Top 10 Early Stage Tokens to Watch in 2025 – Featuring IPO Genie at the Front

1. IPO Genie ($IPO)

Category : Tokenized Private Markets
Key Features:

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  Institutional-grade private market engine
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  Regulated AUM backing the ecosystem
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  CertiK-audited smart contracts
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  Real-world AI deal sourcing built into the token’s design
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  30% early participation boost

IPO Genie isn’t playing the usual “launch first, build later” game. It starts with $500M in assets under management and a private-market acquisition pipeline already operating behind the scenes. The goal is simple but ambitious: unlock institutional private-market access for crypto investors through a tokenized model.

This is what separates it from the pack – not hype, but structure. Not speculation, but deal flow.

2. DeepSnitch (DSNT)

Category : Security & Behavioral Intelligence

DeepSnitch is one of the more intriguing micro-cap plays this cycle. Instead of focusing on privacy alone, it builds a decentralized “threat intelligence mesh” – a system where wallets, nodes, and users feed suspicious activity into a collective AI engine.

Think of it as Web3’s version of crowd-sourced cybersecurity, but automated and on-chain. Its strongest outcome so far? A rapidly growing base of security-minded users who actually use the product instead of speculating on it. For a sub-million raise, its retention metrics are unusually solid – a sign this could grow into a security primitive if exchanges pick up the intelligence feed.

3. LivLive (LIVE)

Category : Live Commerce + Smart Contracts

LivLive is building what traditional e-commerce has failed to: a live-shopping layer that’s transparent, trustless, and global.

Creators can run livestreams, list products, handle payments, and execute refunds instantly through smart contracts instead of clunky third-party storefronts.

Why it matters: live-commerce is already hundreds of billions in Asia – blockchain just removes the friction, fraud, and middlemen. LivLive’s early raise shows the appetite: creators want sovereignty over their earnings, and Web3 gives them the infrastructure to own it.

4. Best Wallet Token (BEST)

Category : Wallet Ecosystem Token

BEST is one of the few wallet tokens that feels genuinely product-first. Most wallet ecosystems live or die on user acquisition, and BEST has quietly engineered one of the fastest-growing onboarding funnels in the EU and GCC regions.

With nearly $18M raised, the project is leaning into a feature stack built around:

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  self-custody for new users
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  cross-chain swapping without bridging
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  embedded staking tools

The best outcome? High user retention for crypto wallets – something the industry has struggled with for years.

5. Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER)

Category : Bitcoin Layer Expansion

Bitcoin Hyper is a high-throughput scaling layer designed to give BTC something it’s historically lacked: fast transactions and smart-contract flexibility without abandoning Bitcoin’s security guarantees.

The raise is big, but the pitch is bigger: bring DeFi, micro-transactions, and low-latency settlement to the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Investors love it because it taps into the world’s most trusted asset – but injects utility where it’s desperately needed.

6. LilPepe ($LILPEPE)

Category : Culture + Utility Hybrid

Meme tokens rise and fall like trends, but LilPepe has carved out a different space – a cultural identity layer with infrastructure bolted on. Instead of relying solely on virality, it’s building:

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  a creator marketplace
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  meme IP tools
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  cross-community incentives

It’s still culture-forward, but the platform approach is giving it staying power. The $27.67M raise shows that culture tokens aren’t dying – they’re evolving.

7. MaxiDoge ($MAXI)

Amount Raised : $4.18 million
Category : Culture + Staking Economy

MaxiDoge taps into the Doge universe but shifts away from pure meme speculation. Its differentiator is a staking architecture that rewards liquidity providers using a tiered, game-like progress system.

This gives utility to a category traditionally lacking depth. The early raise is modest, but engagement numbers suggest a strong “sticky community” effect – something meme ecosystems rely on for longevity.

8. LayerBrett ($LBRETT)

Amount Raised: $4.45 million
Category : Lightweight L2 Infrastructure

LayerBrett is building a microchain – a lightweight Layer-2 that prioritizes agility over scale. It’s designed for developers who want low-cost, modular chains for specific use cases (think gaming, niche DAOs, experimental finance tools).

Its strength is simplicity. No bloated architecture, no layer-on-layer abstraction. Just a fast, minimalistic execution environment. A $4.45M raise for a dev-first chain is a strong signal: builders want alternatives to the overly complex L2 market.

9. Digitap ($TAP)

Category : Retail Payments + Gamification

Digitap is on a mission to redesign micro-payments. Its system gamifies everyday transactions – buying coffee, topping up a transit card, paying for parking – by rewarding users with TAP tokens that can be reused across merchants.

In regions where micro-pay dominates (South Asia, Africa, GCC), this model hits a real consumer pain point: no loyalty, no interoperability. Digitap solves both with a unified token layer.

10. Liquid Chain (LIQUID)

Category : High-Throughput L1

Liquid Chain is still early, but dev activity is exploding. The project focuses on throughput and state efficiency – essentially a “lean L1” that doesn’t pretend to be everything at once. Its approach resembles early Solana but with more modular checkpoints and a bigger emphasis on verifiable state storage.

If it delivers on performance without sacrificing stability, it could quietly attract the builders who want escape routes from crowded chains.