Lemniscap

Lemniscap is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in George Town, Kentucky. The firm specializes in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain companies, focusing on the dynamic and evolving landscape of the cryptocurrency sector. In addition to its venture capital activities, Lemniscap manages a hedge fund that utilizes a long/short equity investment strategy. The firm is dedicated to identifying and supporting innovative projects within the blockchain ecosystem.

Roderik van der Graaf

Co-Founder and Director, Managing Partner

Shaishav Todi

General Partner

Past deals in Blockchain

DeCharge

Seed Round in 2025
DeCharge Network is a company focused on establishing a global energy network designed to power electric vehicles, drones, and emerging technologies. It develops a blockchain protocol aimed at enhancing electric vehicle charging by creating a comprehensive ecosystem for charging infrastructure. This software facilitates seamless payments and offers incentives for all stakeholders in the ecosystem, thereby fostering a collaborative environment that improves access to charging facilities. By promoting a positive-sum network, DeCharge contributes to the advancement of a global energy layer, enhancing the integration of electric vehicles into everyday transportation and future technological applications.

Memes Lab

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

Cytonic

Seed Round in 2024
Cytonic is a technology company specializing in the development of a multi-virtual-machine blockchain platform. This platform is designed to integrate and process transactions from diverse networks such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana simultaneously in a single block, facilitating efficient cross-chain transactions.

Nitro Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Termina is a powerful platform designed to streamline the deployment of Solana blocks through an integrated engine for the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)

Hyve

Seed Round in 2024
Hyve is a high-throughput data availability solution designed for high-performance decentralized applications and networks.

Puffpaw

Seed Round in 2024
PuffPaw is a technology-driven company specializing in the production of electronic cigarettes. It leverages blockchain technology to monitor and incentivize consumer vaping habits, offering a unique 'vape-to-earn' platform that rewards users with cryptocurrency for their vaping activities, thereby promoting healthier lifestyle choices within the vaping community.

Dora

Seed Round in 2024
Dora is a block explorer that is building a cross chain search engine. The company uses human readability at all levels of complexity in conjunction with a modular infrastructure to serve as the human layer to the chains, bridges, and DApps.

Irys

Seed Round in 2024
The world's first programmable datachain, where data doesn't just exist; it becomes active, fluid, valuable across applications. And it's this evolution—from passive to programmable—that marks the true primitive.

Legitimate

Seed Round in 2024
Legitimate is a company that enhances the retail customer journey by transforming physical products into platforms for digital engagement. It develops a protocol that integrates near-field communication with blockchain technology, which allows for the registration and traceability of products using secure encryption. This innovative approach not only ensures product authenticity and combats counterfeiting but also provides customers with reliable transparency data. By bridging physical and digital touchpoints, Legitimate creates holistic and immersive brand experiences, enabling businesses to engage effectively with their customers and fostering confidence in the integrity of the products they purchase.

Fjord Foundry

Seed Round in 2024
Fjord Foundry is a community-focused platform designed to connect creative projects with enthusiastic supporters. It facilitates this connection through the use of Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools (LBPs), which provide a fair and transparent mechanism for price discovery and liquidity generation. By enabling projects to distribute digital tokens effectively, Fjord Foundry helps mitigate the influence of large investors and automated trading bots, ensuring that all participants have equal opportunities. This approach allows projects to access the necessary liquidity while fostering an inclusive environment for backers and creators alike.

Zeus Network

Seed Round in 2024
Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.

Cosmology

Seed Round in 2024
Cosmology operates a development platform designed to streamline the creation and deployment of decentralized applications (dApps) within the interchain ecosystem, which encompasses multiple blockchains. Their platform provides tools such as low-level encoding and signing, user interfaces, and wallet adapters, aiming to simplify the process for Web2 developers to transition into Web3 development.

Stackr

Seed Round in 2023
Stackr Labs is a company focused on developing app-specific rollups on the Ethereum blockchain, utilizing web2 programming languages. It aims to create standalone customizable applications that leverage the benefits of rollups for distributed computing. By specializing in the efficient integration of off-chain data sources, such as social graphs, user credit scores, and KYC and identity systems, Stackr Labs enables users to access and utilize data seamlessly. The company's innovative approach seeks to unlock the potential of rollups, enhancing the functionality and performance of decentralized applications.

Fairblock

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

Sort

Seed Round in 2023
Sort is a company that offers a Web3 development platform designed to streamline the user interface development process on Ethereum and Polygon. It provides a powerful toolkit that enables developers to easily integrate data from smart contracts into decentralized applications with minimal coding. Sort's platform emphasizes user-centric design, facilitating data collaboration for small teams, and allowing users to initiate projects through a contract address. This approach not only simplifies the development process but also enhances the ability to share queries and apply change requests, making it as accessible as using a spreadsheet.

Webb Protocol

Seed Round in 2023
Webb Protocol is a multi-chain privacy technology that allows assets to be transferred across blockchain protocols while ensuring financial anonymity. We incentivize privacy creation through innovative economic design and aim to become the most decentralized privacy system imaginable.

