Original author: Karen, Foresight News

Last week, when Blast users exceeded 100,000 and TVL exceeded 1.3 billion US dollars, the Blast test network was officially launched and the BIG BANG competition was simultaneously launched. Blast stated that the winning DApps will be promoted to Blast users after the mainnet goes online at the end of February. With this, the winning team can use Blast airdrops to incentivize the development of their DApps on the Blast mainnet, and gain core advantages such as liquidity guidance from the very beginning.

It can be seen from Blast’s airdrop distribution method that it attaches equal importance to users and developers. In the Blast airdrop, 50% will be allocated to 110,000 users, and 50% will be allocated to Blast developers (including BIG BANG winners and mainnet DApps). According to Blast documentation, part of the Blast developer airdrop is reserved for competition winners and part is reserved for mainnet DApps. The exact distribution ratio has not been announced, but the vast majority of airdrops will be reserved for mainnet DApps (i.e. more than 90%). However, Blast also emphasized that users will not receive anything for participating in the testnet.

Which sectors Blast is officially optimistic about can be seen from the Blast BIG BANG competition theme categories, namely, perpetual contract DEX, spot DEX, lending agreement, NFT / game, SocialFi, GambleFi, infrastructure. In addition, it also covers especially Projects that leverage Blasts native revenue or Gas revenue sharing in unique ways.

Considering the Blast roadmap, that is, registration for the BIG BANG competition has been opened, the winning DApps will be unveiled on February 21, the mainnet will be launched at the end of February, and airdrop points will be redeemed in May, it is necessary for us to ambush and explore the Blast ecosystem in advance. The author also marked some projects followed by Blast and Pacman official Twitter.

DEX/ Liquidity

Thruster (Follow Pacman on Twitter):It is a Blast native DEX. For developers, Thruster provides fair launch mechanisms and liquidity tools, and for users, Thruster supports yield tools as well as social and analytical features to make trading and liquidity provision easier. Thruster has confirmed that many Blast-native projects want to leverage Thruster infrastructure and community to bootstrap their tokens.

https://www.thruster.finance/

ambient：ambient (formerly CrocSwap) is a decentralized trading protocol that has participated in the Blast BIG BANG competition. Ambient completed a $6.5 million seed round in July 2023, led by BlockTower Capital. Participating investors include Jane Street, Circle, Tensai Capital, Naval, Yunt Capital, Susa Ventures, Quantstamp and Hypotenuse Labs, and individual investors include Ribbon Finance Co-founder Julian et al.

Ambient runs the entire DEX in a single smart contract, where each AMM pool is a lightweight data structure rather than a separate smart contract.

https://ambient.finance/

MonoSwap (Blast and Pacman follow on Twitter):MonoSwap aims to build a custom liquidity infrastructure that fully supports ecosystem partners, as well as the revenue economics of leveraging Blast’s native revenue, Gas revenue sharing, and developer airdrops. MonoSwap said that 100% of its Blast developer airdrop will be distributed to the community through various initiatives. The amount of the airdrop is determined by the user’s Mono XP, which is used to measure participation in the testnet.

https://www.monoswap.io/

Ring Protocol (Blast and Pacman follow on Twitter):The DEX Ring Exchange has been launched, providing services such as exchange, Launchpad, and Ring Earn (liquidity provision). Ring Protocol has launched the testnet.

https://ring.exchange/

BLASTER：Provides exchange, Launchpad, earning and other services.

https://twitter.com/BlasterSwap

Ignite Finance: Custom DEX will be introduced.

https://twitter.com/IgniteFi_

Derivatives

SynFutures Protocol：Is a decentralized derivatives protocol, SynFutures V3 has been deployed to the Blast testnet. SynFutures previously completed a $22 million Series B round of financing in October 2023, led by Pantera Capital, followed by Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and HashKey Capital.

https://www.synfutures.com/

Particle (Blast official and Pacman Twitter follow):Particle is a decentralized leveraged trading protocol that enables traders to borrow directly from liquidity pools of centralized automated market makers (AMMs) (starting with Uniswap v3). Particle has launched Beta test network [Stage-1]. Particle has said that 100% of Blast developer airdrops will go to its community. In January 2024, Particle completed a seed round of financing, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Nascent, Inflection, Neon DAO, Naveen Jain, Arthur Hayes, DCF God, Sam Williams, Kalos, Richard Ma, Palmer, vxCozy, etc. If you are interested in the introduction to Particle, you can read https://medium.com/@ParticleLabs/introducing-particle-leverage-amm-fcf0b3d b 8 c 55 .

https://www.particle.trade/

Roguex：It is a permissionless spot and perpetual contract trading protocol. RogueX takes the centralized liquidity concept pioneered by Uniswap-v3 and extends it to unlock the value of idle funds in Uniswap-v3 type pools and leverage these assets by introducing perpetual trading as an additional feature. ROX is the protocols ERC-20 utility token, and veROX is an ERC-721 governance token earned by locking ROX tokens and granting users voting rights. Roguex has launched a testnet on Blast.

https://roguex.io/

Easy X：It is a Blast native leverage platform and will soon launch a testnet. Easy X provides up to 100 times leverage and supports Gas-free transactions.

