Alliance returns for graduation season, quick look at this batch of 20 crypto startups
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Alliance returns for graduation season, quick look at this batch of 20 crypto startups
The current main direction of industry development is no longer growing inward only, but increasingly reaching into real-world needs such as payments, education, short video, and advertising marketing.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsWritten by: TechFlow
The market continues to fluctuate, still exploring its main direction amid uncertainty.
Despite the prevailing uncertainty, every year Alliance (@alliancedao) nurtures a batch of outstanding projects that capture key narratives and take root and grow as the market evolves.
As the largest accelerator in the crypto world, Alliance has incubated well-known projects such as Pendle and Pump.fun.
Last week, 20 early-stage crypto startups successfully "graduated" from Alliance, with 9 driven by AI technology, 5 involved in stablecoin and payments, and the rest focused on on-chain trading, DeFi, and scientific-cultural development sectors.
Below are introductions to these 20 startups:
1.8020 (@8020_trade)
Product Focus: Multi-chain trading platform
Project Twitter:https://x.com/@8020_trade
Overview:
8020 calls itself "Moonshot for Asian users," aiming to meet Asia's demand for efficient on-chain trading through optimized front-end interfaces and blockchain support. The platform addresses shortcomings in existing trading platforms' user experience for Asian markets by offering more intuitive operations and localized support.
The founding team has three years of experience developing crypto consumer applications and previously launched two crypto-native apps with a total of 150,000 users. 8020 aims to attract more Asian users to crypto trading through technological innovation and localization strategies.
2.Afterschool (@afterschoolai)
Product Focus:AI-powered tutoring education platform
Project Twitter:https://x.com/@afterschoolai
Overview:
Afterschool aims to transform K-12 education (the U.S. compulsory education system) by providing every student with a personalized AI tutor to replace traditional classroom instruction. Using AI to analyze students' learning habits, it creates customized study plans to help children learn more efficiently and effortlessly.
Its goal is to solve problems of unequal resource distribution and lack of personalization in traditional education, ensuring every student receives high-quality educational support. The experienced founding team previously scaled consumer apps to 150 million users and developed products at Google Education, bringing deep expertise in edtech.
3.CollectiveScience ( @CollectiveSci)
Product Focus: Decentralized peer review tool
Project Twitter:https://x.com/@CollectiveSci
Overview:
CollectiveScience aims to tackle science’s long-standing problem—peer review—by leveraging blockchain to streamline the process, reducing delays, bias, and fraud. It's estimated that scientists globally spend up to $8 billion annually on peer review, yet efficiency and fairness remain major issues. The platform uses decentralized technology to enhance transparency and efficiency, minimize human interference, and ensure fairness and credibility. The founding team includes PhD scientists from Cambridge and engineers from IBM, with alumni from Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley, and Harvard.
The project aims to provide the global research community with a more efficient and fair peer review tool to elevate the quality of scientific research.
4.CreatorGen (@creatorgenapp)
Product Focus:AI-powered advertising and marketing tool
Project Twitter:https://x.com/creatorgenapp
Overview:
CreatorGen offers brands an AI-powered ad tool that generates realistic virtual avatars specifically designed for TikTok ads. Its technology produces lifelike digital personas tailored to short-form video platforms, enabling brands to quickly create eye-catching content while reducing costs. The founder previously led product teams at Uniswap and Revolut and developed software for AI and crypto startups, combining technical and business expertise.
5.FactCheck (@factcheckdotfun)
Product Focus: Decentralized AI fact-checking platform
Project Twitter:https://x.com/factcheckdotfun
Overview:
With misinformation rampant on social media, FactCheck leverages blockchain and AI to verify false claims via a decentralized marketplace, addressing the societal issue of widespread disinformation. By integrating stablecoin-based incentives, it encourages both users and AI agents to participate in fact-checking, ensuring information accuracy.
