GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its trading technology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.
Iskra is a crypto gaming platform that facilitates a social environment for users and game creators to explore the potential of Web3 gaming. The company empowers players and developers by providing opportunities to engage with blockchain technology, fostering innovation in blockchain entertainment. Iskra's platform enables players to earn rewards in the form of cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens, which can be traded in real markets. By supporting community-driven experiences, Iskra aims to revolutionize the gaming landscape and create a collaborative space for the advancement of Web3 gaming.
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 is a financial software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider focused on the on-chain management of Non-Fungible financial products. The company specializes in supporting the issuance, settlement, and analysis of these products, catering to the evolving needs of decentralized financial institutions in the Web3 era. Ink Finance facilitates the financialization of metaverse NFTs and provides tools for venture funds to access decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity. Additionally, it offers solutions for emerging managers to capitalize on diverse asset classes and enables Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) to govern their financial activities directly from their native blockchains. By bridging traditional finance with innovative blockchain technologies, Ink Finance plays a pivotal role in transforming financial practices in the digital landscape.
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 is a company focused on enhancing the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape by developing a cross-chain liquidity protocol that promotes interoperability and improved composability. Through its innovative EOL L1 network, Mitosis redefines the liquidity provider (LP) experience and facilitates more efficient on-chain asset management. The company also offers a platform for liquid staking tokens, which allows users to seamlessly navigate the complex DeFi ecosystem, thereby simplifying interactions and enhancing the overall user experience in digital asset management.
Midas
Seed Round in 2024
Midas is a cryptocurrency application that enables users to buy, sell, and invest in various cryptocurrencies and tokens. Additionally, the company has developed a tokenization protocol platform aimed at converting real-world assets into tokenized formats. This platform allows for the issuance of permissionless tokens that are securely held in segregated accounts managed by institutional custodians. Midas emphasizes transparency in its operations, facilitating efficient settlement processes and enabling lending and borrowing activities on decentralized finance (DeFi) money markets.
D2X Group
Series A in 2024
D2X Group is establishing a regulated cryptocurrency derivatives exchange based in the Netherlands, operating seven days a week. The exchange offers a range of cash-settled futures and options for Bitcoin and Ethereum, catering specifically to institutional investors. D2X Group employs a distinctive post-trade model that provides a capital-efficient alternative to central clearing, thereby enhancing the accessibility of digital assets for financial institutions. By adopting a regulatory-first approach, D2X aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the emerging digital asset market, helping institutions manage operational and regulatory risks while facilitating their entry into this evolving asset class. The company is supported by notable strategic investors, reflecting its commitment to fostering institutional adoption of cryptocurrency derivatives.
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 specializes in developing graph protocol software that efficiently and cost-effectively organizes data. The platform translates scattered web-three data into a structured knowledge graph, providing users with enhanced due diligence capabilities, advanced address clustering tools, transaction tracking, live event alerts, and financial risk management. This approach allows for improved data accessibility and analysis, facilitating better decision-making in various financial contexts.
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.
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 is a developer of a crypto payments platform designed to facilitate the acceptance and processing of cryptocurrency transactions for businesses. By offering features such as payment links, subscriptions, checkout options, and invoicing capabilities, BoomFi aims to simplify the complexities associated with crypto payments. The platform seeks to make the experience of using cryptocurrency as straightforward as traditional card payments, thereby enhancing accessibility for everyday users. BoomFi also focuses on providing tailored solutions to meet client needs and delivers insightful data to optimize payment performance, all while guiding businesses through the evolving landscape of web 3. The company is dedicated to revolutionizing the future of payments by making crypto transactions effortless and widely accessible.
Aether Games
Seed Round in 2023
Aether Games is a game development studio focused on creating innovative experiences in the realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency. The studio is known for its anticipated NFT-based game titles, including "Gates of Ethernity" and "Cards of Ethernity." In addition to game development, Aether Games is expanding its creative portfolio with the CGI mini-series "Aether" and other projects. By combining game publishing and animation, the studio aims to provide engaging and visually appealing interactive experiences for gamers interested in the NFT landscape.
