Polyhedra Network is an infrastructure company that develops a Web3 infrastructure platform using zero-knowledge-proof protocols. Its platform offers a bridge for cross-chain communication that allows developers to build secure and interoperable applications across layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains.
Space ID is developing a universal name service network that seamlessly connects people, data, and assets.
Eclipse is building Ethereum's first Solana Virtual Machine Layer 2. While other L2 networks on Ethereum focus on providing Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility, Eclipse leans into performance improvements developed by the Solana Layer 1 and adds additional verification features to deploy the blockchain as a rollup. The Eclipse team includes veterans from dYdX, Uniswap, Citadel, and Airbnb. Eclipse Labs is backed by top investors including Polychain, Placeholder, and DBA.
Yellow Card is the largest and first licensed Stablecoin on/off ramp on the African continent, providing individuals and businesses of all sizes across 20 countries with secure and cost-effective methods to buy and sell USDT, USDC, and PYUSD via their local currency, directly and through its payments API. Yellow Card has facilitated over US$3 billion in transactions across Africa,
Aurigami Company is a decentralized, non-custodial liquidity protocol. Customers may easily lend, borrow, and earn interest with their digital assets according to this. In exchange for passive income, depositors offer liquidity to the protocol, which allows users to borrow money with excessive collateral. Aurigami, in contrast to similar protocols, places a strong emphasis on gamification. Depositors contribute liquidity to the protocol in order to earn a passive income, whereas borrowers can borrow in an over-collateralized fashion.
Hologram is an all-in-one platform for digital identities and virtual beings. Leveraging the latest developments in 3D, machine learning, and web3, Hologram empowers any online community to create, own, and engage with immersive virtual characters, goods, and experiences at scale.
AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying .
Commonwealth Laboratories, Inc. operates a diagnostic laboratory that specializes in tests for functional gastrointestinal disorders. Founded in 1985 and based in San Francisco, California, the company serves as a resource platform for healthcare providers, offering specialized diagnostic solutions to aid in patient diagnosis. Additionally, Commonwealth Labs is involved in developing governance technology for decentralized organizations, providing a blockchain protocol-based system that enhances decision-making and resource allocation. This dual focus on healthcare diagnostics and innovative governance solutions positions Commonwealth Laboratories as a multifaceted entity addressing both medical and organizational needs.
Satori is an on-chain derivatives exchange built for both retail and institutional investors in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Branch Technologies was founded in 2020 under the visionary leadership of our esteemed CEO, Dayton Mills. Our sole purpose is to explore and develop groundbreaking ideas that seamlessly merge the worlds of social apps and gaming, redefining the very fabric of interactive entertainment. We invest in people who have surmounted many obstacles yet remain steadfast with an unwavering determination to cultivate the remarkable and enduring. Our culture of relentlessly pursuing excellence has earned us a globally recognized reputation as innovators at the forefront of gaming.
A ZK-rollup L2 with universal connectivity to L1s, enabling cross-chain liquidity of native assets. Powered by Starkware zero-knowledge technology and Eigenlayer's restake finality. In it's core, MEV minimization and gas-free swaps are out of the box.
Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers. Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industry struggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development.
Scroll.io provides a native zkEVM scaling solution for Ethereum. The company upholds the Ethereum network's high-security features while offering users nearly instantaneous, inexpensive transactions.
CoinDCX is a company that specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. The company focuses on developing borderless financial services that ensure a simpler and uninterrupted flow of capital. Its liquidity, powerful wallet, and impenetrable security make the trading experience fast, reliable, and effortless. CoinDCX has empowered its traders with a bouquet of industry-first products to trade using liquidity from exchanges. The products are designed for all types of traders keeping their trading experience, risk tolerance, and trading frequency into consideration. The company aims to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone. CoinDCX was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Allora Labs is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFi primitives.
Ponto provides regulated payment services for global enterprises to offer financial services to their customers. The company manages and eliminates the risks involved with offering financial services worldwide. This way, new products can deliver on the promise of improving and democratizing access to the economy for everyone.
Gauntlet’s applied research and optimization teams model market risk, and economic incentives, and drive sustainable growth for crypto’s top protocols, chains, and on-chain treasuries. It simulates risk parameters and maximizes returns. Gauntlet maximizes protocol growth efficiency and improves financial growth for businesses.
