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DRPC.ORG
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you going to build?:
We have already created DRPC.ORG and brought more cost-efficient and scalable RPC solution to Ethereum ecosystem. We combine 15+ providers under load balancing system for paid requests and enhance quality for free requests across the ecosystem, by combining available public nodes under our load balancer, for free, as a public goods. We also bring additional nodes to our Free tier via negotiations with web3 players and foundations.Subject of this Grant…
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DeSciWorld
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project Details
What are you going to build?: We are going to help bring Decentralised Science (DeSci) to the Optimism network by leveraging the DeSciWorld protocol, its DAO revenue and community.
DeSci entails building tools for science including research funding, publishing models, incentive mechanisms, data storage and handling protocols, organisation improvements and more, in order to improve research quality, accessibility and transparency.
DeSciWorld is currently building community…
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Concrete
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project Details
What are you going to build?:
Concrete is an open-source development framework for building application-specific "app-chain" rollups on the OP Stack--"the [...] open-source development stack that powers Optimism, maintained by the Optimism Collective."
Concrete abstracts developers away from the low-level complexity of building an app-chain on Optimism while enabling them to build novel decentralised applications.
I have been working on Concrete since the beggining of the…
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Cannon
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project Details
What are you going to build?:
Cannon is an infrastructure-as-code tool for EVM-compatible blockchains. (Think "Terraform for Ethereum") Why is what you are going to build going to succeed?:
We've been actively developing Cannon in parallel with Synthetix V3, so we understand the advanced use cases for a tool like this and have been iterating accordingly. We aim to make Cannon a staple in every protocol engineer's toolkit.
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Atlantis World
Created on Apr 8, 2024
"What are you going to build?:
We want to enable player groups to easily steward future proof (onchain = client agnostic) worlds that can act as community owned containers for any number of game or social experiences.
For the last 2 years at Atlantis World, we focused on onboarding the leading web3 orgs to build one central world that captures the energy & essence of the entire space as part of our gamified social onboarding platform.
We understood from our user activity that people don’t…
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Bring Aragon and Augmented Bonding Curves to Optimism
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project Details
What are you going to build?:
We will port the Aragon Client and our Commons Stack (CS) tooling to Optimism. This will enable projects to use the Aragon Client dapp to create and manage new DAOs on Optimism. They will also be able to use Commons Stack’s governance and market maker tooling such as Tao Voting and the Augmented Bonding Curve (ABC). We see that having accessible and trusted DAO formation and management tooling is an important piece for Optimism’s wider…
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Vesper Finance
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you building?: Vesper Finance is a multi-chain yield aggregator offering users secure opportunities to generate yield on their crypto assets in a non-custodial manner. Vesper emphasizes safety and simplicity with 50+ smart contract audits and a sleek, intuitive UI.
Why do you believe what you are building is going to succeed?:
We believe DeFi as a whole is still in its infancy, but that in the years ahead it will play a pivotal role in global finance. Everything we build is based…
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Threshold tBTC
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you building?
tBTC is a decentralized, permissionless, and censorship-resistant Bitcoin bridge. However, Bitcoin holders cannot leverage their BTC in the Optimism ecosystem in a trust-minimized way.
With the launch of tBTC v2 3 it’s now possible to bridge Bitcoin to Ethereum in a trust-minimized way. We propose a solution to bridge tBTC to Optimism in the near-term.
To make the user experience of bridging tBTC from L1 to Optimism as seamless as possible and to avoid the…
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RabbitHole
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you building?: RabbitHole is a token distribution platform that enables users to earn ERC20 tokens for completing on-chain tasks in various protocols. RabbitHole makes it easy for protocols to distribute tokens in quick, ad-hoc quests, all on-chain through its Quest Protocol.
Why do you believe what you are building is going to succeed?: We’ve already demonstrated success through Quests, and want to use the grant to supercharge efforts.
