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Earlier this year, TZ APAC launched its web3 startup studio Fortify Labs, and invited teams across the region looking to build on Tezos or Etherlink to apply.
The value propositions were clear: extreme focus on every single startup, a tailored support stack, resources from a thriving global Tezos ecosystem and collaboration with a TZ APAC team ready to roll up their sleeves and work on the ground with founders.
What followed was an overwhelmingly positive response. Applications from startups solving real-world problems across the world operating in categories such as gaming, NFT, DeFi, AI and infrastructure were received with plenty of gratitude and excitement.
After a rigorous selection process involving numerous interviews and robust critical analyses, seven exceptional teams emerged as the top contenders. These teams will be inducted into the program, where they will get all the help they need to reach profitability.
The selected startups demonstrated outstanding technical and business acumen, coupled with passion and competitive advantages. It’s not an overstatement to consider them among the most promising startups building on Tezos or Etherlink today!
For this cohort, we want you to be involved. Whether you are a Tezos community member, artist, founder, crypto native, web3 beginner or a tech enthusiast in general, we are planning campaigns where you can be rewarded for being amongst the first to be part of the startups’ journeys. Stay tuned till the end of the article to find out - let’s first dive into the program.
Fortify Labs is a Web3 startup studio by TZ APAC tailored to foster startups built on Tezos and Etherlink.
Having already run two successful Web3 Incubator cohorts, TZ APAC in 2024 is advancing beyond enabling innovation to build market-ready and commercially successful Web3 companies.
Find more information on the support offered by Fortify Labs, click here.
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akaSwap
Ladder Protocol
OnChainVision Labs
Questflow
Renora
TaskOn
YourD
akaSwap built Asia’s first and largest NFT open marketplace on Tezos, featuring numerous artworks and projects created by artists around the globe since 2021.
They aimed to build a complete ecosystem, offering various original tools for effortless exploration of the Web 3.0 world.
Through Fortify Labs, they will be pivoting in a brand new direction, intending to serve one of the most popular Web3 sectors, Web3 gaming.
Ladder Protocol, a decentralized automated market making (AMM) protocol, provides instant liquidity for a range of NFTs.
This means that users buy from or sell into liquidity pools instead of trading peer-to-peer. One can think of it as the Uniswap for NFTs, with a profound GameFi focus.
Focused on channeling liquidity where it’s most needed, Ladder has established a leading position as the go-to NFT AMM for GameFi assets.
OnChainVision (OCV) Labs is an interactive asset builder for crafting on-chain programmable assets using HTML, CSS; with JavaScript functionalities and content delivery network (CDNs), resembling the process of a full website development.
They are also creating an AI tool that allows users to convert JPEGs into their format, reducing reliance on interplanetary file system (IPFS) and will benefit the ecosystem as a whole from a storage perspective.
The introduction of these interactive NFTs smoothens the creation of completely on-chain games.
Non-programmers usually look at programmers in envy as they have the means to create customized workflow automation that streamlines their repetitive work.
With Questflow, now anybody can!
Questflow is a collaborative text-to-workflow platform for automating repetitive tasks across platforms with your team, regardless of size, with the help of AI.
Some features include:
Renora is a non-custodial robo-advisory platform that makes your assets work for you 24/7 using systematic investment strategies.
Through their proprietary automated trading strategies, retail users can maximize their gains passively. Currently integrated into multiple CEXes - users can distribute assets flexibly to avoid having a single failure point.
Renora will introduce Tezos as the first decentralized ecosystem their users have access to.
TaskOn is a platform that boosts the completion for various Web3 tasks in a decentralized way. It helps task initiators and implementers to collaborate efficiently and better align mutual interests.
Web3 project owners can use Taskon to engage users with task-and-reward mechanics such as quests, events, and campaigns. They make themselves easy to use with features like campaign templates, automatic token reward distribution, and data analytics tools.
YourD provides users with a user-managed, privacy-compliant, and regulatory-abiding decentralized identity verification and crypto payment system, offering a seamless user experience.
This innovative approach not only facilitates the quick and easy onboarding of Web2 businesses and users to Web3 but also enhances the experience for existing Web3 users.
TZ Apex is a community rewards program initiative by TZ APAC that is aimed at bolstering community involvement and interaction with projects built on Tezos through incentivization.
Be among the pioneers to experience upcoming projects building on Tezos through engaging quests and unlock exciting rewards, including Tez, NFTs, tokens, whitelist access, exclusive merchandise, and more!
Find out more about TZ Apex!