KurateDAO provides an infrastructure for content curation, with the process being divided up into three roles: curators, scouts and viewers.
Space Runners is the first Metaverse Fashion brand focused on cross-chain/interoperable fashion items that can be plugged into any Web3.0 Metaverse and games. Our belief is that there are many players working on Metaverses and games, but not enough players working on what users will wear as items in the Metaverse. We collaborate with artists/brands to provide an end-to-end service on design, 3D modeling, marketing, engineering to co-launch a fashion NFT collection that can be plugged into different metaverses. Below are some key points about the project: * Largest NFT community on Solana with 500k+ members across Twitter, Discord, and Instagram * 1st collection sold out in 9 minutes on Dec 23rd: the 10,000 "NBA Champions Collection" with Kyle Kuzma & Nick Young * Consistent Top 1-5 trading volume on Solana since launch * NFTs integrate with games, metaverses and virtual events, wherein each shoe has differentiated power and speed. Our overall vision is to become the first end-to-end digital fashion ecosystem on blockchain as the largest supplier of fashion items.
Axelar is a cross-chain communication tool developing interoperability software to connect blockchain ecosystems, applications, and users. Axelar Network consists of a protocol suite, tools, and APIs, designed to break down the barriers to cross-chain communication. Axelar enables developers to build on the best platform for their needs while leveraging the Axelar stack to unlock cross-chain composability and liquidity. The company was founded by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos in 2020.
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Potion Labs is a base layer for a wide range of asset risk-management applications.
Astar Network is a multi-virtual machine scalable smart contract platform on Polkadot supporting cutting-edge layer 2 like Rollups.
Structure financial is a global trading platform that aims to facilitate crypto-based investing and lending for mobile users.
Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets.
AscendEX is global operator of digital asset exchanges for diverse groups of clients from retail to institutions.
Merico develops code analytics technology to support engineering teams in understanding and optimizing productivity and code quality. It uses advanced program analysis and machine learning to provide users with software engineering, human resource, and information resource management services that enable clients to gain deep insight, optimize resource allocation, and boost team productivity. Merico was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Solend is a DeFi borrowing and lending platform that allows users to borrow or lend crypto funds. It opened gateways for Solana users to increase the methods they can employ to profit from the market. The platform's purpose is to change the process of lending. And the only way that can be accomplished is if users themselves become online mini-banks. Users then pick if they want to lend or borrow funds, mainly in stablecoins or SOL, which is Solana’s native cryptocurrency equivalent to Ethereum’s ETH.
Yellow Card is the largest and first licensed Stablecoin on/off ramp on the African continent, providing individuals and businesses of all sizes across 20 countries with secure and cost-effective methods to buy and sell USDT, USDC, and PYUSD via their local currency, directly and through its payments API. Yellow Card has facilitated over US$3 billion in transactions across Africa,
Bluefin is an orderbook-based derivatives exchange that uses the most innovative decentralized infrastructure to support both first-time users and professional traders. Bluefin is backed by Polychain Capital, Susquehanna, Cumberland DRW, Brevan Howard Digital, Alliance and other leading investors.
Credora is building confidence in credit markets through privacy-preserving technology that enables real-time credit analytics and powers transparent and efficient markets. To date, Credora has facilitated $1b+ in uncollateralized loans across 100+ borrowers & lenders and can help well-capitalized, risk-managed borrowers borrow transparently and securely. Credora currently monitors over $4 billion of borrower assets with coverage across the majority of CeFi and DeFi venues.
Offchain Labs develops a solution for scaling Ethereum smart contracts.
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi. - Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency - AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimize strategies
CoinDCX is a company that specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. The company focuses on developing borderless financial services that ensure a simpler and uninterrupted flow of capital. Its liquidity, powerful wallet, and impenetrable security make the trading experience fast, reliable, and effortless. CoinDCX has empowered its traders with a bouquet of industry-first products to trade using liquidity from exchanges. The products are designed for all types of traders keeping their trading experience, risk tolerance, and trading frequency into consideration. The company aims to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone. CoinDCX was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Thesis is a cryptocurrency venture studio funding and building decentralized products and protocols that enable personal empowerment. Keep (now Threshold) Network, a privacy protocol for public blockchains, Fold, for earning Bitcoin on physical and virtual purchases, Saddle, a community-owned, open-source stablecoin swap protocol, and Tally Ho, a community-owned and operated cryptocurrency wallet, are among the projects.
