Cardano x DraperU Founder Residency - Pitch Day Lookbook - PART 2/4 @crashr_io - Trade anything for anything. Unlike conventional platforms that often restrict trades to specific asset pairs, Crashr's protocol allows users to trade any combination of digital assets—be it NFTs, stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies—in a single transaction. This flexibility is achieved through their advanced smart contract system, which consolidates listing and offer functionalities, simplifying user interactions and enhancing the trading experience. @Cur8Labs - A home for everything you own on-chain. Cur8 unifies over 1,200+ NFT projects across hundreds of protocols into one cross-chain platform—giving users a single place to discover, collect, and showcase digital assets. It’s also a launchpad for artists of all kinds to share and monetize their work, no matter where it lives on-chain. @DeltaDeFi - Enabling high-frequency trading on-chain. High-frequency trading (HFT) accounts for 50% of daily trade volume for equities markets. But crypto remains at less than 20%. Why? Latency, gas fees, and slow finality DeltaDeFi is changing that. Built on Cardano Hydra, it enables HFT with off-chain order management, programmatic access, and zero cost until execution, bringing speed and scale to decentralized markets. @DirectEdDev - Funding education for developing nations DirectEd connects donors and investors to students in underserved regions through blockchain-powered Income Sharing Agreements. Students receive funding upfront and repay only when earning. Smart contracts ensure funds go directly to education—bringing transparency, accountability, and long-term impact to global learning. @FluidTokens - Don’t Sell Your Assets— HODL & Leverage FluidTokens is a Cardano-native DeFi platform unlocking liquidity from non-traditional assets—NFTs, native tokens, and real-world representations—without selling them. Users can borrow, lend, and pool capital using idle on-chain assets as collateral, expanding what’s possible in DeFi on eUTxO chains. Excited to meet some of the startups on Demo Day? DM to apply for more details. Invite only.