Original author: ALL16 Demo Day Overview
Original source: Alliance
Original translation: Yuliya, PANews
Amid the AI noise and turbulence in the cryptocurrency market, true innovation is surging beneath the surface. Alliance, which has incubated star projects like Pump.fun and Pendle, has delivered its report for the ALL16 period. Among the 18 graduating companies, stablecoin payments, AI applications, prediction markets, and RWA tokenization have become the core themes. Meanwhile, applications for the ALL17 period will close on March 25.
Below is a detailed introduction to these 18 ALL16 startups:
Fintech and Stablecoin Payments
Allod: Enterprise-grade Stablecoin Bank
Allod (allodfinance.com) enables enterprises in emerging markets to use stablecoins to transfer dollars instantly and economically, bypassing the manual compliance reviews imposed by banks (which flag one-third of wire transfers as anomalies, with a false positive rate exceeding 97%).
Allod handles fiat deposits and withdrawals, counter-party compliance, and key management within a software package similar to a regular banking account. The founder studied computer science at Berkeley and co-founded Fei Labs, which launched a decentralized stablecoin, raised $1.3 billion, and became one of the top ten stablecoins by market cap.
Superbank: Pre-funding Liquidity Solutions
Superbank (superbank.co) helps fintech companies pre-fund fiat bank accounts at an affordable cost without taking on excessive debt or equity dilution.
Unlike traditional methods that evaluate long-term business viability, Superbank primarily underwrites payment channels to offer loans secured by settlement funds that typically arrive within 1 to 3 days.
The platform provides capital through APIs, automating traditional manual processes. Its founder previously established one of Europe’s largest digital banks, Penta, which was later sold for $250 million to Qonto. The core team has 9 years of collaboration experience.
Crebit: Stablecoin Payments for International Students
Crebit (crebitpay.com) leverages stablecoin-backed foreign exchange trading to provide international students with a faster and cheaper cross-border tuition payment method.
By partnering with local banks to support regional payment methods like PIX and Bre-B, Crebit completely eliminates SWIFT fees.
Brazil’s largest bank, Itaú, has designated Crebit as its official study abroad partner. The founding team members hail from Stanford University, Amazon, NASA, and MIT.
Inflow: Stripe for Cross-Border SMEs
Inflow (inflowpay.com) enables any small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) to accept card payments from around the world at affordable rates.
By reconstructing the merchant tech stack on a stablecoin track, Inflowpay outperforms traditional providers (who charge 10% and settle in weeks) by utilizing existing connections to secure bank contracts that usually take years to obtain.
Its founders include a founding engineer of an MPC wallet startup and a former founder who built a seven-figure revenue bootstrapped company.
Tradevu: Stablecoin Banking for African Enterprises
Tradevu (tradevu.co) provides instant financing to African SMEs at affordable rates 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 rejected by traditional trade financing models and integrates financing with payments, allowing funds to seamlessly cross suppliers, currencies, and borders.
Its founders had previously founded Pivo (YC S22), which deployed over $8 million in funding for African SMEs, and founded Jalo (subsequently acquired by a YC company).
Prediction Markets and Trading Platforms
Predexon: Unified API for Prediction Markets
Predexon (predexon.com) simplifies development work on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
Developers can use Predexon's market-matching engine to deduplicate and integrate markets from different platforms into a unified interface. Additionally, developers can access real-time data pipelines for historical and real-time data and execute cross-platform trades through a single integration. Its founders are college roommates from Berkeley’s engineering school with backgrounds working at Amazon and AWS.
Freeport: Tradable News Feed
Freeport (freeportmrkts.com) offers real-time pushes of breaking news along with related real-time trades and analysis, enabling retail investors to "trade the news" instantly.
The platform uses AI agents to continuously update market information, inferring the best trading opportunities from the headlines of tokenized stocks and perpetual contracts available on Hyperliquid. Its founders studied math and computer science together and have worked at IMC and Jane Street.
Hadron: AMM as a Service
Hadron (hadron.fi) enables token teams to easily and economically launch their proprietary AMM on Solana.
By reverse engineering and generalizing the mathematical principles behind the black-box proprietary AMM that handles over half of Solana’s transaction volume, Hadron allows any token project to customize pricing and swapping logic, ensuring that each liquidity pool can operate on all leading DEX aggregators from day one of launch. Its founders are from the Solana Foundation and Alchemy.
Worm: Leverage Prediction Markets
Worm (worm.wtf) provides traders with capital-efficient leverage for prediction markets. By using a liquidity provision protocol with dynamic hedging and liquidation engines, Worm enables users to gain leveraged exposure to prediction markets within an aggregated order book (initially supporting Polymarket and Kalshi) for optimal execution.
Its founder left a product manager position at Facebook to lead product development at Aave, later becoming Chief Product Officer at Rarible. The co-founder is a gold medalist in the math olympics.
Ratio: Social Application for Prediction Markets
Ratio (ratio.you) assists retail users of prediction markets by allowing them to quickly and easily view the operations of top traders and copy their trades with one click.
The best traders can earn rewards while expanding their audience and driving trading volume, turning them into influencers within the copy-trading and creator monetization flywheel.
Its founder previously scaled another startup to over 100,000 users and has a background working at Coinbase and a unicorn financial company.
Artificial Intelligence and Data Intelligence
Givance: Agent Workers for Law Firms
Givance (givance.ai) automates law firm operations by connecting autonomous agents to the entire technology stack of law firms. Lawyers can have agents handle client reception, communication, billing, and collections, thereby reducing management costs and increasing billable hours.
This is significant for around 200,000 law firms in the United States without operational staff. Its founder has successfully exited from two startups and has a background working at Google Research, Snapchat, and YC S23.
Deconflict: Palantir for Financial Crime
Deconflict (deconflict.com) protects financial institutions from fraud by directly connecting user data with law enforcement data.
When law enforcement flags suspicious activity, Deconflict sends real-time alerts to transaction platforms, banks, and other remittance agencies to freeze funds before they are transferred, without disclosing sensitive case details. Currently, over 800 law enforcement agencies from 26 countries have joined the platform. Its founder has 22 years of law enforcement experience, including working for the U.S. Secret Service. The co-founder led the AI project at Apple Intelligence.
Couch: AI Companion for the Visually Impaired
Couch (cou.ch) helps visually impaired individuals navigate the web. While traditional screen readers force users to hear each element on the page one at a time, Couch runs as a lightweight browser extension.
It first uses AI to understand the page, then only presents important content, such as actions the user can take (like booking the cheapest flight or filtering results). Its founder worked for 15 years at Meta and Cloudflare building tools.
Akara: Sideline Intelligence for Sporting Events
Akara (akaramarkets.com) provides retail traders with affordable, low-latency advantages in sports events.
By deploying a ground scout network at live events, Akara uses AI to convert real-time audio into actionable intelligence, faster than a TV broadcast that lags reality by 30 seconds and much cheaper than data sources costing over $200,000 annually exclusively for institutions. Its founders come from Morgan Stanley (quantitative trading), Palantir, Duke University (PhD), as well as MIT and Jane Street.
RWA Tokenization and Web3 Infrastructure
Graded: On-chain StockX
Graded (graded.world) allows collectors to trade any collectible (physical or virtual) instantly and securely from anywhere in the world.
By aggregating collectibles from existing markets (both on-chain and off-chain) and acting as a custody and settlement layer, Graded unlocks value trapped within the $350 billion physical collectibles market in collectors' portfolios. Its founders previously built a crypto digital bank that peaked at $100 million in stablecoin asset management.
Lucent: Tokenization of Life Sciences
Lucent (uselucent.io) allows retail investors to purchase private pharmaceutical assets, specifically drug IP and royalty exposure, not just the companies behind the products.
Biotech companies tokenize on Lucent because it enables them to raise funds against individual drug assets without diluting their capital structure. Currently, three VC-backed biotech companies have signed up for neurology and rare disease therapies. Its co-founders studied at Yale University and Cornell University and built a nine-figure health tech company as well as a billion-dollar biotechnology company.
Bluvo: Plaid for Crypto
Bluvo (bluvo.co) provides a white-label API for DeFi applications, enabling seamless and secure direct integration with any CEX.
By designing new authentication workflows and reimagining security best practices, Bluvo allows applications like Polymarket to easily transfer funds from CEXs through user-friendly processes, a capability that is often fragile and expensive when built in-house. Its team consists of serial entrepreneurs who previously established an algorithmic crypto trading firm with a trading volume of $100 million.
PreStocks: Tokenization of Pre-IPO Stocks
PreStocks (prestocks.com) provides instant liquidity for retail investors of any size to enter and exit Pre-IPO stocks.
Each token is backed by a special purpose vehicle (SPV) and a customized market-making engine capable of pricing accurately in real-time and providing reliable on-chain liquidity. Since its launch in August, PreStocks has recorded over $350 million in trading volume, addressing the liquidity and pricing lag of private stocks. Its founder has been in the crypto space since 2013, was an early engineer at Canva, and executed 50 Pre-IPO transactions over the past year.
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