Hop Protocol facilitates seamless asset transfers across Ethereum layer-2 networks with its scalable bridge architecture and "h" tokens. Governed by HOP token holders, it employs a community-driven governance model involving forum discussions, Snapshot voting, and on-chain proposals. With a maximum supply of 1 billion tokens, HOP serves as a governance tool and utility token within the protocol. Hop Protocol raised nearly $2 million through funding rounds, attracting notable investors and focusing on enhancing interoperability in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Sake Finance is a decentralized liquidity protocol built on Soneium. It offers a suite of integrated financial products—including lending, over-collateralized stablecoin issuance, and leveraged liquidity strategies—to optimize capital efficiency and streamline decentralized finance operations.
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.
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.
