Quick Look at the Latest 18 Graduation Projects from Alliance: Who's the Next Pump.fun?

Original Author: ALL16 Demo Day Overview

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Original Translation: Yuliya, PANews

Amidst AI noise and crypto market turbulence, true innovation is quietly brewing. Alliance, which has incubated star projects like Pump.fun and Pendle, delivered its ALL16 report card. Among the 18 graduating startups, stablecoin payments, AI applications, prediction markets, and RWA tokenization emerged as the core themes. Meanwhile, applications for ALL17 will close on March 25.

Here are detailed introductions to the 18 ALL16 startups:

FinTech & Stablecoin Payments

Allod: Enterprise-Grade Stablecoin Bank

Allod (allodfinance.com) enables businesses in emerging markets to use stablecoins to instantly and cost-effectively transfer US dollars, bypassing banks' manual compliance checks (which flag one-third of wire transfers as suspicious, with a false positive rate exceeding 97%).

Allod processes fiat on/off-ramping, counterparty compliance, and key management in a software package similar to a daily bank account. The founder studied computer science at UC Berkeley and co-founded Fei Labs, which launched a decentralized stablecoin, raised $1.3 billion, and became a top-ten stablecoin by market cap.

Superbank: Pre-funding Liquidity Solution

Superbank (superbank.co) helps FinTech companies pre-fund fiat bank accounts at an affordable cost without resorting to excessive debt or equity dilution.

Unlike traditional methods of assessing long-term business viability, Superbank primarily underwrites payment channels, providing loans collateralized by settlement funds typically received within 1 to 3 days.

The platform automates traditional manual processes through API-funded disbursements. Its founder previously started one of Europe's largest digital banks, Penta, which was later sold for $250 million to Qonto. The core team has 9 years of collaborative experience.

Crebit: Stablecoin Payment for International Students

Crebit (crebitpay.com) leverages stablecoin-based foreign exchange transactions to offer international students a faster, cheaper way to pay cross-border tuition fees.

By partnering with local banks and supporting regional payment methods such as PIX and Bre-B, Crebit eliminates SWIFT fees altogether.

Brazil's largest bank, Itaú, has designated Crebit as its official study abroad partner. The founding team members are from Stanford University, Amazon, NASA, and MIT.

Inflow: The Stripe for Cross-Border SMEs

Inflow (inflowpay.com) enables any small or medium-sized enterprise to accept affordable bank card payments from around the world.

By reconstructing the merchant tech stack on the stablecoin track, Inflowpay outperforms traditional providers (charging 10% fees and settling in weeks) and leverages existing connections to secure bank contracts typically taking years to obtain.

Its founders include a founding engineer from an MPC wallet startup and a former founder who built a seven-figure revenue bootstrapped enterprise.

Tradevu: The Stablecoin Bank for African Enterprises

Tradevu (tradevu.co) provides instant financing at affordable rates to African SMEs by underwriting real trade activities (such as shipment data, counterparty information, order speed, and payment behavior).

By building credit around verified transactions, Tradevu funds viable enterprises often shut out by traditional trade finance models and integrates financing with payments, enabling funds to seamlessly span suppliers, currencies, and borders.

Its founders previously founded Pivo (YC S22), deploying over $8 million in funds to African SMEs, and founded Jalo (later acquired by a YC company).

Prediction Markets & Trading Platforms

Predexon: Unified API for Prediction Markets

Predexon (predexon.com) simplifies development on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.

Developers can utilize Predexon's market matching engine to deduplicate and integrate markets from different platforms into a unified interface. Additionally, developers can access a real-time data pipeline for historical and live data and execute cross-platform trades through a single integration. Its founder is a college roommate from UC Berkeley Engineering with a background at Amazon and AWS.

Freeport: Tradable News Feed

Freeport (freeportmrkts.com) offers real-time alerts for breaking news along with relevant real-time trading and analysis, enabling retail investors to instantly "trade the news."

The platform leverages AI agents to continuously update market information and infer optimal trading opportunities from tokenized stocks and perpetual contract news headlines available on Hyperliquid. Its founder studied math and computer science together and has worked at IMC and Jane Street.

Hadron: Proprietary AMM as a Service

Hadron (hadron.fi) enables token teams to easily and cost-effectively launch their proprietary AMM on Solana.

By reverse-engineering and generalizing the mathematical principles behind a black-box proprietary AMM accounting for over half of Solana's volume, Hadron allows any token project to customize pricing and exchange logic, ensuring each liquidity pool can operate on all major DEX aggregators on launch day. Its founders are from the Solana Foundation and Alchemy.

