A List of the Latest 20 Encryption Startups Graduated from Alliance

Recently, 20 startup encryption companies successfully "graduated" from a well-known accelerator. Among them, 9 projects are driven by AI technology, 5 projects focus on stablecoins and payment tracks, and the remaining projects concentrate on on-chain transactions, DeFi, scientific and cultural development, and other fields.

Here are the introductions of these 20 startups:

1. 8020

Product Direction: Multi-Chain Trading Platform

8020 aims to create a trading platform suitable for Asian users by optimizing the front-end interface and on-chain support to meet the Asian market's demand for efficient on-chain trading. The platform seeks to address the existing trading platforms' insufficient user experience for Asian users, providing more intuitive operations and localized support.

The founding team has three years of experience in developing encryption consumption applications, having launched two native encryption applications with a total of 150,000 users. The goal of 8020 is to attract more Asian users to participate in encryption trading through technological innovation and localization strategies.

2. Afterschool

Product Direction: AI-driven Tutoring Education Platform

Afterschool hopes to leverage AI to transform K-12 education by providing personalized AI tutoring for school-aged children, replacing traditional classroom teaching. By analyzing students' learning habits through AI, tailored learning plans will be created to enhance learning efficiency.

Its goal is to address the issues of uneven distribution of traditional educational resources and insufficient personalization, allowing every student to receive high-quality educational support. The founding team has extensive experience, having expanded consumer applications to 150 million users and developed products in Google Education, possessing a strong background in the education technology field.

3. CollectiveScience

Product Direction: Decentralized "Peer Review" Tool

CollectiveScience is committed to addressing the issue of peer review in the scientific community. The project attempts to optimize this process using blockchain technology, reducing delays, biases, and fraud in the review process. The platform leverages decentralized technology to enhance the transparency and efficiency of the review, minimizing human intervention and ensuring the fairness and credibility of the review.

The founding team consists of alumni from Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley, and Harvard, including Cambridge PhD scientists and IBM engineers. The project aims to provide the global research community with more efficient and fair review tools to enhance the quality of scientific research.

4. CreatorGen

Product Direction: AI-driven Advertising Marketing Tool

CreatorGen provides AI advertising tools for brand marketing teams, using AI technology to create realistic virtual avatars specifically for short video ads. CreatorGen's technology can generate lifelike virtual characters that meet the needs of short video platforms. It helps brands quickly produce eye-catching advertising content while saving costs.

The founder previously led product teams at a well-known exchange and fintech company, and developed software for AI and encryption startups, possessing rich technical and business experience.

5. FactCheck

Product Direction: Decentralized AI Rumor Refutation Platform

FactCheck utilizes blockchain and AI technology to verify false information on social media through a decentralized marketplace, aiming to address the social issue of large-scale fake news dissemination. The platform combines a stablecoin market incentive mechanism to encourage users and AI agents to participate in fact-checking, ensuring the authenticity of information.

6. Fido

Product Direction: Low-threshold DeFi Retail Services

Fido is committed to becoming a user-friendly new financial service provider for ordinary users, bringing stable returns through the DeFi lending market. They believe that the savings account yields of traditional banks are too low, while the investment market carries higher risks. Fido hopes to allow ordinary users to enjoy the benefits of DeFi through DeFi technology, while also reducing participation risks and addressing the inefficiencies of traditional financial services.

The team has risk management experience and has operated a similar startup with assets under management of up to 100 million dollars.

7. FreedomGPT

Product Direction: AI Agent Model Intelligent Matching

FreedomGPT matches users with the most suitable AI models for their needs through intelligent algorithms, simplifying the selection process. The platform allows users to obtain efficient AI services through simple prompts, covering various application scenarios such as text generation and data analysis.

Its goal is to become an "intelligent intermediary" for AI services, enhancing user experience and reducing the complexity of using AI. The founder previously created and sold a startup with nearly 400 employees, whose products served hundreds of millions of users.

8. grandmAIsters

Product Direction: AI Agent Driven Chess Game

grandmAIsters transforms chess into an encryption game, where players can train and compete against AI agents, earning token rewards. The project combines the incentive mechanisms of blockchain with AI technology to create a brand new gaming experience. Players earn rewards by enhancing the chess skills of the AI agents.

9. Guess.Best

Product Direction: Cultural Creative Forecasting Platform

Guess.Best is an innovative prediction market where users participate by guessing which of two popular cultural concepts or things is more favored. The platform utilizes blockchain technology to ensure the transparency and fairness of predictions, attracting users by combining social entertainment elements. The founders have extensive experience in collaboratively developing creative encryption consumer products.

10. Junction

Product Direction: Cross-Chain Asset Trading Platform

The goal of Junction is to become the "unified entry point" for cross-chain transactions, promoting the interoperability of the blockchain ecosystem. It allows users to trade any asset on any chain, addressing the complexity of cross-chain transactions. The platform simplifies user operations and enhances trading efficiency through integrated technology.

The founders come from several well-known blockchain companies and have extensive experience in the blockchain and payment fields.

11. Lemonade Payments

Product Direction: Payment Infrastructure Targeting the African Region

Lemonade Payments focuses on the pain points of the African market by integrating mobile payments, banking channels, and stablecoins for the African market, allowing users to quickly send, receive, and convert funds, reducing costs and shortening settlement times. The platform addresses the issue of inadequate payment infrastructure in Africa, leveraging stablecoin technology to enhance payment efficiency and meet the demand for low-cost financial services in the region.

Its goal is to provide more convenient financial services for African users through blockchain technology, promoting financial inclusion.

12. Offline Protocol

Product Direction: Offline Communication and Transaction Services in Special Scenarios

The Offline Protocol supports users to conduct offline communication and transactions in disaster areas or crowded onsite events, aiming to solve payment and communication issues in a no-network environment. The platform utilizes blockchain technology to ensure the reliability and security of offline transactions, suitable for special scenarios such as natural disasters or large-scale events.

Its goal is to provide blockchain solutions for specific scenarios, enhancing users' financial and communication capabilities in extreme environments. The founder has successfully exited startups twice, collaborated with UNICEF and the World Health Organization to formulate policies, and has extensive experience working on payment system development at a global payment company.

13. Orbit

Product Direction: DeFAI Assistant

Orbit is an AI assistant that helps users quickly get started in the DeFi space, simplifying operations for yield farming and providing liquidity, offering an intuitive AI experience and user interface. It helps users manage their encryption assets more efficiently, solving the complex issues of DeFi operations.

14. Poof

Product Direction: AI-driven dApp Development Platform

Poof uses AI technology to help both technical and non-technical users quickly prototype, build, and deploy dApps, reducing the complexity and technical barriers of dApp development. The platform simplifies the development process through AI tools, allowing more people to participate in the innovation of the blockchain ecosystem.

The goal is to empower through technology, promote the proliferation of dApp development, and accelerate the growth of blockchain applications. The founders have previously successfully exited from a startup and have backgrounds in several well-known technology companies.

15. Ripe

Product Direction: Crypto Payment Targeting Asia

The goal of Ripe is to promote the popularization of encryption payments in the Asian market and address the issue of low acceptance of encryption payments. In response to the trend of QR payment popularization in Asia, it connects encryption wallets to QR payment systems, allowing users to complete payments from encryption to fiat currency by scanning the merchant's QR code, without the need for merchants to adopt new technologies.

The platform simplifies the payment process by creating wallet addresses that match bank information, reducing the barriers between encryption payments and traditional payments.

16. Seismic

Product Direction: Privacy Protection Transaction Payment

Seismic's goal is to become a leading solution in the field of privacy-protected payments, promoting the application of privacy technology. Seismic uses new encryption technologies to provide encryption payment and transaction services for privacy-conscious businesses and individuals. It ensures transaction security without compromising privacy, suitable for confidential scenarios such as finance and commerce.

The founder of the team studied encryption at Stanford and has worked in the R&D departments of several well-known technology companies, with a strong technical background.

17. Slop Club