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Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.

Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting.

Glider is a technology company that specializes in developing a portfolio automation platform for the cryptocurrency market. Its platform bridges the gap between investment strategies and their execution, enabling users to build, test, and execute non-custodial trading portfolios on-chain. Glider aims to eliminate technical barriers, allowing users to implement their market perspectives without getting entangled in operational complexity.

ORO facilitates the transformation of data into advanced forms of intelligence, representing the next generation of analytical capabilities.

Here Not There Labs is a web3-focused software company building Towns, a blockchain-based messaging protocol and web app for online communities. The Towns platform enables self-owned and self-governed conversations by running on an on-chain protocol, designed to connect the right people at the right time to discuss topics and minimize meetings. The product aims to improve collaboration by linking conversations about work and facilitating decentralized, topic-centered discussions. The company is led by CEO Ben Rubin and comprises web3 creators who build decentralized communication tools for communities.

Blackbird Labs is a web3 hospitality technology platform founded in 2022 by Ben Leventhal and based in New York, United States. The company focuses on directly connecting restaurants with their customers through loyalty and membership services. By leveraging innovative software solutions, Blackbird Labs aims to enhance the dining experience, facilitating meaningful and ongoing interactions between restaurants and their guests. The platform is designed to transform how hospitality businesses engage with their clientele, ultimately elevating customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Ambient is a Layer-1 blockchain platform that combines Solana SVM compatibility with a novel Proof of Work mechanism. It aims to provide fast and affordable verified AI inference, with a long-term goal of developing an on-chain AGI-level AI foundation model. The platform is designed to make cryptocurrency more accessible to everyday users by offering a user-friendly interface, secure transactions, and educational resources. Ambient's focus on simplifying the crypto experience addresses common hurdles faced by newcomers to the cryptocurrency landscape.

Cambrian is an AI infrastructure protocol that creates quickly available financial insight from offchain and onchain data. A decentralized network of validators which catalog blockchain data and quickly extract offchain data powers Cambrian's capabilities.

Mahojin operates a Web3 AI platform that facilitates image generation and sharing. It offers users access to a vast, growing library of images, with features like IP tracking, revenue sharing, and remix functionality, enabling creators to monetize their work and users to generate high-quality images easily.

Ethos is an AI-driven platform designed to connect individuals with relevant expertise through a streamlined process. By scanning and analyzing hundreds of millions of profiles, Ethos effectively matches clients with experts for insight-driven calls, enhancing the communication experience while ensuring fair compensation for the experts involved. Currently, the platform specializes in facilitating expert calls, but it is also expanding its services to include matching advisors with startups, speakers with events, and talent with employers. This innovation simplifies the booking process and fosters equitable interactions between clients and experts.

Walrus is a neobank in India focused on providing banking services specifically for teenagers. Recognizing the lack of suitable banking and payment solutions for this tech-savvy demographic, Walrus aims to serve around 100 million teenagers by offering a modern digital banking experience. The platform includes features such as digital bank accounts and a smart debit card, which come with curated rewards for every transaction. This approach not only facilitates financial management but also encourages users to develop good money habits and understand the complexities of financial responsibility. Through its innovative offerings, Walrus seeks to empower young individuals with financial freedom and education.

Biton is a full-chain ecology trading platform that offers services to simplify the trading process and mitigate cross-chain risks.

Seismicy enables developers to establish innovative financial partnerships and investment instruments.

Universal is a wrapped asset protocol designed to enable trading for any token, on any chain.

Legend is an all-in-one app that offers the best of decentralized finance (DeFi) in one easy-to-use platform.

Phantom is a digital wallet designed for decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens. It functions as a multichain wallet that supports multiple blockchains and applications, with a focus on Solana, enabling users to manage crypto and NFT assets across networks. The platform allows users to store, buy, send, receive, swap tokens, and collect NFTs in a single interface. It is accessible via mobile apps and browser extensions, providing cross-device usability for crypto activity. Phantom emphasizes secure access to funds and assets and aims to offer a straightforward, user-friendly experience for navigating DeFi and NFT ecosystems.

Sekai makes it easy to create, share, and monetize interactive narratives.

