Binance Labs

Binance Labs is the venture arm and incubator of Binance, focusing on startup and social impact investments in blockchain technologies and Web3. It funds ventures across public blockchains, decentralized exchanges, wallets and payments, stable digital currencies, security token platforms, fintech, and dApps, and seeks opportunities in emerging markets such as India.

Kenneth Chan

Investor

Dyani Elan

Managing Director

Ken Li

Investor

Alex Odagiu

Investment Director

Michael Siu

Investor

Hejun Yun

Investor

Past deals in Smart Contracts

Blum

Seed Round in 2025
Blum is a technology company that operates a decentralized exchange platform for cryptocurrencies. Its platform enables direct trading from third-party crypto wallets, utilizing an off-chain order book and on-chain settlements. This design allows for streamlined listing processes of crypto projects and instant transactions from personal wallets, such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet.

Usual

Series A in 2024
The new playbook for financial freedom.

Perena

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Perena is a startup focused on building fundamental infrastructure to tackle key challenges in the stablecoin sector. Its platform, designed for decentralized finance (DeFi) purposes, facilitates seamless stablecoin exchange, supports multi-token stable swaps, and offers automated position management. This enables users to optimize yield generation, enhance liquidity, and improve the overall usability of stablecoins within the DeFi ecosystem.

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.

Brevis

Seed Round in 2024
Brevis is an efficient, verifiable off-chain computation engine that brings limitless computation capacity to existing smart contract blockchains.

Initia Labs

Series A in 2024
Initia is a network for 0-to-1 omnichain rollups built by fusing a novel L1 with an interwoven application-specific L2 infrastructure system. The Initia Platform provides product ready rollups that enables teams to build scalable and sovereign systems while eliminating the UX complexities end users face when interacting with a modular multi-chain universe. Initia’s ownership of the full tech stack allows for a suite of chain-level mechanisms that align the economic interests across users, developers, L2 app chains, and the L1. Initia's initial launch products include an all-in-one portal for accessing core tools of the ecosystem, a Omnitia-ecosystem focused wallet for navigating between the L2s, a block explorer that supports InitiaVM transactions and developer tooling, and a Market Minitia that allows users to trade NFTs and create AI-generated NFT collections through prompts.

OpenEden

Seed Round in 2024
OpenEden develops a financial platform that bridges traditional and decentralized finance. It specializes in utilizing government bonds for stability while increasing transparency through on-chain tracking and self-custody, offering higher returns and improved capital efficiency.

Solayer Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Solayer Labs operates a re-staking network that builds upon the Solana blockchain, extending its capabilities to secure additional systems and enable horizontal scaling. By leveraging the economic security of SOL tokens and sharing Solana's validator network, Solayer allows application developers to achieve a higher degree of consensus and customize block space, enhancing the efficiency and versatility of decentralized cloud infrastructure.

Blum

Seed Round in 2024
Blum is a technology company that operates a decentralized exchange platform for cryptocurrencies. Its platform enables direct trading from third-party crypto wallets, utilizing an off-chain order book and on-chain settlements. This design allows for streamlined listing processes of crypto projects and instant transactions from personal wallets, such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet.

Infrared

Seed Round in 2024
Infrared develops a liquidity staking protocol that simplifies proof-of-liquidity for blockchains and non-fungible tokens. It aims to maximize value capture by offering user-friendly alternatives for BGT and BERA, node infrastructure, PoL vaults, and solutions centered around PoL.

Rango Exchange

Seed Round in 2024
Rango Exchange is a multi-chain platform that facilitates seamless token swaps across different blockchains. Functioning as both a Bridge Aggregator and a DEX Aggregator, Rango enables users to exchange native assets efficiently by identifying the safest, cheapest, and fastest routes for on-chain and cross-chain transactions. The platform provides a user-friendly interface and API, simplifying the process of swapping any token from one blockchain to another. By integrating various decentralized exchanges and bridge solutions, Rango Exchange enhances the accessibility and functionality of token trading for its users.