https://easyx.trade/

Bloom：It is a Blast native sustainable DEX, built specifically for asset rebasing, supporting Gas-free trading, social login, increased yields and up to 50x leverage.

https://twitter.com/BloomOnBlast

SphereX (Blast official Twitter follow):It is a multi-chain perpetual contract DEX that will be launched on Blast first. SphereX uses an order book with fees ranging from 0.02% -0.05%.

https://www.sx.xyz/

Blast Futures (Blast official Twitter follow):Order Book Perpetual Trading Protocol.

https://twitter.com/BlastFutures

Cyber Finance：It is a decentralized derivatives protocol. Its founders include KOL Money Bunny and others, and its developers include former developers from Dell and Huawei. Currently, Cyber ​​Finance has released the recommended points ranking list.

https://twitter.com/CyberFinance__

Launchpad

ZAP (Blast and Pacman Twitter follow):It is a set of token launch tools built on Blast. Incubated by Rarestone Ventures, ZAP features native gamification and SocialFi elements, an invest now, pay later option powered by Blasts native revenue, and plans to offer permissionless, codeless token issuance, with plans to explore LBP in the future. .

https://www.zap.tech/

BLASTOFF (Blast official Twitter follow):Native Launchpad and revenue aggregator. In BLASTOFFs income IDO product YIDO, ETH/stablecoins are allowed to be pledged natively or on YZone, and part of the income is allocated to YIDO launched on BlastOff. Its yield aggregator product, YZone, offers multiple vaults with different risk profiles.

YIDO whitelisting and participation depends on the users Blast Force, which can be increased by staking BLASTO and depositing it into YZone. In addition, 50% of YIDO and YZone fees will be used for BLASTO repurchase and destruction.

https://blastoff.zone

SocialFi

EarlyFans (Follow Pacman on Twitter):is a SocialFi project on Blast, built by atticc.xyz, that enables creators to monetize their content directly.

https://twitter.com/earlyfans_xyz

UpTo3.xyz：It is a platform that converts activities into NFTs and provides consensus verification.

https://www.upto3.xyz/

loan

Natrium：A permissionless money market on Blast.

https://twitter.com/NatriumProtocol

Blastway：It is a decentralized ecosystem incubator and money market protocol built on Blast and will launch a testnet in the next few weeks.

https://twitter.com/Blastwayio

NFT/Game

BAC Games (Blast official Twitter follow):Web3 game built on Blast.

Blast Penguins：PENG will be airdropped to Blast Penguins holders. If you win the Big Bang competition, Blast Penguins will distribute 50% of its BLAST airdrop to holders and ecological users. Blast Penguins is currently distributing OG characters.

https://twitter.com/BlastPenguins

Blastopians：An NFT series launched by the Creed Alpha community has currently granted whitelist qualifications to the CyberKongz, Moonbirds and Memeland communities. In addition, the Blastopian smart contract also allows Blastopian NFT to be deposited into the contract to earn points.

https://twitter.com/blastopians

infrastructure

Tornado Blast (Follow Blast and Pacman on Twitter):Supports trading and sniping tokens on Blast, and you can earn BLAST and Tornado rewards. Tornado Blast said that users can get 100% refund of BLAST developer airdrops and gas fees, and can also earn additional rewards and fees from Tornado Blast.

https://www.tornadoblast.bot/

Boom Bots: On-chain cryptocurrency trading and investing bots. According to the token economics released by Boom Bots, the total number of revenue governance tokens is 21 million, 1 million will be allocated to early adopters, and 2 million will be airdropped when the token is issued in February.

https://boombots.xyz/

Pyth Network: It is an oracle project that has deployed Pyth Entropy and Price Feeds on Blast. Pyth Entropy is a decentralized source of randomness positioned to power the Blast Layer 2 economy and support its NFT ecosystem. Pyth Entropys integration with the Blast ecosystem will enhance its ability to support numerous Web3 verticals, such as NFT initiatives, prediction markets, and SocialFi. Pyth Price Feeds is a price feed for smart contract developers, covering more than 400 real-time data sources across five major asset classes.

https://pyth.network/

RedStone Oracles: Supports Gas-optimized RedStone Core models and provides data sources to support the Blast builder community.

https://redstone.finance/

The Graph: The decentralized indexing protocol The Graph now supports Blast subgraphs, allowing developers to quickly access organized Blast testnet data using subgraphs.

https://thegraph.com

QuickNode: It is a blockchain development platform that supports the Blast test network.

https://www.quicknode.com/

Galxe: Web3 tasking platform Galxe announced its integration with Blast.

https://galxe.com/

other

Blast Name Service (BlastNS): It is a full-chain domain name service supported by the domain name protocol Star Protocol.

https://blastns.domains/

Zest: is a collateralized stablecoin protocol that decouples yields from price fluctuations. Zest divides blast-ETH into zUSD (an interest-bearing stablecoin) and leveraged ETH tokens. Users can provide blast-ETH to mint zUSD and leveraged ETH tokens.

https://twitter.com/Zest_Blast

Layer Rating (Follow Pacman on Twitter): You can earn revenue by rating DApps. Layer Rating plans to launch its protocol on the Blast testnet around February 5th.

https://twitter.com/layer_rating

As always, this article does not represent any investment opinion, DYOR.