SwapMode offers real yields from protocol-generated swap fees, and enabling transactions at significantly lower costs. Its dual-token system, involving $SMD for transactional purposes and $xSMD for staking and earning real yield, incentivizes user participation and ensures a fair value distribution within its ecosystem. Governance is democratized through $xSMD token holders, who have voting rights on key decisions, promoting a decentralized and community-driven decision-making process. Unlike many of its counterparts, SwapMode is self-bootstrapped, emphasizing its commitment to innovation, efficiency, and community engagement without relying on external funding.
Swaps.io is an intent-driven framework that automates any dApp on the market and features a powerful swap widget for seamless crypto interactions. Users can swap, stake, provide liquidity, farm, or trade NFTs and RWAs, all in one click.
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.
SynFutures is a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) and full-stack financial infrastructure powering the future of trading. Utilizing its Oyster AMM model and a fully onchain order-matching engine for derivatives, SynFutures enables anyone to list and trade any asset with leverage
SynStation is a decentralized prediction market platform that enables users to forecast future events and earn rewards based on their insights.
Synthetix operates as a decentralized liquidity layer on Ethereum and Optimism, revolutionizing the trading of synthetic assets and perpetual futures without traditional order books. Its native token, SNX, is crucial for staking, governance, and earning a share of trading fees. The governance structure of Synthetix involves a collaborative model with community members, core contributors, and elected councils and committees, ensuring a fair and transparent decision-making process. Funding milestones include raising $250,000 in a Seed Round, $610,000 in a Pre-Sale, $23.42 million in a Private Sale, $5.3 million in a Public Sale, and $3.8 million in Partnership Incentives, along with $12 million in later funding rounds. Additionally, Synthetix's strategic collaboration with Optimism brought in an allocation of 9 million tokens, earmarked for distribution to its user base.
TLX is a decentralized leveraged token platform on OP Mainnet, offering up to 20x leverage on over 50 assets. It uses a council-based governance model and has a 100 million supply of TLX tokens. Stakers earn all platform fees, and 8% of the supply is vesting. The TLX DAO holds 3% of the supply and $1 million in ETH Delta Neutral positions.
Talent Protocol leverages onchain technology to create visible, verifiable professional reputations, simplifying talent discovery and candidate assessment. Through aggregating data across platforms, it reduces hiring friction and opens avenues for innovative applications like under-collateralized lending. The $TALENT token supports the ecosystem by incentivizing users to maintain verified data, usable for visibility boosts, onchain services, and earning rewards. With 600 million tokens, Talent Protocol is backed by $3.5 million from investors like Protocol Labs and GSR.
Tally is a onchain governance platform designed to facilitate decentralized decision-making for DAOs. It provides tools for launching DAOs, creating and managing proposals, electing councils, and overseeing treasuries.
Tellor is a decentralized oracle protocol that enables smart contracts on Ethereum to securely access off-chain data. Operating as a permissionless network, it incentivizes data reporters to provide and validate information, ensuring the integrity and reliability of data supplied to decentralized applications (dApps).
Tenderly is a Web3 development platform that offers a suite of tools designed to streamline the creation and management of decentralized applications (dApps) on multiple blockchain networks. Its services include real-time monitoring, alerting, debugging, and transaction simulations, all aimed at enhancing the efficiency and reliability of smart contract development.
Thales stands out in blockchain markets with its Parimutuel Markets, focusing on crypto asset price movements. Its governance token, $THALES, is used for protocol governance and DAO elections. Governance is decentralized, involving various DAOs and THALES token stakers. Thales raised $2.5 million from Framework Ventures and Apollo Capital, underlining its strategic growth and market potential.
