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Are you ready to make your mark on the future of technology and innovation? The BNB Chain Ecosystem Catalyst Awards are here to celebrate the trailblazing projects that have contributed to the BNB Chain ecosystem’s growth. This is your chance to participate in a transparent and democratic process, as the community selects the most deserving projects through an online voting mechanism. Let’s delve into the details of these exciting awards and the impact your vote can have.
Your Chance to Make a Difference
From August 31 to September 6, community engagement takes center stage as BAB holders cast their votes through an on-chain voting process. Voting page goes live on DappBay on August 31.
Your participation in this event brings about exciting incentives: contribute a minimum of 33 votes, and you qualify to mint the exclusive BNB Chain 3 Year Anniversary NFT. But that’s not all – you also stand a chance to win exclusive rewards!
How to Vote:
- Hold BAB tokens（Mint your BAB).
- Link your wallet address to the platform.
- Select up to 5 projects out of the 20 candidates in each category daily (or support just one if you prefer).
- We encourage you to cast your votes on projects that best fit each category. Play your part in recognizing their contributions to the BNB Chain Ecosystem.
Once a vote is cast, it cannot be modified or altered, so make your choices wisely!
On September 7, the top 5 winners from each category (ranked by vote count) will be announced, and NFT certificates will be distributed to the victorious projects, solidifying their recognition and achievements. As a voter, you are an integral part of this celebration of excellence.
Remember, casting at least 33 votes not only grants you the opportunity to mint the special BNB Chain 3-year anniversary NFT but also gives you a shot at exclusive rewards that will further enhance your journey in the blockchain ecosystem.
Celebrating Excellence in Four Categories
The BNB Chain Ecosystem Catalyst Awards shine a spotlight on projects that have left an indelible mark on the blockchain network. The awards are divided into four distinct categories, each representing excellence in different domains:
Innovation Excellence:
This category lauds pioneers who dare to explore uncharted territories by harnessing cutting-edge technologies like AI, opBNB, and Greenfield. Their groundbreaking ideas and transformative solutions redefine the technological landscape.
Decentralize Finance Segment:
Recognizing projects at the forefront of decentralized finance, pushing the boundaries to create innovative financial solutions that reshape the industry.
Gaming, NFT & the Metaverse Segment:
Embracing the dynamic world of gaming, NFTs, and the metaverse, this category highlights projects shaping the future of interactive entertainment and digital ownership.
Infrastructure Segment:
Acknowledging the backbone of any ecosystem, this segment recognizes projects contributing to the foundation and infrastructure of the BNB Chain ecosystem.
Nominated Projects
We warmly welcome the community to vote for the following 80 nominated projects.
Decentralize Finance Segment:
- Alpaca Finance: Helps lenders earn yields and offers borrowers undercollateralized loans for leveraged yield farming positions.
- ApolloX: Offers decentralized order book and on-chain perpetuals with high leverage, minimal slippage and low fees.
- Bolide: A next-generation decentralized yield aggregator that optimizes the deployment of its clients’ digital assets.
- Deri Protocol: A decentralized protocol for users to exchange risk exposures precisely and capital efficiently.
- Helio Protocol: An open-source liquidity protocol for borrowing and earning yield on HAY, a new BNB-backed over-collateralized stablecoin.
- iZUMi: A multi-chain DeFi protocol providing One-Stop Liquidity as a Service (LaaS).
- Kinza: Focuses on security and aims to connect liquidity demand and supply to create the best on-chain money market.
- Maverick: Focuses on DeFi infrastructure built to bring higher capital efficiency and greater capital control to the liquidity market.
- PancakeSwap: An automated market maker (AMM) that allows users to exchange tokens, providing liquidity via farming and earning fees in return.
- Pendle: Creates a novel AMM that supports assets with time decay, giving users more control over future yield by providing optionality and utilization opportunities.
- Penpie: Integrated with Pendle Finance, Penpie focuses on locking PENDLE tokens to obtain governance rights and enhanced yield benefits within Pendle Finance.
- Radiant: A peer-to-peer digital asset system that enables direct exchange of value without going through a central party.
- Range Protocol: Provides comprehensive infrastructure for efficient complex-app development, successful cross-chain and mass distribution, diverse in-app NFT and DeFi features, and more.
