NostraNostra, symbolized by NSTR, is a comprehensive crypto Super App designed to cater to a wide array of cryptocurrency needs. This decentralized platform, powered by Starknet, offers a seamless experience for trading, swapping, lending, and borrowing, all within a single interface. Users benefit from full control of their funds and transparent transactions, ensuring a secure and user-friendly environment.Web3Pre-seedFinance projects and financial applications
Explore finance projects across decentralized finance, payments, lending, exchanges and related financial activities. Use the sub-sectors to find the type of project you want to research, then review its available evaluations and their authors.
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NostraNostra, symbolized by NSTR, is a comprehensive crypto Super App designed to cater to a wide array of cryptocurrency needs. This decentralized platform, powered by Starknet, offers a seamless experience for trading, swapping, lending, and borrowing, all within a single interface. Users benefit from full control of their funds and transparent transactions, ensuring a secure and user-friendly environment.Web3Pre-seed
NovaDEXNovaDEX is high performance v3 liquidity AMM DEX on Solana.Web3Pre-seed
OctoFiOctoFi gives you cash back when you transact with trusted DeFi and NFT marketplaces, across multiple blockchains, through our all-in-one dApp or browser-plugin Wallet.Web3Pre-seed
OneFinityOneFinity (ONE) stands out as a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the MultiversX platform, owned by its community. This DEX is in the process of being listed on the Raydium Protocol on the Solana network, showcasing its commitment to cross-chain integration. OneDex, a key component of OneFinity, offers a Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) tool and is working on integrating features like xStake Predictions, Smart Order Streaming, and a bridge to Solana.Web3Pre-seed
OpenLeverageOpenLeverage (OLE) stands out as a permissionless margin trading protocol, enabling traders and applications to long or short any trading pair on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) with efficiency and security. This open-source project is governed by the OpenLeverage Community Council, with its source code accessible on GitHub. The mission of OpenLeverage is to establish a decentralized margin trading infrastructure that requires no permissions, allowing the creation of margin trading markets for token pairs with isolated and market-adjusted risk controls.Web3Pre-seed
OrangeDXOrangeDX (O4DX) stands as a pioneering force in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, specifically tailored for Bitcoin. As a first-generation Bitcoin DeFi hub, OrangeDX offers a comprehensive platform that empowers users to trade, swap, secure, and launch BRC-20 and bridged EVM tokens. This multifaceted approach ensures that users have access to a wide array of financial services, including borrowing and lending.Web3Pre-seed
OrcaOrca (ORCA) stands out as a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Solana blockchain, designed to offer users a seamless experience in swapping assets, providing liquidity, and earning yield. Its user-friendly interface makes it accessible for both beginners and seasoned traders, aiming to democratize decentralized finance (DeFi) by making financial tools easy and effective for everyone. One of Orca's key features is its automated market maker (AMM) system, which facilitates low-fee, near-instant token swaps.Web3Series B
OrdiswapOrdiswap (ORDS) stands as a pioneering protocol that merges off-chain server management with the BRC-20 standard, enabling direct trading and liquidity provision on Bitcoin's native layer. This integration allows users to engage in BTC/BRC-20 trades without the need for external intermediaries, embodying the core principles of decentralized finance (DeFi). The ORDS token, an interoperable utility token, is designed for seamless operation across both Bitcoin's native layer and the Ethereum network.Web3Pre-seed
OverlayOverlay is a protocol to long/short any scalar, non-manipulable and unpredictable data stream. Users lock the native token OV to long/short a particular market, and smart contract mints/burns OV based on the success of the position. The protocol has been launched on mainnet in a sandboxed environment -what they called Litter Box, with less than 20,000 OV in circulation.Web3Seed
ParaSwapParaSwap operates as a decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator, designed to enhance the efficiency of users' interactions with a variety of DeFi services. This platform facilitates the management of crypto assets and enables the swapping between different cryptocurrencies through the use of decentralized exchanges and lending protocols. Its core function is to consolidate the liquidity from these decentralized platforms into a single, accessible, and secure interface, along with providing APIs for integration.Web3Seed
PendulumPendulum is an interoperable blockchain network built on Polkadot’s Substrate framework, designed to serve as the missing link between traditional finance and the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Evolving from its foundational infrastructure role, Pendulum's native asset, $PEN, now functions as the core utility and access token for Vortex Finance - a leading fiat-to-crypto ramping platform and global cross-border settlement gateway. As the native fuel for the Vortex platform, a portion of all transaction fees is automatically charged in $PEN.Web3Seed
Perpetual ProtocolPerpetual Protocol is a decentralized exchange project centered around the PERP token.Web3SeedAbout this sector
Finance brings together several application categories, from staking, stablecoins and tokenization to banking, card networks and investment groups. Not every project in this collection is a blockchain protocol. The category assigned in Orbitrum provides a starting point; the individual profile explains the project itself.
How to compare projects
Compare projects with similar functions before comparing their available scores. An exchange, a payment network and a lending application should not be treated as interchangeable. Read what each evaluation covers and follow the author to understand their other published work.
Projects follow the categories assigned in the Orbitrum application. This collection supports research and discovery; it is not an investment ranking.
Industry definitions
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (19)
Applications and protocols classified as decentralized finance.
Yield Farming (65)
Projects categorized around yield-farming activities.
Staking (206)
Projects and services categorized around staking.
Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) (234)
Decentralized exchange projects assigned to the Finance sector.
Synthetic Assets (2)
Projects categorized around synthetic-asset applications.
Insurance (12)
Insurance-related projects within the Finance classification.
Stablecoin (149)
Stablecoin-related projects; individual profiles provide their documented design and scope.
Tokenization (9)
Projects categorized around the tokenization of assets or rights.
Launchpad (93)
Projects classified as launchpads for other projects or tokens.
Supply Chain Tracking (2)
Projects using tracking systems for supply-chain activities.
Automated Market Maker (AMM) (12)
Automated market-maker projects assigned to the Finance sector.
Centralized Exchange (CEX) (52)
Projects classified as centralized exchanges or related services.
Lending & Borrowing (4)
Projects providing or supporting lending and borrowing activities.
Payments & Card Networks (64)
Projects operating payment services or card-network activities.
Questions to guide your research
- Which financial activity does the project perform?
- What revenue, usage or operating evidence is included in the analysis?
- Which dependencies and risks does the author identify?
Questions about this sector
What is the difference between Finance and Financials?
Orbitrum currently has two separate application sectors. Finance contains DeFi and other financial-application categories, alongside some banking and investment categories. Financials groups banking services, investments, holdings and insurance. Their coverage can overlap; their application categories remain distinct.
Are all Finance projects crypto projects?
No. This sector also contains non-crypto categories such as banking, payments and investment groups. Check each project profile for its type and documented activity.
