An overview of the 47 champion projects officially released by Blast

Author: BlockBeats

On February 24, Blast announced the results of the BIG BANG competition, with over 3000 teams participating and 47 winning champion projects selected.

The champion projects include 5 spot DEX projects; 6 perpetual contract DEX projects; 8 lending projects; a GambleFi project; 10 NFTs / Gaming projects; 10 infrastructure projects; as well as 1 SocialFi and 1 Misc category project. Additionally, 31 projects, including DTX, received runner-up awards and garnered significant attention.

In the announcement, Blast stated that a significant portion of the airdrop will be allocated to the 47 winning champion projects, with timing set for after the mainnet launch in May.

BlockBeats has compiled the champion projects from this Big Bang along with their introductions.

Spot DEX

Ambient Finance

Twitter: @ambient_finance

Ambient is an AMM that combines centralized liquidity, a full range of interchangeable xyk LP tokens, and pure on-chain limit orders into a common liquidity pool. Ambient is a singleton contract that supports peg, dynamic fees, auto-compounding, and gas savings.

Thruster

Twitter: @thrusterfi

Thruster is a degen-first, purpose-built DEX that brings the best composable DeFi to Blast. For developers, Thruster has a fair launch mechanism and liquidity tools; for users, Thruster offers the best LP yield opportunities, built-in analytics, and a simple trading experience.

Bebop

Twitter: @bebop_dex

Bebop is an application and API suite that brings efficient, seamless spot cryptocurrency trading to everyone.

Mangrove

Twitter: @mangrovedao

Mangrove is an order book DEX where limited partners can re-mortgage liquidity from other protocols. On Mangrove, code can be attached to quotes published on the order book, allowing for aggregation of all liquidity within the Blast ecosystem and doubling yields.

Ring Protocol

Twitter: @ProtocolRing

Ring Protocol marks a new era for Blast's decentralized exchange, maximizing asset utilization. Our spot DEX (Ring Swap) allows liquidity providers to earn swap fees and yields by staking base assets and/or RWA.

Perpetual DEX

100x Finance

Twitter: @100xfinance

100x is a low-latency CLOB DEX built specifically for Blast, focusing on scalability, capital efficiency, and liquidity. Blast users can trade pre-release futures and perpetual contracts on any asset with 100x leverage.

Blast Futures Exchange (BFX)

Twitter: @BlastFutures

Blast Futures Exchange (BFX) is a fully integrated order book perpetual futures exchange with native yield. BFX provides a comprehensive trading platform with on-chain liquidity and maximum efficiency.

Blitz

Twitter: @tradeonblitz

Blitz is the Binance on Blast. Blitz is a self-custodial futures exchange, spot exchange, and money market with CEX-level performance.

Bloom

Twitter: @BloomOnBlast

Perpetuals DEX offers one-click/no gas trading, up to 50x leverage, and loss rebates through yield rebalancing.

InfinityPools.finance

Twitter: @InfPools

InfinityPools is a DEX that provides infinite leverage for any asset, with no liquidation, no counterparty risk, and no oracles required.

SynFutures

Twitter: @SynFuturesDefi

Perp DEX features up to 100x leverage and native yields powered by Blast. The innovative Oyster AMM model = CLMM + on-chain limit orders.

Lending

Fragment

Twitter: @FragmentFi

Fragment is a decentralized, non-custodial lending protocol built and optimized for yield-generating assets. As a native protocol of Blast, Fragment provides a secure and capital-efficient way to enhance yields on LRT, LPT, and more.

Juice Finance

Twitter: @Juice_Finance

Juice is a decentralized protocol that supports leveraged full-margin trading accounts. Users can directly access other protocols on Blast for liquidity mining and leveraged spot trading through the Juice dashboard, earning various tokens and ecosystem rewards.

MetaStreet

Twitter: @metastreetxyz

MetaStreet is a yield infrastructure protocol. Any illiquid asset can be converted into yield tokens or liquid credit tokens (LCT) through an automated tiering generator. LCT is priced in ETH, earning 10-125% ETH annual interest and compliant with LSDfi.

Orbit Lending

Twitter: @OrbitLending

Orbit Lending is the native liquidity protocol for lending and borrowing assets on Blast.

Pac Finance

Twitter: @pac_finance

Pac is the first hybrid lending protocol on Blast, featuring both peer-to-peer loans and pool loans. Pac Finance will offer self-repaying loans, one-click leveraged trading, instant borrowing loops, and more.

Particle

Twitter: @Particle_trade

Particle has built a permissionless, oracle-free protocol that supports leveraged trading for any ERC20 token. Traders can leverage long/short any token even at the time of token release. LPs can enhance liquidity efficiency and earn higher yields.

Blume

Twitter: @blumefm

Blume is a cross-collateral lending protocol based on Blast.

Curvance

Twitter: @curvance

Curvance is a cross-chain money market for yield assets. It maximizes yield while fully utilizing the value of assets. Curvance simplifies DeFi, with its modular system creating complex strategies for users with just one click.

Gambling

BetBIG

Twitter: @BetBIG_gg

BetBIG is the portal for all gambling activities, with 100% of profits going to token holders after launch.

Decentral Games

Twitter: @decentralgames

Decentral Games is the first licensed metaverse casino, offering a social, immersive gaming experience. Live games include blackjack, roulette, and poker. A mobile app that can be played on any device has recently been launched.

IKB

Twitter: @ikbdotgg

IKB is a daily fantasy sports platform built on cryptocurrency rails. It offers popular games powered by cryptocurrency that players love.