Aevo ()

Seed Round in 2024
Aevo is a decentralized trading platform that enhances users' portfolio risk-return profiles through a unified margin account. The platform integrates various financial instruments, including options, futures, and fixed income, allowing investors to capitalize on price movements of Ethereum. By offering multiple strike prices, Aevo enables users to profit when ETH prices exceed specific thresholds, streamlining the trading process and improving overall investment strategies.

Movement Labs

Series A in 2024
Movement Labs is a modular framework platform that builds and deploys move-based blockchains and applications in distributed settings. Its platform offers a composable and horizontally scalable network that provides unparalleled smart contract security and asset portability to help users solve the cold start problem with unprecedented interoperability.

Shentu Chain

Seed Round in 2024
Shentu Chain is a technology company specializing in blockchain security. It develops a platform aimed at enhancing the security and reliability of decentralized systems, offering infrastructure for creating secure smart contracts and decentralized applications.

UXUY

Seed Round in 2024
UXUY is a company focused on developing a next-generation decentralized trading platform based on multi-party computation (MPC) technology. It aims to simplify access to cross-chain liquidity through its innovative aggregation protocol. UXUY offers a stablecoin-centric ecosystem that facilitates cross-chain payments, allowing investors to seamlessly transact across multiple blockchain networks. The company provides easy integration options with versatile APIs and libraries, enhancing the user experience and accessibility for a variety of investors.

Ultiverse

Initial Coin Offering in 2024
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.

Dzone Finance

Series B in 2023
Dzone Finance is a cross-chain Dex and Bridge aggregator.

Open Campus

Seed Round in 2023
Open Campus is a community-led Web3 education protocol aiming to tokenize the world’s educational content by enabling educators and creators to monetize their content. $EDU will play a critical role in the Open Campus ecosystem to power the tokenization of educational content. $EDU will be used to govern the protocol DAO and as a use of funding, means of payment, on-chain revenue sharing, smart donations, and much more!

InfinityStakeChain

Series A in 2023
InfinityStakeChain is a cutting-edge, decentralized staking platform that offers unique opportunities for users. Leveraging the power of well-designed smart contracts, InfinityStakeChain is able to identify innovative staking pools that offer high potential and attractive Annual Percentage Rates (APR) in the market. This allows users to earn through arbitrage. The smart contracts employed by InfinityStakeChain are not only robust and reliable but they also provide a competitive edge. Owing to the strength of their smart contract mechanism, InfinityStakeChain is capable of offering higher returns compared to other decentralized applications (dApps) in the market. In essence, InfinityStakeChain transforms how staking works by combining safety, reliability, and higher earning potential under one platform. With InfinityStakeChain, you're not just staking — you're optimizing your assets.

Initia Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Initia is a network for 0-to-1 omnichain rollups built by fusing a novel L1 with an interwoven application-specific L2 infrastructure system. The Initia Platform provides product ready rollups that enables teams to build scalable and sovereign systems while eliminating the UX complexities end users face when interacting with a modular multi-chain universe. Initia’s ownership of the full tech stack allows for a suite of chain-level mechanisms that align the economic interests across users, developers, L2 app chains, and the L1. Initia's initial launch products include an all-in-one portal for accessing core tools of the ecosystem, a Omnitia-ecosystem focused wallet for navigating between the L2s, a block explorer that supports InitiaVM transactions and developer tooling, and a Market Minitia that allows users to trade NFTs and create AI-generated NFT collections through prompts.

Pendle Finance

Seed Round in 2023
Pendle Finance is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to tokenize and sell future yields.

Delphinus lab

Seed Round in 2023
Delphinus Lab specializes in trustless computation, offering an open-source zero-knowledge virtual machine, ZKWasm, which supports WebAssembly. Their platform provides automated proving and batching services, enabling businesses to build secure and efficient decentralized applications, thereby making Web3 more accessible and user-friendly.

