On March 26, a16z Crypto announced that its Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Spring 2024 program will launch in London this week, with 25 projects participating in the 10-week course. These 25 projects cover different tracks of infrastructure, consumer applications, DeFi, payment, games, development tools and DePIN.
AminoChain
AminoChain is a decentralized biospecimen marketplace that connects biobanks, clinical sites and biopharmaceutical companies.
Collar Networks
Collar Networks is a liquidation-free lending solution designed to solve the liquidation problem and the Blockchain Trilemma problem of DeFi lending (stability of borrowed assets, collateral liquidation and high LTV). Collar helps borrowers connect with market makers through the on-chain inquiry process to form a collaborative lending arrangement (COLlaborative Lending ARrangement), which allows borrowers to temporarily give up upside risks above the cap to protect their downside below a certain floor price risk, below which the borrower can withdraw his stablecoin loan.
Compass Labs
Compass Labs is a new standard interface for DeFi, aiming to provide a set of tools to allow investors and developers to safely access DeFi. Currently, Compass Labs has launched two solutions, Simulation Platform and Blockchain Data, and has supported Uniswap and Aave.
Hungry Cats Studio
Hungry Cats Studio is a cryptography team focused on research and implementation. It is committed to polynomial commitment schemes, proof synthesis, ZKML, signature schemes, etc., and provides a safe and reliable AI workflow for verification.
Launcher
Launcher is a crypto product search and platform for building smart contract mini-applications.
MagicBlock
MagicBlock is an on-chain game framework on Solana and SVM, specially designed for building on-chain games on Solana/SVM.
NEBRA Labs
NEBRA Labs is an R&D organization that scales and writes proof verification on the blockchain.
Neynar
Neynar is a Farcaster developer infrastructure that provides a codeless, multi-step framework builder. Currently, both Neynar v1 and v2 APIs are online.
NodeKit
NodeKit builds shared sequencers to help decentralize Rollup and improve interoperability.
Nosh
Nosh is a decentralized food delivery protocol, and the App is currently available on Google Play and App Store.
OpenLayer
OpenLayer extends Web3 with optimistically verifiable computation
OpenTrade
OpenTrade is an institutional lending and income product offering for the new digital economy.
Playmint
Playmint is committed to building full-chain games and is currently developing the full-chain MMO game Downstream.
Roux
Roux is a cooking platform for the digital age.
Sablier
Sablier is a token distribution protocol on Ethereum that provides infrastructure for token distribution in Web3 and aims to facilitate per-second payments for cryptocurrencies. The protocol utilizes a set of non-upgradeable smart contracts that prioritize security, censorship resistance, self-hosting, and functionality without the need for trusted intermediaries that may selectively restrict access. Sablier has launched two versions: V1 and V2.
Scrypted
Scrypted aims to build decentralized, autonomous agents and AI games. It has now launched the generative AI game development platform ArtemisML and the AI coordination layer Inori Network, as well as games such as Picturdle and ChatGPT Games.
Spire
Spire is a zk Appchain network with atomic composability on Ethereum.
Strobe
Strobe is a DeFi scaling network that enables new permissionless and transparent markets.
taralli labs
taralli labs is a protocol that enables efficient and decentralized zk supply chains.
Tata Bazaar
Tata Bazaar , a social commerce platform that connects the physical and digital worlds of fashion and beauty, is yet to be launched.
TITLES
TITLES is a creative tool that builds AI models driven by artist training.
Tranched
Tranched is a company that uses blockchain technology to automate private securitization transactions.
Tweed
Tweed is a wallet and payment solution for users in a blockchain-based application.
Valyu Network
Valyu Network can provide trusted data for artificial intelligence models and applications.
zkPassport
zkPassport can authenticate government-issued passports and selectively disclose information.
