Focusing on consumer applications, a quick look at the 10 projects shortlisted for the ETHGlobal Singapore finals

Written by: Xiaobai Navigation Coderworld

The market is picking up, and it’s time to pay attention to new projects and trends.

In recent market voices, the attention to applications has gradually increased.AnnounceThe editor has taken a look at the 10 new projects shortlisted for the 2024 Singapore finals and found that most of them are aimed at consumer scenarios.

The projects that won from more than 300 entries can, to a certain extent, represent excellent solutions and ideas.

Here, we analyze each project in more detail, perhaps to help you find new inspiration when capturing Alpha.

Clarity: Reshaping the payment and review ecosystem

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Clarity is an innovative payment gateway designed toBlockchainThe technology solves the problem of fake reviews that are prevalent on e-commerce platforms. As a participant in ETHGlobal Singapore, Clarity won multiple awards including The Graph Best New Subgraph Award, Worldcoin Best WorldID Use Award, and Sign Protocol Best Application, demonstrating its great potential in consumer applications.

Core features:

• Seamless on-chain payment: integrating multiplecryptocurrencypayment option while ensuring that merchants receive stablecoin (USDC).

• Authentic and reliable review system: Using Sign Protocol and WorldID technology, we ensure that every review comes from real transaction users.

• User-friendly interface: Through Dynamic and account abstraction technology, it provides users with a simple experience similar to Web2.

Innovation highlights:

1. Solve the trust problem:BlockchainWith the transparency of the platform, users can verify the authenticity of transactions and reviews, effectively combating false reviews.

2. Lower the threshold for use: users do not need to understand complexBlockchainKnowledge, you can enjoy the advantages of Web3.

3. Flexible payment options: integrated 1Inch exchange protocol, supports multipleTokenPayment.

4. Merchant brand building: Provide merchants with ENS addresses to enhance brand recognition.

Market Potential: Considering that fake reviews cost businesses more than $152 billion per year worldwide, there is a huge market demand for Clarity’s solution. As consumers’ desire for authentic reviews increases, Clarity is poised to lead a new revolution in e-commerce and payments.

Clarity 的出现不仅展示了Blockchain技术在日常消费场景中的实际应用，也为解决长期困扰电商行业的信任问题提供了新的思路。

Memora: Intelligent Digital Footprint Management Platform

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Memora 是一个创新的平台，旨在通过Blockchain技术帮助用户全面管理他们的数字足迹。

Core features:

• Comprehensive digital account management: Users can link various digital accounts, including social media,walletAddress, email, and cloud storage.

• Intelligent responses based on life events: Set specific conditions (such as marriage, job change, or other important life events) to trigger management actions on your account.

• Time Capsule NFT: Allowing usersSafetyStore digital content and assets and set unlock conditions based on future events.

• AI Monitoring Agent: Continuously tracks account activity and triggers automated actions when predefined events occur.

Innovation highlights:

1. Blockchain-drivenSafetySecurity: Use ERC721 standard to cast time capsule NFT to ensure the security of digital assetsSafetyStorage and access rights are tamper-proof.

2. intelligentcontractAutomation: Intelligence deployed on the Rootstock (RSK) blockchaincontractExecute preset conditions to automatically respond to user-defined life events.

3. AI 辅助事件监测：使用 Gaia 网络上的私有节点训练 AI 模型，通过 RAG（检索增强生成）技术智能识别和响应用户设定的触发事件。

4. Human-machine verification integration: Integrate Worldcoin technology to ensure that NFTs are created by real users, increase the credibility andSafetysex.

5. User-friendly interaction: Account abstraction is achieved through Dynamic technology, simplifying the user experience without the need to directly manage complex private keys.

Market Potential: People increasingly need a unified platform to manage their increasingly complex digital lives, especially when it comes to the on-chain and crypto worlds.Xiaobai NavigationMemora provides a comprehensive solution that is not only suitable for daily digital asset management, but also intelligently responds to various important life events. This innovative approach has the potential to change the way people think about digital identity and asset management, providing users with greater control and flexibility.

通过结合 NFT、智能合约、AI 和身份验证技术，Memora 为用户提供了一个Safety, flexible and easy-to-use platform to adapt to their changing digital life needs.

Fill Me Up: Automatic cross-chain gas replenishment

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An innovative solution that aims to radically simplify gas fee management in a multi-chain environment through smart contract technology.