Curve DAO Token

Venture Round in 2023
Curve DAO Token is a token that supports the Curve.fi ecosystem.

Ethena

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

Neutron

Seed Round in 2023
Neutron is a smart-contracts blockchain platform that provides cross-chain applications that leverage bleeding-edge Interchain technology with minimal overhead for the Cosmos ecosystem.

Kryptos

Seed Round in 2023
Kryptos provides a comprehensive platform designed to streamline the management of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, including NFTs. The platform caters to individuals, accountants, and tax authorities worldwide by offering tools for monitoring, managing, and reporting on digital assets. With a focus on simplifying Web3 finance, Kryptos aims to maximize tax savings for its users through a suite of services that includes accounting, portfolio management, and tax reporting. The user-friendly interface ensures that managing crypto assets is simple, fast, and secure.

DappOS

Pre Seed Round in 2023
DappOS is an innovative company focused on enhancing the usability and accessibility of decentralized applications (dApps) within the blockchain ecosystem. By developing a unified operating protocol, DappOS creates a user-friendly layer that simplifies interactions between users and various blockchain infrastructures, including public blockchains and cross-chain bridges. This approach allows for intuitive user interfaces and streamlined experiences, making dApps as easy to use as mobile applications. DappOS aims to lower the technical barriers associated with blockchain technology, facilitating greater mass adoption of decentralized applications and contributing to a more interconnected and user-centric blockchain environment.

Maverick Protocol

Venture Round in 2023
Maverick Protocol is a decentralized finance platform that offers a crypto derivatives market designed to be open, transparent, and efficient. The protocol enables permissionless trading and staking across a wide range of asset pairs and supports perpetual contracts with capital efficiency, driven by an automated market maker. It aims to provide liquid, borderless access to decentralized trading and to allow traders to gain exposure through perpetuals backed by a diverse set of assets.

Ambit Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Ambit Finance is a decentralized application (DApp) that enhances the utility of BUSD and other selected cryptocurrencies through innovative structured financial solutions. The company develops a fintech suite tailored for web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, offering functionalities such as lending, borrowing, and yield optimization strategies. By focusing on these key areas, Ambit Finance aims to simplify the user experience on decentralized platforms, making it easier for individuals to navigate and utilize various financial services within the blockchain ecosystem.

Velvet Capital

Seed Round in 2022
Velvet.Capital operates as an intent-based decentralized finance (DeFi) operating system that facilitates the launch and management of on-chain funds and structured products. By developing an open-source blockchain protocol, the company aims to streamline on-chain portfolio management and enhance the social aspects of DeFi. Its platform is designed to support hedge funds, asset managers, and other financial institutions in creating and managing decentralized finance offerings, thereby contributing to the broader adoption of DeFi solutions in the financial sector.

NGRAVE

Series A in 2022
NGRAVE develops crypto hardware wallets and backup solutions, providing end-to-end secure digital asset management. Its hardware wallet keeps private keys offline from generation to transaction signing, preventing exposure to online threats and safeguarding holdings from theft. The company offers cold storage solutions designed to minimize attack vectors and provide secure key backup, enabling users and businesses to manage crypto safely.

Aptos

Venture Round in 2022
Aptos is a web3 startup founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company develops a scalable Layer 1 blockchain that allows developers to create future-proof applications. Aptos aims to provide universal access to decentralized assets through its network, utilizing a safe and reliable programming language that facilitates application development. The team at Aptos is composed of skilled engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and builders, all working towards enhancing the accessibility and scalability of blockchain infrastructure for developers.

Mysten Labs

Series B in 2022
Mysten Labs develops tools to enhance web3 security and facilitate its widespread adoption. They create foundational infrastructure to accelerate the integration of decentralized services across multiple chains, improving underlying technologies like distributed systems and cryptography.

