ParaFi Capital

ParaFi Capital is an alternative asset management and technology firm based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2018, it focuses on liquid and venture investment strategies within the digital asset ecosystem, including companies in fintech and blockchain. As one of the earliest institutional investors in the blockchain industry, ParaFi has established itself as a trusted partner for leading global institutions. The firm aims to leverage its expertise to identify and support innovative companies operating in this rapidly evolving sector.

Benjamin Forman

Founder and Managing Partner

Ryan Navi

Managing Director

Adrian Uberto

COO and Partner

Past deals in Smart Contracts

GEODNET

Initial Coin Offering in 2025
GEODNET is a decentralized network that focuses on collecting and sharing geospatial data, particularly related to the effects of solar winds on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. By utilizing a network of Space Weather mining stations, GEODNET provides real-time data that enhances the accuracy of GNSS signals, achieving centimeter-level positioning and nanosecond-level time precision. The applications for this data span various industries, including automotive navigation, agriculture, construction, earthquake monitoring, and land surveying. Additionally, GEODNET explores innovative uses of its data in blockchain applications such as decentralized mapping, digital twins for the metaverse, location-aware smart contracts, and proof of location and time. The native utility token, GEOD, facilitates transaction fees for data services, rewards for Space Weather miners, and governance voting on network resource allocation, as well as serving as gas for the future GEODNET blockchain functionality.

Avalanche

Initial Coin Offering in 2024
Avalanche is an open-source platform designed for the development and deployment of highly decentralized applications, programmable smart contracts, and interoperable blockchains. It serves as a verifiable solution for institutions, enterprises, and governments, enabling them to launch digital assets, build robust applications, and create customized subnets. The platform offers users complete control over their implementations, incorporating compliance and data security measures as foundational elements. This flexibility allows for the creation of new financial primitives and enhances the overall functionality of decentralized applications.

Huma

Venture Round in 2024
Huma is a decentralized finance platform that facilitates lending for businesses and individuals by connecting high-performing receivables with global financing. The company provides a transparent and accessible financial infrastructure, allowing clients to tokenize and trade cash flow using credit on the blockchain. Huma's innovative approach enables users to secure loans against tokens as collateral, fostering a thriving ecosystem for managing and leveraging assets in a digital format.

Thruster

Seed Round in 2024
Thruster operates a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Blast blockchain, catering to developers, yield seekers, and traders. It offers a user-friendly automated market maker (AMM) DEX experience, enhanced with features to improve on-chain interactions. Notably, liquidity provider (LP) tokens on Thruster are fungible and can be employed for on-chain leverage, collateralization, and earning yield through various liquidity tools and Blast-native yield opportunities.

Mezo

Series A in 2024
Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield.

Architect

Series A in 2024
Architect is a financial platform focused on enhancing trading access to global markets for digital assets. The company specializes in developing institutional-grade infrastructure that connects various trading venues, including both centralized and decentralized exchanges. By providing customizable solutions, Architect aims to streamline the trading process for users and facilitate participation in international markets for digital assets, futures, and options. Its innovative approach seeks to redefine how traders engage with the evolving landscape of digital finance.

Cube Group

Series A in 2024
Cube Group is a hybrid CEX-DEX digital asset marketplace that addresses the challenges of traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized finance platforms. The company provides a user-centric design, radical transparency, safety, and liquidity, with features like multi-party compute, on-chain settlement, proof-of-reserves, and multi-chain support. Its vaults represent users' balances on their respective layer-one blockchains, offering transparent liquidation standards and criteria for derivatives and margin trading. The platform also standardizes market data and order sessions, allowing seamless onboarding for market participants through web interfaces for trading.

Bitfinity Network

Venture Round in 2024
Bitfinity Network is a creator of a blockchain platform that allows users to generate, stake, and swap tokens on their internet-connected computers. The company focuses on developing new decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain primitives. Its main services include research and development into cross-chain wallets that support Bitcoin and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-based chains and exchanges and automated market-making activities.

Wormhole

Initial Coin Offering in 2023
Wormhole covers a range of use cases to make chains for tokens, NFTs, apps, and other generic messaging applications. They build protocols on wormholes that can use data, assets, and messages from other chains.

Kinto

Seed Round in 2023
Kinto is the KYC'ed Layer 2 capable of supporting both modern financial institutions and decentralized protocols.

Superstate

Seed Round in 2023
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions. These solutions include short-term government bond funds that can be held in a cryptocurrency wallet or by a crypto custodian.

Lynx Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Web3 Infrastructure for perpetuals trading

M^0 Labs

Venture Round in 2023
M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middleware to become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.

