Original author: @thehiddenmaze , compiled by The Way of DeFi.
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Ignoring this article could cost you $1,000,000.
Why?
This article lists 60 new layer 0/1/2 blockchains, some of which have the potential to grow 20x, 50x or even 100x in the next bull run.
Warning: To reap these benefits, you'll need to be proficient at:
- early research
- trade
- DeFi
- Macro and blockchain investing
- On-chain analysis
In order to take full advantage of the opportunities offered below.
If these terms are unfamiliar to you, learn these skills first.
- some of you will get million dollars
- some others may get hundreds of thousands
But: Most will be in vain and get no share.
How can you benefit from the projects listed in this article? You need to learn:
- Protocol investment
- Ecosystem dApp Investment
- Arbitrage trade
- NFT investment/trading
- airdrop
- yield farming
- Career Opportunities
- put up
... Endless possibilities.
Pro Tip:
- Learn > Usage > Filter by the most common metrics determining platform growth and adoption
- Limit the number of items you research initially. focus!
- Watch for unusual rises, news, investments.
- Study past project behavior to identify commonalities between them
layer 0
- Layer Zero
LayerZero is a chain-wide interoperability protocol designed for passing lightweight messages across chains. LayerZero provides authentic and guaranteed messaging with configurable trustlessness.
Funding raised: $135 million+
- Wormhole
Wormhole V1 was originally conceived as a traditional token bridge between $ETH and $SOL.
However, it quickly outgrew the use of Solana and token transfers. It evolved to support a growing list of blockchains.
Tier 1
- Sui Network
Sui is the first permissionless layer 1 blockchain designed from the ground up to empower creator developers to build experiences that cater to the next billion users in web3.
Funding raised: $336 million+
Consensus models adopted: Narwhal, Tusk, and Bullshark
- 5ire Chain
5ire is a layer 1 blockchain ecosystem designed with economic and environmental sustainability at its core.
They are one of the fastest growing unicorns in India, backed by a community from all over the world.
Funding raised: $250 million+
Consensus: Sustainable Proof-of-Stake
- Aleo
Aleo is the first platform to offer fully private applications.
They do this by utilizing a decentralized system and zero-knowledge cryptography to secure user data on the network.
Funding raised: $228 million+
Consensus: Succinct Proof of Work
- WordCoin
Their goal is to be the largest and most inclusive cryptocurrency network in the world by making Worldcoin available to everyone for free.
Funding raised: $125 million+
Consensus: Proof of Personhood
- Celestia
The first modular blockchain network that allows sovereign blockchains to break free from the constraints of a monolithic architecture, so they can be flexibly and freely built on their own terms.
Funding raised: More than $56 million
Consensus: Proof of Stake (Tendermint BFT)
- Sei Network
Sei is the first industry-specific layer 1 blockchain dedicated to transactions, giving exchanges an unfair advantage
Funding raised: $55 million+
Consensus: Twin Turbo (Tendermint)
- Parallel Chain
Parallel Chain is a public + private Layer 1 blockchain protocol that builds a responsible, fair and solid backbone infrastructure for the digital economy.
Funding raised: $50 million+
Consensus: Proof of Immutability
- Partisia Blockchain
State-of-the-art layer 1 blockchain that allows public and private decentralized computing. They provide an additional layer of data protection on the blockchain. Users can control access to their data through ZK computing.
Funding raised: $45 million+
Consensus: PoT
- SubSpace
The SubSpace network allows developers to run Web3 applications at Internet scale. It provides a simple interface for rapidly deploying multi-chain decentralized applications that scale automatically based on demand.
Funding raised: $33 million+
Consensus: Proof of Capacity
- Ironfish Crypto
They are building an L1 blockchain to be the common privacy layer for all web3. Using zero-knowledge proofs and the highest industry encryption standards, they enable users to have completely private transactions.