OpenTrade is an institutional grade platform for digital dollar lending and yield products. It provides a technology platform, blockchain protocol, API, legal framework, and bankruptcy remote banking and custody infrastructure that enables Web2/Web3 Fintechs to offer fully embedded stablecoin yield products to their customers and better manage their own treasury.

OpenLayer is a modular authentic data layer designed to modernize traditional data flows. Contributed to by everyone and every device, OpenLayer offers a modular solution that coordinates data collection, validation, and transformation, catering both web2 and web3 companies.

mbd is a technology company that develops Web3 social platforms. It specializes in researching and developing machine learning recommendation systems and on-chain data pre-training. The company's goal is to provide dynamic, relevant content and activities to each user. mbd offers a personalization platform for Web3 builders through its application programming interfaces (APIs). These APIs integrate into various channels such as feed, email marketing, push notifications, and on-chain messaging, enabling clients to leverage predictive on-chain and off-chain AI models.

Azra Games is a blockchain-based game development company founded in 2022 in Sacramento, California, by Sonny Mayugba. The company focuses on creating collectible combat role-playing games (RPGs) specifically tailored for core gamers. By leveraging blockchain technology, Azra Games enables players to engage in a new paradigm of gaming, allowing them to create, play, collect, trade, and socialize around unique characters within their games. The company's innovative approach aims to redefine the gaming experience through unique online strategy game platforms that emphasize collectible and combat elements.

MeshMap is a developer of a decentralized 3D mapping platform that aims to create an interactive and immersive 3D globe map. The company utilizes community-submitted scans to construct its global map, allowing users to contribute to the content while being rewarded with token incentives. In addition to its mapping capabilities, MeshMap incorporates augmented reality elements, enhancing user engagement through a unique blend of gaming and geographic exploration. The platform encourages collaborative participation, fostering a community-driven approach to mapping the world in three dimensions.

AminoChain provides a platform that connects data from healthcare organizations to support biosample handling. It enables users to manage biosample inventories, maintain asset ownership, and collaborate with partners through an integrated workflow for procurement, agreements, and payments. The company also applies blockchain-based tokenization to stem cell donations, incentivizing donors and enabling biobanks to securely manage inventory and donor records.

DOT is a game development company that converts user-generated pixel art into on-chain game pieces, further integrating NFTs with gaming.

Sparsity specializes in accelerating blockchain networks to real-time processing with unlimited throughput, utilizing advanced computing technologies initially developed at MIT.

Cork provides a decentralized finance (DeFi) technology that enables collateralized swaps against any pegged asset.

Sekai makes it easy to create, share, and monetize interactive narratives.

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

Taceo is a technology company specializing in secure communication and data protection for Web3 applications. It offers a range of services, including evaluation and consulting, design, implementation, and research, to help clients safeguard sensitive data and enable trusted transactions in emerging technologies.

Kuzco is a marketplace for distributed LLM inference network.

Opacity specializes in secure, trustless data sharing across closed digital ecosystems. It achieves this by leveraging cryptography, enabling users to collaborate and share information without compromising privacy or security. The company's blockchain-based platform verifies data for various use cases, ensuring secure peer-to-peer transactions and on-chain credentials.

Term Labs specializes in blockchain research and development, focusing on creating scalable and transparent fixed-rate lending platforms for institutional-scale borrowers and lenders within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

Suave Money is a stripe for crypto, and it accepts any crypto across all chains and receives the token of choice.

OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform that hosts open-source models, enables secure inference, and supports deployment of AI applications. It provides native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure execution to accelerate open-source AI while improving verifiability and enabling censorship-resistant model access. The platform relies on a heterogeneous AI compute architecture and a proprietary library to power secure AI workflows, including inference, agentic reasoning, and analysis. A web portal and SDK let developers leverage the AI stack without blockchain complexity, helping them build secure, auditable workflows. OpenGradient aims to democratize model ownership and promote transparency in AI by enabling scalable, verifiable computing across open-source models.

Pod network is a new L1 primitive that is blockless, leaderless and relaxes the notion of transaction total ordering. It is incubated by Common Prefix.