Reveel

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Reveel is a company that addresses critical issues in the music industry by capturing verified music metadata throughout the creative process. The platform ensures that artists receive proper credit, are discoverable, and are compensated accurately for their work. By developing a Creator ID, Reveel helps artists maintain a consistent association with their music, thereby enhancing their visibility and rights. The platform surpasses industry standards by collecting comprehensive data and delivering it swiftly to music companies, which is vital in the rapidly evolving recorded music sector. Additionally, Reveel offers revenue management solutions tailored for Web3 businesses, enabling effective revenue sharing and payout functionalities. This facilitates collaboration and market access for creators, collectors, and developers, equipping them with tools to analyze the performance of their on-chain activities.

Space ID

Seed Round in 2022
Space ID is focused on creating a universal name service network that facilitates the connection of individuals, data, and assets across various blockchains and applications. The company is developing a decentralized identity protocol that allows for the representation of all identities and multi-chain addresses. This includes features such as composable naming layouts, connected identifiers, and customized top-level domains that provide a human-readable identity. Additionally, Space ID integrates with NFT projects, enabling communities to enhance user engagement and growth through the use of personalized domain names.

Ultiverse

Seed Round in 2022
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.

Ultiverse

Seed Round in 2022
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.

Manta Network

Venture Round in 2022
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.

Manta Network

Venture Round in 2022
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.

Automata Network

Venture Round in 2022
Automata Network is a decentralized protocol that offers middleware-like privacy services for decentralized applications across various platforms, including Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain. Its focus is on delivering traceless privacy, which enhances user trust in computing systems by ensuring the authenticity of operations on-chain. By facilitating high assurance and frictionless computation, Automata Network aims to empower clients to maintain privacy while engaging in decentralized activities.

Figment Networks

Series C 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.

MOUND

Seed Round in 2021
MOUND is a finance startup that optimizes Binance Smart Chan (BSC) and Ethereum (ETH). The company's products include Pancake Bunny and Smart Vaults. Pancake Bunny is a yield farming aggregator. Using leveraged lending products, Smart Vaults is used to farm single asset yields.

PureStake

Series A in 2021
PureStake is a blockchain infrastructure company that builds and operates infrastructure, APIs, and tooling for public blockchain networks. It supports networks such as Algorand, offering services and products including the AlgoSigner wallet extension, API-as-a-service, goalseeker block explorer, and infrastructure and consulting services for private and co-chain deployments; and Polkadot, including validators and Moonbeam smart contract support, with consulting services. The company provides a cloud-based platform that offloads infrastructure management and focuses on application development, featuring automated provisioning, globally distributed nodes, and robust security to enable staking and validator activities. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Moonbeam Network

Funding Round in 2021
Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications.

Push Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Push Protocol is a decentralized, blockchain-agnostic communication protocol for Web3 that enables notifications for both on-chain and off-chain activity. It supports the creation of notifications by decentralized applications, smart contracts, and backends, driven by configurable logic and triggered through various events. Notifications travel via an open network of push nodes and are tied to wallet addresses, allowing wallets, frontends, and infrastructure services to display them across supported chains in a gasless, platform-agnostic fashion.

Astar Network

Series A in 2021
Astar Network is a multi-virtual machine scalable smart contract platform on Polkadot supporting cutting-edge layer 2 like Rollups.

DODO Exchange

Venture Round in 2020
DODO is a liquidity protocol powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm and built for capital efficiency. DODO offers a low barrier-to-entry, pain-free token issuance mechanic for long-tail assets.

HOPR

Seed Round in 2020
HOPR is a developer of a blockchain protocol platform focused on enhancing privacy in the Web3 ecosystem. The company offers a decentralized, metadata-private messaging protocol that allows users to maintain control over their privacy, data, and identity while navigating online. Central to HOPR's approach is its innovative open incentivized mixnet, which enables individuals to earn tokens by staking and running nodes. Led by Dr. Sebastian Bürgel, a key figure in drafting Switzerland's Distributed Ledger Technology Law, HOPR's diverse team includes experienced blockchain developers and technology professionals from Silicon Valley. The organization operates as a legal entity in Switzerland while embodying the principles of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), fostering a governance model known as Decentralized Community-Enabling Governance (DecenGov). HOPR's headquarters is located in Zurich, Switzerland.

