Degen Weekly: A Solana-based creator platform, Layer2 chain casino, and NFT payments
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Degen Weekly: A Solana-based creator platform, Layer2 chain casino, and NFT payments
Degen Weekly is a new segment we've created to quickly introduce some new projects to everyone each week.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsBy: TechFlow intern
Degen Weekly is a new series we're launching to quickly introduce you each week to emerging projects—some with only a few hundred Twitter followers, extremely early-stage, high-risk, and uncertain returns. Most haven't even launched tokens yet, so consider this content purely for enthusiast analysis and research.
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Wordcel
Media should be information, not a filter. Wordcel is a decentralized publishing network on Solana that allows creators to publish, distribute, and monetize their work on-chain with absolute freedom and ownership. In partnership with Arweave, creators’ articles are permanently preserved.
Key features include no censorship by the platform—creators retain full sovereignty over content and distribution. You can host your publication on your own domain and control how it's distributed. The team claims they will never deplatform or censor anyone for trivial reasons. The relationship between creators and audiences is one that creators fully own. The platform delivers real value back to creators, advancing true decentralization.
Website:https://www.wordcel.club/
Stella Fantasy
Stella Fantasy is a 2D action game centered around collecting and role-playing NFT characters. So far, three anime-style female character NFTs of different professions have been released. A closed beta test across mobile and PC platforms is expected in April this year to evaluate its multi-platform stability. The development team includes blockchain professionals, veteran game designers with over 20 years of experience, and developers skilled in Unreal Engine.
Official site:https://stellafantasy.io/#fourthPage
Zest Protocol
Zest Protocol is an on-chain Bitcoin capital market. For liquidity providers, Zest offers sustainable Bitcoin yield through professionally managed lending pools. For institutional borrowers, Zest provides undercollateralized on-chain Bitcoin financing without the constant risk of liquidation. Bitcoin should not be a passive asset—it requires productive actions from the community to unlock its potential and generate value. Earning passive income from Bitcoin has long been difficult, but Zest is determined to change that, as stated in their manifesto: “Make passive income from Bitcoin easy.” This is an exciting on-chain platform enabling undercollateralized Bitcoin loans. The biggest beneficiaries are Zest participants—both liquidity providers and borrowers—who interact directly with the Bitcoin blockchain, rather than relying on other chains for convenience. This embodies the paradigm shift of blockchain: taking power away from the elite and giving it to the people.
Official site:https://www.zestprotocol.com/
ZKasino
ZKasino is a decentralized casino built on Layer 2 ZK-Rollup technology, offering infinite scalability while preserving Ethereum’s strong decentralization. Play in a trustless manner (no KYC) where smart contracts ensure complete transparency for your funds and winning odds. Compared to other DeFi casinos, ZKasino has a clear advantage: through its token ($ZKAS), anyone can share in the platform’s generated revenue. 30% of monthly net profits go to the ZKasino DAO, where community members can create proposals on how funds should be used—such as marketing or influencer campaigns. The remaining 70% is shared among token holders who have a vested interest in ZKasino, aligning with the ideal Web3 goal of distributing profits among users.
To ensure fairness, anyone can audit our betting odds by reviewing the smart contracts (unlike most online casinos, where odds may unfairly favor the house). This revolutionary feature not only gives players peace of mind but also eliminates concerns about withdrawal restrictions common in traditional online casinos. Your odds in every game can be verified by reading the smart contract code.
Powered by StarkNet’s ZK-Rollup-based Layer 2 solution, players won’t pay gas fees for any action. Depositing, betting, and withdrawing on ZKasino will feel as smooth and instant as using a centralized casino. Players won’t notice any difference between ZKasino and existing centralized crypto casinos—no need to approve every transaction via browser wallet extensions.
Regarding privacy, customer data remains confidential. Traditional offline or online casinos require personal information for account registration. On ZKasino, you simply connect your Ethereum wallet and sign a message to “create an account.” This reflects a trend we expect to see across many Web3 applications in the foreseeable future. Centralized SQL databases controlled by website owners, which store personal details vulnerable to attacks and theft, are becoming relics of the past.
Official site:https://zkasino.io/
Deepwaters
Deepwaters is a platform aiming to merge TradFi and DeFi, first unveiled at ETHDenver 2022. It targets some of DeFi’s biggest challenges: slippage, sandwich attacks, and impermanent loss. Deepwaters promises confident and fast trading experiences. Solving any of these issues would be revolutionary for DeFi. Beyond that, the platform offers efficient lending gateways and resolves cross-chain interoperability, bridging TradFi with DeFi. The team believes true DeFi 2.0 must serve everyone. Financial systems should return value to participants instead of extracting it, and everyone should have a fair and secure chance to participate.
Official site:https://deepwaters.xyz/
Nifty Pay
NFTs are becoming increasingly common in our lives, but their use cases often seem repetitive and lack breadth. With NiftyPay, we empower creators to easily configure real-world utility into their already-minted NFTs through our user-friendly app.
NFT creators can use NiftyPay’s creator app to add perks like discounts, giveaways, tickets, etc. Each merchant or business can collaborate with NFT creators to generate a unique QR code in-store for checkout. NFT holders can visit restaurants, shops, or venues, scan the merchant’s QR code, and instantly qualify for benefits based on the NFT in their wallet. Once our system confirms eligibility, it applies the benefit at checkout and authorizes payment from the holder to the merchant.
Official Twitter:https://twitter.com/Nifty_Pay
Fountain Protocol
Fountain Protocol is the first cross-chain lending platform powered by Oasis. It enables users to manage DeFi assets efficiently in one place with high capital efficiency. Leveraging Oasis Network’s highly efficient and low-cost infrastructure, Fountain Protocol builds a multi-yield protocol centered around liquidity pools with diverse application scenarios.
The FTP token is the native token of Fountain Protocol, governing the entire ecosystem and future iterations of the protocol. To meet diverse user needs, Fountain Protocol offers the following features:
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Multi-chain deployment
Fountain Protocol will support multi-chain deployment, keeping pace with global expansion trends. High fees on Ethereum have long hindered blockchain’s future development, leading to the rise of many high-performance public chains that now form critical infrastructure in the blockchain world.
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Leveraged trading
As a lending protocol, Fountain Protocol supports both long and short positions. By supplying, borrowing, and selling assets via Fountain Protocol, users can leverage crypto holdings using a manageable, capital-efficient, and decentralized approach.
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Cross-chain lending
Fountain Protocol aims to become a cross-chain lending platform, as aggregation is a key trend in DeFi. Different DeFi protocols can freely integrate like Lego blocks—a major advancement that will accelerate and shape the future of blockchain convergence.
Official site:https://ftp.cash/home#Welcome
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