ChainCatcher HK On-Site Investigation | Quick Overview of the BNB Chain MVB Phase 9 Selected Projects, Who Will Be the Next Dark Horse?

Author: ChainCatcher

On April 5th, at 535 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, a low-key yet focused closed-door event is taking place within the AWS office space. The 16 projects shortlisted for the ninth phase of the "Most Valuable Builder" (MVB) accelerator program, co-hosted by BNB Chain, YZi Labs, and CMC Labs, have gathered here.

This 4-week accelerator program aims to cultivate technology-driven innovators within the BNB Chain ecosystem. Sarah, the head of BNB Chain's business, stated that MVB Phase 9 is designed specifically for true builders. On-site, the Chain Catcher HK exploration assistant indeed felt a strong atmosphere of hope.

Next, I will outline the 16 shortlisted projects to see if the next dark horse will emerge.

(The market is tough; exploring everywhere may uncover sparks of hope.)

AI

bitGPT

bitGPT Network is a decentralized AI agent network, with the core idea of building a privacy-friendly, interoperable, and inclusive AI ecosystem that promotes the "Delegation Economy," allowing AI to truly serve humanity while ensuring users have complete control over their personal data.

bitGPT adopts a "centralized-radiating" architecture, combining agent layers, blind training protocols, secure isolated environments, threshold Paillier homomorphic encryption, and zero-knowledge proofs, focusing on SLMs (small language models) to achieve a balance between efficiency and security. By introducing Delegates (AI agents), it enables autonomous decision-making and task execution for AI both on-chain and off-chain, supporting various applications from crypto transactions to data analysis.

Datai Network

Datai Network provides a structured data layer for on-chain AI, transforming raw blockchain data into structured, AI-ready smart data.

Datai consolidates data from multiple blockchains by refining, correlating, and organizing it into a smart unified data layer. Datai's proprietary data enhancement process can extract key signals and patterns, providing AI models with deep insights into on-chain dynamics. This enables developers to make smarter, data-driven decisions, whether building AI agents, dApps, or exploring the Web3 ecosystem.

Echopy

Echopy is an AI portfolio optimizer for the BNB Chain ecosystem, analyzing market trends and data. Echopy uses artificial intelligence to analyze market trends, sentiment changes, social media data, and the behavior of top analysts in real-time, helping users discover potential Web3 investment opportunities and providing actionable recommendations.

Echopy adopts a freemium model, allowing users to test core features and unlock premium features through a subscription model. Currently, Echopy supports assets and dApps on the BNB Chain, with plans to expand to other blockchains in the future.

EureXa AI

EureXa AI is the first robotic technology tokenization platform on-chain. EureXa AI connects developers, investors, and enterprises through the RST (Robotic Sovereign Token) protocol, accelerating the training and commercialization of robotic models, providing funding and resource support for early-stage robotic technology.

Everlyn

Everlyn is a high-speed Web3 video generation tool. On February 6th, Everlyn announced the launch of Lyn, an L1 network designed specifically for video AI, powered by its self-developed autoregressive foundational video model Everlyn-1.

The native asset of the Lyn ecosystem is the LYN token, which is central to the Lyn ecosystem and its platform Everworld, supporting all inter-agent activities, rewarding all task executions, and serving as the primary currency within the platform. The initial total supply of LYN tokens is 1,000,000,000.

The distribution is as follows:

JoJoWorld

JoJoWorld is a decentralized 3D spatial data platform where users can use virtual avatars to experience their ideal lives in a mirrored reality. JoJoWorld supports the training of cutting-edge foundational models, such as Text-to-3D model training and applications in embodied robotics.

Super Protocol

Super Protocol is a collaborative confidential AI marketplace. In the Super Protocol cloud, confidential computing technology provides security during data execution, while a blockchain-based decentralized network ensures coordination, transparency, and verifiability of all processes.

Super Protocol launched the first public version of Marketplace 2.0 on November 27, 2024. This version offers OAuth2 login, supports Intel TDX and NVIDIA GPU confidential computing, model file uploads, confidential channel AI deployment, and a new UI/UX experience.

TermiX

TermiX is an AI-driven Web3 operating system that supports no-code AI agent integration and creation. TermiX provides pluggable intelligent agent components, cross-chain atomic instruction sets (TAIS), and a no-code workflow editor through the Chat2Agent intelligent agent and TermiX Agent Universe (TAU) ecosystem, enabling developers and users to efficiently create and share Web3 tasks, promoting the development of the Web3 ecosystem.

