Comm Technologies is scaling E2E encryption with personal private servers.
OnChain Studios is a software company that intends to bring ownership to interactive experiences.
Certora develops unique technology which supplements your programming experts and manual auditors by automatically detecting security vulnerabilities both before the code is deployed and during operation. The process is executed automatically and provides mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. For carefully defined properties of your software, Certora technology can completely guarantee the absence of security vulnerabilities.
Socket Supply creates tools that help developers deploy to the cloud and beyond.
PILabs is an agency for creators and startups.
Phi Labs is a contributor to the Archway protocol that rewards blockchain developers.
Allora Labs is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFi primitives.
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Crypto Unicorns is a Web3 game development and research and development studio.
HAL provides blockchain monitoring services intended to create centralized lighthouses. It enables connection to any smart contract with centralized applications such as APIs, applications, CRMs, ERPs, emails, e-commerce, social networks, and messaging systems, enabling companies to connect Ethereum with the centralized applications.
The Tibles digital collecting ecosystem on the Flow blockchain is premised on the value of ownership, rooted in the experience of collecting, and designed to propel brands into this new era.
Space Metaverse is a virtual commerce platform that allows users to build a life and career in a stunningly realistic 3D environment. It gives its citizens access to a 3D virtual world in which they can create content, build businesses, find work, and collaborate. It is a user-owned immersive 3D social platform.
GIANT Protocol is a blockchain protocol that aims to decentralize and democratize access to the internet and financial services, by tokenizing bandwidth. GIANT helps consumers become owners, telcos become banks, anyone becomes a connectivity or financial services provider, creating a connectivity economy that is open and accessible to all.
Rainmaker Games is a play-to-earn gaming company that gives players free access to play hundreds of P2E games, explore in-game content, receive coaching from top international players, connect with other players globally, and gain access to a cutting-edge NFT lending and borrowing marketplace. Gamers of all skill levels can benefit from Rainmaker Games' ability to switch between games, learn the rules of each one, manage their money, and gain exclusive access to the NFT vault.
Holaplex provides independent artists, musicians, and creators with simple, free tools to make and sell NFTs while providing NFT buyers and collectors with over 2,000 stores to discover up-and-coming projects and fast-rising artists. In addition to enabling creators to build their own NFT stores and marketplaces quickly, with no-code, Holaplex leverages and contributes to the NFT protocol Metaplex, which delivers fast, low-cost NFT creation on the Solana blockchain.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Hxro is a company that focuses on crypto trading and bitcoin for gaming and entertainment to its customers.
OnChain Studios is a software company that intends to bring ownership to interactive experiences.
World connects users through a privacy-focused network with secure digital asset management. The company is a privacy-focused human network incorporating a financial system to enhance global connectivity and trust. The World App allows users to securely store a World ID, manage digital assets, and easily access various Mini Apps.
Bridgesplit is an specialty asset-based lending platform that enables marketplaces, custodians, and other asset management platforms to offer financing to their customers. Business and consumers use Bridgesplit to access flexible and affordable financing collateralized by assets underserved by banks like high-grade spirits, IP, climate assets, collectibles, and more.
Wincast offers infrastructure SaaS and AdTech software that enables sports organizations and sponsors to create real-time branded gaming experiences for fans.
Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advice. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Fuel Labs is a global decentralized group of passionate developers building the future of blockchain scalability technology. As the leader in blockchain scaling innovation, its engineers created the optimistic rollup design paradigm and have contributed to advancing the frontier of rollup, blockchain virtual machine, and safe smart contract programming language research.
Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. Livepeer combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. Eric Tang and Douglas Petkanics founded it in 2017, with its head in New York City.
The BlockArt protocol and ecosystem empower creators with NFT tooling for blockchain-generated data art.
Founded in 2016 and based in New York City, Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform that allows individuals to invest in private companies starting from as little as $10. The platform connects startups seeking funding with a diverse range of investors, including venture capital firms, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Republic facilitates investment opportunities across various sectors, including gaming, real estate, and cryptocurrencies, enabling a broader audience to participate in the startup ecosystem.
Rarible is a community-centric NFT marketplace that allows users to create, buy and sell digital collectibles. Rarible offers a wide range of products, including a custom community marketplace builder, white-glove marketplaces, and own API for building NFT functionality of any complexity.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a crypto startup that builds and develops crypto apps for decentralized apps and marketplaces. The Solana network is validated by thousands of independent nodes, providing enhanced security and resistance against censorship.
