The hottest projects to farm right now. Sorted by community heat.
Aether is the first EVM consumer chain with full vertical integration & core DeFi primitives. Aether is the first community owned project built on cosmos replicated security distributed only via airdrop and lockdrop, no private token sales or external funding. Aether’s goal is to create life long financial symbiosis with the Cosmos Hub.
Pear is a social prediction market aggregator that brings markets from multiple venues into one account and one interface. Instead of switching between separate prediction market platforms to find an event, you trade everything from a single place and see what other traders are backing in real time.
Uponly is a Solana-based DeFi protocol built around the UP token. The mechanism behind this is the Auto-Ascending Liquidity Mechanism (ALM), a proprietary smart contract system where every transaction, whether a buy or a sell, causes the UP token price to rise. Its smart contracts have been audited by CertiK, including those governing Pump Mode, a higher-velocity trading environment that is the focus of the current testnet competition.
Most traders rely on their own capital. To trade with larger size, they need to grow their account slowly, deposit more funds, or stretch their leverage beyond what feels reasonable. That is why prop firms became so appealing. Traders pay for an assessment, and if they succeed, they unlock access to a dream-sized funded account. The trader keeps a large share of the profits, often up to 80% or 90%, while the firm keeps the rest. On paper, the model sounds powerful. But once payouts enter the picture, online discussions point to the same concerns: payout delays, frozen accounts, opaque rules, and a lack of transparency. That’s where Hypernova steps in, bringing the funded trading model on-chain ⚡ Hypernova strips away the grey areas by making rules, trades, outcomes, and payouts verifiable on-chain. Instant $USDC payouts settle in seconds from a public reserve anyone can inspect. Traders can access funded accounts from $5K to $200K, trade 120+ cryptocurrency, equity, and commodity pairs
42 (previously Alkimiya) is a decentralized prediction market and asset issuance protocol on BNB Chain that turns real-world events into tradable on-chain assets. Users can create and trade “eventcoins” tied to sports results, political outcomes, crypto price movements, DeFi metrics, and more. 42 raised $7.2M from a notable investor group including Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, YZI Labs, Castle Island Ventures, 1kx, and Enlight Capital. Version 2 launched on BNB Chain in May 2026 with live mainnet trading.
Perpetual futures have become one of the most active markets in crypto, where serious traders rely on fast execution, strong liquidity, reliable APIs, advanced trading tools, transparent settlement, and fee models that reward active traders and market makers. That’s where Ekiden steps in ⚡ Ekiden is a decentralized hybrid exchange on Canton Network built for institutional DeFi trading. It combines an off-chain Central Limit Orderbook with deferred on-chain settlement, bringing professional-level speed, transparency, and capital efficiency to spot and perpetual markets. Ekiden uses fast order matching, Merkle-based proofs, vault-based fund management, API access, and self-custody. The platform also includes volume-based fee tiers, maker rebates, market-share incentives, and a VIP program for active traders and liquidity providers. Trade on Ekiden Testnet and Start Stacking XP Ekiden is now live on the Canton Testnet, marking the launch of the first CLOB-based derivatives exchange on Ca
Sekai is a liquid staking protocol built on HyperEVM, Hyperliquid’s EVM-compatible smart contract layer. It lets anyone launch a custom liquid staking token (LST) representing staked HYPE, with each LST backed by real staking yield and usable across DeFi. The protocol’s main draw is its shared exit liquidity layer. Normally, every new LST has to bootstrap its own AMM pool, which disadvantages small or early-stage tokens. Sekai raised community funding through a Sekai Kappas NFT mint rather than a traditional VC round.
