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 Crypto

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.

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.

Legitimate

Seed Round in 2024
Legitimate specializes in enhancing the retail customer experience by integrating physical products with digital engagement. By utilizing a protocol built on blockchain technology, the company connects near-field communication with secure encryption to create a transparent and immutable digital ledger. This innovative approach allows businesses to demonstrate product traceability, combat counterfeit goods, and provide customers with authentic verification of their purchases. Through this platform, Legitimate fosters immersive brand experiences that seamlessly blend physical and digital interactions, enabling consumers to shop with confidence and access reliable product information.

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.

Safary

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Safary is a community-focused company that aims to transform the marketing infrastructure in the web3 space, beginning with attribution solutions. Its platform enables web3 teams to gain insights into crucial marketing metrics such as customer acquisition cost (CAC), channel return on investment (ROI), and customer lifetime value (LTV). By prioritizing user privacy, Safary not only enhances the understanding of marketing effectiveness but also facilitates the sharing of tactical insights among growth leaders in the crypto industry. Through its innovative approach, Safary seeks to empower organizations to optimize their marketing strategies in the evolving web3 landscape.

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.

Stroom

Seed Round in 2023
Stroom Network is a technology company that develops a financial protocol platform. This platform enables Bitcoin holders to earn Lightning routing fees by participating in the Bitcoin Lightning Network, a layer-2 solution on top of Bitcoin. Additionally, users can optionally harvest extra yield in Ethereum's decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, allowing them to earn revenue from the Lightning Network without locking up their Bitcoin or maintaining their own node infrastructure.

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 operates a decentralized blockchain infrastructure that supports a globally distributed, multi-chain architecture. The company provides a multi-chain gateway and regionally dispersed enterprise infrastructure, which allows Web3 projects to scale efficiently. By utilizing Gateway.fm's services, these projects can avoid the resource-intensive process of setting up and maintaining their own servers, enabling them to focus on development and growth.

Monad

Seed Round in 2023
MONAD is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain and decentralized computation platform that combines the best of performance and portability.

Rysk Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Rysk Finance is focused on developing a dynamic hedging vault aimed at creating alternative decentralized financial assets that help mitigate financial market risks. Through its platform, the company enables customers to buy and sell options on cryptocurrency assets, providing them with tools to safeguard against potential downturns in the market. This service caters to individuals seeking protection from volatility in the financial landscape.

Wield Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Wield Labs operates a crypto-based platform designed to make exploration in the cryptocurrency space engaging and accessible. By offering a range of interactive crypto games, the company aims to simplify the complexities of cryptocurrency, enhancing understanding for users. Wield Labs focuses on creating a safe environment for customers to navigate and participate in the crypto ecosystem, allowing them to engage with digital currencies in a more enjoyable and informative manner.

t3rn

Private Equity Round in 2022
t3rn is a blockchain-based hosting platform founded in 2020 and based in Lisbon, Portugal. The company focuses on providing fast, secure, and cost-efficient solutions for cross-chain executions by utilizing its modular stack for storage, validation, settlement, and consensus. Its platform allows for interoperable execution and composable collaboration, featuring smart contracts stored in a public registry that can be accessed by any user. Developers who contribute to this open-source repository have the opportunity to receive compensation whenever their smart contracts are utilized, promoting an ecosystem that rewards innovation and collaboration 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.

Kollider

Seed Round in 2022
Kollider develops tools and services designed to enhance access to financial markets through the use of Bitcoin's Lightning Network. The company offers an online trading platform that simplifies the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to open and close positions directly from their digital wallets. This streamlined approach aims to empower crypto traders by improving their return on investment and making trading more accessible across borders.

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 provides a secure, programmable, and decentralized access layer for web3, utilizing dynamic wallets to sign transactions across various blockchain networks. By implementing universally adopted signing algorithms, dWallet Labs enables organizations to revolutionize the way digital assets are stored, utilized, and accessed, effectively bridging the gap between digital assets and the real world with a fully decentralized layer of dynamic and stateful access control.

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 next-generation automated market maker (AMM) operating on StarkNet, designed to facilitate instant swaps between volatile and stable assets. It offers a user-friendly trading experience with ultralow slippage and near-zero fees, ensuring that transactions are both efficient and cost-effective. The platform features stable and volatile trading pairs similar to those found on Uniswap V2, with configurable trading fees and no administrative charges. Additionally, SithSwap incorporates built-in flash loans and maintains the security standards of Ethereum, providing a reliable environment for traders. Users can also earn incentives through voting power, allowing them to influence future protocol emissions.

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.