How many users does your project have…
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PayTrie
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you building?:
PayTrie is a stablecoin on/off ramp serving users in Canada. We provide the quickest, easiest and cheapest way to buy/sell stablecoins. We currently support stablecoins on ERC-20, BEP-20, Polygon, Arbitrum and SportX networks. This is the first time that users can buy stablecoins in Canada directly on the network of their choice, without having to jump through hoops/bridging etc. We are looking to make on/off ramping stablecoins onto Optimism just as easy for Canadian…
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Optiland Quests
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you building?:
Optiland NFT series consists of 4 NFT collections - Optimistic Bunnies, Pixel Bunnies, Optiland Citizens, and Sad Bunnies. Optimistic Bunnies NFT was the first NFT collection to deploy on Optimism. The 4 collections have around 9000 holders combined, making it one of the largest NFT communities on Optimism. We also donated more than 6ETH toward Optimism Public Goods Funding. We look to continue our collaboration with other dapp projects in the Optimism…
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Metalswap
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Metalswap is a decentralized hedging swap protocol that provides a tool for protecting assets from market volatility. This unique financial primitive is built from scratch and is currently unique in the DeFi market. The hedging swap tool is commonly used in centralized commodity markets such as the London Metal Exchange. Metalswap’s mission is to enable businesses to cover themselves from commodity price volatility using a DeFi approach. The tool is also useful for DeFi users who want to hedge…
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Fairmint
Created on Apr 8, 2024
"What are you building?
Fairmint 5 lets founders give their community skin in the game. Using smart-contracts, Fairmint developed a software stack that empowers founders to passively receive investments from their biggest fans and grant equity to anyone that adds value. All this onchain in a fully disintermediated and compliant way. Why do you believe what you are building is going to succeed?
Better user experience. Using Fairmint, founders can raise funds using USDC (on top of traditional…
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dForce
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you building?
dForce is a complete set of DeFi protocols covering assets, lending, and trading, serving as DeFi infrastructure in Web3.
Why do you believe what you are building is going to succeed?
dForce started off as a stablecoin protocol and developed into a complete ecosystem of DeFi protocols, breaking down the ‘silo’ barriers and allowing us to capitalize on liquidity, which is a much more efficient model than a standalone protocol seeking liquidity from the open…
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Another World
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you going to build?:
Another World is a cross-NFT-community open-world game with playable L1/L2 (Optimism) NFTs. In Another World, you can be an NFT avatar to reconnect with web3 friends, hunt treasures, and experiment with how to live inside a digital world. We are currently having small-scale play tests with NFT holders from BAYC, Azuki, CloneX, and OnChainMonkey
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Opti.domains
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you going to build?:
Our team is currently focused on creating an interoperable domain name for the OP Stack, aiming to enable each deployed chain to deploy its own web3 domain permissionlessly independently. This approach will facilitate seamless user onboarding from the main Optimism chain to the deployed chains. We have spent considerable time designing the domain model, with the primary objective of optimizing benefits for the Optimism community.
As a forward-thinking initiative,…
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Infinity Keys
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you going to build?:
Infinity Keys is a platform for fun, DaVinci Code-style challenges that create community engagement. There are 3 “Keys” to the platform.
A mystery puzzle game: Secret society-themed challenges, story, and community.
Play h ttps://www.infinitykeys.io/puzzle/the-society to advance to level 1 in IK Discord (claim reward NFT on Optimism).
This build proposal is to create a number of Infinity Keys core quests that exclusively mint rewardable NFTs on Optimism…
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Herodotus
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you going to build?:
Storage-proof verifiers that will allow smart contracts deployed on Optimism to access current and historical Ethereum on-chain data in a trustless manner.
These codebases would allow anyone to verify any past or current headers, state, and storage values of contracts deployed on Ethereum to other contracts deployed on Layer 2 chains in a trustless manner.
Why is what you are going to build going to succeed?:
Smart contracts on Optimism do not natively…
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Footprint Analytics
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you building?:
Footprint Analytics is a data platform blending web2 and web3 data with abstractions. We help analysts, builders, and investors turn blockchain data into insights with accessible visualization tools and a powerful multi-chain API across 20+ chains for NFTs, GameFi and DeFi. We also provide Footprint Growth Analytics to help with effective growth in GameFi and any web3 projects.
