Delta One is a yield generation protocol on Solana that offers novel delta-neutral and impermanent loss-free farming markets. Its mission is to create novel, easy-to-use Defi primitives that democratize the best risk-adjusted yield opportunities to achieve mass adoption of crypto investing.
VALR is a cryptocurrency exchange platform based in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 2018. It provides a digital asset trading service that allows customers to buy, sell, store, and transfer over 50 different cryptocurrencies. The platform emphasizes security, incorporating multiple layers of protection to safeguard customer accounts and funds. VALR aims to offer a fair and transparent financial service, contributing to the development of a more inclusive financial system.
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Ref Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform built on the NEAR Protocol, offering a range of financial services including a decentralized exchange, lending protocol, and synthetic asset issuance. The platform is designed to provide users with a trading experience similar to centralized services while maintaining the advantages of decentralization. Ref Finance allows for low-cost transactions, typically costing less than $0.01, and ensures quick network transaction finality, often within two seconds. By consolidating various DeFi tools into a single platform, Ref Finance aims to enhance accessibility and efficiency for its users.
Portals is a developer of a browser-based metaverse that provides an immersive social environment for users to explore and connect with others. The platform features intuitive drag-and-drop building tools and integrated communication capabilities, allowing users to create customized virtual spaces, including residences, offices, game experiences, and storefronts. This enables individuals to gather, socialize, and engage in various activities within a dynamic digital landscape.
Aver is a decentralized peer-to-peer betting exchange built on the Solana blockchain and the world’s first decentralized Web3 betting exchange.
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Metaplex Studios, founded in 2021, offers a platform that empowers developers and creators to establish their own non-fungible token (NFT) storefronts without requiring approval. This NFT-based platform enables artists and brands to build direct relationships with their audiences by providing user-friendly, drag-and-drop tools that simplify the process of launching self-hosted NFT enterprises. By connecting directly to the blockchain, Metaplex allows for low minting costs, making it accessible for creators to engage with their communities effectively.
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.
TDX Strategies is a developer of an institutional-grade investment solutions platform focused on digital assets. The company creates digital investment solutions that are designed to be easily accessible and comprehensible for a wide range of users, including funds, corporates, family offices, high net worth clients, and professional traders. By offering a suite of advanced products tailored for digital investments, TDX Strategies aims to facilitate broader participation in the digital asset market and contribute to global economic growth.
Developer of a metaverse social commerce platform intended to help users to design their own virtual spaces. The company's platform provides tools that help users create shops, galleries, or music venues, where owners can display their virtual goods for purchase and represent the creators in different avatars, alongside offering spatial audio, enabling clients to see and hear each other while they're browsing in the different shops and venues and permitting them to make money from their artwork, music and other items.
StockTwits, Inc. operates a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community to share ideas, news, and information. The company offers StockTwits, a specialized communications platform built around individual stock tickers that provides a natural channel to ensure that companies get their messages out, as well as $TICKER streams that consist of ideas, links, charts, and other financial data. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in New York, New York.
Stacked develops an automated cryptocurrency investment platform. It enables everyone to invest in crypto indices, access trading bots, and automate portfolio management. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
1inch Limited is a company that specializes in developing decentralized protocols for cryptocurrency trading. Founded in 2019 and based in the United States, 1inch operates the 1inch Network, which includes several key protocols: the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, the 1inch Liquidity Protocol, and the 1inch Limit Order Protocol. These protocols work together to facilitate efficient and secure trading operations in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, allowing users to execute transactions that are both profitable and fast. Through its innovative technology, 1inch aims to enhance the trading experience for users in the growing cryptocurrency market.
GuildFi is a gaming platform that empowers all gamer communities and creates interoperability across the Metaverse.
Operator of a crypto-assets trading platform intended to provide a safe and easy way to buy and sell digital assets. The company's exchange platform offers retail and institutional clients to buy and sell cryptocurrencies and tokens and also offers news and updates on the crypto space, enabling investors to participate in the digital economy in an efficient way.
BitMax is global operator of digital asset exchanges for diverse groups of clients from retail to institutions.
Developer of a global digital asset trading platform designed to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. The company's platform provides facilities such as financial derivatives, cash, margin and later-stage leveraged trading on various tokens, enabling investors with liquidity provision, and growth opportunities within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Drift Protocol brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.