The project also won the Best App Award from Hyperlane and the Best App Award from Nouns.DAO No. 1 in public product development.

Core features:

• Automatic cross-chain gas replenishment: When gas is insufficient on any chain, the system automatically replenishes it.

• Single chain approval, multiple chains benefit: Users only need to approve funds on one chain to manage gas for all chains.

• Minimize expenditure: Intelligent algorithms ensure that only the minimum amount of gas necessary is replenished, optimizing the use of user funds.

• Secure fund management: Users maintain full control over their assets with no risk of losing them.

Innovation highlights:

1. Intermediary contract technology: deploy smart contracts as intermediaries, and users approve funds to them to achieve secure and controllable cross-chain operations.

2. Real-time monitoring system: The central service continuously monitors the gas levels of users with approved funds to ensure timely response.

3. Automated cross-chain operations: When insufficient gas is detected, the system automatically calls the intermediate contract to perform fund transfer, exchange, and cross-chain bridging.

4. Smart gas management: The algorithm ensures that the optimal gas level is maintained on each chain to avoid excessive or insufficient gas.

5. User-friendly design: It simplifies complex cross-chain operations. Users do not need to manually manage multi-chain gas, which greatly improves the user experience.

Market Potential: Cross-chain operations are becoming more frequent, but managing multi-chain gas fees has always been a major challenge for users. Fill Me Up provides an elegant solution that not only simplifies the user's operation process, but also optimizes the efficiency of capital use. This innovative approach has the potential to completely change the way users interact with the multi-chain ecosystem, paving the way for the popularization of DeFi, NFT, and other cross-chain applications.

Angpao.money: Encrypted transfers like receiving red envelopes

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Angpao.money aims to use magic link technology tocryptocurrencyThe money transfer experience becomes as intuitive and personal as delivering a physical red envelope.

Core features:

• 零依赖接收：无需安装任何软件，免 gas 费用接收cryptocurrency.

• Personalized red envelopes: senders can customize the red envelope design and personal message.

• One-click sharing: Generate a simple magic link for easy sharing with recipients.

• manywallet支持：接收者可以连接现有wallet或通过社交登录创建新钱包。

• Sybil attack protection: Integrate Worldcoin verification to ensure that each red envelope can only be opened once by the same person.

Innovation highlights:

1. Intuitive user experience: Drawing on the traditional red envelope concept, cryptocurrency transfers become more natural and understandable.

2. Smart contract protection: The sender deposits the assets into the smart contract to ensure the security of the transaction.

3. ENS subdomain integration: Every first-time sender will receive a free ENS subdomain, enhancing the user-friendly experience.

4. Graph Substream Technology: Use The Graph's Substream to monitor transaction status in real time and prevent duplicate claims.

5. No gas fee design: The recipient verifies his identity through a signed message, and the backend triggers the transfer, exempting the recipient from paying gas fees.

Market Potential:

Angpao.money is more than just a money transfer tool. Through personalized design and messaging, each money transfer becomes an emotionally connected interaction, which could significantly increase user retention and social acceptance of cryptocurrency.

Not only does it simplify technical operations but it also adds emotional value, and this innovative approach is likely to play a key role in driving mass adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Geist: A decentralized autonomous website (DAW) builder

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Geist revolutionizes the way websites are developed and deployed by introducing decentralization and autonomy. DAO and large-scale collaboration to provide a safer and more transparent website building solution.

Core features:

• Private preview whitelist: wallet-based website preview access control.

• Anti-collusion proposal voting: UseZero knowledge proof(zk-proof) technology ensures voting fairness.

• Trustless deployment: Through MINA chainZero knowledge proofAchieve trusted deployment.

• ENS integration: Use the ENS domain name system to achieve decentralized domain name resolution.

• IPFS Storage: Use IPFS to achieve decentralized storage and access of content.

Innovation highlights:

1. The concept of Decentralized Autonomous Website (DAW): combining blockchain technology with traditional website development to create a new website management model.

2. Privacy protection mechanism: Through encryption and access control, the problem of lack of privacy of content on IPFS is solved.

3. Web3 identity friendly: abandon the traditional seat-based pricing model and adopt the access control mechanism of wallet/ENS identity.

4. Anti-collusion voting system: Use MACI (Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure) to ensure the fairness of proposal voting.

5. 可信构建证明：通过 MINA 链上的Zero knowledge proof，确保部署的网站版本与投票通过的提案一致。

Market Potential: In the current Internet environment, website development and deployment often rely on centralized platforms and tools, which not only brings security risks but also limits the possibility of large-scale collaboration. The emergence of Geist provides an innovative solution to these problems.