Open Dollar

Seed Round in 2023
Borrow against Liquid Staking Tokens & Arbitrum native assets with our flexible and transparently over-collateralized stablecoin

Gateway.fm

Seed Round in 2023
Gateway.fm is a developer of decentralized blockchain infrastructure that specializes in creating globally distributed, multi-chain systems. The company provides a multi-chain gateway and a regionally dispersed enterprise architecture, allowing Web3 projects to scale effectively. By utilizing Gateway.fm's services, these projects can avoid the complexities and resource demands associated with setting up or maintaining their own servers. This innovative approach facilitates seamless scalability and operational efficiency for developers in the blockchain space.

Monad

Seed Round in 2023
Monad is a proof-of-stake blockchain and decentralized computation platform that focuses on high performance and portability. It features a scalar architecture with pipelined execution, which allows for efficient transaction throughput. This innovative design enables developers to create complex decentralized applications (dApps) capable of processing a large volume of transactions quickly. By combining advanced technology with a user-friendly framework, Monad aims to enhance the overall functionality and scalability of decentralized applications in the blockchain ecosystem.

Wield Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Wield Labs is a company that operates a crypto-based platform designed to make cryptocurrency exploration engaging and accessible. The company focuses on developing various crypto games that simplify the complexities of the crypto space, helping users understand and navigate it more easily. By prioritizing user experience, Wield Labs aims to provide a safe environment for customers to engage with cryptocurrency, ultimately fostering a deeper understanding of the digital asset landscape.

t3rn

Private Equity Round in 2022
t3rn is a blockchain-based hosting platform founded in 2020 and based in Lisbon, Portugal. It specializes in facilitating interoperable execution and composable collaboration through its innovative technology stack. The platform enables fast, secure, and cost-efficient bridging of cross-chain executions by utilizing modular layers for storage, validation, settlement, and consensus. Smart contracts are stored in a registry accessible to all users, allowing developers who contribute to the open-source repository to earn remuneration each time their code is executed. This model not only enhances the efficiency of blockchain interactions but also incentivizes developers, fostering a collaborative ecosystem within the blockchain community.

Fluidity Money

Seed Round in 2022
Fluidity Money is a blockchain incentive platform that rewards users with yields for using their cryptocurrency. It seeks to solve DeFi's utility problem by introducing a novel incentive mechanism that rewards users for on-chain transactions. Users can wrap stablecoins in Fluidity in exchange for the fluid counterpart of that stablecoin. This can be USDC, for example, which becomes fUSDC. This works with a variety of stablecoins, including DAI, USDT, and Frax. The yield distributed via transactions is derived from lending out the underlying assets on money markets. When USDC is wrapped, fUSDC is created, and the principal is lent out.

Paragraph

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Paragraph is a Web3-native publishing platform founded in 2021 that focuses on empowering content creators, curators, and community builders within the creator economy. The platform enables users to sign up using wallets or email addresses, facilitating the distribution of token-gated newsletters and NFT drops. By leveraging web3 social networks, such as Farcaster, Paragraph allows users to engage with discussions and seamlessly integrate their web3 social followers into their newsletters. This innovative approach helps web3 writers, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and NFT communities to monetize their content effectively, enhancing their earning potential while fostering a sense of ownership over their communities.

RedStone

Seed Round in 2022
RedStone is a next-generation cross-chain data oracle that specializes in providing pricing data for financial protocols. The company develops modular oracles that deliver data feeds compatible with both layer 1 and layer 2 blockchains, including rollups-as-a-service (RaaS) solutions. RedStone's offerings include liquid staking tokens and liquid restaking tokens, as well as an online decentralized finance platform designed to utilize blockchain's permanent storage capabilities. This platform supports cross-chain data services while ensuring an audit trail, which enhances transparency and reliability. Additionally, RedStone enables decentralized finance providers to implement automatic dispute mechanisms, bolstered by insurance through staking, thereby facilitating more secure and efficient transactions.

dWallet Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
dWallet Labs is a developer of a cybersecurity platform that specializes in blockchain technology. The company focuses on creating trustless access control solutions that enhance both offensive and defensive cybersecurity measures. Its platform offers a secure and programmable decentralized access layer for web3, utilizing dynamic, decentralized wallets to sign transactions across various blockchain networks. By leveraging universally adopted signing algorithms, dWallet Labs enables organizations to transform the management of digital assets, enhancing how these assets are stored, utilized, and connected to the real world. This innovative approach adds a fully decentralized layer of dynamic and stateful access control, positioning dWallet Labs as a key player in the evolution of digital asset security.

Flowdesk

Series A in 2022
Flowdesk is a regulated digital asset trading and technology firm based in France, specializing in market making, over-the-counter (OTC) services, and treasury management. Registered as a Digital Asset Service Provider, the company is authorized by the French Financial Markets Authority for various digital asset services, including custody, trading, and the conversion of digital assets to legal tender. Flowdesk develops compliant trading and liquidity infrastructure that blends expertise from traditional financial markets with advanced knowledge of algorithmic trading and cryptocurrency. Its platform offers market-making technologies for both spot and derivatives markets, alongside liquidity solutions for exchanges and digital asset projects. This enables clients to access trading infrastructure tailored for institutional-grade operations.

