Project Categories
The categories below are simplistic and imperfect and will improve with input. Please make suggestions.
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Decentralized compute
Cudos:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Cudos unites cloud and blockchain. We use spare computing to create a decentralised, sustainable, and connected world.
Flux:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Includes their own OS - to enable running Dockerized apps using blockchain at least for incentives.
Akash:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Akash Network is a Distributed Peer-to-Peer Marketplace for Cloud Compute.
Render Network:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: The Render Network is ushering in a new era of decentralized GPU cloud rendering.
Run and Stake Ethererum nodes
Ankr:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Ankr’s globally distributed node infrastructure allows us to build the best possible multi-chain tools as a foundational layer for Web3, DeFi, and the crypto economy.
Pocket:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Community (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: The only reliable and decentralized RPC network in the world governed by a high-performing DAO with the most contributor-friendly ecosystem.
- Experience with ODC community: Very strong - recommended for use by hackathon participants
Alchemy:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Alchemy replaces the nodes that businesses use to read and write blockchains with a faster, more scalable decentralized architecture. It also provides tools for analytics, monitoring, alerting, logging and debugging for cryptocurrency-connected software.
Rocket Pool:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Rocket Pool is the first truly decentralised Ethereum staking pool.
Decentralized storage
Arweave:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Resources (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Decentralized ecosystem based on Arweave, including storage & much else.
IPFS:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Resources (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is a decentralized file system for building the next generation of the internet. Filecoin and many popular Web3 projects are built on IPFS. Some call it the hard drive for blockchain and Web3, though its power extends much further.
Filecoin:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Resources (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Similar to IPFS - however also includes token incentives.
Ceramic
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Resources (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: With Ceramic's permissionless data streaming network, you can store streams of information and ever-changing files directly on the decentralized web – and share updates with anyone in the world.
Fleek
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Resources (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Fleek is an open source, blockchain agnostic, extensible web3 development platform,fleek makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship resistant, and free of centralized gatekeepers.
Fluence
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Resources (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Fluence provides an open Web3 protocol, framework and tooling to develop and host applications, interfaces and backends on permissionless peer-to-peer networks.
** Ethereum Swarm:**
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Resources (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Swarm is a decentralised data storage and distribution technology, ready to power the next generation of censorship resistant unstoppable serverless apps. It is the complement to blockchain based smart contracts originally envisaged by Ethereum.
API providers and Oracles
Covalent:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Single API - across a breadth of block chains - and a network of providers to enable some level of decentralization
Chainlink:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Doc (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Decentralized and high-quality data feeds, highly reliable, cost-efficient and highly secure automation for smart contracts,Verifiable, tamper-proof random number generator for blockchain gaming and NFT projects and request and can receive data from any API using the Chainlink contract library
Rivet:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Doc (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Cloud-based Ethereum APIs offers endpoints for Ethereum and Ethereum Classic in one dashboard.Provides access to most major testnets on Ethereum,offers RPC, and graphql endpoints for all supported networks.
Witnet:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: A Decentralized Oracle Network connecting smart contracts to the rest of the world.
Index transactions
Decentralized technologies used to Index transactions.
The Graph:
TrueBlocks:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Unchained Index specification (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Lightweight indexing for any EVM-based blockchain. Potentially crucial for data decentralization.
- Experience with ODC community: Very strong - recommended for use by hackathon participants.
There are additionally a number of Index offerings that are sold as centralized and proprietary solutions.
Graph relationships
Trust Protocol:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Notion (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: A developing privacy-centric data analytics protocol that leverages social graphs, data indexing, and off-chain/on-chain data porting to enable robust high-trust environments.
Interpret transactions
Technologies used to make sense of indexed transactions are many. They typically include approaches to simplify quering and in some cases these technologies include their own indexing.
Raphtory:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary:Raphtory is a unified analytics engine for large-scale graph analysis, allowing you to run complex graph queries no matter where your data lives and what format it is in. Besides performance and scalability, what makes Raphtory cool is its ability to represent and explore the history of a complex system, from simply “time travelling” through data, to executing richer analysis like taint tracking, temporal reachability, or mining temporal motifs.
- Experience with ODC community: Very strong - likely in use by hackathon participants.
Transpose:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)- only demos of API usage and similar
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Provides SQL interfaces & a sandbox for analysis.
Kwil:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Kwil is a permissionless SQL database that enables decentralized, structured data storage for off-chain data.
Dune Analytics:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab) projects running on top of Dune
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Free crypto analytics by and for the community.
Flipside Crypto:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Free crypto analytics offering analytics bounties and with free API.
Blockchain ETL:
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Data sets and scripts for blockchains in Google BigQuery.
Apps that use Decentralized Data
Rotki:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Rotki is an open source portfolio tracker, accounting and analytics tool that protects your privacy.
Data sharing
Some projects are enabling the sharing of data and related analysis.
Kamu:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Kamu’s Open Data Fabric network brings the power of enterprise data pipelines into global trustless environment.
Ocean Protocol:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Github (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Ocean Protocol is a suite of decentralized tools to unlock data at a large scale.
- Experience with ODC community: Very strong - strongly preferred as a part of January 2023 hackathon.
Verified blockchain % non blockchain data
Codeislaw:
- Website (opens in a new tab)
- Telegram (opens in a new tab)
- Docs (opens in a new tab)
- Summary: Codeslaw is a code search engine for verified smart contracts on Ethereum and beyond to help developers find and learn from verified and live smart contracts. Codeslaw is a public good project by Electric Capital to help support the growth and development of the crypto community.