By introducing blockchain technology and the concept of decentralization, Geist has the potential to revolutionize the ecosystem of website development. It is not only suitable for projects that require high security and transparency, such as sensitive information display, reporting platforms, crowdfunding websites, etc., but also for DAO and largeCommunityProvide better collaboration tools.

Geist provides users with a secure, transparent and highly autonomous website development platform by combining cutting-edge technologies such as ENS, IPFS, MINA and zero-knowledge proof.

This project not only solves many challenges currently faced by decentralized website development, but also provides infrastructure for future application scenarios such as the Autonomous World and decentralized advertising.

Hanseek: Reviewing restaurants with short videos

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Hanseek is an innovative blockchain video review platform that aims to provide food lovers with authentic and trustworthy restaurant recommendations, reshaping the trust mechanism for restaurant recommendations by rewarding real reviews from real users.

The project also won the second place for the most promising killer application awarded by Flow, as well as the Pool Prize from Worldcoin.

Core features:

• Video Reviews: Users can browse restaurant reviews in the form of short videos.

• Authentication: Use World ID to verify the identity of commenters, ensuring that only authentic users can post comments.

• Blockchain Storage: Comments are stored on the Flow blockchain, ensuring transparency and tamper-proofing.

• Direct Booking: Users can directly book restaurants based on reviews.

• Reward mechanism: Creators can get rewards based on the actual visitors brought by their comments.

• Seamless Registration: Easy wallet creation and social login via Dynamic integration.

Innovation Highlights:

1. Authenticity guarantee: World ID verification ensures that every review comes from a real user, improving the credibility of the platform.

2. Blockchain Transparency: Utilize the Flow blockchain to store comments, ensuring data is immutable and fully transparent.

3. Incentive mechanism: Commentators can receive actual rewards based on their influence, encouraging the creation of high-quality content.

4. User-friendly: Even users who are not familiar with blockchain can use it easily, which lowers the entry barrier.

5. Smart Contract Integration: Restaurant reservations and payments are processed through Flow’s smart contracts, providing a smooth user experience.

Market Potential:

In a restaurant recommendation market currently rife with fake reviews and paid promotions, Hanseek offers an innovative solution to the trust issue.

As people pay more and more attention to food safety and dining experience, platforms like Hanseek may become widely popular. Especially in today's prevalence of social media and short video platforms, video reviews are more likely to resonate with and be trusted by users.

fheProxies: A decentralized proxy service based on FHE

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fheProxies (also known as fheVPN) is an innovative decentralized Proxy-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform that enables anonymous web browsing through a global network of node operators.

The project uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology to ensure that only paying customers on the Fhenix network can securely access node details.

Core Features:

1. Decentralized proxy service: Global node operators can deploy proxy nodes in different regions.

2. Fully homomorphic encryption protection: Use FHE to encrypt node details to ensure data security.

3. Blockchain-based payment system: Customers make on-chain payments through the Fhenix network.

4. Passwordless access control: Secure access is achieved through encrypted customer IP addresses and whitelist mechanisms.

5. Anonymous web browsing: Provide users with a safe and anonymous web browsing experience.

Market Potential:

For casual users, fheProxies offers a secure, anonymous web browsing option that is particularly suitable for those who value privacy or need to bypass geographic restrictions. For corporate users, this solution can be used to protect sensitive network communications.

SQUIDL: A privacy-first payment management platform

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SQUIDL (Squidl.me) is an innovative privacy-first payment management platform that aims to provide comprehensive payment and financial transaction control for individuals and businesses. The project won the third place in the Oasis Protocol – Best use of Sapphire and/or ROFL and the Dynamic – Best Consumer Crypto Project award at the ETHGlobal Singapore Hackathon.

Core features:

1. Privacy protection: Use stealth addresses technology to ensure that each transaction is private and untraceable.

2. Static payment link: Provides a custom static payment link that can also be used as an ENS address.

3. Multi-chain support: Integrates multiple blockchain networks, including Ethereum, BSC, Morph, Linea, and Flow EVM.

4. Multiple payment options: Supports cryptocurrency and credit card payments. Credit card payments will be converted into USDC and bridged to BSC.

5. Oasis Sapphire Network Integration: Supports bridging funds to the Oasis Sapphire network, enabling completely untraceable transactions.