Valora is a mobile crypto wallet that combines the power of blockchain and mobile with an intuitive user interface to make crypto easy to use. Valora makes crypto useful and accessible even on the most basic smartphones, enabling 6 billion smartphone users worldwide to reliably save, send, and spend crypto as easily as sending a text message.
Shipyard Software is building a fleet of exchanges and DeFi tools to suit every crypto trader. Our first flagship product, Clipper DEX, is specifically tailored for retail traders and is designed to offer the best prices for crypto trades valued at <$50k. Shipyard’s latest product, Longship, is a derivatives DEX that prevents toxic order flow while giving savvy traders access to DeFi-native perpetual contracts with up to 100x leverage. Shipyard’s products occupy a broader DeFi ecosystem governed by AdmiralDAO, a vanguard of builders working to level the playing field of global exchange by creating free and fair markets. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Existing internet protocols leak sensitive data at both network and application levels – we are developing the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage and provide people with the best possible privacy.
Axelar is a cross-chain communication tool developing interoperability software to connect blockchain ecosystems, applications, and users. Axelar Network consists of a protocol suite, tools, and APIs, designed to break down the barriers to cross-chain communication. Axelar enables developers to build on the best platform for their needs while leveraging the Axelar stack to unlock cross-chain composability and liquidity. The company was founded by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos in 2020.
SynFutures is a next generation synthetic assets derivatives exchange focused on creating an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on anything with a price feed. By cultivating a free market and maximizing the variety of tradable assets, SynFutures is lowering the barrier to entry in the derivatives market, creating a more equitable digital assets exchange market.
Umee is the most programmable, safety-first lending algorithm built as a blockchain that enables seamless borrowing and lending of digital assets between distinct blockchain ecosystems. Umee is reshaping the global debt markets in Web3.
dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange built by developers on a mission to build open, secure, and powerful financial products. dYdX runs on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, which eliminates the need to trust a central exchange while trading. We combine the security and transparency of a decentralized exchange, with the speed and usability of a centralized exchange. Founded back in 2017 from ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer, Antonio Juliano, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum. Users can earn interest or take loans for a nominal fee as well as trade on margin with custom leverage. Trade your crypto, the safe and secure way, with dYdX
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi. - Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency - AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimize strategies
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a crypto startup that builds and develops crypto apps for decentralized apps and marketplaces. The Solana network is validated by thousands of independent nodes, providing enhanced security and resistance against censorship.
Gauntlet’s applied research and optimization teams model market risk, and economic incentives, and drive sustainable growth for crypto’s top protocols, chains, and on-chain treasuries. It simulates risk parameters and maximizes returns. Gauntlet maximizes protocol growth efficiency and improves financial growth for businesses.
ORIGYN develops biometric digital certificates that prove the authenticity, identity, and ownership of valuable objects while storing their data on the blockchain in perpetuity. The company was established in 2020 and is headquartered in Switzerland.
Genies is culture’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar experiences. To-date, Genies has been widely adopted by cultural tastemakers and has partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their rosters’ “official avatar.” Genies has recently launched its consumer arm via its AR Developer Kit which allows developers to create interoperable avatar experiences for mobile and hardware AR. Their first avatar experience, Silver Studio, allows users to design and exchange digital fashion. Genies has raised $250M from investors such as Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger valuing the company at $1 billion.
Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers. Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industry struggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development.
Aleo provides a platform for building fully private applications using zero-knowledge technology. It offers a comprehensive toolkit that includes an application runtime environment, allowing software to compile, execute, and finalize its state autonomously. Aleo also supports a statically-typed programming language called Leo, designed specifically for private application development on the Aleo blockchain. The company engages its community through blogs and incentive programs to test the bounds of its decentralized technology.