Worm: Leveraged Prediction Market

Worm (worm.wtf) provides traders with capital-efficient leverage for market prediction. By utilizing a liquidity providing protocol with a dynamic hedging and liquidation engine, Worm enables users to access leverage on prediction markets within an aggregated order book (initially supporting Polymarket and Kalshi), allowing for optimal execution.

Its founder transitioned from a Facebook product manager role to lead product development at Aave and later served as Chief Product Officer at Rarible. The co-founder is a former Math Olympiad gold medalist.

Ratio: A Social Prediction Markets Platform

Ratio (ratio.you) assists retail prediction market users in trading by enabling them to quickly and easily view top traders' actions and copy trades with a single click.

The top traders can earn rewards for expanding their audience and driving trading volume, turning them into influencers within the copy trading and creator monetization flywheel.

Its founder has previously scaled a startup to over 100,000 users and has a background working at Coinbase and a fintech unicorn.

Artificial Intelligence & Data Intelligence

Givance: Agency Staffing for Law Firms

Givance (givance.ai) achieves law firm operational automation by linking autonomous agents into the firm's entire tech stack. Attorneys can have agents handle tasks like client intake, communication, billing, and payments, reducing overhead costs and increasing billable hours.

This is significant for around 200,000 law firms in the U.S. that operate without administrative staff. Its founder has had successful exits from two startups and has a background working at Google Research, Snapchat, and YC S23.

Deconflict: The Palantir of Financial Crime

Deconflict (deconflict.com) protects financial institutions from fraud by directly linking user data with law enforcement data.

When law enforcement flags suspicious activity, Deconflict sends real-time alerts to exchanges, banks, and other remittance institutions to freeze the funds before the transfer, without disclosing sensitive case details. Currently, over 800 law enforcement agencies from 26 countries are onboarded on the platform. Its founder has 22 years of law enforcement experience, including working at the U.S. Secret Service. The co-founder led Apple Intelligence's artificial intelligence project.

Couch: An AI Companion for the Visually Impaired

Couch (cou.ch) helps visually impaired individuals browse the web. Unlike traditional screen readers that force users to listen to each element on a page one by one, Couch operates as a lightweight browser extension.

It first uses AI to understand the page and then only presents essential content, such as actionable items (like booking the cheapest flight or filtering results). Its founder spent 15 years building tools at Meta and Cloudflare.

Akara: Sideline Intelligence for Sports Events

Akara (akaramarkets.com) provides retail traders with affordable, low-latency advantages in sports events.

By deploying a ground scout network at live matches, Akara uses AI to convert real-time audio into actionable intelligence, faster than the 30-second delayed TV broadcast and much cheaper than data sources costing over $200k per year used only by institutions. Its founders come from Morgan Stanley (quantitative trading), Palantir, Duke University (Ph.D.), and MIT and Jane Street.

RWA Tokenization and Web3 Infrastructure

Graded: On-Chain StockX

Graded (graded.world) enables collectors to trade any collectibles (physical or virtual) instantly and securely from anywhere in the world.

By aggregating existing markets (both on-chain and off-chain) of collectibles and serving as a custody and settlement layer, Graded unlocked value trapped in the $350B+ entity collectibles market in collector portfolios. Its founder previously built a crypto-native bank, peaking at $100M in stablecoin AUM.

Lucent: Tokenizing Life Sciences

Lucent (uselucent.io) enables retail investors to purchase private biopharma assets, specifically drug IP and royalty exposure, rather than just the company behind the product.

Biotech firms tokenize on Lucent as it allows them to fundraise against individual drug assets without diluting their cap table. Currently, three VC-backed biopharma companies have signed for neurology and rare disease therapies. Its co-founder studied at Yale and Cornell, previously building a health tech company valued in the 9 digits and a biopharma firm valued in the billions.

Bluvo: The Plaid of Crypto

Bluvo (bluvo.co) provides a white-label API for DeFi apps to seamlessly and securely integrate any CEX.

By designing new authentication workflows and reimagining security best practices, Bluvo enables apps like Polymarket to easily transfer funds from CEXs through a user-friendly process, a feature often brittle and costly if built in-house. Its team are serial entrepreneurs, previously establishing an algorithmic crypto trading company with $100M+ in volume.

PreStocks: Tokenizing Pre-IPO Stocks

PreStocks (prestocks.com) offers immediate liquidity in and out of Pre-IPO stocks for retail investors of any size.

Each token is backed by a special purpose vehicle (SPV) and a custom market-making engine capable of accurately real-time pricing and providing reliable on-chain liquidity. Since its launch in August, PreStocks has traded over $350M, addressing illiquidity and mispricing in private stock. The founder has been in crypto since 2013, was an early engineer at Canva, and completed 50+ Pre-IPO deals in the past year.

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