0G Foundation and OnePiece Labs Join Forces to Launch Pioneering Incubation Program for Web3 and AI Innovators

Stanford, California, July 30th, 2024 - 0G Foundation, in collaboration with One Piece Labs, is excited to announce the launch of our inaugural incubation program.

This program is aimed at identifying talented founders across various industries and providing them with valuable technological unlocks via seamless integration of 0G.ai’s DA, data storage, or decentralized serving layer.  This initiative is designed to provide strategic support, resources, and mentorship to promising startups in the Web3 and AI space, Gaming, DeFI, dePIN, deStorage, and deCompute sectors.

Rationale Behind the Incubation Program

Founders at various stages of their company life cycle can benefit from different levels of support. Early-stage founders can benefit from networking to find compatible teams, funding to turn an idea into a demonstrable MVP, and then developer tooling to build out the actual product. Middle-late-stage founders can also benefit from add-on funding but may be more focused on community building and performance metrics such as DAU, MAU, ARR, etc. Late-stage companies with sufficiently large communities can benefit from technology that helps their business scale with minimal incremental customer acquisition costs (CAC) or to craft a compelling TGE plan. 

0G foundation can provide strategic support in each of the above-mentioned domains at any stage of a project’s life cycle.

This incubator program, co-hosted by OPL, can provide resources, mentorship, co-founder matchmaking, technological support, community building, strong co-marketing, and investor introductions.

0G also aims to leverage its advanced infrastructure and extensive network to drive transformative developments in existing Web3 and AI companies that may require high-performance DA with low latency, low data storage costs, and decentralized inference via a serving layer.

“Launching this incubator program is a strategic move to strengthen our ecosystem and support groundbreaking projects that can push the boundaries of Web3 and AI,” said Michael, Advisor to 0G foundation and co-founder of Zero Gravity Labs. “We are committed to providing startups with the tools and mentorship they need to overcome challenges and scale rapidly, fostering a collaborative environment that drives collective success.”

Promises of the 0G Accelerator Program

1. Resource Allocation: Startups will gain access to funding, cutting-edge technology, and development tools essential for their growth.
2. Mentorship and Guidance: Expert advice and mentorship from industry leaders and successful entrepreneurs will help overcome challenges and seize opportunities.
3. Technical Support: Robust technical support from 0G’s team will ensure seamless integration with our infrastructure and effective utilization of our tools.
4. Community Building: Facilitating connections and collaborations within the 0G ecosystem to create a supportive and innovative community.
5. Market Exposure: Providing visibility and exposure through our network and marketing channels, helping projects reach a broader audience.

About 0G Foundation

0G Foundation was established to promote the growth, development and security of 0G, a decentralized ecosystem. The 0G ecosystem is based around the fastest modular AI chain: the infrastructure for fully onchain AI via the fastest programmable DA, storage, and verifiable AI serving framework. The protocol design enables speeds of up to 50GB/s per consensus layer enough to enable fully onchain LLM training.

About OnePiece Labs

Based in Silicon Valley, OnePiece Labs is a pioneering incubator and seed funding organization dedicated to empowering visionary founders in shaping the decentralized Web3 ecosystem. We believe in the transformative potential of blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps) to revolutionize industries and empower individuals globally.

Our First 0G Accelerator Cohort 🚀

🌟 Company: CARV

🔍 What it does: Modular data layer for gaming and AI, sharing data value with the industry and individuals.

👥 Team: Chloe Gu

💡 Pitch: CARV Protocol is a modular data layer for gaming and AI, revolutionizing how data is used and shared by ensuring privacy, ownership, and control are firmly in the hands of individuals, pioneering a future where data generates value for all.

📈 Traction: 750+ games & AI companies, or 2.5M+ registered players, $1M monthly recurring revenue.

💸 Stage: Raised $50+ million.

🌟 Company: Cygnus Finance

🔍 What it does: The first modular real yield layer, combining non-EVM systems with EVM ecosystem.

👥 Founder: Eric Cheung

💡 Pitch: As the end game of real yield, Cygnus EVM-compatible ZK rollup combines non-EVM systems such as TON with EVM ecosystem. Its yield-bearing Liquidity Validation System will help 7B+ people acquire digital assets and provide services for any system that requires its own distributed validation semantics for verification.

📈 Traction: Backed by OKX Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Optimism Foundation retro funding. TVL $50M+. Users 100K+ .

💸 Stage: Raising $15 million

🌟 Company: Polyverse AI

🔍 What it does: Revolutionizing AI data and privacy computing with Zero-trust PET and FHE.