6.Fido (@fido_cm)
Product Focus: Low-barrier DeFi retail services
Project Twitter:https://x.com/fido_cm
Overview:
Fido aims to be a user-friendly bank for everyday people, using DeFi lending markets to deliver stable returns. Believing traditional savings accounts offer too little yield while investment markets carry too much risk, Fido seeks to let average users access DeFi returns while minimizing participation risks and solving inefficiencies in traditional finance. The team has risk management experience, having operated a similar startup managing $100 million in assets.
7.FreedomGPT (@FreedomGPT)
Product Focus:AI agent model matching intelligence
Project Twitter:https://x.com/FreedomGPT
Overview:
As the number of AI agent models explodes, FreedomGPT uses smart algorithms to match users with the best AI model for their needs, simplifying selection. Users get efficient AI services via simple prompts across use cases like text generation and data analysis. It aims to become the "intelligent intermediary" for AI services, improving user experience and lowering complexity. The founder previously built and sold a startup with nearly 400 employees, serving hundreds of millions of users.
8.grandmAIsters (@grandmaisters)
Product Focus:AI-agent-driven chess game
Project Twitter:https://x.com/grandmaisters
Overview:
grandmAIsters transforms chess into a crypto game where players train and compete against AI agents to earn tokens. Combining blockchain incentives with AI, it creates a new gaming experience. Players earn rewards by improving their AI agents’ chess skills.
9.Guess.Best(@playguessbest)
Product Focus: Cultural prediction platform
Project Twitter:https://x.com/playguessbest
Overview:
Guess.Best is a novel prediction market where users bet on which of two pop culture concepts or items is more popular. Using blockchain to ensure transparency and fairness, it combines social entertainment to engage users. The founders have a history of building creative crypto consumer products.
10.Junction (@JunctionFi)
Product Focus:Cross-chain asset trading platform
Project Twitter:https://x.com/JunctionFi
Overview:
Junction aims to become the "unified gateway" for cross-chain trading, fostering interoperability across blockchain ecosystems. It enables users to trade any asset on any chain, solving the complexity of cross-chain transactions. Through integrated technology, it simplifies user actions and improves transaction efficiency. Founders come from Ledger, WalletConnect, and Coinbase, bringing deep expertise in blockchain and payments.
11.Lemonade Payments (@lemonadepayment)
Product Focus: Payment infrastructure for Africa
Project Twitter:https://x.com/lemonadepayment
Overview:
Lemonade Payments targets pain points in African markets by integrating mobile payments, banking channels, and stablecoins, allowing fast sending, receiving, and conversion of funds—lowering fees and settlement times. It addresses Africa’s inadequate payment infrastructure by leveraging stablecoins to improve efficiency and meet demand for low-cost financial services. Its goal is to provide Africans with easier financial access through blockchain, advancing financial inclusion.
12.Offline Protocol (@offlineprotocol)
Product Focus: Offline communication and transaction services for special scenarios
Project Twitter:https://x.com/offlineprotocol
Overview:
Offline Protocol enables offline communication and transactions in disaster zones or crowded events, solving payment and communication challenges without internet access. Using blockchain, it ensures reliability and security for offline transactions in extreme conditions like natural disasters or large gatherings. The goal is to provide blockchain solutions for such scenarios, enhancing users’ financial and communication capabilities in emergencies. The founder has exited two startups, collaborated with UNICEF and WHO on policy, and worked on payment systems at Mastercard, bringing extensive experience.
13.Orbit (@orbitcryptoai)
Product Focus: DeFAI assistant
Project Twitter:https://x.com/orbitcryptoai
Overview:
Orbit is an AI assistant that helps users easily enter the DeFi space by simplifying yield farming and liquidity provision, delivering intuitive AI experiences and interfaces. It helps users manage crypto assets more efficiently, solving the complexity of DeFi operations.
14.Poof (@poofnew)
Product Focus:AI-powered dApp development platform
Project Twitter:https://x.com/poofnew
Overview:
Poof uses AI to help technical and non-technical users rapidly prototype, build, and deploy dApps, reducing complexity and technical barriers. Its AI tools streamline development, enabling broader participation in blockchain innovation. The goal is to democratize dApp development and accelerate blockchain adoption. The founder co-founded and successfully exited a startup, with backgrounds at AWS, Phantom, Coinbase, and Meta.
