GSR

GSR Holdings Limited is a prominent player in the digital asset trading sector, established in 2013 and headquartered in Wanchai, Hong Kong. The company focuses on providing a comprehensive online platform for various services, including market making, liquidity solutions, over-the-counter (OTC) trading, options, structured products, and risk management strategies tailored for bitcoin miners. GSR caters to a diverse clientele, including token issuers, traders, investors, and miners, and collaborates with over 30 cryptocurrency exchanges globally. The company is recognized for its fast and robust trading system, developed by a leadership team with extensive backgrounds in finance and technology. As a founding member of The Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM), GSR plays a vital role in promoting industry standards and protocols, contributing to the sustainable growth of the digital assets market.

Quynh Ho

VP, M&A and Investments

Jakob Palmstierna

President

Past deals in Crypto

Glider

Seed Round in 2025
Glider is a technology company that specializes in developing a portfolio automation platform for the cryptocurrency market. Its platform bridges the gap between investment strategies and their execution, enabling users to build, test, and execute non-custodial trading portfolios on-chain. Glider aims to eliminate technical barriers, allowing users to implement their market perspectives without getting entangled in operational complexity.

Cap Labs

Seed Round in 2025
CAP Labs is a technology company specializing in the development of stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a stable value. The company's platform enables the creation of various denominations of redeemable stablecoins, which are backed by reserves to ensure their value remains stable. CAP Labs also offers a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that generates high and sustainable yields through these stablecoins, providing users with access to profitable yield options not typically available in traditional finance.

Memes Lab

Seed Round in 2025
Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.

Canopy

Seed Round in 2025
Canopy is a financial technology company that operates a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. It specializes in aggregating and optimizing yields from various DeFi protocols. The platform uses a dual-token ecosystem, $LEAF and $OAK, and allows users to provide liquidity with single asset deposits. Canopy's software enables users to manage their portfolios from a single, intuitive dashboard, automatically adjusting and optimizing investments to maximize returns through compounding rewards.

FLock.io

Venture Round in 2024
FLock.io develops a decentralized, privacy-preserving machine learning platform that uses blockchain-anchored coordination to enable federated learning. The company aims to make data collection obsolete and ensure governance by code, leveraging distributed ledger technology to power a secure, on-chain federated learning system. Its platform coordinates data holders to collaboratively train models, extract insights, and monetize results at their discretion, without centralizing raw data. By combining blockchain as a coordination layer with federated learning, FLock.io seeks to resolve tensions between data demand and data breaches, delivering a privacy-friendly, auditable ML workflow for Web 3.0.

Kernel

Venture Round in 2024
Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.

SecondSwap

Seed Round in 2024
SecondSwap is a technology company that operates an automated, over-the-counter marketplace for assets with limited trading liquidity. Its decentralized platform facilitates the trading of 'locked tokens' - assets temporarily restricted from trading - across various blockchains. The platform enables users to browse verified listings, make discounted bids, and settle trades securely and transparently on the blockchain.

Ordzaar

Seed Round in 2024
Ordzaar operates a decentralized marketplace for cryptocurrency traders, specifically focused on buying, selling, and exchanging ordinals. It specializes in assigning unique serial numbers to individual satoshis, enabling users to attach additional data and track transactions more effectively.

MeshMap

Seed Round in 2024
MeshMap is a developer of a decentralized 3D mapping platform that aims to create an interactive and immersive 3D globe map. The company utilizes community-submitted scans to construct its global map, allowing users to contribute to the content while being rewarded with token incentives. In addition to its mapping capabilities, MeshMap incorporates augmented reality elements, enhancing user engagement through a unique blend of gaming and geographic exploration. The platform encourages collaborative participation, fostering a community-driven approach to mapping the world in three dimensions.

Iskra

Venture Round in 2024
Iskra is a crypto gaming platform designed to enhance the experience of both players and game developers within the Web3 gaming space. The company provides a social environment where users can explore innovative gaming possibilities while allowing developers to leverage blockchain technology. Iskra enables players to earn rewards, including cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens, which can be traded in real markets. By fostering a community-driven approach, Iskra aims to revolutionize blockchain entertainment and create new opportunities for engagement and interaction among users, developers, and investors alike.

