| Aleph Zerosite | Privacy-focused L1 (Substrate WASM) with EVM layer | Aleph Zero (Substrate WASM + EVM) | Foundation broke a six-month silence with a community update on 2025-11-25: mainnet kept running, DAO transition to a Swiss Association, RISC-V work, and an idOS KYC partnership · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| AlphaFi Lendingsite | Lending / yield optimizer | Sui | AlphaFi announced the wind-down of AlphaLend on 2026-09-25 after an ALPHA oracle misconfiguration created bad debt; the Sui Foundation covered the shortfall (reported Sep 26, 2026). Earlier, AlphaFi was named Diamond Sponsor of Sui Basecamp on 2026-09-03. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Ammalgamsite | DeFi lending + trading (DLEX), yield vaults | Ethereum | Mainnet launch of Ammalgam strategy Vaults, reported by The Block on 2026-03-13; Blockworks token transparency filing dated 2026-08-11 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Argus Worldsite | Launchpad | Arc | Launched alongside Arc public mainnet; $ARGUS became tradable and peaked ~$30M market cap on 2026-09-16 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Blastsite | Ethereum L2 (optimistic, native yield) | Blast (81457) / Ethereum | Blast said on 2026-10-02 that it is shutting down the L2 because operating costs exceed revenue. The normal withdrawal interface stays up until 2026-10-26. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Cozy Earnsite | Insurance / DeFi protection; Euler vault curation | Ethereum | Cozy USDC Euler vault (configured by Cozy Finance) live, tracking data starts 2026-01-06 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Creditsite | Lending (undercollateralized stablecoin microloans) | World Chain | May 2026: founder Diego Estevez (Divine Research) published 'Unsecured Lending via Delegated Underwriting' on arXiv (2605.03307); Nascent job board states Credit has issued over one million unsecured loans to 900,000+ borrowers. Seed: $6.6M led by Paradigm announced 2025-09-25. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Credit Coopsite | Uncollateralized lending / onchain receivables financing | Ethereum, Base | Visa onchain credit for stablecoin card programs, with financing from Credit Coop, announced 2026-09-08 (followed a $4.5M seed led by Maven 11 and Lightspeed Faction on 2025-08-29) · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Everythingsite | DeFi: AMM + oracle-less lending | Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain | Rebrand from SmarDex to Everything and EV token TGE; EV listed on Kraken and other exchanges at $100M FDV, May 2026 (2026-05-12) · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Feathersite | DeFi lending / Morpho vault risk curator | Sei, Celo, Kaia, MegaETH, Polygon, Ethereum | Lead vault curator for Morpho's launch on Celo, announced 2026-02-26; Feather Vaults & Interface on Morpho introduced Jun 2026 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Flamingo Finance (Flamingo Lend)site | DeFi lending / FUSD stablecoin / DEX | Neo N3 | Open letter disputing support from NGD and the Neo Foundation, published 2026-04-22; staking-contract exploit that minted about 2.19T FLM, 2026-08-31. Earlier: FLM delisted from Binance spot 2025-11-12 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Hypersurfacesite | DeFi options / structured products (covered calls, cash-secured puts) | HyperEVM (Hyperliquid L1), Base | Acquired Acre to launch the Hypersurface Bitcoin Premium Income vault (HSBPI), 2026-06-23 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Kasusite | RWA private credit / uncollateralized lending | Base, Plume, XDC | Most recent dated event found: XDC Ventures led a funding round with a $1M investment, 2025-09-01 (just before the window). As of Oct 2026 the home page lists 'The Kasu Card' as coming soon and shows $17.48M lent in total. No dated event inside Oct 2025 to Oct 2026 was confirmed. · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| LeverUpsite | Derivatives (LP-free perps DEX) | Monad | Launched on Monad, backed by Makers Fund, Nov 2025 (crypto.news 2025-11-07); $LV CAKE.PAD sale 2025-12-17; V2 launch 2026-08-02 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Lorenzo Protocolsite | BTC liquid staking / on-chain asset management (stBTC, enzoBTC, USD1+ OTFs) | BNB Chain; Bitcoin (via Babylon) | BANK token spot listing on Binance (seed tag) Nov 13, 2025 (2025-11-13) · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Mt Pelerinsite | Self-custodial crypto-fiat exchange / on-off ramp (Bridge Wallet) | Ethereum | Launched the Swissgrams Gold (SGG) token 2026-10-01; personal crypto IBAN launched 2025-12-02 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| OORT (Oort Mainnet)site | Decentralized AI data cloud / DePIN | OORT Mainnet (chain id 970) | OORT launched RLHF services, completed a 2.0M $OORT Q4 2025 token burn and announced its 2026 roadmap in the OORT Insider of 2026-02-06 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| OP Mainnetsite | Ethereum L2 / OP Stack rollup infrastructure (OP Enterprise) | OP Mainnet (chain id 10), Ethereum L2 | ether.fi went live on OP Mainnet, the largest single TVL event in OP Mainnet history, 2026-04-15. Later: OP Enterprise added Soneium on 2026-09-30. · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Phantomsite | Wallet | Solana, Ethereum, Base, Sui, Monad, Hyperliquid | Phantom Prediction Markets launched in partnership with Kalshi, announced 2025-12-12 (Phantom Cash stablecoin launched Sep/Oct 2025) · Oct 2026 | 5 on Scale |
