A Quick Overview of 20 Encryption Startups: A List of Alliance's Latest Graduated Projects

The market is fluctuating, and investors are still exploring the main trends. Nevertheless, every year, a number of excellent projects are incubated by Alliance, capturing the pulse of the market and thriving in future developments.

As one of the largest accelerators in the encryption field, Alliance has incubated well-known projects such as Pendle and Pump.fun. Recently, another 20 startup encryption companies graduated from Alliance, of which 9 projects focus on AI technology, 5 projects focus on stablecoins and payment fields, and the remaining projects involve on-chain transactions, DeFi, technology culture, and other areas.

Here are the profiles of these 20 startups:

1. 8020

Direction: Multi-chain Trading Platform

8020 is committed to creating an "Asian version of Moonshot" for users in Asia, optimizing the front-end interface and multi-chain support to meet the demand for efficient on-chain transactions in the Asian market. The platform aims to address the shortcomings of existing trading platforms in terms of user experience for Asian users, providing more intuitive operations and localized support.

The founding team has three years of experience in developing encryption consumption applications and has launched two native encryption applications, accumulating 150,000 users. The goal of 8020 is to attract more Asian users to participate in encryption trading through technological innovation and localization strategies.

2. Afterschool

Direction: AI-driven Tutoring Education Platform

Afterschool aims to reform the K-12 education system using AI technology, providing each student with a dedicated AI tutor to replace traditional classroom teaching models. By analyzing students' learning habits through AI, it customizes learning plans to improve learning efficiency and experience.

The goal of this project is to address the uneven distribution of traditional educational resources and the lack of personalization, allowing every student to receive high-quality educational support. The founding team is experienced, having expanded consumer applications to 150 million users and developed products in Google Education, possessing a strong background in the educational technology field.

3. CollectiveScience

Direction: Decentralized "Peer Review" Tool

CollectiveScience is dedicated to addressing the long-standing peer review issues in the scientific community. The project attempts to utilize blockchain technology to optimize the review process, reducing delays, biases, and fraud. Global scientists are estimated to spend up to $8 billion annually on reviews, yet issues of efficiency and fairness persist.

The platform utilizes decentralized technology to enhance the transparency and efficiency of reviews, reduce human intervention, and ensure the fairness and credibility of assessments. The founding team consists of alumni from Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley, and Harvard, including PhD scientists from Cambridge and engineers from IBM. The project aims to provide the global research community with more efficient and fair review tools, promoting the improvement of the quality of scientific research.

4. CreatorGen

Direction: AI-driven advertising marketing tools

CreatorGen provides AI advertising tools for brand marketing teams, utilizing AI technology to generate realistic virtual avatars specifically for creating advertisements on short video platforms. CreatorGen's technology can generate lifelike virtual characters that meet the needs of short video platforms, helping brands quickly produce eye-catching advertising content while reducing costs.

The founder previously led product teams at a well-known DEX and Revolut, and developed software for AI and encryption startups, possessing rich technical and business experience.

5. FactCheck

Direction: Decentralized AI Rumor Refutation Platform

In light of the rampant rumors on social media, FactCheck utilizes blockchain and AI technology to verify false information on social media through a decentralized marketplace, aiming to address the social issue of large-scale fake news dissemination. The platform combines a stablecoin market incentive mechanism to encourage users and AI agents to participate in fact-checking and ensure the authenticity of the information.

6. Fido

Direction: Low-threshold DeFi retail services

Fido aims to become a new type of bank that is friendly to ordinary users, bringing stable returns through the DeFi lending market. The project believes that the savings account yields of traditional banks are too low, while the investment market risks are too high. Therefore, it hopes to enable ordinary users to enjoy the benefits of DeFi through DeFi technology, while reducing participation risks and addressing the inefficiencies of traditional financial services.

The team has extensive risk management experience and has operated a similar startup with assets under management of up to 100 million dollars.

7. FreedomGPT

Direction: AI Agent Model Intelligent Matching

In the face of the trend of a surge in the number of AI agent models in the future, FreedomGPT matches users with the best AI models that suit their needs through intelligent algorithms, simplifying the selection process. The platform allows users to obtain efficient AI services through simple prompts, covering various application scenarios such as text generation, data analysis, and more.

