MOST EXCITING DEFI SOLUTION OF 2025








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The 1inch cross-chain solution (Fusion+) sets a new standard for decentralized trading by enabling seamless transactions across different blockchain networks. It solves the problem of fragmented liquidity and manual bridging — costly, slow, and risky for the user — by using an intent-based atomic swap mechanism for trustless, MEV-protected execution. Liquidity is aggregated market-wide, with KYB-verified resolvers competing in a Dutch auction to provide gas-free, zero-fee transactions.

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Indigo Protocol is a decentralized synthetic assets platform on Cardano, enabling the tokenization of real-world assets into iAssets, such as USD, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. Utilizing Collateralized Debt Positions (CDPs), stability pools, and dual-peg mechanisms, Indigo ensures asset stability and usability. It addresses DeFi inefficiencies with over-collateralized minting, ADA liquid staking, and DAO governance, enhancing accessibility, tokenization, and resilience in the blockchain ecosystem.

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Jellyverse is a comprehensive DeFi ecosystem on the Sei Network, featuring a DEX, staking, and synthetics protocols. Committed to leading the next evolution of DeFi, often called DeFi 3.0, Jellyverse aims to create a sustainable, yield-focused ecosystem that overcomes current DeFi 2.0 limitations. By providing access to innovative assets alongside familiar trading and farming options, Jellyverse empowers users with unprecedented portfolio diversification, all within a single, cohesive platform.

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Kaspa is a next-gen DLT built on Nakamoto consensus with Direct Acyclic Graph (DAG) enabling parallel blocks. It finalizes in a second (~10 bps), eliminating orphans for secure, scalable, decentralised finance. Already the 2nd most mined after BTC, 0.5M+ wallets, $100 nodes, MEV-resistant, optical-mining ready, fair-launched (no VC) and academically driven. Kaspa is Bitcoin’s true successor, infinitely more powerful, unique, and groundbreaking.

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Kiln is the leading player in staking-as-a-service, with over $11B staked across 40 protocols for 200+ B2B clients like BitGo, VanEck, and Crypto.com. In a zero-fee onchain world, we’ll power the yield-based economy. Kiln DeFi lets customers distribute stablecoin yield via protocols like AAVE and Compound, while earning revenue. Kiln Widget offers a no-code solution for platforms to add staking and DeFi features. Our long-term goal is to be the leading yield marketplace for digital assets.

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OneBoard streamlines KYC and compliance by creating reusable compliance profiles that dynamically update with new regulations and document expirations. It reduces costs by up to 86% and simplifies onboarding to just 7 minutes, completed once and securely stored. Leveraging blockchain/DLT, OneBoard ensures decentralized, tamper-proof storage for compliance data, enhancing security, transparency, and trust for financial intermediaries and their clients.

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Avelia is a blockchain powered book-and-claim solution that provides corporates with fully traceable environmental attributes of Sustainable Aviation Fuel to help them to decarbonise their air travel. It connects airlines and businesses globally, to share the environmental benefits of SAF and aims to generate the scale of demand necessary to help the sector transition to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Carbontribe Labs tackles inefficiencies, greenwashing, and lack of transparency in carbon markets with the first Web3 GHG Removal Standard. Its patent-pending software generates tamper-proof Carbon Removal Digital Assets from diverse data sources, including sensors and industry activities, reducing costs by 90% and improving scalability. Blockchain ensures trust, traceability, and global interoperability, while data is securely stored for verification.

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CircularPort is an ecosystem on the CircularTrust blockchain, that tracks ship-generated waste in ports, recording its journey among shipowners, agents, authorities, operators, and treatment plants. Developed with the support of European programs like Galatea and DigiCirc, it collects and processes data using artificial intelligence to identify bottlenecks, optimize management, and share best practices, promoting more efficient and sustainable port waste management.

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FAME uses blockchain to improve supply chain transparency and financial inclusion in agriculture. It tackles mistrust, unfair pricing, and limited farmer access to markets and credit. By leveraging DLT for financial inclusion and decentralized governance, FAME ensures fair trade, fosters collaboration, and empowers smallholders globally.