Dynasty Studios is a VC-backed game company creating next-generation games. They are strive to lead the mass adoption of blockchain technology through never-before-seen gameplay. Dyansty Studio's games are built with this goal in mind, and they will pave the way for this new paradigm of true Web3 gaming. The company's established staff of professional game developers all share a strong desire to create player-driven experiences.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Hxro is a company that focuses on crypto trading and bitcoin for gaming and entertainment to its customers.
The Tibles digital collecting ecosystem on the Flow blockchain is premised on the value of ownership, rooted in the experience of collecting, and designed to propel brands into this new era.
Fold is an application that combines personal finance management with Bitcoin, allowing users to buy, sell, and manage their Bitcoin and dollars seamlessly. Users can earn up to 1.5% back on eligible purchases when they utilize the app, enhancing their financial returns while managing cryptocurrency. For premium members, Fold offers a no-fee experience on transactions, making it a compelling choice for avid Bitcoin users.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Delta Exchange is a crypto derivatives exchange. Delta offers a wide range of derivatives futures, perpetual contracts, options, interest rate swaps and calendar spread. Delta's strength is is options trading, where it is #2 player globally with a market share of over 25%. The exchange offers USDT settled options on 8 underlyings that include bitcoin, ether, solana, BNB and Matic. Traders can not only trade options on multiple underlyings with USDT balance, but can also enjoy many advanced features such as multiple margin modes (isolated and portfolio margin), strategy builder and basket orders.
Shyft Network is a public protocol for directly validating identity and power compliance in blockchain data. Shyft Network provides meaningful user information that institutions can use to secure cryptocurrency while maintaining privacy by facilitating the transfer of verifiable data between centralized and decentralized ecosystems.
NFTfi is an NFT collateralized lending marketplace that can use NFT assets as collateral for a loan or lend to other users. It enables NFT holders to borrow cryptocurrency from lenders by using their NFTs as collateral. When they accept a loan offer, the NFT goes into a secure escrow smart contract and receives the wETH, DAI, or USDC from the lender directly to their wallet. To determine whether an NFT is worth a loan, users employ a common practice in the traditional art world in which banks, large galleries, or auction houses offer loans to artists.
Balancer Labs is a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor.
Rarible is a community-centric NFT marketplace that allows users to create, buy and sell digital collectibles. Rarible offers a wide range of products, including a custom community marketplace builder, white-glove marketplaces, and own API for building NFT functionality of any complexity.
Compass Mining is a mining and hosting platform that makes Bitcoin mining profitable for its users. The company aims to support the decentralized growth of hash rate and strengthen network security by helping more people, learn, explore, and mine bitcoin.
API3 data feeds, dAPIs, aggregate data from first-party oracles, operated by some of the world’s premier API providers.
Niftex is a platform for fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
Boardroom is a DAO governance aggregator helping members make faster, smarter, and more informed decisions. Our mission is to enable stakeholder-owned platforms to scale while upholding the interests of all their constituencies. We are a small but driven team that believes in the power of crypto networks to uproot traditional management and ownership structures. We are thoughtful about code quality, testing, and architecture. We value positive energy, continuous learning, and clear communication and are committed to building an inclusive environment for people from every background.
Manta is the world-class automated approach to visualize, optimize, and modernize how data moves through your organization through code-level lineage. By automatically scanning your data environment with the power of 50+ out-of-the-box scanners, Manta builds a powerful map of all data pipelines to drive efficiency and productivity.
Path is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor that allows anyone to access automated crypto portfolios. After completing a suitability assessment, Path builds your portfolio and manages it for you. You can also buy, hold, and swap cryptos directly from the app. Regulated, safe, trusted. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
ParaSwap aims to solve the liquidity problem in crypto markets by bringing every exchange protocol into one plateforme. Our goal is empower our users with the most competitive market prices and the highest liquidity. We actually handle Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, but our goal is to handle most major blockchains.
Rarible is a community-centric NFT marketplace that allows users to create, buy and sell digital collectibles. Rarible offers a wide range of products, including a custom community marketplace builder, white-glove marketplaces, and own API for building NFT functionality of any complexity.
Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permission less – we do not hold special power anymore. It is up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
Polkadot is a protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information. Polkadot is an inter-chain blockchain protocol which unlike internet messaging protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) also enforces the order and the validity of the messages between the chains. This interoperability also allows the additional benefit of scalability by creating a general environment for multiple state machines.
