Usecase Database

AtlantisDAO

Social impact & Sustainability

Asset exchange

Unknown

Asia

About

AtlantisDAO is a web3 community organized around social impact and sustainability initiatives. Mercy Corps Ventures (”MCV”) partnered with AtlantisDAO to build a network for verifying and accessing clean water. The pilot will focus on 45,000 people across five remote villages in the Chikmagalur district of Karnataka, India.

MCV Case Study

4K

4K is a platform that bridges asset ownership across physical and digital goods.

Aave

Aave allows users to earn interest and borrow assets without any intermediaries.

AnotherBlock

AnotherBlock is a marketplace for users to share royalties with the artists they’re streaming. Artists like Rihanna have already joined the platform.

Balancer

Balancer is a decentralized automated market maker (”AMM”) that represents a flexible building block for programmable liquidity.

Beefy

Beefy is a decentralized, multi-chain yield optimizer platform that maximizes rewards from various liquidity pools (LPs),‌ ‌automated market making (AMM) projects,‌ ‌and‌ ‌other yield‌ farming ‌opportunities in the DeFi ecosystem.

Bitnomial

Bitnomial is one of two CFTC-regulated futures and options exchanges for Bitcoin.

Candy

Candy is an NFT marketplace and ecosystem. Candy works directly with athletes, artists and content owners on developing their NFT projects. They have partnerships with brands like Major League Baseball, Netflix, WWE, among others.

Coinversation

Coinversation is a DeFi and cross-chain crowdfunding platform that began as a synthetic asset protocol.

Compound

Compound connects lenders and borrowers - by way of smart contracts, not intermediaries - using incentives paid in cryptocurrency.

Courtyard

Courtyard allows users to verify the authenticity of physical collectibles - by shipping and storing them in secured vaults - and turn them into digital collectibles to trade and earn passive income. Courtyard partnered with Brink’s (an American private security and protection company) to ensure the security of the physical asset storage.

Cozy Finance

Cozy Finance is building a protocol that would protect users against financial risks (like hacks or scams) when engaging with DeFi.

Curve

Curve Finance is an automated market maker (”AMM”) that maintains low fees and low slippage by only accommodating liquidity pools made up of similarly behaving assets. Curve DEX is a decentralized exchange (”DEX”). crvUSD is a collateralized-debt-position (CDP) stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar.

DerivaDEX

DerivaDEX is a decentralized derivatives exchange where the community owns the insurance fund backing the trading activity.

DraftKings

DraftKings, an American sports betting company, has launched three main initiatives using the blockchain. 1. “DraftKings Marketplace” is a digital collectibles marketplace where users can buy, sell, and access exclusive NFTs from sports, entertainment, and culture using their existing DraftKings account. Many iconic athletes — including Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles and Derek Jeter — have already launched their own NFT collections on this Marketplace. 2. “DraftKings Reignmakers” offers gamified athlete cards (as NFTs) licensed by the NFLPA, PGA TOUR, and UFC, which can be used in various fantasy contests based on athletes' real-life performances. As of August 9th, 2023, this NFT collection has reached $4.5M daily trading volume. 3. DraftKings also partnered with Zero Hash, a B2B digital assets infrastructure provider, to stake digital assets and become a Polygon network validator.

dYdX

dYdX is decentralized exchange platform where users can margin trade cryptocurrencies and perpetual contracts. At the time of writing this, in the past 24 hours, dYdX had $1.7+ billion trading volume, 620,000+ trades, and $256+ million open interest.

Fordefi Wallet

Fordefi is an institutional-grade, multi-party computation wallet that allows institutions to securely transact, trade, lend, stake, and vote in DeFi protocols.

Hashflow

Hashflow is a liquidity protocol that allows market makers to source liquidity and price assets using off-chain pricing functions, enabling greater capital efficiency.

Hourglass

Hourglass released the first-ever marketplace to trade Time-Bound Tokens (”TBTs”) that tokenize a user's staked assets in a DeFi protocol based on its lock-up time period.

HydraDX

HydraDX is a decentralized exchange (”DEX”).

iomob

iomob aims to create a mobility-as-a-service platform based on blockchain technology, whereby mobility service providers can “plug in” and offer their services.