SithSwap

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

Encode Club

Seed Round in 2022
Encode Club is a blockchain education platform founded in 2019 by Damir Bandalo and based in London. The company specializes in providing educational services that aim to cultivate the next generation of blockchain professionals. Encode Club offers a variety of programs, including events, workshops, hackathons, accelerators, and boot camps, designed to support ambitious individuals in achieving their personal and professional goals. By collaborating with leading protocols in the cryptocurrency space, the platform equips participants with the necessary skills and knowledge to secure employment or raise funding in the rapidly evolving blockchain industry.

Certora

Series B in 2022
Certora is a technology company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the detection of vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Its platform utilizes advanced technology to verify compliance with specified security rules at compile-time, ensuring that all executions of a smart contract are secure. By offering independent and language-agnostic solutions, Certora helps clients manage security verification processes effectively, minimizing the risk of false interruptions. The company’s unique approach enables automatic detection of security vulnerabilities both prior to code deployment and during operation, providing mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. This capability allows for the assurance of security in software development, helping to eliminate potential risks associated with vulnerabilities.

Trisolaris

Seed Round in 2022
Trisolaris is a community-owned decentralized exchange (DEX) that provides a trading platform designed to offer a seamless user experience while minimizing drawbacks typically associated with traditional exchanges. The platform is characterized by its fast settlement times, low transaction fees, and a governance model that empowers users to participate in decision-making processes. Trisolaris enables clients to execute cross-chain swaps and access advanced infrastructure, enhanced tooling, and analytics, thereby facilitating a more efficient trading environment.

Burrow

Seed Round in 2022
Burrow is a decentralized platform that operates a non-custodial liquidity pool, enabling users to supply and borrow assets for trading. The platform focuses on unlocking liquidity for interest-bearing assets, particularly layer 1 staking derivatives. By allowing users to supply assets, Burrow facilitates the earning of interest and enables borrowing against those assets to enhance liquidity. Additionally, the platform features a governance token staking program, which encourages user participation and investment in the ecosystem. Overall, Burrow aims to provide a streamlined approach to accessing liquidity in the decentralized finance space.

Mainstream Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mainstream Labs is developing a collaborative platform focused on decentralized governance participation. The platform facilitates token-gated discussions and proposal voting, allowing users to engage in governance efficiently. Contributions from participants are rewarded publicly, promoting active involvement in decision-making processes. By leveraging the expertise of its team, which has experience in operating decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and other crypto-native communities, Mainstream Labs aims to transform governance interactions and position DAOs as a new social framework.

Phi Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Phi Labs is a company dedicated to developing blockchain tools and protocols that empower developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. It contributes to the Archway protocol, which incentivizes blockchain developers for their contributions. With a global team of web pioneers, Phi Labs focuses on creating open-source solutions that enhance the accessibility of application development, fostering innovation within the blockchain ecosystem. Through its efforts, the company aims to simplify the process of building decentralized applications, thus supporting the growth of the blockchain community.

LifeForce Games

Seed Round in 2022
LifeForce Games is a creator of a gaming platform focused on blockchain-based games, aiming to enhance accessibility to metaverse and blockchain gaming experiences. The company develops tools and products for play-to-earn (P2E) chain games, emphasizing the interoperability of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) across various games and platforms. By providing monetization opportunities and services related to virtual land, LifeForce Games strives to create enjoyable and equitable gaming experiences for users.

Moonwell

Seed Round in 2022
Moonwell is an open lending and borrowing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol operating on the Moonbeam and Moonriver blockchain networks. The company provides a digital financing platform that enables users to engage in peer-to-peer lending and borrowing without the burden of monthly payments or additional fees. Focused on security, Moonwell offers a variety of funding options, catering to the needs of individuals seeking flexible financial solutions within a decentralized framework.

Hubble Exchange

Seed Round in 2022
Hubble Exchange is a decentralized platform focused on facilitating the trading of perpetual futures contracts. It allows traders to use multiple types of tokens, including AVAX, USDC, and Hubble Virtual USD, as collateral for their trades, with plans to expand collateral options to include BTC, ETH, and other Avalanche-native assets. By employing a multi-collateral, cross-margin design, Hubble Exchange aims to enhance the trading experience on the Avalanche network, leveraging its low transaction fees and scalable infrastructure. The platform also enables traders to tokenize their profitable perpetual futures positions, allowing them to utilize these positions as collateral for borrowing on other decentralized finance protocols.

metaENGINE

Seed Round in 2022
MetaEngine operates a decentralized platform designed for the development and publishing of GameFi and metaverse games and applications. The platform provides developers with a comprehensive suite of integrated technologies, including a massively multiplayer online game engine, essential blockchain functionality, and decentralized data storage. This infrastructure enables developers to concentrate on the core aspects of game and application development, streamlining the creation process and enhancing the overall user experience in the metaverse ecosystem.

