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Watergenics develops advanced water quality monitoring technology to measure chemical parameters in real-time for environmental and industrial applications. Its platform combines AI-driven sensor modules with a data analytics system, offering automated self-cleaning, high tolerance to extreme conditions, and multi-parameter detection. The approach supports continuous water quality monitoring across water-intensive industries such as mining, desalination, semiconductor manufacturing, and agriculture and aquaculture, enabling informed operational decisions, improved efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.

Mintify develops a web3 platform facilitating the discovery, minting, and trading of NFTs across multiple chains. It offers smart notifications for upcoming drops, presale events, and whitelist opportunities, along with an analytics platform and trading terminal for sophisticated investment strategies.

WeatherXM is a pioneering company that collects hyper-local weather data through a community of incentivized weather station owners. It leverages this decentralized network to provide accurate, real-time weather data tailored for Web3 businesses and the energy sector.

Airstack is the developer of an artificial intelligence-powered platform that enables access to on-chain data across multiple projects and blockchains. The company organizes decentralized application transactions into virtual stacks of data, allowing developers to access and integrate web3 on-chain data and related off-chain data into their applications.

Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol that leverages smart contracts to enhance transparency in the betting process. By providing a classic betting experience with diverse markets and liquidity, Azuro aims to democratize the betting landscape through innovations such as collectible bets and gamification using NFTs. The protocol facilitates liquidity provision and allocation while enabling front-end management and data provision through oracles. Additionally, it incorporates decentralized governance, allowing the community to manage operations effectively. Azuro is committed to offering an engaging and responsible betting environment with reduced service costs and full transparency.

Truflation is a data hub that specializes in providing independent, daily economic data and price indexes for both fiat and cryptocurrency markets. The company aggregates real-market prices from various sources, including merchants, research institutions, and commercial data providers, to deliver accurate and timely inflation rates. Truflation's platform also features additional indices, such as top NFT indexes, all available on-chain to support decentralized finance (DeFi) and web3 applications. By offering unbiased, data-driven insights, Truflation enables developers to create innovative blockchain products and decentralized oracles, assisting individuals, investors, companies, and institutions in making informed financial decisions and effectively managing their purchasing power.

Oort is a decentralized data cloud platform focused on enhancing privacy and reducing costs by integrating global computing and storage resources. It offers enterprise-grade solutions tailored for generative AI and data-driven businesses, positioning itself as a pioneer in intelligent decentralized data cloud technology. The company holds US patents and has published academic research to support its innovations. With a headquarters in New York, Oort has established partnerships with over 40 organizations, including notable companies like DELL, Tencent Cloud, and Cardano, as well as collaborations with more than 20 prestigious universities in the United States, such as Harvard and MIT. The core team comprises professionals with experience from renowned institutions like Columbia University, Qualcomm, and JP Morgan, ensuring a strong foundation for its web3-native product development and geo-distributed computing capabilities.

Saga.xyz gives visionaries the high-end tools and support they need to turn their blockchain dreams into reality.

GET Protocol is a fintech company offering innovative ticketing solutions. It provides services such as event financing, tokenization, white-label solutions, and digital twin NFT creation for events.

NoRamp is a financial software company that provides zero-knowledge-proof-enabled embedded crypto-fiat infrastructure and onboarding APIs designed to streamline onboarding, payments, and wallet management for Web3 applications. The platform includes fiat checkout, invisible wallets, instant crypto cashout, peer-to-peer KYC and payout infrastructure, high card acceptance, multi-chain support, and analytics tools, enabling Web2 businesses to integrate blockchain capabilities while offering a seamless, crypto-abstracted experience to global users.

Unstoppable Domains Inc. is a company that specializes in providing blockchain-based domain names, allowing users to create uncensorable websites and secure their digital identities. Established in 2018 and located in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company offers NFT domains that enable individuals to control their online presence. These domains serve multiple purposes, including simplifying cryptocurrency transactions by replacing complex wallet addresses with human-readable names. Unstoppable Domains operates a decentralized domain registry, ensuring that users can send and receive payments without the risk of being restricted by government authorities or traditional domain providers. The platform also facilitates access to over 150 Web3 applications, further enhancing the utility of its domain offerings.

