Announcing 0G and OnePiece Labs’ Second AI Accelerator Cohort

The 0G x OnePiece Labs AI Accelerator is designed to support cutting-edge AI projects that are pushing the boundaries of decentralized intelligence. Since kicking off this Accelerator last summer on a rolling admissions basis, we’ve seen a flood of high-potential AI applicants looking to scale their impact within the decentralized AI landscape. 

So far, the inaugural 0G x OPL Accelerator cohort has set a high bar:

• CARV grew its user base to over 10M, generated $6M in revenue from their cutting-edge, AI-driven gaming solutions, and reached a $1B ATH market cap after onboarding with 0G x OnePiece.

• Cygnus Finance Reached $100M+ TVL and secured strategic partnerships with Binance, OpenOcean, and SynFutures; currently gearing up for a $15M fundraising round leading up to their TGE.

• DataHive expanded its pipeline to 6M users, secured $150K in booked revenue and is in the final review stage at NYU Stern’s Endless Frontier Labs.

• Infinity Ground raised $2M in Seed funding to build interoperable AI-powered worlds across blockchains like Base, BNB Chain, and KaiaChain.

Following the remarkable success of this first cohort, 0G and OnePiece Labs are excited to introduce the second cohort—a handpicked selection of startups building at the intersection of AI and web3!

Meet The Latest Cohort

The second 0G x OPL cohort is composed of high-caliber AI projects spanning multiple web3 sectors and application types. The most exciting verticals and projects covered in this cohort include:

AI-Enhanced Gaming / Generative AI

PlaysOut (Unlocking Mini-Games in Every App)

• Pitch: PlaysOut enables super apps to seamlessly integrate thousands of AI-powered mini-games, enhancing user engagement and retention while unlocking new revenue streams. Real-time, content-heavy traffic is a perfect stress test for 0G’s ultra-affordable, high-throughput DA layer, and we're excited to flex our capabilities with the elevated activity PlaysOut attracts.

• Major Milestones: Partnerships with Tencent Cloud, OKX, Aptos, KAIA, TON, Movement, and Taiko; engages 200+ mini-game developers and studios globally and is currently raising a $5M strategic pre-TGE round.

PlayArts (AI-Powered Dynamic NFTs)

• Pitch: PlayArts transforms AI-generated data into dynamic, tradable NFTs, enabling users to monetize evolving AI agents through a Train-to-Earn system. This project is perfect for showcasing how 0G storage and compute enable onchain assets to be continuously updated in a seamless, gas-efficient way.

• Major Milestones: Selected for the NVIDIA Inception Program and also backed by Story Protocol Arbitrum, and Alchemy. They reached 200K users in January 2025 and are currently raising a $2M seed round at a $20M valuation.

Escape Velocity (Autonomous Gaming Agent Launchpad)

• Pitch: Escape Velocity is an MCP-powered utility agent launchpad that closes the price-value loop for utility agent tokens. The platform solves liquidity fragmentation issues through gamified trading and “liquidity pool raid” mechanisms.

• Milestones: Gamified trading MVP launched in early February. Their first gaming agent prototype, Agent Squaid (AI Squid Game), was released at Consensus HK, and they are currently raising a $1M seed round.

WagerVS (Gamified Prediction Market Platform)

• Pitch: WagerVS is a an AI-refereed, fully onchain prediction market where users bet on anything from celebrity feuds to sports. 0G’s sub-cent fees are a perfect match for the platform's high volume micro-bet settlements, and the 0G service marketplace can support the training of future prediction models.

• Milestones: Open Beta launched on February 25, 2025, after raising $55K from a small community OTC private sale. They processed $10K+ in wagers within the first 10 days, and are currently raising a $1M seed round.

Lockness (Decentralized 3D Asset Creation Platform)

• Pitch: Lockness is a smartphone-based 3D scanner and gen AI engine that turns real-world objects or text prompts into onchain 3D assets. Heavy creative files are the flagship case for 0G’s cost-effective decentralized storage and compute network, and we're excited to see what users come up with.

• Milestones: 3D Scanner's MVP was ready for alpha testing within 3 months. They received a Render Network Grant for their innovative approach and are raising a $500K pre-seed at a $5M valuation.

AI Agent Marketplaces

Assisterr AI (A Network of Specialized AI Models & Agents)

• Pitch: AI is poised to add $15.7T to the global economy by 2030. Assisterr AI is leading this revolution by providing an "App Store for AI” where builders spin-up, tokenize & sell specialized AI models/agents. Crucially, Assisterr publishes models that can run natively on 0G inference & storage rails, which is core to our AI-OS vision.

