└── categories.json /categories.json: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | [ 2 | { 3 | "name": "DeFi", 4 | "slug": "defi", 5 | "description": "projects focused on decentralized finance or open finance", 6 | "subcategories": [ 7 | { 8 | "name": "Currencies", 9 | "slug": "currencies", 10 | "description": "apps and protocols that issue a cryptocurrency, including stablecoins, ERC20s and non-fungible tokens" 11 | }, 12 | 13 | { 14 | "name": "Derivatives", 15 | "slug": "derivatives", 16 | "description": "derivative issuance and trading platforms" 17 | }, 18 | 19 | { 20 | "name": "Exchanges", 21 | "slug": "exchanges", 22 | "description": "apps and protocols for exchanging and trading cryptocurrencies and tokens, including decentralized and centralized exchanges and liquidity networks" 23 | }, 24 | 25 | { 26 | "name": "Insurance", 27 | "slug": "insurance", 28 | "description": "insurance services providers" 29 | }, 30 | 31 | { 32 | "name": "Investing", 33 | "slug": "investing", 34 | "description": "investment funds, venture capital funds and asset management apps" 35 | }, 36 | 37 | { 38 | "name": "Lending", 39 | "slug": "lending", 40 | "description": "apps and protocols for lending cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets and tokenizing collateral" 41 | }, 42 | 43 | { 44 | "name": "Payments", 45 | "slug": "payments", 46 | "description": "payment providers supporting cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets, including on-ramps, payment and settlement solutions" 47 | }, 48 | 49 | { 50 | "name": "Ratings", 51 | "slug": "ratings", 52 | "description": "financial ratings or credit score providers" 53 | }, 54 | 55 | { 56 | "name": "Research", 57 | "slug": "research", 58 | "description": "projects focused on providing data and research about DeFi" 59 | }, 60 | 61 | { 62 | "name": "Staking", 63 | "slug": "staking", 64 | "description": "projects focused on providing staking services, such as staking research, delegated staking or node operations" 65 | }, 66 | 67 | { 68 | "name": "Wallets", 69 | "slug": "wallets", 70 | "description": "wallet apps that support cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets and can provide other DeFi services" 71 | } 72 | ] 73 | }, 74 | 75 | { 76 | "name": "Education", 77 | "slug": "education", 78 | "description": "any projects focused on education and learning provision, including institutional academia, technical skills learning, Web3 resources and more" 79 | }, 80 | 81 | { 82 | "name": "Energy", 83 | "slug": "energy", 84 | "description": "projects focused on the energy and oil sectorsR" 85 | }, 86 | { 87 | "name": "Entertainment", 88 | "slug": "entertainment", 89 | "description": "projects for entertainment purposes, including music, video, art, books, sports and gaming", 90 | "subcategories": [ 91 | { 92 | "name": "Adult", 93 | "slug": "adult", 94 | "description": "projects focused on providing adult entertainment" 95 | }, 96 | { 97 | "name": "Art", 98 | "slug": "art", 99 | "description": "projects focused art creation, exchange and hosting" 100 | }, 101 | { 102 | "name": "Collectibles", 103 | "slug": "collectibles", 104 | "description": "projects for collectibles issuance, exchange and hosting" 105 | }, 106 | 107 | { 108 | "name": "Gaming", 109 | "slug": "gaming", 110 | "description": "applications and protocols for gaming and gambling " 111 | }, 112 | 113 | { 114 | "name": "Music", 115 | "slug": "music", 116 | "description": "apps and protocols for music streaming and recording" 117 | }, 118 | 119 | { 120 | "name": "Blogs", 121 | "slug": "blogs", 122 | "description": "projects focused on writing and hosting blogs" 123 | }, 124 | 125 | { 126 | "name": "Books", 127 | "slug": "books", 128 | "description": "projects focused on writing and publishing books and formalized content" 129 | }, 130 | 131 | { 132 | "name": "Sports", 133 | "slug": "sports", 134 | "description": "sporting applications and tools" 135 | }, 136 | 137 | { 138 | "name": "Video", 139 | "slug": "video", 140 | "description": "apps and protocols for video streaming and recording" 141 | }, 142 | 143 | { 144 | "name": "Virtual Reality", 145 | "slug": "virtual-reality", 146 | "description": "PLACEHOLDER" 147 | } 148 | ] 149 | }, 150 | { 151 | "name": "Environment", 152 | "slug": "environment", 153 | "description": "PLACEHOLDER" 154 | }, 155 | 156 | { 157 | "name": "Events", 158 | "slug": "events", 159 | "description": "projects focused on supporting events, including ticketing, sponsorships or event planning" 160 | }, 161 | 162 | { 163 | "name": "Funds", 164 | "slug": "funds", 165 | "description": "investment and hedge funds, venture capital funds or private equity organizations focused on Web3" 166 | }, 167 | 168 | { 169 | "name": "Grants Organizations", 170 | "slug": "grants-organizations", 171 | "description": "organizations distributing grant funding to other projects" 172 | }, 173 | 174 | { 175 | "name": "Governance", 176 | "slug": "governance", 177 | "description": "Porganizations focused on decentralized governance implementations and research, such as DAOs, voting tools and consensus mechanisms", 178 | 179 | "subcategories": [ 180 | { 181 | "name": "DAOs", 182 | "slug": "daos", 183 | "description": "decentralized autonomous organizations and projects focused on building frameworks and tooling for decentralized organizations" 184 | }, 185 | 186 | { 187 | "name": "Research", 188 | "slug": "research", 189 | "description": "organizations focused on researching decentralized consensus mechanisms, such as Proof-of-Work or Proof-of-Stake" 190 | }, 191 | 192 | { 193 | "name": "Voting", 194 | "slug": "voting", 195 | "description": "decentralized voting and signalling tools for app and protocol governance" 196 | } 197 | ] 198 | }, 199 | { 200 | "name": "Hardware", 201 | "slug": "hardware", 202 | "description": "projects focused on developing hardware for Web3 apps and protocols" 203 | }, 204 | 205 | { 206 | "name": "Health & Wellness", 207 | "slug": "health-and-wellness", 208 | "description": "projects focused on health care, wellness and medicine" 209 | }, 210 | 211 | { 212 | "name": "Identity", 213 | "slug": "identity", 214 | "description": "projects focused on identity, reputation and user authentication solutions" 215 | }, 216 | 217 | { 218 | "name": "Lifestyle", 219 | "slug": "lifestyle", 220 | "description": "projects providing lifestyle services or selling lifestyle goods" 221 | }, 222 | 223 | { 224 | "name": "Manufacturing", 225 | "slug": "manufacturing", 226 | "description": "projects focused on manufacturing and production services" 227 | }, 228 | 229 | { 230 | "name": "Marketplaces", 231 | "slug": "marketplaces", 232 | "description": "projects focused on providing venues of exchange for specific goods and services" 233 | }, 234 | 235 | { 236 | "name": "News & Media", 237 | "slug": "news-and-media", 238 | "description": "projects and outlets focused on providing news and media services" 239 | }, 240 | { 241 | "name": "Philanthropy", 242 | "slug": "philanthropy", 243 | "description": "non-profit and charity organizations" 244 | }, 245 | { 246 | "name": "Places", 247 | "slug": "places", 248 | "description": "apps and protocols focused on location services, like geographic positioning" 249 | }, 250 | { 251 | "name": "Research", 252 | "slug": "research", 253 | "description": "projects focused on Web3 development, including cryptoeconomics, distributed systems, consensus mechanisms, scalability and more" 254 | }, 255 | { 256 | "name": "Services", 257 | "slug": "services", 258 | "description": "apps and protocols providing professional services", 259 | "subcategories": [ 260 | { 261 | "name": "Accounting", 262 | "slug": "accounting", 263 | "description": "accounting services focused on cryptocurrency and tokenized assetsR" 264 | }, 265 | { 266 | "name": "Human Resources", 267 | "slug": "human-resources", 268 | "description": "HR and professional services, including hiring, recruiting, people