Elixir is a decentralized protocol that facilitates algorithmic market-making across both centralized and decentralized exchanges. It is designed to enhance composability for integrations, allowing retail users to engage in market-making activities and potentially earn profits. Additionally, Elixir provides projects and trading venues with access to active market-making services for their trading pairs, thus promoting liquidity and efficiency in the market. The protocol emphasizes computational security, ensuring that transactions and market activities are conducted safely and reliably.
Wixpool is a liquidity mining mechanism that is based on the Wixpool Rate Stabiliser (WRS) algorithm. Wixpool, led by WRS, allows anybody to invest in high-yield liquidity pools with a steady interest rate by pooling the assets of private users into an automated ecosystem.
Thala Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Thala Labs is a decentralized financial firm that develops DeFi applications on the Aptos blockchain and is already working on a decentralized stablecoin.
Permian Labs
Venture Round in 2022
Permian Labs, established in 2021, specializes in consumer financing for advanced computing power. Its platform facilitates the acquisition of high-performance GPUs, enabling customers to access cutting-edge technology for innovation. Since inception, the company has facilitated $400 million in loan volume and operates $60 million in compute-oriented hardware globally through its Tactical Compute arm.
MPCH provides Enterprise Key Management infrastructure that enables financial institutions to fully secure and manage their digital assets
Community Labs
Series A in 2022
Community Labs is a software development company that specializes in accelerating adoption of Arweave through developer tools, use cases, and ecosystem growth.
Kemet Trading
Seed Round in 2022
Kemet Trading specializes in providing institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading. Its platform optimizes access to liquidity, facilitates advanced trade execution, offers real-time risk management, and ensures robust security, enabling investors to trade digital asset options, futures, and perpetuals.
DAM
Pre Seed Round in 2022
DAM develops a liquidity protocol for cross-chain token portfolios that backs stablecoins. The protocol supports an omnichain stablecoin named d2O and enables borrowers to deposit baskets of tokens in a single transaction to mint a Dotsama stablecoin on Moonbeam. This setup aims to give borrowers more purchasing power flexibility and simpler vault maintenance, while accepting a broader set of blockchain-secured assets as collateral. By linking assets across networks, DAM seeks to expand native liquidity, improve cross-chain borrowing, and increase collateral options within the Moonbeam-Dotsama ecosystem.
Gearbox Protocol
Venture Round in 2022
Gearbox Protocol is a decentralized leveraged protocol provider that enables users to obtain leverage in a straightforward manner. The protocol operates as a two-sided lending marketplace, facilitating leverage that can be utilized across various decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms in a composable way. Gearbox Protocol offers a software platform that delivers leverage-as-a-service, allowing clients to automate and program their DeFi positions. This approach enhances capital efficiency and improves the overall composability of users' financial activities within the decentralized ecosystem.
Hashflow is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that allows users to trade digital assets seamlessly across multiple leading blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana. Launched in April 2021, Hashflow employs an intent-based smart order routing system to ensure traders receive optimal prices, drawing from over $8 billion in liquidity and enabling the trading of any token. The platform has successfully facilitated over $18 billion in total trade volume. Hashflow's team comprises experienced professionals from renowned companies in both web2 and web3 sectors, bringing expertise from organizations such as Airbnb, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and Google. The company is supported by notable investors, including Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, among others. Hashflow aims to enhance the trading experience by combining centralized order-matching and trade execution with decentralized custody, thereby offering users non-custodial trading options.
MoHash is a decentralized finance protocol that facilitates global capital access and liquidity for private debt markets in fast-growing economies by leveraging stablecoin crypto assets.
Frontrunner
Seed Round in 2022
Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market that enables users to buy and sell shares of sports propositions and futures, functioning similarly to a stock trading platform. This innovative platform allows users to dynamically manage their portfolios by trading positions as odds fluctuate, thus providing greater control compared to traditional sportsbooks where bets are static. By utilizing blockchain technology, Frontrunner fosters fully transparent markets and liquid trading opportunities, fundamentally transforming how individuals invest in their sports insights and beliefs. The company's vision is to integrate decentralized finance concepts into the realm of sports betting, creating a marketplace that aligns financial trading with sports derivatives.