• Major Milestones: Raised $2.5M, reached 2.5M users and saw 17K+ AI agents/models deployed by our community; the project has demonstrated clear product-market fit and the ability to generate recurring revenue.

Exponent.ai (AI-Powered Trading Agents for Retail Users)

• Pitch: Exponent.ai makes the average web3 user as productive as institutional firms by equipping them with an entire team of AI trading agents, including Analyst and Trader agents in a chat-based UI.

• Major Milestones: MVP launched at Devcon7 SEA, onboarding 1K+ users in 3 weeks. Raised $2.59M pre-seed from top web3 VCs like GSR and KR1. 11K+ followers on X and 17K+ Telegram members, and growing fast; currently raising a $4.5M seed round.

Replicats (No-Code AI-Fi for Autonomous Trading Agents)

• Pitch: Replicats is a no-code AI-Fi framework for building autonomous trading agents, powered by DAG workflows, specialized foundational models, and LLMs. This project can leverage multiple layers of the 0G stack, from streamlining large model checkpoints on 0G storage and broadcasting agent outputs via DA to training models through 0G's service marketplace.

• Major Milestones: Replicats’ first agent, Replicat-One, has launched internally, with a public demo coming soon. The RCAT token was the #1 asset bought by smart money on Base on its launch day according to Nansen, and they are currently raising a $2M seed round.

Specialized Language Models (SLMs) 

Credible Finance (AI-Powered Credit System for Web3 Users)

• Pitch: Credible Finance leverages AI-driven credit analysis to generate onchain credit scores for 560M digital asset holders, enabling access to credit cards, cash loans, and pay-later financial products via an oracle layer. With this, Credible is bringing high-volume credit data to 0G and enlarging our DeFi footprint via competitive yield payvaults and onchain credit liquidity.

• Major Milestones: Backed by Circle, Outlier Ventures, BitSwiss Capital, Solana, and more. Over 200K+ users are already utilizing its fintech ecosystem, and they are currently raising a $5M pre-TGE strategic round and a $30M oracle node sale.

Cred Protocol (Predictive Web3 Credit Scoring)

• Pitch: Onchain lending is a $50B market but remains inefficient due to limited credit visibility. To address this, Cred Protocol is creating the “FICO for crypto” to unlock the next era of reputation-based lending and institutional credit access. 0G is key to this vision, allowing Cred Protocol to run lightweight ML inferences entirely onchain and calculate LTV ratios based on real-time credit scores.

• Major Milestones: Processed 350K+ credit scores across 9 chains in 2024. Joined the Base ecosystem and launched under-collateralized lending this year, and are currently raising a $2M round.

DAO Automation

DAO AI (The First Agentic Governance Protocol for DAOs)

• Pitch: By 2030, DAOs are expected to govern over $1 trillion in assets. DAO AI's groundbreaking agentic governance protocol allows DAOs to operate autonomously and efficiently at scale using onchain intelligence & machine learning. Their success effectively positions 0G as the leading execution layer for autonomous, onchain governance agents.

• Major Milestones: Onboarded 10K daily users in its first week after launching in February 2025; backed by Serafund (early investors in Movement and Plume) and are currently raising a $3.5M round for their TGE.

While these projects vary in focus, they share common traits: advanced product maturity, strong communities, and significant growth potential, making them invaluable additions to the 0G ecosystem. 

Building the Future of AI on 0G

We’re proud to launch the second cohort of our AI Accelerator and bringing together some of the most cutting-edge AI projects in web3. 

By bringing these high-caliber projects into the 0G decentralized AI OS, this Accelerator aims to expand 0G’s technological capabilities and attract more innovators to its ecosystem. 0G is rapidly emerging as the AI-enabling Layer 1, with a vision to build a truly decentralized AI infrastructure that is scalable, efficient, and open to all. And with OnePiece’s proven track record in AI and web3 acceleration, we’re excited to see how far these 0G x OnePiece Labs AI Accelerator projects will go!

Over the coming weeks, the projects that form cohort 2 will receive mentorship, technical support, and investor exposure—culminating in their participation at Token2049 Dubai’s on-site Demo Day, where they will showcase their progress to the global web3 and AI community.

Stay tuned for updates as these projects bring their AI-powered visions to life!

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