Mezo

Series A in 2024
Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield.

Ink Finance

Seed Round in 2024
Ink Finance facilitates issuance, settlement, clearing, and analysis of non-fungible financial products. It enables metaverse NFT financialization and DeFi liquidity access for venture funds.

Kelp DAO

Seed Round in 2024
Kelp DAO is intended to provide liquidity to illiquid assets put on restaking platforms such as EigenLayer.

Mitosis

Seed Round in 2024
Mitosis develops a cross-chain liquidity protocol facilitating interoperability and enhanced composability in decentralized finance.

Midas

Seed Round in 2024
Midas is a software developer specializing in blockchain technology. It offers a platform for tokenizing real-world assets, enabling transparent management, settlement, lending, and borrowing on decentralized markets.

D2X Group

Series A in 2024
D2X Group operates a regulated cryptocurrency derivatives exchange designed for institutional investors, offering seven-day trading of cash-settled futures and options on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The exchange is based in the Netherlands and operates under a MiFID II regulated MTF licence. The platform emphasizes MiFID-regulated trading, collateral-efficient custody, and high-performance infrastructure to enable secure and efficient trading of digital asset derivatives. The company aims to support institutional adoption of crypto derivatives through regulated, reliable infrastructure and product liquidity.

ClearToken

Seed Round in 2024
ClearToken provides a centralized clearing and settlement infrastructure for digital assets. Its services include risk management, capital efficiency, and cross-venue liquidity optimization, enabling institutional participants to trade securely and efficiently while adhering to evolving regulatory standards.

Taiko Labs

Series A in 2024
Taiko Labs is a cryptocurrency firm focused on developing a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) scaling solutions platform for the Ethereum Blockchain. The company's platform aims to enhance Ethereum's scalability by closely emulating its functionality, both technically and non-technically. It supports all Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) opcodes within a decentralized, permissionless, and secure layer-2 architecture, providing Ethereum developers with the necessary tools to execute blockchain projects effectively.

Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow

Seed Round in 2024
Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow is a Web3 gaming company that offers non-fungible tokens (NFTs), peer-to-peer trading, and secondary markets.

Cube Group

Series A in 2024
Cube Group is a hybrid CEX-DEX digital asset marketplace that addresses the challenges of traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized finance platforms. The company provides a user-centric design, radical transparency, safety, and liquidity, with features like multi-party compute, on-chain settlement, proof-of-reserves, and multi-chain support. Its vaults represent users' balances on their respective layer-one blockchains, offering transparent liquidation standards and criteria for derivatives and margin trading. The platform also standardizes market data and order sessions, allowing seamless onboarding for market participants through web interfaces for trading.

0xScope

Seed Round in 2024
0xScope is a company that specializes in developing graph protocol software aimed at efficiently and cost-effectively utilizing data. Its platform transforms scattered web-three data into a structured knowledge graph, which enhances users' capabilities in due diligence, address clustering, transaction monitoring, live event alerts, and financial risk management. By organizing disparate data sources, 0xScope enables users to gain deeper insights and improve decision-making processes within the blockchain ecosystem.

MYX

Seed Round in 2023
MYX is a decentralized derivative exchange that "uses intelligent rates and exposure hedging mechanisms to ensure protocol stability and provide sustainable high returns" through a peer-to-pool-to-peer paradigm.

Membrane Labs

Series A in 2023
Membrane Labs is a fintech firm that provides institutional digital asset services for OTC transactions.

Fairblock

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fairblock is a technology company specializing in zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography. It develops infrastructure that enables privacy before transaction execution and conditional decryption, allowing users to set conditions for decryption and execution of their encrypted transactions. The company employs advanced cryptographic schemes like identity-based encryption, witness encryption, and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to facilitate decentralized verification of conditions and generation of decryption keys.

