Digital Currency Group

Digital Currency Group is a corporate venture capital firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, that invests in and supports companies operating in fintech, bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, platforms, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and blockchain sectors. Since its founding in 2013, DCG has been an active seed investor with more than 150 investments across over 30 countries. The company also owns and operates a portfolio of media and asset-management businesses, including CoinDesk, Genesis Trading, and Grayscale Investments, which provide information, trading, and asset management services in the digital currency ecosystem.

Matthew Beck

Investor

Brittney Cohen

Investor

Steven Cook

Investor

Christopher Costaras

Investor

Ryan Jolly

Associate

Past deals in Infrastructure

Altius Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Altius Labs is focused on developing a modular execution stack that works without depending on virtual machines (VMs).

Stakpak

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Stakpak is a technology company that develops an AI-powered platform for software developers. This platform serves as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), assisting developers in building and maintaining production-ready infrastructure. It offers a free command line interface (CLI) that generates and manages configurations, analyzes applications to identify dependencies, enforces global policies, tracks ownership, and facilitates debugging. The platform also includes self-driving development and operation agents, enabling clients to make complex infrastructure changes with ease.

Caliza

Seed Round in 2024
Caliza develops global financial infrastructure to facilitate borderless commerce. It enables businesses to offer instant cross-border settlements and regulated digital dollar accounts to their customers, powered by stablecoins.

Tensorplex Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Tensorplex Labs is a technology company specializing in Web3 and artificial intelligence. It develops infrastructure for decentralized AI networks, focusing on finance and intelligence. The company's platform integrates decentralized finance (DeFi) principles and proof-of-stake mechanisms, fostering open-source AI innovation. It provides tools to make decentralized, AI-powered applications more accessible, transparent, and financially rewarding.

Zone

Seed Round in 2024
Zone is a regulated blockchain network that facilitates the acceptance and payment of digital currencies. As a blockchain services company, it provides a secure and efficient infrastructure for transactions, promoting the use of digital assets in various applications. By leveraging blockchain technology, Zone aims to enhance financial transactions through increased transparency and reduced costs, catering to businesses and consumers looking to integrate digital currencies into their operations.

Beoble

Seed Round in 2024
Beoble is a communication infrastructure company focused on enhancing the Web3 experience through its wallet-to-wallet messaging platform. The company offers a web-based chat application that supports most major cryptocurrency wallets and ensures that all messages are sent with end-to-end encryption, prioritizing user privacy and security. Additionally, Beoble provides a toolkit designed for decentralized applications (Dapps) to easily integrate this communication solution, fostering a seamless and secure interaction within the decentralized ecosystem. By enabling users to connect directly through their crypto wallets, Beoble aims to create a user-friendly environment for private communication in the evolving world of decentralized finance.

Polymer Labs

Series A in 2024
Polymer Labs is building the fabric of web3. We're working on an IBC based multi-cluster routing/roll-up protocol providing E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.

Beoble

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Beoble is a communication infrastructure company focused on enhancing the Web3 experience through its wallet-to-wallet messaging platform. The company offers a web-based chat application that supports most major cryptocurrency wallets and ensures that all messages are sent with end-to-end encryption, prioritizing user privacy and security. Additionally, Beoble provides a toolkit designed for decentralized applications (Dapps) to easily integrate this communication solution, fostering a seamless and secure interaction within the decentralized ecosystem. By enabling users to connect directly through their crypto wallets, Beoble aims to create a user-friendly environment for private communication in the evolving world of decentralized finance.

SSV Network

Venture Round in 2022
SSV Network specializes in developing distributed validator technology for Ethereum staking.

C3

Seed Round in 2021
C3 is a self-custodial exchange that combines the advantages of self-custody and decentralization with the performance and accessibility expected from traditional trading platforms. It is designed to facilitate trading in both spot and derivatives markets. The platform features a sophisticated clearing engine that supports cross-margin and cross-collateralization, allowing traders to manage their capital more efficiently by calculating margin requirements globally based on their open positions. With its focus on enhancing user experience, C3 aims to provide a secure and efficient environment for trading digital assets.