Dapix

Series A in 2019
Dapix Inc., established in 2018 and based in Westminster, Colorado, specializes in designing and developing decentralized public blockchain technology. The company's core product is the FIO Protocol, an inter-wallet operability protocol that enhances usability within the blockchain ecosystem. This protocol enables seamless cross-chain transactions, utilizing a single memorable wallet name compatible with any wallet or exchange. Dapix aims to facilitate easier token and coin movement while integrating cross-chain counterparty metadata. Founded by experienced tech professionals and backed by prominent venture capital firms and angel investors, Dapix seeks to revolutionize blockchain usability.

CERE Network

Seed Round in 2019
CERE Network is a blockchain-based company that specializes in developing a customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem designed for data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CERE Network offers a platform that extracts customer data from various monolithic and disparate CRM and customer data platform systems. This platform provides an open micro-services environment that facilitates data collaboration and integration between businesses and vendors. Additionally, CERE Network utilizes blockchain technology to capture the entire customer journey, securely storing key user data such as purchases and achievements in user wallets. The company also introduces its own tokens, which are used for payment within its ecosystem.

Torus Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Torus Labs is a technology company that focuses on enhancing user experiences in the digital space through innovative solutions. It provides an online platform that facilitates information sharing related to digital marketing, market research, business growth, and analytics. Torus Labs is also known for its development of a blockchain platform that simplifies cryptographic key management, enabling users to manage token accounts securely. By leveraging decentralized key generation and proof mechanisms, the platform allows for secure control of transactions through private channels. With a culture that emphasizes impact and flexibility, Torus Labs aims to empower users with self-sovereignty and easy access to their digital assets.

CERE Network

Corporate Round in 2019
CERE Network is a blockchain-based company that specializes in developing a customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem designed for data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CERE Network offers a platform that extracts customer data from various monolithic and disparate CRM and customer data platform systems. This platform provides an open micro-services environment that facilitates data collaboration and integration between businesses and vendors. Additionally, CERE Network utilizes blockchain technology to capture the entire customer journey, securely storing key user data such as purchases and achievements in user wallets. The company also introduces its own tokens, which are used for payment within its ecosystem.

HOPR

Grant in 2019
HOPR is a developer of a blockchain protocol platform focused on enhancing privacy in the Web3 ecosystem. The company offers a decentralized, metadata-private messaging protocol that allows users to maintain control over their privacy, data, and identity while navigating online. Central to HOPR's approach is its innovative open incentivized mixnet, which enables individuals to earn tokens by staking and running nodes. Led by Dr. Sebastian Bürgel, a key figure in drafting Switzerland's Distributed Ledger Technology Law, HOPR's diverse team includes experienced blockchain developers and technology professionals from Silicon Valley. The organization operates as a legal entity in Switzerland while embodying the principles of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), fostering a governance model known as Decentralized Community-Enabling Governance (DecenGov). HOPR's headquarters is located in Zurich, Switzerland.

Contentos (COS)

Venture Round in 2018
Contentos Foundation, established in 2018 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, develops a decentralized global digital content ecosystem. The company's public blockchain project addresses key challenges in the digital content industry, including content distribution, monetization, authentication, and copyright management. Contentos' platform enables creators to earn from their content by fostering collaboration with advertisers, fans, and other creators, while also rewarding positive community contributions.

CertiK

Seed Round in 2018
CertiK is a blockchain security company that uses formal verification and AI-powered monitoring to protect and supervise blockchain protocols and smart contracts. It offers security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification services. Founded in 2018 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK applies academic research to real-world blockchain deployments to help mission-critical applications scale safely and correctly. The company serves clients globally and maintains a presence in major technology hubs.
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