Trisolaris

Seed Round in 2022
Trisolaris is a community-owned decentralized exchange (DEX) that aims to provide a seamless trading experience while minimizing drawbacks commonly associated with traditional exchanges. The platform is designed for fast settlement and low transaction fees, making it accessible for users. Additionally, Trisolaris incorporates a democratic governance process, allowing the community to participate in decision-making. The DEX facilitates cross-chain swaps and provides enhanced tools and analytics, catering to clients looking for improved infrastructure 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 focuses on developing blockchain tools and protocols that empower developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. By leveraging a global team of web pioneers, the company aims to enhance the accessibility of application development. As a contributor to the Archway protocol, Phi Labs rewards blockchain developers for their contributions, further fostering innovation within the ecosystem. Through its commitment to open-source initiatives, Phi Labs seeks to create an inclusive environment that supports the growth and development of blockchain technology.

LifeForce Games

Seed Round in 2022
LifeForce Games operates a gaming platform designed to enhance accessibility to blockchain-based and metaverse gaming. The company focuses on developing a play-to-earn (P2E) chain game product that facilitates interoperability of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) across various games and platforms. This approach aims to integrate monetization elements for gamers, allowing them to utilize virtual land effectively. LifeForce Games is committed to creating enjoyable onboarding experiences in the gaming sector, ensuring that players can engage with blockchain games in a fun and fair environment.

Moonwell

Seed Round in 2022
Moonwell is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that operates on the Moonbeam and Moonriver networks, focusing on open lending and borrowing services. The platform provides users with a digital financing facility that emphasizes security and flexibility in funding options. By eliminating monthly payments and additional fees, Moonwell aims to create a user-friendly environment for individuals seeking to engage in decentralized financial activities.

Hubble Exchange

Seed Round in 2022
Hubble Exchange is a decentralized platform that facilitates the trading of perpetual futures contracts, allowing traders to use multiple tokens as collateral. Currently, it accepts AVAX, USDC, and Hubble Virtual USD (hUSD), with plans to include Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Avalanche-native assets in the future. The platform's multi-collateral, cross-margin design aims to enhance the trading experience within the Avalanche ecosystem, taking advantage of its low transaction fees and scalable infrastructure. Additionally, Hubble Exchange enables traders to tokenize their profitable perpetual futures positions, allowing them to utilize these positions as collateral for borrowing on other decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols.

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.

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.

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.

Superdao

Seed Round in 2022
Superdao is a platform designed to support the management and growth of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) in the Web3 space. It offers tools for wallet analytics that provide organizations with insights into their dapp users, NFT and token holders, DAO voters, and quest participants. The platform features a hybrid governance system that facilitates collaborative management of decentralized application ventures, enabling users to create and customize intelligent contracts with ease. Additionally, Superdao includes a built-in member directory, treasury dashboard, and contributor management tools, which enhance decision-making and governance for DAOs. Organizations can leverage filter and export tools to build targeted lists and gain competitive insights from a database of audiences from numerous top Web3 projects.

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.

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.

JellyFi

Seed Round in 2021
Most DeFi applications require institutional borrowers to over-collateralize their loans using crypto as collateral, limiting the wide range of use cases possible with crypto lending. Collateralized loans not only restrict borrowers from using capital how and when they want, but also limit the potential for enhanced return for lenders. JellyFi is a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that enables crypto loans without collateral, where institutional borrowers can obtain competitive loan terms, and lenders get access to higher returns while having more granular control over their investment portfolios. Zero-collateral loans are similar to a revolving line of credit where the borrower only has to pay a liquidity fee on unused capital in their own liquidity pool.

XY Finance

Venture Round in 2021
XY Finance is a developer of an innovative aggregator that facilitates cross-chain exchange services, comprising two main components: X Swap and Y Pool. X Swap enables users to perform cross-chain transfers and exchanges seamlessly, while Y Pool offers liquidity solutions that enhance the efficiency of transferring crypto assets across different blockchains. Additionally, XY Finance provides a customizable widget designed for easy integration into decentralized applications (DApps), creating a unified user interface that simplifies cross-chain operations. By leveraging its composable APIs, XY Finance ensures users have access to comprehensive cross-chain functionalities and optimized web3 execution services, ultimately broadening user accessibility across various blockchain networks.

Fragcolor

Seed Round in 2021
Fragcolor is focused on creating a decentralized game platform and collaborative gaming engines. By utilizing blockchain technology, the company enables content creators and artists to efficiently develop multi-platform applications. This innovative approach allows for the creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), enhancing the gaming experience and providing new opportunities for content distribution and monetization.

