2024 is a year for Web3Port to step into a new phase, and it is an important moment for integrating power and exploring the future. Based on the accelerator business of the original Labs, Web3Port has expanded into two new business sectors: Web3Port Foundation and W3P Trading, making significant progress. This year, the three major sectors fully leveraged their synergistic effects, promoting the healthy development of Web3Port and the industry through technological innovation, capital empowerment, and ecological collaboration.

Web3Port Foundation

1. 2024 Annual Review

On February 7, 2024, Web3Port Foundation was officially established, starting its journey to explore Web3 with an initial scale of 100 million USD. This year, we invested in 46 projects covering multiple tracks such as Infra, DeFi, and AI, firmly practicing long-termism and professional strategies. Looking back on this year, we not only witnessed the rapid development of the industry but also deeply felt the coexistence of opportunities and challenges. In the future, we will continue to empower innovation and grow together with the industry.

2. Investment Situation

In 2024, Web3Port invested in a total of 46 projects, with a total investment amount of ~35M USD. Investments covered tracks such as Infra, DeFi, AI, GameFi, and Social.

3. Major Events

2024 was a year of beginnings and harvests for Web3Port Foundation. This year, we not only completed the investment layout for quality projects but also actively promoted the construction and development of the industry ecosystem.

On August 28, 2024, Web3Port Foundation established a strategic partnership with Movement and jointly launched an ecological fund of $10M to help ecological projects on Movement grow.

On September 18, 2024, Web3Port announced its official entry into the Middle East market, uniting 19 leading global institutions to establish the UAE VC Alliance, promoting the in-depth development of Web3 technology in this region and exploring new economic industrial layouts.

In addition, we deepened our insights and understanding of the cutting-edge trends in Web3 through various forms such as hosting industry events and participating in industry seminars.

4. Industry Insights

In 2024, Web3Port Foundation published 12 research reports, including track research reports and project investment research, sharing our knowledge and insights with the industry.

5. Future Outlook

In 2025, Web3Port Foundation will focus on three major tracks: public chain infrastructure, AI, and Web3 applications, promoting technological innovation and application landing. In terms of public chains, we will increase investments in emerging ecosystems such as Movement and BeraChain; in the AI field, we will focus on investing in AI Agent, AI frameworks, and DeFi + AI Agent projects, exploring the deep integration of blockchain and AI; in Web3 applications, we will support payment, consumer applications, and decentralized social entertainment, helping users achieve breakthrough growth.

In addition, we will continue to pay attention to cutting-edge directions such as RWA, DeSci, and functional NFTs, promoting the transparency of on-chain assets, scientific research, and the landing of innovative applications. Notably, in 2025, Web3Port Foundation will have a series of major actions to further strengthen its global influence, empower more projects and partners, and jointly create the future blueprint of the Web3 ecosystem.

Web3Port Labs

Web3Port Labs provides comprehensive full-cycle support and investment support for Web3 projects at various stages. Through our primary market investment fund and secondary market liquidity fund, as well as a one-stop Web3 incubator platform, we offer complete lifecycle support for startups, including product design, financing, user growth, and more.

2024 was a year full of challenges and opportunities, and Web3Port Labs made significant progress and achievements this year:

1. Main Business

Web3Port Labs has formed a mature and complete funnel model, establishing 6 acceleration business departments to provide full-process acceleration support for Web3 projects from 0 to 1:

• Strict Screening Mechanism: A rigorous screening process for projects submitted to the accelerator, assessing the potential of the project, the capabilities of the team, and complementarity.
• Customized Support: Providing tailored support and guidance for each acceleration project, including expertise and resources in business model design, economic model design, technical development, financing, marketing, listing, and operations.
• Regular Evaluation and Adjustment: Regular evaluations of acceleration projects, making timely adjustments and optimizations based on project progress and feedback.
• Partner Participation and Feedback: Inviting collaborating VCs, mentors, or community members to provide diverse perspectives and suggestions for acceleration projects.
• Continuous Learning and Innovation: Hosting online and offline events to provide training and development opportunities for team members of acceleration projects.

