Author: Alliance

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Deep Tide Guide: Alliance is a leading incubator in the cryptocurrency industry, having incubated star projects like Pump.fun, Pendle, and Tensor.

The latest session, ALL16, graduated a total of 18 teams, focusing on stablecoin payments, prediction markets, AI applications, and RWA tokenization.

From financing for small and medium enterprises in Africa to web assistants for visually impaired individuals, from on-chain Pre-IPO stocks to AI employees in law firms, the founders of these teams have backgrounds from YC, Jane Street, Apple AI, Solana Foundation, among others.

ALL17 application deadline is March 25.

The full text is as follows:

Alliance ALL16 officially presents 18 new projects.

Allod ( @AllodFinance ) | Enterprise-Level Stablecoin Bank

Allod enables businesses in emerging markets to transfer dollars instantly and at low cost using stablecoins, bypassing the manual compliance checks of banks—banks classify one-third of wire transfers as anomalies, with a false positive rate exceeding 97%. Allod handles fiat deposits and withdrawals, counterparty compliance, and key management within a daily banking account experience product package.

The founder graduated from UC Berkeley's computer science department and co-founded Fei Labs, which raised $1.3 billion, with its issued decentralized stablecoin briefly ranking in the top ten by market value.

Predexon ( @predexon ) | Unified API for Prediction Markets

Predexon simplifies development work on prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi. Developers can use Predexon's market matching engine to consolidate and de-duplicate markets from different platforms into a unified interface, connect to real-time data pipelines for historical and real-time data, and execute trades cross-platform via a single integration.

The two founders are college roommates from UC Berkeley's engineering school, having worked at Amazon and AWS.

Superbank ( @superbankapp ) | Pre-Financing Liquidity for Fintech Companies

Superbank helps fintech companies pre-finance fiat bank accounts at reasonable costs without incurring excessive debt or equity dilution. Unlike traditional long-term business evaluation methods, Superbank mainly underwrites payment channels and issues loans against settlement funds usually received within 1 to 3 days, automating traditional manual processes via APIs.

The founder previously established one of Europe’s largest digital banks, Penta, which was later sold to Qonto for $250 million. The core team has collaborated for nine years.

Givance ( @givance_ai ) | AI Employee for Law Firms

Givance integrates autonomous intelligent agents into the entire technology stack of law firms to automate operations. Attorneys can delegate tasks like client reception, communication, billing, and collections to the intelligent agents, reducing management expenses and increasing billable time—there are approximately 200,000 law firms in the U.S. without operational staff, and this gap truly exists.

The founder has two successful exit experiences and a background in Google Research, Snapchat, and YC S23.

Deconflict ( @deconflict_ ) | The Palantir of Financial Crime

Deconflict helps financial institutions prevent fraud by directly linking user data with law enforcement data. When law enforcement agents flag suspicious activity, Deconflict sends immediate alerts to exchanges, banks, and other fund transfer institutions, allowing them to freeze assets before funds are withdrawn, while not disclosing sensitive case details. Currently, over 800 law enforcement agencies from 26 countries have joined the platform.

The founder has 22 years of law enforcement experience, including serving in the U.S. Secret Service; the co-founder led an AI project at Apple Intelligence.

Crebit ( crebitpay.com ) | Cross-Border Tuition Payments for International Students Using Stablecoins

Crebit utilizes stablecoin foreign exchange trading to allow international students to pay tuition faster and cheaper. By partnering with local banks and supporting regional payment methods like PIX and Bre-B, Crebit entirely bypasses SWIFT fees. Brazil's largest bank, Itaú, has designated Crebit as its official study abroad partner.

The founding team comes from Stanford University, Amazon, NASA, and MIT.

Couch ( @couch_labs ) | AI Web Assistant for Visually Impaired Individuals

Couch assists visually impaired individuals in browsing the web. Traditional screen readers compel users to listen to each element on a page one by one, whereas Couch operates as a lightweight browser extension: first using AI to understand the entire page, then only presenting truly important content—such as actions you can perform, like booking the cheapest flight, filtering results, etc.

The founder has 15 years of experience in tool development at Meta and Cloudflare.

Freeport ( @freeportmrkts ) | Tradable Real-Time News Flow

Freeport provides real-time notifications for significant news, along with related trading directions and analyses, enabling retail investors to "trade news" instantly. The platform continuously updates market information using AI agents, inferring optimal trading opportunities from news headlines about tokenized stocks and perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid.

The two founders studied mathematics and computer science together and both have experience from IMC and Jane Street.

Inflow ( @Inflowpay ) | Stripe for Cross-Border SMEs

Inflow enables any SME to accept card payments from around the world at reasonable prices. By reconstructing the merchant record technology stack on a stablecoin track, Inflow leverages existing connections to secure bank contracts that typically take years to negotiate, outperforming traditional service providers that charge 10% fees and have settlement periods stretching for weeks.