Kryptview
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Kryptview provides a Research Wizard that allows a contributor to share research about different aspects of digital assets, including team and advisors, token, community traction, and competition. The platform uses a proprietary analytical framework to collect structured information.
OP3N
Series A in 2023
Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of EST Media Holdings, OP3N is the global Web3 superapp that serves as a one-stop-shop for all communication, connection and commerce with on-chain interactions in a simple unified interface. With a mission to create a more frictionless, decentralized and democratized creator economy on a global scale, OP3N consolidates the tools needed to mint, share and engage with digital goods and digital tokens into one vertical stack. OP3N’s leadership team leverages its cross-industry expertise from the entertainment, gaming and tech ecosystems, to lay the foundations for a new era of community-driven, inclusive entertainment while bringing everyone together on a journey into Web3. OP3N is co-led by media executive, artist, and serial entrepreneur Jaeson Ma, who has a successful track record launching companies including EST Studios, Stampede Ventures, East West Ventures, and 88rising, and who’s raised capital and advised on transactions totaling over $1 billion; and Eric Tu, an award-winning development executive who’s worked with major brands including Nike, Beats by Dre and Google, and as an Executive Producer with Bjork, Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: https://op3n.world. OP3N’s portfolio of projects includes a partnership with Tokyo fashion label AMBUSH; an intergalactic children’s book from Grimes; a partnership with entertainment icon Simon Fuller to produce an innovative musical film with the global pop group Now United; and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” music video from the singer-songwriter Ava Max, directed by the celebrated music video director Joseph Kahn.
Calimero Network
Seed Round in 2023
Calimero Network is a blockchain infrastructure company established in 2022 and based in London. It specializes in providing a private blockchain network platform that enables clients to control their data securely. The platform is designed with privacy as a priority, offering features such as fully interoperable cross-contract calls and the ability to manage public assets. Additionally, it supports the bridging of fungible tokens (FTs) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), while facilitating encrypted interactions with private shards. This comprehensive approach allows businesses to store, share, and protect their data effectively, ensuring user privacy throughout.
PolySign
Venture Round in 2023
PolySign is a company that specializes in developing secure and scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to effectively manage and trade digital assets. Its institutional-grade asset custody platform supports a wide range of digital assets, providing custodial and infrastructure solutions that cater to asset managers and exchanges. By integrating with existing financial organizations and global markets, PolySign aims to facilitate seamless trading while adhering to the highest regulatory standards. The company focuses on delivering secure, global, multi-currency facilities that empower its clients to fully capitalize on the opportunities presented by digital assets.
Kiln
Series A in 2022
Kiln creates an enterprise-level pledge platform and provides one-click pledge services for encrypted assets. It develops validator-independent APIs and services to enable multi-provider staking. Digital assets can be staked wherever they are held, including wallets, custodians, and exchanges. As the industry evolves and the need to integrate multiple stakeholder players becomes apparent, Kiln is in an excellent position to act as an aggregator and accelerate it. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France.
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 permissionless DeFi Prime Brokerage platform.
BubbleFong Friends
Seed Round in 2022
BubbleFong Friends is an online, competitive game based on Blockchain technology.
Mintify
Seed Round in 2022
Modular NFT infrastructure and Trading Terminal powered by $ME, the Mintify Ecosystem token.
Volare Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.
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 for cross-chain exchange infrastructure. It uses bridges to communicate swap signals between chains, creating an unrivaled user experience. The protocol helps idea-stage crypto entrepreneurs launch game-changing DeFi and infrastructure projects. Magpie's mission is to build a cross-chain infrastructure and protocol that offers a simple, efficient, and secure way to trade and invest within DeFi.
Everlend
Seed Round in 2022
Everlend is a decentralized lending and borrowing aggregator based in Kyiv, Ukraine, founded in 2021. The platform focuses on optimizing user financial positions by offering the highest yield on deposits and the lowest interest rates on loans. To achieve this, Everlend employs automatic rebalancing and refinancing mechanisms that adapt to changing market conditions, ensuring that users receive optimal performance for their portfolios. This innovative approach allows customers to maximize their liquidity while minimizing borrowing costs.
