what if there are other ongoing/emerging projects? Do you know any of them? Those that are not on the mainstream media yet.
The project that I am following is Mintlayer. This is a decentralized ecosystem for bitcoin. They will have a pre-launch vote on Origins platform - the Sovryn protocol. For the most part, I am always interested in projects that make a lot of sense and positively affect the general operating environment of bitcoin. I'm keeping a close eye on their preparations on discord, if they can launch Testnet first then that's very good news to attract attention.
https://www.mintlayer.org/Whats make its special, i mean rather than another DeFi products, i see the website are prety nice but i failed to catch its unique value. I have try Sovryn before, its not really easy since the Bitcoin that used on its platform are different-chain and only a few market that listed it.