BitOasis Technologies FZE is a fintech company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 2015. The company operates an online platform that enables users to buy and sell bitcoins across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. BitOasis aims to provide a secure and regulated infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading, catering to both retail and institutional clients. Its platform includes a bitcoin exchange, wallet services, and various integrations designed to facilitate seamless digital transactions. By focusing on emerging markets, BitOasis seeks to onboard consumers and businesses into an efficient, borderless payment system using blockchain technology.
DoinGud operates an online marketplace for companies that use non-fungible tokens. It allows various users to join, from artists that wants to promote their works, collectors that searches for new products, and businesses that aim for sustainable goals. DoinGud is based in Zug, Switzerland.
Decentralized trading protocol on the Cardano blockchain geared towards scalability, sustainability, and providing innovative features within the realm of decentralized finance.
dTrade is a decentralised trading platform for options and perpetuals contracts. It is built on a Polkadot Smart Contract Chain and is designed to function as a fully decentralized public utility owned and controlled by the community of token holders. dTrade was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
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Zenlink is a developer of a cross-chain blockchain network platform based in China, founded in 2020. The platform aims to provide users with a seamless transaction experience by enabling trading across multiple chains without the complexities typically associated with them. It features the Zenlink DEX Protocol, which serves as a unified framework, alongside the Zenlink DEX Module that allows parachains to integrate decentralized exchange capabilities. Additionally, the Zenlink Token facilitates governance and value capture within the ecosystem, incentivizing participation and long-term development. By offering low fees, minimal slippage, and high-speed trading, Zenlink enhances the efficiency and accessibility of asset trading for its users.
UXD Protocol is a decentralized platform that operates on the Solana blockchain, focusing on facilitating digital asset transactions. It offers an algorithmic stablecoin designed to maintain its value by holding and balancing various cryptocurrencies as collateral. This innovative approach allows the protocol to automatically generate interest for users, enabling them to earn from their crypto transactions. By combining stability with the potential for earnings, UXD Protocol aims to provide a reliable option for investors in the evolving digital asset landscape.
Developer of a community-based decentralized exchange platform designed for crypto trading. The company's platform offers a decentralized automated full limit order book, crypto wallet, and NFT option with an interface familiar to centralized exchanges, enabling crypto traders to trade fast and store and manage digital assets with an intuitive interface.
Archblock, formerly known as TrustToken, Inc., operates a platform for creating asset-backed tokens that facilitate global buying and selling. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to provide a seamless way to tokenize various assets, enabling the conversion of physical assets like gold into digital tokens. Its flagship product, TrueUSD, is a stablecoin that can be redeemed on a 1-for-1 basis for US dollars. Archblock employs a team with diverse backgrounds from prestigious institutions and companies, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and major financial and tech firms. The platform is designed to align incentives among participants while ensuring compliance with fiduciary standards and creating a transparent audit trail of asset management.
Hedgehog Markets operates a decentralized prediction markets platform on the Solana blockchain. This platform offers users the ability to trade based on collective beliefs and insights, facilitating discussions around various topics such as politics, economics, and decentralized finance. Users can earn yields on their funds while engaging in these markets, all without the need to surrender custody of their assets to a central authority. By providing accessible and verifiable market opportunities, Hedgehog Markets aims to harness the wisdom of crowds for informed decision-making.
Provider of a decentralized finance protocol intended to create permissionless asset management tools and services. The company redeploys LP into yield farms and swaps tokens into supported ones, and provides borrowers with options to repay their debt using advanced financial principles of modern portfolio theory, enabling users to have more control over their financial transactions.
WonderFi is a technology company focused on enhancing user engagement with decentralized finance (DeFi) by simplifying complex interactions that hinder mainstream adoption. Operating through three segments—Trading, Payments, and Corporate—the company primarily generates revenue from its Trading segment, which includes the cryptocurrency exchange platforms Bitbuy, Coinsquare, and CoinSmart. By providing accessible solutions, WonderFi aims to facilitate digital access and promote broader participation in the evolving financial landscape.
Developer of a blockchain-based pricing platform designed for illiquid assets.The company's platform uses a Determinant-based Mutual Information (DMI) mechanism, in which participants are asked subjective multiple-choice questions to find a fair price for illiquid assets, and predicts pricing information for pre-IPO stocks, private equity, and other illiquid assets.
Developer of a blockchain-based pricing platform designed for illiquid assets.The company's platform uses a Determinant-based Mutual Information (DMI) mechanism, in which participants are asked subjective multiple-choice questions to find a fair price for illiquid assets, and predicts pricing information for pre-IPO stocks, private equity, and other illiquid assets.
Developer of a crypto market data application designed to track cryptocurrency prices and charts from all exchanges. The company's application offers real-time charts, prices, and information from all global exchanges along with filtered tweets and headlines from news sources, enabling users to have clarity about the cryptocurrency scenario in the financial market.
Developer of a gaming platform designed to craft online adventures through space and time. The company develops a platform that is a multiplayer action role-playing game, enabling players to acquire, hold and trade NFT-based virtual items without the barriers present in most blockchain applications.
Operator of a layered protocol intended to build and operate emerging generations of CeFi-Defi hybrid exchanges. The company's protocol will combine centralized order-matching and trade execution with decentralized trustless custody and post-trade settlement, enabling users to get non-custodial trading options.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Step Finance is a decentralized finance protocol built on the Solana blockchain. It focuses on aggregating liquidity providers, tokens, farms, and user positions linked to individual wallets. The platform provides an intuitive dashboard that includes essential metrics and visualizations, allowing users to seamlessly engage with a variety of decentralized finance protocols. Users can manage activities such as farming, participating in liquidity pools, executing swaps, and utilizing automated strategies directly from the platform, enhancing their interaction with the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Anchor Protocol is a savings platform that provides crypto natives, fintech companies, and investors a stable, high interest rate finance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
Developer of an Ethereum-based volatility and derivatives protocol designed to revolutionize decentralized finance applications and investment opportunities. The company's platform leverages optimism layer-two scaling expertise to make index querying and future buying and selling performance cheap, enabling traders to have a view of the anticipated volatility of the underlying asset.
Efficient Frontier is a cryptocurrency algorithmic trading firm and liquidity provider trading over $1 Billion a week. With over 13 years of high frequency trading experience, we research and develop quantitative strategies and market make for many leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital asset issuers. Since entering the digital asset industry, we have built some of the most sophisticated trading infrastructure in this ecosystem for electronic trading and execution in both spot and derivatives markets. Alongside our industry-leading partners, we have rapidly expanded our team and services and now work from two global hubs: Tel Aviv and San Francisco.
Sommelier is a financial platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) that caters to traders and liquidity providers. It features a modular protocol, a bi-directional Ethereum bridge, and automated signature management, ensuring a secure environment through decentralized governance. The platform enables users to author and execute complex and automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing and limit orders. By providing these capabilities, Sommelier aims to bridge the gap between the functionalities offered by centralized finance and those available in the DeFi space, delivering a robust solution for modern financial transactions.
Sommelier is a financial platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi) that caters to traders and liquidity providers. It features a modular protocol, a bi-directional Ethereum bridge, and automated signature management, ensuring a secure environment through decentralized governance. The platform enables users to author and execute complex and automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing and limit orders. By providing these capabilities, Sommelier aims to bridge the gap between the functionalities offered by centralized finance and those available in the DeFi space, delivering a robust solution for modern financial transactions.
Oxygen.org is a decentralized brokerage protocol focused on digital assets and leveraged trading. Its platform provides a decentralized prime brokerage solution, a DeFi wallet, and a dedicated token. This infrastructure allows users to engage in borrowing, lending, and trading with leverage, thereby democratizing access to these financial services. Users can earn yields, borrow from peers, and trade directly from their asset pools, all while obtaining trading leverage against their portfolios.
Convergence Finance is a decentralized exchange platform focused on tokenized real-world assets. By utilizing smart contracts, the platform aims to enhance liquidity and facilitate the trading of both real-world and crypto-native assets. Its innovative automated market maker model is designed to provide greater transparency and inclusivity for investors, transforming the way assets are traded in the digital landscape. Through this approach, Convergence Finance seeks to bridge traditional finance with blockchain technology, making asset trading more accessible and efficient for a broader audience.
Balancer Labs operates an exchange focused on decentralized finance, providing a platform for programmable liquidity. Founded in 2018 and based in the United States, the company facilitates the exchange of tokens without the need for deposits, bids, asks, or order management. As a non-custodial portfolio manager and liquidity provider, Balancer Labs also functions as a price sensor, enabling users to manage their assets efficiently while maintaining control over their funds.