One of the founders is a founding engineer at an MPC wallet startup, while the other previously ran a self-funded company generating seven figures in annual revenue.

Hadron ( @Hadron_Fi ) | AMM as a Service

Hadron makes it simple and cost-effective for token teams to deploy proprietary AMMs on Solana. By reverse-engineering and generalizing the mathematical logic behind black-box proprietary AMMs responsible for over half of Solana's transaction volume, Hadron allows any token project to customize pricing and swap logic, ensuring each liquidity pool operates ahead of all major DEX aggregators on Solana from day one.

The founders come from the Solana Foundation and Alchemy.

Worm ( @wormwtf ) | Leveraged Prediction Markets

Worm provides prediction market traders with capital-efficient leveraged tools. Through a liquidity provision protocol equipped with a dynamic hedging and liquidation engine, Worm enables users to participate in prediction markets with leverage from an aggregated order book (initially supporting Polymarket and Kalshi) for optimal execution.

One founder previously led product development at Aave after leaving a product manager position at Facebook, later becoming Chief Product Officer at Rarible; the co-founder is a gold medalist in the Math Olympics.

Graded ( @Gradeddotworld ) | On-Chain StockX

Graded enables collectors to trade any collectible (physical or virtual) instantly and securely from anywhere in the world. By aggregating collectibles from existing markets (on-chain and off-chain) and acting as a custody and settlement layer, Graded unlocks over $350 billion of value locked in the collectibles market.

The founder previously established a crypto-native bank with stablecoin asset management peaking at $100 million.

Lucent ( uselucent.io ) | Tokenization of Life Sciences

Lucent allows retail investors to purchase private biopharmaceutical assets, specifically drug IP and royalty exposures, rather than the companies behind them. Biotech companies tokenize on Lucent to raise funding for individual drug assets without diluting overall equity. Three VC-backed biopharmaceutical companies have already signed contracts, focusing on neurology and rare disease therapies.

The co-founders graduated from Yale and Cornell, having previously founded a health tech company with nine-figure revenues and a biopharmaceutical company worth billions.

Akara ( @AkaraMarkets ) | Live Sports Event Intelligence

Akara provides retail traders with low-latency, low-cost advantages in sports betting. By deploying ground reconnaissance networks at live events, Akara uses AI to convert real-time audio into actionable intelligence—faster than television broadcasts that lag 30 seconds behind reality, and at a much lower cost than dedicated data services that exceed $200,000 annually.

The founding team comes from Morgan Stanley (quantitative trading), Palantir, Duke University (PhD), and MIT/Jane Street.

Bluvo ( @Bluvo_co ) | Crypto Version of Plaid

Bluvo provides white-label APIs for DeFi applications, enabling seamless and secure direct connections with any centralized exchange (CEX). By designing a brand new authentication process and reconstructing security best practices, Bluvo allows applications like Polymarket to transfer funds easily from CEX with user-friendly flows—something that is costly and fragile to build in-house.

The team consists of serial entrepreneurs who previously established an algorithmic crypto trading company with $100 million in trading volume.

Ratio ( @ratio_dot_you ) | Social Application for Prediction Markets

Ratio helps retail prediction market participants quickly view top traders' actions and copy trades with one click. Top traders earn as their audience grows and trading volume increases, becoming KOLs in a flywheel effect of copy trading and content monetization.

The founders have each built previous startups to over 100,000 users and have experience working at Coinbase and unicorn fintech companies.

Tradevu ( @tradevu_co ) | Stablecoin Bank for African Businesses

Tradevu provides instant, low-cost financing to small and medium enterprises in Africa by underwriting real trade behavior (including logistics data, counterparty information, order speed, and payment behavior). Financing is built around verified transactions, and funds can be seamlessly deployed across suppliers, currencies, and borders, covering viable businesses often excluded from traditional trade finance models.

The founder previously launched Pivo (YC S22), deploying over $8 million in funding for small and medium enterprises in Africa, and was involved in Jalo, which was later acquired by a YC-backed company.

PreStocks ( @PreStocks ) | Tokenized Pre-IPO Stocks

PreStocks provides instant liquidity for pre-IPO stocks to retail investors of any size, allowing constant entry and exit. Each token is backed by an SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) equipped with a custom market-making engine to achieve real-time accurate pricing and reliable on-chain liquidity. Since its launch in August, it has generated over $350 million in transaction volume, addressing issues of poor liquidity and delayed pricing in private equity.

The founder has been in crypto since 2013, was an early engineer at Canva, and completed 50 Pre-IPO transactions in the past year.

Congratulations to all founders who graduated to the ALL16 Demo Day.

Alliance ALL17 application deadline is March 25, go to alliance.xyz to apply.