Greenwood Finance is a decentralized finance platform that helps crypto borrowers pay less interest on their loans. It reduces the interest that crypto borrowers pay on their loans by automatically borrowing from the lending protocol with the lowest instantaneous APR. They handle the complexity of integrating with, and comparing interest rates across, the ever-growing number of decentralized lending protocols to deliver a simple, protocol agnostic, interface for borrowing crypto.
Connext is an interoperability protocol that enables fast, fully-trustless communication between blockchains. It leverages groundbreaking distributed systems technology to to power the creation of an internet of blockchains. The company was founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram.
Maple Finance is a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace allowing institutions to borrow from Liquidity Pools funded by the Defi ecosystem and managed by experienced investors.
Bluefin is an orderbook-based derivatives exchange that uses the most innovative decentralized infrastructure to support both first-time users and professional traders. Bluefin is backed by Polychain Capital, Susquehanna, Cumberland DRW, Brevan Howard Digital, Alliance and other leading investors.
A decentralized social media network for unbiased and open discourse, resistant to takedowns and censorship.
A ZK-rollup L2 with universal connectivity to L1s, enabling cross-chain liquidity of native assets. Powered by Starkware zero-knowledge technology and Eigenlayer's restake finality. In it's core, MEV minimization and gas-free swaps are out of the box.
Parsec Finance is a DeFi and analytics platform focused on technical analysis for traders and datap-focused users. The platform's app represents an attempt to craft an experience in DeFi "similar to that of a professional brokerage account without the friction of custody. Parsec Finance was founded by Will Sheehan in 2020 and is based in Concord, MA.
dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange built by developers on a mission to build open, secure, and powerful financial products. dYdX runs on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, which eliminates the need to trust a central exchange while trading. We combine the security and transparency of a decentralized exchange, with the speed and usability of a centralized exchange. Founded back in 2017 from ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer, Antonio Juliano, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum. Users can earn interest or take loans for a nominal fee as well as trade on margin with custom leverage. Trade your crypto, the safe and secure way, with dYdX
Findora blockchain is next-generation, creating new ways to protect the data privacy of users by empowering them to mask their data. The inception of Findora began in 2017 as a university cryptography research project. Findora founders used the latest breakthroughs in zero-knowledge proofs, Bulletproofs, and multi-party computation to provide users with transactional privacy with selective disclosure and auditability. While Findora is in some ways similar to Ethereum, Findora has also added additional privacy protections. Ethereum reveals every detail of a transaction on a public ledger log entry, which doesn’t allow for much privacy of users’ data. But Findora Blockchain 2.0 technology allows users to mask their data. With Findora, users can hide selected portions of their overall data on the public ledger log entry. Findora founders wanted to solve identity authentication issues, so the platform was created with an address identity registry that greatly expands potential use cases. Findora can mask users’ data because of its pioneering cryptography research. The platform relies on Bulletproofs and specialized zero-knowledge cryptography such as PLONK and Supersonic. If a user sends 1,000,000 tokens on the Bitcoin or Ethereum blockchain, data from that transaction will be publicly viewable. With Findora, users can easily mask data fields. In a Findora confidential transfer, the "amount" can be masked from public view. However, the sender, recipient and specially privileged users — such as government regulators — can unmask hidden data.
We are building a clean-slate L1 for a decentralized, secure, and private internet beyond blockchains.
Espresso Systems focuses on scaling and privacy solutions for Web 3 applications, specifically within the blockchain sector. The company specializes in "shared sequencing," a process where sequencers verify and batch transactions on layer-2 blockchains before relaying them to a layer-1 chain, such as Ethereum, for settlement. In addition to its blockchain expertise, Espresso Systems offers a robust infrastructure for online transaction technology, catering to the needs of clients in the online payment industry. This infrastructure enables efficient transaction processing and interaction, supporting the development of a more scalable and privacy-focused third generation of the World Wide Web.
Polymarket is a prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of various global events using cryptocurrency. Polymarket operates on the Ethereum blockchain, utilizing the Polygon network to enhance scalability and reduce transaction costs. Users connect to the platform through an Ethereum-compatible wallet and use the USDC stablecoin to place bets on events, ranging from political outcomes to entertainment predictions.