Why do you believe what you are building is going to succeed?:
Blockchain is still a…
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DeNotify
Created on Apr 8, 2024
What are you going to build?:
DeNotify is a Crypto Alert Engine. It allows users to create custom alerts that monitor blockchains 24/7 and trigger notifications receiving messages on various platforms.
Why is what you are going to build going to succeed?:
We launched RoboVault, a DeFi product in July 2021 and were one of the first protocols to successfully operate delta neutral strategies that protected against Impermanent Loss. During its active period, RoboVault generated over $2M…
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CharmVerse
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project Details
The solution for token communities to build relationships, work together and vote. Manage members, coordinate tasks, facilitate structured discussions & decisions, and hold each other accountable.
What are you going to build?:
With thousands of users already using CharmVerse, we want to extend our support to the Optimism ecosystem. Here are a couple of use cases directly applicable to Optimism:
Grant submission, voting and post-grant tracking
a) Reddit-like forum for…
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Chaintrap
Created on Apr 8, 2024
We will bring a simple dungeon game, Chaintrap, to Optimism Goerli. We are requesting a modest grant to achieve this. After the successful completion of this project, we anticipate to be well-positioned first (1) to deploy Chaintrap to mainnet and then (2) to bring a more ambitious project to Optimism: our ultimate goal is to build a multi-chain game development platform. With this project, we take a modest first step towards that ultimate goal.
Why propose a simple game project if our…
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AirGap Wallet
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Introduction:
AirGap is an secure and airgapped self-custody wallet solution which is completely open source and free to use. The solution is comprising of two applications:
AirGap Vault, installed on any mobile phone that is disconnected from the network (LTE, NFC, Bluetooth or WLAN) and hence transforms a dedicated or spare mobile device into an airgapped cold wallet. The Vault allows for random private key generation, secret storage, secret recovery and continuous check for connectivity…
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Via Protocol
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works): Via is a cross-chain liquidity aggregator that aims at solving much of the complexity of living in a multichain world by providing cheap, fast, and seamless any-to-any token swaps with a polished and intuitive interface with all info about built routes in one modal menu. Via Protocol is composed of two products: Via Router, Via SDK.
Via Router
Via performs any-to-any swaps within 30 seconds after automatically scanning over 70…
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The Optimistic Series
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works):
The optimistic Series is providing unique content exclusively about the DEFI Optimism Ecosystem that does not exist yet, as far as i know. It will include the following Educational contents:
The Optimistic Newsletter: A bi-weekly newsletter covering the following topics:
Governance/Technical updates
On-chain analysis
Project Update
Crypto Market review
Farming strategy: (being an Interactive community section where i select…
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Sonne Finance
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Sonne Finance is an EVM-compatible lending/borrowing protocol that launched on Optimism. Sonne Finance provides peer-to-peer lending solutions that are fully decentralized, transparent, and non-custodial.
Similar to (and based on) existing lending platforms, users can lend any supported assets on our platform and use their capital to borrow supported assets. Currently supported assets:
DAI
USDT
USDC
WETH
OP
sUSD
WBTC
SNX
wstETH
Sonne aims to be the prime lending platform on…
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Parcel
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works): Parcel is the marketplace for the next generation of gaming, designed to serve anyone seeking interactive virtual experiences. The platform enables users to buy and sell in-game items including rare collectibles, land, and other NFTs that have utility across web3 games and virtual worlds in the metaverse.
Our product offering:
1. Marketplace (B2C) — We currently support over 20 games & virtual worlds on ETH, and are in the…
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OPweave
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works): We propose an impartial third-party journalistic approach to improve awareness across the Optimism ecosystem. To do so, we will post a weekly blog and podcast to discuss current updates, active projects, contributions, and goals, as determined by Grants Council and community guidance.
Our team will be able to help aggregate and filter information for the wider community by:
1. Concisely presenting new projects that deploy on…
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Nested
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works):
The crypto world suffers from general over-complication and unbearable user experience that dissuade people from getting involved.
Nested is a crypto trading/investing platform that breaks that trend by revolutionizing the accessibility to web3 in a way that is unprecedentedly simple, social and safe.