Maple Finance

Venture Round in 2023
Maple Finance operates a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace that connects institutions seeking loans with liquidity pools funded by the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The platform employs a peer-to-pool model, allowing experienced investors to manage these liquidity pools while providing borrowers, such as crypto corporates, market makers, exchanges, and miners, with access to tailored loans. By facilitating this process, Maple Finance enables institutions to efficiently secure capital while offering investors the opportunity to participate in a diversified and high-yielding portfolio of corporate and institutional loans.

Ethena

Seed Round in 2023
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

EDX Markets

Series A in 2023
EDX Markets operates as a digital asset marketplace. It caters to the needs of both crypto-native firms and large financial institutions. The company trades in various cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. EDX Markets combines innovative technology with financial services to enable safe and compliant trading of digital assets. It also provides trading resources and a UAT Environment for its users. The company is also known for its focus on hiring crypto talent, as stated by its CEO, Jamil Nazarali.

BoomFi

Seed Round in 2023
BoomFi simplifies cryptocurrency payments for businesses and users alike. Its platform enables seamless sending, receiving, and conversion of crypto transactions, supporting features like payment links, subscriptions, checkout, and invoicing.

Aether Games

Seed Round in 2023
Aether Games is a game development studio focused on creating NFT-based games. They are known for developing 'Gates of Ethernity' and 'Cards of Ethernity', and are also involved in producing CGI mini-series like 'Aether'. The company specializes in game publishing and animation, aiming to provide engaging experiences for gamers interested in NFT games.

Kryptview

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kryptview operates an online research platform focused on digital assets, aimed at enhancing transparency in the cryptocurrency market. The company addresses the challenges posed by scams and misleading projects that hinder blockchain adoption. Through its Research Wizard, Kryptview enables contributors to share insights on various aspects of digital assets, such as teams, advisors, community engagement, and competitive landscape. Utilizing a proprietary analytical framework, the platform collects and organizes structured information, thus providing token buyers with comprehensive reviews that facilitate informed decision-making in their investments.

Calimero Network

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2022, Calimero Network is a London-based company specializing in blockchain infrastructure. It enables clients to control their data by developing a private blockchain network platform that focuses on data ownership and privacy.

PolySign

Venture Round in 2023
PolySign develops digital asset infrastructure for financial institutions to securely custody, store, transfer, and pay with digital assets. The platform combines proprietary blockchain technology with strong security and scalable architecture to support asset storage, settlement, and payments, featuring advanced encryption and seamless interoperability across networks. It is designed to integrate with existing financial organizations and global markets, enabling institutions to safeguard digital assets, streamline operations, and participate in modern capital markets while adhering to regulatory standards.

Onomy Protocol

Venture Round in 2022
Onomy Protocol is a multi-chain platform that combines Forex and Decentralized Finance. It is a complete ecosystem that includes Arc Bridge Hub, Access Mobile Wallet, and the Onomy Exchange. The company was founded in 2022 in Casper, Wyoming.

DeltaPrime

Pre Seed Round in 2022
DeltaPrime is a pioneering platform that facilitates decentralized finance (DeFi) services, specifically acting as a permissionless DeFi Prime Brokerage. It operates on the Avalanche blockchain, enabling users to engage in crypto borrowing and investing with enhanced efficiency and flexibility. Key features include the ability to borrow more than the current value of deposited collateral, access to undercollateralized crypto loans, and a range of investment options for simplified portfolio management.

Volare Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Volare Finance specializes in decentralized finance, offering innovative trading tools specifically designed for exotic options. The company's platform enables users to engage in transparent and trustless option trading without the need for intermediaries. By providing a decentralized mechanism, Volare Finance allows investors to create standard or customized option strategy portfolios, facilitating hedging, speculation, and yield enhancement. This approach effectively addresses credit risk issues commonly associated with options trading, making it a valuable resource for investors seeking to navigate the complexities of the options market.