Arcana Network

Venture Round in 2021
Arcana Network operates as a decentralized storage platform tailored for Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, focusing on enhancing the security and privacy of user data. Its offerings include a comprehensive Privacy Stack that encompasses key management, authentication, identity and access control, and end-to-end encryption. By integrating these features, Arcana empowers developers to create applications that prioritize data protection and user privacy, allowing for the rapid development of secure applications. This approach simplifies the process for developers, enabling them to build privacy-preserving solutions efficiently and effectively.

BitOasis

Series B in 2021
BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform established in 2015 by co-founders Ola Doudin and Daniel Robenek. The company provides a digital asset wallet and exchange that facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of cryptocurrencies. It focuses on cash-based emerging markets, offering a multi-signature wallet and exchange service that enhances asset protection and security for users. BitOasis aims to create a secure and regulated infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading, catering to both retail and institutional clients in the region. By ensuring a safe environment for transactions, BitOasis seeks to simplify access to crypto assets for investors.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol specializing in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

Horizen Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2019, Horizen Labs provides a Sidechain-as-a-Service platform enabling businesses to create distributed ledger solutions. It offers privacy-focused public infrastructure and proprietary sidechain deployment tools for applications in payment systems, record keeping, and supply chains.

Visor Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decentralized platform facilitating active liquidity management. Its tool enables participants to use smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges, maximizing returns from fees while minimizing impermanent loss.

Flare Network

Venture Round in 2021
Flare Networks is a blockchain network that utilizes the Flare Consensus Protocol, which is the first Turing Complete Federated Byzantine Agreement protocol. It offers a decentralized contract platform aimed at enhancing contract capabilities across various blockchains. By leveraging the Ethereum Virtual Machine, Flare Networks can access and utilize information from other blockchains and real-world data sources, effectively addressing the oracle problem. This functionality facilitates cross-chain interoperability, allowing users to share contract capabilities with different protocols. Flare Networks seeks to enable a new era of utility within the blockchain ecosystem through its innovative technology.

Lido

Venture Round in 2021
Lido develops open-source middleware deployed on the Ethereum blockchain. It extends Ethereum's block validation functionality and is publicly accessible through multiple interfaces.

Fireblocks

Series B in 2020
Fireblocks develops a blockchain-based platform focused on securely managing and transferring digital assets between exchanges, wallets, custodians, and counterparties. It caters to various financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, hedge funds, and liquidity providers.

API3

Seed Round in 2020
API3 develops a decentralized infrastructure for connecting blockchain applications to off-chain data providers. Its platform, API3, aggregates data from first-party oracles operated by premier API providers, enabling seamless and secure data exchange without intermediaries.

Multis

Seed Round in 2020
Multis, Inc., established in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in providing crypto banking services for businesses and entrepreneurs. Its core offering is a user-friendly wallet that facilitates crypto storage, payments to suppliers, payroll management, and interest earning. The platform also provides real-time balance monitoring, transaction tracking, multi-access to assets, recurring payments, fund transfers, trading, and crypto-to-cash conversion. Multis aims to empower the next generation of professionals in the open financial world by building a robust financial infrastructure for web3 organizations.

Kintaba

Seed Round in 2020
Kintaba, Inc., headquartered in New York, develops an online platform focused on incident management. This platform is designed to help teams and companies respond to, collaborate during, track, and recover from major incidents and outages. Key features include instant chat for real-time communication, automated event tracking, on-call rotations, postmortem templates for review and analysis, and auto-scheduling capabilities. The platform aims to streamline the process of managing and resolving incidents efficiently.

The Graph

Venture 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.

Editional

Seed Round in 2019
Blockchain infrastructure has set the stage for a new generation of digital ownership that better connects and empowers both creators and owners

Horizen Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2019, Horizen Labs provides a Sidechain-as-a-Service platform enabling businesses to create distributed ledger solutions. It offers privacy-focused public infrastructure and proprietary sidechain deployment tools for applications in payment systems, record keeping, and supply chains.

Nivaura

Seed Round in 2019
Nivaura provides a blockchain-enabled platform for automated issuance and administration of financial products and instruments. The company's technology suite automates key processes for issuing and managing loans, bonds, and structured notes, delivering greater efficiency, accuracy, and transparency while supporting compliance. Its platform enables on-demand issuance and ongoing administration for banks, brokers, exchanges, and funds, driving faster, cheaper operations across the life cycle of financial instruments.