Skyfire operates an open protocol financing platform designed to enhance the accessibility of digital assets, particularly non-fungible tokens (NFTs). By offering point-of-sale financing options, Skyfire simplifies the purchasing process for NFTs, allowing users to acquire these digital assets more easily. Additionally, the platform provides collateralized lending solutions that improve post-sale liquidity, enabling users to access funds against their NFT holdings. This approach not only facilitates smoother transactions but also empowers marketplaces to offer differentiated and flexible payment and liquidity solutions, contributing to the growth of NFTs as a significant asset class.

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Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol that leverages smart contracts to enhance transparency in the betting process. By providing a classic betting experience with diverse markets and liquidity, Azuro aims to democratize the betting landscape through innovations such as collectible bets and gamification using NFTs. The protocol facilitates liquidity provision and allocation while enabling front-end management and data provision through oracles. Additionally, it incorporates decentralized governance, allowing the community to manage operations effectively. Azuro is committed to offering an engaging and responsible betting environment with reduced service costs and full transparency.

Atmos Labs is an expansive, play-and-earn ecosystem with deep economics, rich history, and heart-pounding gameplay.

iRocket designs and manufactures fully autonomous reusable small launch vehicles, leveraging 3D printing and additive manufacturing to enable reliable, rapid, low-cost access to space. It emphasizes innovative design, rapid landing and relaunch capabilities, and aims to address inefficiencies in the space industry.

LimeWire is a digital collectibles marketplace focused on the music, art, and entertainment industries. The platform has been relaunched to transform the way fans and artists interact, providing a framework for direct fan membership that helps artists generate a recurring revenue stream. LimeWire enables users to explore, collect, and trade unique digital collectibles, including NFTs, while keeping them informed with timely announcements within the art and entertainment space. Fans gain access to exclusive content and a private community, allowing them to connect directly with their favorite artists and participate actively in their journeys.

Dfns offers a wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage digital assets while ensuring high levels of security. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems, allowing for secure user onboarding and streamlined transactions across multiple blockchains.

Glow Labs is a no-code loyalty rewards program built on the blockchain. Glow Labs is a white-label loyalty rewards program on the blockchain built by the community for the community. It was founded and led by two engineers in their twenties—Annie Reardon and Renee Russo—in 2021, and is based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States.

Skry provides data and insights on digital collectibles

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Swoops develops and creates a basketball simulation game with the help of blockchain technology. It allows users to create, manage, and build teams and their skills, and compete with other teams while earning digitally.

Azarus Inc., established in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing an automated video game challenges platform. This platform facilitates engagement between gamers and streamers through a unique "smart challenge" system that awards tokens to viewers for correctly answering real-time questions about streams. The company's innovative approach aims to create new dynamics within the gaming community, providing fresh revenue streams and gameplay mechanics.

Founded in 2021, POAP is a New York-based company specializing in digital collectibles. These collectibles serve as records of life experiences and are powered by blockchain technology.

Wilder World is a community-owned, fully decentralized, liquid NFT market and social platform built on blockchain. It operates a native token that rewards participation and supports the sale of digital artwork within an immersive 3D metaverse, while charging no artist fees and no platform fees. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, Wilder World enables artists to monetize digital art within a decentralized ecosystem.

Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

Founded in 2018, CryptoSlam is a data aggregator specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) collectibles across Ethereum, WAX, and FLOW blockchains. Its platform facilitates buying, selling, and advertising of NFTs, providing transparency and brand awareness opportunities.

Matrix One develops AI-powered character technology and metaverse infrastructure. The company aims to democratize the creation, ownership and use of AI characters that are immersive, accessible, interactive, decentralized and interoperable, serving as companions, guides and collaborators in daily interactions. It also provides a three-dimensional NFT marketplace platform for the metaverse that transforms original 3D files into optimized assets for multiple environments, minting them as a single token to give creators freedom and collectors tokens usable across virtual worlds.

StealthTest provides a comprehensive sandbox for battle-testing Web3 experiences within private, secure and isolated testing environments.

Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.

Founded in 2017, GigLabs is on a mission to empower brands, creators and collectors to create defining and memorable NFT experiences. The company partners with brands, agencies and creators to provide easy-to-use products for generating, minting, and selling NFTs that can be presented within fully customizable brand experiences, both on the web and in VR. Built by the GigLabs’ team of experienced blockchain developers and NFT enthusiasts, the API-driven NFT Bridge platform delivers flexible and scalable NFT tools that allow any brand to build any NFT experience imaginable. RareRooms (www.rarerooms.io) is GigLabs’ customizable 3D immersive metaverse for showcasing NFTs - digital collectibles, art and more - that’s integrated across multiple blockchains.