Funding raised: $32 million+
Consensus: Proof of Work (PoW)
- Anoma Network
Anoma is a structure of protocols and mechanisms for self-contained and autonomous coordination.
Their main goal is to facilitate private transactions using a digital representation of any value, no matter who issued it.
Funding raised: $30 million+
Consensus: PoS
- Oasys
It is an EVM-compatible protocol using the Oasys architecture. This unique architecture consists of multiple layers: Hub-Layer, a highly scalable L1; and Verse-Layer, a special L2 using Ethereum's L2 scaling solution.
Funding raised: $20 million+
Consensus: PoS
- Shardeum
Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that provides permanently low gas fees while maintaining true decentralization and solid security through dynamic state sharding.
Funding raised: $18 million+
Consensus: PoS + PoQuorum
- Onomy Protocol
A layer 1 blockchain built with the CosmosSDK. It utilizes an inter-blockchain communication protocol to bridge with other Cosmos chains. In addition, Arc Hub integrates other blockchain ecosystems around Onomy.
Funding raised: $15 million+
Consensus: PoS
- Unit Network
It is a layer 1 blockchain built by Parity Technologies/Web3 Foundation using the Substrate framework. It provides the technical and economic infrastructure for mainstream adoption of the token economy
Funding raised: $13 million+
Consensus: Nominated Proof of Stake
- Gear network
It is an advanced smart contract platform based on WASM, capable of being deployed as Kusama and Polkadot parachains, enabling developers to deploy their dApps within 5 minutes in the easiest and most efficient way.
Funding raised: $12 million+
Consensus: PoS
- KYVE Network
KYVE allows developers and applications to store and retrieve any stream of data. Fully decentralized, proven and efficient.
Funding raised: $11 million+
Consensus: PoS
- Wormholes Chain
They solve the blockchain trilemma by building technology that achieves an ideal balance, creating a highly scalable and secure blockchain system without sacrificing decentralization.
Funding raised: $10 million+
Consensus: Dynamic Random Election
- Quai Network
Quai is a scalable, EVM-compatible, merged-mining blockchain network that enables fast, accessible, and low-cost decentralized finance.
Funding raised: $10 million+
Consensus: PoW 2.0
- Nibiru Chain
Nibiru is a sovereign proof-of-stake blockchain, open-source platform, and member of the family of interconnected blockchains that make up the Cosmos ecosystem.
Funding raised: More than $7.5 million
Consensus: PoS (Tendermint BFT)
- Peaq Network
Peaq enables people to build dApps for vehicles, robots, and devices, while enabling dApp builders and users to manage and monetize machines that provide goods and services to humans and other machines.
Funding raised: $6 million+
Consensus: Nominated Proof of Stake
- Linera
Linera aims to be the first web3 infrastructure that guarantees low latency and low fees at any scale. Through linear expansion, the capacity of the system can be adjusted at any time to meet the needs of user transactions.
Funding raised: $6 million+
Consensus: PoS (Tendermint)
- Massa
Massa uses a multi-threaded withdrawal graph that allows nodes to create blocks in parallel and process 10,000 transactions per second.
With this block structure, Massa is the first blockchain technology to solve the trilemma.
Funding raised: More than $5.8 million
Consensus: PoS (Satoshi Nakamoto)
- Minima
Minima is a blockchain and peer-to-peer network designed to be accessible to as many people as possible
- Compact enough to run on mobile and IoT devices
- Quantum resistant and protected by every user
Funding raised: More than $5.6 million
Consensus: Transaction PoWv
- Tectum
A distributed ledger protocol platform using a proprietary record change signature management algorithm. Their technology processes over 1 million transactions per second and provides instant event status delivery.
Funding raised: More than $5.2 million
Consensus: Proof of Utility
- Oddsy
Odsy provides a secure, programmable, decentralized access layer for all web3 via dynamic, decentralized wallets (dWallets)
Funds raised: 5 million+
Consensus: TBD
- Prasaga
Next-generation layer-one blockchain - designed to avoid the limitations faced by other blockchains and fully supported by tools and a global community ecosystem.
