Big project week, what new investment opportunities are there?

This week is definitely the most intense week for major projects this year. Tether's Plasma (XPL) is about to launch, DWF's Falcon Finance new project is nearing its deadline, and I've heard that the OTC market prices for KYC accounts have been driven up to $120. Kraken also has a new project from the founder of Curve coming soon. The wealth effect of new coins led by STBL and 0G is quite considerable.

So, what other new project opportunities are there in the market? Rhythm BlockBeats has compiled several recent projects that are also attracting attention.

Upheaval

Upheaval is a decentralized trading platform built on HyperEVM, which previously airdropped Memecoin to users before its TGE, issuing PUP. Its spot trading volume on Hyperliquid even surpassed that of the previously issued Purr. The platform currently has five main functions, covering everything from token launches to user fund depth vaults.

First is JumpPad, officially positioned as an incubator for new tokens based on UIP-3 and the community, addressing the difficulties of issuing tokens caused by Hyperliquid's auction mechanism, serving as another entry point for project launches on Hyperliquid. Although Hypurrfun had previously developed similar functionality, Upheaval has taken a step further by building an aggregator function that allows efficient routing of trades within the platform, while also setting up a fiat entry point. It mimics the Hyperliquid mechanism through governance mechanisms veUPHL and veUP, binding users to the platform's long-term relationship through locking and governance, strengthening supply-demand balance and expanding liquidity.

This relatively complete architecture makes Upheaval both a launchpad for new projects and a hub for funds and trades, giving a sense of a Hyperliquid model version of Pumpfun+Moonshot.

Upheaval is also the first project launched after the full-channel trading platform Based opened its Launchpad. Since this is the first launch, there are no historical performance references, but its investor Ethena has provided some degree of endorsement for its expectations.

The current presale is ongoing, starting from September 22 at 4:00 UTC and continuing until September 25 at 4:00 UTC, but the public sale has already been oversubscribed by over 870%. Interestingly, the mechanism for this presale is divided into public sales and a whitelist phase for long-term supporters of Based and PuP holders.
In fact, before the oversubscription, the price varied according to a "Bonding Curve" from the initial $0.01 to $0.036, and once the fundraising reached 13.5K WHYPE, the presale was conducted at a price of $0.036. The oversubscribed portion will allocate Upheaval tokens based on the proportion of individual contributions to the total contributions, with excess funds refunded. This means that the more participants and funds there are, the smaller the impact of the previous "Bonding Curve" price difference.

Upheaval's TGE tokens account for 4% of the total supply of 1 billion tokens, with an FDV of $33 million and an initial circulation of 26%. However, whether the market cap can increase later will depend on whether Upheaval's trading volume growth can be sustained and whether the "JumpPad" under the UIP-3 mechanism can indeed drive the entire ecosystem's Memecoin.

Yield Basis

Yield Basis is a Bitcoin-native yield protocol launched by Curve founder Michael Egorov, which raised $5 million at a valuation of $50 million earlier this year.

Yield Basis uses an automatic re-leveraging mechanism to provide transaction fee income for BTC liquidity providers while hedging against impermanent loss caused by AMM curvature risks. LPs can choose to receive BTC-denominated transaction fees directly or forgo fees in exchange for YB token incentives, with locked veYB participating in governance and sharing protocol fees.

After a day's delay, Kraken announced that its first project in collaboration with Legion for LaunchPad is Yield Basis. Due to Legion's "Legion Score" system, which allocates quotas based on on-chain behavior, social media activity, and developer contributions, it can filter out a large portion of multi-account participants for the project parties, ensuring that true builders and core users get priority in subscription shares. Coupled with Kraken's listing channel effect, the market is paying close attention to this collaboration.

The presale model is currently understood to be divided into two phases, with 20% of tokens reserved for high-scoring Legion users, while the remaining 80% will be publicly sold on Kraken and Legion on a first-come, first-served basis. $YB will be directly listed on Kraken after the sale ends. The total token supply is 1 billion, with 30% allocated for liquidity mining incentives, 25% for the team, 15% for ecosystem reserves, 12.1% for investors, and an additional 7.5% allocated for Curve protocol licensing fees, 7.4% as developer reserves, and 3% for token distribution for Curve governance incentives.

Although the financing valuation at the beginning of the year was only $50 million, considering the support from the Curve community (Curve DAO has provided crvUSD credit support for YB through proposals) and Egorov's influence, the market expects the FDV of YB at listing to potentially reach several hundred million dollars, significantly higher than the internal financing valuation. Further specific presale information, including the TGE rhythm and sales pricing for each share, will only be revealed during the public application in 8 days.

Tea

Tea is a decentralized open-source software platform that fairly rewards developers based on their contributions to the entire ecosystem. Founded by former Apple employee Max Howell, a supporter of the "open-source faction," he previously created open-source projects like HomeBrew and PromiseKit in Web2. These plugins have been used by large companies like Google and McDonald's, but he did not receive any compensation, which led him to want to create a sustainable open-source ecosystem-driven Layer2.

Previously, it raised a total of $16.9 million in funding from VCs such as Yzi Labs and Acuitas Group Holdings in the Preseed and Seed rounds.

Tea has chosen the established IDO platform Coinlist for its presale, which will start on September 25 at 17:00 UTC, selling at an FDV of $50 million, with a total of 4 billion $TEA tokens ($0.0005/$TEA). Coinlist will allocate based on a "bottom-up" approach after the purchase window closes (i.e., the smaller the amount participated, the earlier the allocation; the larger, the later or possibly not allocated).

Although 100% will be unlocked at TGE, many users who participated in the testnet did not receive airdrop promises, leading to some community backlash, and this has raised suspicions of the team having a "possible scam" tendency.

Limitless

Limitless is a decentralized prediction market application on the Base blockchain, allowing users to create and trade prediction contracts on any topic (supporting a centralized order book interface) to bet on real-world or crypto events, similar to Polymarket.

Since its launch in 2024, Limitless has accumulated over $270 million in trading volume, although it has previously been caught up in discussions about "trading volume manipulation." The project has completed two rounds of financing totaling $7 million in 2024-2025, with endorsements from well-known institutions such as Coinbase Ventures and 1confirmation. In July, it even brought in former BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes as an advisor.

Kaito recently launched the "Capital Launchpad" feature for project token presales. Although the market has been overwhelmed by mindless Yap armies flooding social media, leading to some community resistance against "Kaito," it still couldn't resist the fact that this Launchpad has launched some well-backed projects like Boundless, Rise, and Theoriq.

According to the project announcement, the Limitless token presale is scheduled to start on September 25. As a reward for early supporters, Limitless has previously launched a points airdrop program (Points Program), where users can earn points through trading and market making, with the potential to receive airdrop rewards after TGE.

Currently, Kaito has not disclosed specific subscription thresholds and limits, but according to convention, it may adopt a model allowing users to subscribe freely, with oversubscription allocated proportionally, and may require completing tasks on the platform to obtain whitelist qualifications, as well as passing Kaito's KYC verification to participate. Although the prediction market has been quite hot recently, whether it is worth participating still awaits further financing information.

Goated

Goated is a rapidly developing decentralized gaming platform in the Solana ecosystem. Since its launch in June 2024, Goated has processed over $1 billion in betting volume, has over 12,000 monthly active users, and has generated over $2 million in net gaming revenue. Its previous angel round received support from Polygon and Sentient founder SanDeep, Scimitar Capital founder Thiccy, and some former FTX team members.

Goated has chosen the launcher Metaplex, which launched a token issuance protocol called Metaplex Genesis on the Solana chain this year, and the projects issued have achieved good results. The recently popular $CARDS surged after a decline, reaching a peak market cap of $800 million, with presale participants achieving nearly 20 times returns, and it also launched projects with impressive financing lineups like Portals.

Goated is conducting its token presale through Genesis, also known as the largest GambleFi token issuance in Solana for 2025, as such products often do not have a need to issue tokens due to sufficient cash flow income.

This presale adopts a fixed-price public sale model, opening on September 25 at 16:00 UTC, with the first 2 hours reserved for community allowlist participants, followed by public participation. A total of 10 million $GOATED tokens will be issued (1% of the total supply) at a price of 0.0004 SOL per token. The fundraising cap is 4,000 SOL (approximately $880,000), and subscriptions will stop once the cap is reached.

Allowlist qualifications are open to existing Goated users, requiring them to register on the platform, bind a Solana wallet, deposit and bet at least $1,000, and complete specified Twitter follow and retweet tasks to obtain whitelist status, but the snapshot has already ended, meaning users who did not participate in the project previously will have to wait for the public sale round.

Based on the presale price, the initial FDV of $GOATED tokens is approximately 400,000 SOL (about $8.8 million). Given that Goated already has stable cash flow and user base, the market expects its trading market cap to significantly exceed the fundraising amount, with initial circulating market cap potentially reaching tens of millions of dollars.

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