I believe many people have this feeling: Berachain is still just a test network, how can there be so many ecological projects? The test network has been open for less than a year, but Berachain has already seen a large number of Dapps.

Let us introduce several projects worth paying attention to:

Infrared simplifies the interaction of users participating in PoL. Users deposit liquidity into the Infrared vault, and Infrared deploys the liquidity to the BGT reward vault. In this way, users can obtain iBGT tokens issued by Infrared 1:1, thereby unlocking the liquidity of BGT.

Kodiak is a decentralized exchange (Dex) and liquidity center. Its featured Islands are automated liquidity management vaults, and users do not need to manually manage their LP positions. Islands is also an integrated incentive layer: by providing liquidity, the LP tokens obtained can also be used for BGT mining.

Shogun is an intent-based one-stop cross-chain transaction protocol. It uses Smart Order Routing to eliminate the need for multiple Swap UIs, aggregating every liquidity venue on the supported chains. Its intent-centric model will increase the speed of cross-chain interactions and provide better exchange rates.

IVX is a 0dte options protocol. 0dte tokens have zero-day expiration, so this option only lasts 24 hours. Its biggest feature is that it can provide traders with high leverage and low volatility.

Beradrome is a native liquidity market. Its flywheel revolves around a three-token model: BERO as the main token; hiBERO as the staking token; oBERO as the reward token. oBERO will be emitted to users who provide LP in the mining pool, and hiBERO holders will vote to determine the distribution of the mining pool flow of oBERO emission. In order to attract liquidity and obtain oBERO emissions, mining pool owners can provide token bribes to guide the voting choices of hiBERO holders.

Gummi is a money market on Berachain. Gummi can create markets for any asset pair without the need for an oracle, and supports leveraged trading and returns for each asset. Gummi also has a Manager Vault feature, which allows users to deposit to a third-party vault with one click, and the vault automatically manages it to achieve mixed returns.

Ramen is a native token launchpad protocol. Ramen has a strict project screening process and will select high-potential, usually VC-backed protocols for token release. Users need to stake Ramen and obtain gRAMEN tokens to start accumulating Gacha points. Gacha can be exchanged for participation tickets for token release, and winning tickets can obtain corresponding subscription shares.

Puffpaw is a Depin protocol that encourages users to quit smoking and make money. Each e-cigarette is a node/miner, and users can use cartridges with different nicotine content. The lower the nicotine content, the more Puff token rewards. Users can spend Puff to increase the mining income of the miner, or buy more cartridges to reduce mining costs. 9/ @0xhoneyjar The Honey Jar is an unofficial community portal. THJ aims to promote/incubate the Berachain project and build a partnership network to expand the influence of its "cult". THJ is also the creator of Honeycomb NFT, and HC NFT is positioned as a welfare aggregator, and holders can obtain the whitelist of most projects.

Every crypto user wants to accumulate more capital, so they will look for various "incentive protocols".

This incentive may be airdrop expectations, token subsidies, point mining... However, no matter what kind of incentive method, its effect is short-term and temporary.

Once the airdrop is completed, the points are redeemed, and the subsidies stop, users and liquidity will leave like mercenaries and look for the next incentive protocol.

However, with the help of BGT and PoL mechanism, Berachain redesigned the whole game:

1/Users: continue to earn BGT by providing liquidity in the application's treasury, and entrust it to validators to earn token incentives and Dapp fees.

2/Validators: Get more BGT block rewards by maximizing user delegation, and emit BGT to the application treasury in exchange for token incentives.

3/Application: Rely on the PoL mechanism to achieve cold start at low cost, and increase token incentives to attract validators to emit more BGT, thereby further attracting more user liquidity.

Berachain distributes value to on-chain participants, so that the interests of users, validators and applications can be coordinated, thereby continuously motivating all parties to "play the long game".