Oasis Pro Markets
Series A in 2022
Oasis Pro Markets is a fintech company that operates an alternative trading platform focused on digital securities and digital equity. It facilitates the trading of real-world assets and provides a comprehensive investment banking service that includes tokenization, primary issuance, and secondary trading. The platform is designed for both initial issuance and ongoing transactions, allowing buyers and sellers to engage in a secondary market. Oasis Pro Markets also offers transfer agent services and supports payments in both digital cash and fiat currencies, thereby enabling users to trade blockchain-based securities efficiently.
Nomad is a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication.
Vovo Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Vovo Finance is a cryptocurrency-based company focused on decentralized finance. It develops a structured platform that offers a range of financial products designed to optimize the risk-reward ratio for users. By utilizing packaged financial instruments, the company enables users to engage in customizable yield collection from leveraged crypto trades. Vovo Finance's structured products incorporate various risk-return profiles, market biases, lockup periods, and token deposits, allowing for tailored investment strategies and enhanced financial opportunities in the cryptocurrency market.
Ren Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Ren Labs is a multichain technology promoting the research and development of initiatives to expand the Ren ecosystem and the broader blockchain space.
Console is the non-custodial multi-chain account to secure, navigate, and automate on-chain interactions. Built for pros. Easy for all.
Stables
Seed Round in 2022
Stables offers a secure digital wallet for managing stablecoins, providing users with a stable and accessible alternative to traditional banking services.
Spritz Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Spritz Finance operates a platform that enables users to pay bills using cryptocurrency. Users can choose where funds are drawn from, link existing crypto wallets, and manage expenses through their crypto holdings.
Bribe is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enhances governance participation by creating an incentivized marketplace for governance voting. The platform allows users to form coalitions and engage in auctions for governance votes, democratizing the process and enabling broader participation beyond major stakeholders. By improving existing DeFi governance models, Bribe establishes a transparent and open marketplace that facilitates coordination among voters, ultimately increasing engagement in governance activities. This innovative approach not only fosters a more inclusive environment but also generates new opportunities for token holders to earn yields through their participation in governance.
Exotic Markets
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Exotic Markets is a company that operates in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, leveraging the Solana blockchain to create innovative financial solutions. It aims to democratize access to investment opportunities by offering structured products that cater to a wide range of investors. The platform provides users with flexible financial instruments, including token-based payoffs, trading ranges, accumulators, and capital preservation options. By focusing on simplicity and sustainability, Exotic Markets helps investors diversify their portfolios and maximize returns through user-friendly products. The company distinguishes itself by bringing wealth management solutions traditionally reserved for banks into the decentralized finance realm.
Alliance
Seed Round in 2021
Alliance is a Web3 accelerator and founder community that supports crypto startups through mentorship and practical guidance. It provides expertise in customer development, product strategy, token economics, regulatory considerations, and go-to-market efforts to help teams refine their product and navigate early-stage challenges, while connecting founders with a broad network of builders to improve sales, user testing, partnerships, and fundraising outcomes.
Zeta Markets
Seed Round in 2021
Zeta Markets is a decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives platform operating on the Solana blockchain. It offers liquid derivatives trading for individuals and institutions, enabling users to hedge, speculate, or take positions on various market movements. The platform provides real-time pricing updates, instant trade execution, and low-cost settlements.
Hxro specializes in crypto trading, offering users options to speculate on cryptocurrency prices, hedge risks, and automate trades through its user-friendly platform.
Hxro
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Hxro specializes in crypto trading, offering users options to speculate on cryptocurrency prices, hedge risks, and automate trades through its user-friendly platform.
Stables
Seed Round in 2021
Stables offers a secure digital wallet for managing stablecoins, providing users with a stable and accessible alternative to traditional banking services.
Pool Data
Seed Round in 2021
Pool Data is a consumer technology company that develops Pocket, a user-facing app and browser extension designed to let individuals connect their browser and banking data, gain personal data insights, and access AI-powered recommendations. Users can opt to share anonymized insights in exchange for cash-back rewards, while brands receive permissioned data through a data-delivery interface. The offering addresses privacy regulation and anti-tracking trends that complicate how non-major platforms understand and reach customers, positioning Pool Data as a privacy-focused alternative in the data economy. The product suite aims to empower consumers with control over their information and provide brands with actionable, consent-based data to tailor offers and experiences.
