DeFiance Capital

Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach.

Arthur Cheong

Founding Partner

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Ring Games

Venture Round in 2022
Ring Games is a blockchain game development company.

Tatsumeeko

Seed Round in 2022
Tatsumeeko is a Discord-first fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Crypto Raiders

Venture Round in 2022
Crypto Raiders is a highly-interactive dungeon crawler game built on the blockchain. Players have the ability to buy characters and mobs, go on missions, build teams in a virtual universe all while discovering NFTs they then own. Crypto Raiders is built on the Polygon blockchain, and all NFT loot is randomized, ensuring that the value of all discovered loot is random as well.

Ultiverse

Seed Round in 2022
Ultiverse is an AI-powered gaming platform that allows gamers to participate in multiplayer gaming battles against other players. It platform helps users to create their characters and also offers a way to redeem the nonfungible tokens for real-life replicas and deliverables on request.

Lava Labs

Series A in 2022
Lava Labs is a game development studio.

Luna Foundation Guard

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
LFG is dedicated to supporting a vibrant community of blockchain innovators committed to developing a decentralized global economy.

MixMob

Seed Round in 2022
MixMob is a P2E game built on the metaverse and created by Encore Studios. It operates on Solanaand draws its inspiration from music, art, fashion, and movies to create the Remix Culture.

So-Col

Seed Round in 2022
SO-COL is a platform where creators and fans can connect like never before. They are the bridge between web2 social channels and the shiny new web3. But better. And easier.

Rift Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Rift Finance is a decentralized protocol that supercharges DAO growth through restructured incentive frameworks. Rift allows DAOs to deploy governance tokens from their treasuries to deepen token liquidity without having to give up ownership.

Dropp

Venture Round in 2022
Dropp GG is a social NFT minting platform that aims to bring the metaverse into the real world. Dropp Land is a metaverse where NFT tokens for virtual land plots have counterparts in the physical world. Dropp GG is integrated with Dropp 3D, an augmented reality feature that bridges virtual and physical experiences.

Rebase

Seed Round in 2022
Rebase develops a lifestyle application that enables users to explore, collect, and redeem exclusive digital rewards in real life.

Hubble Protocol

Venture Round in 2022
Hubble is a decentralized financial protocol that allows for long-term borrowing, lending, and structured products.

Friktion Labs

Venture Round in 2022
Friktion Labs is a team of quantitative traders, researchers, and crypto engineers with backgrounds in commodities, treasuries, volatility products, and crypto-assets. The organization has brought on board a group of derivatives traders and market makers in Genesis Trading, Alameda Research, LedgerPrime, QCP Capital, CMS Holdings, Orthogonal Trading, and GSR.

Suberra

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Suberra provides products that help businesses accept crypto payments and innovates to enhance the user experience for crypto payments. Their services include accepting crypto payments for commerce, one-time payments, and subscriptions.

Cosmic Guild

Seed Round in 2021
Cosmic Guild believes that games have the power to influence people's lives for the better.

Multichain

Seed Round in 2021
Multichain is a cross-chain router protocol (CRP) providing a mature real-time CRP system.

Hubble Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Hubble is a decentralized financial protocol that allows for long-term borrowing, lending, and structured products.

JellyFi

Seed Round in 2021
Most DeFi applications require institutional borrowers to over-collateralize their loans using crypto as collateral, limiting the wide range of use cases possible with crypto lending. Collateralized loans not only restrict borrowers from using capital how and when they want, but also limit the potential for enhanced return for lenders. JellyFi is a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that enables crypto loans without collateral, where institutional borrowers can obtain competitive loan terms, and lenders get access to higher returns while having more granular control over their investment portfolios. Zero-collateral loans are similar to a revolving line of credit where the borrower only has to pay a liquidity fee on unused capital in their own liquidity pool.

Champion Games

Venture Round in 2021
Champion Games creates blockchain-based video games. The company's game MetaSoccer, a football fantasy game that allows the players to play and ear.