Future Primitive is an on-chain product studio focused on developing startups, projects, and primitives tailored for decentralized communities. The company provides a range of services, including token-gated Discord bots, fair NFT launches, and pre-mint allowlist analysis. By offering these services, Future Primitive equips users with essential insights into cryptocurrencies, utilities, and tokens, facilitating informed participation in the evolving digital landscape.

Banyan employs artificial intelligence to bridge communication gaps at work and offer clarity to the company.

Anera Labs is a decentralized, open market that abstracts away asynchronous time in onchain markets through underwriting.

Daylight Energy is a renewable energy platform focused on creating a decentralized and sustainable energy grid. The company aims to transform the electricity utility landscape by encouraging consumers to adopt modern home energy solutions. Through its innovative platform, Daylight Energy provides cashback incentives for using energy stored in battery systems and generated from rooftop solar installations. This approach not only promotes individual and small business participation in energy storage but also contributes to the development of a distributed community energy network. By facilitating residential storage installations, Daylight Energy seeks to enhance energy independence and stability for its users.

Farcaster is a decentralized social network designed to facilitate connections among users with shared interests, such as coders, fitness enthusiasts, and meme creators. The company is focused on enhancing user engagement by increasing daily active users and implementing developer-friendly features, including channels and direct messaging capabilities. By establishing an open protocol, Farcaster enables users to move their identities across various applications, akin to how email operates. Users can claim unique usernames and store their social data off-chain, ensuring ownership and control over their social graphs. This framework empowers developers to create innovative applications that leverage the network's capabilities.

Kiosk offers on-chain assets that are essential for social media clients that build feedback loops between assets and communities.

Exowatt is a next-generation renewable energy company that specializes in providing sustainable energy solutions for commercial and industrial applications. The company develops a modular full-stack energy system that consists of a heat collector, a heat battery, and a heat engine. This innovative system is designed to deliver dispatchable power and heat, ensuring that energy is consistently available to meet the demands of energy-intensive operations, such as data centers. By focusing on modularity and efficiency, Exowatt aims to enhance the accessibility and reliability of renewable energy, facilitating a transition towards more sustainable energy practices in various industries.

OpenTrade is an institutional grade platform for digital dollar lending and yield products. It provides a technology platform, blockchain protocol, API, legal framework, and bankruptcy remote banking and custody infrastructure that enables Web2/Web3 Fintechs to offer fully embedded stablecoin yield products to their customers and better manage their own treasury.

Kiki is a technology company that operates a beauty product development platform driven by consumer engagement. Its platform enables users to vote on product designs, colors, and formulations, fostering collaborative decision-making and empowering beauty consumers to shape product offerings. The company rewards user engagement with points and incentives, fostering a community-driven approach to product creation.

E-Pal is a dedicated social networking platform designed specifically for gaming enthusiasts. It facilitates skill-based matching among users, allowing gamers to connect with like-minded individuals, find teammates, and engage in shared interests while playing.

Tranched is a financial technology company that focuses on innovating loan securitization through a blockchain-based platform. It provides a more efficient and transparent method for securitizing loans by automating processes with smart contracts, thereby eliminating the need for intermediaries. This streamlined approach allows Fintech lenders and professional investors to complete institutional-grade transactions up to 90% faster than traditional methods. Tranched's services are tailored to the modern financial services sector, enabling customers to effectively manage and invest in debt instruments by creating tranches that address various risk profiles or characteristics. By leveraging real-time on-chain securitization, Tranched enhances the efficiency and security of loan representation and investment.

Tweed offers a white-label wallet solution designed to simplify the integration of web3 experiences for platforms and brands. The company's plug-and-play infrastructure includes self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features, and a robust payment system, allowing clients to onboard users with minimal friction. By prioritizing user experience while maintaining security and ownership, Tweed enables businesses to enhance engagement and sales. The architecture of Tweed’s solution is built to comply with regulatory standards, undergoing regular legal audits to relieve clients of the associated burdens. Currently operating in stealth mode, Tweed is focused on providing a seamless and immersive web3 experience for its partners.

Sablier is a company that offers a token distribution protocol designed for real-time finance on the blockchain. Its platform facilitates continuous asset distribution through a payment model that allocates tokens on a per-second basis. By allowing users to deposit a specific amount of ERC-20 tokens into a contract, Sablier enables recipients to access these funds progressively over time. The protocol is versatile and can be utilized for various applications, including vesting, payroll, and airdrops, making it an essential tool for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and businesses seeking efficient financial solutions in the web3 ecosystem.

