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As the inaugural 10-week incubation program by 0G Foundation and OnePiece Labs draws to a close, we are excited to showcase the significant progress our cohort of Web3 and AI startups has made. Launched in July, this program has provided critical resources and support to innovative projects across industries, including Gaming, DeFI, decentralized storage, and AI. Each startup has taken meaningful steps toward realizing its vision, establishing new partnerships, and honing its strategic direction.
We at OnePiece Labs and 0G are deeply proud of the advancements made by these visionary companies. The strong bonds built during the program will continue beyond the conclusion of the ten weeks. We remain committed to providing our cohort ongoing support, mentorship, and guidance as they advance toward greater success and long-term growth.
CARV is a modular data layer for gaming and AI, transforming how data is utilized and shared while ensuring privacy, ownership, and control remain in the hands of individuals. By pioneering a future where data generates value for all, CARV is revolutionizing the gaming and AI industries.
During their time in the incubator, CARV has made significant strides. Their TON-based mini-game, BANANA, has seen remarkable success, capturing 10 million users in just 4 weeks. Impressively, 80% of these users were acquired through organic referrals. Global users have completed 120 million in-game tasks, including connecting 2.4 million accounts and creating 1.3 million CARV IDs—a milestone that now enables targeted advertisements and user acquisition on the TON network.
Further advancing their ecosystem, CARV made a strategic investment in Telgather. Their first game, Fintastic, is already leveraging CARV ID and the Ads SDK. Just 3 days after release, over 1 million users earned rewards by engaging with ads from BANANA partners, boosting CARV’s YTD revenue to $6M. [Read more here].
On the technical front, CARV has expanded its data availability capabilities by integrating with Avail and Eigen Layer. These integrations enhance CARV’s advanced data management systems, combining Avail DA and EigenDA technologies, further strengthening their infrastructure and application ecosystem.
With a community of 750+ games and AI companies, 2.5 million+ registered players, and a $1 million monthly recurring revenue, CARV’s impact continues to grow, supported by a $50+ million raise to fuel its expansion.
Heph is a cost-effective, human-powered data labeling platform that utilizes blockchain technology to save operational overhead and provide immutable data provenance records.
It helps CTOs and AI researchers solve the billion-dollar problem of cost-effective, scalable, and accurate data labeling. Using blockchain to distribute data labeling tasks to >175k data labelers in 150+ countries is up to 8x faster and 10x cheaper than Web2 equivalents.
Now, it is in the process of finalizing four new partnerships and has received soft commitments of $400k for investment.
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After undergoing a significant transformation through the incubator, MetaPals has rebranded as Kindred and is now positioned to revolutionize human-AI interaction. Kindred is poised for a much larger funding round as it embarks on its next phase of growth.
Kindred is building Pal, a next-generation platform that redefines human-AI interaction. By combining an in-house premium avatar system, a third-party developer ecosystem, and a vision to create a dynamic creators' economy where IP can be monetized, Kindred aims to capture a substantial share of the $190B AI market by 2025. Backed by partnerships with leading global IPs in both Web2 and Web3, Kindred outperforms key industry benchmarks, tripling session times and surpassing the retention rates of major competitors like Character.ai.
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With this new direction and branding, Kindred is set to make waves in the human-AI interaction space. It aims to create more intuitive, natural, and integrated AI experiences for daily life and business operations.
Nine Suns is creating a modular, AI-powered stack that simplifies web3 complexities. Our SDK enables developers to build secure, compliant, and self-custodial applications in under 20 minutes. By bridging the gap between web3's potential and user-friendly experiences, Nine Suns is paving the way for mass adoption across DeFi, gaming, IP management, and broader web3 opportunities.
It's a secure platform for developers to build Robinhood-like experiences for web3, without sacrificing self-custody.
Nine Suns has made significant progress since its launch, securing funding from Orange DAO and several notable angel investors, including leaders from Anthropic and Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon. Since launching its private data vault in mid-July, Nine Suns has generated over $100K in opportunities from key industry players such as 0G, Movement Labs, Plume, Nillion, Up Network, and Stellar.
The company has taken significant steps in providing private data solutions, including resolving intent engine orchestration with BERT models to simplify Web3 interactions. Nine Suns is also working with Up Network to integrate their private data storage layer and on-premise AI model as the default solution for secure on-chain orchestration.
Additionally, Nine Suns has successfully deployed its secure data storage pipeline on 0G’s testnet to enhance the orchestration of private data and secrets for DeFi and AI applications.
The Fractopus protocol connects content on the Internet into a peer-to-peer revenue-sharing network, establishing itself as the world’s first inspiration network. By addressing the issue of fragmented content on centralized platforms and creators’ struggle for revenue and exposure, Fractopus enables content to connect and share revenue and exposure across a decentralized network.