Superdao

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Superdao is a platform designed to support the management and growth of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) in the Web3 space. It offers tools for wallet analytics that provide organizations with insights into their dapp users, NFT and token holders, DAO voters, and quest participants. The platform features a hybrid governance system that facilitates collaborative management of decentralized application ventures, enabling users to create and customize intelligent contracts with ease. Additionally, Superdao includes a built-in member directory, treasury dashboard, and contributor management tools, which enhance decision-making and governance for DAOs. Organizations can leverage filter and export tools to build targeted lists and gain competitive insights from a database of audiences from numerous top Web3 projects.

deBridge Finance

Seed Round in 2021
deBridge Finance is a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol designed to facilitate the decentralized transfer of assets across multiple blockchains. The protocol operates through a network of independent oracles and validators, which are elected by deBridge governance, ensuring a secure and efficient transfer process. It supports interoperability between major blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Huobi Ecological Chain, and Arbitrum. This infrastructure enables users to seamlessly access and transfer various digital assets, including NFTs, across different platforms, enhancing the overall flexibility and utility of blockchain technology.

Hats Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Hats Finance is a decentralized cybersecurity incentive network that aims to enhance security within the web3 environment. It operates a platform that allows projects to safeguard their smart contracts through a security vault and an ecosystem skin, thereby providing a more secure future for users of Ethereum. The network is governed by its stakeholders, which include hackers, project developers, and token holders, creating a collaborative approach to cybersecurity. This structure enables Hats Finance to address the evolving challenges of digital security in a decentralized manner.

Euler Labs

Series A in 2021
Euler is a non-custodial lending protocol built on Ethereum that allows users to lend and borrow a wide range of crypto assets without relying on a trusted third party. The platform offers a capital-efficient solution for earning interest on crypto holdings and provides mechanisms to hedge against market volatility. By utilizing reactive interest rates informed by control theory, Euler's system adapts in real-time to market conditions, enabling users to manage risk effectively. This innovative approach allows clients to engage with a diverse array of crypto assets while minimizing risk exposure.

Apricot Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Apricot Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) service provider that focuses on collateralized lending protocols. The platform aims to enhance users' borrowing power while reducing liquidation penalties and risks associated with borrowing in the DeFi sector. By offering over-collateralized loans, Apricot Finance enables users to maximize their yield and achieve greater predictability in their investments. The platform is designed to help borrowers access competitive borrowing options, thereby allowing investors to generate substantial profits in cryptocurrency.

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.

Non-fungible Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Non-fungible Technologies specializes in creating financial products and infrastructure tailored for non-fungible assets and the creator economy. The company has developed a financial platform that facilitates a decentralized marketplace, enabling users to lend and borrow cryptocurrency loans backed by non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This platform provides a comprehensive suite of tools aimed at blockchain owners, collectors, and investors, effectively bridging the gap within the non-fungible token ecosystem. By focusing on these innovative financial solutions, Non-fungible Technologies supports the growth and functionality of the emerging market surrounding digital assets and creative content.

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 offers interest-free loans to users. By allowing borrowers to use Ethereum as collateral, Liquity issues loans in its own USD-pegged stablecoin. The protocol operates under a minimum collateralization ratio, ensuring that loans are adequately secured. This innovative approach enables users to access capital without incurring interest costs, making it an appealing option for those looking to leverage their Ethereum holdings.

Custodia

Series A in 2021
Custodia Bank is a crypto-asset banking company that specializes in providing regulated services for digital assets. It serves as a compliant bridge to the US dollar payments system and acts as a custodian for digital assets, adhering to high institutional custody standards. This enables customers in the digital assets industry to access reliable banking services tailored to their needs.

Unslashed Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Unslashed Finance operates a decentralized insurance protocol that specializes in providing insurance products for crypto assets. The platform enables users to exchange insurance coverage for various risks, including smart contract hacks, validator slashing, stablecoin pegs, and oracle failures. It allows insured individuals to manage their coverage dynamically, offering options to pay as they go or to offload their insurance if it is no longer needed. This flexibility facilitates instant liquidity for both insurance buyers and risk underwriters, making it easier to navigate the unique risks associated with the cryptocurrency market.

DFX Finance

Seed Round in 2021
DFX Finance is a decentralized finance exchange protocol that specializes in trading non-U.S. dollar stablecoins. The platform facilitates structured trading through an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange, utilizing a bonding curve specifically optimized for fiat-backed stablecoins such as USDC, CADC, EURS, and XSGD. By leveraging real-world foreign exchange price feeds, DFX Finance enables users to engage with decentralized finance applications in a blockchain-driven market, promoting seamless and efficient transactions in a variety of stablecoins.