management and development" 269 | }, 270 | { 271 | "name": "Legal", 272 | "slug": "legal", 273 | "description": "legal services focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain, including regulation, securities laws, LAOs" 274 | }, 275 | { 276 | "name": "Marketing & PR", 277 | "slug": "marketing-and-pr", 278 | "description": "marketing, PR and media companies focused on promoting cryptocurrency and blockchain" 279 | }, 280 | { 281 | "name": "Software Development", 282 | "slug": "software-development", 283 | "description": "developer shops and projects focused on software creation as a service" 284 | } 285 | ] 286 | }, 287 | 288 | { 289 | "name": "Social Networks", 290 | "slug": "social-networks", 291 | "description": "projects providing social networking platforms and tools" 292 | }, 293 | 294 | { 295 | "name": "Software", 296 | "slug": "software", 297 | "description": "projects focused on building software for developing Web3, including blockchains, cryptoeconomic systems and tokenized assets", 298 | "subcategories": [ 299 | { 300 | "name": "Analytics", 301 | "slug": "analytics", 302 | "description": "projects focused on consuming and analyzing data from Web3 apps and protocols, including block explorers, analytics apps, data feeds" 303 | }, 304 | { 305 | "name": "Blockchain Development", 306 | "slug": "blockchain-development", 307 | "description": "projects and teams focused on researching and building blockchains, distributed systems and sidechains" 308 | }, 309 | { 310 | "name": "Computation", 311 | "slug": "computation", 312 | "description": "projects focused on computation for Web3 protocols, such as researching computation, implementing computation sharing solutions" 313 | }, 314 | { 315 | "name": "Custody", 316 | "slug": "custody", 317 | "description": "projects focused on providing custody or delegate services, such as custody of user funds and private keys" 318 | }, 319 | { 320 | "name": "Developer Tools", 321 | "slug": "developer-tools", 322 | "description": "projects focused on researching and building developer tooling for Web3 apps and protocols" 323 | }, 324 | { 325 | "name": "Libraries", 326 | "slug": "libraries", 327 | "description": "projects focused on building libraries for Web3 development" 328 | }, 329 | { 330 | "name": "Networking", 331 | "slug": "networking", 332 | "description": "projects focused on networking between Web3 protocols, such as p2p networking" 333 | }, 334 | { 335 | "name": "Oracles", 336 | "slug": "oracles", 337 | "description": "projects researching or building oracle solutions for Web3 apps and protocols, including oracles for on-chain and off-chain data" 338 | }, 339 | 340 | { 341 | "name": "Privacy", 342 | "slug": "privacy", 343 | "description": "projects researching or building privacy solutions for Web3 apps and protocols, such as cryptography research, mixers" 344 | }, 345 | 346 | { 347 | "name": "Scaling", 348 | "slug": "scaling", 349 | "description": "projects researching or building blockchain scaling solutions, including layer 1 (mainnet) and layer 2 scalability" 350 | }, 351 | 352 | { 353 | "name": "Security & Audits", 354 | "slug": "security-and-audits", 355 | "description": "projects focused on providing software or hardware security, including code security, audits and testing and general security practices" 356 | }, 357 | 358 | { 359 | "name": "Storage", 360 | "slug": "storage", 361 | "description": "projects focused on storage for Web3 protocols, including file sharing, cloud storage and more" 362 | } 363 | ] 364 | }, 365 | 366 | { 367 | "name": "Supply Chain", 368 | "slug": "supply-chain", 369 | "description": "apps and protocols focused on supply chain management, tracking and optimization" 370 | }, 371 | 372 | { 373 | "name": "Work", 374 | "slug": "work", 375 | "description": "projects focused on gig economies, future of work and professional reputation" 376 | } 377 | ] 378 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------