Insrt

Twitter: @insrtapp

Insrt is a mobile gambling marketplace where users can earn value from creators, communities, and brands. Users can place implied bets of 10x - 1000x using Insrt while earning $MINT. Vendors earn fees and engagement.

YOLO Games

Twitter: @YOLO_Blast

The home of degen games. YOLO Games offers an exciting suite of fun and provably fair on-chain games. Regardless of winning or losing, players earn rewards for every action they take on the platform.

TideFlow

Twitter: @TideFlowDAO

TideFlow currently includes 2 products: GambleFi games (Trade. The Game.), a fast-paced price action trading game where traders compete against each other; and a DeFi protocol that tokenizes price changes based on benchmarks.

SocialFi

Fantasy

Twitter: @fantasytop

Fantasy Gaming combines Social Finance. Collect cards of crypto Twitter influencers and earn rewards based on their weekly X performance.

NFTs / Gaming

BAC Games

Twitter: @BAC_Web3

Blast Auto Club is not just a game; it’s a revolution in Web3 gaming. Join the club, build your team, and rev up with players as we embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey with BAC!

BLASTR

Twitter: @blastr_xyz

BLASTR - An innovative NFT launch platform and protocol that revolutionizes the digital asset space by introducing refundable NFTs and creating new revenue opportunities for creators through Blast's native yield mechanism.

Blaze

Twitter: @blaze0ng

Blaze is the creator platform on Blast, a permissionless NFT launchpad that anyone can use to launch their NFT series in under a minute.

Cambria

Twitter: @playdegenarena

Cambria is a native degenerate game inspired by Runescape, featuring on-chain stakes. Our first mini-game (Degen Arena) allows players to engage in high-stakes 1v1 duels to the death in a public arena.

Captain & Company

Twitter: @capncompany

Seek a lifetime of wealth, enemies, and friends in Captain & Company: the ultimate bluffing MMO. Set sail with up to 10 friends, participate in epic cross-platform naval battles, and plunder your way to becoming the richest pirate on the high seas.

Munchables

Twitter: @munchables

We are a team of experienced web2 and web3 founders and developers passionately building NFT games, believing they bring something new to cryptocurrency and will have long-term cross-appeal.

Wasabi

Twitter: @wasabi_protocol

Wasabi is the leading NFT leverage platform. With over $20 million in trading volume on the Ethereum mainnet and over $7 million in TVL, we are excited to bring our users and liquidity into a frictionless trading environment on Blast.

Spacebar

Twitter: @spacebarxyz

Onchain Playground on Blast, where users can stake, play, socialize, and earn.

Plutocats

Twitter: @plutocatswtf

We are building a way to fund creators in the Blast ecosystem using pooled capital gains obtained through the sale of membership NFTs. We call it social staking.

nftperp

Twitter: @nftperp

nftperp is a perpetual futures DEX for NFTs - featuring centralized AMM liquidity and a fully on-chain limit order book.

Others

Thunder

Twitter: @thunderterminal

Thunder is the first on-chain "brokerage" designed to abstract and aggregate all pre-existing chains, decentralized exchanges, and asset classes. Users will be able to trade any asset across any chain/decentralized exchange and receive the same experience as trading on a CEX.

Infrastructure

Baseline Protocol

Twitter: @BaselineMarkets

Baseline is an automated token economics engine for ERC20 tokens. By leveraging dynamic supply models and market-making strategies, Baseline provides persistent on-chain liquidity and out-of-the-box unliquidatable leverage for tokens.

Tornado Blast

Twitter: @TornadoBlastBot

The first Blast-centric trading bot that significantly enhances the user experience for developing and executing trading strategies.

Blast Safe

Twitter: @protofire

Blast Safe is a non-custodial multi-signature wallet and asset management platform based on smart contracts, natively supporting Blast Yield and Gas claim functionalities.

Brahma

Twitter: @BrahmaFi

The Brahma console is a fast and secure execution environment built on Safe for navigating DeFi on Blast. It aims to be the preferred suite for individuals and teams on Blast, bringing programmable automation, delegation, and simplified execution.

Banana Gun

Twitter: @BananaGunBot

Banana Gun is your trading bot available on Telegram and (coming soon) web applications. Snipe upcoming products or trade already launched tokens safely. We aspire to be your go-to platform for trading on Ethereum, Solana, and now BLAST!

Gelato

Twitter: @gelatonetwork

Gelato is a cloud platform for Web3, providing an integrated Rollup-as-a-Service platform along with a suite of powerful web3 middleware services.

RedStone Oracles

Twitter: @redstone_defi

RedStone is the fastest-growing modular oracle, providing data sources on the Blast testnet in two modes: 1. Core (pull) high-performance model 2. Classic (push) Chainlink compatible interface. We will introduce both models to the Blast mainnet from day one.

Hyperlock Finance

Twitter: @hyperlockfi

With support from Aura, Hyperlock is a yield enhancement and meta-governance protocol aimed at deepening Thruster's liquidity. HL is crucial for bringing Blast projects to market, enabling them to acquire liquidity more easily. This benefits traders and DAOs.

Voyager

Twitter: @parsec_finance

Voyager is the native block explorer for Blast, integrating Blast-native features around yield and gas accounting into the next-generation block explorer.

Zap

Twitter: @zaponblast

ZAP is a community-driven token issuance protocol designed to alleviate current issues in the token issuance space and provide value to founders and investors.