Pudgy Penguins is a Web3-born brand that creates content, goods, toys, and digital collectibles. It was created as an ERC-721 standard token, that powers most digital art and collectibles. The combination of Pudgy Penguin's aesthetics was randomly generated from over 150 hand-drawn traits.
AcadArena offers scholarships, tournaments, and play-to-earn opportunities for student gamers. The company helps students and gamers to develop their academic and gaming skills. AcadArena helps students realize their dreams and create the best campus gaming experience possible. AcadArena empowers all student gamers and educators everywhere, from scholarships to the top campus esports leagues for athletes. AcadArena was founded in 2019 by Ariane Lim, Kevin Hoang, and Justin Banusin.
Sleepagotchi rewards users with a digital collectible for sticking to a consistent sleep schedule that they set for themselves in order to promote healthy sleeping habits.
SPICYEST is a consulting and financial services firm specialized in digital assets. Our experts offer tailored advice and liquidity to help businesses succeed in this industry. With a focus on innovation, we help clients achieve their goals in a rapidly changing market.
In late 2020, Gnosis announced plans to fully decentralize into a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization). Today, the GnosisDAO treasury has effective control of over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens, with the GNO tokens vested over 8 years. A year later, in 2021, the xDAI and GnosisDAO communities voted to combine their vibrant ecosystems to create the Gnosis Chain: An Ethereum forerunner companion that addresses scaling issues through solid engineering. Gnosis Chain is the associated execution-layer EVM chain for stable transactions. It uses the xDai token and includes a wide-ranging group of projects and users. The Gnosis mission has always been centered on experimentation and building decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. When Gnosis was founded in 2015, it focused on building prediction markets to enable worldwide access to accurate information. While creating the prediction market platform, it became clear that Gnosis needed to build the infrastructure required to support it. As a DAO, Gnosis uses the products that it creates to transparently guide decisions on the development, support, and governance of its ecosystem. Gnosis Safe (multisig and programmable account), Cow Protocol (formerly CowSwap and Gnosis Protocol), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), Gnosis Auction, and Zodiac (standard and tooling for composable DAOs) are all products incubated by Gnosis. Their success is demonstrated by the recent spin-out of Cow Protocol and the formation of SafeDAO. By combining needs-driven development with deep technical expertise, Gnosis has built the decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem.
Highlight is a platform for collecting, creating, and trading digital artifacts.
Playmint is a new game development studio, building category-defining games for the web3 era.
Strider Sports manufactures strider bikes, balance bikes, toddler bikes, push bikes, running bikes, and walking bikes. It enhances products with an emphasis on proper fit and function for the rider. It supports distribution channels that are committed to educating customers. It serves customers with an empathetic, just, and positive outlook on life.
Storygrounds is the only platform where people of any skill level can build Webcomics together.
Pocket Network is a developer of a decentralized infrastructure for blockchain application development. Their infrastructure allows users to connect their applications to any blockchain by pointing them to a node that coordinates requests across the protocol.
B.Protocol is building a Backstop DeFi primitive unlocking higher capital efficiency.
NFTfi is an NFT collateralized lending marketplace that can use NFT assets as collateral for a loan or lend to other users. It enables NFT holders to borrow cryptocurrency from lenders by using their NFTs as collateral. When they accept a loan offer, the NFT goes into a secure escrow smart contract and receives the wETH, DAI, or USDC from the lender directly to their wallet. To determine whether an NFT is worth a loan, users employ a common practice in the traditional art world in which banks, large galleries, or auction houses offer loans to artists.
AcadArena offers scholarships, tournaments, and play-to-earn opportunities for student gamers. The company helps students and gamers to develop their academic and gaming skills. AcadArena helps students realize their dreams and create the best campus gaming experience possible. AcadArena empowers all student gamers and educators everywhere, from scholarships to the top campus esports leagues for athletes. AcadArena was founded in 2019 by Ariane Lim, Kevin Hoang, and Justin Banusin.
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.