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Zumo Oxygen measures and mitigates businesses’ digital asset footprint to align with net zero objectives. The Oxygen platform aggregates electricity consumption data linked to crypto activities, matches it with the procurement of tokenised market instruments such as renewable energy certificates, and supplies immutable proofs. The integrated solution is aligned with carbon accounting standards; and Energy Web Chain is used to offer digitised, blockchain-transacted renewable energy certificates.

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BWT uses tech fitting a standard shipping container to recover and/or upcycle water from evaporation processes. The water, naturally present in fruit & veggies, is repurposed and given back to nature, or bottled. The upcycling creates “Water Impact Credits”, allowing companies to offset their water usage. A first WASH project in India is being set up now, using a sugar mill’s wastewater to bring drinkable water to 16000 people. DLT is used to trade water (digital twin) and to track the credits.

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Arianee is the leading Digital Product Passport (DPP) solution, offering an open and interoperable protocol built on open-source blockchain technology. It enhances circularity, ensures compliance with product data regulations like AGEC and EPCR, and provides innovative post-purchase marketing. Over 50 global brands use Arianee to manage digital passports, registering 2.2 million products on the blockchain.

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EarthID is a decentralized identity platform tackling identity fraud, data breaches & exclusion from digital systems. By leveraging DLT, EarthID provides users with self-sovereign identities, enabling secure & privacy-first digital interactions. DLT ensures tamper-evident verifiable credentials, decentralized storage eliminates data silos & smart contracts manage consent seamlessly. EarthID empowers individuals with secure, inclusive & interoperable identities, fostering trust across ecosystems.

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Karrier One is a DePIN telecom project that bridges Web2 and Web3 by integrating phone numbers with blockchain wallets, creating a unified global digital identity. This solves the problem of fragmented access to telecom and financial ecosystems, enabling seamless communication and identity verification. Leveraging blockchain’s (DLT), it ensures secure, transparent, and tamper-proof connections, empowering the unbanked and accelerating Web3 adoption with real-world utility through DePIN solutions

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Alfa Romeo launched the technology of non-fungible token, a real innovation in automotive sector to associate a car with a digital NFT Certificate. Based on Blockchain technology, the NFT Certificate allows to visualise the changes of the mileage in a non-forgery proof way. In the used vehicle market, the NFT Certification represents an additional source of credibility for owners or dealers. NFT Certificate is available for Alfa Romeo owners for next models: Tonale, Stelvio, Giulia and Junior.

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Proven is a complete decentralized identity solution that allows users to easily create and share Verifiable Credentials. Verifiable Credentials have been used to solve several issues, including secure identity verification online and removing the need for centralized databases for storing sensitive personal information. Each credential is created using a distributed ledger and is digitally signed at the point of creation, allowing users to trust any data inside as much as they trust the issuer.

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Vezgo was started to make it easy for corporations and FinTechs to integrate with cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets. They provide a single API to access your customers’ balances, tokens, and trade history. Web2 companies can now onboard Web3 users in hours/days instead of weeks and months. They are aggregating more than 20 Billion dollars in digital assets.

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The World Bank launched FundsChain to enhance transparency and accountability in development projects. FundsChain, custom built on Hyperledger Besu’s blockchain Network, provides end-to-end traceability of funds. It streamlines project monitoring by automating document submission and verification, ensuring secure and immutable data storage. Key features include token minting, wallets, smart contracts, and off-chain storage, fostering real-time visibility and confidence in fund management.

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HashNet’s SIChain EIPS is part of IPCEI CIS, the largest open-source project in EU history, funded with €1.2B in public and €1.4B in private investment. It enhances Europe’s digital sovereignty by providing a scalable, energy-efficient blockchain for decentralized data storage and cloud-edge services, reducing reliance on non-EU providers, and driving secure, transparent, and innovative digital solutions.

