Startup Incubator Codebase by Avalanche Announces Season 2 Winners

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Codebase by Avalanche (“Codebase”), an incubator program for early-stage Web3 startups building on the Avalanche network, revealed three winning teams from its second season: Chiss Protocol, AutoPen and Disgo.

Following the 10-week intensive program ending with a Demo Day where founders pitched projects to over 300 investors for a chance to tap a prize pool of $1M, leaders brought their A-game to an esteemed panel of investors and the broader Avalanche community.

To kick off Season 2, the Codebase cohort spent a week in Buenos Aires at Avalanche Summit LATAM, followed by pitch practice workshops and breakout sessions with the Avalanche Foundation Board, prominent ecosystem founders, and project leads from Codebase’s first cohort.

“We're young, both as a company and as founders,” said one Codebase participant. “Codebase has been invaluable in helping us navigate fundraising, building, and getting the help to leverage Avalanche for our product.”

Codebase’s Web3 bootcamp-style program provides each selected team with dedicated and sustained mentorship from industry leaders, co-building opportunities with Ava Labs teams across disciplines, and weekly curriculum-driven seminars centering on best practices for building a startup. This year, Codebase learned about go-to-market and community development from guest Ty Haney, Co-Founder of TYB, an on-chain community rewards platform utilized by Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty franchise and consumer cult-following brand, Glossier.

“In 2025 we'll be doubling-down on what worked well—a highly select group of builders, deep mentorship from the Ava Labs core team and broader Avalanche ecosystem, and an integrated storytelling coach/program,” says Michael Martin, Director of Developer Relations for Codebase at Ava Labs. “We’ll continue iterating on the loose-ends that unspool as new challenges arise, market conditions change, and the global Web3 world keeps pushing toward mass adoption.”

Codebase’s mission to maintain high-touch support for top builders continues to grow stronger through each season of cohort learning. Codebase by Avalanche received nearly 100 applications from over 20 countries for Season 2.

Learn about the winning teams:

1st Place ($500,000) – Chiss Protocol

Chiss Protocol is a permissionless, real-time, on-chain FX market for seamless cross-currency lending, payments & trade.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

2nd Place ($300,000) – AutoPen by Lucero Labs

AutoPen revolutionizes digital identity and remote signing in Argentina, leveraging recent regulatory changes to offer legally binding digital signatures from anywhere.
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

3rd Place ($200,000) – Disgo

Disgo is the next-gen marketplace where restaurants turn loyal customers into influencers, driving word-of-mouth marketing. Consumers can earn rewards, trade perks with friends, and unlock exclusive benefits, sparking powerful network effects with every share.
Location: Austin, Texas, USA

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We also had 2 amazing presentations from XKOVA and Encryptech during Demo Day:

Watch the Full Presentation from Demo Day

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Codebase is the official Avalanche incubator that funds and supports web3 founders as they shape the future with category-defining projects. We help transform good ideas into great web3 companies & ambitious builders into extraordinary founders.

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Avalanche is a high-performance blockchain platform designed for builders who need to scale. Engineered with a revolutionary three-part Layer 1 (L1) architecture, Avalanche is anchored by its Avalanche Consensus Mechanism, ensuring near-instant finality for transactions. The platform also features an open-source Layer 0 (L0) framework, enabling the seamless creation of interoperable Layer 1 blockchains with high throughput on both public and private networks.

Supported by a global community of developers and validators, Avalanche offers a fast, low-cost environment for building the next generation of decentralized applications (dApps). With its unique blend of speed, flexibility, and scalability, Avalanche is the preferred choice for innovators pushing the boundaries of blockchain technology.