Nosh is a restaurant-owned food delivery service provider.

Playmint is a game development studio focused on creating innovative games for the web3 era. The company specializes in developing games that incorporate player-owned economies, leveraging blockchain technology to provide players with complete control over their digital assets. By enabling players to earn or gain through their participation, Playmint aims to redefine the gaming experience in a decentralized environment.

Scrypted is a technology company specializing in the development of an autonomous platform for creating decentralized, self-owning AI agents and games. The platform, designed to support emerging AI technologies, provides uninterrupted access to essential resources such as finance, storage, computation, and inference, enabling the development of autonomous virtual beings.

EigenLabs is a blockchain infrastructure startup that enables the restaking of ETH across various decentralized applications. They also provide developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Traditionally, staking requires validators to lock up ETH as a security deposit to engage in the network's consensus mechanism, earning rewards for contributing to network security and validating transactions. However, once ETH is staked, it is generally immobilized until withdrawn, restricting validators from utilizing these assets elsewhere. EigenLayer aims to tackle this challenge by allowing staked ETH to be restaked across diverse decentralized applications and services without removing it from the original consensus mechanism.

Scene Infrastructure Company is a software company that offers improved tools for sociability.

Focus, a SocialFi app from DeSo is the crypto social network.

Investment company in cryptocurrency and blockchain

Dynamic Labs is a developer of a wallet-based authentication and authorization platform that facilitates the adoption of non-fungible token wallets. The platform enables developers to implement wallet-based login, onboarding, and authentication processes, while also allowing for the addition and removal of blockchain networks. It provides tools for information collection and the structuring of access lists and gates, empowering developers to create customized authentication and user management solutions for their clients. By focusing on multi-chain capabilities, Dynamic Labs aims to streamline and enhance the user experience in digital identity management.

Investment company in cryptocurrency and blockchain

Pimlico is an infrastructure platform focused on the development of Ethereum smart accounts. The company's platform provides tools that facilitate various financial transactions, such as sponsoring transactions, subsidizing user minting fees, and accepting credit card payments for blockchain-related services. By emphasizing flexibility and security, Pimlico aims to enable businesses to create user-friendly decentralized applications.

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IYK develops a tokenization platform that bridges the physical and digital worlds for brands, artists, and creators. The platform uses near-field communication and blockchain to verify and reward fandom across customer and user engagement, enabling Web3 activations and helping clients deepen audience connections and boost social engagement.

Narval is a software development company that provides a web3 wallet platform designed for managing complex digital assets. The platform facilitates the operation of organization-owned wallets across decentralized applications, games, and web3 social environments. It allows organizations to create internal team wallets and supports agencies in executing NFT drops. By enabling secure on-chain interactions, Narval's solutions empower NFT investors, whales, and guilds to effectively manage their assets in the evolving web3 landscape.

Gensyn develops a machine learning computing protocol that connects global compute hardware resources like GPUs and CPUs. It enables engineers, researchers, and academics to access these resources securely for deep learning models without compromising data privacy or compliance.

Tools for Humanity is a software company that develops tools to support the Worldcoin protocol. The company is currently building the tools to bring blockchain and digital identity technologies and products to people by contributing to the development and growth of the Worldcoin ecosystem and other projects.

World is a technology company specializing in secure digital asset management. It operates the World App, which enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps within a privacy-focused network.

Story Protocol is a technology company focused on revolutionizing the creation of narrative universes in the web3 space. Its platform enables creators to develop, own, govern, and license intellectual property on-chain, fostering an ecosystem where story elements can be remixed and composed.

LayerZero develops a blockchain interoperability platform that enables data exchange between disparate blockchains. Its platform achieves speed and security by validating as an on-chain light node, allowing companies to build cross-chain applications using a low-level communication primitive.

Capsule Wallet is a crypto wallet infrastructure provider dedicated to helping developers create wallets with interoperable transactions.