Staked

Seed Round in 2019
Staked, LLC is a Massachusetts-based company founded in 2018 that provides infrastructure for institutional investors in digital currencies, enabling them to compound their crypto holdings through staking and lending. The firm operates secure and efficient block production nodes for decentralized proof-of-stake protocols, offering features such as service level agreements for block rewards, automatic payouts, and comprehensive reporting. Staked's platform supports multiple proof-of-stake currencies, allowing cryptocurrency holders to earn substantial interest by running staking nodes. Its architecture emphasizes security, scalability, and decentralization, making it a reliable choice for stakeholders looking to optimize their digital asset investments.

Layer1

Seed Round in 2018
Layer1 Technologies Inc., established in 2018 and based in San Francisco, specializes in Bitcoin mining infrastructure. The company constructs turnkey, fully-integrated data centers that enhance energy asset profitability and electrical grid reliability. Layer1's innovative technology combines energy systems with high-performance computing, unlocking regions with cheap electricity, even in hot climates where air-cooled centers are impractical. This approach enables a sustainable future for the digital world's growing energy demands.

MAD Network

Angel Round in 2018
MadNetwork is a modified blockchain created to manage and authenticate the identity of entities, individuals, or digital assets. It is an infrastructure for authenticating people, assets, and organizations that help to build trusted applications. In order to scale your organization, they additionally create adaptable processes for data storage and expiration that are quicker and cheaper.

Logos Network

Seed Round in 2018
Logos Network is a crypto network based in Dublin, Ireland, that offers hyper-scalable transaction infrastructure designed to facilitate a range of financial applications, from micro-transactions to large-scale B2B transfers. The company has developed an innovative architecture that addresses the limitations of traditional blockchain technology, enabling intelligent value transfers on a global scale. Its key components include Chain Mesh, a post-blockchain data architecture built for future internet demands; Axios, a delegated proof-of-stake consensus protocol that maximizes throughput while ensuring safety; and the Polis sharding scheme, which enhances transaction validation through parallel processing. This comprehensive framework positions Logos Network as a transformative force in the financial technology landscape.

Elemential

Seed Round in 2018
Elemential is a developer of a blockchain administration platform aimed at assisting developers in managing customized blockchain networks. The company's platform provides essential building blocks and management tools for creating blockchain applications, enabling clients to effectively protect and secure user identity and consent. By offering a more accessible and efficient development environment, Elemential seeks to empower future generations of blockchain innovators, facilitating the design, operation, and scaling of networks with significantly reduced overhead.

Nivaura

Seed Round in 2018
Nivaura provides a blockchain-enabled platform for automated issuance and administration of financial products and instruments. The company's technology suite automates key processes for issuing and managing loans, bonds, and structured notes, delivering greater efficiency, accuracy, and transparency while supporting compliance. Its platform enables on-demand issuance and ongoing administration for banks, brokers, exchanges, and funds, driving faster, cheaper operations across the life cycle of financial instruments.

BitOasis

Venture Round in 2018
BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform established in 2015 by co-founders Ola Doudin and Daniel Robenek. The company provides a digital asset wallet and exchange that facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of cryptocurrencies. It focuses on cash-based emerging markets, offering a multi-signature wallet and exchange service that enhances asset protection and security for users. BitOasis aims to create a secure and regulated infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading, catering to both retail and institutional clients in the region. By ensuring a safe environment for transactions, BitOasis seeks to simplify access to crypto assets for investors.