Axelar

Series B in 2022
Axelar is a company focused on developing interoperability software that facilitates communication between various blockchain ecosystems and applications. Founded in 2020 by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos, Axelar Network offers a suite of protocols, tools, and APIs aimed at overcoming the challenges of cross-chain interactions. The company's solutions leverage Byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design to enable decentralized applications to operate across different blockchains seamlessly. By providing developers with the necessary resources, Axelar empowers them to select the most suitable platforms while enhancing cross-chain composability and liquidity.

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.

Solana

Seed Round in 2022
Solana is a blockchain technology company, established in 2021, specializing in the development of a decentralized, scalable blockchain platform. The platform, validated by thousands of independent nodes, ensures robust security and resistance to censorship. It leverages proof of history and concurrent GPU parallelization to deliver high-speed, low-latency, and inexpensive transactions, enabling users to scale without sharding or specialized hardware.

Superdao

Seed Round in 2022
Superdao is a platform designed for the management and operation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). It provides tools for creating and customizing intelligent contracts, managing contributors, and accessing a member directory and treasury dashboard. Additionally, Superdao offers a wallet analytics feature that delivers insights into dapp users, NFT and token holders, DAO voters, and quest participants, allowing organizations to analyze their audiences and gather competitive insights. The platform is tailored for Web3 growth teams, facilitating improved decision-making and governance structures for decentralized ventures. With preloaded data from numerous top Web3 projects, Superdao enhances the ability of businesses to build target lists and leverage third-party applications, ultimately supporting the collaborative management of innovative and economically viable decentralized applications.

STEPN

Seed Round in 2022
STEPN is a blockchain-based fitness application that operates a move-to-earn NFT gaming platform, allowing users to earn rewards for their physical activities. By purchasing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that have a limited lifespan, users can engage in specific exercises and accumulate the platform's native tokens as incentives for their efforts. The app combines elements of gaming and fitness, encouraging a healthier lifestyle while providing financial rewards for exercising. Through this innovative model, STEPN aims to motivate users to stay active and integrate fitness into their daily routines.

Vybe Network

Seed Round in 2022
Vybe Network offers a data infrastructure solution tailored for the Solana community, facilitating the querying, indexing, and sharing of on-chain data. Its platform provides developers with tools to efficiently stream live data and access historical data from a network of distributed indexers. This capability allows users to build decentralized applications and conduct analytics within the Web 3.0 ecosystem. By streamlining data access and exchange, Vybe empowers customers to leverage Solana's blockchain for innovative application development and analytical insights.

Arcade

Series A in 2021
Arcade provides an infrastructure layer for NFT liquidity that enables the financialization of non-fungible assets, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.Arcade’s Wrapped NFT technology allows NFTs to be bundled to secure one loan. Arcade is also an open-source Defi primitive it allows developers to build on top of the platform.

Gear Technologies

Series A in 2021
Gear Technologies is a technology company focused on advancing the Gear Protocol, which enhances Web3 capabilities while maintaining a user experience akin to Web2. The company has developed a Substrate-based smart contract platform that simplifies and reduces the costs associated with creating and deploying decentralized applications (dApps). By providing an accessible entry point for developers, Gear Technologies allows clients to build and launch dApps on the blockchain quickly and efficiently, within minutes. The platform emphasizes improved speed, security, and automation, significantly advancing the landscape of smart contract development.

Atlendis

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an online lending platform intended to offer a capital-efficient lending protocol. The company creates a more capital-efficient environment for uncollateralized crypto loans through its Defi lending protocol using blockchain technology, enabling clients to access flexibility for recurrent and short-term liquidity needs.

XY Finance

Venture Round in 2021
XY Finance is a technology company specializing in cross-chain financial solutions for decentralized applications (DApps). It offers a customizable widget that seamlessly integrates into various DApps, enabling users to manage cross-chain operations through a unified interface. The company's platform comprises two primary components: X Swap, which facilitates cross-chain transfers and exchanges, and Y Pool, which provides liquidity for efficient asset transfers across different blockchain networks. By leveraging composable APIs, XY Finance optimizes web3 execution services, enhancing accessibility and user experience for individuals engaging with multiple blockchain ecosystems.

Fragcolor

Seed Round in 2021
Fragcolor is focused on developing a fully distributed game platform and creation system that leverages blockchain technology. The company aims to create a decentralized multi-platform environment designed for collaborative gaming engines. This innovative platform enables content creators and artists to efficiently build and deploy multi-platform applications, utilizing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as part of their offerings. By providing tools for fast and effective game development, Fragcolor seeks to empower creators in the gaming industry.

Tempus

Series A in 2021
Tempus is a decentralized community of builders, creators, and connectors led by Tempus Labs to build some of the most innovative DeFi products. Tempus is building the most important blocks of DeFi and Web3 in a way that’s scalable and accessible to all. Users can safely lock in a set rate on any lending or staking revenue thanks to Tempus' ground-breaking fixed income technology.