| Rho X LP Vaultsite | Yield / on-chain rates derivatives | Ethereum | Rho X became first on-chain venue on BitGo's Go Network, 2026-03-18; USD SOFR futures launched on Rho X 2026-08-31 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Sablier Flowsite | Payments / token streaming | Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Optimism, Polygon and other EVM chains | Sablier Labs stopped active development and entered maintenance mode 2026-07-13 (operations maintained through June 2028) · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| SagaEVMsite | L1 / chainlet infrastructure (EVM chain), company now pivoted to AI characters | SagaEVM (chain id 5464), Saga protocol (Cosmos-based) | Saga sold its crypto arm: operation of the Saga blockchain network (incl. SagaEVM) transferred to Alapin Holdings (dao5 family) and Saga AI Labs launched, 2026-06-01. Earlier, SagaEVM was paused after a ~$7M exploit on 2026-01-21. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Stabull Financesite | DEX / AMM for stablecoins and RWAs | Polygon, Base, Ethereum | Stabull Governance platform launched (Snapshot voting for $STABUL holders) Mar 2026 (2026-03-21) · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Storm Tradesite | DeFi perpetuals DEX (crypto, FX, commodities, equities) inside Telegram | TON | Treasury allocation (14.44%, 144.38M STORM) unlocked 2026-01-16, per the Coinlaunch vesting schedule. This is weak: the page returned 403 and the fact comes from search results only. Docs list Storm Instant Trading (V3) as current, but no launch date was found. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Sui Foundation / Mysten Labssite | Layer 1 blockchain (Move) | Sui | Mysten Labs announced the Verifiable Agent Arbiter with Google Cloud in Oct 2026; Sui Basecamp 2026 held 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-08 in Singapore · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| TAU Labssite | DeFi risk curation / vault curator | Base, Ethereum, Flow, Plasma | Founder interview on Trading Strategy podcast 2026-06-24: TAU Labs vault curator with >$100M TVL (also DeFi Drop podcast 24 Mar 2026) · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Tea Protocol (Tea Mainnet)site | Open-source software rewards / developer infrastructure (Proof of Contribution) | Tea Mainnet, an OP Stack L2 (chain id 6122); TEA token trades on Base/Aerodrome | Mainnet launched 2026-06-04, with TEA trading on Aerodrome, MEXC, Gate and KuCoin (press release dated Jun 2026) · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Templesite | DEX / institutional CLOB exchange | Canton | $5M seed round led by Paper Ventures 2025-10-16 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| TidalDexsite | DEX (Uniswap V2 fork, zero trading fees) | BNB Smart Chain | No dated event between Oct 2025 and Oct 2026 found. DefiLlama and AlphaGrowth list TidalDex (CZB token) on BSC with about $90K TVL as of 2026. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| TTcoin Smart Chain Mainnetsite | L1 blockchain / payments token | TTcoin Smart Chain (chain id 330844); TC also on TRON TRC-20 and BNB Chain | Home page names a 2026 roadmark for TTcoin Network (no dated 2025-2026 event found) · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Typus Perpsite | Derivatives (perps, options vaults) | Sui | Typus Perps relaunched with a TLP pre-deposit phase on Jan 28 2026 after the 2025-10-15 TLP oracle exploit (~$3.44M) · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| UltraYield Curatorsite | DeFi vault curation / risk curator | Ethereum, Hyperliquid L1, Etherlink, Base, Monad, Plasma, Arbitrum, Plume, TAC, Linea, Optimism | UltraYield-curated Kelp High Gain vault with embedded Nexus Mutual cover (first DeFi vault with integrated cover) announced 2026-01-29 · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Valossite | RWA / institutional digital asset private credit and yield | Monad | Launched real-time verified institutional credit vault on Monad with $100M allocated, $200M target (built with Accountable, AUSD) 2026-02-17 · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Whitechainsite | Ethereum Layer 2 (OP Stack), exchange-backed ecosystem chain of W Group / WhiteBIT | Whitechain (OP Stack L2 on Ethereum, chain id 1875) | Relaunched as W Group's distribution-first Ethereum Layer 2 on the OP Stack, with a Builders Program offering up to $300K per app, 2026-08-18 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| 3Janesite | Uncollateralized lending / credit-based money market (USD3) | Ethereum | Launched public USD3 deposits and a JANE token liquidity mining program, announced 2026-06-11. Separately, the $60M purchase of embedded finance loans from Slope was reported Jul 2026. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Aegis YUSDsite | Stablecoin / basis trading (delta-neutral BTC-backed stablecoin YUSD) | Ethereum, BNB Chain | Partnership with Babylon Labs and Aave v4 for fixed-rate borrowing on native Bitcoin collateral announced 2026-06-25 (product expected Q4 2026) · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Avalanche (Ava Labs / Avalanche Foundation)site | Layer 1 / L1 infrastructure (Avalanche9000 L1s) | Avalanche C-Chain (43114) + Avalanche L1s | Ava Labs leadership restructuring: COO Charley Cooper promoted to President, Lydia Chiu named CFO, John Wu to senior adviser, 2026-08-18 · Oct 2026 | 5 on Scale |
| Avant Protocol (avUSD)site | Stablecoin / yield-bearing stable-value token (onchain capital allocator) | Avalanche | Movement (Move Industries) integrates Avant's savUSD for Movement users and fintech partners, announced 2026-04-14 (press release dated 2026-04-15) · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Bitwisesite | Risk curator / onchain lending vaults (asset manager) | Ethereum, Base | Joined Morpho as a vault curator, launching its first non-custodial onchain vault (USDC, up to 6% APY) on 2026-01-26. It then acquired Chorus One on 2026-02-24 and launched a new onchain vault in Jul 2026. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Credible Financesite | RWA / PayFi payment orchestration (stablecoin settlement) | Solana, 0G | $CRED curated token raise on MetaDAO opened 2026-07-13 ($32.7M committed vs $4M cap); CRED trading on Solana from 2026-07-17. Also OwlTing China payout corridor partnership 2026-06-15. · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Fablessite | DEX (dynamic-fee ve(3,3) on Uniswap v4) | Robinhood Chain | DEX launched on Robinhood Chain 2026-08-18; 6-week points/TGE programme 2026-08-24 to 2026-10-05, FABLES TGE to follow · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Haedal Lending Vaultsite | Yield / liquid staking / lending vaults | Sui | Haedal Lending Vaults went live on mainnet in mid-Sep 2026. A community post dated 2026-10-04 says: 'Less than 20 days since Haedal Lending Vaults went mainnet; $5.5M+ already deposited.' · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| IOTA EVMsite | L1 / EVM smart-contract chain, trade & RWA infrastructure | IOTA (IOTA EVM, chain id 8822) | Q1 2026 progress update (2026-04-02): Starfish consensus rolled out to Testnet, Account Abstraction live on Devnet/Testnet, TWIN trade-network expansion; 2025 review published 2025-12-31 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Jito Restakingsite | Restaking / liquid staking / MEV infrastructure | Solana | $50M investment from a16z crypto into Jito Foundation 2025-10-20; also strategic APAC partnership with Solana Company (NASDAQ: HSDT) 2026-05-06 · Oct 2026 | 3 on Scale |
| JustLend V2site | Lending | Tron | JustLend DAO launched Supply and Borrow Market V2 (isolated-collateral lending, Vault + Market architecture) on 2026-06-17 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| K3 Capitalsite | DeFi risk curation / institutional on-chain asset management | Monad, Ethereum, Optimism, Hyperliquid L1, Plasma, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Unichain, Avalanche | Launched a $30M fully subscribed onchain credit facility to Galaxy via Accountable's vault infrastructure on Monad, 2026-07-28 · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Krystal (Krystal Community Vault)site | Liquidity management / automated LP vaults (DeFi) | Base, Polygon, Hyperliquid L1, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Ethereum, Robinhood Chain, Ronin and others | Krystal App liquidity management on the new Robinhood Chain, covered in an article dated 2026-09-09 · Oct 2026 | 1 on Scale |
| Ledgity Yieldsite | RWA yield / stablecoin vaults | Base, Linea, Arbitrum, Ethereum, Sonic | Protocol V2 (lyUSDC/lyEURC PPS tokens, veLDY governance staking, multi-chain rollout) launched publicly, per docs roadmap Q4 2025; 2026 roadmap targets MiCA authorization and new chains · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| LiveArtsite | RWA (tokenized fine art and luxury assets, RWAfi) | BNB Chain, Base | $ART token launch and Bitget listing (ART/USDT) 2025-09-09; exchange trading campaigns from 2025-09-23 · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |
| Matchainsite | AI / digital identity (MatchID) L2 blockchain | Matchain (chain id 698, OP-stack L2 on BNB Chain) | Published its H2 2026 roadmap on 2026-05-30: $MAT moving to Base, a native Matchain DEX, a public MatchVibe launch and the M² Card in Q3 2026 · Oct 2026 | 2 on Scale |