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Polkadot is a protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information. Polkadot is an inter-chain blockchain protocol which unlike internet messaging protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) also enforces the order and the validity of the messages between the chains. This interoperability also allows the additional benefit of scalability by creating a general environment for multiple state machines.
Opyn allows users to earn a premium or take views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20s. Opyn v2 offers European, cash-settled options that auto-exercise upon expiry. Opyn options (oTokens) are ERC20s, so they can be trading on any decentralized exchange that follows the ERC20 standard. Opyn v1 laid the foundation for DeFi options as the first live ERC20 options protocol. For the first time, anyone could create, buy, and sell options on any ERC20 token. Opyn v1 will remain live on the Ethereum network, providing a venue for American, physically settled options. We will continue to launch ERC20 options on Opyn v1.
Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Delta Exchange is a crypto derivatives exchange. Delta offers a wide range of derivatives futures, perpetual contracts, options, interest rate swaps and calendar spread. Delta's strength is is options trading, where it is #2 player globally with a market share of over 25%. The exchange offers USDT settled options on 8 underlyings that include bitcoin, ether, solana, BNB and Matic. Traders can not only trade options on multiple underlyings with USDT balance, but can also enjoy many advanced features such as multiple margin modes (isolated and portfolio margin), strategy builder and basket orders.
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
NEAR is decentralized storage and compute platform that is secure enough to manage high-value assets like money or identity. NEAR is a scalable smart contract platform that supports decentralized applications of almost any kind. Leverage an ecosystem of components backed by cutting edge technology. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.
Aragon is a project that aims to disintermediate the creation and maintenance of organizational structures by using blockchain technology. The startup wants to empower people across the world to easily and securely manage their organizations. It provides the tools for anyone to become an entrepreneur and run their own organization, to take control of their own lives. By making it possible for everyone in the world to organize, Aragon is enabling a borderless, permissionless, and more efficient creation of value. Aragon was founded in 2017 and is based in Germany.
Messari is the leading provider of market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto with confidence. For individuals and institutions alike, Messari combines deep analysis, data, news and powerful tools to improve industry transparency and drive smarter participation in crypto. Learn more at messari.io.
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols. It is an Ethereum token that can be staked to run a node on the NuCypher network. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Fold is an application that combines personal finance management with Bitcoin, allowing users to buy, sell, and manage their Bitcoin and dollars seamlessly. Users can earn up to 1.5% back on eligible purchases when they utilize the app, enhancing their financial returns while managing cryptocurrency. For premium members, Fold offers a no-fee experience on transactions, making it a compelling choice for avid Bitcoin users.
3Box storage is simple, secure, and private by design. Apps that store data with users on 3Box are lighter, more trustworthy, and enjoy reduced data management liability.
Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. Livepeer combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. Eric Tang and Douglas Petkanics founded it in 2017, with its head in New York City.
Founded in 2016 and based in New York City, Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform that allows individuals to invest in private companies starting from as little as $10. The platform connects startups seeking funding with a diverse range of investors, including venture capital firms, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Republic facilitates investment opportunities across various sectors, including gaming, real estate, and cryptocurrencies, enabling a broader audience to participate in the startup ecosystem.
Blockchain infrastructure has set the stage for a new generation of digital ownership that better connects and empowers both creators and owners
GEO Protocol is on a mission to empower the Internet of Value by creating a universal value transfer ecosystem. GEO Protocol is an open-source base layer protocol for cost-efficient, lightweight and scalable value transfer, merging blockchain and traditional finance worlds together.
Archax is a global, regulated, digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London. Founded by experts from the financial markets world and backed by an accomplished advisory board, Archax offers a credible bridge between the blockchain-centric crypto community and the traditional investment space. Archax was the UK's first FCA regulated digital securities exchange, broker and custodian. It was also the first firm on the FCA's Cryptoasset register too. Archax has been designed specifically for institutional investors and available to all to trade in all types of digital assets, from cryptocurrencies to digital securities. It is built using existing, proven, high-performance exchange infrastructure, hosted in top-tier datacentre space, and integrated into existing institutional trading workflows.
The Graph is the indexing and query layer of the decentralized web. Developers build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL. There is a hosted service in production that makes it easy for developers to get started building on The Graph, and the decentralized network will launch later this year. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, POA, and IPFS, with more networks coming soon. To date, ~1,700 subgraphs have been deployed for dApps like Aragon, Uniswap, Synthetix, Balancer, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, and Decentraland.
