We are building the future of finance on the chain designed for it with Injective Ecosystem Builder Catalyst.
The world of decentralized finance is shifting fast. We are moving beyond simple token swaps toward a sophisticated, institutional-grade financial layer. We are entering an era where sub-second finality, gasless transactions, and MultiVM interoperability converge to create a “DeFi-first” environment. This is not just an upgrade to existing systems; it is a total reorientation toward high-performance, purpose-built infrastructure.
Today, at Outlier Ventures and Injective we are excited to announce the latest cohort of startups selected for the Injective Ecosystem Builder Catalyst. This 9-week virtual accelerator is designed to back the next generation of founders building high-growth DeFi and infrastructure projects natively on Injective.
Why The Injective Ecosystem Builder Catalyst Cohort Matters
This cohort represents more than just a collection of new apps. The participating companies are the infrastructure of the next decade of finance. The DeFi ecosystem is reaching a tipping point, with DeFi TVL sitting at nearly $140B and Real-World Assets (RWA) scaling by over 380% since 2022.
Injective cohort founders are not just porting legacy products; they are designing new primitives—from agentic trading systems to onchain repo markets—that are only possible because of Injective’s shared liquidity infrastructure and technical edge. They are building where code, culture, and capital converge into a single, programmable layer.
In 2026, Injective is the destination for founders who demand a technical edge, they are leveraging a high-performance architecture to unlock liquidity and defensibility that didn’t exist before.
Meet the Injective Injective Ecosystem Builder Catalyst Founders
These teams are in the trenches, refining products that utilize Injective’s native financial modules to achieve higher capital efficiency.
• QuantCite: an institutional-grade Order and Execution Management and smart-routing platform. It unifies execution across both centralized exchanges and DeFi venues to provide quant funds and professional traders with high-performance infrastructure and deep liquidity access.
• Joinn: a fintech app helping everyday people in emerging markets protect and grow their savings with access to stable, yield generating tokenized financial assets. It feels like a Web2 app but runs on secure blockchain rails with gasless, signless transactions across multiple chains. With 24/7 access, a connected Visa card experience, and an AI agent, Joinn makes compounding effortless.
• Choice: A decentralized exchange and aggregation layer specifically optimized for Injective. By utilizing a novel routing algorithm that taps into liquidity across all venues, Choice ensures users receive the best swap execution with reduced slippage.
• Stabled: An international payments platform for businesses, designed to make compliant cross-border stablecoin transactions instantly, without banks, minimizing FX loss and settlement delays.
• Quantum Street: Consists of capital market and financial engineering specialists focused on bringing off-chain assets on-chain. By structuring transactions for cash-flowing businesses, they create genuine utility for stablecoins and accelerate Total Value Locked (TVL) growth.
• Spout: a platform that revolutionizes the equities market by enabling the seamless borrowing and lending of U.S. public equities. They tokenize equities and run a CDP model to enable 0% APR margin loans while also offering ~10% APY lending rates.
• Dapps.co: A Web3-native social network that returns agency to creators through tokenized communities and on-chain economies. The platform includes an AI provenance layer to combat low-quality generated content while allowing creators to monetize directly through tipping and paid DMs.
• Chain Capital: A platform that transforms illiquid private debt into tradable securities. By tokenizing invoices and receivables, they automate the securitization workflow. They cut middle-office costs by up to 75% and provide institutional investors with compliant access to high-yield exposures.
• HodlHer: The world’s first AI-driven Web3 operating system on Injective. Through unique intelligent personas, they help users, creators, and projects complete the full loop from perception and reasoning to action.
Where We Go From Here
We believe the next phase of DeFi won’t just be about more assets, but about system fit and composability. Injective offers functional parity with TradFi in order books and collateral management while enabling strategies that are impossible in legacy finance.
Over the nine weeks, these companies receive hands-on mentorship, legal guidance, and access to ecosystem incentives to scale their vision. Stay tuned as they scale—you will be using their tech sooner than you think.
Sign up for the upcoming Injective Ecosystem Builder Catalyst Demo Day here.
