KIM is a ecosystem-focused DEX that differentiates itself by prioritizing community-driven development and offering a customizable protocol for sustainable liquidity on the Mode network. Unlike traditional DEXs, KIM emphasizes a community and ecosystem-first approach, enabling both builders and users to benefit from its tailored infrastructure. In terms of governance, KIM operates without a formal system, devoid of traditional token-based voting mechanisms. Financially, KIM is entirely self-bootstrapped, demonstrating a commitment to organic growth and independence by developing and expanding through its own resources, without external funding from investors, grants, or participation in funding rounds.
Fluid (formerly Instadapp) is a DeFi base-layer that merges a money market, vaults and a high-throughput DEX into one shared liquidity engine. By unifying lending and trading under a single pool, it can create up to $39 of on-chain liquidity from every $1 of total value locked, dramatically improving capital efficiency.
Moonwell is an open and decentralized lending and borrowing protocol. Onchain financial tools like decentralized lending and borrowing can empower people and act as stepping stones to new opportunities.
DIA is a cross-chain oracle provider that aggregates market data from diverse sources to ensure transparency and customizability. It offers resilient price feeds for over 20,000 assets, including ERC20s, NFTs, RWAs, LSTs, and BRC20s. Nodes and stakers use DIA tokens for data collection and network security, while oracle users pay for data services. Revenue from these services is distributed to nodes and stakers. DIA is funded through the sale of governance tokens and raised $15 million in August 2020.
Symbiosis Finance is a cross chain decentralized exchange that unifies liquidity from various blockchains, supporting both EVM and non-EVM technologies. It simplifies cross-chain token trades and asset transfers with a single-click operation, offering competitive rates and low transaction costs. Governed by a DAO utilizing the SIS token, it empowers holders with voting rights, security contributions, and participation incentives, encouraging active involvement and long-term commitment through token staking for governance and rewards. With $5 million raised over three funding rounds, backed by prominent investors like Delta Blockchain Fund and Binance Labs, Symbiosis Finance has established a solid foundation for growth and innovation in the decentralized exchange space.
Unlooped differentiates itself in the digital music and NFT space by enabling artists to mint new song variations as NFTs directly to their wallets on the Base network. This platform offers artists the ability to deploy their smart contracts for collections, ensuring full control and management. Unlooped also incorporates on-chain storage for its graph and decentralized storage for samples, enhancing security and ensuring music permanence. Unlooped emphasizes artist ownership and creative freedom. It is a self-bootstrapped project, not having received external funding or participated in previous funding rounds.
Foundation Missions are Optimism-funded initiatives designed to make measurable progress toward the Season 7 Intent, establishing interoperable Stage 1 chains handling $250M in cross-chain asset transfers per month.
The Retro Funding: Dev Tooling program rewards open-source toolchain software that supports onchain application development on the Superchain, with a budget of up to 8M OP and monthly rewards from March to July 2025.
The Optimism Governance Fund Missions for Season 7 provide grants to projects that drive onchain growth across the Superchain.
Retro Funding: Onchain Builders rewards projects driving cross-chain interoperability on OP Chains, with up to 8M OP
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OP Mainnet, previously known as Optimism, is a Layer 2 scaling solution built on top of Ethereum. It utilizes optimistic rollups to provide faster and cheaper transactions while maintaining the security of the Ethereum mainnet.
Ink is a Layer 2 blockchain built by Kraken powered by the OP Stack. It connects Kraken’s 10+ million users to decentralized finance (DeFi), offering easy access to DEXs, lending, and yield protocols. By joining the Superchain, Inkchain combines Ethereum’s security with Layer 2 scalability for a streamlined DeFi experience.
Unichain is an L2 purpose-built for DeFi, exclusively on the OP Stack. Unichain is part of the Superchain’s path to interoperability, and will support ERC20s that are Superchain interop compatible. Uniswap Labs is also working with Flashbots to develop a new TEE-based block builder that reduces Unichain confirmation times from 1 second to 250 milliseconds.
Soneium is a Layer 2 blockchain developed by Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture between Sony Group and Startale. Designed to bridge Web2 and Web3, Soneium aims to create a versatile, developer-friendly ecosystem that empowers creativity and innovation. It provides a scalable, accessible platform for developers, creators, and communities, enabling them to build and deploy applications that blend entertainment, gaming, finance, and more.
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