Over the past two months in the incubator, Fractopus has achieved several key milestones. They successfully launched the first official version of their product Copus.io on both desktop and mobile and are currently testing it with creators and top college students across the US. Their Reversed-MLM strategy has been a key part of their marketing efforts, with initial promotions focused on New York universities, where they are forming partnerships with student clubs, faculty, and individual creators to boost platform adoption.
Fractopus has also laid the groundwork for future growth, establishing connections with AO Ventures, who have committed to supporting their fundraising efforts.
With solid product-market fit, especially in the monetization of AI-generated content, and partnerships with communities like ComfyUI (10 million users) and WaytoAGI (800k members), Fractopus is positioning itself to reshape how content creators connect, share, and monetize their work.
DataHive is pioneering the creation of the first Privacy AI Agent for Data Rights, empowering users to own and control their digital footprint across Web2 and Web3, transforming it into valuable data assets.
In partnership with Nestle, Maple Leaf Foods, and others, DataHive is building a marketplace that links user data assets with AI agents tailored for specific needs, which are contributed by partners, developers, and the community. This marketplace forms the foundation for decentralized commerce driven by AI Agents. With 6 million users in the pipeline and $150K in booked revenue, growing at an impressive 566%, DataHive is establishing itself as a leader in turning data into a valuable asset class.
The company strategically positions itself as the first and largest decentralized AI project to convert data liabilities into data assets. DataHive has partnered with the Endless Frontier Labs program at NYU Stern School of Business, which provides strategic access to corporate leaders, academics, and government partners to scale their business further.
With plans to launch with private and public education institutions across California, DataHive is accelerating its movement toward a decentralized, data-driven future.
Pump.fun for AI Entertainment – Infinity Ground is building a decentralized and transparent ecosystem where everyone can play, create, and invest in AI-driven entertainment, including mini-games, memes, and interactive stories/movies.
They believe that the key to success in the first phase of the platform is a rich selection of high-quality AI entertainment applications. To ensure this diversity of premium assets, Infinity Ground has not only developed AI-driven applications in-house but also formed strategic partnerships with top-tier Web2 gaming studios, several film IPs, and meme communities.
Additionally, through partnerships with Initia, 0G, B3.fun, Ultiverse, CAMP, CARV, and Blockus, Infinity Ground has expanded its network and exposure to a broader range of creators and users. They have also established connections with top-tier VCs and received commitments from some of them.
During its time in the incubator, Infinity Ground achieved remarkable milestones, including onboarding 7 applications in just three months and securing an exclusive partnership with one of the world’s top H5 mini-gaming studios, which has helped bridge the best Web2 developers into Web3.
The company has gained initial recognition and support for future growth from several investors and investment institutions.
After incubation, 0xKnowledge has significantly transformed its approach and will focus on building the future of the verifiable semantic web as Socrates Labs.
Socrates Labs is building the most performant and highest-quality knowledge aggregation layer, making it easy to build AI agents and apps in minutes.
As AI models become more sophisticated, the Socrates Network will provide the much-needed knowledge required to make AI context-aware and valuable, which will enable builders to deploy knowledge assets on every chain, capture relationships in connected data on a knowledge graph, and architect new IP business models, all from a no-code interface.
Cygnus continues to make strides as it merges non-EVM systems with the EVM ecosystem, securing strategic support from major investors and focusing on real-yield products.
Cygnus has partnered with OpenOcean, the leading DeFi and cross-chain aggregator backed by Multicoin and Binance Labs, to onboard their yield-bearing tokens with OpenOcean’s DCA tools. Additionally, Binance has officially started promoting Cygnus on its platform.
In another significant development, Cygnus has formed a strategic partnership with Synfutures, a decentralized perpetual exchange backed by Pantera and Dragonfly, which is expected to provide millions of dollars in liquidity. This collaboration will allow staking users to collateralize their yield-bearing assets and engage in contract trading. Cygnus was also nominated by Bitget as one of the most popular DeFi projects on the TON blockchain, further validating its growing presence in decentralized finance.
The company is on track to meet its $15M funding target as it continues to scale its innovative financial solutions.
Vishwa is a revolutionary hyper state channel that utilizes Bitcoin's Layer 1 security to enable seamless global transactions and enhance liquidity across blockchain ecosystems.
As an advanced omni-liquidity PayFi infrastructure, Vishwa provides networks with substantial advantages:
In the past two months, Vishwa has made notable progress on the technology front, advancing to Prototype V4 with module processing capabilities.
They are also collaborating on a paper with Prof. Muriel and have secured $0.5M in soft commitments for their current funding round, setting the stage for further growth and development.
As our 10-week journey comes to a close, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming Demo Day on September 25th, 2024, at 5:30 PM PDT. At this event, these remarkable startups will showcase their innovations and plans. We invite all investors, partners, and community members to join us in celebrating their achievements.
This is just the beginning for these companies. The relationships we’ve built over these ten weeks will continue as we remain dedicated to supporting and guiding our cohort for years. We are immensely proud of the growth and progress and are eager to see how they continue to evolve, disrupt industries, and drive innovation. Stay tuned for the next chapter in their journey!