ConsenSys

Series C in 2021
ConsenSys is a leading blockchain venture production studio focused on building a robust ecosystem of consumer-oriented products and enterprise solutions, primarily utilizing Ethereum technology. The company aims to facilitate the transition to Web 3.0, which it envisions as a foundation for more open, efficient, and accessible economic systems. ConsenSys identifies opportunities for software development and promotes collaboration among various ventures to enhance innovation and idea exchange. By creating platforms, applications, and tools that support Web 3.0, ConsenSys strives to ensure these solutions effectively meet customer needs. The organization also collaborates with blockchain experts and partners to develop open infrastructure, positioning itself at the forefront of technological advancements that have the potential to disrupt various industries.

Whalehouse Technology

Series B in 2021
Whalehouse Technology is a Shenzhen-based automated warehouse solutions provider. Whalehouse is a good friend of the electricity supplier companies, courier companies and logistics companies, which provides intelligent automated warehouse solutions and free upgrade service. The gene of whale warehouse is electricity supplier and technology, the company is constituted by a young group from Tencent, SF, JD and CAS.

GuildFi

Seed Round in 2021
GuildFi is a gaming platform that empowers all gamer communities and creates interoperability across the Metaverse.

Syndica

Seed Round in 2021
Syndica is a Web 3.0 developer infrastructure company focusing on providing cloud-like infrastructure and advanced developer tooling and APIs to the Solana ecosystem.

Beta Finance

Venture Round in 2021
Beta Finance is a permissionless money market protocol for lending, borrowing, and short-selling crypto assets. It aims to offset crypto volatility and bring market stability. Its one-click solution enables traders without technical know-how to manage and update their short positions on any token with all relevant token information directly available on the interface to guide their decision.

MCDEX

Venture Round in 2021
Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

Timeswap

Seed Round in 2021
Timeswap is both a lending and borrowing platform and an automated market maker. Its key features include flexible interest rates and collateral factors, giving users the freedom to choose their risk-return profile, as well as the ability to create any Ethereum-based ERC20 token pool by providing the necessary liquidity.

XDEFI Wallet

Series A in 2021
One wallet for all your crypto. XDEFI is a non-custodial wallet that allows you to securely swap, store, and send NFTs and crypto across 30 blockchains. Join more than 200,000 people that trust XDEFI Wallet!

LayerZero

Series A in 2021
LayerZero Labs is a company focused on blockchain interoperability, providing a protocol that connects decentralized applications (dapps) across different blockchains. Its platform enhances data exchange by utilizing an on-chain light node for validation, which streamlines the process of handling block headers. Instead of storing all block headers in sequence, LayerZero employs decentralized oracles to deliver block headers on demand. This approach not only increases speed and security but also improves cost efficiency, enabling clients to develop cross-chain applications with a simple communication framework. Through its innovative technology, LayerZero aims to facilitate seamless interactions between diverse blockchain networks.

Bluefin

Venture Round in 2021
Bluefin is an orderbook-based derivatives exchange that uses the most innovative decentralized infrastructure to support both first-time users and professional traders. Bluefin is backed by Polychain Capital, Susquehanna, Cumberland DRW, Brevan Howard Digital, Alliance and other leading investors.

Archer DAO

Seed Round in 2021
Archer DAO helps its users increase their Ethereum mining revenue. Integrate in just 5 minutes, with one line of code. Start earning more today.

UXD Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
UXD Protocol is an algorithmic stable coin that automatically generates interest and is minted on the Solana blockchain.

DeZy

Seed Round in 2021
DeZy is a business building on top of decentralized finance protocols. Dezy takes your cash, converts it to dollar-denominated stable coins, which are deposited across a range of DeFi protocols.

Ape Board

Seed Round in 2021
Ape Board is a decentralized finance (DeFi) sector via crypto-asset aggregator and portfolio dashboard.