Layer3 is a web3 user acquisition and retention platform founded in 2021 that provides no-code tools to design milestones for on-chain actions, using bounties and quests to drive onboarding and engagement. The platform supports autonomous ecosystem expansion through interoperable identity and amplified incentives, helping users discover new communities, earn rewards, and access multichain liquidity. Layer3 has driven over 10 million on-chain interactions across leading dapps and serves a growing roster of crypto projects including Coinbase Cloud, Hashflow, Slingshot, Stargate, Aave and 1inch.

Roll operates a blockchain infrastructure designed for social money, enabling users to mint branded digital tokens that are unique to their online presence. By utilizing the Ethereum blockchain, Roll allows artists and influencers to earn and redeem social money, incentivizing community contributions and facilitating the ownership, control, and coordination of the value they generate across various platforms. This innovative approach empowers users to harness their influence and creativity, fostering a new economy based on social interactions and contributions.

Stardust is a software company that offers a platform for game developers to build and manage blockchain-enabled games and metaverse experiences. The platform provides a graphical development environment and APIs that allow Web3 features, including NFT integration, across multiple blockchains with only a few lines of code, enabling developers to ship blockchain-enabled games faster without being required to commit to a single blockchain. Stardust aims to simplify the process of bringing blockchain, finance, and social components into games by offering integrated tools for gameplay, player management, and cross-chain compatibility. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

HeroMaker Studios is a developer of a non-fungible token comic book entertainment platform that focuses on storytelling and the creation of innovative heroes. The company aims to inspire fans worldwide by partnering with top artists, writers, and influencers to develop engaging narratives and dynamic characters. Its web3 ecosystem fosters connections among creators, fans, and collectors, offering a metaverse that features unique superheroes, comic books, and digital collectibles. By leveraging advancements in interactive media and gaming, HeroMaker Studios builds global franchises and communities, encouraging creativity and collaboration within the evolving landscape of entertainment.

Zed Run builds a virtual stable of champions and uses skill to dominate on the racetrack against global competitors. They have the skill to live not only on the blockchain but in an open market.

Virtually Human Studio develops a digital metaverse gaming platform that enables users to maximize wealth through an auction system. It facilitates buying, selling, breeding, and racing in a video game-style setting, with players earning non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for participation.

Data Mynt is a financial technology company delivering borderless business banking and payment solutions for African businesses. It provides seamless global trade payments across multiple rails and enables users to deposit, accept, send and withdraw funds, as well as obtain and repay business loans, supporting easier cross-border and mobile transactions.

MovieBot is an innovative platform that empowers Gen-Z video creators to produce interactive 3D movies effortlessly. By transforming text prompts into animated videos, MovieBot enables users to create fully customizable 3D worlds, complete with interactive characters and environments. The platform utilizes advanced virtual and mixed-reality technologies to synchronize user experiences, allowing creators to modify stories, characters, and settings in real time. MovieBot envisions a future where teenagers can harness their creativity to develop high-quality animated content from the comfort of their own homes, making advanced filmmaking accessible to a new generation of storytellers.

Calaxy operates an open social marketplace designed by creators for creators, utilizing blockchain technology to facilitate direct interactions between creators and their fans worldwide.

TRIPP is a digital wellness company that develops immersive experiences for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mobile devices to support emotional well-being. The platform combines mindfulness structures, sound frequencies, visuals, and interactive elements to influence mood—helping users feel calmer, more focused, and less stressed. Aimed at consumer households, TRIPP delivers these experiences through VR, AR, and mobile formats, grounded in research-based content. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with a satellite development office in Chicago.

Gilded is a technology company founded in 2018 that provides crypto accounting tools and an end-to-end decentralized operations platform designed to help organizations manage digital assets within their existing financial systems. Its platform enables bookkeeping, invoicing, payments, financial reporting, tax compliance, and security for crypto-related businesses, streamlining accounting and reporting processes. The company serves crypto startups, NFT marketplaces, play-to-earn guilds, DAOs, miners, and accounting firms, supporting the integration of digital assets into standard accounting workflows and reducing the complexity of crypto payments and reporting.