RedStone is a quickly growing blockchain startup, building two data-focused products aimed to unlock the potential of DeFi & Web3: 1. RedStone Oracles: A new generation of blockchain oracles with a novel architecture that optimises the way data is delivered to decentralised Apps (dApps). RedStone provides 1,100+ data feeds delivered at a few seconds refresh interval to Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum and 30+ other top chains. We support price feeds for assets such as popular & long-tail tokens, fiat currencies, commodities, stocks, NFTs floor and RedStone can deliver also other types of data i.e. transactions volume data or results of real-world events like sports games. Available feeds -> https://app.redstone.finance/ ; Sample integration on popular chains -> https://showroom.redstone.finance/ 2. Warp: A data-processing Smart Contract layer on top of the Arweave data storage chain. Warp is optimised for data-heavy use cases such as sophisticated gaming & social dApps, interactive NFTs, simple on-chain Machine Learning and other blockchain-based solutions that have not been feasible before, due to huge data processing costs on chains like Ethereum or Avalanche. Warp overview -> https://warp.cc/ ; Warp Academy -> https://academy.warp.cc/ RedStone Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/5477/redstone-new-generation-of-oracles-for-defi Warp Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/7733/warp-contracts-on-arweave-revolution-of-on-chain-
The Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and the largest provider of on-chain structured decentralized finance (DeFi) products. We’re on a mission to make DeFi simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Index Coop builds sector index products, leverage and inverse products, and yield-generating products, all built on Set Protocol’s twice-audited V2 infrastructure.
Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.
Reown enables secure connections between decentralized applications and users' wallets. It facilitates communication and transaction signing without exposing private keys. It serves the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.
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.
Tally is a frontend for DAOs running on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains. Tally gives users real power in their decentralized organizations. On Tally, users can delegate voting power, create or pass proposals to spend DAO funds, manage a protocol, and upgrade smart contracts—all onchain.
Building Overlay, The Trade Everything Engine
NFTBank involves the creation of a digital asset in the form of a non-fungible token that builds and manages the entire portfolio in one place. They enable holders to overcome the illiquid nature of their instruments and help users better manage liquidity risk.
SIREN is a distributed protocol creating a decentralized blockchain exchange for options trading on Ethereum. The company is focused on creating a high-quality, seamless experience for sophisticated users and requires no third-party settling mechanism or order matching to complete option settlement on-chain. It allows for both buyers and sellers to mint, buy, and trade in and out of options positions at any time. SIREN was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, CA.
NFTfi is an NFT collateralized lending marketplace that can use NFT assets as collateral for a loan or lend to other users. It enables NFT holders to borrow cryptocurrency from lenders by using their NFTs as collateral. When they accept a loan offer, the NFT goes into a secure escrow smart contract and receives the wETH, DAI, or USDC from the lender directly to their wallet. To determine whether an NFT is worth a loan, users employ a common practice in the traditional art world in which banks, large galleries, or auction houses offer loans to artists.
Nexus Mutual uses the power of blockchain technology and Ethereum to allow people from all over the world to share insurance risk together without the need for an insurance company. Nexus Mutual will initially launch with one product, earthquake cover.
Rarible is a community-centric NFT marketplace that allows users to create, buy and sell digital collectibles. Rarible offers a wide range of products, including a custom community marketplace builder, white-glove marketplaces, and own API for building NFT functionality of any complexity.
Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system. The company was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
Armor develops a dynamic cover brokerage protocol for decentralized finance to serve cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2021, Armor is a DeFi coverage aggregator that makes securing your DeFi assets against hacks as easy as possible. Ease wants to make DeFi as easy and safe as possible. They aim to cover every dollar in DeFi so that users can finally feel at ease.
Niftex is a platform for fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
Covalent is the leading modular data infrastructure layer dedicated to solving major challenges in blockchain and AI, including verifiability, decentralized AI inference, and Long-Term Data Availability. Its large reservoir of structured, verifiable data enhances decentralized training and inference, reducing the risk of manipulated or biased AI models. Additionally, the Covalent Network's Ethereum Wayback Machine ensures secure, decentralized access to Ethereum’s transaction data. Trusted by over 3,000 leading organizations, Covalent powers AI, DeFi, GameFi, and more with unfettered access to on-chain data from over 225 blockchains. Learn about the EWM: Technical | Non-Technical For more information, check out Covalent’s: Official Website | Twitter/X | Linktree
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol built on Ethereum offering interest free loans.