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 various leading blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana. Utilizing an intent-based smart order routing system, Hashflow provides traders with optimal prices and access to over $8 billion in liquidity, facilitating trades of any token in a matter of seconds. Since its launch in April 2021, the platform has achieved more than $18 billion in total trade volume. The Hashflow team comprises seasoned professionals from diverse backgrounds, including technology, finance, and entertainment sectors. The company is supported by notable investors and venture capital firms, enhancing its position within the blockchain ecosystem. Hashflow aims to blend centralized order matching with decentralized custody and settlement solutions, offering users a hybrid trading experience that emphasizes non-custodial options.
peaq
Seed Round in 2022
peaq is a blockchain platform that aims to provide transaction infrastructure for a hyperconnected and decentralized world. It focuses on empowering individuals to own and earn from sectors such as mobility, energy, connectivity, and agriculture. The platform serves as a layer-1 blockchain, functioning as a foundational backbone for decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) and hosts over 25 applications across 11 industries. With more than 500,000 devices, vehicles, machines, and robots operating on its network, peaq facilitates a permissionless and borderless digital environment. By leveraging its hybrid blockchain technology, peaq enables clients to streamline operations, reduce costs, and explore new revenue opportunities while automating their processes to enhance security and efficiency.
SithSwap
Seed Round in 2022
SithSwap is a next-generation automated market maker (AMM) operating on StarkNet, designed to facilitate instant swaps between volatile and stable assets. It offers a user-friendly trading experience with ultralow slippage and near-zero fees, ensuring that transactions are both efficient and cost-effective. The platform features stable and volatile trading pairs similar to those found on Uniswap V2, with configurable trading fees and no administrative charges. Additionally, SithSwap incorporates built-in flash loans and maintains the security standards of Ethereum, providing a reliable environment for traders. Users can also earn incentives through voting power, allowing them to influence future protocol emissions.
Masa
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Masa is a decentralized AI platform focused on creating a data marketplace that allows users to be compensated for their data contributions. The platform aims to transform traditional centralized credit systems by offering a unique infrastructure that includes a non-fungible credit report, composable credit primitives, smart contracts, and liquidity pools. These components are designed to provide a scalable, interoperable, and standardized on-chain identity framework, catering to the evolving needs of the web3 ecosystem. By enabling developers to acquire, retain, and verify users while gamifying community engagement, Masa facilitates the launch of innovative credit products that align with existing centralized credit paradigms.
0x is an open protocol that enables seamless peer-to-peer exchange of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. It serves as a foundational standard for decentralized exchanges, promoting interoperability among various decentralized applications that feature exchange capabilities. By providing a common framework, 0x allows users to convert a wide range of assets into cryptographic tokens, facilitating efficient and decentralized trading.
Vertex Protocol
Seed Round in 2022
Vertex Protocol is a decentralized FX trading platform.
Tonic
Seed Round in 2022
Tonic is building a permissionless decentralized protocol for fast and seamless trading of any asset on NEAR and Aurora. The platform will enable developers building on NEAR’s Layer 1 solution to integrate trading functionality into their applications.
Daohq
Seed Round in 2022
DAOHQ operates a marketplace specifically for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), aiming to streamline their discovery, investment, and maintenance on a global scale. The platform provides users with access to advanced analytics for over 2,000 DAOs, facilitating informed decision-making. Additionally, the DAOHQ DAO Data API offers investors, researchers, and developers a comprehensive data lake containing financial, governance, and social statistics related to these organizations. By creating a centralized hub for managing DAOs, DAOHQ supports the growth of the decentralized ecosystem and empowers users to engage with blockchain-based organizations effectively.
bloXroute Labs
Series B in 2022
BloXroute Labs, Inc. is a company that offers a blockchain scalability solution designed to enhance the performance of cryptocurrencies and blockchains without requiring protocol changes. Established in 2018 and based in Evanston, Illinois, the company operates a blockchain distribution network that allows for the processing of thousands of transactions per second on-chain. Its platform leverages a global network of servers optimized for network performance through techniques such as compression and encryption. This infrastructure facilitates the rapid propagation of transactions and blocks, thereby improving data efficiency and increasing overall transaction throughput. BloXroute's approach is designed to maintain consensus across all nodes, ensuring it remains provably neutral and applicable to any blockchain.