We provide a tool that enables people who know about crypto, and those who do not, to make money off each other in a way that is…
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Crypto LFDM
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works): We are two French content creators who have been actively producing videos since 2017. Initially, our channel focused on ETH mining. However, for the past year, we have shifted our focus to creating educational content on DeFi and specifically on the Cosmos ecosystem, and ETH ecosystem
We are doing various content, on how to use wallets, how to use dex, how to choose a validator, but also some more general topics on ETH, L2 and…
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Metronomo
Created on Apr 8, 2024
"Project description (please explain how your project works): We are building Web3-native Programmatic Ad Network. And as a part of it, we want to create and share with community an open-source user growth tool to help web3 startups acquire and retain users with high efficiency.
This product will allow accomplish 3 main things:
- track power users (the most valuable users) of a smart contract (by mapping smart contract methods and arguments to an engagement scoring model)
- create…
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Front-running protection via shielded mempool for OP Stack using threshold encryption
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works):
TL;DR:
The overarching goal of this grant is to propose to Optimism DAO to evaluate (and at a later stage implement) how to implement front-running and censorship protection via a shielded/encrypted mempool by threshold encrypting transactions until they’re signed by the sequencer.
The problem we’re aiming to solve:
Front-running and censorship are huge threats to the base layer neutrality of Ethereum and the L2…
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ENS Wildcard Domains
Created on Apr 8, 2024
We are building tools that enable NFT communities on Optimism acquire ENS sub-domains at zero cost. This is accomplished via utilizing an ENS feature called wildcard resolution. Our suite of tools allows anyone with an ENS name to link it to a collection and provide the NFT holders with free subdomains that are immediately compatible with popular wallets e.g Metamask & Trust wallet. Developers will also be able to utilize our open-source tools to build collection-specific ENS integrations
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Edge Wallet
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Our project is an integration of Optimism, Velodrome and Tarot in Edge, a self custody platform, where key management and DeFi are simplified. Our platform can provide a frictionless UI/UX for users to utilize Optimism, Velodrome, and LP staking on Tarot, in a secure, and simplified platform. We can replace the many steps and difficulties that are in most DeFi apps/websites, and provide access to the Optimism ecosystem in a familiar way, and comparable to what users are used to with TradFi and…
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DeFunds 21
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works): DeFunds will connect investors to the world’s most seasoned and talented cryptocurrency assets managers (in a censorship-resistant and non-custodial way). We connect Investors with experienced managers and provide automated strategies in DeFi. Managers create Funds through the DeFunds factory. Each Fund is its own contract.
Funds operating on each chain are restricted to trading and depositing specific whitelisted assets, along…
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Atomic Links
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Project description (please explain how your project works): We are building infrastructure to enable developers to connect web2 and web3 applications, including a selection of common white-labelled contracts. Our solution will be one simple API/SDK for engineers and a no-code web app for non-engineers to create automated web2/3 workflows. This simplifies the creation of workflows and repetitive tasks, such as transaction orchestration, user profiling, community incentives, CRM, handling…
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WePiggy
Created on Apr 8, 2024
WePiggy is a multi-chain lending protocol, launched on 11 networks, our TVL is around 80M-100M, borrowing volume around 30-40 million.
We’re the first and the largest lending protocol of Optimism for a long time, the total supply market size reached $10M.
Thanks to Optimism Collective for giving us this opportunity to share the governance fund.
Our Goals
WePiggy core development team hopes to use the funds carefully to achieve the following goals.
Participate in the construction…
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Aave
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Aave is a decentralized non-custodial liquidity market protocol where users can participate as depositors or borrowers. Aave v3 was deployed on Optimism two months ago and the current TVL is $7m. The goal of this proposal is to explain how to use this grant to increase the growth on Aave and the Optimism Ecosystem
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Gelato Network
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Gelato is web3’s leading smart contract automation protocol. We provide a decentralised network of bots used by web3 developers to automate smart contract executions on public EVM compatible blockchains - including Optimism. Our products include:
Gelato Ops 16 - smart contract automation hub
Relay SDK - simple API for transaction relaying (e.g.meta transactions)
DEX Trading SDK - limit orders and other advanced order types for DEXs such as Uniswap v3
We have already helped execute close to…
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Slingshot
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Slingshot (https://slingshot.finance/ 46) is a web3 trading platform that aggregates liquidity on networks like Ethereum, to offer the best prices on thousands of crypto assets. The trading platform combines the performance and ease of centralized exchanges, with the openness and transparency of blockchains. Slingshot users connect their web3 wallet to start trading, allowing them to keep privacy and control over their assets. Real-time market data and charts are available for each token, and a…
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1inch Network
Created on Apr 8, 2024
1inch has been part of the Optimism chain since the initial launch of the network and was one of the first dapps deployed.