15.Ripe (@PayWithRipe)
Product Focus: Crypto payments for Asia
Project Twitter:https://x.com/PayWithRipe
Overview:
Ripe aims to promote crypto payment adoption in Asia, tackling low merchant acceptance. Capitalizing on the region’s widespread QR code payments, it connects crypto wallets to QR systems—users scan merchant codes to pay in crypto converted instantly to fiat, without requiring merchants to adopt new tech. By mapping wallet addresses to bank details, it simplifies payments and bridges the gap between crypto and traditional systems.
16.Seismic (@SeismicSys)
Product Focus: Privacy-preserving transaction payments
Project Twitter:https://x.com/SeismicSys
Overview:
Seismic aims to lead in privacy-focused payments by advancing privacy technology. Using advanced cryptography, it provides encrypted payment and transaction services for privacy-conscious individuals and enterprises. Ensuring secure transactions without exposing data, it suits financial and commercial environments requiring confidentiality. Founders studied cryptography at Stanford and worked in R&D at Google X and Apple, bringing strong technical credentials.
17.Slop Club (@slopdotclub)
Product Focus:AI-generated video platform
Project Twitter:https://x.com/slopdotclub
Overview:
Slop Club aims to drive innovation in user-generated content using AI, exploring new formats in short video. It intends to build a TikTok-like platform for AI-generated videos, where users can discover, interact with, and create AI-made content. With intuitive tools like prompt suggestions, media inputs, and preset effects, it lowers the barrier to AI video creation and attracts short-video enthusiasts. Its goal is to push UGC innovation and explore new short-video models via AI.
18.Wootzapp (@WootzApp)
Product Focus:AI data collection tool
Project Twitter:https://x.com/WootzApp
Overview:
Wootzapp solves AI companies’ training data shortages by building a browser capable of accessing private data, meeting the need for high-quality, non-public datasets. The platform enhances AI model performance by unlocking access to private data, overcoming a key bottleneck in the AI industry. The founder has over 10 years of experience in AI and payments and has successfully exited two startups.
19.Zabio (@Zabioapp)
Product Focus: Stablecoin trading in Latin America
Project Twitter:https://x.com/@Zabioapp
Overview:
Zabio helps Latin American users buy stablecoins with cash, addressing high dollar demand and widespread cash forex trading. It tackles dollar shortages and prevalent cash usage by offering convenient exchange via stablecoins, helping users protect assets in high-inflation environments. The founder has over 10 years of fintech experience in Latin America and understands regional dynamics. Zabio addresses real local needs and shows strong potential, though it must navigate complex regulations and cash-based economies.
20.Zynk Labs (@ZynkLabs)
Product Focus: Stablecoin cross-border settlement
Project Twitter:https://x.com/@ZynkLabs
Overview:
Zynk Labs aims to become a leading solution for cross-border payments, advancing stablecoin adoption in payments. It enables payment companies to achieve instant, capital-efficient multi-currency settlements, solving traditional cross-border payment delays and high costs. Leveraging blockchain to optimize settlement, it boosts efficiency for global payment providers. The founder has backgrounds at Harvard, Morgan Stanley, Amazon Pay, and Lendingkart—the largest B2B working capital lending platform in India—bringing solid financial and technical expertise.
Conclusion
From the latest batch of startups graduating from Alliance, the industry's main trajectory is no longer growing inward only but increasingly reaching real-world needs such as payments, education, short videos, and advertising. There is also growing attention to crypto adoption in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
In terms of AI project share, the integration of AI and blockchain remains one of the hottest directions for future crypto applications. The booming on-chain trading sector is also driving more trading platforms to fiercely compete across all dimensions—from transaction speed to user experience.
As always, Alliance DAO paves the way for these startups with precise narrative targeting and strong resource support. In the future, they may become market pillars just like Tensor, Pendle, and Pump.fun.
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