Ink Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Ink Finance is a financial software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider focused on the on-chain management of Non-Fungible financial products. The company specializes in supporting the issuance, settlement, and analysis of these products, catering to the evolving needs of decentralized financial institutions in the Web3 era. Ink Finance facilitates the financialization of metaverse NFTs and provides tools for venture funds to access decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity. Additionally, it offers solutions for emerging managers to capitalize on diverse asset classes and enables Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) to govern their financial activities directly from their native blockchains. By bridging traditional finance with innovative blockchain technologies, Ink Finance plays a pivotal role in transforming financial practices in the digital landscape.
Wombat Exchange
Series A in 2022
Wombat Exchange is a multi-chain stableswap platform based on BNB Chain, designed to enhance the stablecoin trading experience. By employing a stableswap 2.0 model, it allows users to swap stablecoins at highly efficient exchange rates with minimal slippage. The platform also offers single-staking pools, enabling users to earn sustainable yields on their assets. With a focus on capital efficiency, accessibility, and scalability, Wombat Exchange aims to redefine the stable swap experience through innovative algorithm design, catering to the needs of users in a multichain environment.
Chibi Dinos
Funding Round in 2022
Chibi Dinos is blockchain based gaming platform accessed through the use of non-fungible tokens. The Chibi Dinos brand seeks to tie together real world perks, a robust digital landscape, and exciting play to earn gaming opportunities into one cohesive universe. Leveraging an extensive network of athletes and partnerships, and fully realizing the potential of blockchain gaming, Chibi Dinos is a first mover in the collectable NFT, sports, and e-sports markets. Chibi Dinos aims to provide an immersive gaming and lifestyle experience, offering a gaming ecosystem that spans 3 distinct, yet interconnected modes of game play, featuring a multitude of competitive gaming, community building, and play to earn opportunities.
VALR
Series B in 2022
VALR is a digital asset trading platform based in Johannesburg, South Africa, that enables customers to buy, sell, store, and transfer cryptocurrencies. The platform offers a wide selection of digital assets and incorporates multiple layers of security to ensure the safety of clients' accounts and funds. VALR aims to provide a seamless and secure experience for users while promoting access to financial services at fair and transparent prices. Through its services, VALR contributes to the development of a more inclusive financial system.
Dexalot
Venture Round in 2022
Dexalot operates a trading platform that brings a viable decentralized exchange. Its platform creates an inclusive trading environment that can rival centralized exchanges, enabling people to trade at low fee rates to maximize their returns. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Aligned
Seed Round in 2022
Aligned is a DeFi and Web3 infrastructure company.
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.
Colexion
Seed Round in 2022
Colexion is a premium blockchain-based marketplace focused on the buying and selling of exclusive digital collectibles known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform specializes in offering NFTs related to celebrities from various sectors, including sports, entertainment, and art. Users can discover, collect, and trade these digital assets, which are curated by top crypto artists, allowing fans to own unique pieces associated with their favorite stars. Colexion aims to provide an engaging and accessible experience for individuals interested in the growing market of digital collectibles.
Solana
Seed Round in 2022
Solana is a cryptocurrency startup focused on developing a decentralized blockchain platform for applications and marketplaces. The Solana network is supported by thousands of independent nodes, which enhances its security and resistance to censorship. The platform utilizes a unique proof of history mechanism that allows for concurrent parallel processing, resulting in high-speed, low-latency, and cost-effective transactions. This architecture enables users to efficiently scale their operations without the need for sharding, making it suitable for a wide range of decentralized applications.
ICHI
Series A in 2022
ICHI is a Japan-based company that develops a stable currency and economic stimulus platform aimed at enhancing cryptocurrency projects. Its software allows for the creation and management of in-house, non-custodial tokens, which are designed to maintain price stability through the scarcity of member coins. This functionality supports cryptocurrency communities by enabling them to conduct transactions for goods and services, manage expenses and taxes, and gain exposure to U.S. dollars within decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Through its innovative approach, ICHI seeks to empower users and foster sustainable economic ecosystems within the cryptocurrency landscape.
