To find out even more about this project, check out our deep dive of [Fractal](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-fractal-nft-gaming-marketplace).

## What Is Fractal (FCL)?

Fractal ID is the interoperable Decentralized Identity System for web3. From complying with data and regulatory standards, including GDPR regulations, to facilitating seamless user verification via KYC, AML and human liveness checks. Fractal ID offers a vertically integrated identity stack that works for everyone, everywhere. To further transform decentralized identity adoption into reality, Fractal ID is currently building the idOS - the identity layer of web3.

Who Are the Founders of Fractal?

Fractal ID was co-founded by Julian Leitloff (CEO) and Júlio Santos (CPO) in 2017, the same year they acquired their first client - Ocean Protocol. Sovrin and XAIN joined the list of clients in 2018, and KILT Protocol entered the list in 2019.

Julian Leitloff is the co-founder and managing director of Fractal. He received his master's degree in Corporate Management & Economics from Zeppelin University in 2014. Leitloff successfully founded his own company Spontaneous Order GmbH and made his first million at age 22. Due to his achievements, he was named as one of Forbes 30 under 30 in 2016. Leitloff first got into blockchain in 2015, when he met Bruce Pon (future head of Ocean Protocol) at Tech Open Air.

Júlio Santos is a technical manager, software engineer, entrepreneur and most importantly - the co-founder of Fractal, where he leads the Product and Engineering team. At the company, he’s building an identity layer on the Internet using the Fractal Protocol. Santos has been involved in the world of blockchain since 2015. Over the years of his career, he has founded projects like Life on Mars (an elite software consulting firm), Gruvi (the company that creates advanced productivity marketing tools for Twitter, Disney, Sony, HBO), and Attmatr / Madmarkedet (a farm-to-table marketplace).

What Makes Fractal Unique?

Fractal is an open supply protocol that facilitates the exchange of information by ensuring an infrastructure with an emphasis on confidentiality that allows users to both securely share their data and monetize it.

Fractal Protocol seeks to define a new standard for the fair and open exchange of user information. By advancing a new, high quality version of the free Internet, the Fractal developers solve such market problems as:



* A market controlled by duopoly
* Ad-Tech costs unattributed
* Web traffic from bots

The project presents the concept of a fair industry to the community by introducing an incentive system built on a transparent and authoritative infrastructure. The developers aim to ensure the highest chance of success and the best possible results for users, publishers and advertisers.

Moreover, Fractal strives to improve the quality of user information through cutting edge technologies and focused strategies to improve advertising campaign results and guarantee a certain level of privacy of user data.

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How Many Fractal (FCL) Coins Are There in Circulation?

FCL is a utility token of Fractal that coordinates and connects all involved parties around the Fractal Open Advertising Economy. FCL does not generate any profit, nor does it grant voting or ownership rights, however, the token powers the incentive mechanism that is built into the protocol itself.

The FCL functionality ensures a consistent demand for tokens, which helps facilitate the growth of the entire ecosystem. Stakeholders of the ecosystem include: users, advertisers, verifiers, insurers, and certifiers. Fractal Protocol stimulates stakeholders involvement in the ecosystem via the following interests:



* Users seek to avoid low-quality content and intrusive ads by appreciating free services and attractive content with a focus on data privacy.
* Advertisers strive to conclude a profitable and secure deal, with minimal losses and maximum efficiency of the advertising budget.
* Verifiers (publishers and ad networks) are looking for heightened user engagement, traffic growth, and ad revenue.
* Insurers need an active advertising market to optimize staking rewards.
* Certifiers (intermediaries) aim to maximize added value for customers, as well as partner with new customers to shape sustainable business models.

According to Whitepaper of the project:

Users pay Attesters;

Advertisers pay Bid Prices;

Advertisers stake in Ad Escrow;

Verifiers stake in Arbitrage Escrow;

Insurers stake in Arbitrage Escrow;

Attesters get paid for issuing Credentials.

The maximum supply of FCL that will ever be released to the market is 465,000,000 coins. $FCL distribution:

5.3% to Pre-Sale;

0.5% to Community Sale;

14.3% to Strategic Reserve and Liquidity Treasury;

5.8% to Founders;

46.2% to Block Rewards;

11.6% to Company;

16.3% to Community Funds.

As of January 2022, the circulation supply is 16,595,270.91 $FCL.

How Is the Fractal Network Secured?

Fractal (FCL) opted for the Polkadot blockchain, which provides both the infrastructure for connectivity and the appropriate tools to deploy the protocol.

Polkadot has a serious approach to security, that's why the developers created Substrate - an SDK for Polkadot-compatible blockchain building. Shared security is Polkadot's value proposition, and economic security is established through Relay Chain validators. More specifically, validators are staked on the Relay Chain and confirm transactions from different parachains, resulting in the safe and independent interaction of chains according to the same rules.