Delysium

Venture Round in 2022
Delysium is a blockchain-based game developer specializing in AAA-quality multiplayer online games with AI-powered metaverse features.

Krypton

Seed Round in 2022
Krypton maintains crypto currencies, as well as tracking and analyzing the portfolio.

Magpie Protocol

Funding Round in 2022
Magpie Protocol is a decentralized liquidity aggregation protocol designed for cross-chain exchange infrastructure. Launched in 2022 and based in Dubai, it facilitates seamless trading of crypto assets by using bridges to communicate swap signals between different blockchains. This approach enhances the user experience by allowing investors to trade and invest in various assets without the need for bridging. Magpie Protocol aims to support early-stage crypto entrepreneurs in launching innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) and infrastructure projects, all while providing a simple, efficient, and secure platform for transactions within the DeFi ecosystem.

Sei Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Sei Labs is the layer 1 blockchain uniquely optimized for DeFi.

Everlend

Seed Round in 2022
Everlend is a decentralized lending and borrowing aggregator that provides optimal financial solutions for users by maximizing yields on deposits and minimizing interest rates on loans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, the company utilizes advanced automatic rebalancing and refinancing mechanisms to enhance the user's portfolio performance in response to changing market conditions. This innovative approach allows Everlend to continually adjust deposits and loans, ensuring that customers receive competitive returns on their liquidity while maintaining access to affordable borrowing options.

Contango

Seed Round in 2022
Contango is a decentralized protocol that focuses on providing perpetual futures atop money markets. It operates a decentralized exchange designed to facilitate expirable futures without the need for order books or liquidity pools. By leveraging existing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, Contango enables fixed-rate lending and borrowing. The platform also supports physical delivery and minimizes price impact for larger trades, allowing traders to effectively hedge their positions and manage their costs. Through these innovations, Contango aims to enhance trading efficiency and accessibility within the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Hashflow

Series A in 2022
Hashflow is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that allows users to trade digital assets seamlessly across multiple leading blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana. Launched in April 2021, Hashflow employs an intent-based smart order routing system to ensure traders receive optimal prices, drawing from over $8 billion in liquidity and enabling the trading of any token. The platform has successfully facilitated over $18 billion in total trade volume. Hashflow's team comprises experienced professionals from renowned companies in both web2 and web3 sectors, bringing expertise from organizations such as Airbnb, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and Google. The company is supported by notable investors, including Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, among others. Hashflow aims to enhance the trading experience by combining centralized order-matching and trade execution with decentralized custody, thereby offering users non-custodial trading options.

CLST

Seed Round in 2022
CLST facilitates a global network of institutional borrowers and lenders, acting as the primary gateway for short-term digital assets debt markets. It aims to bridge traditional finance (TradFi) with crypto-native institutions, fostering institutional adoption of digital assets.

Magic Square

Seed Round in 2022
Magic Square operates a decentralized marketplace that makes blockchain-based applications more accessible and user-friendly for mainstream audiences. Its platform offers access to various apps across categories like finance, gaming, and social media, facilitating users' transition into the web3 ecosystem.

SithSwap

Seed Round in 2022
SithSwap is a company that operates an advanced Automated Market Maker (AMM) on the StarkNet platform. It specializes in providing instant swaps for both volatile and stable assets with minimal slippage and near-zero fees. The company's services are designed to offer trading pairs similar to Uniswap V2, with configurable trading fees and no administrative fees. Additionally, SithSwap incorporates built-in flash loan capabilities and leverages the full security of Ethereum, allowing traders to earn incentives for participating in governance decisions regarding future protocol emissions.

Masa

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Masa operates a decentralized AI marketplace that incentivizes users to contribute diverse datasets for AI model training. It rewards participants using its token, providing developers with access to varied datasets, decentralized tools, and a supportive ecosystem.

MYSO Finance

Seed Round in 2022
MYSO Finance provides fully customizable on-chain covered calls and bespoke DeFi loans.

0x

Series B in 2022
0x is an open protocol facilitating peer-to-peer token exchange on the Ethereum blockchain.