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.
Infinity Force
Seed Round in 2022
Infinity Force is a platform designed for blockchain game players, enabling them to create new guilds, recruit members, and manage performance effectively. It offers a web3 transformation solution that focuses on financial tools tailored for the blockchain gaming industry. The platform facilitates the reconciliation of blockchain transactions, provides real-time reporting, and utilizes crypto invoices. Additionally, it automates accounts payable and receivable through cross-chain smart contracts. By leveraging these features, Infinity Force empowers businesses to build and manage their own guilds, enhancing their operational efficiency and helping them reach their full earning potential.
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 team of quantitative traders, researchers, and crypto engineers with backgrounds in commodities, treasuries, volatility products, and crypto-assets. The organization has brought on board a group of derivatives traders and market makers in Genesis Trading, Alameda Research, LedgerPrime, QCP Capital, CMS Holdings, Orthogonal Trading, and GSR.
Zone
Seed Round in 2022
Zone is a community-driven GameFi ecosystem built on the Algorand blockchain. It offers a platform that integrates on-chain gaming challenges, fantasy sports, yield farming, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The ecosystem is designed to be cross-compatible with other blockchains, allowing for a seamless user experience. Through its innovative gamefi bot for Discord, Zone facilitates engaging gaming challenges, enabling users to earn rewards while participating in the gameplay. This free-to-play and play-to-earn model aims to enhance user engagement and enjoyment within the gaming community.
UBet Sports
Pre Seed Round in 2022
A DeFi based decentralized exchange for sports prediction market. We do not have a centralized bookie! Anyone can become a UBet bookie by participating in the liquidity provision. We enable unique participation of liquidity providers who drive the ecosystem, as opposed to a centralized Sportsbook trading team deciding what is and what isn't OK for you to bet on.
YuzuSwap
Seed Round in 2021
YuzuSwap is a decentralized exchange operating on the Oasis Emerald Protocol, designed to facilitate the discovery and swapping of tokens within the Oasis ecosystem. It employs a non-custodial, peer-to-peer, automated market-maker model, ensuring a secure and efficient trading environment. YuzuSwap offers various incentives, including liquidity and trade mining, to enhance user engagement. Key features of the platform include a buyback mechanism, limitless extensibility, and a fair launch, alongside a DAO vault, which collectively aim to promote sustainable trading practices. Through its innovative approach, YuzuSwap seeks to provide users with a low-cost and effective tool for token transactions.
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, doing business as Paradigm, is a zero-fee, liquidity network for crypto derivatives traders across CeFi and DeFi. The platform provides traders with unified access to multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity on demand without compromising on price, size, cost, and immediacy. The firm’s mission is to create a platform where traders can trade anything, with anyone and settle it anywhere. Paradigm has the largest network of institutional counterparties in crypto with over 1,000 institutional clients trading over $10B per month, including Hedge Funds, OTC Desks, Lenders, Structured Product Issuers, Market Makers, and prominent Family Offices.
Kibo Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.
Arrow Markets
Seed Round in 2021
Arrow Markets operates a decentralized financial market options protocol designed to democratize returns for option market makers. By eliminating intermediaries such as brokers and clearinghouses, the platform streamlines the entire options trading process, facilitating market making, brokering, and settlement directly on its protocol. This approach allows liquidity providers to engage in hedging activities similar to those of traditional market makers while benefiting from reduced costs. The protocol employs cash settlement for all contingent claims, enhancing efficiency and accessibility in options trading.
Jet Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Jet Protocol Holdings operates a decentralized lending and borrowing platform that aims to reduce transaction costs while enhancing efficiency. The platform specializes in innovative loan products and cross-chain interest rate arbitrage, allowing users to streamline their borrowing and lending transactions. By simplifying these processes, Jet Protocol facilitates more accessible and effective financial interactions in the decentralized finance space.
Solidus Labs
Venture Round in 2021
Solidus Labs, Inc. develops a market surveillance and compliance software specifically designed for digital asset trading. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, the company utilizes machine learning to enhance manipulation detection techniques in the cryptocurrency market. Its platform provides a web-based dashboard that enables clients, including digital asset broker dealers, market makers, hedge funds, and exchanges, to detect, investigate, and address suspicious activities efficiently. The software features customizable alerts, case management, and regulatory reporting services, allowing financial service providers to improve risk management, increase transparency, and reduce costs associated with trading in digital assets.