2. Core Data

1. Project Acceleration:

• Total number of accelerated projects in 2024: 78
• Assisted financing projects: 83, with a total financing amount reaching ~120 million USD
• Number of participating co-investment funds: 170
• Regional distribution: North America & Europe 59%, Asia 41%
• Projects launched this year: 31

2. Comprehensive Coverage of Key Tracks:

• Involved tracks: public chain infrastructure (Layer 1, Layer 2, modular blockchain, EVM, ZK, DA, etc.), DeFi protocols, AI, DePin, RWA, Web3 social and entertainment applications, GameFi games
• Distribution of project numbers in key areas:
• DeFi: 30%
• Infrastructure: 20%
• AI: 15%
• Web3 Social: 20%
• Tools: 15%

3. Cooperative Network:

• Startup network: approximately 3000+ Startups
• Partner VCs: ~700+
• Strategic cooperation: Jointly established the Royal Prestige Group Web3 Alliance with 19 institutions including Polygon, Animoca, Polychain, HashKey Capital, NGC, to strengthen Web3 strategic layout in regions such as the Middle East;
• Public chains: Established cooperation with 20+ public chains, including Solana, BNB Chain, Movement, Aptos, Near, TON, Sui, etc.
• Mentors: Connected with 60+ globally renowned industry mentors, including GSR, Chainlink, Galxe, Fundamental, etc.
• Universities: Resources from 20+ top global universities, including Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, etc.;
• Media resources: 100+ vertical media and traditional media, 50+ marketing agencies, 300+ top global KOLs and communities

3. Landmark Achievements

1. Star Projects:

In 2024, a total of 16 star projects were accelerated in collaboration with the accelerator, detailed in the appendix "Disclosure of Star Projects in Deep Cooperation with Web3Port."

2. Community and Influence:

• Participation in global events: Participated in/hosted 12 industry events, including The Last Gold Mine of Web3, Impact2049, Metaverse Immersive Experience and After Party HK, Middle East Horizons: Unlocking Global Collaboration, etc.;
• Media exposure: Covered by media over 100 times, with total views exceeding 8M, actively interacting with 190+ projects and 200+ global communities;

3. Ecosystem Construction:

• Closely interacted with 20+ public chains, promoting the landing of over 30 ecological cooperation projects;
• Introduced 200+ enterprise resources for startup projects, achieving over 150 business collaborations.

W3P Trading

As the management scale and cooperation scope of Web3Port continue to advance, the demand for professional secondary market support and value investment from the team and partners has become increasingly urgent. In 2024, Web3Port split and expanded the secondary brand W3P Trading and the liquidity business sector, aiming to provide partners with sustainable capital growth models and promote the comprehensive development of partners through professional resource allocation and ecological support.

W3P Trading cooperation includes:

• Providing funding and customized secondary market strategies for quality projects.
• Participating in the design of token economic models for projects, optimizing operational strategies, and building brands.
• Collaborating with the resource networks of Web3Port Foundation and Web3Port Labs to help projects achieve comprehensive development, providing resource integration and business guidance.
• Providing professional proactive market cap management for cooperative projects, optimizing token trading depth and market liquidity, covering all types of exchanges including DEX and CEX.
• Reducing market volatility through scientific liquidity strategies, ensuring the stability of project market performance.
• Providing real-time market analysis and industry trend insights to assist clients in making informed investment decisions.

2. In 2024, W3P Trading Report Card:

• 30+ project collaborations
• Cumulative trading volume ~100B
• Market cap of cooperative projects reached ~20B
• Star projects covering CMC Top 30 rankings
• Total investment ~500M
• Satisfaction rate 100%