Blockus is a technology company that specializes in providing an all-in-one ecosystem for Web3 gaming. It offers a seamless, fully compliant platform that enables game studios to build and launch games quickly, reduce operational costs, and focus on game development and user experience. The company's platform includes a first-party NFT marketplace, integrated fiat and crypto payment solutions, and wallet management services. Blockus is backed by notable investors and is recognized for elevating gaming on the Sei network.

Levels develops a health and wellness platform that monitors metabolic fitness by tracking blood glucose in real time, enabling users to optimize their diet and exercise. The company offers a wellness wearable device paired with a platform that provides real-time feedback on how the body responds to dietary and lifestyle choices, helping users tailor their routines to personal goals. Founded in 2019, Levels operates as a remote-first company focused on helping individuals understand their metabolism to improve health outcomes.

PLAI Labs is building the next generation of social platforms. The company is applying its proven track record In Social Media, Game Mechanics, and advanced technology to build products that are used by 100’s of millions of people around the world.

Shield is a B2B crypto on/off ramp that enables businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments while receiving USD wires directly into their bank accounts. Licensed as both a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) and Money Services Business (MSB), Shield ensures secure and compliant transactions.

Shibuya is a web3 content studio and creator platform that uses blockchain technology to securely distribute and monetize video content in a decentralized manner. The company provides tools and resources for producers to create high-quality videos and to reach audiences directly, enabling creators to build relationships with fans and monetize through non-fungible tokens. The platform focuses on long-form content and positions NFTs as a new model for content monetization, aiming to address gaps in the market for ownership, distribution, and audience engagement. Shibuya seeks to reshape how content is created, owned, and consumed by empowering creators with secure distribution, transparent monetization, and direct access to viewers.

Yield Guild Games is a decentralized organization focused on investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) used within virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. Its mission is to foster the largest virtual world economy, optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing profits with its token holders.

Rye develops tools and APIs for building eCommerce experiences.

Halliday automates workflows across systems, enhancing player onboarding and engagement in Web3 games and virtual environments.

VeeFriends is an NFT project centered around meaningful intellectual property and a vibrant community. It launched as an Ethereum blockchain-based NFT collection to facilitate utility, collectibility, and community building through its characters.

Clockwork Labs is a game studio focused on massively multiplayer, socially oriented experiences that emphasize collaboration over combat. It develops a role-playing gaming platform that enables players to participate in expansive online worlds and earn rewards. The platform incorporates blockchain technology to offer personalized land ownership within its worlds, allowing players to engage with a crypto ecosystem and receive cryptocurrency tokens as incentives.

Here Not There Labs is a web3-focused software company building Towns, a blockchain-based messaging protocol and web app for online communities. The Towns platform enables self-owned and self-governed conversations by running on an on-chain protocol, designed to connect the right people at the right time to discuss topics and minimize meetings. The product aims to improve collaboration by linking conversations about work and facilitating decentralized, topic-centered discussions. The company is led by CEO Ben Rubin and comprises web3 creators who build decentralized communication tools for communities.

Entropy provides crypto custody services to keep private keys secure and make assets available on demand. Its services specialize in creating a decentralized network leveraging advanced threshold cryptography and multi-party computation. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York.

Adim is a platform and community that enables storytellers, fans, and creators to develop and own ongoing narratives, characters, and narrative universes. It provides a web3-enabled environment where creators can connect, collaborate, and receive mentorship from established writers to build stories and interactive worlds. The platform supports ownership of creative output by its community, allowing participants to share in the value generated as they work together to reach their creative potential.

Dzone Finance is a cross-chain Dex and Bridge aggregator.

Flowcarbon is a provider of capital services focused on infrastructure and decarbonization, leveraging investment banking, project finance, tax credit, and broader financial markets expertise to help innovative companies access creative funding. The firm offers end-to-end support for asset-level transactions, including project screening and diligence, deal structuring, and financial advisory, enabling clients to navigate complex financing and engage with lenders, investors, and partners. Headquartered in New York and founded in 2021, Flowcarbon targets niche sectors by combining financial engineering with market access to streamline capital solutions for decarbonization and related infrastructure initiatives.