Ariadne
Seed Round in 2021
Ariadne is a cross-chain DeFi marketplace that is lowering the fees to enter/exit farms on multiple blockchains and saves swaps and bridges costs for both EVM and non-EVM chains.
Ariadne enables users of any supported chain to enter/exit yield farms on a multitude of blockchains, with virtually no lower limit of investment, and without having to deal with bridges, swaps and slippage, transaction costs on receiving blockchains etc.
PsyOptions
Seed Round in 2021
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.
Stader Labs
Seed Round in 2021
Stader Labs specializes in developing decentralized financial protocols and applications focused on efficient stake management across public blockchain networks. The company aims to serve as a distribution layer for staking, creating protocols and products that enhance the security, decentralization, liquidity, and governance of prominent delegated proof-of-stake blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Terra, Polygon, and Solana. By providing sustainable staking yields from digital assets, Stader Labs seeks to optimize the staking experience for its users and contribute to the overall health of the blockchain ecosystem.
Apricot Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Apricot Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) service provider that focuses on enhancing yield and reducing risk for users. The company operates a collateralized lending protocol designed to maximize borrowing power while minimizing liquidation penalties and uncertainties. Its platform offers borrowers competitive borrowing capabilities, emphasizing low liquidation penalties and high predictability within the DeFi sector. By providing these services, Apricot Finance enables investors to achieve significant profits in cryptocurrency.
Loda.fi
Venture Round in 2021
Loda.fi is a lending platform that allows users to leverage cryptocurrency as collateral for loans. The platform enables users to deposit their crypto assets into an account, from which they can open a credit line determined by the value of the deposited assets. Once approved, the funds are directly transferred to the borrower's bank account, offering flexibility in accessing credit. This model provides an innovative solution for individuals looking to obtain loans while utilizing their cryptocurrency holdings.
bloXroute Labs
Funding Round in 2021
bloXroute Labs, Inc. is a company focused on providing blockchain scalability solutions that enable cryptocurrencies and blockchains to process thousands of transactions per second without requiring protocol changes. Established in 2018 and based in Evanston, Illinois, the company operates a blockchain distribution network that enhances the efficiency of data propagation across all blockchains. By utilizing a global network of servers optimized for performance through advanced techniques like compression and encryption, bloXroute Labs ensures that all nodes can maintain consensus even as transaction volumes soar. This provably neutral platform supports a wide range of blockchains, facilitating improved transaction throughput and addressing scalability challenges at the network layer.
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Dexlab is a decentralized exchange platform that specializes in the minting and listing of tokens for projects built on the Solana blockchain. The platform facilitates investment opportunities for crypto traders by allowing them to buy and sell various tokens efficiently. By leveraging the Serum decentralized exchange's central order book, Dexlab enhances transaction speed, liquidity, and introduces innovative monetization features. This approach enables users to navigate both blockchain and non-blockchain projects, positioning Dexlab as a key player in the decentralized finance landscape.
Qredo
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Qredo Ltd is a London-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate the secure and efficient movement of digital assets for institutional traders. Established in 2011, Qredo provides an open protocol and decentralized, multi-party computation network that enhances the security and custody of digital assets. Its solutions address the operational challenges and security risks associated with wallet key management, trading, storage, and transfer of these assets. By offering features such as cross-chain liquidity, treasury management tools, and peer-to-peer trading venues, Qredo aims to streamline the digital asset management process while mitigating cyber threats.
Unbound Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Unbound Finance is a decentralized finance platform that focuses on unlocking liquidity from automated market-making pools. By allowing users to utilize liquidity pool tokens as collateral, the platform enables the minting of synthetic assets and facilitates a debt-free liquidity provision system. This innovative approach allows users to compound earnings while accessing liquidity from existing platforms, enhancing the efficiency and flexibility of capital in the decentralized finance ecosystem.
arcX
Venture Round in 2021
arcX is a training organization that specializes in providing a range of accredited cybersecurity training programs. As a CREST Approved Training Provider, it offers courses in various areas including penetration testing, threat intelligence, incident response, and security analysis. The company is dedicated to equipping individuals with the necessary skills and certifications to excel in the cybersecurity field, supporting both professional development and industry standards.
bitsCrunch
Seed Round in 2021
BitsCrunch specializes in AI-driven decentralized data analytics for digital assets on public blockchains. Its platform offers advanced analytics and forensics tools tailored for NFTs, wallets, and other blockchain-based assets.