Appendix: Disclosure of Star Projects in Deep Cooperation with Web3Port in 2024

1. Movement: Movement is a high-performance Layer 2 solution built on MoveVM. TGE launched on exchanges such as Binance, Upbit, OKX, Bybit, Bithumb, Coinbase, with a peak market cap of 14B, ranked Top 50 on CoinMarketCap, and has completed hundreds of millions in financing, including well-known investors such as Binance Labs, Polychain, CoinFund, Nova Fund, HackVC. The Movement mainnet is about to launch, with the testnet having completed 680 million transactions, 15.8 million active addresses, and community members exceeding 840,000.
2. Aethir: A decentralized cloud computing network focused on providing efficient, low-cost computing resources. As a leader in AI computing power, it successfully launched on Upbit, OKX, Bybit, completing $11.53 million in financing, with node sales exceeding $150 million. Additionally, it established a $100 million Aethir ecological fund to support related projects around AI and gaming, while providing 336 million ATH tokens to independently fund the Aethir Catalyst project.
3. Puffer: Puffer Finance is a protocol focused on the decentralization and scalability of Ethereum, providing Liquid Restaking functionality, with its UniFi Rollup offering instant L1 withdrawals and sub-second transactions. It has launched on CEXs such as Upbit and Kraken. It has completed two rounds of financing, totaling $23.5 million, with investors including Lemniscap, Lightspeed Faction, Brevan Howard Digital, and Electric Capital.
4. Polyhedra: A cross-chain interoperability protocol dedicated to achieving seamless connections and asset transfers between different blockchains. It has supported over 10 mainstream blockchains, with cumulative cross-chain transaction volume exceeding $3 billion. It has completed multiple rounds of financing, totaling $75 million, with investors including Polychain Capital and Binance Labs.
5. CARV: The largest modular data layer (IDL) in the gaming and AI fields. Successfully launched on Upbit, OKX, Bybit. Leveraging modular data solutions, CARV has accumulated 15 million registered users and 2.1 million daily active wallet addresses across more than 40 chains, and has launched the CARV SVM Chain testnet to provide a secure and unified infrastructure for AI agents, accelerating the intelligent and collaborative operational capabilities of AI agents.
6. UxLink: A Web3 social platform dedicated to connecting users and projects through decentralized means, providing Social Growth Layer (SGL) services to promote growth in the crypto market and user adoption. Successfully launched on Upbit, OKX, Bybit, with user numbers exceeding 8 million, achieving over 100 million in trading volume on Upbit/Binance, alternating in the top three trading volumes on Upbit with BTC/Movement.
7. Xterio: A Web3 game platform and publisher dedicated to developing and publishing high-quality Web2 and Web3 games. The platform has registered users reaching 7.9 million, with on-chain interactions exceeding 119 million. Xterio has completed multiple rounds of financing, totaling $55 million, with investors including FunPlus, Makers Fund, FTX Ventures, and Binance Labs.
8. GoPlus: The world's largest Web3 security infrastructure platform, providing comprehensive security services, including smart contract auditing and real-time risk monitoring. It has received investments from many leading exchanges such as Binance Labs and OKX Ventures, providing security support for over 1,000 projects and exchanges, with daily API calls exceeding 34 million, cumulatively protecting asset values exceeding $10 billion, setting industry standards for Web3 security.
9. Lumoz: A global leader in modular compute layer (Modular Compute Layer) and RaaS (Rollup as a Service) platform, providing powerful computing and verification services for zero-knowledge (ZK) and AI applications on blockchains of different architectures, supplying computing power and infrastructure for multiple layer two networks including Merlin, ZKF, Hashkey Chain, etc.
10. MetaCene: A metaverse multiplayer online gaming platform aimed at gamers, designed to build a digital ecosystem that merges virtual reality with the real world, providing users with immersive social, entertainment, and commercial experiences. MetaCene has completed two rounds of investment, with leading investments from Hash Global, SevenX Ventures, and Folius Ventures, totaling $15 million in financing.
11. Bitlayer: A next-generation blockchain infrastructure providing high-performance Layer 1 solutions. The mainnet has launched, with over 5,000 nodes and network throughput reaching 10,000 transactions per second. Bitlayer has completed three rounds of investment, with leading investments from Framework Ventures, ABCDE Capital, Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, and Polychain Capital, totaling $25 million in financing.
12. Avalon Finance: A decentralized finance platform offering a variety of DeFi services, including lending, trading, and yield aggregation. The platform's total locked value (TVL) has surpassed $1.5 billion, with over 500,000 users and cumulative trading volume reaching $2 billion. It successfully entered the eighth season of the MVB accelerator program of BNB Chain. In December 2024, it completed a $10 million Series A financing round, with investors including Framework Ventures and Kenetic Capital.
13. Balance: Led by A16z and Galaxy, selected for MVB Season 8, created by the team behind E-PAL, the world's largest gaming companion platform, combining blockchain and AI technology to drive a Web3 social and gaming platform. By redefining social and gaming experiences, Balance.fun aims to become a key bridge connecting Web2 and Web3 users. Currently, total users have exceeded 5 million.
