categories.json

[
  {
    "name": "DeFi",
    "slug": "defi",
    "description": "projects focused on decentralized finance or open finance",
    "subcategories": [
      {
        "name": "Currencies",
        "slug": "currencies",
        "description": "apps and protocols that issue a cryptocurrency, including stablecoins, ERC20s and non-fungible tokens"
      },

      {
        "name": "Derivatives",
        "slug": "derivatives",
        "description": "derivative issuance and trading platforms"
      },

      {
        "name": "Exchanges",
        "slug": "exchanges",
        "description": "apps and protocols for exchanging and trading cryptocurrencies and tokens, including decentralized and centralized exchanges and liquidity networks"
      },

      {
        "name": "Insurance",
        "slug": "insurance",
        "description": "insurance services providers"
      },

      {
        "name": "Investing",
        "slug": "investing",
        "description": "investment funds, venture capital funds and asset management apps"
      },

      {
        "name": "Lending",
        "slug": "lending",
        "description": "apps and protocols for lending cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets and tokenizing collateral"
      },

      {
        "name": "Payments",
        "slug": "payments",
        "description": "payment providers supporting cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets, including on-ramps, payment and settlement solutions"
      },

      {
        "name": "Ratings",
        "slug": "ratings",
        "description": "financial ratings or credit score providers"
      },

      {
        "name": "Research",
        "slug": "research",
        "description": "projects focused on providing data and research about DeFi"
      },

      {
        "name": "Staking",
        "slug": "staking",
        "description": "projects focused on providing staking services, such as staking research, delegated staking or node operations"
      },

      {
        "name": "Wallets",
        "slug": "wallets",
        "description": "wallet apps that support cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets and can provide other DeFi services"
      }
    ]
  },

  {
    "name": "Education",
    "slug": "education",
    "description": "any projects focused on education and learning provision, including institutional academia, technical skills learning, Web3 resources and more"
  },

  {
    "name": "Energy",
    "slug": "energy",
    "description": "projects focused on the energy and oil sectorsR"
  },
  {
    "name": "Entertainment",
    "slug": "entertainment",
    "description": "projects for entertainment purposes, including music, video, art, books, sports and gaming",
    "subcategories": [
      {
        "name": "Adult",
        "slug": "adult",
        "description": "projects focused on providing adult entertainment"
      },
      {
        "name": "Art",
        "slug": "art",
        "description": "projects focused art creation, exchange and hosting"
      },
      {
        "name": "Collectibles",
        "slug": "collectibles",
        "description": "projects for collectibles issuance, exchange and hosting"
      },

      {
        "name": "Gaming",
        "slug": "gaming",
        "description": "applications and protocols for gaming and gambling "
      },

      {
        "name": "Music",
        "slug": "music",
        "description": "apps and protocols for music streaming and recording"
      },

      {
        "name": "Blogs",
        "slug": "blogs",
        "description": "projects focused on writing and hosting blogs"
      },

      {
        "name": "Books",
        "slug": "books",
        "description": "projects focused on writing and publishing books and formalized content"
      },

      {
        "name": "Sports",
        "slug": "sports",
        "description": "sporting applications and tools"
      },

      {
        "name": "Video",
        "slug": "video",
        "description": "apps and protocols for video streaming and recording"
      },

      {
        "name": "Virtual Reality",
        "slug": "virtual-reality",
        "description": "PLACEHOLDER"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Environment",
    "slug": "environment",
    "description": "PLACEHOLDER"
  },

  {
    "name": "Events",
    "slug": "events",
    "description": "projects focused on supporting events, including ticketing, sponsorships or event planning"
  },

  {
    "name": "Funds",
    "slug": "funds",
    "description": "investment and hedge funds, venture capital funds or private equity organizations focused on Web3"
  },

  {
    "name": "Grants Organizations",
    "slug": "grants-organizations",
    "description": "organizations distributing grant funding to other projects"
  },

  {
    "name": "Governance",
    "slug": "governance",
    "description": "Porganizations focused on decentralized governance implementations and research, such as DAOs, voting tools and consensus mechanisms",

    "subcategories": [
      {
        "name": "DAOs",
        "slug": "daos",
        "description": "decentralized autonomous organizations and projects focused on building frameworks and tooling for decentralized organizations"
      },

      {
        "name": "Research",
        "slug": "research",
        "description": "organizations focused on researching decentralized consensus mechanisms, such as Proof-of-Work or Proof-of-Stake"
      },

      {
        "name": "Voting",
        "slug": "voting",
        "description": "decentralized voting and signalling tools for app and protocol governance"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Hardware",
    "slug": "hardware",
    "description": "projects focused on developing hardware for Web3 apps and protocols"
  },