1inch is best described as a network of decentralized protocols designed to provide the fastest and most efficient operations in the DeFi space. It was launched in tandem with the release of its Aggregation Protocol V1. Since then, 1inch Network has developed additional DeFi tools such as the Liquidity Protocol, Limit Order Protocol, P2P transactions, and 1inch Mobile…
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Clipper
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Clipper is a decentralized exchange for retail traders built by Shipyard Software and customized for Optimism. Since launching on Optimism at the beginning of February, Clipper has had more than $30 million in volume. Shipyard Software is an exchange group that develops specialized DEXes. Soon, Shipyard Software will be releasing a second DEX on Optimism for derivatives.
Goals
Clipper has the following goals in mind:
Bring more developers and builders into the Optimism…
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Layer2DAO
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Introduction to Layer2DAO
Layer2DAO 41 is expanding the Ethereum L2 ecosystem and investing in L2 ecosystem projects. The DAO uses its treasury to invest into high-impact L2 protocols and ecosystem plays, serving as a diversified venture fund for investors looking to gain exposure to the L2 ecosystem growth. It may also provide liquidity, depositing, and staking in the future, perpetually reinvesting proceeds back into the DAO.
Layer2DAO will also provide incentives for users to move their…
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Connext
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Connext (connext.network) is a cross chain protocol that allows users to quickly and inexpensively transfer tokens and data across chains, and builders to create secure cross chain applications. It’s intended for high-frequency transfers and works by leveraging liquidity pools provided by routers on the sending and receiving chains without introducing any new trust assumption. Connext has been the first protocol to connect Optimism and Arbitrum in a trustless way back in 2020.
The current…
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Pika Protocol
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Pika Protocol is one of the earliest Optimism native projects launched since December 2021. Pika Protocol has achieved close to $400m trading volume with over 10k unique user addresses for the past 3 months. It has brought a large number of users to Optimism and will continue to do so. Pika aims to distribute $OP governance fund tokens to not only grow its own user base, but also continue to drive the adoption of the Optimism ecosystem
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Kwenta Protocol
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Kwenta will use the Optimism token to draw traders who are active on other chains to make the transition to trading on Optimism with Kwenta as well as reward DAO Contributors for existing and future contributions
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Polynomial Protocol
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Polynomial provides automated option strategies for its users. As an Optimism native project, Polynomial has a direct interest in the overall success of Optimism. By receiving an allocation from the $OP governance fund, Polynomial will seek to benefit its users and the adoption of the entire Optimism ecosystem.
Goals
Polynomial has the following goals in mind:
1. Bring more users into the Optimism ecosystem.
2. Improve accessibility/visibility to our vaults
3. Increase TVL
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Aelin Protocol
Created on Apr 8, 2024
No description available
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Thales
Created on Apr 8, 2024
As one of the first projects on Optimism and as an Optimism-first project, Thales has a direct interest in the overall success of Optimism. By receiving an allocation from the $OP governance fund, Thales will seek to increase not only its own user base, but the adoption of the entire Optimism ecosystem as well
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Zipswap
Created on Apr 8, 2024
Zipswap is a DEX designed to reduce gas fees on optimistic rollups by compressing calldata. Development and incentives are currently active only on the Optimism chain.
We are working to implement Optimism-native novel AMM mechanisms and innovative tokenomics, which seek to:
better enable market-driven price discovery
deepen liquidity across the network
assist new Optimism projects in bootstrapping liquidity
create new DeFi primitives
provide a fast, easy, and cheap means of swapping…
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