Perpetual Protocol distinguishes itself in the DeFi space by offering unique perpetual futures contracts. The platform's governance, driven by PERP token holders, combines community input with team oversight, encompassing a detailed process from proposal to vote, ensuring democratic decision-making. Financially, Perpetual Protocol has shown strength, raising $1.8 million in August 2020 from notable investors, including Multicoin Capital and Three Arrows Capital, showcasing its market credibility and potential for growth in the DeFi space.
Zapper is an onchain explorer that helps users manage their crypto and NFTs and discover new opportunities across multiple chains. Its mission is to make blockchains readable to everyone, creating universal access towards economic freedom. Zapper has no formal governance process or native token. It has raised $16.5m across two funding rounds.
RedStone is a decentralized oracle platform that provides reliable, frequently updated, and diverse data feeds for decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts across various blockchain networks. Its modular architecture supports both new and established dApps on trending Layer 1 and Layer 2 solutions, delivering non-standard data such as liquidity provider (LP) and staked tokens.
Talent Protocol leverages onchain technology to create visible, verifiable professional reputations, simplifying talent discovery and candidate assessment. Through aggregating data across platforms, it reduces hiring friction and opens avenues for innovative applications like under-collateralized lending. The $TALENT token supports the ecosystem by incentivizing users to maintain verified data, usable for visibility boosts, onchain services, and earning rewards. With 600 million tokens, Talent Protocol is backed by $3.5 million from investors like Protocol Labs and GSR.