  {
    "name": "Health & Wellness",
    "slug": "health-and-wellness",
    "description": "projects focused on health care, wellness and medicine"
  },

  {
    "name": "Identity",
    "slug": "identity",
    "description": "projects focused on identity, reputation and user authentication solutions"
  },

  {
    "name": "Lifestyle",
    "slug": "lifestyle",
    "description": "projects providing lifestyle services or selling lifestyle goods"
  },

  {
    "name": "Manufacturing",
    "slug": "manufacturing",
    "description": "projects focused on manufacturing and production services"
  },

  {
    "name": "Marketplaces",
    "slug": "marketplaces",
    "description": "projects focused on providing venues of exchange for specific goods and services"
  },

  {
    "name": "News & Media",
    "slug": "news-and-media",
    "description": "projects and outlets focused on providing news and media services"
  },
  {
    "name": "Philanthropy",
    "slug": "philanthropy",
    "description": "non-profit and charity organizations"
  },
  {
    "name": "Places",
    "slug": "places",
    "description": "apps and protocols focused on location services, like geographic positioning"
  },
  {
    "name": "Research",
    "slug": "research",
    "description": "projects focused on Web3 development, including cryptoeconomics, distributed systems, consensus mechanisms, scalability and more"
  },
  {
    "name": "Services",
    "slug": "services",
    "description": "apps and protocols providing professional services",
    "subcategories": [
      {
        "name": "Accounting",
        "slug": "accounting",
        "description": "accounting services focused on cryptocurrency and tokenized assetsR"
      },
      {
        "name": "Human Resources",
        "slug": "human-resources",
        "description": "HR and professional services, including hiring, recruiting, people management and development"
      },
      {
        "name": "Legal",
        "slug": "legal",
        "description": "legal services focused on cryptocurrency and blockchain, including regulation, securities laws, LAOs"
      },
      {
        "name": "Marketing & PR",
        "slug": "marketing-and-pr",
        "description": "marketing, PR and media companies focused on promoting cryptocurrency and blockchain"
      },
      {
        "name": "Software Development",
        "slug": "software-development",
        "description": "developer shops and projects focused on software creation as a service"
      }
    ]
  },

  {
    "name": "Social Networks",
    "slug": "social-networks",
    "description": "projects providing social networking platforms and tools"
  },

  {
    "name": "Software",
    "slug": "software",
    "description": "projects focused on building software for developing Web3, including blockchains, cryptoeconomic systems and tokenized assets",
    "subcategories": [
      {
        "name": "Analytics",
        "slug": "analytics",
        "description": "projects focused on consuming and analyzing data from Web3 apps and protocols, including block explorers, analytics apps, data feeds"
      },
      {
        "name": "Blockchain Development",
        "slug": "blockchain-development",
        "description": "projects and teams focused on researching and building blockchains, distributed systems and sidechains"
      },
      {
        "name": "Computation",
        "slug": "computation",
        "description": "projects focused on computation for Web3 protocols, such as researching computation, implementing computation sharing solutions"
      },
      {
        "name": "Custody",
        "slug": "custody",
        "description": "projects focused on providing custody or delegate services, such as custody of user funds and private keys"
      },
      {
        "name": "Developer Tools",
        "slug": "developer-tools",
        "description": "projects focused on researching and building developer tooling for Web3 apps and protocols"
      },
      {
        "name": "Libraries",
        "slug": "libraries",
        "description": "projects focused on building libraries for Web3 development"
      },
      {
        "name": "Networking",
        "slug": "networking",
        "description": "projects focused on networking between Web3 protocols, such as p2p networking"
      },
      {
        "name": "Oracles",
        "slug": "oracles",
        "description": "projects researching or building oracle solutions for Web3 apps and protocols, including oracles for on-chain and off-chain data"
      },

      {
        "name": "Privacy",
        "slug": "privacy",
        "description": "projects researching or building privacy solutions for Web3 apps and protocols, such as cryptography research, mixers"
      },

      {
        "name": "Scaling",
        "slug": "scaling",
        "description": "projects researching or building blockchain scaling solutions, including layer 1 (mainnet) and layer 2 scalability"
      },

      {
        "name": "Security & Audits",
        "slug": "security-and-audits",
        "description": "projects focused on providing software or hardware security, including code security, audits and testing and general security practices"
      },

      {
        "name": "Storage",
        "slug": "storage",
        "description": "projects focused on storage for Web3 protocols, including file sharing, cloud storage and more"
      }
    ]
  },

  {
    "name": "Supply Chain",
    "slug": "supply-chain",
    "description": "apps and protocols focused on supply chain management, tracking and optimization"
  },

  {
    "name": "Work",
    "slug": "work",
    "description": "projects focused on gig economies, future of work and professional reputation"
  }
]