

Exactly Protocol is decentralized finance platform offering autonomous interest rate markets and enabling both variable and fixed rate exchanges of crypto assets. Its EXA token allows holders to vote on protocol changes and manage the treasury, playing a key role in governance and decision-making. Governance involves a structured voting system with specific token requirements to ensure fair participation. The project, having raised $3 million in a seed round, is backed by various investors, highlighting its strong funding and investment support.






Backed Finance is a financial platform that bridges traditional assets like stocks and bonds to the blockchain by issuing tokenized representations of these assets as ERC-20 tokens. Each token is fully backed 1:1 by the corresponding real-world security, held by licensed custodians. The platform operates under a regulatory-compliant framework, ensuring legal enforceability and transparency.



Balancer is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol for programmable liquidity, supporting various swap curves and pool types. Governance begins with a Request for Comment on the Balancer forum, progresses to a formal proposal, and is voted on via Snapshot. Voting power comes from holding BAL tokens or delegated voting power, with a quorum of 2 million veBAL needed. BAL tokenomics include a 100 million token cap and the vote-escrowed BAL system, encouraging long-term holding. Balancer has raised $32.3 million across three funding rounds, with the latest on May 27, 2021.



Ironclad Finance sets itself apart as a decentralized, non-custodial liquidity market protocol, allowing users to engage as either depositors, who earn passive income by providing liquidity, or borrowers, who can borrow in either an overcollateralized or undercollateralized manner. While Ironclad has not yet issued its own token, it has introduced a points system, named Embers, to reward users for borrowing and lending, hinting at a future token introduction.

