Encryption Launchpad Landscape Reshuffle: A Depth Comparison of 8 Major Platforms in 2025

In 2025, as the encryption market gradually recovers, the ecosystem of the Launchpad platform shows a trend of diversified development. From the traditional IDO model supported by centralized exchanges to decentralized community-driven platforms, and then to the emerging AI agent and LBP mechanisms, various platforms have developed differentiated layouts around different types of projects, user groups, and financing models. This article compares in depth the 8 major mainstream Launchpad platforms, including DAO Maker, Seedify, ChainGPT Pad, Virtuals, CoinTerminal, Fjord Foundry, CoinList, and Binance Launchpad, covering their project profiles, issuance mechanisms, return performance, track positioning, and unique innovations.

DAO Maker: A Launchpad Balancing Retail-Friendly and VC-Style Selection

platform positioning and vision

DAO Maker, with its innovative "Strong Holder Offering" (, connects retail users with a class VC project screening system. Users need to stake $DAO tokens and have a long-term holding record to qualify for allocations, emphasizing the concept of "loyalty staking," thereby aligning the long-term interests of investors and projects. Since 2019, DAO Maker has facilitated over 179 token offerings, raising approximately $107 million, with notable projects including My Neighbor Alice and XCAD. The platform has gradually expanded from one-time sales to an "accelerator ecosystem," with new features like DAO Farms and Vaults allowing users to continuously earn token rewards during the staking period, with annual returns as high as 300-1500%, thereby extending the community’s fund lock-up period. Its core vision is to create a retail-friendly Web3 launch platform with VC-level screening and ongoing incentive mechanisms.

) 2025 representative project

DAO Maker has recently focused on projects with clear narratives and diverse types, including:

• SpeedThrone: A AAA racing project that integrates AI elements, supporting staking mining for 6-12 months.
• 0xFútbol: A football-themed blockchain fantasy sports platform that combines collectibles and prediction gameplay, closely aligned with the World Cup hot topics.
• Kayen Protocol: provides data validation and modular security services, suitable for re-staking and distributed physical infrastructure systems.
• Fusio: Enterprise-level distributed physical infrastructure platform, equipped with AI monitoring mechanisms, aimed at enterprise validator operating scenarios.

These cases show that DAO Maker is compatible with games, sports/fan economy, and AI/infrastructure projects, covering a wide range of themes.

( Investment Return Performance

In the first half of 2025, the overall returns of the DAO Maker project were mediocre, with the average current ROI being about 0.14× of the IDO price, and the highest historical average ROI being 3.65×. Most projects saw their prices quickly fall after listing, although there were still a few breakthrough results. The platform mitigated the losses from price declines through a staking mining mechanism, allowing token holders to continue earning returns even when prices fell. The SHO mechanism somewhat suppressed selling behavior, but it is still difficult to fully hedge against the overall market weakness. It is worth noting that DAO Maker has had better returns in the past ), such as Orion Protocol achieving several times growth ###; the current low ROI is more a reflection of the overall market environment rather than a flaw in the platform mechanism itself.

Mechanism Innovation Highlights

• Strong holders issue (SHO): Obtain allocation rights by staking $DAO tokens, rewarding long-term holders.
• Yield Mining/Vaults: New projects often come with several months of mining activities, distributing the tokens sold as earnings to DAO stakers or liquidity providers. This "staking to earn" model creates demand and liquidity after the IDO.
• DAO Token Binding: Participants in DAO Maker must hold $DAO to participate, thereby fostering loyalty. The "DAO Power" system records users' holding points to prevent quick sell-offs.

These mechanisms strengthen the sustainability of IDOs while maintaining market enthusiasm, and reflect DAO Maker's dual positioning that combines the breadth of retail investors with the depth of project review.

Track Focus and Strategic Positioning

DAO Maker focuses on emerging narratives and practical projects, with its 2025 project layout covering gaming 2.0(SpeedThrone), sports/fan interaction###0xFútbol(, infrastructure)Kayen(, and AI/business services)Fusio(. Compared to chasing trends of "Meme-type platforms", DAO Maker is more inclined to build a project ecosystem with real value and reward mechanisms. Its strategy is to create a "community-driven accelerator" that attracts entrepreneurs who hope to balance retail traffic with long-term healthy development.

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Seedify: Community-Driven Next-Generation Launchpad

) platform positioning and vision

Since 2021, Seedify( $SFUND) has been dedicated to promoting the incubation of quality projects in the fields of NFTs, gaming, AI, and finance through a community consensus mechanism. So far, Seedify has facilitated the issuance of over 100 tokens, raising approximately $40 million to $55 million in total. The platform combines the advantages of centralized exchanges and decentralized finance, employing a $SFUND staking tiered mechanism to ensure user allocation rights, and introduces community reviews to replace closed private placement selections. In 2025, Seedify continues its technological innovation, launching a permissionless bond curve issuance platform, a decentralized curation DAO, and an on-chain social allocation mechanism, becoming one of the most cutting-edge Launchpads in the technology stack.

2025 representative project

• Stable Jack(JACK): A fixed/leverage yield protocol deployed on Avalanche, completed its IDO in April 2025, with an FDV valuation of 20 million USD, raising about 300,000 USD, with all tokens unlocked after TGE, but the market response was relatively weak.
• Aiki###AIKI(: An AI × gaming prediction platform on the Solana blockchain, scheduled for release in May 2025, utilizing a $SFUND + public fundraising dual-channel model, raising approximately $175,000, with high early user participation, but the coin price performance is moderate.
• P33L)P33L(: AI satire Meme project, issued through a bond curve method in April 2025, with a total valuation of $250,000, selling 28% of the supply, raising approximately $70,000, reflecting Seedify's strategy to support cultural innovation projects.