Merico develops code analytics technology to support engineering teams in understanding and optimizing productivity and code quality. It uses advanced program analysis and machine learning to provide users with software engineering, human resource, and information resource management services that enable clients to gain deep insight, optimize resource allocation, and boost team productivity. Merico was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Yellow Card is the largest and first licensed Stablecoin on/off ramp on the African continent, providing individuals and businesses of all sizes across 20 countries with secure and cost-effective methods to buy and sell USDT, USDC, and PYUSD via their local currency, directly and through its payments API. Yellow Card has facilitated over US$3 billion in transactions across Africa,
Merico develops code analytics technology to support engineering teams in understanding and optimizing productivity and code quality. It uses advanced program analysis and machine learning to provide users with software engineering, human resource, and information resource management services that enable clients to gain deep insight, optimize resource allocation, and boost team productivity. Merico was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
River Financial is a challenger financial institution specializing in Bitcoin financial services. River Financial's flagship product, a Bitcoin brokerage, provides sophisticated retail investors with a high-touch platform to buy and sell Bitcoin. Founded in 2019 by Alexander Leishman and Andrew Benson, River's brokerage product provides its clients with best-in-class security, a world-class client service experience, and investment performance tools such as cost basis tracking.
CoinDCX is a company that specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. The company focuses on developing borderless financial services that ensure a simpler and uninterrupted flow of capital. Its liquidity, powerful wallet, and impenetrable security make the trading experience fast, reliable, and effortless. CoinDCX has empowered its traders with a bouquet of industry-first products to trade using liquidity from exchanges. The products are designed for all types of traders keeping their trading experience, risk tolerance, and trading frequency into consideration. The company aims to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone. CoinDCX was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Nuo is a decentralized and transparent crypto banking platform for emerging markets. It acts as a financial control center to store, spend and grow any crypto currency of your choice. Using Nuo app, users can store all their crypto currencies at one place, pay for their coffee at Starbucks with a Nuo Card or make near instant peer to peer transfers over Nuo Network. It also enables users to avail global financial products and services at one place via Nuo Play.
Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform powering cross-blockchain liquidity and applications. It offers a suite of financial primitives: a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange to unleash liquidity to power more financial innovations.
CoinDCX is a company that specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. The company focuses on developing borderless financial services that ensure a simpler and uninterrupted flow of capital. Its liquidity, powerful wallet, and impenetrable security make the trading experience fast, reliable, and effortless. CoinDCX has empowered its traders with a bouquet of industry-first products to trade using liquidity from exchanges. The products are designed for all types of traders keeping their trading experience, risk tolerance, and trading frequency into consideration. The company aims to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone. CoinDCX was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
The Future of Decentralized Financial Governance- StakerDAO is a platform for governing financial assets in a decentralized, secure, and compliant manner. STKR, the governance token for StakerDAO, is built on a newly developed GOV.1 token standard on Tezos. STKR tokens are decentralized, secure and compliant with required entities. STKR holders have primary responsibilities of submitting proposal ideas and electing members of the Staker Council. StakerDAO will launch and manage a growing collection of decentralized finance products, all secured by the Staker Agora governance process. STKR token holders submit suggestions and participate in project discussions. The Staker Ops Team serves as the R&D arm of the Staker Council and will package the best community selected ideas into formal proposals for governance.
Amber Group is a crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading, and asset management services. Amber Group was founded in 2017 by a group of finance professionals from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bloomberg. Amber Group operates around the world and around the clock with a presence in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, and Vancouver. The company provides services to 200+ institutional clients, cumulatively trading over $200 billion across 60+ electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume between $100-200 million. Amber Group is committed to serving clients around the globe by combining the best-in-class technology with sophisticated quantitative research to offer a streamlined crypto finance experience. Its goal is to optimize investment flexibility, maximize investment returns, and provide long-lasting value for its clients. In 2019, Amber Group raised $28 million in a Series A funding round led by global crypto heavyweights Paradigm and Pantera, with participation from Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Blockchain.com, Fenbushi Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.
Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers. Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industry struggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development.
Matrixport is a one-stop digital assets financial services platform where users can invest, trade, and leverage crypto assets.
Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications for developers. Its protocol is a widely used system built on Ethereum, with thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. Compound offers a web interface that adjusts money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand. Compound was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
The Nervos Network is an open source public blockchain ecosystem and collection of protocols solving the biggest challenges facing blockchains today. The Nervos CKB (Common Knowledge Base) is the layer 1, proof of work public blockchain protocol of the Nervos Network. Any crypto-asset can be stored, with the security, immutability and permissionless nature of Bitcoin, while enabling smart contracts, layer 2 scaling, and the capture of total network value through a unique crypto-economic "store of value" design and native token, the CKByte. The design of the Nervos Network is a sustainably secure, permissionless and decentralized Layer 1 blockchain that is built to scale with Layer 2 solutions, making Nervos the only PoW, multi-asset, store of value, smart contract platform.
Urkel is a software company building compliant infrastructure that facilitates transparency and ease-of-use in the blockchain ecosystem
The Future of Decentralized Financial Governance- StakerDAO is a platform for governing financial assets in a decentralized, secure, and compliant manner. STKR, the governance token for StakerDAO, is built on a newly developed GOV.1 token standard on Tezos. STKR tokens are decentralized, secure and compliant with required entities. STKR holders have primary responsibilities of submitting proposal ideas and electing members of the Staker Council. StakerDAO will launch and manage a growing collection of decentralized finance products, all secured by the Staker Agora governance process. STKR token holders submit suggestions and participate in project discussions. The Staker Ops Team serves as the R&D arm of the Staker Council and will package the best community selected ideas into formal proposals for governance.
CoinFLEX operates as a crypto derivatives exchange and yield platform. It creates innovative solutions to bring investors and crypto markets through intuitive yield products such as flexUSD, the world’s first interest-earning stablecoin, and AMM+, a capital-efficient automated market maker worldwide. CoinFLEX is backed by crypto heavyweights, including Roger Ver, Mike Komaransky, Polychain Capital, and Dragonfly Capital.
Horizon Blockchain Games is a game studio and blockchain infrastructure company. It provides users with easy and secure access to web3 that enables them to own and use digital assets. It offers tools to developers to build the next generation of Internet economies and experiences.
Altonomy is a trading, advisory, and asset management firm specializing in cryptocurrency and digital assets. It is the sell-side trading desk to provide institutional-grade liquidity solutions, OTC trading, advisory, and asset management services under one roof. Altonomy maintains a robust network of partners, including the industry's top crypto projects, exchanges, and hedge funds. Altonomy now has three services: OTC trading and execution services, liquidity management and advisory, and institutional cloud mining (AltMiner). 1. OTC trading and execution services Altonomy provides 24/7 OTC transaction services for crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto transactions, while simultaneously offering best-in-class coverage for illiquid tokens. Our proprietary Hybrid IQ methodology combines the team's extensive crypto market experience with market-making algorithms to provide deep order book depth and optimal spreads. In doing so, Altonomy ensures best execution of token trades with varying liquidity. 2. Liquidity management and advisory Altonomy helps aspiring token issuers and cryptocurrency exchanges meet their respective requirements for public listings and liquidity management. The firm also acts as a market-maker for a variety of publicly-listed tokens. Offering broad access to crypto-themed investment firms, family offices, and syndicates across the globe, Altonomy has direct partnerships with more than 80 token issuers, among which 40-plus are ranked top-200 by market capitalization, as well as top global and regional investment funds. 3. Institutional cloud mining (AltMiner) AltMiner is a cloud-based mining product tailored to international institutions and accredited investors seeking long-term exposure to bitcoin. This entitles them to a share of any digital assets the machine successfully recoups over that period, without incurring the same cost overheads as direct ownership of mining technology would.
Founded in 2017, o1Labs is a blockchain technology company with a core focus on zero knowledge (zk) and other forms of novel cryptography. Their notable achievements include the incubation of the Mina Protocol, the world’s first zk blockchain that is lightweight, scalable, and decentralized, and the creation of o1js, a powerful and intuitive framework for zk application developers. o1Labs’ vision is to catalyze a new generation of applications powered by zero knowledge cryptography.
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all. The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), a stablecoin (cUSD) and the Celo Alliance for Prosperity, with over 100 organizations around the world, including Andreesen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Mercy Corps, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem.