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Starknet ecosystem projects: 15 on NAUT, 4 of them trading apps

By NAUT Research · · 6 min read

15 Starknet ecosystem projects tagged Starknet on NAUT, 9 with funding rounds on record, 14 November 2026. Logos: Bitget Wallet, Redstone, Owlto Finance, OpenOcean, zkLend, RocketX, Nostra, Access Protocol, Orbiter Finance, Paradex, EkuboProtocol, USDC.

NAUT tracks 15 Starknet ecosystem projects, held as 16 project rows that carry a Starknet chain tag in NAUT's database on 14 November 2026. Trading apps are the largest group with 4, followed by 2 each in lending, bridges, oracles and security, and tokenised cash, and 9 of the 15 have funding rounds on NAUT's record.

How this list was built, all figures read from NAUT's database on 14 November 2026: 21 project rows carry the Starknet tag, 19 of them live. 2 archived rows were dropped (1 of them merged into another record), and so were the 2 rows that are Starknet itself. 1 more row was dropped for a reason of its own: a Bitcoin memecoin whose stored description places it on the Runes protocol and names no Starknet product. No investor rows were in the set. That leaves 16 rows, and since Spiko's EU and US T-Bill funds sit on 2 rows from 1 issuer, they count as 1 project, so 15. The tag records where a product is deployed: none of the 16 rows lists Starknet as its only chain, and 7 list 10 or more chains, so read this as projects tagged Starknet on NAUT rather than projects built only for it.

Which Starknet ecosystem projects are on NAUT, and what does each build?

The list is sorted by group, then by the number of chains on each NAUT row, fewest first, so the most Starknet-focused projects in each group sit on top. Team is the count of team members on NAUT's record for that row.

Trading

  • EkuboProtocol: AMM built for Starknet. 2 chains, ticker EKUBO, team 1.
  • Paradex: Perpetuals exchange on its own Starknet appchain. 3 chains, ticker DIME, team 5.
  • OpenOcean: DeFi and CeFi trade aggregator. 33 chains, ticker OOE, team 2.
  • RocketX: Non-custodial CEX and DEX aggregator. 36 chains, ticker RVF, team 1.

Lending

  • zkLend: L2 money-market protocol, wound down. It announced a wind-down on 25 June 2025 after a February 2025 exploit, so it is no longer an active outreach target. 2 chains, ticker ZEND, team 0.
  • Nostra: Lending, swaps, bridge and stablecoin in 1 app. 5 chains, ticker NSTR, team 2.

Bridges

  • Orbiter Finance: ZK cross-rollup bridge. 18 chains, ticker OBT, team 5.
  • Owlto Finance: Cross-rollup bridge for Layer 2s. 29 chains, ticker OWL, team 6.

Oracles and security

  • Trusta Labs: Web3 security infrastructure. 8 chains, no ticker stored, team 4.
  • Redstone: Modular oracle data feeds. 23 chains, ticker RED, team 5.

Tokenised cash

Bitcoin yield

  • Echo Protocol: Bitcoin liquid restaking and yield. 9 chains, ticker ECHO, team 3.

Wallet

  • Bitget Wallet: Multichain Web3 wallet. 37 chains, ticker BKB, team 0.

Creator payments

  • Access Protocol: Monetisation for creators and publishers. 3 chains, ticker ACS, team 5.

The groups are NAUT's reading of each row's stored description. NAUT's own sector tags overlap (a row can carry 4), and on those tags 9 of the 16 rows carry DeFi, 4 carry DEX, 3 carry Infrastructure and 3 carry RWA. 13 of the 15 projects carry a launched-token flag on NAUT; Bitget Wallet and zkLend do not, and Trusta Labs carries the flag with no ticker stored.

How much have Starknet ecosystem projects raised?

For Starknet funding, 9 of the 15 projects have rounds on NAUT's record, and their rounds sum to $92.4M, token sales included. Each figure below is NAUT's sum of the amounts on that project's stored rounds.

Sum of stored rounds on NAUT's record, token sales included, 14 November 2026
  1. Bitget Wallet$46.5M
  2. Redstone$22.88M
  3. Owlto Finance$8M
  4. OpenOcean$5.52M
  5. zkLend$5M
  6. RocketX$1.86M
  7. Nostra$1.44M
  8. Access Protocol$1.2M
  9. Orbiter Finance$0.05M

The rows behind the bars, with the latest round each project's record holds:

  • Bitget Wallet: 3 rounds, $46.5M in total. Latest: IEO, $1.5M, June 2024.
  • Redstone: 5 rounds, $22.88M in total. Latest: Angel round, $350K.
  • Owlto Finance: 1 round, $8M in total. Latest: Strategic round, $8M, May 2024.
  • OpenOcean: 5 rounds, $5.52M in total. Latest: Strategic, $1.4M.
  • zkLend: 1 round, $5M in total. Latest: Seed round, $5M, March 2022.
  • RocketX: 6 rounds, $1.86M in total. Latest: Pre-seed, $320K.
  • Nostra: 3 rounds, $1.44M in total. Latest: LBP sale on Fjord, $400K.
  • Access Protocol: 1 round, $1.2M in total. Latest: Seed round, $1.2M, October 2023.
  • Orbiter Finance: 4 rounds, $50K in total. Latest: Seed funding round, no amount stored.

