12 projects may issue tokens in Q1/2025

Q1-2025 is predicted to be a boom quarter for altcoins as large numbers of projects are expected or announced to TGE.

At the end of 2024, the crypto market witnessed many important events. However, some potential projects have yet to announce TGE (Token Generation Event) information, and others are expected to launch in Q1/2025.

Based on the predictions of the Wu Blockchain team, there are at least 10 projects that will TGE and launch tokens in the first four months of the new year.

12 projects are likely to launch tokens in Q1-2025. Source: Wu Blockchain.

Pump.fun

Pump.fun is the Meme Launchpad platform, designed to support meme projects that reach out to funding and communities.

Pump.fun has seen a strong boom in 2024, becoming the fastest-growing project and the largest revenue in the entire market.

Category: Meme Launchpad
Funding Amount: Undisclosed
Investors: Alliance and other funds

Since its launch on January 29, 2024, 5.3 million memencoins have been generated on the platform with an average of 30,000-50,000 tokens generated per day in Q4-2024.

Data of Pump.Fun. Source: @jhackworth.

Linea

Linea is a layer 2 solution focused on scaling transactions on the Ethereum blockchain without compromising security or decentralization.

After almost 2 years of mainnet, the project has processed more than 17 million transactions and has a current TVL at $800 million.

Classification: Layer 2 (L2)
Funding Amount: Undisclosed
Investor: Undisclosed

Linea is a layer 1 project developed by Consensys.

Monad

Monad is a layer 1 blockchain, focused on delivering high performance with a modern consensus mechanism.

Monad is currently one of the most noticed projects in 2025 with a huge community membership despite not yet being mainnet. The number of members on Discord has surpassed 240,000 and there is no sign of stopping.

Classification: Layer 1 (L1)
Funding Amount: $244 million
Investors: Paradigm, Dragonfly and other funds

Monad is one of the projects with the largest amount of funds on the market.

Berachain

Berachain is a layer 1 blockchain compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), built on the Cosmos SDK platform, and using the new Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism.

Classification: Layer 1 (L1)
Funding Amount: $142.00 million
Investors: Polychain, Framework Ventures and other funds

Berachain is also one of the layer 1's with an extremely large number of testnet users. In the first 2 months of testnet activity in February 2024, the project recorded more than 137 million transactions.

Berachain raised capital.

Storyprotocollo

Storyprotocollo is one of the blockchains created with the goal of building a foundation for the sharing and creation of digital content (IP).

The project is expected to bring innovation in how content creators manage intellectual property rights and generate sustainable revenue streams.

Classification: Layer 1 (L1)
Funding Amount: $134.30 million
Investors: a16z, Polychain and other funds

As of 09/09/2024, there were over 2 million NFT IPs minted and over 600,000 users using Story Protocol.

Story Protocol Ecosystem.

Babylonian

Babylonian is a project that offers BTC staking capabilities, with the goal of leveraging the Bitcoin network to develop new and secure applications for this blockchain.

Category:Bitcoin Ecosystem
Funding Amount: $96.00 million
Investors: Binance Labs, Paradigm and other funds

Through staking, BTC is locked in a “self-custodial vault” on Bitcoin's blockchain. This means that users retain ownership of their BTC and do not need to rely on third parties to manage assets.

Polymarkt

Polymarkt is a Prediction Market platform that allows users to bet on future events, based on the transparency and fairness of the blockchain.

Category: Market Prediction
Funding Amount: $74.00 million
Investors: Polychain, Vitalik and other funds

Polymarkets have predictive pools related to politics, society, and crypto.

Following the election of President Donald Trump in November 2024, Polymarket gained a huge number of new users to lead the prediction market.

The predicted pool size on Polymarket once exceeded $2 billion with the pool “Who will be the US president-elect in 2024”.

The Doodles

Doodles is an NFT project focused on building creative communities around unique digital art collections. With an ATH of over 23.9 ETH per NFT, Doodles is one of the highest valued NFTs as of May 2022.

Category: NFT
Funding Amount: $54.00 million
Investors: Seven Seven Six, FTX Ventures and other funds

The Doodles NFT project has a lovely cartoon style.

After a period of activity, the project also included the release of the animated film Dullsville and the Doodleverse featuring Pharrel Williams and Lil Wayne.

Azuki

Azuki is a popular NFT project with a Japanese anime style design, which has created a large fan community. Currently, the price per Azuki NFT hovers around 12.4 ETH ($41,200).

Category: NFT
Funding Amount: $30.00 million
Investor: Undisclosed

Azuki NFT is one of the few projects with a Japanese particle imprint.

Azuki and Doodles are expected to be the two NFT projects that will launch tokens in the future. In 2024, there are already NFT projects like Degods, Pudgy Penguins launching their own tokens.

Particle Netwerk

Particle Netwerk is a layer 1 blockchain that focuses on improving scalability and interaction between different blockchains, providing comprehensive solutions that make it easier for developers to build decentralized applications (dApps).

Through the development of Universal Apps and Universal blockchain technology, the project successfully tested the use of a USDG fee across multiple blockchains such as Ethereum, Base, Bera and many other blockchains.

Classification: Layer 1 (L1)
Funding Amount: $23.50 million
Investors: Binance Labs, Cobo Ventures and other funds

Particle Network has the potential to connect all blockchains on the market together.

Particle Network is playing a key role in driving the widespread adoption of blockchain, by creating user-friendly and easily integrated tools and services.

With continuous development, Particle Network has the potential to become one of the key pillars in the Web3 ecosystem.

Lombard

Lombard is a liquid staking protocol designed to enhance the applicability of Bitcoin (BTC) in the DeFi sector. The platform allows users to stake BTC to receive back LBTC, a 1:1 secured liquid staking token with BTC.

LBTC can be used in DeFi activities such as staking, yield farming, and borrowing, which optimizes returns for holders.

Kategorija: DeFi
Funding Amount: $17.00 million
Investors: Binance Labs, Polychain and other funds

Lombard focuses on developing the BTCFi ecosystem.

Lombard is one of the few projects focused on developing the Bitcoin ecosystem with modest capital, but there are now more than 15,600 LBTC minted on the platform, worth more than $1.3 billion, respectively.

Elixir

Elixir is a project focused on providing liquidity infrastructure solutions for the DeFi market, specifically targeting decentralized protocols (DEXs) and financial platforms on the blockchain.

Kategorija: DeFi
Funding Amount: $17.60 million
Investors: Hack VC, Sui, Maelstrom Capital and other funds

Elixir develops platforms that serve to thicken the liquidity of the crypto market.

Elixir stands out for building an ecosystem that automates liquidity management and optimizes yield farming strategies, helping developers and users make better use of their assets in the Web3 space.

It is also one of the few existing MM (market-maker) solutions on the market.