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Mysten Labs’ five co-founders built Sui by turning Move resources into explicit onchain objects. The chain launched in 2023, changed its consensus engine, survived repeated validator-software halts and approved the Cetus recovery proposal with 90.9% of counted stake, excluding Foundation stake—events that make its speed, fixed supply and human control easier to separate.

NEAR began as a code-writing AI experiment, became a staged sharded blockchain, and now supplies Chain Signatures and Intents for multichain actions. Its wider agent-economy thesis remains partly a roadmap, while NEAR's concrete roles are fees, storage, staking and value transfer.

Uniswap is a family of non-upgradeable exchange protocols whose control surfaces expanded from v1's fixed AMM to v4 hooks, Unichain, and DUNI. UNI governs treasury and fee decisions, while the current burn mechanism reduces supply without giving holders a direct claim on protocol revenue.

ONDO is the delegated-vote token of the Ondo DAO, whose documented powers center on Flux Finance and DAO-controlled treasury and administration. The token is separate from Ondo Finance's OUSG and USDY issuers: holding ONDO alone is not documented as a fund interest, Treasury claim, redemption right, equity stake, or product-revenue share.

Morpho is a lending stack whose Blue markets freeze five parameters, not every decision around them. A DAO owner still has a narrow core role, vault curators and allocators govern separate strategy layers, and MORPHO grants voting power rather than ownership of loans or vault deposits.

Worldcoin (WLD) sits beside World ID rather than inside it. An Orb creates a proof-of-human credential, TFH runs World App, and World Foundation stewards the protocol and community treasury; privacy, governance and token rights therefore have different control boundaries.

Aptos carries Move and Block-STM out of the Diem engineering lineage, but APT rights are defined by stake and governance code. Its 2026 supply-cap vote also shows why approved policy, executable payload and live protocol state must be checked separately.

Sei is a delegated proof-of-stake Layer 1 that grew from a Cosmos/CosmWasm trading chain into a parallel EVM. SEI pays gas, secures validators and carries governance weight; it is not equity in Sei Labs or a claim on Foundation reserves.

Terra Luna Classic is the original columbus-5 chain's asset, renamed LUNC after UST collapsed and a separate phoenix-1 network took the Terra name. LUNC now pays fees, backs staking and votes, but its trillion-scale supply, adjustable burn tax and validator-run upgrades do not create redemption or corporate rights.

Monad's parallel EVM reached public mainnet in November 2025, then changed from 400 ms blocks and 25 MON rewards to 300 ms and 18 MON. Its deeper story is how Foundation-delegated stake, Category Labs code and validator adoption govern a chain whose token has no documented holder ballot.

Starknet is a general-purpose Ethereum validity rollup whose Cairo execution is proven with STARKs and settled through Ethereum contracts. It is separate from StarkEx, StarkWare’s application-specific scaling service. STRK now pays all Starknet transaction fees, supports delegation and phase-2 validator attestation, and carries protocol voting power; it is not equity or a claim on StarkWare or the Foundation. The network has distributed sequencing components and a live S-two prover, but block production, proving and upgrade control have not yet reached the permissionless end state described in its roadmap.

ZBCN is a 100-billion-cap Solana token used around Zebec's payroll, card and SuperApp products. Its mint and freeze authorities are gone, yet staking upgrades, product fees, buybacks and corporate operations remain separate control surfaces—and the token carries no equity, dividend or redemption claim on Zebec entities.

Arweave uses AR, SPoRA and uniquely packed storage replicas to fund a permanent ledger. Its endowment is a protocol model with explicit assumptions, while gateways, content policies, upgrades and AO remain separate operational layers.

Synthetix is the protocol lineage that began as Havven, turned SNX into collateral for a shared Synth debt pool, modularized that risk in V3, delegated it to the 420 Pool and then retired sUSD under SIP-423. Current SNX sits beside an Ethereum-mainnet perpetuals exchange, but holding it alone is neither a Synth redemption claim nor a guaranteed fee right. Council signatures, pDAO upgrades and deferred new staking contracts define the present control boundary.

Fluid is the current protocol brand around the original INST governance token and Instadapp team, while legacy DeFi Smart Accounts still form a separate product and contract lineage. The token address did not migrate, its on-chain name remains INST, and voting, proxy administration, buybacks and holder legal rights each have different boundaries.

The Graph is a blockchain-data indexing protocol whose subgraphs turn chain events into queryable APIs. GRT coordinates Indexers, Curators and Delegators, while the live protocol runs principally on Arbitrum and remains upgradeable through Council-governed contracts.

RSR is a fixed-supply Ethereum token whose consequential rights appear only in context: staking into one Yield DTF supplies first-loss capital and usually votes, while the RToken holder—not liquid RSR—owns that basket’s redemption path.

Orca combines a concentrated-liquidity AMM, an ORCA governance mint, xORCA fee buybacks and two Whirlpools deployments. LP fees follow position range; token fees follow contested allocation documents; mutable program and mint authorities remain live beside an immutable-code option.

ARKM is the Ethereum token at 0x6E2a…b050 used for Arkham's intelligence marketplace, rewards and some exchange fee discounts. Its documents describe governance and a one-billion allocation, while the upgradeable token owner retains mint, pause and upgrade powers that holders do not share.

Livepeer's LPT is an adaptive-inflation staking and governance token for an Arbitrum video and AI compute market; it is not a share in Livepeer companies or a promise of compute income.

Mina's famous 22KB is a proof of the latest state, not a zip file containing every payment. Producers still need ledger state, archives keep history, and SNARK workers sell proof labor. That division made a small verifier possible—and made MINA an uncapped reward currency for the larger machine behind it.

Billions grew from Polygon ID’s privacy-preserving credential work into an identity network for people and AI agents. BILL later added fees, rewards and reputation staking, but it is not an identity credential itself.