Quick Overview: Alliance ALL16 Demo Day Showcases 18 New Projects: Prediction Markets and AI Applications Take Center Stage

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Deep潮 Introduction: Alliance is a leading incubator in the crypto industry, having incubated star projects like Pump.fun, Pendle, Tensor, and more.

The latest edition, ALL16, features 18 graduating teams, focusing on stablecoin payments, prediction markets, AI applications, and RWA tokenization.

From financing small and medium-sized enterprises in Africa to web assistants for the visually impaired, from on-chain pre-IPO stocks to law firm AI staff, the founders of these teams come from backgrounds including YC, Jane Street, Apple AI, Solana Foundation, and others.

Application deadline for ALL17 is March 25.

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Alliance ALL16 cohort introduces 18 new projects.

Allod (@AllodFinance) | Enterprise Stablecoin Banking

Allod enables businesses in emerging markets to transfer USD instantly and at low cost using stablecoins, bypassing manual compliance checks by banks—banks flag one-third of wire transfers as suspicious, with a false positive rate over 97%. Allod handles fiat on/off ramps, counterparty compliance, and key management within a product package that mimics a regular bank account experience.

Founded by UC Berkeley computer science graduates, former co-founders of Fei Labs, which raised $1.3 billion and once ranked in the top ten by decentralized stablecoin market cap.

Predexon (@predexon) | Unified Prediction Market API

Predexon simplifies development on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. Developers can use Predexon’s market matching engine to deduplicate and integrate markets across platforms into a unified interface, access real-time data pipelines for historical and live data, and execute trades across platforms with a single integration.

The two founders are Berkeley Engineering alumni who previously worked at Amazon and AWS.

Superbank (@superbankapp) | Pre-financing Liquidity for Fintech Companies

Superbank helps fintech firms pre-finance fiat bank accounts at reasonable costs without taking on excessive debt or equity dilution. Unlike traditional long-term business assessments, Superbank primarily underwrites payment channels, issuing loans for settlement funds that typically arrive within 1-3 days, automating manual processes via API.

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

Givance (@givance_ai) | AI Staff for Law Firms

Givance integrates autonomous AI agents into law firms’ entire tech stack to automate operations. Lawyers can delegate client reception, communication, billing, and collections tasks to AI agents, reducing management costs and increasing billable hours—there are about 200,000 law firms in the US without operational staff, a real gap.

The founders have two successful exits and backgrounds at Google Research, Snapchat, and YC S23.

Deconflict (@deconflict_) | Palantir for Financial Crime

Deconflict connects user data directly with law enforcement data to help financial institutions prevent fraud. When law enforcement flags suspicious activity, Deconflict instantly alerts exchanges, banks, and fund transfer agencies, enabling them to freeze assets before funds are moved, without revealing sensitive case details. Over 800 law enforcement agencies from 26 countries are already on the platform.

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

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

Crebit uses stablecoin FX trading to make international tuition payments faster and cheaper. Partnering with local banks and supporting regional payment methods like PIX and Brea-B, Crebit completely bypasses SWIFT fees. Brazil’s largest bank, Itaú, has designated Crebit as an official partner for student payments.

The founding team includes alumni from Stanford, Amazon, NASA, and MIT.

Couch (@couch_labs) | AI Web Assistant for the Visually Impaired

Couch helps visually impaired users browse the web. Unlike traditional screen readers that require listening to each element on a page, Couch runs as a lightweight browser extension: it first uses AI to understand the entire page, then only presents the truly important content—such as actionable options like booking the cheapest flight or filtering results.

The founder has 15 years of experience developing tools at Meta and Cloudflare.

Freeport (@freeportmrkts) | Tradable Real-Time News Feed

Freeport offers real-time major news alerts with related trading directions and analysis, enabling retail investors to “trade the news” instantly. The platform uses AI agents to continuously update market information, inferring optimal trading opportunities from tokenized stock and perpetual contract news headlines on Hyperliquid.

Both founders studied mathematics and computer science together, with experience at IMC and Jane Street.

Inflow (@Inflowpay) | Cross-Border Payment Solution for SMEs, the “Stripe of Africa”

Inflow enables any SME to accept card payments globally at reasonable costs. Rebuilding merchant infrastructure on the stablecoin rails, Inflow leverages existing connections to secure bank contracts that usually take years to negotiate, outperforming legacy providers charging 10% fees with settlement cycles of weeks.