14. Deagent: DeAgent AI is the largest AI agent infrastructure in the Movement, BTC, and BSC ecosystems. The platform has surpassed 5 million users, with daily active users nearing 700,000, and its product AlphaX has consistently ranked as the top AI Dapp on the BSC ecosystem and Galaxy platform.
15. Network3: A revolutionary technology that builds a dedicated AI Layer 2. It provides fast, convenient, and efficient model training and validation services for global AI developers through AI model algorithm optimization and compression, federated learning, edge computing, and confidential computing. DePIN Scan ranks fourth, with over 570,000 active nodes covering more than 188 participating countries, and application downloads have exceeded 50 million times.
16. Codatta: Led by OKX Ventures, selected for MVB Season 8, created by a former Ant Group senior data team, is an AI-driven blockchain metadata collaboration protocol that decodes blockchain addresses through anonymous privacy protection, simplifying complex transactions for compliance analysis, risk management, trend analysis, user modeling, and providing necessary semantic data for other AI-driven applications.
17. Vold: Vold is a decentralized platform based on blockchain, aiming to establish on-chain reputation by verifying and rewarding users' actions in the real world. It provides a "Proof of Personhood" mechanism to ensure users' identities are verified in both digital and real-world contexts. The team has a strong background, consisting of entrepreneurs from NASDAQ-listed companies and NFL legendary Super Bowl winners, bridging the Web3 world and the American professional sports field.
18. Wave: Wave is a Web3 social and financial ecosystem built on the Sui blockchain, dedicated to merging DeFi and GameFi into an intuitive platform, winning the Sui Global Hackathon, and being a star project of the Sui Foundation, with a total user base of 1.8 million, peak DAU of 1.3 million, and at one point accounting for nearly 80% of active accounts and trading volume on Sui.
19. Cycle Network: A trustless aggregation liquidity network for all blockchains, based on aggregation sorters and chain abstraction, successfully selected for Binance Labs' seventh incubation program. Cycle utilizes multi-chain Zk-rollup technology to expand traditional one-to-one native bridges between L1 and L2 to support full connectivity across all chains. 1M+ UAW, media matrix users exceed 800k, TikTok accounts have over 300k+ fans in mainstream countries globally, bringing in over 150k+ real TikTok users, and the data is rapidly growing, making it one of the few Web3 projects capable of acquiring effective users from TikTok, expected to acquire 1M+ effective users from TikTok in a short time.
20. Wild Forest: Wild Forest is a free real-time strategy game that combines card collection and tactical combat elements. Players can collect, upgrade, and trade cards, earning real rewards through successful battles and trading NFTs. The game is based on the Ronin network, offering features such as PvP battles, deck building, and territory control, with over 100,000 users and daily active users exceeding 18K.
21. Bool Network: A Layer 2 scaling solution providing an efficient and low-cost smart contract execution environment. The number of network nodes has exceeded 10,000, with daily trading volume reaching 2 million transactions, and the community user base continues to grow, with Telegram users exceeding 3 million, and node sales are actively ongoing, with over 500 sold.
22. CharacterX (CAI): An AI infrastructure project. By combining advanced large language models (LLM), multimodal intelligence, and tokenized economy, CAI has built an agent-driven ecosystem across multiple platforms. Currently, CAI supports over 10 million AI agents, serving over 100 million users, backed by investors including Lightspeed and Solana Foundation.
23. Volare: A decentralized financial platform offering a variety of financial services, including stablecoins, lending, trading, etc., aimed at providing users with secure, efficient, and transparent financial solutions. The investment lineup is strong, led by DCG, with follow-on investments from Arrington, GSR, and others.
24. Quantlytica: A blockchain-based AI quantitative analysis platform that provides various data analysis tools and services to help users make informed investment decisions in the digital asset market. It has successfully listed and is a dark horse in the AI track.
25. Satoshi Protocol: A decentralized financial protocol aimed at providing users with efficient and secure financial services through innovative smart contracts and mechanism design.
26. Eden: An innovative project combining Depin and Social, integrating adult toys with mining, allowing users to earn rewards through a "Yearn to earn" model. Currently, product sales have exceeded 3,000 units, receiving significant support from the Bera ecosystem.
27. Trusta: An AI-driven Web3 identity and reputation protocol that builds a POH and on-chain reputation system based on its unique AI-machine learning model and knowledge graph. It has 4 million users, 2 million unique addresses, and has served multiple L1/L2 projects such as Celestia, Linea, Arbitrum, BNB Chain, and nearly 30 DeFi projects, generating over 1 million credit reports cumulatively.
28. AD3 Network: A decentralized advertising network that utilizes blockchain technology to provide transparent, fair, and efficient advertising placement and revenue distribution solutions for advertisers and publishers.