Index Coop

Seed Round in 2021
The Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and the largest provider of on-chain structured decentralized finance (DeFi) products. We’re on a mission to make DeFi simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Index Coop builds sector index products, leverage and inverse products, and yield-generating products, all built on Set Protocol’s twice-audited V2 infrastructure.

CoinAlpha, Inc.

Series A in 2021
CoinAlpha, founded in 2017, is a FinTech software engineering company specializing in trading/market maker software and services for digital assets, combining expertise in data engineering, machine learning, and blockchain engineering to create trading solutions that empower companies to take control of their token liquidity. CoinAlpha created Hummingbot, the leading open source software for building market-making and arbitrage bots. In addition, CoinAlpha operates Hummingbot Miner, the successful liquidity mining platform for centralized exchanges. Hummingbot Miner lets users of the open source Hummingbot software earn rewards from projects - such as Algorand, Solana, and Avalanche - by running market making bots on certain trading pairs. CoinAlpha invented the concept of liquidity mining in a 2019 whitepaper. Having started the company in 2017 as a quantitative hedge fund, CoinAlpha’s founders combine 22 years of experience in investment banking and trading at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Jump Trading and Tower Research with engineering and product leadership roles at Silicon Valley companies like Apple and Nitro. CoinAlpha has raised a total of $14.8 million from Initialized Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, 1kx Capital, Borderless Capital, Ironfire Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund, and other funds and angels.

Set Labs

Series A in 2021
Set Labs is creating the next generation of finance through crypto-financial primitives. The company is developing tools that enable developers to bundle crypto assets together called Sets, which allow users to create cryptocurrency baskets, baskets of non-fungibles, baskets of on-chain securities, and more.

Bright Star Studios

Seed Round in 2021
Bright Star Studios, is a global independent games development studio crafting next generation original MMO game franchise experiences using it’s own proprietary engine. We are led by a diverse team of award-winning venture founders, former world champion pro-players and entertainment professionals who come with decades of game industry experience. We are innovators who are carving a new path forward for MMORPGs across PC, Browser, and Mobile. The studio’s mission is to rewrite the games industry with a business model that favors the community through exciting competitive gameplay, instant playability and a leading platform which supports the player economy. The studio is working on their flagship MMORPG title, Ember Sword, a modern rewrite of the games industry business model which brings a player-owned economy and the community together in a unique and engaging cooperative role playing universe. www.EmberSword.com www.BrightStar.Studio.com

MCDEX

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

InsurAce Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
InsurAce is the leading decentralized insurance protocol, providing reliable, robust and secure DeFi insurance services to the DeFi users. InsurAce not only guarantees unbeatable portfolio premiums but also offers sustainable investment returns. We have a unique insurance product, tailored just for your project. From insuring your smart contract against hacks to allowing users to secure their investments against risks. Our community is one of the best in the DeFi space and is a key element to our success. We continue to innovate and improve for them.

Balancer Labs

Series A in 2021
Balancer Labs is a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor.

Armor

Venture Round in 2021
Armor develops a dynamic cover brokerage protocol for decentralized finance to serve cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2021, Armor is a DeFi coverage aggregator that makes securing your DeFi assets against hacks as easy as possible. Ease wants to make DeFi as easy and safe as possible. They aim to cover every dollar in DeFi so that users can finally feel at ease.

dYdX

Series B in 2021
dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange built by developers on a mission to build open, secure, and powerful financial products. dYdX runs on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, which eliminates the need to trust a central exchange while trading. We combine the security and transparency of a decentralized exchange, with the speed and usability of a centralized exchange. Founded back in 2017 from ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer, Antonio Juliano, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum. Users can earn interest or take loans for a nominal fee as well as trade on margin with custom leverage. Trade your crypto, the safe and secure way, with dYdX

Swivel Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Swivel Finance is a decentralized protocol for fixed-rate lending and tokenized cash-flows that enables lenders to "lock-in" fixed-rate interest rates on their ERC-20 tokens with low transaction overhead and less risk.

Horizon Finance

Seed Round in 2020
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.
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