Beta Finance
Venture Round in 2021
Beta Finance is a permissionless money market protocol for lending, borrowing, and short-selling crypto assets. It aims to offset crypto volatility and bring market stability. Its one-click solution enables traders without technical know-how to manage and update their short positions on any token with all relevant token information directly available on the interface to guide their decision.
CoinList
Series A in 2021
CoinList is a leading platform in the digital finance sector, focused on facilitating the launch and growth of innovative digital assets. The company provides a comprehensive token distribution service that connects blockchain projects with potential investors prior to their asset listings on other exchanges. CoinList supports various stages of crypto investment, including token sales, distribution, trading, lending, staking, and access to decentralized finance opportunities. Users can trade and store a wide range of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ether, through its mobile app and website, CoinList.co. The platform caters to a diverse clientele, including validators, miners, founders, CEOs, and crypto enthusiasts, ensuring they have access to new tokens and crypto-specific services. CoinList's mission is to be the most trusted brand in digital finance while expanding access for early adopters and fostering innovation within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
GooseFX
Seed Round in 2021
GooseFX is a decentralized finance platform that offers a comprehensive suite of services for trading cryptocurrencies, tokenized stocks, non-fungible tokens, and liquidity. The platform features an efficient constant product automated market maker (CLMM), a decentralized exchange (DEX) with perpetual contracts, and an NFT aggregator. Additionally, GooseFX provides single-sided liquidity pools to facilitate yield farming, allowing users to participate in the market effectively. By enabling equal market access for crypto traders, GooseFX aims to enhance the overall trading experience in the digital asset space.
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 decentralized protocol that specializes in fixed-rate lending and tokenized cash flows, allowing lenders to secure fixed-rate interest rates on their ERC-20 tokens. Founded in 2020 and based in Austin, Texas, the company has developed an online lending platform that minimizes transaction overhead and reduces associated risks for users. By providing a mechanism for locking in interest rates, Swivel Finance aims to enhance the stability and predictability of returns in the decentralized finance sector.
Figment Capital
Series B in 2021
Figment Networks Inc. is a leading blockchain infrastructure and software provider based in Toronto, Canada, established in 2018. The company develops and operates an open-source crypto network, focusing on enhancing community engagement through tools that facilitate understanding of network health and performance for informed staking decisions. Figment supports various crypto networks, including Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, such as enterprise-grade node and staking infrastructure, the Hubble Web 3 explorer, and DataHub developer APIs, aimed at simplifying the use, development, and governance of blockchains for token holders and developers alike. Additionally, Figment publishes open-source software and economic research to further benefit the blockchain community.
Lyra Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Lyra is the most complete decentralized crypto options trading protocol built on Ethereum. Lyra combines the best of traditional options market making (tried and tested pricing and risk management) with crypto’s two biggest strengths scalability and composability.
Visor Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Visor Finance operates a decentralized platform that focuses on active liquidity management within the decentralized finance sector. Its platform enables users to leverage smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges. By facilitating the implementation of strategies for reinvesting fees and distributing protocol revenue, Visor Finance aims to help users maximize their returns while minimizing the risks associated with impermanent loss. This innovative approach positions Visor Finance as a key player in enhancing user engagement and profitability in the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape.
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
dYdX is a decentralized exchange that provides traders with a secure and efficient platform for various financial activities. Established in 2017 by Antonio Juliano, a former engineer at Coinbase and Uber, dYdX operates on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, ensuring transparency and security without relying on a central authority. The platform offers a range of trading options, including perpetual, margin, and spot trading, along with borrowing and lending pools. Users can earn interest on deposits or take loans at nominal fees, enabling them to trade on margin with customized leverage. dYdX aims to create an open financial system, granting users access to vital financial tools while facilitating fully collateralized loans for short-selling.
Assembly
Seed Round in 2021
Assembly uses Iota's feeless foundation layer as an immutable trust to alleviate the limits of current scaling methods.
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