Polkadot offers an environment where networks can control their own transaction fees and scaling is not only possible, but affordable. In addition, Polkadot focuses on development expertise by investing in an ecosystem of security tools like Substrate and Cumulus.

Where Can You Buy Fractal (FCL)?

As of January 2022, Fractal (FCL) is listed on the following crypto exchanges: [KuCoin](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/kucoin/), [Uniswap (V2)](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/uniswap-v2/), [Bitfinex](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bitfinex/), [MEXC](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/mxc/), and [BKEX](https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bkex/). 

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Polkastarter is a decentralized fundraising platform empowering Web3 projects to launch and raise funds through multi-chain token pools whilst significantly growing their communities.

The platform supports initial dex offerings (IDOs) across major blockchains, including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Polkadot, Polygon, Avalanche and Celo.

The platform enables investors to secure early access to IDOs, NFTs and Gaming Web3 innovation. It is most commonly used by early-stage blockchain projects that want to raise capital and easily distribute their tokens at the same time.

Through Polkastarter, blockchain projects can easily create their own fixed-chain swap pools, which allow them to securely raise funds, while users can invest without risks, since swaps are automatically executed by smart contracts.

POLS is the native utility token of the Polkastarter platform. Its main utility is gaining access to pools and giving projects the option to give priority access to POLS holders. Users are incentivised to stake POLS, rewarding the most loyal members.

In Q4 2022, Polkastarter will release new community utility features, such as governance and POLS Power Boosters (increasing your allowlisting success). The platform first went live in December 2020, and has quickly grown to become one of the most commonly used platforms for initial DEX offerings (IDOs) operating on the Ethereum blockchain.

Polkastarter

KardiaChain is a blockchain platform that aims to be fully interoperable and "non-invasive," meaning that blockchains can connect to the network without needing to make technical modifications to their own protocols. KardiaChain uses a dual-node structure to facilitate the connection between its own ledger and other blockchains, sharding for scalability and smart contracts for developers.

The platform relies on a native token, KAI, which is used for staking, transaction fees, participating in services and deploying smart contracts.

KardiaChain was first announced in October 2018, and its mainnet went live in December 2020.

KardiaChain

Opium is a new platform for launching and trading cryptocurrency derivatives.

Having begun operations in May 2020, Opium uses Ethereum to run a decentralized derivatives marketplace in which any cryptocurrency owner can participate.

The aim of the platform is to democratize access to financial derivatives while using the benefits that decentralization affords traders over legacy alternatives.

Opium’s in-house token, OPIUM, launched in January 2021 and will fulfil various roles mostly centered around platform governance. Active users will be able to vote on some of the most important decisions involved in the platform’s operations.

Opium

MultiVAC

Clover Finance (CLV), or simply Clover, is a blockchain operating system. It provides a one-stop, easy‑to‑use blockchain infrastructure and an ethereum virtual machine (EVM) compatible framework for Substrate‑based applications.

Clover Finance, another offspring of the Substrate-based Polkadot parachain aims at bridging the compatibility gap when building and operating across blockchains.

The project was founded in May 2020 and the mainnet of Clover Finance launched in July 2021.

Opacity is a cloud storage provider with one major difference, privacy.

With the rise of digital property, many people have increasingly become concerned with the security and privacy of materials stored with cloud storage companies such as Dropbox, Google, and others. Small businesses, individuals, and enterprises want to keep their data private.

Opacity protects people’s basic rights and provides private cloud storage to anyone through its Opacity token, OPCT. The token can be purchased on a crypto exchange and then used to purchase data storage plans that are completely private, and can only be accessed by the purchaser with the private key.

Unlike other service providers, Opacity does not require personal identification information. Opacity stores no information on its users, and allows people to store private information, such as company secrets, intellectual property, personal photographs, legal documents, and family moments, with assurance that personal data stays personal.

Access to private storage and file sharing enables a new way to protect your important files. Storing and sharing files has limitless potential, covering a wide variety of areas:

Photos

Videos

Music

Banking documents

Legal documents

File sharing with coworkers

Enterprise cold storage

Files can be shared privately or publicly, you decide!

Opacity

Covalent leverages big-data technologies to create meaning from hundreds of billions of data points, delivering actionable insights to investors and allowing developers to allocate resources to higher-utility goals within their organization.

Instead of painstakingly sourcing data from a small handful of chains, Covalent aggregates information from across dozens of sources including nodes, chains and data feeds. The Covalent API then sources end-users with individualized data by wallet, including current and historical investment performance across all types of digital assets. Most importantly, Covalent returns this data in a rapid and consistent manner, incorporating all relevant data within one API interface.