Composable Finance
Venture Round in 2021
Composable Finance develops infrastructure to enable a multi-layer, multi-chain future for Ethereum and other Layer 1 blockchains. It builds cross-layer, cross-chain interoperability technology that connects Ethereum layer-two solutions and allows smart contracts from different Layer 1 networks to run together on a single parachain, enabling liquidity fragmentation and broader financial and creative freedom for developers and traders.
Zignaly
Venture Round in 2021
Zignaly is an open trading platform for cryptocurrencies. It provides a platform for investors looking to add digital assets to their portfolios by lowering the barrier to entry. The platform enables them to share their track record and expertise so that members on the platform can let the experts handle all of the heavy liftings — while sharing in the profits, resulting in a win/win situation for both member and trader. Zignaly onboards traders and fund managers, and enables them to share their track record and expertise.
It was founded in 2018 and is based in Spain.
Zignaly
Seed Round in 2021
Zignaly is an open trading platform for cryptocurrencies. It provides a platform for investors looking to add digital assets to their portfolios by lowering the barrier to entry. The platform enables them to share their track record and expertise so that members on the platform can let the experts handle all of the heavy liftings — while sharing in the profits, resulting in a win/win situation for both member and trader. Zignaly onboards traders and fund managers, and enables them to share their track record and expertise.
It was founded in 2018 and is based in Spain.
CERE Network
Venture Round in 2021
CERE Network is a blockchain-based company that specializes in developing a customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem designed for data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CERE Network offers a platform that extracts customer data from various monolithic and disparate CRM and customer data platform systems. This platform provides an open micro-services environment that facilitates data collaboration and integration between businesses and vendors. Additionally, CERE Network utilizes blockchain technology to capture the entire customer journey, securely storing key user data such as purchases and achievements in user wallets. The company also introduces its own tokens, which are used for payment within its ecosystem.
Bluefin
Seed Round in 2021
Bluefin operates a decentralized derivatives exchange that leverages innovative blockchain technology to facilitate access to global financial markets. The platform is designed for both novice and experienced traders, offering features such as leverage trading, short selling, and rapid trade settlement. By combining the security and transparency of decentralized systems with the efficiency and low costs typically associated with centralized exchanges, Bluefin aims to democratize trading for users worldwide. The company is supported by a group of prominent investors, enhancing its position in the competitive trading landscape.
Poolin
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Poolin is a multi-cryptocurrency mining pool that facilitates the mining of various digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Zcash, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Dash, Monero, Dogecoin, and others. The company operates a platform that supports mainstream cryptocurrency mining and offers a range of services, including blockchain browsers, mining pools, and digital wallets, to enhance the client experience. By providing high computing power and efficient mining solutions, Poolin caters to a diverse clientele within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Rari Capital
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Rari Capital develops products intended to improve efficiency in the cryptocurrency market. Its primary offering is software that automatically rebalances users' holdings across multiple DeFi protocols to deliver the highest yield. The platform provides tools for designing investment plans, calculating expected returns, and facilitating trade execution, using smart contracts to maintain non-custodial ownership of digital assets. It enables users to tailor financial strategies based on insights, indicators, charts, and news updates.
Calaxy operates an open social marketplace designed by creators for creators, utilizing blockchain technology to facilitate direct interactions between creators and their fans worldwide.
Dexlab is an IT firm dedicated to making the decentralized economy accessible to a wide audience. The company focuses on providing innovative solutions that bridge the gap between traditional economic systems and the emerging decentralized landscape. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, Dexlab aims to empower individuals and businesses alike, fostering participation in a new economic paradigm. Through its commitment to accessibility, Dexlab seeks to simplify the complexities of decentralized technologies, enabling users to navigate and benefit from these advancements effortlessly.
DefiDollar
Seed Round in 2020
DefiDollar is a company based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2020, that specializes in developing and operating a meta stablecoin index. This index leverages decentralized finance (DeFi) principles to maintain stability near the dollar value, offering users a mechanism to diversify and de-risk their stablecoin holdings. By utilizing Curve Finance LP tokens, DefiDollar’s platform allows users to hedge against potential deviations of underlying stablecoins from their pegged values. Additionally, the company enables users to earn yields with reduced volatility, making it a valuable option for those seeking stability in the volatile cryptocurrency landscape.