Async Art

Seed Round in 2021
Async Art operates an innovative online platform that connects artists and collectors, enabling them to buy, sell, and trade programmable art on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2019 and based in Fort Bragg, California, Async Art allows users to create and engage with multi-layer artworks. Each artwork consists of a Master piece and various Layers, which can be independently owned and controlled by different individuals. This unique structure empowers users to actively participate in the evolution of the art, as they can modify their respective Layers within parameters set by the original artist. For example, one user may control the sky in a landscape painting while another owns a character, allowing for dynamic collaboration and interaction in the creative process. This platform represents a new frontier in the art world, merging technology and creativity in the 21st century.

Reflexer

Venture Round in 2021
Reflexer Labs, founded in 2020 and based in the USA, is a decentralized finance project focused on developing low-volatility collateral to enhance the stability of the DeFi ecosystem. The company specializes in creating a volatility-dampened synthetic instrument that leverages control theory within smart contracts. This innovative approach allows for the automatic adjustment of collateral supply, mirroring the price patterns of underlying assets while maintaining reduced volatility. By doing so, Reflexer aims to provide a stable and secure foundation for businesses operating in the decentralized finance space, helping them minimize the risks associated with investment losses.

Anoma

Funding Round in 2021
Anoma is a blockchain protocol established in 2021 in Zug, Switzerland, focused on facilitating private and asset-agnostic transactions. It offers an intent-centric and privacy-preserving solution for decentralized counterparty discovery, multi-chain atomic settlement, and secure bartering among multiple parties. By employing advanced cryptography and zero-knowledge proof schemes, Anoma empowers users to engage in cryptocurrency exchanges automatically at market rates, ensuring a user-controlled and secure trading environment. The protocol aims to enhance privacy in transactions, making it easier for users to conduct business without sacrificing security.

Euler Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Euler is a non-custodial lending protocol built on Ethereum that allows users to lend and borrow a wide range of crypto assets without relying on a trusted third party. The platform offers a capital-efficient solution for earning interest on crypto holdings and provides mechanisms to hedge against market volatility. By utilizing reactive interest rates informed by control theory, Euler's system adapts in real-time to market conditions, enabling users to manage risk effectively. This innovative approach allows clients to engage with a diverse array of crypto assets while minimizing risk exposure.

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.

Bitnomial

Venture Round in 2020
Bitnomial, Inc. is a company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2014 to develop and operate a bitcoin derivatives exchange. The platform facilitates the trading of margined bitcoin futures and options, including bitcoin US dollar futures and options, by connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders. Bitnomial's infrastructure is designed to enhance derivatives exchange technology and digital asset settlement systems, ensuring compliance with regulations overseen by the CFTC. This enables traders and brokers to engage in bitcoin derivatives trading within a globally trusted jurisdiction, providing a reliable marketplace for both institutional and retail participants.

Liquity

Seed Round in 2020
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain that offers interest-free loans to users. By allowing borrowers to use Ethereum as collateral, Liquity issues loans in its own USD-pegged stablecoin. The protocol operates under a minimum collateralization ratio, ensuring that loans are adequately secured. This innovative approach enables users to access capital without incurring interest costs, making it an appealing option for those looking to leverage their Ethereum holdings.

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.

Custodia

Angel Round in 2020
Custodia Bank is a crypto-asset banking company that specializes in providing regulated services for digital assets. It serves as a compliant bridge to the US dollar payments system and acts as a custodian for digital assets, adhering to high institutional custody standards. This enables customers in the digital assets industry to access reliable banking services tailored to their needs.

Futureswap

Seed Round in 2020
Futureswap is a decentralized futures exchange platform that leverages blockchain technology to facilitate non-custodial trading. Based in San Francisco, California, the company specializes in automated market making (AMM) algorithms, enabling users to buy and sell cryptocurrency futures contracts efficiently. By providing a decentralized environment, Futureswap aims to enhance trading flexibility and security for its users.

StakerDAO

Series A in 2020
StakerDAO is a platform focused on the decentralized, secure, and compliant governance of financial assets. Established in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California, StakerDAO develops various products for on-chain governance, cross-chain synthetics, and tokenized real-world assets. The platform features STKR, a governance token that enables holders to submit proposals and elect members of the Staker Council, thereby participating in decision-making processes. Additionally, StakerDAO offers BLND, a synthetic token designed to track a basket of proof-of-stake tokens. The governance framework is supported by the Staker Agora process, which allows users to contribute ideas and engage in discussions about project development. With a commitment to decentralized finance, StakerDAO's protocol provides a trustless method for bi-directional token transfers across different blockchain networks, facilitating broader access to financial services.

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.

ZEBEDEE

Seed Round in 2019
Zebedee, established in 2019 and based in Hoboken, New Jersey, specializes in integrating Bitcoin and Lightning Network support into digital gaming environments. Its platform enables game developers to facilitate in-game microtransactions using Bitcoin, allowing players to send, receive, and store limited quantities of the cryptocurrency within their games. This frictionless value exchange fosters interaction among players, developers, streamers, and watchers, empowering digital economies.

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 for the blockchain ecosystem. The platform facilitates the creation and deployment of smart contracts using JavaScript, making it accessible to millions of programmers. By emphasizing composability, Agoric enables rapid development and offers a competitive advantage in creating decentralized applications. Its framework allows for secure execution of transactions, the establishment of new markets, and the creation of innovative exchange patterns without centralized control. The Agoric team comprises experienced technologists, economists, and business leaders who have collaborated on smart contracts technology for over three decades. They aim to revolutionize how smart contracts are developed and utilized, fostering unprecedented global cooperation and enabling entrepreneurs to explore new business opportunities with digital assets. Agoric has partnered with notable projects within the blockchain space and received support from various investors, further solidifying its mission to advance smart contract technology.

Bolt Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Bolt Labs, Inc. is a company based in Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in developing privacy-focused solutions for digital asset management. Founded in 2018, Bolt Labs provides a lightning network protocol that supports privacy-preserving micropayments and non-custodial trading with centralized exchanges, alongside private decentralized exchanges. The company's secure computation solutions, utilizing multi-party computation (MPC), protect users' assets by ensuring confidentiality and integrity while preventing misuse or theft. Additionally, Bolt Labs is working on the zkChannels L2 protocol, which aims to create a scalable and user-friendly payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including public blockchains. This innovation is designed to help merchants comply with emerging privacy regulations while enhancing customer privacy through secure transactions. Overall, Bolt Labs is focused on building a secure, usable, and scalable infrastructure for digital asset management.

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 San Francisco-based company that develops a suite of smart contracts and tools designed for issuing and crowdfunding debt on blockchain technology. Founded in 2017, the company provides a protocol that facilitates decentralized issuance, origination, risk assessment, and underwriting of peer-to-peer loans. This innovative framework enables open and permissionless innovation within the lending industry, allowing entrepreneurs to create diverse lending platforms, including consumer lending, margin lending, and crowdfunding municipal bonds. By leveraging blockchain's capabilities, Dharma Labs aims to streamline the lending process and enhance accessibility for various financial services.

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 blockchain protocol based in North Pole, Alaska, that focuses on creating a fair, decentralized, and secure platform for smart contracts. It employs a unique Proofs of Space-Time (PoST) consensus mechanism and utilizes a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) topology instead of traditional chain structures. This innovative approach allows for a leaderless, non-competitive voting system known as Collaborative Mining, which promotes permissionless decentralization. The platform is designed to be open-source and programmable, enabling users to run general-purpose smart contracts efficiently while conserving resources by leveraging unused storage space on hard drives for computation. With its emphasis on security, fairness, and environmental sustainability, Spacemesh aims to provide a robust cryptocurrency solution that can self-heal and adapt to the needs of its users.

nCent

Seed Round in 2018
nCent Labs is an information technology company that specializes in developing a decentralized protocol aimed at creating incentive networks. This innovative protocol is designed to reward individuals for collaboratively solving complex problems, thereby fostering the formation of efficient markets focused on delivering robust software solutions. By leveraging a unique base layer protocol, nCent enables the efficient creation and management of incentive programs at scale, while ensuring transparency and integrity through auditability features. The protocol also incorporates network tokens to track the provenance chain, facilitating an effective exchange mechanism for accurate payouts to participants.

Beam

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Beam is a cryptocurrency company founded in 2017 and based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, specializing in the development of a confidential cryptocurrency wallet utilizing the MimbleWimble protocol. This wallet is designed for mobile and desktop use, catering to individual and small business users. Beam emphasizes user privacy, allowing individuals to control the information shared during transactions while ensuring confidentiality without compromising performance or scalability. The blockchain architecture supports various transaction types, such as escrow and atomic swaps, while maintaining a compact size through features like "cut-through," which significantly reduces data storage requirements. Additionally, Beam operates on a Proof-of-Work algorithm and follows a limited emission model, with a total of approximately 250 million coins. The platform is built from the ground up in C++ by a team of experienced developers, ensuring robust functionality without the need for a trusted setup or pre-mining.

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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