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MapGuard, supported by ESA’s Civil Security from Space programme, enhances emergency response during large-scale civilian evacuations by providing a secure, fast-response mapping service. MapGuard integrates EO data with blockchain-secured management to deliver near real-time, tamper-proof intelligence in partnership with Estonian authorities. Collaborating with regional experts, it ensures robust data security and situational awareness, setting a benchmark for civil protection across Europe.

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Project Promissa, a collaboration between the BIS Innovation Hub, Swiss National Bank, and World Bank, aims to test the tokenization of promissory notes using distributed ledger technology (DLT). The project addresses operational inefficiencies by tokenizing paper-based notes, enhancing transparency and simplifying management. The proof of concept will provide real-time visibility for governments, central banks, and international financial institutions. Project aims to complete by early 2025.

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SSI Protocol, It returns data sovereignty to the citizens, initiates the resolution of online identity management and impersonation issues, creates a virtuous ecosystem of interoperability between companies, government, and individuals, and prepares the city to interoperate with Europe (eIDAS 2). It is alreafy 1 month ongoing production with more than 350k people using it, and several privite organizations.

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Turing Space leverages blockchain to provide secure, tamper-proof digital credentialing solutions. It addresses the global issue of fraudulent credentials and inefficiencies in verification by creating immutable, verifiable records on a public blockchain. Using W3C DID standards, our platform ensures data authenticity, privacy, and easy access across industries like insurance, healthcare, and education. This enhances trust, reduces fraud to zero, and streamlines document workflows.a

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Currently many blockchain related solutions require special coding language, a deep understanding, or a specific reliance on experts. With the Anvil API, we make blockchain integrations easy, with simple to use API calls that can accomplish a wide variety of objectives. We operate natively on the Cardano blockchain and our API is used through many dApps for basic thing like payments, all the way to complex solutions like collateralization of assets.

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ComPilot is an all-in-one solution simplifying compliant onboarding and monitoring of users for digital asset businesses.
Navigating regulations is a mandatory yet complex challenge. ComPilot helps them figure out their requirements, become compliant and save time and resources.
The AI-powered tool leverages both blockchain and traditional technologies, automates compliance tasks (KYC, KYB, AML, wallet screening, trade surveillance), consolidates customer data, and provides smart dashboards.

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Tangany, a BaFin-regulated crypto custodian, is Germany’s B2B market leader with €2B in AuC and 400k end customers. Providing secure custody for cryptocurrencies, tokenized securities, and NFTs, Tangany’s solution includes core custody for asset management, staking for yield, advanced crypto accounting for bookkeeping, and automated compliance for onboarding. Trusted by clients like eToro, Bitvavo, Porsche, BMW, and Hugo Boss, its API-driven platform ensures seamless, scalable integration.

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HollaEx is an award-winning leading white label software that empowers businesses & individuals to create their own global digital assets exchange platform.

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Kryptos is pioneering the future of Web3 finance by establishing a standardised financial data protocol layer that seamlessly connects diverse blockchain platforms. As the definitive Open Banking standard for Web3, Kryptos equips developers, businesses, and end-users with the tools necessary to share and utilise data effortlessly. Supporting over 5000 platforms, including major CEXs, DeFi protocols, and blockchain networks, Kryptos enhances interoperability, and accessibility in Web3.

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We are the leader in analytics and quality assessment for digital assets, significantly reducing due diligence times by over 90% & effectively mitigating crucial operational risks for financial leaders.
Our platform offers next-generation ratings & comprehensive analyses across technical, economic, environmental, & compliance dimensions. This ensures that our clients – keen on investing, launching or benchmarking digital assets – gain instant security, enhanced market access, & clearer insights.

Blocksquare builds SaaS solutions that can be used by real estate agencies, financial services providers, or entrepreneurs to tokenize real estate and/or run their own real estate tokenization businesses.
Property owners can tokenize their property’s economic rights with the Blocksquare tokenization protocol. This creates a legally binding smart contract that issues 100,000 tokens, making the property’s economic rights easily transferable without touching the property title.