Superdao

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Superdao is a platform designed for the management and operation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). It provides tools for creating and customizing intelligent contracts, managing contributors, and accessing a member directory and treasury dashboard. Additionally, Superdao offers a wallet analytics feature that delivers insights into dapp users, NFT and token holders, DAO voters, and quest participants, allowing organizations to analyze their audiences and gather competitive insights. The platform is tailored for Web3 growth teams, facilitating improved decision-making and governance structures for decentralized ventures. With preloaded data from numerous top Web3 projects, Superdao enhances the ability of businesses to build target lists and leverage third-party applications, ultimately supporting the collaborative management of innovative and economically viable decentralized applications.

Aurora

Series A in 2021
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine developed by the NEAR Protocol team, offering a seamless solution for developers to run applications on an Ethereum-compatible platform. It combines the benefits of Ethereum compatibility with the scalability and low transaction costs of the NEAR Protocol, creating a high-throughput environment for decentralized applications. The platform is designed to deliver an exceptional user experience, enabling Ethereum developers to transition effortlessly by simply changing the RPC endpoint. Aurora aims to facilitate the development of decentralized applications while ensuring affordability and efficiency for users.

deBridge Finance

Seed Round in 2021
deBridge Finance is a developer of a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol designed to facilitate decentralized asset transfers between multiple blockchains. The protocol operates on a network of independent oracles and validators, which are elected through deBridge governance. It provides essential infrastructure for cross-chain interoperability, enabling users to transfer assets, including NFTs, across various platforms such as Ethereum, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Huobi Ecological Chain, and Arbitrum. By allowing seamless transfers between these blockchains, deBridge Finance enhances accessibility and liquidity in the digital asset space.

Hats Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Hats Finance is a decentralized cybersecurity incentive network that aims to transform security practices to align with the development of web3. The company provides a platform that enables projects to safeguard their smart contracts through a security vault and an ecosystem skin, thereby enhancing the security of users on the Ethereum network. Governed by stakeholders, including hackers, projects, and token holders, Hats Finance fosters a collaborative environment that incentivizes security improvements and innovation within the decentralized space.

Axelar

Series A in 2021
Axelar is a company focused on developing interoperability software that facilitates communication between various blockchain ecosystems and applications. Founded in 2020 by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos, Axelar Network offers a suite of protocols, tools, and APIs aimed at overcoming the challenges of cross-chain interactions. The company's solutions leverage Byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design to enable decentralized applications to operate across different blockchains seamlessly. By providing developers with the necessary resources, Axelar empowers them to select the most suitable platforms while enhancing cross-chain composability and liquidity.

KYVE

Pre Seed Round in 2021
KYVE is a decentralized initiative focused on the storage and validation of data streams, utilizing the Arweave blockchain for permanent data archiving. The company has developed an open-source protocol that standardizes and validates blockchain data, facilitating reliable storage for modern blockchains and decentralized applications. By employing a network of decentralized uploaders and validators, KYVE ensures that data is archived effectively through specialized pools, each dedicated to a particular data stream. This approach not only guarantees the scalability, immutability, and availability of resources but also provides developers with a dependable means to store and verify their data streams. Through its innovative solution, KYVE enhances the integrity and accessibility of blockchain data, addressing the challenges faced by developers in the evolving digital landscape.

Switchboard

Seed Round in 2021
Switchboard operates a multichain oracle network that facilitates the integration of various data types onto the Solana blockchain. Its platform enables developers to create high-performance data feeds from any API, streamlining the process of publishing data on-chain. Key features include the ability to locate data sources, define feeds, and connect these feeds to projects, allowing developers to build data feeds and request randomness quickly and efficiently. By simplifying the process of bringing data onto the blockchain, Switchboard aims to empower the Solana community and enhance the development of decentralized applications.

Non-fungible Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Non-fungible Technologies specializes in developing financial products and infrastructure tailored for non-fungible assets and the creator economy. The company has created a financial platform that facilitates a decentralized marketplace for lending and borrowing crypto loans secured by non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools aimed at blockchain owners, collectors, and investors, effectively bridging the gap within the NFT ecosystem. By focusing on enhancing the usability and accessibility of non-fungible assets, Non-fungible Technologies plays a significant role in fostering growth and innovation in the digital asset landscape.

Pendle Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Pendle Finance is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to tokenize and sell future yields.

NAOS Finance

Series A in 2021
NAOS Finance operates a decentralized finance platform that provides an alternative to traditional financial systems. This platform allows decentralized finance lenders and small to medium-sized enterprise borrowers to engage in a permissionless environment on the blockchain. By facilitating the origination and funding of loans without relying on traditional intermediaries, NAOS Finance enables lenders to achieve stable and recurring income streams. Additionally, the platform bridges the gap between on-chain activities and larger off-chain opportunities, enhancing accessibility and efficiency in financial transactions.