Huma

Seed Round in 2023
Huma is a decentralized finance platform that facilitates lending for businesses and individuals by connecting high-performing receivables with global financing. The company provides a transparent and accessible financial infrastructure, allowing clients to tokenize and trade cash flow using credit on the blockchain. Huma's innovative approach enables users to secure loans against tokens as collateral, fostering a thriving ecosystem for managing and leveraging assets in a digital format.

Ironblocks

Seed Round in 2023
Ironblocks is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting smart contracts and web3 services through its comprehensive platform. The company offers a tailored coverage suite designed to enhance the security of decentralized applications. Its protocol features user-friendly analytics and clarity for security requirements, along with innovative sensors that detect malicious activities across multiple blockchain networks. By providing these advanced security solutions, Ironblocks enables web3 companies to safeguard their platforms effectively and enhance their overall resilience against cyber threats.

Contango

Seed Round in 2022
Contango is a decentralized protocol that focuses on providing perpetual futures atop money markets. It operates a decentralized exchange designed to facilitate expirable futures without the need for order books or liquidity pools. By leveraging existing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, Contango enables fixed-rate lending and borrowing. The platform also supports physical delivery and minimizes price impact for larger trades, allowing traders to effectively hedge their positions and manage their costs. Through these innovations, Contango aims to enhance trading efficiency and accessibility within the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Aptos

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

Safe

Venture Round in 2022
Safe is a leading provider of digital asset storage solutions, specializing in Ethereum-based multi-signature smart contract wallets. As a spin-out from Gnosis, a decentralized infrastructure provider, Safe offers a secure and programmable account abstraction platform, serving as the account abstraction leader on Ethereum and the EVM. Its flagship product, Gnosis Safe, enables secure and transparent management of digital assets, fostering collaboration and tracking within the decentralized ecosystem.

Safe

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Safe is a leading provider of digital asset storage solutions, specializing in Ethereum-based multi-signature smart contract wallets. As a spin-out from Gnosis, a decentralized infrastructure provider, Safe offers a secure and programmable account abstraction platform, serving as the account abstraction leader on Ethereum and the EVM. Its flagship product, Gnosis Safe, enables secure and transparent management of digital assets, fostering collaboration and tracking within the decentralized ecosystem.

Push Protocol

Series A in 2022
Push Protocol is a decentralized communication protocol designed for the web3 ecosystem that facilitates the delivery of notifications related to both on-chain and off-chain activities. The protocol enables users, decentralized applications (dApps), and service providers to create customizable notifications based on various triggers, including smart contracts and backend systems. By utilizing an open communication network of push nodes, Push Protocol connects to users' wallet addresses, allowing notifications to be displayed across any crypto wallet or interface. This platform-agnostic solution aims to enhance user engagement in the web3 space, as it allows users to receive and potentially earn cryptocurrency through the notifications they receive.

bloXroute Labs

Series B in 2022
bloXroute Labs, Inc. is a company focused on providing blockchain scalability solutions that enable cryptocurrencies and blockchains to process thousands of transactions per second without requiring protocol changes. Established in 2018 and based in Evanston, Illinois, the company operates a blockchain distribution network that enhances the efficiency of data propagation across all blockchains. By utilizing a global network of servers optimized for performance through advanced techniques like compression and encryption, bloXroute Labs ensures that all nodes can maintain consensus even as transaction volumes soar. This provably neutral platform supports a wide range of blockchains, facilitating improved transaction throughput and addressing scalability challenges at the network layer.

NEAR

Private Equity Round in 2022
NEAR Inc. is a company that develops and provides a platform for creating decentralized applications through its NEAR Protocol, a scalable blockchain designed for open-source code. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Inc. focuses on bridging the adoption gap for mainstream commercial software by offering tools that facilitate the writing, testing, and deployment of decentralized applications. The platform is engineered to support a wide range of applications, ensuring security for high-value assets such as money and identity. Additionally, NEAR provides essential services, including documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer functionalities, which contribute to a robust ecosystem for developers.

NEAR

Venture Round in 2022
NEAR Inc. is a company that develops and provides a platform for creating decentralized applications through its NEAR Protocol, a scalable blockchain designed for open-source code. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Inc. focuses on bridging the adoption gap for mainstream commercial software by offering tools that facilitate the writing, testing, and deployment of decentralized applications. The platform is engineered to support a wide range of applications, ensuring security for high-value assets such as money and identity. Additionally, NEAR provides essential services, including documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer functionalities, which contribute to a robust ecosystem for developers.

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.