Tonic

Seed Round in 2022
Tonic is developing a decentralized exchange protocol aimed at facilitating efficient and user-friendly trading of various assets on the NEAR and Aurora blockchains. This platform allows developers using NEAR's Layer 1 solution to seamlessly integrate trading capabilities into their applications. Tonic's protocol is designed to offer the advantages of centralized exchanges, such as speed and convenience, while maintaining the community-driven ownership characteristic of decentralized systems. Users benefit from low trading fees, deep liquidity, and accurate pricing, making Tonic a competitive option for trading crypto tokens.

Vertex Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Vertex Protocol is a decentralized FX trading platform.

Daohq

Seed Round in 2022
Daohq is a global platform facilitating the discovery, investment, and management of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). It offers advanced analytics for over 2,000 DAOs, enabling investors, researchers, and developers to access comprehensive data on financial, governance, and social statistics via its DAOHQ DAO Data API. The company's platform aims to fuel the decentralized future by providing a one-stop shop for managing organizations and companies on the blockchain.

LimeWire

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
LimeWire is a digital collectibles marketplace focused on the music, art, and entertainment industries. The platform has been relaunched to transform the way fans and artists interact, providing a framework for direct fan membership that helps artists generate a recurring revenue stream. LimeWire enables users to explore, collect, and trade unique digital collectibles, including NFTs, while keeping them informed with timely announcements within the art and entertainment space. Fans gain access to exclusive content and a private community, allowing them to connect directly with their favorite artists and participate actively in their journeys.

bloXroute Labs

Series B in 2022
bloXroute Labs, Inc. is a company focused on providing blockchain scalability solutions that enable cryptocurrencies and blockchains to process thousands of transactions per second without requiring protocol changes. Established in 2018 and based in Evanston, Illinois, the company operates a blockchain distribution network that enhances the efficiency of data propagation across all blockchains. By utilizing a global network of servers optimized for performance through advanced techniques like compression and encryption, bloXroute Labs ensures that all nodes can maintain consensus even as transaction volumes soar. This provably neutral platform supports a wide range of blockchains, facilitating improved transaction throughput and addressing scalability challenges at the network layer.

Ink Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Ink Finance facilitates issuance, settlement, clearing, and analysis of non-fungible financial products. It enables metaverse NFT financialization and DeFi liquidity access for venture funds.

CoinRoutes

Series B in 2022
CoinRoutes is a provider of crypto trading software that specializes in algorithmic trading systems for cryptocurrency assets. The company's platform enables traders to have a comprehensive view of all cryptocurrency markets and liquidity providers, facilitating trades across multiple exchanges through a single transaction. CoinRoutes' system effectively filters out market noise, presenting an accurate representation of market conditions. This allows clients to maintain full control over their exchange keys and wallets while optimizing their trading strategies.

Wombat Exchange

Series A in 2022
Wombat Exchange is a multi-chain stableswap platform native to BNB Chain. It enables efficient stablecoin swapping with minimal slippage and offers single-staking pools for optimal yield.

Dexalot

Venture Round in 2022
Dexalot operates a trading platform that provides a decentralized exchange, offering low fees and an inclusive trading environment intended to rival centralized platforms. The company seeks to maximize traders' returns by reducing costs and improving access to liquidity. Dexalot was founded in 2021 and is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

VALR

Series B in 2022
VALR is a Johannesburg, South Africa-based digital asset platform and cryptocurrency exchange that enables customers to buy, sell, store, transfer, and protect a broad range of digital assets, with more than 50 cryptocurrencies and a digital wallet service. The platform emphasizes secure, multi-layer protection and aims to provide access to financial services at a fair and transparent price.

Aligned

Seed Round in 2022
A technology-focused investment firm anticipating civilization-scale transformations. They specialize in blockchain, AI, and health technologies.

Luna Foundation Guard

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
LFG is dedicated to supporting a vibrant community of blockchain innovators committed to developing a decentralized global economy.