Liquity

Series A in 2021
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain that provides interest-free loans to users. By allowing borrowers to use Ethereum as collateral, Liquity issues loans in the form of its USD-pegged stable coin. The protocol operates with a minimum collateralization ratio, ensuring that loans are secured while enabling users to access liquidity without incurring interest charges. This innovative approach facilitates borrowing in a decentralized manner, aligning with the principles of blockchain technology.

Tally

Venture Round in 2021
Tally is a frontend for DAOs running on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains. Tally gives users real power in their decentralized organizations. On Tally, users can delegate voting power, create or pass proposals to spend DAO funds, manage a protocol, and upgrade smart contracts—all onchain.

Unslashed Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Unslashed Finance is a company that offers decentralized insurance products specifically designed for crypto assets. It operates a platform that allows users to exchange insurance coverage for various risks associated with the cryptocurrency ecosystem, including smart contract hacks, validator slashing, stablecoin pegs, and oracle failures. The protocol enables users to pay as they go for insurance coverage or to offload their insurance if they no longer require it. This innovative approach provides instant liquidity for both insurance buyers and risk underwriters, facilitating a more flexible and accessible insurance experience within the digital asset space.

DFX Finance

Seed Round in 2021
DFX Finance is a decentralized finance exchange protocol focused on facilitating the trading of non-U.S. dollar stablecoins. The company has developed a fintech platform that allows for structured trading, utilizing an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange protocol. This platform features a finely tuned bonding curve optimized for fiat-backed stablecoins such as USDC, CADC, EURS, and XSGD. By incorporating real-world foreign exchange price feeds, DFX Finance enables users to engage with decentralized finance applications in a blockchain-powered market, enhancing the accessibility and efficiency of stablecoin transactions.

Async Art

Seed Round in 2021
Async Art, Inc. operates an innovative online platform that connects artists and collectors in the realm of programmable art. Founded in 2019 and based in Fort Bragg, California, Async Art utilizes the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate the creation, collection, and trading of unique digital artworks. The platform allows users to own distinct components of a piece, referred to as "Layers," which interact with a central "Master" work. This structure enables multiple owners to independently modify their respective layers within parameters set by the artist, fostering a collaborative and dynamic art experience. For example, one user may control the sky in a landscape painting, while another controls a figure, and an AI adjusts elements based on external factors such as market trends. This approach aims to redefine the art world by integrating technology and user participation in the creative process.

Anoma

Funding Round in 2021
Anoma is a blockchain protocol company founded in 2021 and based in Zug, Switzerland. It focuses on creating an intent-centric, privacy-preserving system for decentralized counterparty discovery, multi-chain atomic settlement, and secure asset exchange. The protocol facilitates private and asset-agnostic transactions, allowing users to engage in cryptocurrency trading and bartering without compromising their privacy. Anoma employs advanced cryptography and zero-knowledge proof technologies to empower users in a decentralized financial landscape, ensuring that transactions are conducted securely and at market rates.

Axelar

Seed Round in 2020
Axelar is a company focused on developing interoperability software that facilitates communication between various blockchain ecosystems and applications. Founded in 2020 by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos, Axelar Network offers a suite of protocols, tools, and APIs aimed at overcoming the challenges of cross-chain interactions. The company's solutions leverage Byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design to enable decentralized applications to operate across different blockchains seamlessly. By providing developers with the necessary resources, Axelar empowers them to select the most suitable platforms while enhancing cross-chain composability and liquidity.

Figment Capital

Series A in 2020
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.

Liquity

Seed Round in 2020
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain that provides interest-free loans to users. By allowing borrowers to use Ethereum as collateral, Liquity issues loans in the form of its USD-pegged stable coin. The protocol operates with a minimum collateralization ratio, ensuring that loans are secured while enabling users to access liquidity without incurring interest charges. This innovative approach facilitates borrowing in a decentralized manner, aligning with the principles of blockchain technology.

ParaSwap

Seed Round in 2020
ParaSwap is a decentralized finance platform designed to address liquidity challenges in cryptocurrency markets by aggregating multiple decentralized exchanges into a single interface. This approach empowers users to access competitive market prices and enhanced liquidity for trading Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, with aspirations to expand its services to include major blockchains. By providing a transparent trading environment, ParaSwap aims to facilitate easier and more efficient transactions for cryptocurrency traders.

Ava Labs

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Ava Labs is focused on simplifying the launch of financial applications through blockchain technology. The company offers a smart contracts platform that allows users to create customizable public and private blockchains, facilitating the development of various digital assets. Its innovative probabilistic consensus protocol enhances transaction speed while minimizing costs associated with capital deployment. This approach aims to redefine value creation within the Web3 ecosystem, promoting a more accessible and democratic internet of finance. By providing tools that streamline the creation, trading, and discovery of diverse asset types, Ava Labs empowers individuals and organizations to leverage blockchain for their financial needs.

Futureswap

Seed Round in 2020
Futureswap is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a decentralized futures exchange platform utilizing blockchain technology. The platform operates on a non-custodial basis, enabling users to engage in the trading of crypto futures contracts. Futureswap employs an automated market-making (AMM) algorithm to facilitate these transactions, enhancing liquidity and efficiency in the trading process. With a focus on decentralized finance, Futureswap aims to provide a secure and user-friendly environment for trading perpetual futures in the cryptocurrency market.