Aptos

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

Immutable Systems

Series C in 2022
Immutable Systems, founded in 2018 and based in Sydney, Australia, develops video games that integrate blockchain technology to enhance player experience. The company, previously known as Fuel Games, focuses on creating a platform that allows players to own digital assets and engage in secure trading. By utilizing the Ethereum blockchain, Immutable Systems aims to provide scalable infrastructure that promotes transparency in in-game economies, empowering players with greater control over their gaming experiences. The company's innovative approach includes offering tools and services that facilitate the development and management of player-owned assets, fostering a user-friendly environment for both gamers and developers.

ConsenSys

Series D in 2022
ConsenSys, established in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, is a leading Ethereum software company focused on Web3. It offers a suite of products, including Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, which serve millions of users and support billions of blockchain-based queries. ConsenSys enables developers and enterprises worldwide to build next-generation applications and access the decentralized web, fostering business adoption and growth of the Ethereum ecosystem. Additionally, ConsenSys Academy, its educational arm, bridges the Ethereum knowledge gap globally for ecosystem development.

Aperture Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Aperture Finance provides a decentralized finance platform to streamline complex DeFi operations. The company aims to bring its automation tools to TradFi native and hybrid funds with large capital to deploy in DeFi but minimal experience with on-chain dev and smart contract work. Building on the infra layer of EVMs, Aperture offers "Composable Automation", a "no code" approach to on-chain liquidity management.

Folks Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Folks Finance is a crosschain decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that addresses liquidity fragmentation by enabling users to deposit and borrow across various blockchain networks without the need for bridging or wrapping assets. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of financial tools, including lending, trading, and liquid staking, making it a fully-fledged hub for digital asset management. As the largest application on Algorand, Folks Finance has achieved significant growth, reaching an all-time high of $400 million in total value locked. The protocol is designed to be non-custodial, allowing users to earn yield on their deposits, use those deposits as collateral for loans, and engage in governance activities within the Algorand ecosystem, all while ensuring scalability, low transaction costs, and security.

Hubble Protocol

Venture Round in 2022
Hubble Protocol is a decentralized financial platform that facilitates long-term borrowing, lending, and the creation of structured financial products. It aims to democratize access to decentralized finance by offering a range of sustainable financial services. The protocol's software supports multi-asset collateral and enables zero-interest borrowing, allowing users to leverage yield-bearing assets for loans. Additionally, Hubble enhances yield generation on deposits of various tokens, providing clients with optimized financial opportunities while minimizing costs associated with loans.

Figment Capital

Series C in 2021
Figment Networks Inc. is a leading blockchain infrastructure and software provider based in Toronto, Canada, established in 2018. The company develops and operates an open-source crypto network, focusing on enhancing community engagement through tools that facilitate understanding of network health and performance for informed staking decisions. Figment supports various crypto networks, including Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, such as enterprise-grade node and staking infrastructure, the Hubble Web 3 explorer, and DataHub developer APIs, aimed at simplifying the use, development, and governance of blockchains for token holders and developers alike. Additionally, Figment publishes open-source software and economic research to further benefit the blockchain community.

ConsenSys

Series C in 2021
ConsenSys, established in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, is a leading Ethereum software company focused on Web3. It offers a suite of products, including Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, which serve millions of users and support billions of blockchain-based queries. ConsenSys enables developers and enterprises worldwide to build next-generation applications and access the decentralized web, fostering business adoption and growth of the Ethereum ecosystem. Additionally, ConsenSys Academy, its educational arm, bridges the Ethereum knowledge gap globally for ecosystem development.

Spectral

Venture Round in 2021
Spectral, established in 2020 and headquartered in New Rochelle, New York, specializes in developing an AI-driven platform for creating and deploying sophisticated smart contracts. This platform facilitates the generation of complex smart contracts using natural language, expediting development time and minimizing errors.

Manta Network

Seed Round in 2021
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.

Manta Network

Seed Round in 2021
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.

Gelato

Series A in 2021
Gelato Network is an innovative company based in Berlin, Germany, that focuses on automating smart contract executions on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2007, Gelato provides a web cloud platform that allows developers to streamline their on-chain processes, enhancing application reliability and performance. Its audited smart contract protocol eliminates the need for developers to manage underlying server infrastructure, thereby saving significant development time and reducing the potential for single points of failure. The platform supports the creation of augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless, and compatible with all major EVM-compatible blockchains, making it a valuable tool for developers looking to optimize their applications.