Lightspark develops enterprise-grade payment infrastructure, facilitating open, instant, and programmable money movement across the internet. Its platform enables businesses to accept digital payments and receive fiat currency instantly while transacting on the Lightning Network.

Kickstarter is a global crowdfunding platform founded in 2009. It connects creators with backers to fund creative projects across various fields such as arts, film, games, music, and technology. Backers receive rewards or exclusive experiences in exchange for their pledges. Kickstarter charges a 5% fee on funds raised.

Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.

Kickstarter is a global crowdfunding platform founded in 2009. It connects creators with backers to fund creative projects across various fields such as arts, film, games, music, and technology. Backers receive rewards or exclusive experiences in exchange for their pledges. Kickstarter charges a 5% fee on funds raised.

Eco Inc. is a financial technology company focused on enhancing the value of money through innovative software solutions. As a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol, the company aims to optimize financial transactions and promote efficient banking practices. Eco also develops Bend, a platform designed to offer rewarding financial solutions that align with the expectations of modern consumers. Through its commitment to improving how individuals interact with their finances, Eco seeks to drive a new standard for money management.

Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.

Warbler Labs is a fintech company focused on blockchain development and crypto technology solutions for businesses. The firm is developing a decentralized credit platform that enables stablecoin loans without crypto collateral, while offering KYC-compliant identities, a blockchain-based robo-adviser, and an interoperable credit infrastructure. This approach aims to expand access to capital in emerging markets and provide a stable yield to lenders, enabling global investors and borrowers to access private credit markets and financial services previously available mainly to the wealthy.

Eco Inc. is a financial technology company focused on enhancing the value of money through innovative software solutions. As a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol, the company aims to optimize financial transactions and promote efficient banking practices. Eco also develops Bend, a platform designed to offer rewarding financial solutions that align with the expectations of modern consumers. Through its commitment to improving how individuals interact with their finances, Eco seeks to drive a new standard for money management.

Reflexer Labs is a United States based company developing low-volatility collateral for decentralized finance. Founded in 2020, it aims to provide a stable and secure asset by dampening volatility within crypto markets. Its product applies control theory to smart contracts to automatically adjust the supply of collateral, mirroring the behavior of underlying assets while reducing price swings. The approach helps minimize investment loss risk for users participating in decentralized finance strategies.

Handshake, established in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, offers a decentralized naming protocol built on blockchain technology. It provides an alternative to traditional certificate authorities, enabling a peer-to-peer network to manage the root zone file, making it uncensorable and free of gatekeepers.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Arweave is a technology company specializing in secure data storage using blockchain. Its platform ensures high levels of data replication and security while incentivizing network participants.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Arweave is a technology company specializing in secure data storage using blockchain. Its platform ensures high levels of data replication and security while incentivizing network participants.

Celo is an open platform focused on providing financial tools to individuals with mobile phones, aiming to foster prosperity for all. It has developed a mobile-first blockchain platform that facilitates access to financial services and aims to enhance financial stability. The platform employs alphanumeric strings for cryptocurrency transactions, allowing users to transfer money quickly, securely, and reliably. Through these innovations, Celo seeks to democratize financial access and create a more inclusive monetary system.

Forte is building economic technology for games that is secure, easy to use, and fully compliant. Its end-to-end blockchain platform enables the emergence of community economics, a system where the interests of game developers and players are aligned, leading to healthier, sustainable game communities. The team is composed of longtime industry members (Unity, ngmoco, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Sony, and Rockstar Games, among others), and is currently working with over 25 acclaimed game developers from across the globe to reimagine the economics of games.

Founded in 2017 by an ex-Coinbase engineer, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, and Spot trading on Ethereum. It combines the security of a decentralized exchange with the speed and usability of a centralized one.

Oasis Labs, Inc. is a blockchain technology company founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates a privacy-first cloud computing platform designed for scalable and privacy-preserving smart contracts. The platform enables the development of decentralized applications that prioritize privacy and performance, addressing challenges related to data security and scalability in real-world applications. Oasis Labs offers a suite of tools, including privacy tools, development SDKs, and dashboards, that facilitate the creation and management of smart contracts while ensuring secure data handling across businesses. The company's innovative approach aims to enhance blockchain adoption by overcoming traditional limitations associated with performance and privacy.