According to Foresight News, Starknet Foundation has announced the launch of its Catalyst funding program. The program is designed to provide substantial funding to the best-performing applications, with a total of 20 million STRK tokens to be distributed.

The projects that have received funding under the 'Pioneer' category include AMM Ekubo, trading aggregator AVNU, blockchain game Influence, on-chain game and autonomous world network Realms, and DeFi super application Nostra.

Under the 'Nova' category, the funded projects include ZKX, zkLend, StarknetID, Fibrous Finance, Focus Tree, Haiko, Carbonable, mySwap, Jediswap, Nimbora, Carmine, Hashstack, 10KSwap, RabbitX, SithSwap, and StarkDeFi. The Catalyst program aims to support and encourage innovative applications in the blockchain space.