Unique Network
Seed Round in 2020
Unique Network, established in 2019 and headquartered in Gibraltar, is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the blockchain infrastructure sector, specifically focusing on companies developing non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Covalent
Venture Round in 2020
Covalent Research & Development Inc. is a technology company based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on enhancing transparency and accountability in the cryptocurrency sector. Established in 2018, Covalent develops a data analytics suite that addresses significant infrastructure challenges obstructing blockchain adoption. Its offerings include on-chain data and analytics for the Ethereum network, as well as APIs that provide visibility and transparency across various blockchain networks. The company aims to bridge centralized databases with decentralized blockchain technologies, thereby facilitating adoption among enterprises and consumers. Covalent supports several leading decentralized finance protocols and is actively building tools like SafeKeeep, which aims to improve data availability and record-keeping in the DeFi space. The company’s team comprises industry veterans with extensive experience in database and distributed systems, underscoring its commitment to driving innovation in blockchain technology.
DefiDollar
Pre Seed Round in 2020
DefiDollar is a company based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2020, that specializes in developing and operating a meta stablecoin index. This index leverages decentralized finance (DeFi) principles to maintain stability near the dollar value, offering users a mechanism to diversify and de-risk their stablecoin holdings. By utilizing Curve Finance LP tokens, DefiDollar’s platform allows users to hedge against potential deviations of underlying stablecoins from their pegged values. Additionally, the company enables users to earn yields with reduced volatility, making it a valuable option for those seeking stability in the volatile cryptocurrency landscape.
PowerTrade
Seed Round in 2020
PowerTrade is a mobile-based platform that specializes in crypto options and derivatives trading, allowing users to engage in options, futures, perpetuals, and hedging from a single interface. The platform is designed to deliver a user-friendly experience, focusing on simplicity and speed to cater to the needs of traders. By offering competitive pricing and lower margin requirements, PowerTrade aims to enhance return on investment for its users. Additionally, it provides a request for quote (RFQ) feature, which helps traders manage risks and secure favorable prices for larger and more complex trades. Overall, PowerTrade seeks to empower professional traders by optimizing profit opportunities while minimizing the risks associated with trading in the cryptocurrency market.
Round Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Round Finance Inc. is a Delaware-based corporation focused on enhancing user engagement with digital assets. The company offers a secure and user-friendly digital asset wallet that includes a fiat on-ramp, facilitating easier access for mainstream users to blockchain networks. Additionally, Round Finance operates a non-custodial digital asset exchange, allowing users to trade digital assets without relinquishing control of their funds. The company also features an arcade comprising both proprietary and third-party decentralized applications and games, creating a diverse ecosystem for users to explore and interact with various digital experiences. Through its innovative products, Round Finance aims to simplify the onboarding process to public blockchain networks for everyday users.
iTrustCapital
Seed Round in 2020
iTrustCapital is a digital asset investment platform that enables clients to buy and sell cryptocurrencies and precious metals through their retirement accounts, operating 24/7. The platform aims to tap into the significant capital held by investors who trade these assets outside of tax-advantaged accounts, addressing a market of approximately $1 trillion. With an estimated 10-15 million Americans investing in cryptocurrencies and millions more in precious metals, iTrustCapital offers a competitive transaction fee of just 1%, significantly lower than the 15% charged by some other IRA services. The platform supports the trading of multiple digital tokens and provides market analysis tools, while also addressing inefficiencies in traditional IRA models. Additionally, iTrustCapital offers IRA maintenance and secure storage solutions to ensure the safety of clients' investments, helping users achieve financial independence.
Impossible Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Impossible Finance is a crypto investment platform that uses decentralized finance protocols to give everyone equal access to financial products that were previously available only to institutions and a select few. By providing DeFi tools and token swap capabilities, the platform enables traders to participate in cryptocurrency markets with fair opportunities and addresses liquidity constraints beyond traditional gatekeepers.
arcX is a training organization that specializes in providing a range of accredited cybersecurity training programs. As a CREST Approved Training Provider, it offers courses in various areas including penetration testing, threat intelligence, incident response, and security analysis. The company is dedicated to equipping individuals with the necessary skills and certifications to excel in the cybersecurity field, supporting both professional development and industry standards.