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SDX is a fully regulated stock exchange and CSD based on DLT technology. SDX is revolutionizing the way capital markets operate, providing a seamless and secure platform for the markets.
In 2024, the Swiss National Bank has launched wCBDC in collaboration with SDX.
This has boosted market confidence and helped drive further adoption of digital technology, possibly benefiting other emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) trying to build their own capital markets infrastructures.

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Hedera’s Asset Tokenization Studio is an open-source toolkit simplifying the configuration, issuance, and management of tokenized bonds and equities. Refined over months to address challenges like ERC-1400 limitations, it ensures seamless market entry with forward compliance. Built on Hedera’s DLT and Hashgraph consensus, it overcomes compliance, KYC/AML, and off-chain hurdles, unlocking liquidity, reducing costs, and accelerating the migration of capital markets to on-chain ecosystems.

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Propchain tackles real estate finance’s core problems – illiquidity, inefficient processes, and limited access. Our solution brings the capital stack on-chain, enabling automated due diligence and immutable audit trails. By standardizing private market real estate debt through blockchain, we enable DeFi-native features like liquidity pools and collateralization. With $135M tokenized, we’re creating unprecedented efficiency in real estate capital markets.

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Tokenization is the future, but adoption is complex for institutions. It’s more than deploying smart contracts, it requires orchestrating on-chain and off-chain workflows and data throughout the asset lifecycle. Tokeny addresses this with a white-label platform and plug-and-play APIs, offering over 1,000 features. With over USD 32 billion in assets tokenized for 120+ issuers, Tokeny empowers institutions with the tools and expertise to advance into on-chain finance.

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Unbox’s Smart Battery Passport uses the world’s first platform for programmable assets, redefining tokenization. It embeds lifecycle rules into tokenized batteries for secure, private data sharing via zero-knowledge technology. Meeting EU 2026 battery regulations, it ensures traceability, compliance, and sustainability. This breakthrough showcases the potential of programmable assets to create truly smart, rule-driven real-world solutions.

cheqd is the Payment & Trust Infrastructure for Credentials & Verifiable AI. We enable the creation of eID, digital credential businesses, personalised AI, and trust ecosystems. We provide privacy-preserving payments for data to incentivise its release from data siloes to enable previously impossible data combinations to unlock new user experiences.

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ChainFeed is a blockchain-powered solution tackling delayed sanctions updates in payments. It automates real-time delivery of updates to financial institutions, ensuring compliance and reducing risks of restricted transactions. Using Oracle Blockchain’s tamper-proof ledger, ChainFeed ensures data integrity, auditability, and seamless integration, enhancing security, efficiency, and trust in global payment systems.

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Since 2018, Nexo has delivered unmatched financial opportunities to clients in 200+ jurisdictions, managing $7B in AUM and processing over $320B+. Our all-in-one platform offers high-yield savings, crypto-backed loans, advanced trading tools, and the first crypto debit/credit card. With deep expertise, a sustainable model, robust security, and global licensing, Nexo drives innovation and prosperity for millions worldwide.

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Notabene’s SafeTransact is the crypto industry’s leading payment authorization network, enabling VASPs to meet global regulatory requirements like FATF’s Travel Rule. By securely exchanging identifying information before a transaction occurs, SafeTransact ensures AML/CFT compliance and builds trust among institutions and regulators. With the widespread adoption of stablecoins as the next generation of settlement rails, Notabene bridges the gap between traditional financial and the crypto economy

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Fintech product bridging liquidity between crypto and real-world business activities, specifically subscription payments. Revuto partnered with VISA to issue debit cards for subscription payments supporting crypto.

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Companies today face the challenge of high costs, delays, and bank closing hours when making payments across borders. SAP Digital Currency Hub enables enterprises to make and receive payments instantaneously, globally, 24/7 at very low costs with digital currencies, most notably stablecoins, from their core ERP system. This ensures seamless end-to-end business processes including proper accounting and reconciliation of payables and receivables.