Short dramas have become one of the fastest-growing formats in mobile entertainment, but the value chain behind them still feels outdated. Creators produce the content, platforms control the distribution, and viewers usually get nothing back for the time they spend watching. ArcNova changes that by connecting creation, viewing, and rewards inside one AI-native entertainment ecosystem. Creators get tools to produce short dramas with AI, while viewers can watch content, earn gold, complete quests, and build activity through the rewards system. The platform is built around six main modules: • ArcNova TV: AI comics and live-action-style series. • ArcNova Creator Program: Rewards for AI storytellers. • ArcNova Studio: Tools to create short dramas with AI. • ArcNova Rewards: Incentives for watching drama content. • ArcNova AI Digital Actor: AI characters for cinematic stories. • ArcNova Web3.0: Quests, wallet login, referrals, and rewards. Through the ArcNova app, users can discover bite-siz
Akka Finance is a liquidity aggregator and execution layer built for on-chain trading. Rather than routing swaps through a single venue, it splits and routes orders across multiple sources to match quoted prices with minimal slippage. The platform launched on Hyperliquid and has processed over $200M in volume across 1M+ transactions, with multi-chain expansion planned. Akka also runs the Hyper AI Vault, an automated perp strategy that takes directional long/short positions on top Hyperliquid assets using a proprietary AI model. The vault has been live since April 15, 2026.
Questflow is a decentralized AI agentic brokerage that lets users build, deploy, and monetize autonomous trading agents called Clones. Each Clone gets its own wallet, scans markets 24/7, and executes trades on platforms like Hyperliquid and Polymarket. Questflow has raised around $8M total, with a seed round backed by Cyber Fund, Delphi Labs, Animoca Brands, HashKey Capital, and Eden Block, among others. The platform is live, with active trading, Clone creation, and campaign activity already running.
Kintara is a browser-based isometric MMO built on Solana, where players gather resources, fight monsters, complete quests, and trade with others across several connected realms. The game’s token, $KINS, runs the on-chain economy and doubles as the key to entry. The core loop is familiar to anyone who has played a sandbox MMO. You chop wood, mine stone and coal, fish, and cook, then either bank your haul on the Mainland or sell it on the in-game Marketplace for gold.
ACI is an early-stage blockchain that describes itself as the first AI blockchain built on post-quantum cryptography. Post-quantum cryptography is the project’s main differentiator: it uses encryption meant to resist attacks from future quantum computers, a problem other post-quantum chains are also working on.
CRISP is an intelligence and execution terminal for prediction markets, built primarily around Polymarket. It brings smart money tracking, algorithmic market screening, fast execution, and copy trading into one interface designed for both human traders and AI agents.
Caster is a Layer 1 blockchain built for one job: on-chain prediction markets. The team calls it the “Truth Layer,” a network where traders buy and sell shares in the outcomes of real-world events, and prices move to reflect what the market collectively believes will happen. Markets cover politics, technology, the economy, and other events with a verifiable result. The reasoning behind Caster is that prediction markets need their own infrastructure instead of a slot on a general-purpose chain. Caster matches orders directly on-chain rather than routing through an off-chain book and seeds every market with protocol-owned liquidity through the Caster Liquidity Pool (CLP).
Umbra Privacy is a privacy protocol built on Solana described as “incognito mode for your money”. It runs on Arcium, a multi-party computation (MPC) layer that handles encrypted execution, enabling users to shield token balances, send confidential trasnfers, and interact with DeFi privately. The protocol went live on public mainnet in early 2026, with a mobile app available via TestFlight for iOS users. Umbra raised approximately $3M through an oversubscribed ICO on MetaDAO in October 2025.
Canborsa is the first perpetual DEX for real-world assets (RWA) built on Canton Network. It lets users trade tokenized commodities and traditional financial assets (oil, gold, stocks, and real estate) as on-chain perpetuals alongside standard crypto pairs. Canton Network is a privacy-enabled blockchain built for financial institutions. The project has confirmed early-access status and is running a public points program ahead of its full launch.
Pod Network is a Layer-1 blockchain built for on-chain trading without MEV. It runs perpetual futures markets on assets like stocks, commodities, and indexes, with confirmations around 150ms. The project raised a $10M seed round in January 2025, backed by a16z crypto’s CSX program, 1kx, Blockchain Builders Fund, the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, and Protagonist. The testnet is live for approved users, and a mainnet waitlist is open. A three-week trading competition is running on testnet now, with the top trader winning a Rolex Submariner.
DeepBook is the first native central limit order book (CLOB) on the Sui blockchain. It works as a shared liquidity layer that other Sui protocols, including spot DEXes and margin-trading apps, route through for order matching and deep liquidity. Trades settle in roughly 390 milliseconds. DeepBook was built by Mysten Labs, the team behind Sui, and sits underneath much of the chain’s trading activity, so order flow reaches it from many of Sui’s DeFi front-ends.
Catena is a banking and governance platform built for AI agents. It gives autonomous agents a way to hold accounts, make payments, and manage yield while staying inside rules that a human operator defines. Catena has raised around $48 million in total: an $18 million seed round in 2025 and a $30 million Series A announced on May 20, 2026. a16z crypto and Acrew Capital co-led the Series A, with Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, and QED Investors participating. Earlier backers include Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and CoinFund.
Doma Protocol is a blockchain built to tokenize internet domains as on-chain real-world assets. Its DNS-compliant architecture lets users mint domain names directly into tradeable NFTs or ERC-20 tokens, giving standard domain registrations DeFi utility they have never had before. The project raised $30 million across two rounds: a $5M seed in 2023 led by Shima Capital, and a $25M Series A in early 2025 led by Paradigm, with Coinbase Ventures also participating. Mainnet launched in November 2025, and the platform is live with trading, minting, liquidity provision, and quests fully operational.
Predikt is an API stack and protocol that unifies fragmented prediction markets into one access layer. Instead of bouncing between Polymarket, Kalshi, and other venues, traders and developers can route through a single interface for unified data, liquidity aggregation, and intelligent order execution across markets and chains. The platform targets builders first. Wallets, exchanges, and DeFi apps can plug into Predikt’s API to add prediction market functionality without integrating each venue separately. End users get faster execution and deeper liquidity by tapping aggregated order books rather than fragmented pools. The project is in early beta and a public waitlist is open.
Vibe Trading is a permissionless perpetuals exchange built on Hyperliquid that lets anyone list and trade any token with up to 20x leverage and zero listing fees. The team pitches it as the “PumpFun of perps,” applying the open-listing model from spot memecoins to leveraged derivatives. Markets that gain real traction on Vibe can graduate to HIP-3, Hyperliquid’s framework for native order-book perpetuals, giving long-tail tokens a path to deeper liquidity. The platform is in beta with a QuantStamp audit pending.
Ceitnot Protocol is a Collateralized Debt Position (CDP) protocol on Arbitrum. Users deposit crypto assets as collateral to mint $ceitUSD, a decentralized stablecoin. The protocol’s Peg Stability Module (PSM) enables direct swaps between $ceitUSD and other stablecoins, keeping the peg without depending on open-market arbitrage.
RabbitHole is an on-chain rewards platform that pays users for holding crypto assets and staying active, rather than for completing one-off tasks. The platform is built around a Hold-to-Earn model: rewards go to wallets that hold qualifying assets and take part in campaigns over time. It is currently in its waitlist phase, so the Hold-to-Earn campaigns are not live yet and joining the waitlist is the only available action right now. RabbitHole has raised roughly $21.6 million across two rounds: a $3.6 million seed in 2021 and an $18 million Series A in 2022. Backers include Electric Capital, which led the seed, along with Greylock, ParaFi Capital, and Framework Ventures.
The heat score reflects real-time community interest — clicks, saves, shares, and farming activity. A project climbing the heat chart means people are actively farming it right now. That's useful signal: high heat often means new developments, approaching deadlines, or fresh alpha. But high heat also means more competition. The sweet spot is catching projects early in their heat climb, before they're on everyone's radar.
Heat combines engagement metrics — clicks, saves, shares — with urgency signals like approaching end dates. Scores decay over time so the list always reflects what's hot right now, not what was popular last month.
Not necessarily. High heat means high interest, which could be driven by a recent announcement, approaching deadline, or viral tweet. Use heat as a signal to investigate, not as a quality rating on its own.
The list updates continuously as engagement data comes in. Projects can rise or fall quickly based on community activity. Check back daily to catch trending opportunities early.
This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Always do your own research (DYOR) before participating in any airdrop or DeFi protocol.
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