Welcome to issue #8 of The Protocol Hunt. We help you spot gems before they blow up, so you can be an early-mover on our filtered, curated alpha.

Protocol Hunt is our new protocol launch aggregator meant to give our readers more exposure to newer projects which are yet to come out on the scene.

Some of the most exciting protocols that we came across in our research are shared here. We plan to make our entire tracker public in a newsletter so if you wish to get the entire list of new protocol launches, then subscribe to our newsletter.

Schwap

Schwap is a trustless and permissionless On-Chain OTC Exchange that focuses on handling large trades. It powers DeFi's top OTC markets, supporting ERC-20s, NFTs, and hybridized OTC trades, all fully on-chain. With an on-chain order book and matching engine, Schwap enables highly efficient and fully decentralized OTC swaps, eliminating the need for an operator.

Athena Finance

Athena Finance integrates with Hummus Exchange on METIS, allowing users to earn boosted yields on Hummus deposits without owning HUM or veHUM tokens. By aggregating converted HUM, Athena unlocks utility for the HUM token, providing users with a portion of the generated yield as xHUM. ATH, Athena's native token, receives a share of revenue and grants voting power to HUM holders. Athena Finance is an authorized Vector Finance fork.

Prisma Finance

Prisma Finance is a new DeFi innovation harnessing Ethereum's liquid staking tokens (LSTs) to mint acUSD, a stablecoin fully collateralized by LSTs.

Mendi Finance

Mendi is a lending protocol on Linea, providing decentralized, transparent, and non-custodial P2P lending solutions, offering competitive incentives for money markets w deep liquidity. A friendly fork of Sonne & Mare.

Lumin Finance

Lumin Finance is a lending protocol on Arbitrum. It rewards participants and utilizes a DAO for governance. Unique features include fee sharing, buyback-and-distribute, & buyback-and-burn. Loans are individually tailored and secured as NFTs, tradable on marketplace.

Fluo Finance

Fluo is an omnichain Liquidity management platform for DEXs. It offers automated market-making strategies across multiple chains. It helps Liquidity Providers, DEXs, protocols, & traders by enabling participation in market-making strategies.

Helix Finance

Helix is an accredited marketplace using blockchain technology to provide access to off-chain private credit in emerging markets.

Maze

Maze's VPN, spoofer, and mixer offer a comprehensive suite of tools to safeguard your identity, protect your privacy, and enable secure and private transactions in the decentralized landscape.

zkSynth

zkSynth is creating synthetic assets in shared debt pools, enabling slippage-free on-chain trading, maximizing capital efficiency, pushing DeFi boundaries. Bringing TradFi and Cross-Chain Assets (BTC, XRP, ADA) to DeFi.

Dubble Finance

Dubble is a ve(3,3) on Arbitrum. It is built for protocols, providing access to low-fee swaps, revenue sharing, and other benefits. It uses $DUB, an interest-bearing stablecoin, as the base token in most pairs, creating unique opportunities for users.

Membrane Finance

Membrane Finance is a financial technology company specializing in development of financial software and services that seamlessly link traditional financial infrastructure and blockchain-based services. They are the principal architect of EUROe - an EU regulated, full-reserve euro stablecoin that brings fiat euro liquidity on-chain.

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