KnownOrigin

KnownOrigin is an NFT marketplace. It was acquired by eBay in 2022.

Kresko

Kresko is building a synthetic assets protocol that is accessible on a mobile phone.

Magic Eden

Magic Eden is the leading NFT marketplace on Solana.

Membrane Labs

Membrane Labs is a digital asset management solution offering OTC trading and cross-custodial clearing and settlement to institutions.

Mirror

Mirror is a decentralized publishing platform that allows writers to tokenize their work and users to collect it.

NBA Top Shot

Dapper Labs partnered with the NBA to create NBA Top Shot - an NFT marketplace - for digital media from NBA players or teams.

Nifty Gateway

Nifty Gateway — owned by Gemini — is an NFT marketplace that hosted art by artists like Beeple, Pak, Refik Anadol, among others. It shut down operations in August 2023.

OAK Network

OAK Network provides trustless automation for payments and finance infrastructure in Web3 (e.g., scheduling future transactions and auto-trading).

Obligate

Obligate is a blockchain-based debt securities protocol. Muff Trading AG, a Swiss physical commodities trading boutique specializing in sourcing precious metals and raw materials from South America, issued corporate bonds using Obligate’s platform. Lamar Olive Oil has also issued an on-chain bond using Obligate.

OmniBTC

OmniBTC is a decentralized multichain liquidity aggregation protocol that connects and integrates decentralized exchanges (”DEXs”) and bridges, enabling composable cross-chain DeFi transactions.

OneOf

OneOf is an NFT marketplace. eBay partnered with OneOf to launch an NFT collection called “Genesis” that features animated 3D renditions of Sports Illustrated athletes with the first one being Wayne Gretzky.

OpenGrants

OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of grant experts. It launched its digital securities - $GRANT offering - on the Ethereum blockchain.

OpenSea

OpenSea is the largest NFT marketplace on Ethereum. It has formed a number of large partnerships and hosts projects from major brands such as: Twitter, Meta/Instagram, Givenchy, Adobe, Stella Artois, Ralph Lauren, among others.

Osmosis

Osmosis is the leading decentralized exchange on Cosmos. It has $113+ million in total value locked, $15 million in 24 hour trading volume, and 1000+ interchain transfers.

Parallel

Parallel hosts a multichain wallet, borrowing & lending, swaps, staking, cross-chain functionality, and newer Web3 innovations such as DAO-Fi and infrastructure for decentralized organizations to manage finances. It has $187+ million total value locked and 300+ total users.

Parcl

Parcl is a noncustodial automated market maker (”AMM”) designed for perpetual synthetic assets - real estate - that cannot otherwise support liquid trading markets.

Phoenix

Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book that is on-chain and non-custodial.

PolkaDEX

PolkaDEX is a decentralized exchange (”DEX”).

Primitive

Primitive built the Replicating Market Maker ("RMM") protocol, an oracle-free solution for replicating derivative payoffs.

Propy

Propy is a global real estate marketplace that lets users buy and sell homes on Web3 technology.

Quickswap

Quickswap is a decentralized exchange “(”DEX”).

Rarible

Rarible is an aggregated NFT marketplace.

Recur

Recur is an NFT marketplace that mints popular brand figures - like those on Nickelodeon and Star Trek - into digital collectibles for consumers.

Royal

Royal is a marketplace for discovering, investing, and trading music. Artists like Nas, Diplo, and The Chainsmokers have already joined the platform.

Saber

Saber is an automated market maker (”AMM”) for trading assets on Solana

Saddle

Saddle is an automated market maker (”AMM”) optimized for pegged-value crypto assets (”stablecoins”). It has $2.2+ billion in cumulative volume, $11+ million in total value locked, and 3,000+ total token holders.

Slingshot

Slingshot is a decentralized trading platform.

SushiSwap

SushiSwap is decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform (a “decentralized exchange” or “DEX”).

Sweet

Sweet is an NFT marketplace for collectibles. It has formed a number of large parternships. One of them was with Macy’s for its Thanksgiving Day Parade, which generated ~250,000 sales that was donated to Make-A-Wish. Additional partnerships include: Build-A-Bear, Old Navy, New York Knicks, among others.