2 stored descriptions tell a different story from the round sums, so read both. Redstone's description says it raised almost $23M in 3 private rounds, while NAUT holds 5 rounds summing to $22.88M. Nostra's description says there is no public information on its rounds, while NAUT holds 3 rounds summing to $1.44M, the latest a token sale. The other 6 projects, EkuboProtocol, Paradex, Echo Protocol, Trusta Labs, USDC and Spiko, have no round on NAUT's record, which says nothing about whether they raised. Paradex's own stored description names a backer, citing its X account.

What this tells a BD team working Starknet

How a BD team can work the Starknet list
  1. Start with the 4 trading appsEkuboProtocol, Paradex, OpenOcean and RocketX.
  2. Sort by chain countEkuboProtocol carries 2 chains, Paradex 3, so a Starknet pitch lands there first.
  3. Open the biggest teamsOwlto Finance lists 6 people on NAUT, and 4 more projects list 5 each.
  4. Route around the gaps4 of the 15 have no team on NAUT, so use the X handle or site on their page.

What this tells a founder or investor sourcing on Starknet

  • 6 of the 15 have no round on NAUT's record, among them the 2 lowest-chain trading apps, EkuboProtocol and Paradex. For an investor sourcing deals, that is a gap in NAUT's record to check with the team, since Paradex's description already names a backer.
  • The 2 biggest sums on record come from wide multichain products, Bitget Wallet at $46.5M and Redstone at $22.88M. zkLend's $5M seed in March 2022 is the largest stored round at a 2-chain project, a historical round: zkLend announced a wind-down in June 2025.
  • A founder raising for a Starknet product can study the 9 funded projects' pages for the round types that closed: seed, strategic, pre-seed, angel, an IEO and an LBP all appear in the latest-round column.
How an investor can source from this list
  1. Check the unfunded rows6 of the 15 hold no round on NAUT, including EkuboProtocol and Paradex.
  2. Compare stored text with roundsRedstone says almost $23M in its description and holds $22.88M in rounds on NAUT.
  3. Read the latest roundBitget Wallet's IEO of June 2024 and Owlto Finance's $8M strategic round of May 2024 are the newest dated rounds in the table.
  4. Reach the teamOpen each project's NAUT page for the people on file.

How were these Starknet ecosystem projects checked?

Every figure in the tables and chart is a value in NAUT's own database, read on 14 November 2026. On top of that, 12 claims went to outside sources: 1 about Starknet itself and 11 about 11 of the 15 projects. The 4 projects not put through that check are Access Protocol, Echo Protocol, RocketX and Trusta Labs, so their Starknet tag rests on NAUT's record alone.

  • 5 projects had their Starknet support confirmed with wording found on the page. Paradex's docs describe "Paradex's own appchain on Starknet." Circle's blog announced on 3 December 2025 that "native USDC and CCTP are now live on Starknet". Redstone says it is "Live across 110+ networks, spanning EVM and non-EVM environments including Solana, Starknet, TON, and Stellar". Bitget Wallet's v7.3.1 release notes of 23 March 2023 list Starknet among the mainnets it added. A Starknet blog post of 30 May 2024 calls Orbiter Finance "a cross-rollup bridge on Ethereum" and points readers to it for bridging into Starknet.
  • 2 more were confirmed against a page the check could not re-read plus a second source, so they are paraphrased: Spiko's on-chain T-Bill money market funds launched on Starknet, and OpenOcean's product docs list Starknet among its non-EVM chains.
  • 4 rest on NAUT's stored description: EkuboProtocol, whose cited docs page did not show the wording, and Nostra, zkLend and Owlto Finance, where the pages fetched did not state the Starknet claim. A follow-up check found that zkLend announced a wind-down on 25 June 2025 after a February 2025 exploit, so it is listed for the record only and is no longer an active outreach target.
  • Starknet's own docs describe it as a "decentralized, permissionless Layer 2 (L2) validity rollup that scales Ethereum".

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto ecosystem leads: 98 at 60 L1 and L2 chains and Crypto cap table: 4 steps that found 36 backers, 6 rounds.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/paradex with Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY returns 1 of these 15 projects with its team, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/search?q=Starknet returns matching projects and people together, up to 12 of each, at 5 credits per data call. The docs are at naut.so/docs/api and the plans at naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on these pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal them.

Starknet ecosystem projects FAQ

Which crypto projects run on Starknet?

On 14 November 2026, NAUT held 15 projects tagged Starknet: EkuboProtocol, Paradex, OpenOcean, RocketX, zkLend, Nostra, Orbiter Finance, Owlto Finance, Trusta Labs, Redstone, Spiko's T-Bill funds, USDC, Echo Protocol, Bitget Wallet and Access Protocol. 7 of the 15 had their Starknet support confirmed by an outside source for this article.

What are the main Starknet DeFi projects?

Of the 15 Starknet projects on NAUT on 14 November 2026, the DeFi core is 4 trading apps (EkuboProtocol, Paradex, OpenOcean, RocketX), 1 active lending app (Nostra) and 2 bridges (Orbiter Finance, Owlto Finance). zkLend, the other lending row, announced a wind-down in June 2025 after a February 2025 exploit. EkuboProtocol carries the fewest chains among the active apps, 2.

How much funding have Starknet projects raised?

9 of the 15 Starknet-tagged projects on NAUT have funding rounds on record as of 14 November 2026, summing to $92.4M with token sales included. Bitget Wallet holds the largest sum at $46.5M, then Redstone at $22.88M and Owlto Finance at $8M.

Where can I find the teams behind Starknet projects and their contact channels?

NAUT's project pages list them: 11 of the 15 Starknet-tagged projects had team members on NAUT's record on 14 November 2026, led by Owlto Finance with 6, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/paradex returns a project with its team. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and open the channels.

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