StakerDAO

Series A in 2020
StakerDAO, Inc. is a company that develops a platform for the decentralized governance of financial assets, ensuring security and compliance. Founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California, StakerDAO focuses on creating products for on-chain governance, cross-chain synthetics, and tokenized real-world assets. The company offers STKR, a governance token that operates under a newly developed token standard, enabling holders to submit proposals and elect members of the Staker Council. Additionally, StakerDAO manages a collection of decentralized finance products, all governed through a structured decision-making process known as Staker Agora. The Staker Ops Team collaborates with the community to refine ideas into formal governance proposals, fostering a participatory environment for stakeholders while promoting innovation in decentralized finance.

BTSE

Funding Round in 2020
BTSE, which stands for "Buy, Trade, Sell, Earn," is a digital asset exchange that offers a secure and user-friendly platform for trading cryptocurrencies. It caters to a diverse clientele, including institutions, retail users, and first-time traders, and has established itself as a trusted player in the industry. BTSE provides a comprehensive suite of financial services that bridge traditional finance with digital assets, including multi-currency spot and derivatives trading, an NFT marketplace, OTC trading, asset management, and payment gateways. The platform also features advanced trading options, such as customizable leverage and perpetual contracts for futures trading. With a strong emphasis on security, BTSE employs strict protocols, maintains an insurance fund, and utilizes cold storage for over 90% of its assets. Additionally, it has no withdrawal limits on more than 12 fiat currencies and 150 cryptocurrencies. Through its white-label exchange solutions, BTSE licenses its proprietary technology to exchanges worldwide, further extending its influence in the digital asset sector.

FTX

Seed Round in 2019
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange company that specializes in developing a professional trading platform, supporting features such as quarterly and perpetual futures, leveraged tokens, and OTC trading. It aims to cater to both professional trading firms and first-time users, offering an intuitive and robust trading environment. FTX was incubated by Alameda Research, ensuring it had industry order books from its inception. Additionally, FTX Ventures, its investment arm, provides equity and/or token investments to blockchain companies at various stages, supporting founders and maintaining their decision-making flexibility.

The Graph

Series A in 2019
The Graph is an indexing protocol that facilitates querying data from decentralized networks such as Ethereum and IPFS, serving as a vital component of the Web3 ecosystem. It allows developers to create and publish open APIs, known as subgraphs, which applications can access using GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. Currently, The Graph provides a hosted service to simplify the development process, with plans to launch a decentralized network. It supports data indexing from Ethereum, IPFS, and POA, with additional networks anticipated in the future. As of now, thousands of developers have deployed over 3,000 subgraphs for decentralized applications, including prominent projects like Uniswap, Synthetix, and Decentraland. The platform has experienced significant growth in usage, highlighting its role in powering the decentralized web.

Agoric

Seed Round in 2019
Agoric is a developer of a framework designed to enhance the programming of smart contracts, aiming to support the entire blockchain ecosystem. The company focuses on enabling the creation and deployment of smart contracts using JavaScript, providing tools that are accessible and secure for millions of developers worldwide. Agoric emphasizes composability, which facilitates rapid development and offers a competitive advantage in the blockchain space. Its framework allows users to execute transactions securely, establish new markets, and develop innovative exchange patterns without relying on centralized control. The Agoric team comprises experienced technologists, economists, and business leaders who have collaborated on smart contracts technology for over three decades, with the shared goal of advancing smart contract capabilities and fostering global cooperation through digital assets.

Bolt Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Bolt Labs, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, specializes in developing privacy-focused solutions for digital asset management. The company's primary offerings include the lightning network protocol, which facilitates privacy-preserving micropayments and non-custodial trading with centralized and decentralized exchanges. Bolt Labs employs secure computation solutions, such as multi-party computation (MPC), to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of user assets while preventing misuse or theft. Additionally, the company is advancing the zkChannels L2 protocol, designed to create a scalable payment infrastructure that integrates with existing networks, including public blockchains. This technology aims to provide merchants with a compliant and efficient means of conducting transactions while upholding strict privacy standards. Through these innovations, Bolt Labs seeks to enhance the security and usability of digital transactions for users and businesses alike.

Harmony

Seed Round in 2019
Harmony is a blockchain company founded in 2018 and based in Cupertino, California. It operates a fast and open blockchain platform designed for decentralized applications. The company employs advanced decentralization techniques and a sharded architecture, enabling the Harmony Mainnet to support thousands of nodes across multiple shards. This infrastructure facilitates rapid block production with instant finality. Harmony's staking mechanism promotes decentralization by allowing stake delegation, reward compounding, and double-sign slashing. The company is dedicated to building an open network governed by a large community of participants.