Banger

Seed Round in 2022
Banger Games is a developer focused on enhancing the online gaming experience through decentralized infrastructure. The company has created a blockchain-powered gaming portal that connects content creators with social and competitive gamers, offering a platform that facilitates various earning opportunities through a unified global gaming currency. This platform not only benefits players by allowing them to earn income while gaming but also provides publishers and developers with essential features, including a blockchain integration software development kit (SDK) and crypto-enabled monetization methods. By merging social engagement with competitive play, Banger Games aims to unlock unlimited possibilities for gamers.

Trident Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Trident Labs develops decentralized finance products on Ethereum and Solana. Our portfolio includes Magik, an investing and lending protocol built on Solana, and Zurge, a liquidity procurement tool deployed on Ethereum.

ICHI

Series A in 2022
ICHI develops a stable currency platform that enables non-custodial token creation and management. Headquartered in Japan.

Solana

Seed Round in 2022
Solana is a decentralized blockchain platform that aims to deliver a scalable network for decentralized applications and marketplaces. The platform provides fast, low-cost transactions by employing a proof of history consensus alongside other innovations, enabling developers to build scalable apps without sharding. The network is secured by thousands of independent nodes, offering robustness and resistance to censorship. Solana supports a broad ecosystem of decentralized apps and digital assets, emphasizing sustainability and high throughput to power a wide range of use cases from gaming to finance.

Colexion

Seed Round in 2022
Colexion is a premium blockchain-based marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that allows users to discover, buy, sell, and trade exclusive digital collectibles featuring celebrities from various fields, including sports, entertainment, and art. The platform is curated by leading crypto artists, ensuring a high-quality selection of NFTs that appeal to collectors and enthusiasts alike. By focusing on the intersection of celebrity culture and digital ownership, Colexion provides a unique space for users to engage with and invest in the digital memorabilia of their favorite megastars.

Spin

Seed Round in 2022
Spin, founded in June 2021, is a developer of a multichain decentralized exchange (DEX) platform focused on derivatives trading, specifically futures and options. Operating on the NEAR Protocol and Solana blockchains, Spin aims to deliver a user experience comparable to centralized exchanges by utilizing a central limit order book execution model combined with a liquidity pool. The platform offers traders advanced risk management and strategy-building tools, enhancing the efficiency and accessibility of trading for a wide range of users.

SOMA.finance

Seed Round in 2022
SOMA.finance is a decentralized marketplace focused on digital assets, compliant digital securities, and NFTs. The company provides a multi-asset exchange and token issuance platform that allows users to trade and list a variety of crypto assets and tokenized equities. Its platform supports the listing of regulated crowdfunding and various offerings, ensuring compliance with securities laws and regulations. By incorporating features such as built-in KYC/AML processes and a permissionless regulated automated market maker, SOMA.finance aims to deliver the advantages of decentralized finance to both retail and institutional investors while maintaining adherence to legal standards.

Infinity Force

Seed Round in 2022
Infinity Force is a platform that enables blockchain game players to create new guilds, recruit members, and manage their performance.

Hubble Protocol

Venture Round in 2022
Hubble Protocol is a decentralized financial platform that facilitates long-term borrowing, lending, and the creation of structured financial products. It aims to democratize access to decentralized finance by offering a range of sustainable financial services. The protocol's software supports multi-asset collateral and enables zero-interest borrowing, allowing users to leverage yield-bearing assets for loans. Additionally, Hubble enhances yield generation on deposits of various tokens, providing clients with optimized financial opportunities while minimizing costs associated with loans.

Friktion

Venture Round in 2022
Friktion Labs is a decentralized finance (DeFi) company focused on portfolio management, equipped with a team of quantitative traders, researchers, and crypto engineers experienced in commodities, treasuries, and crypto-assets. The organization has assembled a team of derivatives traders and market makers with expertise from notable firms in the trading sector. Friktion offers an automated portfolio manager (APM) that allows users to input their existing portfolio details, including spot trading, perpetual contracts, and liquidity positions. This platform is designed to help investors maximize profits and monitor fluctuations across various market cycles, promoting sustainable and informed investing practices.

