Original author: a16z Crypto
Original compilation: Peng SUN, Foresight News
On March 26, a16z Crypto announced that its Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) Spring 2024 program will launch in London this week, and 25 projects will participate in the 10-week course. These 25 projects cover different tracks of infrastructure, consumer applications, DeFi, payment, games, development tools and DePIN.
AminoChain
AminoChainIt is a decentralized biological sample marketplace that connects biobanks, clinical sites and biopharmaceutical companies.
Collar Networks
Collar NetworksIt is a liquidation-free lending solution designed to solve the liquidation problem and the impossible triangle 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 LabsIt is a new standard interface built 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 StudioIt 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
Launcheris a crypto product search and platform for building smart contract mini-applications.
MagicBlock
MagicBlockIt is an on-chain game framework on Solana and SVM, specially designed for building on-chain games on Solana/SVM.
NEBRA Labs
NEBRA Labsis an RD organization that scales and writes proof verification on the blockchain.
Neynar
Neynaris a Farcaster developer infrastructure that provides a codeless, multi-step framework builder. Currently, both Neynar v1 and v2 APIs are online.
NodeKit
NodeKitShared sequencers can be built to help decentralize Rollup and increase interoperability.
Nosh
NoshIt is a decentralized food delivery protocol. Currently, the App is available on Google Play and App Store.
OpenLayer
OpenLayerWeb3 can be extended with optimistic verifiable computation
OpenTrade
OpenTradeIt is an institution that provides institutional loans and income products for the new digital economy.
Playmint
PlaymintCommitted to building full-chain games, it is currently developing the full-chain MMO game Downstream.
Roux
RouxIt is a cooking platform in the digital age.
Sablier
SablierIt is a token distribution protocol on Ethereum that provides infrastructure for token distribution in Web3 and is designed to facilitate per-second payments for cryptocurrency. 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
ScryptedAiming to build decentralized, autonomous agents and AI games, it has 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
SpireIt is a zk Appchain network with atomic composability on Ethereum.
Strobe
Strobeis a DeFi scaling network that enables new permissionless and transparent markets.
taralli labs
taralli labsIt is a protocol to achieve efficient and decentralized zk supply chain.
Tata Bazaar
Tata Bazaaris a social commerce platform that connects the physical and digital worlds of fashion and beauty, yet to be launched.
TITLES
TITLESIt is a creative tool that builds AI models driven by artist training.
Tranched
Tranchedis a company that uses blockchain technology to automate private securitization transactions.
Tweed
Tweedis a wallet and payment solution for users in a blockchain-based application.
Valyu Network
Valyu NetworkCan provide trusted data to artificial intelligence models and applications.
zkPassport
zkPassportGovernment-issued passports can be authenticated and information selectively disclosed.
