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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 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 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.

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 is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield.

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

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.

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 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.

Lava is building the Amazon for data across web3, Lava is the modular data access network for scaling access to any blockchain. Anyone can add in-demand chains and APIs as modules to Lava, with each module being served by a network of node operators competing to offer the best service. RPC is the first service supported by the protocol and already helps developers unlock innovation across 30+ chains. By leveraging modular architecture and a peer-to-peer network of node operators, Lava powers the universal and performant infrastructure layer for developers to build whatever, wherever.

Ultiverse operates an AI-powered gaming platform and Web3 ecosystem that connects global players through integrated gaming, decentralized finance, and digital asset ecosystems. The platform enables multiplayer battles, character creation, and NFT integration, with options to redeem NFTs for real-life replicas and deliverables upon request. It provides tools for game production and publishing, supporting developers to build, publish, and monetize games within an interconnected environment. The ecosystem also supports liquid staking and other blockchain-enabled features to enhance engagement and asset interoperability across titles. By combining AI-driven gameplay with Web3 capabilities, Ultiverse aims to create a seamless bridge between digital entertainment, asset ownership, and real-world deliverables.

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.

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.

Layer N develops a hyper-performant rollup network designed to scale financial applications on Ethereum. It is composed of hyper-performant and customized modular rollups, with scalability, shared communication layers for unified liquidity, and supercharged APIs.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

Mintify develops a web3 platform facilitating the discovery, minting, and trading of NFTs across multiple chains. It offers smart notifications for upcoming drops, presale events, and whitelist opportunities, along with an analytics platform and trading terminal for sophisticated investment strategies.

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.

Stems Labs is a community and platform for collaborative creativity. Through web3 tools, it encourages artist and fan engagement. For example, a musician can share their music stems or a mix of drums, bass, guitar, and other individual musical tracks with the Stem community. Users can then remix the audio to create new music NFTs, with royalties paid to the original artists upon sale.

Krypton maintains crypto currencies, as well as tracking and analyzing the portfolio.

MetaOne offers a comprehensive platform for managing Non-Fungible Token (NFT) assets in the gaming metaverse. It streamlines onboarding and NFT processes, providing a unified interface to facilitate transition from traditional gaming to blockchain. The platform integrates into game architecture to mine relevant data for guild analytics, offering tools for guild management and asset management to empower stakeholders in generating revenue. Additionally, MetaOne has designed smart contracts for secure and transparent cross-chain investments.

Sei Labs is the layer 1 blockchain uniquely optimized for DeFi.

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 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 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 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.

Paeq develops a blockchain platform facilitating transaction infrastructure for a hyperconnected world. Its platform enables businesses across various industries to deploy and scale decentralized physical infrastructure networks, reducing costs, creating new revenue streams, automating processes, and enhancing system security.

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 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 provides fully customizable on-chain covered calls and bespoke DeFi loans.

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

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.

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

LFG is dedicated to supporting a vibrant community of blockchain innovators committed to developing a decentralized global economy.

Ava Protocol is a blockchain platform that automates complex transactions using smart contracts and event triggers. It offers features such as scheduled payments, stop-loss orders, and automated workflows, enabling developers to enhance privacy, composability, and cost savings in crypto transactions across various blockchains like Ethereum.

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

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.

Astar Network is a multi-virtual machine scalable smart contract platform on Polkadot supporting cutting-edge layer 2 like Rollups.

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 is a platform that enables blockchain game players to create new guilds, recruit members, and manage their performance.

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.

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.

UBet Sports operates a decentralized exchange for sports betting, leveraging blockchain technology and smart contracts. The platform allows users to engage in sports prediction markets without a centralized bookmaker, enabling anyone to become a bookie by participating in liquidity provision. By utilizing internal and external market data, UBet Sports models the probability of sports outcomes, which enhances the betting experience for sports fans. This innovative approach not only empowers users to place bets but also provides opportunities for liquidity providers, fostering a collaborative ecosystem that benefits all participants in the market.

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.

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 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.

Minima is a developer of an ultra-lean blockchain protocol that enables users to run full construction and validation nodes on mobile and IoT devices. Founded in 2018 and based in Zug, Switzerland, the company focuses on creating a decentralized platform that supports an open and cooperative ecosystem, particularly in the context of the metaverse. Minima's technology is designed to facilitate the realization of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), making blockchain accessible and scalable for real-world applications. By allowing every user to participate in the network as a node, Minima aims to foster inclusivity and enhance the functionality of blockchain technology.

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.

Eden Network is a blockchain infrastructure company that focuses on enhancing transaction safety for traders and providing transaction priority for NFT minters. It develops a suite of Ethereum smart contracts that adhere to the principles of progressive decentralization, allowing token holders to participate in governance through private communication channels and decision-making processes. The company also offers essential liquid staking and validation infrastructure aimed at optimizing yield generation, increasing total value locked (TVL), and fostering overall network growth. By prioritizing both security and user governance, Eden Network seeks to create a more efficient and decentralized trading environment.

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.

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.

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.

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.