DFINITY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization based in Zurich, Switzerland, established in 2016. It is dedicated to developing the Internet Computer, a groundbreaking platform that enhances the functionality of the internet by providing a public computing environment for developers and entrepreneurs. This platform allows for the creation and hosting of decentralized applications and services, promoting a new, open method for building websites and enterprise systems. DFINITY employs a decentralized protocol known as Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), which enables independent data centers worldwide to collaborate and deliver scalable, secure, and serverless cloud computing resources. The foundation operates research centers in several global locations, including Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Tokyo, and aims to restore the internet's original open nature, challenging the dominance of major tech companies. Through its innovative technologies and approach, DFINITY seeks to enhance the overall internet experience and empower users in the digital landscape.
Witnet is an open source project originally devised by Stampery, the leaders of blockchain-powered data certification. The protocol is now being developed by Witnet Foundation in collaboration with a community of independent contributors. The mission of Witnet Foundation is ensuring the successful development and deployment of the Witnet protocol, as well as guaranteeing its sustainability and fostering the ecosystem of applications built on top of the protocol. Although Witnet Foundation will play a leading role during the first years, as the project evolves and the Witnet community becomes wider, Witnet Foundation will progressively relinquish its weight in favor of the community.
NuCypher is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform focused on protecting sensitive information. The company offers a product designed for sharing sensitive data while ensuring compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its encryption layer allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether stored in the cloud or on-premises. By utilizing existing access policies, NuCypher enhances the security of big data applications against internal and external threats. Additionally, the company is committed to creating privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols, further advancing its mission in the field of cryptography.
CoinList's mission is to help builders launch and grow innovative digital assets, expand access for early adopters, and be the most trusted brand in digital finance. We're the global leader in new token issuance, helping blue chip projects like Filecoin, Solana, Near, Algorand, Ondo, and others connect with millions of new token holders. We support the full lifecycle of crypto investment, from token sales through distribution, trading, lending, staking and access to decentralized-finance opportunities. CoinList users trade and store Bitcoin, Ether, and many other popular crypto assets through our full-service trading products on mobile and CoinList.co, while also getting access to the best new tokens before they list on other exchanges. Our customers include validators, miners, founders, CEOs, crypto funds, bitcoin OGs, as well as a broad array of crypto enthusiasts.
Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live with partners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.
Messari is the leading provider of market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto with confidence. For individuals and institutions alike, Messari combines deep analysis, data, news and powerful tools to improve industry transparency and drive smarter participation in crypto. Learn more at messari.io.
NuCypher is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform focused on protecting sensitive information. The company offers a product designed for sharing sensitive data while ensuring compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its encryption layer allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether stored in the cloud or on-premises. By utilizing existing access policies, NuCypher enhances the security of big data applications against internal and external threats. Additionally, the company is committed to creating privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols, further advancing its mission in the field of cryptography.
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Stream is a new decentralized blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to easily and anonymously accept payments from their audience members anywhere in the world, with extremely low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.
LedgerX develops an institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies. It has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 2014, it was formerly known as NYBX INC and is based in New York, New York.
Genies is culture’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar experiences. To-date, Genies has been widely adopted by cultural tastemakers and has partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their rosters’ “official avatar.” Genies has recently launched its consumer arm via its AR Developer Kit which allows developers to create interoperable avatar experiences for mobile and hardware AR. Their first avatar experience, Silver Studio, allows users to design and exchange digital fashion. Genies has raised $250M from investors such as Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger valuing the company at $1 billion.
Tlon is the corporate vehicle of the open-source Urbit software stack (urbit.org). Urbit is a clean-slate reimplementation of the whole system software stack. On the bottom it's a replacement of the lambda calculus, in the middle it's a new functional programming language, on top it's a purely functional network operating system in which address space is property. Tlon owns approximately half of the entire address-space on the Urbit network. The goal is to create a new layer over the Internet the way the Internet layered over the PSTN. This layer can also earn adoption by providing Internet services. On the Internet, your Urbit ship is a general-purpose personal cloud computer which replaces the 47 special-purpose cloud silos you're currently using. Tlon's mission is to contribute to the development of Urbit, to provide hosting services for Urbit ships, and to develop other possible business applications on top of the Urbit stack.