🔸 The old projects have been wiped out, and it's time to find new projects with potential. How do I choose a project? ✅ Track: Defi has always been the mainstream track, and the probability of big hair is relatively high. ✅ Financing: Projects with top VC participation have generally done professional background checking, and the credibility and ceiling are higher. ✅ Time point: You can't enter the interaction too late, otherwise there is a high probability of reversal. Therefore, it is better to have a project in an early stage and in a participatory way. 🔻 We have compiled the Defi protocols that have received top VC investment in the past 3 months, are still in the early stages, and have a path to participation. MAYBE AS A REFERENCE, DYOR. Defi protocols (in order of funding time, new ones first) 1/Momentum A total of $8 million was raised, led by Jump Crypto, with participation from Coinbase, Amber, and others. @MMTFinance aims to become a ve(3,3)dex of the Sui ecosystem. Their mainnet has been launched in Sui, and you can Swap, LP: 2/Fragmetric The total financing is $12 million+, led by Hashed, with participation from Amber and Robot. @fragmetric is a Solana ecosystem restaking protocol. At present, its mainnet and F points mechanism are both online, and it is in the S1 season, which can liquidly stake SOL and use LST for Defi: 3/Level The total financing was $6.2 million, led by Dragonflu and Polychain. @levelusd is a yield stablecoin protocol. The project has been launched on the mainnet and launched the XP mechanism to deposit stablecoin assets into Farm to earn points: 4/Vest The total financing is $5 million+, with participation from Amber Group and Big Brain Holdings. @VestExchange is a Perps Dex. Users can trade and provide liquidity to earn points: 5/Infrared The total financing was $18.25 million, led by Yzi Labs and Framework. @InfraredFinance is the BearChain PoL infrastructure. Users can provide liquidity on BearChain and put LP tokens in Infrared to mine iBGT and stake iBGT: 6/AcreBTC The total financing was $4 million, with participation from Big Brain Holdings. @AcreBTC is a compound income protocol for the BTC ecosystem. Users can deposit BTC, earn Acre Points, Mezo Points: 7/Universal The total financing was $9 million, led by A16Z and participated by Coinbase. @universaldotxyz is a Warp asset trading platform with an abstract chain. Its platform is live, and it can trade 80+ different assets, providing LP, Mint, and Redeem wrapped assets: 8/Defi App The total financing was $6 million, led by Mechanism Capital @defidotapp is a Super APP that combines Cefi and Defi. The Defi App is a beta version and requires a code to join the test: 9/Canopy The total financing was $1.2 million, with participation from Mechanism Capital and GSR. @canopyxyz is a yield protocol on the Movement chain. Users can deposit assets and earn income: 10/Ranger The total financing was $1.9 million, with participation from Big Brain Holdings. @ranger_finance is a Perps Dex aggregator on the Solana chain. They went live on mainnet in December '24 and have launched the Ranger ranks program: