Quick overview of Alliance ALL16 Demo Day: 18 new projects, with prediction markets and AI applications emerging

Author: Alliance

Compiled by: Shenchao TechFlow

Senchao Introduction: Alliance is a leading incubator in the crypto industry, having incubated star projects such as Pump.fun, Pendle, and Tensor.

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

From financing 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 this batch of teams come from backgrounds including YC, Jane Street, Apple AI, and the Solana Foundation.

The application deadline for ALL17 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 US dollars instantly and at low cost using stablecoins, bypassing manual compliance checks by banks—where one-third of wire transfers are flagged as anomalies, with a false positive rate exceeding 97%. Allod handles fiat deposits and withdrawals, counterparty compliance, and key management within a product package that offers a daily banking account experience.

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 once ranking in the top ten by market cap.

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 markets from different platforms into a unified interface, access real-time data pipelines for historical and real-time data, and execute trades across platforms through a single integration.

The two founders are college roommates from Berkeley's engineering school and have previously 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 primarily underwrites payment channels, issuing loans against settlement funds that typically arrive within 1 to 3 days, automating traditional manual processes through APIs.

The founder previously founded one of Europe's largest digital banks, Penta, which was sold to Qonto for $250 million. The core team has worked together for nine years.

Givance** (@givance_ai) | AI Employees for Law Firms**

Givance integrates autonomous intelligent agents into the entire tech stack of law firms, automating law firm operations. Lawyers can delegate tasks such as client reception, communication, billing, and collections to the agents, reducing management overhead and increasing billable hours—there are about 200,000 law firms in the U.S. without operational staff, highlighting a real gap.

The founder has two successful exits and has experience at Google Research, Snapchat, and YC S23.

Deconflict** (@deconflict_) | Palantir for Financial Crimes**

Deconflict helps financial institutions prevent fraud by directly connecting user data with law enforcement data. When law enforcement flags suspicious activities, Deconflict instantly alerts exchanges, banks, and other fund transfer institutions to freeze assets before funds are transferred, while keeping sensitive case details confidential. The platform currently has over 800 law enforcement agencies from 26 countries onboard.

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

Crebit** (crebitpay.com) | Stablecoin Cross-border Payments for International Students**

Crebit uses stablecoin forex trading to enable international students to pay tuition fees faster and cheaper across borders. By partnering with local banks and supporting regional payment methods like PIX and Bre-B, Crebit completely 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 the Visually Impaired**

Couch helps visually impaired individuals browse the web. Traditional screen readers force users to listen to every element on the page one by one, while Couch operates as a lightweight browser extension: it first uses AI to understand the entire page and then presents only the truly important content—such as actionable items like booking the cheapest flights or filtering results.

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

Freeport** (@freeportmrkts) | Tradable Real-time News Feed**

Freeport provides real-time alerts for major news events, along with relevant trading directions and analysis, enabling retail investors to "trade news" instantly. The platform uses AI agents to continuously update market information, inferring the best trading opportunities from news headlines of tokenized stocks and perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid.

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

Inflow** (@Inflowpay) | Stripe for Cross-border SMEs**

Inflow enables any small and medium enterprise to accept card payments from around the world at reasonable prices. By rebuilding the merchant record tech 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 cycles of up to several weeks.

One of the founders is a founding engineer of an MPC wallet startup, while the other previously built a self-funded company with a seven-figure annual revenue.

Hadron** (@Hadron_Fi) | AMM as a Service**

Hadron simplifies the deployment of proprietary AMMs for token teams on Solana, making it easy and cost-effective. By reverse-engineering and generalizing the mathematical logic behind proprietary AMMs that account for over half of Solana's transaction volume, Hadron allows any token project to customize pricing and swap logic, ensuring that each liquidity pool is operational on the first day across all major DEX aggregators on Solana.

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 with dynamic hedging and liquidation engines, Worm allows users to participate in prediction markets with leverage from an aggregated order book (initially supporting Polymarket and Kalshi), achieving optimal execution.

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

Graded** (@Gradeddotworld) | On-chain StockX**

Graded 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 locked in the over $350 billion physical collectibles market.

The founder previously established a crypto-native bank, reaching a peak of $100 million in stablecoin asset management.

Lucent** (uselucent.io) | Tokenization of Life Sciences**

Lucent enables retail investors to purchase private biopharmaceutical assets, specifically drug IP and royalty exposure, rather than the companies behind them. Biotech companies tokenize on Lucent to finance individual drug assets without diluting overall equity. Three VC-backed biopharmaceutical companies have already signed on, 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 revenue and a billion-dollar biopharmaceutical company.

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 reality by 30 seconds and at a cost far lower than institutional-grade data services that exceed $200,000 per year.

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 new authentication process and reconstructing security best practices, Bluvo allows applications like Polymarket to easily transfer funds from CEX with user-friendly workflows—this functionality is costly and fragile to build in-house.

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

Ratio** (@ratiodotyou) | Social Application for Prediction Markets**

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

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

Tradevu** (@tradevu_co) | Stablecoin Bank for African Enterprises**

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

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

PreStocks** (@PreStocks) | Tokenized Pre-IPO Stocks**

PreStocks provides instant liquidity for Pre-IPO stocks to retail investors of any size, allowing them to enter and exit at any time. Each token is backed by an SPV (special purpose vehicle) equipped with a custom market-making engine for real-time accurate pricing and reliable on-chain liquidity. Since launching in August, it has traded over $350 million, addressing the liquidity and pricing lag issues in private equity.

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

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

The application deadline for Alliance ALL17 is March 25. Apply at alliance.xyz.