Zone

Seed Round in 2022
Zone is a community-driven cross-chain GameFi ecosystem built on the Algorand blockchain, designed for on-chain gaming challenges and fantasy sports. The platform combines on-chain gaming challenges, yield farming, and non-fungible tokens to support a free-to-play and play-to-earn model with real-money prizes, and it is interoperable with other blockchains. A Discord-based GameFi bot enables users to participate in challenges and fantasy sports directly through on-chain interactions. Zone aims to attract players seeking blockchain-enabled gaming experiences by offering accessible entry points and tokenized assets that power challenges and rewards.

Neptune Mutual

Venture Round in 2022
Neptune Mutual is a blockchain risk protection platform that develops parametric cover and other user-centric hedging products to safeguard funds against exploits across the cryptocurrency ecosystem, including attacks on exchanges, custody providers, and smart contracts. The platform enables developers and users to create risk protection products on the blockchain and aims to reduce malicious activity by offering transparent, rapid, and automated coverage.

Walken

Seed Round in 2022
Walken is a technology company that operates a free-to-play blockchain-based game designed to introduce millions of users to decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 technologies. The platform incentivizes physical activity by rewarding players with cryptocurrency tokens for walking, thereby merging the worlds of sports, gaming, and crypto.

YuzuSwap

Seed Round in 2021
YuzuSwap is a decentralized exchange operating on the Oasis Emerald Protocol. It facilitates token swapping using an automated market-maker model, offering features such as buyback, extensibility, trade mining incentives, and a DAO vault.

Assembly

Venture Round in 2021
Assembly uses Iota's feeless foundation layer as an immutable trust to alleviate the limits of current scaling methods.

Paradigm

Series A in 2021
Paradigm Connect, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in creating an institutional-grade communications platform for over-the-counter (OTC) digital asset traders. The platform automates price negotiation and settlement workflows, addressing inefficiencies in traditional OTC trading processes. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Paradigm enhances the trading experience for professional traders and institutions, offering a zero-fee liquidity network that integrates both centralized and decentralized finance. This approach allows clients to access multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity while significantly reducing trading costs through the elimination of fees. The company is supported by notable investors in the OTC market, reflecting its innovative vision to transform institutional trading practices.

Kibo Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Kibo Finance develops a borderless decentralized finance options trading platform that enables users to trade cryptocurrencies, gold, and stocks. The platform emphasizes a frictionless protocol, fair pricing, and enhanced rewards, targeting advanced options traders who want a single platform for all trading needs and seamless access to multiple asset classes.

Arrow Markets

Seed Round in 2021
Arrow Markets operates a decentralized financial market options protocol designed to democratize returns for option market makers. The company’s platform eliminates intermediaries in the traditional options trading process, including brokers and clearinghouses, thereby passing the resulting savings directly to users. By offering cash-settled options and streamlining the entire trading pipeline—from market making to clearing and settlement—Arrow Markets enables liquidity providers to mimic the hedging activities typically associated with traditional market makers. This innovative approach aims to enhance accessibility and efficiency within the options trading landscape.

Jet Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Jet Protocol Holdings is a developer of a decentralized lending and borrowing platform that aims to reduce transaction costs and enhance efficiency in financial transactions. The company specializes in creating innovative loan products and facilitates cross-chain interest rate arbitrage, allowing users to streamline their borrowing and lending activities. Through its platform, Jet Protocol Holdings provides a borrowing agreement designed to simplify the complexities often associated with traditional financial systems, making it easier for users to engage in lending and borrowing transactions.

Solidus Labs

Venture Round in 2021
Solidus Labs, Inc. is an information technology company that specializes in market surveillance and compliance software specifically designed for digital asset trading. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, the company leverages machine learning to provide a robust platform that detects, investigates, and reports market manipulations. Its software features a web-based dashboard that facilitates trade surveillance and transaction monitoring, allowing clients to address suspicious activities effectively. Solidus Labs serves a diverse clientele, including digital asset broker-dealers, market makers, hedge funds, and both centralized and decentralized exchanges. The platform offers customizable alerts, streamlined case management, and regulatory reporting, enhancing transparency and risk management in cryptocurrency trading.