Saddle Finance operates an automated market maker (AMM) platform specifically designed for trading pegged value crypto assets. Its innovative financial trading platform facilitates trading and earning opportunities with these assets by utilizing a tokenized bitcoin pool. This approach enhances on-chain liquidity, allowing traders to execute transactions with minimal slippage and reduced transaction fees. By focusing on the unique requirements of pegged value assets, Saddle Finance aims to provide an efficient and cost-effective trading experience for its users.
Union Protocol Foundation is a technology platform that combines bundled protection and a liquid secondary market.
Archax is a forthcoming global, regulated, digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London. Founded by experts from the regulated financial markets world and backed by an accomplished advisory board, Archax offers a credible bridge between the new blockchain-centric crypto community and the traditional investment space.
Horizon Finance is a platform focused on decentralized interest rate markets and protocol cash flow markets. It allows users to deposit their funds and compete for preferential payment by capping their yield, thereby outperforming or underperforming the benchmark interest rate.
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Persistence operates a platform that enables users to borrow stablecoins by leveraging real-world assets, such as invoices, as collateral. This approach effectively connects decentralized finance with traditional finance, addressing real-world financing challenges. The platform aims to enhance liquidity for users by aggregating resources from crypto investors and lenders. By facilitating the seamless exchange of value, Persistence seeks to improve the speed and efficiency of cross-border trade and financing, ultimately addressing the financing gap faced by many businesses.
Opium Team operates a blockchain-based financial platform that focuses on the creation, settlement, and trading of derivatives. Founded in 2018 and based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the company provides a decentralized protocol for various financial applications, including trade settlement and risk management. Users can create derivatives, utilize oracles for asset pricing, and manage portfolios within this ecosystem. The platform also features smart contracts, a crypto wallet, and an API, facilitating a transparent and audited framework for trading products like ETH futures, gas options, and synthetic pre-markets for decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens. By leveraging innovative technology, Opium Team aims to disrupt traditional financial services with its comprehensive range of offerings.
ParaSwap Network SAS is a decentralized finance platform based in Paris, France, established in 2020. The company addresses liquidity issues in the cryptocurrency markets by aggregating various decentralized exchanges into a single platform. This approach allows users to execute optimized and secure transactions by splitting orders across multiple exchanges, ensuring competitive market prices and enhanced liquidity. Currently, ParaSwap primarily facilitates trading for Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, with plans to expand its services to include most major blockchains, thereby enhancing transparency and accessibility in the crypto trading environment.
Manage your DeFi positions across multiple protocols without compromising your safety or security.
LeverFi is a decentralized finance platform that enables users to unlock liquid capital from their staked digital assets. By allowing users to collateralize their portfolios of staked assets into a common stablecoin, the platform facilitates borrowing of fiat-backed currencies, such as USDT or USDC. This innovative approach ensures that users can continue earning staking rewards and benefit from capital appreciation while also redeploying their staked capital into new investment opportunities. LeverFi's products include a cross-chain liquidity bridge, which enhances capital deployment decisions and allows clients to optimize their strategies for profit across multiple revenue streams.
Sifchain is an innovative omni-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) designed to enhance liquidity across multiple blockchain networks, thereby reducing transaction fees and improving trading efficiency. Built on the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK), Sifchain is compatible with various Cosmos Network blockchains, allowing seamless interactions through the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. This interoperability enables Sifchain to offer a trading experience that combines the advantages of liquidity pools and order books, ensuring optimal order execution. By focusing on cross-chain liquidity, Sifchain aims to address fundamental challenges in the blockchain industry, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of decentralized finance. The platform’s design prioritizes efficiency, claiming to be significantly more cost-effective and faster than traditional Ethereum-based exchanges.
Folkvang is a digital asset quant trading firm and liquidity provider that specializes in cryptocurrency markets. Established in 2020 and located in Hong Kong, the company engages in quantitative trading strategies to optimize liquidity on various cryptocurrency platforms. By leveraging advanced algorithms and market analysis, Folkvang aims to enhance trading efficiency and provide liquidity solutions within the rapidly evolving digital asset landscape.
Archax is a forthcoming global, regulated, digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London. Founded by experts from the regulated financial markets world and backed by an accomplished advisory board, Archax offers a credible bridge between the new blockchain-centric crypto community and the traditional investment space.