6. Asset transfer: support NFTs,soul bindingTokenand private transfer of liquidity tokens.

7. Developer SDK: Provides a powerful SDK to facilitate developers' integration and use.

Technological innovation:

1. Double-blind stealth address system: ensures that no third party (including developers) can know the existence of the stealth address or the financial value stored in it.

2. Sapphire ParaTime Exploits: Uses Oasis Sapphire’s Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for cryptographic operations, eliminating the risk of private key disclosure.

3. Efficient elliptic curve operations: Leveraging Sapphire’s pre-computation capabilities, the gas fees required for silent payments (BIP 0352 / EIP 5564) are significantly reduced.

4. Improved stealth address announcement mechanism: Use Sapphire ROFL to obtain the stealth-temporary public key announcement page from the off-chain public server, avoiding the privacy leakage problem in EIP 5562.

5. Sender privacy protection: Sender anonymity is achieved by converting ERC20 tokens into special Sapphire private wrapped tokens through Cellar cBridge.

6. Cross-chain compatibility: The StealthSdk.sol contract was developed and can be deployed on any EVM chain supported by Sapphire’s OPL.

Market Potential:

As users continue to pay more and more attention to digital privacy, SQUIDL's privacy protection features will attract a large number of privacy-conscious individual and corporate users.

Nifi: Web3-powered smart WiFi access portal

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Combining blockchain technology with traditional network authentication systems creates a smart WiFi access portal based on cryptocurrency and NFT.

Core features:

1. Token-based WiFi authentication: Use ERC20, ERC721, and ERC1155 standard tokens and NFTs as access credentials.

2. Blockchain Authentication: Users gain access to the network by signing and verifying their blockchain assets.

3. Smart Contract Integration: Leverage smart contracts to manage access rules and permissions.

4. Decentralized identity authentication: No need for traditional usernames and passwords, providing a more secure and private authentication method.

5. Customizable access rules: Network administrators can set specific token or NFT requirements.

Technological innovation:

1. Integration of Web3 and traditional network infrastructure: Nifi successfully integrates blockchain technology with existing WiFi systems, while achieving an innovative combination of hardware and software.

2. Smart contract-driven access control: Smart contracts written in Solidity enable complex and programmable access rules that far exceed the capabilities of traditional systems.

3. Decentralized identity authentication: Blockchain technology is used to achieve identity authentication without the need for a centralized server, improving the security and privacy protection of the system.

Market prospects:

High-end service industries such as luxury hotels and airport VIP lounges can use Nifi to provide unique VIP WiFi experience and increase customer loyalty. Large events such as conferences and music festivals can combine NFT tickets with WiFi access to enhance the experience of participants.

Marina Royale – Lottery system based on Uniswap V4

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Using the hooks feature of Uniswap V4 to replace the traditional ERC4626 vault allows anyone with liquidity to create their own lottery pool.

The project won two awards: “Most Innovative Use” from Pyth Network and second place from Uniswap Foundation for “Hooks, Hooks, and Hooks.”

Marina Royale Special MemeCommunityOr large treasuries with utility tokens, providing them with the opportunity to provide liquidity using their native tokens, thereby unlocking opportunities with high expected value.

Core features:

1. Risk-based LP pool allocation: Provide dynamic prize pool management for lotteries.

2. Multiple winning scenarios: Design different winning scenarios based on the pool size.

3. Uniswap V4 integration: Leverages Curve-based liquidity with a built-in referral system.

4. Mobile optimized experience: Provide users with a gas-free experience through embedded wallet and paymaster logic.

5. Unique Expected Value Model: Providing different profit opportunities for players and liquidity providers.

Technological innovation:

1. Uniswap V4 hook application: Use hooks to replace traditional ERC4626 vaults to achieve more efficient liquidity management and a unique lottery mechanism.

2. Pyth Network Integration: Generate secure, decentralized random numbers using Pyth to ensure fair and unpredictable lottery results.

3. Embedded wallet: implemented using Dynamic wallet to simplify the user registration and lottery interaction process.

Market prospects:

1. Meme代币生态：为众多Meme代币Community提供一个有趣且潜在有利可图的应用场景，增加代币效用。

2. DeFi Innovation: By combining lottery and DeFi liquidity provision, a new revenue model is created to attract more users to participate in the DeFi ecosystem.

3. Social Gamified Finance: With a built-in recommendation system and mobile-optimized experience, it has the potential to become a new type of social finance game.

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