

OolongSwap is the liquidity hub of Boba, the first native AMM on Boba Network. But we don’t want to settle for that, we want more! We want the best of both worlds: safe, smooth while also being fun, revolutionary, and most importantly, irreplaceable!

OolongSwap

Raydium 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.

Raydium

PoutineX is the most advanced decentralized trading platform for crypto derivatives. 

PoutineX Laboratory’s mission is to advance the cause of freedom that decentralized finance represents, develop and operate better DeFi applications on top of a transparent network through integrity and excellence.

Empowered by blockchain technology, decentralized financial services have the potential to broaden financial inclusion, facilitate open access, encourage permissionless innovation, and create new opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators.

Hailing from Montreal, Canada, we are a team of developers who are convinced that DeFi is the future of financial technology, its full potential has yet to be deployed, and what the world saw so far is just the tip of an iceberg.

Built upon the success of previous projects in cryto-currency derivatives & digital assets trading platform, we have a team of world-class technical experts and operations staff, and we have extensive experience in research & development in the domain of traditional finance.

Hence, we founded the PoutineX Laboratory. Poutine is a delicious Quebecois dish, we chose this name to denote our Canadian and Quebecois heritage.

Our Lab will be the incubator to many new projects that will make full use of DeFi concepts and blockchain technologies, and we believe that with gradual acceptance of DeFi and blockchain by the general public, our products would render good services to the society in general.

PoutineX

Moret is an onchain option trading platform, powered by 1inch and the Polygon chain. It is an automatic market maker protocol for crypto option trading on the Polygon chain. This AMM offers a range of innovations, including an on-chain volatility oracle, a new constant product market maker for options, the ability to buy and sell options, a hedging mechanism for the liquidity pool to neutralize market risks and reduce impermanent loss and the integration with 1inch and Aave, as well as pseudo stablecoins supported by option trading.

This set of innovative solutions powers efficient options trading strategies on an on-chain exchange, making Moret competitive with centralized exchanges, such as Deribit.

Moret

Ref Finance is a community-led, multi-purpose Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform built on NEAR Protocol. Ref combines several core components: a decentralized exchange, lending, a synthetic asset issuer, and more -— into a single, synchronous DeFi stack.

Ref will take full advantage of NEAR’s low fees ($0.005 per swap), one-to-two second finality, and WebAssembly-based runtime (hello, Rust smart contracts!) to rival even CEX costs and speeds and become a powerful addition to the increasingly multi-chain DeFi ecosystem.

Using the recently launched Rainbow Bridge (NEAR <> ETH), traders can utilize the billions of dollars in ERC-20-compliant assets from Ethereum, and eventually, from any chain (BSC, Polygon/Matic, Cosmos/IBC, and others) on NEAR.

Ref Finance’s first product is an automated market maker (AMM). It is similar to Uniswap, with a few changes:

- Multiple pools in a single contract. Traders can trade across pools atomically in a single transaction.
- Customizable LP fees per pool. LPs can charge higher fees for illiquid or highly volatile tokens.
Referral fees for swaps, currently set at 1 bps. Developers can earn rewards for building UIs and other applications on top of Ref Finance.
- The Ref Finance community is planning to launch a DAO on NEAR (using Sputnik DAO) to facilitate future development, upgrades, and community building. The DAO’s treasury will receive 4 bps from each swap.

The DAO will be governed by the $REF token, which will be distributed to LPs, developers, and users of the platform. The distribution details and mechanisms will be described in subsequent posts.