) Investment Return Performance

Despite the overall cooling of the market, the historical average highest ROI of the Seedify project remains around 8×. Several projects are expected to have considerable popularity during their initial listing in 2025, but subsequently experience general price corrections. This phenomenon has become the current norm for IDOs. Seedify aims to avoid severe sell-offs and promote long-term value by introducing bond curves and flexible unlocking mechanisms.

( Mechanism Innovation Highlights

• Smart Joint Curve Issuance: The token price dynamically rises with purchasing demand, automatically generating the $SFUND project token LP pool after selling out, achieving liquidity upon launch, and incorporating safeguards against "Rug Pull" and "Sniping": A 24-hour refund window and progressive pricing can prevent bots from sniping tokens and ensure the rights of buyers.
• Layered access mechanism ) staking + social ###: In the early stages, users with $SFUND stakes and high "social scores" ### can gain user priority access through recommendations, interactions, and community activities. Later, it will be open to the public, forming a gamified entry logic to encourage active contributors. This "social distribution layer" rewards community builders, not just whales.
• Investor-friendly unlocking/refund mechanism: each project can choose a flexible vesting schedule, Seedify provides instant unlocking or short-term linear unlocking (1-4 weeks ), to balance trust and sales pressure. Moreover, each token issuance has a 24-hour refund window, allowing buyers to opt for a refund in uncertain situations. This mechanism is similar to the downside risk protection of the CoinTerminal model, providing users with additional confidence assurance.
• Decentralized Curator Program: A network of curators composed of KOLs, VCs, guilds, and DAOs to select projects for the platform, and can earn revenue sharing, allocation quotas, and community whitelists.
• $SFUND Incentive Flywheel: Each issuance activity injects new use cases for $SFUND. Staking Level → Token Allocation → Token Issuance → Liquidity Creation → Buying Pressure and Token Burn. As the issuance quantity increases, the intrinsic demand for $SFUND tokens also grows. Seedify's design ensures that its native token can benefit from the ecosystem it drives.

( Track Focus and Strategic Positioning

Seedify, with a core focus on games and culture, is gradually expanding into the fields of AI and finance. Its recent project line )Stable Jack, Aiki, P33L( covers multiple sectors including yield, AI gaming, and Meme culture. The platform claims to be a leader in the "Web3 culture and gaming" space and is gradually embracing cutting-edge trends such as on-chain AI and distributed physical infrastructure protocols. Seedify positions itself as a community-first alternative: more open than Binance, more engaging than CoinList, and more organized than Virtuals. By integrating joint curves and refund mechanisms, it aims to enhance investor protection while providing new projects with upward potential.

) Unique Strategy Summary

Seedify integrates multiple mechanisms to create an "open yet protected" issuance model. Its permissionless bond curve platform, scheduled for launch by the end of 2025, will allow any team to issue tokens independently, combining automated liquidity with anti-sniping mechanisms, similar to the openness of CoinTerminal, but with additional protections. The curatorial DAO incorporates the "review spirit" of DAO Maker and enhances user engagement through social incentive mechanisms, ultimately forming an integration of CoinTerminal's openness, Fjord's fairness mechanisms, DAO Maker's interest binding, and community-oriented culture, signaling the emergence of a new generation of Launchpads.

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ChainGPT Pad: A Launchpad Focused on Artificial Intelligence

) platform positioning and vision

ChainGPT Pad is the preferred launchpad for AI-first Web3 startups. It is part of the ChainGPT ecosystem ### known for its AI chatbot and developer tools (, and provides technical support ) for smart contract audits and AI analysis ### for in-depth incubation before projects go live. Participation requires holding or staking $CGPT tokens, which are supported by the fees from the platform's AI products ( a portion of user fees will be burned ). The vision of ChainGPT Pad is to become the primary decentralized AI issuance tool: any project launched on it can receive customized guidance for AI, while stakers of $CGPT can gain access to participate in token sales.

( 2025 representative project

The ChainGPT Pad's project portfolio for 2025 combines AI infrastructure with some games:

• Omnia Protocol )OMNIA(: A privacy-focused blockchain access provider )RPC relay ###, crucial for AI data feeds. ATH ROI approximately 5 times.
• Arcade (ARC): An interoperable, NFT-based competitive gaming platform, heralding a new gaming trend.
• Flash Protocol (FLASH): A utility token for ultra-fast transactions, equipped with AI predictive analytics.
• NextGem AI (GEMAI): An AI-driven encryption content discovery platform (, an "alpha feed" platform ). Issued through a whitelist method in April 2025.
• AdixAI (ADIX): An AI advertising optimization network. What makes it unique is that ADIX will be distributed to eligible $CGPT stakers in May 2025 through the "Launchdrop" airdrop ( instead of sales ).
• Matchain (MAT) & Blink Game AI (BLINK): Two Launchdrops in May 2025—a zk-rollup chain (MAT) and a gamified AI battle game (BLINK)—will be offered for free to community members to promote adoption.

( Investment return performance

ChainGPT Pad is very active, having conducted about 35 IDOs in the past 6 months, raising approximately $10.2 million ) at about $290,000 ( each. Most of these are micro-cap, early-stage financings. Based on the highest price, the average ATH ROI of recently issued projects is about