Funding raised: $4 million+
Consensus: PoS, PoW, distributed PoWv
- Caduceus
Caduceus is the world's first blockchain dedicated to the development of the Metaverse. It is a distributed ledger-based platform with unique technology to more efficiently deploy and run Metaverse applications.
Funding raised: $4 million+
Consensus: Metagraph
- Redbelly
Redbelly is uniquely suited for assets in regulated markets, serving as a bridge between today's regulated economy and tomorrow's web3 economy.
Funding raised: More than $3.6 million
Consensus: Democratic Byzantine Fault Tolerance
- Human node
Humanode is the first crypto biometric network where one person = one node, using biometrics to bring Sybil resistance to encryption.
Funding: $3 million and up
Consensus: Proof of Uniqueness and Proof of Existence
- Mysardis
Their financial ecosystem will consist of a series of interconnected stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies, each backed by its own dedicated blockchain.
Funding raised: $750,000+
Consensus: Hybrid Proof-of-Stake
- Kandola Network
Kandola Network is a decentralized blockchain for real-time messaging and universal transactions
Funding raised: $500,000+
Consensus: Proof of Real-Time Transmission
- MUN Blockchain
MUN aims to provide free P2P money transfers to humanity by disrupting the $900 billion remittance industry
Funding raised: $500,000+
Consensus: Delegated Proof of Stake (Tendermint)
- 0L Network
This is a new layer 1 blockchain protocol. It's open, permission-free, and community-governed.
Combining state-of-the-art blockchain technology with truly decentralized governance.
This is a community driven project.
Funding raised: 0
Consensus: Libra BFT
- ZetaChain
ZetaChain is the basic public blockchain that supports full chain, general smart contracts and message passing between any blockchains. They solve the problem of "cross-chain" and "multi-chain"
Funding raised: NA
Consensus: PoS
- Berachain
Berachain is an EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain built using the Cosmos SDK and secured by a novel Proof-of-Liquidity consensus protocol.
Funding raised: unknown
Consensus: Proof of Liquidity
- Monads
This new blockchain aims to achieve 10,000 TPS with 1-second block times and instant finality, while maintaining full EVM compatibility for applications and infrastructure.
Funding raised: unknown
Consensus: PoS
- Gnoland
It is an interoperable concurrent smart contract that can be extended by leveraging gnolang on Cosmos
Funding raised: unknown
Consensus: TBD
layer 2
- zkSync
zkSync is a ZK rollup, a trustless protocol that uses cryptographic validity proofs to provide scalable and low-cost transactions on Ethereum. In zkSync, computations are performed off-chain, and most data is also stored off-chain.
Funding raised: $458 million+
Expansion method: Zk Rollup
- StarkNet
StarkNet is a permissionless decentralized Validity-Rollup (commonly known as ZK-Rollup). It operates as an L2 network on Ethereum, enabling unlimited computational scale for any dApp
Funding raised: $270 million+
Expansion method: ZK Rollup
- Liquid
Liquid Network is a Bitcoin layer-2 solution that enables the rapid and confidential settlement and issuance of digital assets such as stablecoins, securities tokens and other financial instruments on top of the Bitcoin timechain.
Funding raised: $250 million+
Expansion method: BTC side chain
- Arbitrum
It is a technology suite designed to scale Ethereum. You can use the Arbitrum chain to do everything you do on Ethereum - use Web3 applications, deploy smart contracts, etc., but your transactions will be cheaper and faster.
Funding raised: $123 million+
Expansion method: Optimistic rollup
- Fuel Labs
Fuel started in late 2020 as a Layer 2 scaling technology for Ethereum
Today, Fuel is the fastest modular execution layer. It provides the highest security and flexible throughput with a focus on a great developer experience
Funding raised: More than $81.5 million
Expansion method: Optimistic rollup
- Neon
Neon EVM is a collaborative solution for anyone looking to scale Ethereum dApps on Solana in a developer-friendly way and take advantage of Solana's vibrant ecosystem.