Infrastructure

Pieverse

Pieverse Timepot is an innovative time economy platform built on the BNB Chain, aimed at addressing four major pain points in the monetization process of current Web2 and Web3: difficulty in monetization, poor circulation, low trust, and misaligned incentives. Timepot creates a structured, equitable, and practical on-chain time trading infrastructure, allowing every unit of time to be reasonably priced and effectively circulated.

The platform's core includes three main functional modules: Time Bid (time bidding), allowing users to acquire the time of celebrities or experts through fair bidding; Time Draw (time lottery), enabling small participation to win interaction opportunities with target individuals or collectively crowdfunded content; and Time Task (time tasks), supporting skill exchanges and time services among ordinary users. Timepot will also support fiat payments and on-chain smart contract guarantees in the future, facilitating seamless integration between Web2 and Web3, aiming to become the world's first time value infrastructure.

DeFi

BitFi

BitFi is a native BTC yield CeDeFi solution, providing native yield solutions for BTC assets. It offers native support for BTC assets on major blockchains such as BTC, BSC, Bitlayer, and Hemi, with an expected annual percentage yield (APY) of over 4.5%.

After depositing assets on the BitFi platform, users will receive corresponding liquid staking tokens bfBTC and bfUSD. bfBTC and bfUSD can circulate freely within the ecosystem, allowing participation in DeFi mining, liquidity provision, governance, and other yield-generating activities.

In July 2024, BitFi announced the completion of its seed round financing, with investments from Fundamental Labs, IBC Group Ventures, CGV FoF, TyreGate Capital Group, and Citizen Journalism Network Accelerator (CJNA), with specific amounts not disclosed.

LIKWID

LIKWID is a permissionless, oracle-free margin trading protocol. The Likwid Protocol is based on Uniswap V4's liquidity pools, providing a fully decentralized derivatives mechanism.

The Likwid Protocol adopts a liquidity pool model, where user-provided liquidity is integrated into a shared pool, allowing other users to borrow these funds for short selling or leveraged trading. Borrowing does not require a one-to-one match between borrowers and lenders but relies on the total liquidity in the pool and the collateral status of users. This model allows for instant loan operations based on the pool's status, maximizing capital efficiency.

DePIN

XPIN

XPIN is an AI-driven consumer-grade DePIN platform that combines decentralized wireless technology with user innovation. Through a series of products tailored for various use cases (such as Global eSIM, XPIN PowerLink, XPIN BOX, and XPIN base stations), it meets the global network connectivity needs. XPIN also launched a tradable yield AI agent, Xtella.AI.

The total supply of the XPIN token PIN is 10 billion, of which 8% is allocated for airdrops; 2% is reserved for public token sales during IDO and IEO; 40% is for ecosystem incentives; 20% is allocated to investors; and 20% and 10% are allocated to the team and foundation, respectively.

DeSci

Citadel Labs

Citadel Labs is a deep tech project launch platform dedicated to reshaping scientific research and commercialization models using blockchain and decentralized tools, creating a new generation of financing ecosystems. Its investment scope covers charity, patent tokens, venture capital, and more.

The liquidity flow of Citadel Labs ecosystem:

Stadium Science

Stadium Science is a prediction market focused on the scientific field. Stadium Science transforms users' wearable device data into scientific discoveries through crypto-incentivized prediction markets, research challenges, and data validation mechanisms.

Currently, Stadium Science starts with sleep science, allowing users to join experiments, contribute data, and explore different research protocols through prediction markets. The platform employs a verification system based on cryptoeconomics to ensure the authenticity and reliability of data while protecting user privacy.

Gaming and Entertainment

Oneverse

Oneverse is a virtual economy engine designed for the gaming industry, aiming to break down barriers between traditional games and Web3 games. Through the unified game currency OOC, Oneverse enables cross-game economic interoperability, allowing players to trade and interact freely across different games.

Additionally, Oneverse provides over 60 reliable payment channels in Southeast Asia and Latin America, ensuring users have a seamless payment experience. Oneverse also integrates development tools, services, and data analytics to provide ecosystem support for game developers.

TCOM Global

TCOM Global is a decentralized IP protocol combining AI and Web3, empowering content creators and communities to achieve fairer and more efficient IP production, governance, and commercialization. TCOM is jointly managed by ACGWORLDS Co., Ltd. and Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd., with plans to launch NFT series, GameFi operations, and token issuance.

Moreover, it will create a user co-creation space for multiple iterations, allowing users to participate in content creation and promote the production, sale, and release of various new content.