Web3 startups to watch
A new wave of early Web3 projects is surfacing — names gaining traction include minewithclaw (PoAIW mining on ETH), AlpendMarket (privacy money market backed by Draper VC), LoraFinance, UnitFlowFinance (DEX on Arc), and GalaxySwapLabs (DEX on Midnight). (x.com) Other founders and raises to note: tradevu_co (trade finance), TryHeroNow (web4), blockhelix (AI agents) and deeptuneai, which has a reported $43M raise. (x.com)
minewithclaw’s documentation lays out a Proof-of-AI-Work consensus, an ERC‑20 token named CLAW with a total supply of 210,000,000,000, a 24‑era halving schedule and era‑1 rewards of 100,000 CLAW per block with no premine. (docs.minewithclaw.com) Alpend — which markets itself as a privacy‑native money market on the Canton network — lists Draper Associates and Boost VC in its app footer and publishes protocol code and docs on its site and GitHub. ( ) UnitFlowFinance is operating as a DEX targeting the Arc L1, with an active product site that brands the project “The Next Generation Innovative Dex on Arc” and coverage noting UnitFlow activity coinciding with Arc mainnet USDC growth. ( ) GalaxySwapLabs is being cited in ecosystem writeups as one of the first DeFi exchanges launching on Midnight’s privacy companion network, with commentary framing it as an early privacy‑native DEX build for the Midnight stack. (binance.com) Lora Finance has a live testnet and an early waitlist with campaign/airdrop messaging, and the project also maintains a GitHub presence for its protocol code and testnet tooling. ( ) BlockHelix publishes a whitepaper describing a tokenized autonomous‑agent platform and was named among winners at the Colosseum Agent Hackathon, where it took a prize in the agent competitions. ( ) Tradevu’s corporate site and third‑party profiles show a trade‑finance focus—offering trade‑underwritten financing, cross‑border B2B payments and stablecoin transaction banking—alongside a PitchBook company profile documenting the business. ( ) Deeptune’s public footprint includes a GitHub org describing “training gyms for AI agents” and a TUNE token record on Etherscan, but searches of available press and filings turned up no reputable confirmation of a $43 million raise as of March 21, 2026; TryHeroNow appears linked to a recently created hero.je domain and an X profile labeled “Early Waitlist.” ( )
