Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)
Author | Nanzi (@Assassin_Malvo)
According to @layerggofficial's statistics and disclosure, dozens of projects will have TGE or launch their mainnet in Q1 2025, including heavyweight projects such as Berachain, Linea, and OpenSea.
However, according to Odaily's investigation, most of the disclosed TGE/mainnet timelines do not have official announcements to back them up, and are mostly just community rumors or even have no relevant information at all.
So which key projects have explicitly or implicitly hinted at their upcoming launches? What are the recent important developments or participation opportunities for these projects? Odaily will summarize and review them in this article.
Berachain
Launch time: Q1 2025 or later, but no official announcement.
Funding amount: Series B - $100 million, valued at $1.5 billion; Series A - $42 million, valued at $420 million.
Recent dynamics: Launched pre-deposit activities with multiple projects and provided early rewards, including Ethena, StakeStone, etc. As of January 8, the total deposit amount has reached $1 billion.
Monad
Launch time: Rumored to launch a public testnet in Q1, no official announcement.
Funding amount: Undisclosed round - Undisclosed amount (OKX Ventures); Undisclosed round - $225 million, valued at $3 billion; Seed round - $19 million.
Recent dynamics: Began to roll out the testnet in phases in November, established the Monad Foundation on December 17. Early January posted hints about an upcoming event.
Abstract
Funding amount: Undisclosed round - $11 million.
Recent dynamics: Recently can participate in social media tasks, or perform NFT minting, testnet interaction, etc. See《How to Layout and Closely Related to the Abstract Airdrop?》《The Fat Penguin is About to Issue Coins, Can PENGU, Abstract, and OpenSea Eat Three Fish with One Bite?》
Nillion
Launch time: Officially announced to launch mainnet in February 2025
Funding amount: Undisclosed round - $25 million; Series A - $20 million, valued at $400 million.
Recent dynamics: Can participate in staking and validator node interaction, see《Interaction Guide: Nillion, the "Global Blind Computing" that Raised $25 Million》. Collaborated with a large number of AI projects, including Build On Nillion, Thales_ai, Four Pillars, etc.
Story
Launch time: Official statement hinted that it may launch mainnet soon
Funding amount: Series B - $80 million, valued at $2.25 billion; Series A - $25 million; Undisclosed round - $29.3 million.
Recent dynamics: Launched a joint task with Binance Wallet, lasting three weeks, with clear token rewards. Other interactive content includes testnet airdrops, ecosystem project check-ins, NFT purchases, etc. Readers can find detailed operation tutorials through social media.
Initia
Launch time: Rumored to launch mainnet in Q1, but no official announcement. The latest official announcement on mainnet was made on December 19, 2024, stating that the mainnet progress is 78% and security audits are underway.
Funding amount: Community round - $2.5 million, valued at $250 million; Series A - $14 million, valued at $350 million; Seed round - $7.5 million; Undisclosed round - Undisclosed amount (Binance Labs).
Recent dynamics: The testnet activities are still ongoing, including XP, Swap, Sake and VIP modules. Readers can find detailed operation tutorials through social media.
OpenSea
Launch time: Not yet clear
Funding amount: Series C - $300 million, valued at $13.3 billion; Series B - $100 million, valued at $15 billion; Series A - $23 million; Strategic financing - $2.1 million; Seed round - $2 million.
Recent dynamics: On December 20, the OpenSea Foundation's Official Twitter account went live and posted its first tweet "ocean enters the chat". On December 28, the OpenSea Foundation spokesperson responded to the token issuance rumors: "More information will be released soon", but no further information has been released since then.
StakeStone
Launch time: Rumored to have TGE in Q1. StakeStone responded to Layergg's launch time form.
Funding amount: Undisclosed round - $22 million; Undisclosed round - Undisclosed amount (Binance Labs).
Recent dynamics: Collaborated with Berachain to launch the beraSTONE deposit activity, clearly stating that participants will receive STO (StakeStone token) rewards.
Particle Network
Launch time: The product has been launched, and V2 may be launched soon, but no official announcement on TGE.
Funding amount: Undisclosed round - Undisclosed amount (Binance Labs); Series A - $15 million; Strategic financing - Undisclosed amount; Seed round - $7 million, valued at $150 million; Pre-seed round - $1.5 million, valued at $30 million.
Recent dynamics: Launched the trading platform UniversalX on December 4, the product will be upgraded to V2 soon.
Lens
Launch time: Officially announced that the mainnet will be launched soon, but the specific date has not been released.
Funding amount: Undisclosed round - $31 million; Seed round - $15 million; Undisclosed round - Undisclosed amount.
Recent dynamics: Apart from the announcement of the imminent mainnet launch, there are no other major developments.