- Sable Finance: A reformative primitive for ETH LSD-backed stablecoin on Arbitrum and BNB Chain.
- Thena: Offers a permissionless, user-friendly platform enabling seamless token swaps, yield farming, and liquidity provision for a diverse range of assets.
- TraderJoe: A DeFi platform offering token swaps via an automated market maker (AMM), yield farming, staking of the native utility token, borrowing and lending on the integrated money market, and an NFT marketplace.
- Tranchess: Provides a different risk/return matrix out of a single main fund that tracks a specific underlying asset or a basket of crypto assets.
- Venus Protocol: An algorithmic money market and synthetic stablecoin protocol launched exclusively on Binance Smart Chain (BSC).
- Wombat Exchange: Adopts the concepts of asset-liability management and coverage ratio, enabling various stablecoins to be swapped at minimal slippage and the ability to single-stake stablecoins for sustainable yield.
- WooFi: A unique decentralized exchange that bridges the deep liquidity of centralized exchanges on chain.
Gaming, NFT & the Metaverse Segment:
- BinaryX: A blockchain gaming and IGO platform behind P2E and Play-and-earn games such as CyberChess and CyberDragon.
- BurgerCities: A MetaFi platform featuring a decentralized exchange (DEX), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and more.
- Citizen Conflict: A Free2Play MMO shooter set in a cyberpunk society on Ether Islands.
- Dracoo World: Composed of multiple different types of games and communities, allowing players to create exclusive games and earn profits.
- Element NFT: The first community-driven aggregated marketplace built to save time.
- Gaimin: A Web3 gaming infrastructure project positioned at the intersection of Web3, gaming, and cloud computing.
- Hippo Dash: A gamified hippo-themed meta-entertainment leisure game.
- Joepegs: The leading Web3 platform for NFTs and digital collectibles.
- MEEET: A social simulation game based on blockchain technology.
- Meta Apes: A free-to-play, play-and-earn MMO strategy game.
- Meta Merge: Allows you to capture your favorite pets, defeat enemies, mint NFTs, and embark on your adventure in the world of monsters.
- MOBOX: Combines yield farming in DeFi with gaming NFTs, creating a free-to-play, play-to-earn gaming model.
- Monsterra: A free-to-play-and-earn multi-chain game run on BNB, Avalanche, and OKX networks inspired by Axie Infinity, Clash of Clans, or Boom Beach.
- PlayBux: The largest x-to-earn platform in Web3.
- PuffGo: An on-chain multiplayer royale game that allows players to earn while having fun.
- SecondLive: A create-to-earn open Metaverse where Web3 inhabitants gather to facilitate self-expression, unleash creativity, and build a dreaming parallel universe.
- Tap Fantasy: A free-to-play MMORPG on the blockchain with over 200 roles with NFT skins in the game.
- Tiny World: A blockchain game universe that combines NFTs, DeFi, and Gaming to create a truly stunning experience for users.
- Ultimate Champions: Play with your friends, collect your favorite athletes’ Ultimate Cards, test your sport knowledge against the world, and become the Ultimate Champion!
- Ultiverse: Built on Unreal Engine 5, Ultiverse brings AAA-gaming to blockchain with an immersive social virtual world and native Web3 technology.
Infrastructure Segment:
- Axelar: It enables dApp users to interact with any asset or application, on any chain, with one click.
- Altlayer: Rollups-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions fast-track the deployment of highly scalable application-tailored rollups.
- BSC Scan: A Block Explorer and Analytics Platform for BNB Smart Chain.
- Celer: A blockchain interoperability protocol enabling easy access to tokens, DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, governance, and more.
- Chainlink: The industry-standard Web3 services platform connecting people, businesses, and data of today with the Web3 world of tomorrow.
- Combo: Building an open-source, decentralized, game-oriented Layer2 that is accessible to everyone.
- Cyberconnect: Web3’s earliest and biggest decentralized social network.
- Galxe: The leading platform for building Web3 communities with over 11 million unique users.
- Glacier: A step-by-step protocol for storing Bitcoins in a highly secure way, offline.
- The Graph: An indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data and making it easily accessible with GraphQL.
- LayerZero: An omnichain interoperability protocol enabling cross-chain applications with low-level communication.
- Nodereal: A one-stop infrastructure and solution provider embracing the high-speed blockchain era.