Kava Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Kava Labs Inc. is a provider of interledger solutions, focusing on enhancing the interoperability of blockchains, wallets, and exchanges. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kava operates a decentralized platform that offers a comprehensive range of financial services tailored for cryptocurrencies. As digital assets gain wider acceptance, Kava aims to fill the gap in traditional financial offerings by providing products such as money markets, loans, stablecoins, and high-yield accounts for crypto assets. By leveraging autonomous software, Kava's platform eliminates the need for intermediaries, allowing users globally to access financial services without incurring additional fees. This approach enables users to optimize their digital assets and generate returns in an evolving financial landscape.

Figment Capital

Seed Round in 2019
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.

Dharma Labs

Series A in 2019
Dharma Labs Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a suite of smart contracts and tools for the issuance and crowdfunding of debt on blockchain technology. Established in 2017, Dharma Labs provides a decentralized protocol that facilitates the origination, risk assessment, and underwriting of peer-to-peer loans, allowing for innovation in the lending industry. Its platform supports a variety of applications, enabling entrepreneurs to create lending companies that leverage blockchain capabilities for consumer lending, margin lending, and crowdfunding municipal bonds. By promoting open and permissionless development, Dharma Labs aims to transform traditional lending practices through its tokenized debt agreements.

Chainspace

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Chainspace is a developer of a blockchain-based platform focused on enabling the creation of high-performance blockchain applications. The company provides a shared smart contract protocol that addresses scalability and privacy challenges associated with existing blockchain technologies, particularly Ethereum. Utilizing a proof of stake protocol that incorporates sharding and zero-knowledge proofs, Chainspace allows clients to program smart contracts efficiently. This innovative approach enables the development of complex real-world applications while meeting modern demands for processing power. The platform is designed to be compatible with popular programming languages and cloud technologies, making it accessible for developers looking to leverage blockchain solutions.

Algorand Technologies

Venture Round in 2018
Algorand Technologies, established in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in blockchain technology. It operates a decentralized digital currency and transactions platform, offering features such as Algorand Standard Asset, Atomic Transfers, and Algorand Smart Contracts at the Layer-1 level. The company is renowned for its innovative approach to blockchain scalability, enabling rapid and efficient user consensus, even for small transactions, regardless of transaction volume or user base. This results in low-cost, near-instant blockchain transactions. Additionally, Algorand Technologies develops and maintains decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and digital identity solutions.

Spacemesh

Venture Round in 2018
Spacemesh is a company based in North Pole, Alaska, that develops a unique Layer 1 blockchain protocol designed to support a decentralized and secure cryptocurrency ecosystem. Its innovative blockmesh operating system utilizes a Proofs of Space-Time consensus protocol, which enables participants to contribute computing power through unused hard drive space without incurring significant resource costs. This approach distinguishes Spacemesh from traditional blockchain architectures by employing a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure rather than a linear chain, and it incorporates a leaderless voting mechanism to ensure fairness and decentralization. The platform is built to facilitate the deployment of general-purpose smart contracts at scale, promoting an environmentally sustainable and equitable cryptocurrency that is capable of self-healing and maintaining high security. Spacemesh aims to redefine permissionless decentralization and is set to launch its genesis block in December 2022.

nCent

Seed Round in 2018
nCent Labs is an information technology company that specializes in developing a decentralized protocol for creating incentive networks. By utilizing a novel blockchain protocol, nCent aims to establish integrity through decentralized design and auditability, thereby ensuring that the incentive structure is both robust and transparent. The company's innovative base layer protocol is optimized to efficiently create and manage incentive programs at scale, enabling markets to form around collaborative problem-solving. Additionally, nCent's approach includes tracking the provenance chain using network tokens, which facilitates accurate and fair payouts for participants, ultimately fostering an environment focused on delivering high-quality code and solutions.

Beam

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Beam is a cryptocurrency company founded in 2017 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel. It specializes in developing a confidential cryptocurrency wallet that utilizes the MimbleWimble protocol, designed for both mobile and desktop platforms. Beam offers users complete control over their privacy, allowing them to determine which information is shared and with whom, all while ensuring compliance with applicable laws. The platform features confidential transactions that do not bloat the blockchain, thus maintaining performance and scalability. Beam's technology avoids storing personal information about transaction participants on the blockchain, enhancing user anonymity. It employs the Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm for mining and features a limited coin supply of approximately 250 million through periodic halving. The company's innovative approach also supports various transaction types, including escrow and atomic swaps, while promoting a compact blockchain size that improves overall scalability.

The Graph

The Graph is an indexing protocol that facilitates querying data from decentralized networks such as Ethereum and IPFS, serving as a vital component of the Web3 ecosystem. It allows developers to create and publish open APIs, known as subgraphs, which applications can access using GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. Currently, The Graph provides a hosted service to simplify the development process, with plans to launch a decentralized network. It supports data indexing from Ethereum, IPFS, and POA, with additional networks anticipated in the future. As of now, thousands of developers have deployed over 3,000 subgraphs for decentralized applications, including prominent projects like Uniswap, Synthetix, and Decentraland. The platform has experienced significant growth in usage, highlighting its role in powering the decentralized web.
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