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USP is a synthetic dollar that is backed primarily by Pareto Credit Vaults (formerly Idle Vaults). Pareto Credit Vaults are a collection of institutional-grade lending strategies that generate yield on the underlying assets via proprietary strategies of institutional borrowers

InfiniFi is a DeFi protocol that enables users to mint and redeem receipt tokens (iUSD) against collateral assets (USDC). The protocol features a sophisticated yield generation system through multiple farm integrations, a locking mechanism for enhanced rewards, and a governance system for farm allocation voting. It relies on reserve banking principles classifying Pendle and Ethena as illiquid/maturity farms and AAVE as liquid farm. By adjusting the ratio of deposits between liquid/illiquid it is capable of producing higher yields for both liquid and illiquid depositors.

Mezo is a Bitcoin-centric platform designed to enhance Bitcoin’s utility through seamless borrowing, spending, and earning. Bitcoin has changed how people think about money, control, security, and transparency. Bitcoin excels as a store of value, but it currently lacks the tools to make it easily usable in everyday financial activities. Mezo bridges this gap by creating a Bitcoin-native ecosystem that transforms BTC from a static asset into a dynamic financial tool.

Burve is a 16-token multi-swap for pegged assets launching on Berachain with rehypothecation yields, moving peg handling, an analytic stableswap solution, depeg-protection, and subset-LPing so users can limit themselves to tokens they feel safest in.

Aegis.im is a Bitcoin-backed, delta-neutral stablecoin with real-time transparency, built-in funding-rate yield, and zero reliance on the fiat banking system. This contest focuses on the core YUSD contracts—mint/redeem, rewards distribution, and supporting libraries

Mighty Finance is a DeFi platform designed for concentrated liquidity market making (CLMM) with leveraged positions. It enables users to open leveraged positions, maximizing capital efficiency.

Co-ownership of AI agents in entertainment and gaming

The ZKP2P V2 Protocol enables trustless and fully noncustodial buying and selling of any offchain digital asset (e.g. fiat currencies) for any onchain asset (e.g. USDC, Ethereum, Solana). The protocol functions as a set of onchain smart contracts that escrows and unlocks tokens upon satisfaction of a predefined predicate (i.e. proof of web2 payment).

ZetaChain is a layer one EVM compatible chain with a native interopability solution built in. Allowing developers to build Universal Dapps that interact with all chains