Omniex Holdings

Seed Round in 2017
Omniex Holdings, Inc. is a software infrastructure company that provides an integrated institutional operating platform tailored for investment managers and active traders in the crypto-assets sector. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Santa Monica, the company aims to simplify access to crypto trading by removing fragmentation across services. Omniex offers a range of solutions, including Portfolio Solutions and Analytics for tracking crypto-asset portfolios and performance, Connectivity and Routing services that unify trading interfaces and enhance execution efficiency, and Algorithmic Execution Services designed to minimize market impact during order execution. Through these offerings, Omniex facilitates comprehensive end-to-end services for clients, enhancing their ability to manage portfolios and make informed investment decisions in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

Axoni

Series A in 2016
Axoni is a technology company specializing in real-time data replication solutions tailored for the financial industry. Established in 2017, it focuses on serving major financial institutions, including banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and market infrastructure firms worldwide, with offices located in New York and London. The company's platform facilitates the rapid and reliable deployment of critical financial networks, ensuring automated, real-time data replication among market participants. Additionally, Axoni develops distributed ledger software that integrates traditional financial technologies with blockchain capabilities, enhancing market information, trend analysis, and communication networks. This innovative approach allows financial entities to modernize their systems related to legal records, lifecycle events, and cash flow calculations, thereby improving operational efficiency and data management.

Mediachain

Seed Round in 2016
Mediachain is an open media library that utilizes blockchain technology to seamlessly connect media with its creators and relevant information. Founded in 2016 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company operates as a protocol for registering, identifying, and tracking creative works online. It employs content identification technology to automatically link media to its origin and context, facilitating collaboration among creators, media organizations, and developers on metadata within a universal media library. Mediachain's decentralized architecture allows participants to maintain control over their data while expanding their reach. In April 2017, Mediachain became a subsidiary of Spotify USA Inc.

BitOasis

Seed Round in 2016
BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform established in 2015 by co-founders Ola Doudin and Daniel Robenek. The company provides a digital asset wallet and exchange that facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of cryptocurrencies. It focuses on cash-based emerging markets, offering a multi-signature wallet and exchange service that enhances asset protection and security for users. BitOasis aims to create a secure and regulated infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading, catering to both retail and institutional clients in the region. By ensuring a safe environment for transactions, BitOasis seeks to simplify access to crypto assets for investors.

Hijro

Seed Round in 2016
Hijro is a financial operating network that leverages distributed ledger technology to enhance global trade. Headquartered in New York, the company connects banks, buyers, and suppliers within a unified network aimed at streamlining settlement processes, reducing fraud risk, and eliminating costly data silos in the open-account trade market, valued at $4 trillion. The Hijro Network serves as a global infrastructure for trade, offering a secure and efficient method for moving value and assets internationally. Its applications include a multi-bank, multi-lender trade asset marketplace, flexible working capital solutions, and APIs that facilitate seamless integration into the network. By enabling the tokenization, transfer, and trading of various digital assets, including receivables and approved payables, Hijro positions itself at the forefront of modern trade finance.

ChangeCoin

Seed Round in 2014
ChangeCoin is a micropayment infrastructure for the Internet that specializes in the fields of micropayments, bitcoin, social commerce, digital currencies, and payments. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

HashPlex

Seed Round in 2014
HashPlex is a provider of specialized hosting services tailored for Bitcoin miners. The company offers a bitcoin miner hosting platform that includes essential features such as computer hosting, internet connectivity, and control scripting for starting, stopping, and managing operations. Additionally, HashPlex provides basic maintenance services to ensure optimal performance and uptime for its clients. By focusing on the unique needs of cryptocurrency mining, HashPlex aims to facilitate a seamless and efficient mining experience for its customers.

Conduit

Conduit is a payments platform that enables cross-border B2B transfers and invoice settlement between Latin America and the United States. It supports moving money between USD and multiple local currencies in emerging markets, providing faster settlement, increased visibility, and fewer steps than traditional payment rails. The platform aims to help global businesses execute cross-border transactions on the same day, offering transparent quotes and straightforward tooling for managing multi-currency transfers. By focusing on cross-border efficiency and scale between local fiat currencies and USD, Conduit seeks to simplify international payments and improve cash flow for customers operating in Latin America and beyond.

Xweave

XWeave is a technology company specializing in blockchain-based cross-border payment systems. It aims to streamline international money transfers by leveraging blockchain's decentralized, transparent, and secure nature. The company's non-custodial platform enables real-time payments without the need for pre-funding, reducing liquidity buffers and mitigating foreign exchange risk. It offers an asset-agnostic routing engine, a global network of regulated partners, and a user-friendly API integration, enhancing efficiency and security in cross-border transactions.
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