Beta Finance

Venture Round in 2021
Beta Finance is a decentralized finance protocol specializing in lending, borrowing, and short-selling of crypto assets. It aims to mitigate crypto volatility and promote market stability through its user-friendly platform, enabling traders of all skill levels to manage their short positions effectively.

CoinList

Series A in 2021
CoinList facilitates the launch and growth of innovative digital assets, connecting early adopters with promising projects like Filecoin and Solana. It offers a full-service trading platform for popular cryptocurrencies and provides access to new tokens before they list on other exchanges.

GooseFX

Seed Round in 2021
GooseFX operates a decentralized finance platform facilitating the trade of cryptocurrencies, tokenized stocks, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and liquidity. It offers single-sided liquidity pools for yield farming and derivatives trading.

PsyOptions

Seed Round in 2021
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.

Swivel Finance

Series A in 2021
Swivel Finance is a company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2020 that specializes in creating an online lending platform. It offers a decentralized protocol designed for fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives, allowing lenders to secure fixed-rate interest rates on their ERC-20 tokens. The platform is characterized by its low transaction overhead and reduced risk for users, facilitating a more stable lending environment in the decentralized finance space.

Figment Networks

Series B in 2021
Figment Networks develops open-source tools for crypto network health monitoring, enabling informed staking decisions. It focuses on networks like Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company was founded in 2018.

Port Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Port Finance is a decentralized money market platform offering variable rate lending, fixed-rate lending, and interest rate swaps.

Lyra Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Lyra Finance operates a decentralized platform focused on trading cryptocurrency options and perpetual contracts. Built on Ethereum, Lyra Finance combines traditional options market-making principles with the advantages of the crypto space, such as scalability and composability. The protocol offers unique and programmable on-chain options and structured products, allowing users to buy and sell options that are priced using an innovative market-based, skew-adjusted pricing model. This approach enhances the accuracy of pricing in the options market, catering to the needs of traders in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

Visor Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decentralized platform facilitating active liquidity management. Its tool enables participants to use smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges, maximizing returns from fees while minimizing impermanent loss.

Duet

Venture Round in 2021
Duet is a multi-chain synthetic asset protocol that facilitates the transformation of real-world tradable assets into digital assets within a decentralized finance ecosystem. The platform enables users to replicate and trade these assets in a blockchain environment, allowing for the over-collateralization of crypto tokens. This approach creates a seamless experience for users to hold, trade, and stake both cryptocurrency and traditional assets in a single location, thereby enhancing liquidity and accessibility in the financial market. By bridging the gap between traditional assets and the digital realm, Duet aims to provide a comprehensive trading platform that sharpens assets for use in the evolving blockchain landscape.

Vega Protocol

Series A in 2021
Vega is a technology protocol and crypto-asset for an open, blockchain-backed public network for fully automated end-to-end financial product trading and execution. Fully automated processes and incentives for trading margined financial products allow for markets that are open and decentralized, with pseudonymous participants. The platform of the company provides open and fair markets in which fees are shared by market makers, not owners, and governance decisions are made by the community, allowing financial institutions to open access, reduce costs, and enable a new wave of financial market innovation.

dYdX

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2017 by an ex-Coinbase engineer, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, and Spot trading on Ethereum. It combines the security of a decentralized exchange with the speed and usability of a centralized one.

Assembly

Seed Round in 2021
Assembly uses Iota's feeless foundation layer as an immutable trust to alleviate the limits of current scaling methods.

Avalon Finance

Avalon Finance is a decentralized protocol that offers a BTC liquidity mechanism for production.

GoQuant

GoQuant is a digital asset trading infrastructure provider, focused on delivering high-performance market data, trade execution, and portfolio & risk management systems to financial institutions.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.