👥 Team: AI technologists from Meta, OpenAI, Google, backed by NVIDIA, Microsoft Accelerator.

💡 Pitch: Polyverse AI is at the forefront of revolutionizing AI data and privacy computing (FHE) through its innovative Zero-Trust AI Data Engine and decentralized AI Data Marketplace. Specializing in the application of cutting-edge technologies such as Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), PET (privacy-enhancing technology) Polyverse AI enables secure, privacy-preserving data training, transactions and computations. Serving a diverse clientele ranging from large corporations to research institutions, the company facilitates the safe exchange and monetization of data while ensuring compliance with global data protection regulations. Through its platform, Polyverse AI empowers the development of robust AI applications across multiple industries, setting new standards for AI data confidentiality and utility in the digital age.

💸 Stage: Raising $8 million.

🌟 Company: 0xKnowledge

🔍 What it does: Building the world’s first AI-augmented, Web3-native documentation platform and personalized AI assistants.

👥 Founder: Joshua Sum

💡 Pitch: 0xKnowledge is spearheading the integration of AI and blockchain to create a self-maintaining knowledge base management system. This platform aims to streamline knowledge capture across various sources, enabling the creation of personalized AI assistants for every employee. This addresses critical inefficiencies in unifying data and documentation, transforming how knowledge is accessed, utilized and shared across industries.

📈 Traction: Secured 5 customers and 2 distribution partners

💸 Stage: Raising seed.

🌟 Company: DataHive

🔍 What it does: Layer 2 for user-owned AI operating on user-owned data.

👥 Founder: Ray Gill 

📈 Traction: $150K booked revenue and launching with 1+ million users.

💡 Pitch: DataHive is building the first AI Data Asset Layer 2, decentralizing AI data access by connecting data publishers with data consumers in a decentralized network and marketplace. We are paving the way for a decentralized AI future where user-owned AI is created and controlled from the bottom up, relying on verified real-time and real-world data.

💸 Stage: Raised pre-seed; raising seed.

🌟 Company: Heph

🔍 What it does: AI model training and quality assurance platform using a global workforce of >174K data labelers.

👥 Founders: Andreas Schemm, Marius Hamacher, Will Mercer 

📈 Traction: 2.5Bn data points labeled with >97% accuracy.

💡 Pitch: Heph AI is pioneering the intersection of AI and blockchain by providing data labeling as well as AI model training and quality assurance services. Utilizing a global workforce of >174,000 data labelers, Heph AI offers a hybrid Human/Machine labeling approach that is significantly more cost-effective and faster than traditional services.

💸 Stage: $2 million.

🌟 Company: Infinity Ground

🔍 What it does: AI-native gaming Appchain powered by SVM Rollup, providing modular tools for AI gaming development.

👥 Founder: Lani Zhang

📈 Traction: Onboarded 5 games and 4 movie IPs for interactive AI movies in less than 1 month.

💡 Pitch: Infinity Ground is the first AI-native Gaming Appchain powered by SVM Rollup. We provide modular tools, such as RAG Engine, Creator Copilot, and Model Router, to make AI gaming development easier and form a unified ecosystem to reduce fragments for individual AI games. Also, we provide the best AI gaming experience while keeping the benefits of decentralization and transparency of Blockchain.

💸 Stage: Angel round raised $200K+, seed round in progress.

🌟 Company: MetaPals

🔍 What it does: Integrating digital companions into daily lives through custom-built overlay technology.

📈 Traction: 55K+ users, high retention rates, successful NFT launches.

👥 Founders: Max Giammario, Lingga Pradipta

💡 Pitch: MetaPals is pioneering a new era of digital companionship by seamlessly integrating AI and blockchain through a browser extension game engine. These companions exist as browser overlays rather than standalone apps, making them seamlessly accessible. Through innovative use of AI and blockchain, MetaPals offers personalized, gamified AI companions that learn from user interactions and form deep emotional bonds with users, making digital interactions more meaningful.

💸 Stage: $1 million.

🌟 Company: Fractopus

🔍 What it does: Fractopus protocol connects content on the internet into a peer-to-peer revenue-sharing network.

👥 Founders: Handuo Zhang, Chao Chao, John Zhu

💡 Pitch: Content on the internet is disconnected. It is either gated by centralized platforms or struggling to get revenue & exposure. The Fractopus protocol solves this problem by having content connect with each other into a peer-to-peer revenue & exposure-sharing network. 

Fractopus is getting a solid product-market fit by enabling the monetization of AI-generated content. Its partners include ComfyUI (10m users) and WaytoAGI (800k members),

💸 Stage: Angel round raised $380K, Pre-seed round in progress.