One founder was the lead engineer at a MPC wallet startup; another previously built a self-funded company earning seven figures annually.

Hadron (@Hadron_Fi) | AMM as a Service

Hadron makes it easy and low-cost for token teams on Solana to deploy proprietary AMMs. By reverse engineering and generalizing the math behind Solana’s over-half-of-transaction-volume black-box AMMs, Hadron allows any token project to customize pricing and swap logic, ensuring each liquidity pool runs on all major Solana DEX aggregators from day one.

Founders come from Solana Foundation and Alchemy.

Worm (@wormwtf) | Leveraged Prediction Markets

Worm provides prediction market traders with more capital-efficient leverage tools. Through a liquidity protocol with dynamic hedging and liquidation engines, Worm enables users to participate in prediction markets (initially supporting Polymarket and Kalshi) with leverage, achieving optimal execution.

One founder left Facebook product management to lead Aave’s product development, later becoming Rarible’s Chief Product Officer; co-founder is a math Olympiad gold medalist.

Graded (@Gradeddotworld) | On-Chain StockX

Graded allows collectors to trade any physical or virtual collectibles instantly and securely anywhere in the world. By aggregating existing markets (on-chain and off-chain) and acting as a custody and settlement layer, Graded unlocks the value of over $350 billion in physical collectibles that are currently locked in collectors’ hands.

The founder previously built a crypto-native bank with peak stablecoin assets under management reaching $100 million.

Lucent (uselucent.io) | Tokenization of Life Sciences

Lucent enables retail investors to buy into private biotech assets—specifically drug IP and royalty exposure—rather than the underlying companies. Biotech firms tokenize on Lucent to finance individual drug assets without diluting overall equity. Three VC-backed biopharma companies have signed on, focusing on neurology and rare disease therapies.

Co-founders are Yale and Cornell alumni, previously founded a nine-figure health tech company and a multi-billion-dollar biopharma firm.

Akara (@AkaraMarkets) | Live Sports Event Intelligence

Akara provides retail traders with low-latency, low-cost sports betting advantages. By deploying ground reconnaissance networks at live events, Akara uses AI to convert real-time audio into actionable intelligence—faster than lagging behind TV broadcasts by 30 seconds and at a fraction of the cost of institutional data services costing over $200,000 annually.

The founding team includes veterans from Morgan Stanley (quant trading), Palantir, Duke University (PhD), and MIT / Jane Street.

Bluvo (@Bluvo_co) | Crypto Version of Plaid

Bluvo offers white-label APIs for DeFi apps, enabling seamless, secure connections to any centralized exchange (CEX). By designing new authentication flows and reengineering security best practices, Bluvo allows apps like Polymarket to transfer funds easily from CEX with user-friendly processes—an expensive and fragile self-built solution.

The team consists of serial entrepreneurs who previously built an algorithmic crypto trading firm with over $100 million in trading volume.

Ratio (@ratio_dot_you) | Prediction Market Social App

Ratio helps retail prediction market participants quickly view top traders’ actions and copy trades with one click. Top traders benefit from growing audiences and trading volumes, earning rewards and becoming KOLs through the flywheel of copy trading and creator monetization.

Founders have previously grown startups to over 100,000 users and have experience at Coinbase and unicorn financial firms.

Tradevu (@tradevu_co) | Stablecoin Banking for African Businesses

Tradevu provides instant, low-cost financing to African SMEs by underwriting real trade activities—including logistics data, counterparty info, order speed, and payment behavior. Loans are based on verified transactions, with funds seamlessly deployed across suppliers, currencies, and borders, covering sectors often excluded from traditional trade finance.

Founder previously launched Pivo (YC S22), deploying over $8 million to African SMEs, later acquired by YC-backed Jalo.

PreStocks (@PreStocks) | Tokenized Pre-IPO Stock Liquidity

PreStocks offers instant liquidity for pre-IPO stocks of any size, allowing investors to enter and exit at will. Each token is backed by an SPV (special purpose vehicle) with a custom market-making engine, enabling real-time accurate pricing and reliable on-chain liquidity. Since launching in August, trading volume has exceeded $350 million, solving liquidity and pricing issues in private equity.

Founder has been involved in crypto since 2013, was an early engineer at Canva, and completed 50 pre-IPO trades in the past year.

Congratulations to all founders advancing to ALL16 Demo Day.

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