Funding raised: $40 million+
Expansion method: Solana L2
- Espresso System
The project combines Proof-of-Stake consensus and ZK-Rollup mechanism to achieve high-throughput and low-fee Layer 1 blockchain.
Funding raised: $32 million+
Consensus: PoS
- Scroll
Scroll Tech aims to build an EVM compatible zk-Rollup with a strong proof network.
Funding raised: $30 million+
Expansion method: ZK Rollup
- Mintlayer
They empower $BTC through sidechains. It is a future-proof blockchain that improves direct token interoperability and enables ways of transacting value, creating systems, functions and participating in truly trustless finance.
Funding raised: $18 million+
Expansion method: BTC side chain
- Aztec Network
Aztec Network is the first private ZK-rollup on Ethereum, enabling decentralized applications to access privacy and scale.
Funding raised: $17 million+
Expansion method: ZK Rollup
- Eclipse
The first customizable modular rollup, using Solana VM. Backed by Polychain, Tribe Capital, Solana Foundation, Celestia, and more.
Funding raised: $15 million+
Expansion method: modular rollup
- Zecrey protocol
Zecrey is a Layer 2 expansion protocol based on zkRollup technology, designed to protect users' ownership of their assets and ensure that the security of the system is as strong as the underlying main chain.
Funding raised: $10 million+
Expansion method: ZK Rollup
- AltLayer
AltLayer is a highly scalable application-specific execution layer system that derives security from the underlying L1/L2. It is designed as a modular and pluggable framework for the multi-chain and multi-VM world.
Funding raised: $7 million+
Expansion method: Optimistic rollup
- Myria
It is extended by the StarkEx L2 engine, designed to expand NFT, blockchain games, etc. They provide instant transaction confirmations, 0 gas fees when minting and trading NFTs without compromising the security of user assets.
Funding raised: More than $5.9 million
Expansion method: ZK Rollup
- Accumulate
Accumulate is an identity-based blockchain protocol with multi-chain support, human-readable addresses, and a key hierarchy.
Funding raised: $3 million+
Scaling Technology: Sidechain
- Milkomeda
Milkomeda provides aggregation technology to leading layer 1 ecosystems by providing the most popular smart contract language Solidity, while enhancing interoperability between blockchains, user experience and developer appeal.
Funding raised: $3 million+
Expansion method: AI rollup
- Obscuro
Obscuro is a layer 2 solution for Ethereum that brings privacy and scale. It ensures that inputs, contract state, and execution are always encrypted. dApps haven't changed, just migrated and gained privacy.
Funding raised: $2.5 million+
Extension method: confidential rollup
- Tusima
Tusima is a zk-rollup-based multi-chain privacy financial network that integrates zero-knowledge proofs and multi-chain interoperability. It aims to be the private financial infrastructure for Web 3.0.
Funding raised: unknown
Expansion method: ZK Rollup
- Orbis
Orbis is a layer 2 zk-rollup scaling solution on Cardano designed to support decentralized financial applications and a thriving blockchain ecosystem.
Funding raised: unknown
Expansion method: ZK Rollup
- Nitro Labs
Nitro is building a modular scalability engine for SVM rollups. This opens up new possibilities for chain architectures, such as Nitro's first rollup, SVM on Cosmos.
Funding raised: unknown
Expansion method: Optimistic rollup
- Mantle
Mantle is a high-performance Ethereum layer 2 network built with a modular architecture that provides low fees and high security.
Funding raised: unknown
Expansion method: modular
The above is the entire list of projects, welcome to add. Big thanks to all the defi degens for their help, they are working hard every day to make the web3 world a better place.