Its goal is to become an "intelligent intermediary" for AI services, enhancing user experience and reducing the complexity of using AI. The founder previously created and sold a startup with nearly 400 employees, whose products served hundreds of millions of users.

8. grandmAIsters

Direction: AI Agent-Driven Chess Game

grandmAIsters transforms chess into an encryption game, allowing players to train and compete against AI agents while earning token rewards. The project combines the incentive mechanisms of blockchain with AI technology to create a brand new gaming experience. Players earn rewards by improving the chess skills of the AI agents.

9. Guess.Best

Direction: Cultural Creative Forecasting Platform

Guess.Best is an innovative prediction market where users participate in guessing which of two popular cultural concepts or items is more favored. The platform utilizes blockchain technology to ensure transparency and fairness in predictions, incorporating social entertainment elements to attract users. The founders have extensive experience in collaboratively developing creative encryption consumer products.

10. Junction

Direction: Cross-chain Asset Trading Platform

The goal of Junction is to become a "unified entry point" for cross-chain transactions, promoting interoperability within the blockchain ecosystem. It allows users to trade any asset on any chain, addressing the complexities of cross-chain transactions. The platform simplifies user operations and enhances trading efficiency through integrated technology. The founders come from well-known hardware wallet companies, a certain cross-wallet communication protocol, and a leading exchange, possessing deep expertise in the blockchain and payment fields.

11. Lemonade Payments

Direction: Payment Infrastructure Targeting the African Region

Lemonade Payments focuses on the pain points of the African market, integrating mobile payments, banking channels, and stablecoins for the region, allowing users to quickly send, receive, and convert funds, reducing costs and shortening settlement times. The platform addresses the inadequate payment infrastructure in Africa, leveraging stablecoin technology to enhance payment efficiency and meet the demand for low-cost financial services in the region.

Its goal is to provide more convenient financial services for African users through blockchain technology and promote financial inclusion.

12. Offline Protocol

Direction: Offline communication and transaction services in special scenarios

The Offline Protocol supports users in disaster areas or crowded event sites to conduct offline communication and transactions, aimed at solving payment and communication issues in environments without network access. The platform utilizes blockchain technology to ensure the reliability and security of offline transactions, making it suitable for special scenarios such as natural disasters or large events.

Its goal is to provide blockchain solutions for special scenarios, enhancing users' financial and communication capabilities in extreme environments. The founder has successfully exited startups twice, collaborated with UNICEF and the World Health Organization to develop policies, and worked on payment system development at a well-known payment company, possessing rich experience.

13. Orbit

Direction: DeFAI Assistant

Orbit is an AI assistant that helps users quickly get started in the DeFi space, simplifying operations like yield farming and providing liquidity, while offering an intuitive AI experience and user interface. It helps users manage their encryption assets more efficiently, addressing the complexity of DeFi operations.

14. Poof

Direction: AI-driven dApp development platform

Poof uses AI technology to help both technical and non-technical users quickly prototype, build, and deploy dApps, reducing the complexity and technical barriers of dApp development. The platform simplifies the development process through AI tools, enabling more people to participate in the innovation of the blockchain ecosystem.

The goal is to empower through technology, promote the popularization of dApp development, and accelerate the growth of blockchain applications. The founders have successfully exited a startup together, with backgrounds including a certain cloud service giant, a well-known wallet, a leading exchange, and a major social media giant.

15. Ripe

Direction: Asia-focused encryption payments

Ripe's goal is to promote the adoption of encryption payments in the Asian market and to address the issue of low acceptance of encryption payments. In response to the trend of QR payment popularity in Asia, it connects encryption wallets to QR payment systems, allowing users to complete payments from encryption to fiat currency by scanning the merchant's QR code, without the need for merchants to adopt new technology.

The platform simplifies the payment process by creating wallet addresses that match bank information, reducing the barriers between encryption payments and traditional payments.

16. Seismic

Direction: Privacy Protection Transaction Payment

Seismic's goal is to become the leading solution in the field of privacy-protecting payments, promoting privacy technology.