Having achieved product-market fit, we are now planning to execute the next phase of Covalent, which is a progressive decentralization that will enable the Covalent Network to be owned and operated by its users. Of course, a critical piece to this is CQT.

CQT is the native token of the Covalent Network. It has three primary purposes:

CQT is a governance token, whereby token holders vote on proposals to change the system parameters.

CQT is a staking asset. Validators will earn fees for answering queries.

CQT is a network access token that fulfills data queries for users of the API.

Developer resources include:

Covalent Knowledge Base for extensive guides on how to use the Covalent API. 

Covalent API Documentation.

Covalent

Acala Token

xMoney (formerly known as Utrust) was designed to provide a solution to the problems resulting in low usability of cryptocurrency as means of payment, particularly the underdeveloped transactional security of payment platforms and relatively high fees.

The main goal of the platform is to build a system that will enable fast and seamless crypto transactions at lower fees, therefore allowing merchants to reach a large audience of crypto holders.

The platform allows buyers to make secure purchases while also offering an option for refunds and protecting sellers from the high volatility of the crypto market.

The main goal of the platform is to build a system that will enable fast and seamless crypto and fiat transactions at lower fees, therefore allowing merchants to reach a large audience of crypto holders.

The platform allows buyers to make secure purchases while also offering an option for refunds and protecting sellers from the high volatility of the crypto market.

xMoney also aims to create a more reliable payments platform by combining the best features of blockchain and traditional fiat systems.

By leveraging cutting-edge technology and a strategic partnership with MultiversX, xMoney empowers individuals and businesses to optimize their payment processes, drive growth, and deliver exceptional experiences to their customers. With its commitment to innovation and excellence, xMoney continues to lead the way in transforming the financial industry.

xMoney (UTK) native token and its tokenomics UTK 3.0 primary purpose is to drive desired behaviors, such as accepting crypto and fiat for businesses and facilitating payments with the same for users. This encourages more companies to join the ecosystem, creating a flywheel effect that benefits buyers, users, investors, token holders, and businesses. The adoption of decentralized financial tools and currencies is further fostered through this collaborative approach.

xMoney

Established in July 2020, TrustSwap is a diverse Web3 ecosystem creating secure infrastructure for blockchain builders and communities. The TrustSwap Launchpad is a leading Launchpad and IDO service, achieving the #1 spot on Cryptorank in 2023 for All-time High Returns and Average Returns. TrustSwap has launched over 55 projects with a collective fundraising of over $70 million.

TrustSwap is also the parent company of The Crypto App and Team Finance, which offer a suite of multi-chain services including crypto portfolio tracking, token and liquidity locks, minting, staking, and vesting-as-a-service.

SWAP token is the key to accessing guaranteed allocations in top-tier IDOs via the TrustSwap Launchpad. Staking more SWAP tokens longer increases your SWAP Score and unlocks higher allocations as well as other perks for top stakers.

TrustSwap

Marlin is an open protocol that provides a high-performance programmable network infrastructure for DeFi and Web 3.0. The nodes in the Marlin network, called Metanodes, operate the MarlinVM which provides a virtual router interface for developers to deploy customized overlays and perform edge computations.

Notable overlays that can be built using MarlinVM include:

Low-latency block multicast to scale blockchains

Low-latency mempool sync for arbitrageurs

Mesh networks

Anonymity networks like mixnets

Device optimization and caching responses of API to Infura, Alchemy etc

Its native utility token POND is used for:

Running validator nodes on the network via staking

Making and voting on governance proposals to determine how network resources are allocated

Determining a set of network performance auditors and compensating users from an insurance fund in case of a SLA breach

Marlin aims to deliver on the promise of a decentralized web where applications secured via the blockchain are indistinguishable in terms of performance to users accustomed to Web 2.0.

Marlin

OCP introduces an innovative relayer mechanism that seamlessly connects applications to a modular permissionless custody protocol. OCP operates a protocol that acts akin to a mesh network, enabling an end-user to leverage a diverse set of key management protocols. We call this “Keychain Aggregation”. Building a protocol that solves for Keychain Aggregation not only simplifies the way developers can build, abstracting risk and complexity, but it also harmonizes and aggregates the economics associated with having multiple bilateral commercial relationships.

With OCP, we have a new custody primitive that embraces (1) modularity, in connecting key management solutions, and (2) decentralisation, in the way users can access key generation and transaction signing services. We are particularly excited to pioneer this, witnessing existing security and custody solutions struggle to adapt to the ongoing proliferation of chains. Additionally, with the impending tokenization of Real World Assets (RWAs) - potentially mobilizing over trillions of dollars into the blockchain ecosystem - the demand for versatile and modular solutions is clear and present.

Open Custody Protocol

Orion is a suite of decentralized finance (DeFi) trading products with instant access to aggregated centralized and decentralized exchange liquidity to provide users with real-time best asset prices in a seamless trading experience. Orion offers the non-custodial equivalent of a DEX with access to the best priced liquidity in the world, empowering people with financial responsibility on a global scale.

