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

ALL17 Application Deadline: March 25.

Author: Alliance

Translator: Shen Chao TechFlow

Shen Chao Overview: 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 focused on stablecoin payments, prediction markets, AI applications, and RWA tokenization.

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

ALL17 application deadline: March 25.

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Alliance ALL16 features 18 new projects officially unveiled.

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 daily banking account experience.

Founded by a UC Berkeley computer science graduate who co-founded Fei Labs, which raised $1.3 billion and once ranked in the top ten by market cap for decentralized stablecoins.

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 through 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 companies pre-fund 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 to 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 tasks like client reception, communication, billing, and collections 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 have 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 founders have 22 years of law enforcement experience, including roles at the US Secret Service; the co-founder led AI projects at Apple Intelligence.

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

Crebit uses stablecoin FX trading to make cross-border tuition payments faster and cheaper for international students. By 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. Traditional screen readers force users to listen to each element on a page one by one. 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 items like booking the cheapest flight or filtering results.

The founders have 15 years of experience developing tools at Meta and Cloudflare.

Freeport (@freeportmrkts) | Tradable Real-time News Stream

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.

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

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

Inflow enables any SME to accept global card payments at reasonable prices. By rebuilding merchant record tech on the stablecoin rails, Inflow leverages existing connections to secure bank contracts that typically 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 to deploy proprietary AMMs on Solana. By reverse engineering and generalizing the math behind Solana’s proprietary AMMs that handle over half of its trading volume, 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 capital-efficient leverage tools. Through a liquidity provision 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 product development, later becoming Rarible’s Chief Product Officer; the co-founder is a gold medalist in math olympics.

Graded (@Gradeddotworld) | On-chain StockX

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

The founders previously built a crypto-native bank with $10 million in stablecoin assets under management.

Lucent (uselucent.io) | Life Sciences Tokenization

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

The team includes former quant traders at Morgan Stanley, Palantir, PhD students at Duke, 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 a new authentication process and reengineering security best practices, Bluvo allows apps like Polymarket to transfer funds from CEXs with user-friendly flows—this feature is costly and fragile to build in-house.

The team are serial entrepreneurs, previously founding 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 earn rewards as their audience grows and trading volume increases, creating a flywheel effect where they become KOLs through 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 Bank for African Enterprises

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, allowing seamless deployment across suppliers, currencies, and borders, covering sectors often excluded from traditional trade finance.

The founder previously launched Pivo (YC S22), deploying over $8 million to African SMEs, and Jalo, acquired by YC S22 company.

PreStocks (@PreStocks) | Tokenized Pre-IPO Stocks

PreStocks offers retail investors instant liquidity for pre-IPO stocks, with the ability to enter and exit at any time. 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 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 trades in the past year.

Congratulations to all founders advancing to ALL16 Demo Day.

ALL17 application deadline: March 25. Apply at alliance.xyz.