ClayStack
Seed Round in 2020
ClayStack is a blockchain-agnostic staking platform that enables users to stake digital assets and receive liquid staking derivative tokens, facilitating participation in DeFi while preserving liquidity and supporting a cross-chain liquid staking protocol for traders.
PowerTrade
Seed Round in 2020
PowerTrade is a mobile-based platform that specializes in crypto options and derivatives trading, allowing users to engage in options, futures, perpetuals, and hedging from a single interface. The platform is designed to deliver a user-friendly experience, focusing on simplicity and speed to cater to the needs of traders. By offering competitive pricing and lower margin requirements, PowerTrade aims to enhance return on investment for its users. Additionally, it provides a request for quote (RFQ) feature, which helps traders manage risks and secure favorable prices for larger and more complex trades. Overall, PowerTrade seeks to empower professional traders by optimizing profit opportunities while minimizing the risks associated with trading in the cryptocurrency market.
Qredo Ltd is a London-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate the secure and efficient movement of digital assets for institutional traders. Established in 2011, Qredo provides an open protocol and decentralized, multi-party computation network that enhances the security and custody of digital assets. Its solutions address the operational challenges and security risks associated with wallet key management, trading, storage, and transfer of these assets. By offering features such as cross-chain liquidity, treasury management tools, and peer-to-peer trading venues, Qredo aims to streamline the digital asset management process while mitigating cyber threats.
Alkemi
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Alkemi provides data access services for AI development, offering a platform that securely provisions specific data segments to AI developers without requiring local downloads and includes data slicing, personalized recommendations, pricing optimization, and demand analysis to connect data providers with AI developers and support the creation of tailored AI applications in a regulated environment.
The Graph
Seed Round in 2020
The Graph is an indexing and query protocol for decentralized networks that enables developers to publish open APIs, called subgraphs, which applications can query with GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. A hosted service is in production to help developers start quickly, while a decentralized network is launching. It currently indices data from Ethereum, IPFS and POA, with more networks planned. Thousands of developers have deployed subgraphs for DApps such as Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, Aave, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack and Decentraland. The Graph supports a global community of participants, including indexers and curators, to maintain and curate the data network.
Persistence
Seed Round in 2020
Persistence develops a decentralized liquidity platform that aggregates liquidity and facilitates cross-chain trading. It offers a Bitcoin decentralized exchange for low-slippage swaps and asset bridging across various blockchains.
Hashflow
Seed Round in 2020
Hashflow is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that allows users to trade digital assets seamlessly across multiple leading blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana. Launched in April 2021, Hashflow employs an intent-based smart order routing system to ensure traders receive optimal prices, drawing from over $8 billion in liquidity and enabling the trading of any token. The platform has successfully facilitated over $18 billion in total trade volume. Hashflow's team comprises experienced professionals from renowned companies in both web2 and web3 sectors, bringing expertise from organizations such as Airbnb, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and Google. The company is supported by notable investors, including Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, among others. Hashflow aims to enhance the trading experience by combining centralized order-matching and trade execution with decentralized custody, thereby offering users non-custodial trading options.
Notional Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate, fixed term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on Ethereum. Users can lend or borrow stablecoins at fixed rates of interest for terms of up to six months using a variety of assets as collateral. Notional achieves fixed rate lending via a primitive called fCash, which is redeemable for an underlying currency like DAI upon the fCash token’s maturity date. Notional operates specialized liquidity pools that allow users to efficiently trade cash for fCash and vice versa. The exchange rate that a user receives on their trade implies a fixed rate of interest from the time of trade until the fCash token’s maturity.
Notional is flexible and configurable. The protocol can add additional assets for lending and borrowing, additional collateral types, and additional maturities beyond six months. The community intends to broaden Notional’s scope over time to include a wider array of supported assets and extended available maturities.
Notional prioritizes security. The protocol team works with industry leaders to ensure that the smart contracts are technically secure and that the economic assumptions applied in the protocol’s design are sound.
Maverick Protocol is a decentralized finance platform that offers a crypto derivatives market designed to be open, transparent, and efficient. The protocol enables permissionless trading and staking across a wide range of asset pairs and supports perpetual contracts with capital efficiency, driven by an automated market maker. It aims to provide liquid, borderless access to decentralized trading and to allow traders to gain exposure through perpetuals backed by a diverse set of assets.