CoinAlpha, founded in 2017, is a FinTech software engineering company specializing in trading/market maker software and services for digital assets, combining expertise in data engineering, machine learning, and blockchain engineering to create trading solutions that empower companies to take control of their token liquidity. CoinAlpha created Hummingbot, the leading open source software for building market-making and arbitrage bots. In addition, CoinAlpha operates Hummingbot Miner, the successful liquidity mining platform for centralized exchanges. Hummingbot Miner lets users of the open source Hummingbot software earn rewards from projects - such as Algorand, Solana, and Avalanche - by running market making bots on certain trading pairs. CoinAlpha invented the concept of liquidity mining in a 2019 whitepaper. Having started the company in 2017 as a quantitative hedge fund, CoinAlpha’s founders combine 22 years of experience in investment banking and trading at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Jump Trading and Tower Research with engineering and product leadership roles at Silicon Valley companies like Apple and Nitro. CoinAlpha has raised a total of $14.8 million from Initialized Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, 1kx Capital, Borderless Capital, Ironfire Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund, and other funds and angels.
Opyn allows users to earn a premium or take views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20s. Opyn v2 offers European, cash-settled options that auto-exercise upon expiry. Opyn options (oTokens) are ERC20s, so they can be trading on any decentralized exchange that follows the ERC20 standard. Opyn v1 laid the foundation for DeFi options as the first live ERC20 options protocol. For the first time, anyone could create, buy, and sell options on any ERC20 token. Opyn v1 will remain live on the Ethereum network, providing a venue for American, physically settled options. We will continue to launch ERC20 options on Opyn v1.
Arweave is an information technology company that specializes in data storage, blockchain, and serverless web. It features a software platform thet offers unparalleled levels of data replication and security for users and financial incentives for participants in the network. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.
Eco Inc. is a blockchain company building software that maximizes money’s value. The company is a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol and the builder of Bend. We expect better from our money, and we want you to as well. That’s what drives us every day.
Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system. The company was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany.
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.
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Flexa provides consumers, facilitates enhanced transactions, completes data privacy along with seamless, compliants opt-in for loyalty and marketing purposes.Flexa also enables customers to share specific personal data on either an individual or recurring basis, and audit their data sharing at any time. This granular level of control is novel to the Flexa network, and opens up a new world of possibilities for dynamic loyalty and marketing. Flexa was designed to help to put the customers at the center of the transaction and minimize time in lane.
Fluence is an open-source, public, blockchain-based decentralized database platform. It connects computing devices into the network running managed database services and generalized backends, all the while using a cryptographic token as a digital payment system.
Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Arweave is an information technology company that specializes in data storage, blockchain, and serverless web. It features a software platform thet offers unparalleled levels of data replication and security for users and financial incentives for participants in the network. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England.
BEAM is a next-generation confidential cryptocurrency based on an elegant and innovative Mimblewimble protocol. Things that make BEAM special include: • Users have complete control over privacy - a user decides which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control over his personal data in accordance with his will and applicable laws. • Confidentiality without penalty - in BEAM confidential transactions do not cause bloating of the blockchain, avoiding excessive computational overhead or penalty on performance or scalability while completely concealing the transaction value. • No trusted setup required.• Blocks are mined using Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm. • Limited emission using periodic halving with a total amount of coins ~250 million. • No addresses are stored in the blockchain - no information whatsoever about either the sender or the receiver of a transaction is stored in the blockchain. • Superior scalability through compact blockchain size - using the “cut-through” feature of Mimblewimble makes the BEAM blockchain orders of magnitude smaller than any other blockchain implementation. • BEAM supports many transaction types such as escrow transactions, time-locked transactions, atomic swaps and more. • No premine. No ICO. Backed by a treasury, emitted from every block during the first five years • Implemented from scratch in C++ by a team of professional developers
aelf, an AI-enhanced Layer 1 blockchain network, leverages the robust C# programming language for efficiency and scalability across its sophisticated multi-layered architecture. Founded in 2017 with its global hub in Singapore, aelf is a pioneer in the industry, leading Asia in evolving blockchain with state-of-the-art AI integration and modular Layer 2 ZK Rollup technology, ensuring an efficient, low-cost, and highly secure platform that is both developer and end-user friendly. Aligned with its progressive vision, aelf is committed to fostering innovation within its ecosystem and advancing Web3 and AI technology adoption.