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Planetarium is a Web 3 gaming company that focuses on creating community-driven gaming ecosystems. Utilizing Libplanet, its blockchain-based gaming library integrated with the Unity engine, Planetarium enables seamless networking without relying on a central server. This approach leverages blockchain technology and peer-to-peer capabilities, allowing the entire network to update dynamically as changes occur. The company also develops an open-source blockchain platform aimed at transforming the gaming lifecycle and revenue models. By facilitating complex game transactions through its unique native extension methodology, Planetarium empowers developers to extend the longevity of their games and introduces innovative paradigms within the gaming industry.

Centrifuge Inc. is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at enhancing the global financial supply chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Berlin, Centrifuge offers a peer-to-peer protocol that facilitates the secure and privacy-preserving exchange of financial documents. This platform allows businesses to tokenize, manage, and distribute their assets on-chain, providing asset managers with new tools and investors with access to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets. By enabling third-party service providers to interact with financial data, Centrifuge fosters economic opportunity and promotes efficient transactions while ensuring that businesses retain ownership of their data and validated company details.

Karma3 Labs is a developer of a decentralized trust protocol that facilitates the creation of on-chain ranking and recommendation systems for applications. By providing peer-to-peer social attestations, open data, and reliable algorithms, Karma3 Labs enables developers to build personalized recommendation systems. The platform is designed to support contextually relevant features and composable elements, ensuring effective Sybil-resistance for social graph protocols.

DFlow is a payment-for-order-flow marketplace that provides transparent and market-driven price discovery for order flow. They provide a decentralized market platform to ensure the most optimal execution environment for consumers. The market-driven approach to PFOF used by DFlow allows the public to see live market prices for token pairs.

LayerZero Labs is a developer of a blockchain messaging protocol that enables decentralized applications to function across multiple blockchains. The company's platform focuses on interoperability, facilitating data exchange between disparate blockchains. Unlike traditional methods that require sequential storage of all block headers, LayerZero employs an on-chain light node for validation, allowing block headers to be streamed on-demand by decentralized oracles. This innovative approach enhances speed, security, and cost-efficiency, providing clients with a low-level communication primitive necessary for cross-chain applications.

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.

Hubble is a decentralized financial protocol that allows for long-term borrowing, lending, and structured products.

DeNet is a decentralized multichain storage platform that provides an alternative to traditional cloud services by utilizing unused storage space on personal computers. This innovative approach enables users to securely store data, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs), while enjoying a user-friendly experience similar to that of popular cloud services. DeNet prioritizes data security, drawing inspiration from platforms known for their robust privacy measures. Users who contribute their computer storage can earn tokens as rewards, thus participating in a decentralized ecosystem that combines data security with the opportunity to earn cryptocurrency. This makes DeNet an attractive option for those seeking both safety and affordability in data storage solutions.

BENQi is built on Avalanche combining elements of defi and tradfi to create a liquidity protocol. BENQi aims to bridge Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain through Avalanche's subnets by becoming a cross-chain defi.

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.