The Aave Companies are a group of software development companies that build open-source blockchain-based software. To date, they are best known for having built the Aave Protocol, a decentralized, non-custodial liquidity protocol. At its peak, the Aave Protocol has reached over $30B TVL (total value locked). Aave V3 launched in March 2022. 

Continuing to build on their vision of creating paradigm-shifting web3 software, the Aave Companies recently launched the Lens Protocol, a composable and decentralized social graph, in May 2022. Lens Protocol is designed to empower creators to own the links between themselves and their community, forming a fully composable, user-owned social graph.

Aave Grants DAO is a community-led grants program, focused on growing a thriving ecosystem of contributors within Aave through funding ideas, projects and events that benefit the ecosystem. 

IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it.

Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized network offering more than 18+ Exbibytes of storage. It allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is completely open-source, enabling people from all over the world to participate. 

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Polygon is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 18000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~100M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

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Worldcoin is a Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Personhood Protocol (PPPoPP).We’re super excited to give you the first opportunity to build on top of the World ID protocol. Wold ID enables Proof-of-Personhood so that any developer can build anonymous sybil resistant apps.

WalletConnect is the web3 communications protocol enabling wallets and apps to securely connect. Our mission is to expand interoperability and realize richer experiences by providing developers with the infrastructure and tools that underpin user interaction in web3. The recently-launched WalletConnect v2.0 takes our interoperability promise one step further with multi-chain support, allowing developers to build and achieve compatibility across blockchains and roll-ups.

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Superfluid is the leading asset streaming protocol that enables Web3 native subscriptions, salaries and rewards for DAOs and crypto-native businesses. It can be used to describe cash flows and execute them automatically on-chain over time in a non-interactive way. Superfluid streams transfer value in a constant flow over time between wallets, in a non-custodial and permissionless way. Streams are programmable, composable, and modular, allowing developers to build custom applications on top of the protocol. No capital is locked up, and all inflows and outflows are netted in real-time at every block without consuming any gas. Ongoing streams can be forwarded as they are received to both wallets and applications, eliminating delays and drastically increasing capital efficiency.

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Mina is the world’s lightest blockchain, powered by participants. With its elegant design, Mina is the first Layer-1 enabling easy programmability of zero knowledge smart contracts, zkApps. The unique privacy and security features and ability to connect to any website via its zkApps enable a more secure and private Web3—paving the way to the democratic future we all deserve. Mina is stewarded by the Mina Foundation, a public benefit corporation headquartered in the United States.

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The dYdX Grants Program (DGP) funds contributors building on dYdX. The grants we fund cover a broad area, ranging from research, marketing, education, trading tools, and more.

Abacus is an interchain messaging API for your interoperability needs. Built as a network between blockchains, you can use Abacus to easily create interoperable applications.

The Graph is an indexing protocol for organising and efficiently accessing data from blockchains and storage networks. The Graph has been running a hosted service since January 2019 with over 2,300 subgraphs deployed for Web3 and DeFi applications built on Ethereum and IPFS, like Synthetix, Uniswap, Aave, Balancer, Gnosis, Aragon, and more.

The Gnosis Chain is a stable payments EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) blockchain designed for fast and inexpensive transactions. The chain uses a unique dual-token model; xDai is a stable token used for transactions, payments, and fees, and Proof of Stake protection will be provided by GNO with the consensus-layer Gnosis Beacon Chain.

Chainlink greatly expands the capabilities of smart contracts by enabling access to real-world data and off-chain computation while maintaining the security and reliability guarantees inherent to blockchain technology. With Price Feeds, Verifiable Randomness, Upkeeps, and making any kind of API call, you can empower your application to do virtually anything. There is an abundance of resources in the Chainlink documentation for any developer at any level to get started.