- Parsiq: A full-suite Data Solution providing historical and real-time blockchain data via filtered and indexed APIs.
- Particle Network: Provides MPC (Multi-Party Computation)-based TSS (Threshold Signatures Scheme).
- Polyhedra:Building the next generation of infrastructure for Web3 interoperability, scalability, and privacy through advanced Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) technology.
- Port3: Aggregates and standardizes both off-chain and on-chain data to build a social Data Layer.
- Pyth: Delivers real-time market data for crypto, equities, FX, and commodities to 20+ blockchains.
- Quicknode: Offers high-performance access to 24+ blockchains.
- SpaceID: Building a universal name service network with a one-stop identity platform to discover, register, trade, and manage Web3 domains.
- Trust Wallet: A secure wallet to store your favorite BEP tokens and more.
Innovation Excellence:
- 4everland: A Web 3.0 cloud computing platform that integrates storage, computing, and networking as its core capabilities
- ChainGPT:The premiere AI-powered dashboard for Web3, providing advanced Crypto AI tools for traders, NFT creators, developers, and the crypto community.
- DexCheck: Offers a diverse set of features designed to enhance users’ understanding and performance in the digital asset ecosystem.
- Diamond Protocol: A modular vault protocol allowing DeFi strategists to build and deploy on-chain.
- Dmail:A mail notification and message subscription-based Web3 multi-chain infrastructure that provides unified, real-time communication services.
- GPT Guru: A next-generation blockchain AI tool empowering Web 3.0 and Web 2.0 communities, fueling creativity and productivity.
- Hooked Protocol: A gamified social learning platform building an interactive and gamified on-ramp layer for new users to enter the Web3 world.
- HyperGPT: A marketplace for all AI solutions and a seamless SDK where you can access integrated AI solutions.
- Mar3AI: Provides an easy-to-use platform that makes design accessible to everyone, enabling even beginners to create visually impressive content.
- MathVerse: An NFT based AI Co-create Virtual World.
- NFPrompt: The first Prompt Artist Platform in Web3, providing an AI-powered entry point to Web3 through AI-Generated NFTs.
- TinyTap: Utilizes a new protocol allowing communities to create, own, and promote content they want to see in the world and enables educators to earn revenue and gain recognition for their contributions.
- Qna3.ai: An AI-powered Web3 data platform that helps you get answers to every Web3 question.
- Shareverse: A composable metaverse protocol that builds a community-driven NFT functional component market, supporting users to build a composable, interoperable, and shareable metaverse LEGO ecosystem.
- HIM: An AI blockchain-based virtual companion game utilizing AIGC and LLMs to create rich story-based gameplay and organically evolving interactions with characters.
- Sophiaverse: Provides an AI-generated fictional framework, teaching users how to write AI code and improve systems through AI quests.
- Sparkle: A gamified astrology social app with curated Web3 and AIGC features.
- Unipass: A non-custodial smart contract wallet, with no seed phrases or gas fees.
- XCAD Network: A platform harnessing the value of Content Creator audiences via tokenization.
- Xterio: A free-to-play-and-own game developer and publisher founded by veterans of the game industry.
Your Vote Shapes BNB Chain Community
As the voting starts on DappBay on August 31, 12 PM UTC,
👉Vote Now !
Your voice becomes a catalyst for change, progress, and innovation. This is your chance to shape the direction of the BNB Chain ecosystem and ensure the most deserving projects receive the recognition they deserve.
Keep in mind that while the event is set in motion, BNB Chain reserves the right to modify or revoke the event at any time without prior notification, exercising its exclusive discretion.
So, mark your calendars, prepare your votes, and get ready to be part of the exciting journey that’s transforming technology and innovation. The BNB Chain Ecosystem Catalyst Awards are your chance to make a difference and inspire a future where excellence thrives.
Disclaimer:
Please carefully review this disclaimer before participating in the voting process.
Nomination: Projects were nominated by the community or through self-nomination by projects.
Due Diligence: BNB Chain conducted basic due diligence on nominated projects, focusing on TVL and user activity to verify the nominated projects..
Winner Selection: Winners will be determined by community voting. Top five winners in each category will be announced based on vote count.
BNB Chain reserves the right to modify the awards as needed and will notify participants of any changes. Additionally, while efforts were made to verify the nominated projects, BNB Chain is not liable for post-selection changes on the projects.