Domination Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Domination Finance is a company that develops a non-custodial financial instrument tailored for traders in the cryptocurrency market. Its platform operates as an Ethereum application, utilizing the UMA protocol to facilitate trading based on Bitcoin Dominance metrics. The platform allows users to take long or short positions, enabling speculation on market dominance. In addition to Ethereum, the platform is also deployed on Polygon and Boba, broadening its accessibility and functionality. Through its innovative approach, Domination Finance aims to provide traders with tools to navigate and capitalize on the dynamic cryptocurrency landscape.

Chainflip

Seed Round in 2021
Chainflip is a decentralized protocol facilitating trustless asset trades between different blockchain networks with minimal slippage. It enables direct cross-chain exchanges of cryptocurrencies without intermediaries, utilizing its native blockchain and ecosystem components built on Rust and other frameworks. This allows investors to transfer funds seamlessly across various blockchains and ecosystems without additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets.

Lyra Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Lyra Finance operates a decentralized platform focused on trading cryptocurrency options and perpetual contracts. Built on Ethereum, Lyra Finance combines traditional options market-making principles with the advantages of the crypto space, such as scalability and composability. The protocol offers unique and programmable on-chain options and structured products, allowing users to buy and sell options that are priced using an innovative market-based, skew-adjusted pricing model. This approach enhances the accuracy of pricing in the options market, catering to the needs of traders in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

Solflare

Seed Round in 2021
Solrise Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol operating on the Solana network, focused on managed portfolio solutions. The company develops a decentralized fund management and investment protocol that facilitates non-custodial asset management services. This allows users to create, manage, and invest in portfolios composed of both native and synthetic assets. By offering these features, Solrise Finance enables individuals to select from various investment funds or to establish their own portfolios, promoting greater accessibility and flexibility in decentralized investment opportunities.

Jet Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Jet Protocol Holdings is a developer of a decentralized lending and borrowing platform that aims to reduce transaction costs and enhance efficiency in financial transactions. The company specializes in creating innovative loan products and facilitates cross-chain interest rate arbitrage, allowing users to streamline their borrowing and lending activities. Through its platform, Jet Protocol Holdings provides a borrowing agreement designed to simplify the complexities often associated with traditional financial systems, making it easier for users to engage in lending and borrowing transactions.

Set Labs

Series A in 2021
Set Labs is a company focused on advancing the future of finance through innovative crypto-financial solutions. It develops a cryptocurrency asset management protocol that allows users to create and exchange collateralized baskets of tokens. By utilizing a set of smart contracts and specifications, Set Labs enables the efficient and permissionless creation, bundling, and unbundling of crypto assets. This includes not only baskets of ERC20 tokens but also collections of non-fungible tokens and on-chain securities. The tools provided by Set Labs empower developers to construct diverse cryptocurrency baskets, facilitating a more versatile and accessible financial ecosystem.

PoolTogether

Series A in 2021
PoolTogether Inc. is a company that operates a decentralized application on the Ethereum blockchain, designed to facilitate saving money through a gamified approach. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, PoolTogether offers an audited savings game that allows users to deposit Ethereum assets into a pool. The deposited funds accrue interest through a compound protocol, and at the end of each week, one participant is awarded the collective interest, while all participants retain their initial deposits. The platform emphasizes a no-loss principle, making savings more transparent and accessible, and aims to provide a more advantageous alternative to traditional lottery systems.

Zapper

Series A in 2021
Zapper is a fintech platform focused on cryptocurrency asset management, offering a user-friendly interface that consolidates all decentralized finance (DeFi) assets. It caters to both newcomers and experienced investors by providing streamlined access to various DeFi services, including lending, automated yield farming, and liquidity provision. The platform utilizes the principles of open finance and token incentives to empower users in managing their buy and sell positions effectively, promoting active participation and efficient trading within the DeFi ecosystem.

Notional Finance

Series A in 2021
Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate, fixed term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on Ethereum. Users can lend or borrow stablecoins at fixed rates of interest for terms of up to six months using a variety of assets as collateral. Notional achieves fixed rate lending via a primitive called fCash, which is redeemable for an underlying currency like DAI upon the fCash token’s maturity date. Notional operates specialized liquidity pools that allow users to efficiently trade cash for fCash and vice versa. The exchange rate that a user receives on their trade implies a fixed rate of interest from the time of trade until the fCash token’s maturity. Notional is flexible and configurable. The protocol can add additional assets for lending and borrowing, additional collateral types, and additional maturities beyond six months. The community intends to broaden Notional’s scope over time to include a wider array of supported assets and extended available maturities. Notional prioritizes security. The protocol team works with industry leaders to ensure that the smart contracts are technically secure and that the economic assumptions applied in the protocol’s design are sound.

PureStake

Series A in 2021
PureStake, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing infrastructure and services for public blockchain networks. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, PureStake offers a range of products and services for the Algorand and Polkadot networks. Their offerings include the AlgoSigner wallet extension, API-as-a-service, a block explorer called Goalseeker, and various infrastructure solutions such as private and co-chain infrastructure. Additionally, the company provides validator services and smart contract capabilities for the Polkadot network, along with consulting services to assist clients in navigating blockchain technology. PureStake's cloud-based platform aims to facilitate secure and reliable participation in blockchain networks, employing an automated multi-pop and multi-cloud approach to enhance user experience and service delivery.

Moonbeam Network

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

InsurAce Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
InsurAce is the leading decentralized insurance protocol, providing reliable, robust and secure DeFi insurance services to the DeFi users. InsurAce not only guarantees unbeatable portfolio premiums but also offers sustainable investment returns. We have a unique insurance product, tailored just for your project. From insuring your smart contract against hacks to allowing users to secure their investments against risks. Our community is one of the best in the DeFi space and is a key element to our success. We continue to innovate and improve for them.

DefiDollar

Seed Round in 2020
DefiDollar is a company based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2020, that specializes in developing and operating a meta stablecoin index. This index leverages decentralized finance (DeFi) principles to maintain stability near the dollar value, offering users a mechanism to diversify and de-risk their stablecoin holdings. By utilizing Curve Finance LP tokens, DefiDollar’s platform allows users to hedge against potential deviations of underlying stablecoins from their pegged values. Additionally, the company enables users to earn yields with reduced volatility, making it a valuable option for those seeking stability in the volatile cryptocurrency landscape.

PoolTogether

Seed Round in 2020
PoolTogether Inc. is a company that operates a decentralized application on the Ethereum blockchain, designed to facilitate saving money through a gamified approach. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, PoolTogether offers an audited savings game that allows users to deposit Ethereum assets into a pool. The deposited funds accrue interest through a compound protocol, and at the end of each week, one participant is awarded the collective interest, while all participants retain their initial deposits. The platform emphasizes a no-loss principle, making savings more transparent and accessible, and aims to provide a more advantageous alternative to traditional lottery systems.

BarnBridge

Seed Round in 2020
BarnBridge is a United States-based company that develops a cross-platform protocol aimed at tokenizing risk through fixed yield and volatility tranche products. The protocol facilitates hedging against yield sensitivity and market price fluctuations by creating debt and yield-based derivatives. By enabling access to debt pools across various decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, BarnBridge transforms single pools into multiple assets with distinct risk and return profiles. This innovation assists both DeFi and traditional finance (TradFi) investors in managing risk more effectively, thereby enhancing their ability to engage in institutional activities such as risk management and accessing fixed-income instruments.

DeversiFi

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.

Uniswap

Series A in 2020
Uniswap Labs is a software company founded in 2018 by Hayden Adams, who created the Uniswap Protocol, a decentralized platform for swapping digital assets. The protocol has facilitated $2.75 trillion in transaction volume since its inception. Uniswap Labs focuses on developing widely used decentralized finance (DeFi) products, including a user-friendly web interface, a self-custody mobile wallet, and an API tailored for professional market participants. The platform empowers liquidity providers and traders by offering a financial marketplace that is open and accessible to all. Utilizing smart contracts, it enables secure and decentralized on-chain conversions of assets, allowing users to trade tokens directly without intermediaries while defining asset prices based on the liquidity staked in the system.

Aave

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Aave SAGL operates a decentralized lending and borrowing platform on the Ethereum blockchain, enabling users to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets. The platform facilitates both over-collateralized and under-collateralized borrowing, providing flexibility for borrowers. Aave mints aTokens for lenders at a 1:1 ratio to their supplied assets, allowing interest to compound continuously. This interest can be redirected to different addresses, separating it from the principal. Additionally, Aave offers flash loans, which are uncollateralized loans that must be borrowed and repaid within a single transaction, fostering innovation in decentralized finance. Founded in 2017, Aave originally operated under the name ETHLend and is based in London, United Kingdom, and Chiasso, Switzerland. The platform serves both depositors and borrowers, contributing to market liquidity and supporting various financial transactions within the blockchain ecosystem.

Keep

Venture Round in 2020
Keep Network, established in 2017 and based in George Town, Cayman Islands, specializes in creating interactive links between public blockchains and private data. The company's core product, tBTC, is a decentralized bridge enabling users to securely and anonymously transfer their Bitcoin to the Ethereum network, facilitating participation in decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Keep Network's technology, an off-chain container for private data, allows smart contracts to leverage the full power of public blockchains while maintaining data privacy.

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.

DeversiFi

DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
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