Orion

RARI

Linear is a decentralized delta-one asset protocol capable of instantly creating synthetic assets with unlimited liquidity. The project opens traditional assets like commodities, forex, market indices and other thematic sectors to cryptocurrency users by supporting the creation of “Liquids” — Linear’s synthetic asset tokens.

The protocol consists of various products like Linear.Buildr, a DApp used to manage Liquids using Linear (LINA) and other tokens as collateral. The exchange is specifically created to enable trading of a variety of Liquids with rapid confirmation times and robust security.

LINA is an ERC-20 token built on the Ethereum network whose main purpose is as collateral for Liquids (using Buildr) and for community governance of the protocol. All token holders have access to the Linear DAO, enabling them to vote on different initiatives and proposals, helping to shape the development of the Linear ecosystem.

The main goal of Linear is to provide a superior user experience with better scalability and greater speed thanks to the cross-chain capabilities of the protocol. Linear Finance intends to provide a simple solution for users that want exposure to traditional assets while still benefiting from the features enabled only by blockchain technology.

Linear Finance

Ethernity is a blockchain-based platform that allows users to take advantage of the increasing popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The developers position it as a decentralized finance (DeFi) crossover project with authenticated NFTs. In the Ethernity ecosystem, all NFTs can be bought and sold on-chain.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Ethernity.

Ethernity was funded on the Polkastarter platform, where its crowd sale took place on March 8, 2021. The project tries to create favorable conditions for all active members of the community to boost the value of its ERN token.

Prior to launching ERN, Ethernity underwent a round of strategic investments backed by Black Edge Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Woodstock and Genesis Block Ventures.

Ethernity

Cartesi is an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux distributions, creating a richer and broader design space for DApp developers.

Cartesi Rollups offer a modular scaling solution, deployable as L2, L3, or sovereign rollups, while maintaining strong base layer security guarantees.

Cartesi

MIR is the governance token of Mirror Protocol, a synthetic assets protocol built by Terraform Labs (TFL) on the Terra blockchain.

Mirror Protocol is decentralized from day 1, with the on-chain treasury and code changes governed by holders of the MIR token. TFL has no intention of keeping or selling MIR tokens, and there are no admin keys or special access privileges granted. The intent for this is to be a completely decentralized, community-driven project.

Mirrored assets are blockchain tokens that behave like "mirror" versions of real-world assets by reflecting the exchange prices on-chain. They give traders the price exposure to real assets while enabling fractional ownership, open access and censorship resistance as any other cryptocurrency. Unlike traditional tokens which serve to represent a real, underlying asset, mAssets are purely synthetic and only capture the price movement of the corresponding asset.

Mirrored assets provide the following advantages:

Global Accessibility: In most markets outside of Europe & North America, access to foreign equities and forex markets is highly limited. Crypto allows global accessibility without entry barriers.

Fractional Orders: In traditional finance, to execute a fractional order, multiple fractional orders are bundled together to execute a unitary transaction. The process of gathering all the orders into one requires additional waiting time. By utilizing the blockchain, orders volume is simply represented as a number on the blockchain, so there is no need for the intermediary bundling process.

Nearly-Instantaneous Order Execution: Oftentimes due to the lack of liquidity (price-time-priority order book algorithm), orders can take up to a day to fully execute. Given the fact that Mirror relies on liquidity provided by each individual asset pool, orders can be executed as fast as the blocktime of the network (~ 6 seconds).

Mirror Protocol

Efinity is a cross-chain NFT platform developed by Enjin and built on Polkadot. Efinity was created as the next generation blockchain for digital assets with the aim of adapting to the challenges of the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), according to the project.

The main specialization of the Efinity project is the NFT space. With the protocol, traders and gamers can create, distribute, transfer, sell and buy NFTs. Efinity aims to remove barriers to entry into the NFT space/decentralized gaming, and to simplify user experience and digital asset governance.

Efinity Token powers the entire Efinity ecosystem, EFI aims to prioritize the generation, transfer and purchase of tokens using an inter-chain infrastructure of protocols resulting in lower transaction fees. As for incentives, rewards on PoW blockchains with NFT functionality go to miners who create/trade tokens, thereby forming a community.

One of the long-term goals of Efinity is to become a hub for both fungible and non-fungible tokens, accepting tokens from any other chain, facilitating the pricing and exchange of NFTs, increasing transaction volume, and creating network effects.

In December 2021, the project won the Polkadot parachain auction, and in March 2022, Enjin launched their flagship parachain Efinity on the Polkadot Relay Chain — a blockchain platform that provides a decentralized parachain network where people havecontrol over their data and identity.