Framework Ventures

Here Not There Labs specializes in developing decentralized communication solutions for online communities. Led by CEO Ben Rubin, the company has created Towns, a protocol and web-based chat application that empowers users to establish self-owned and self-governed environments. Additionally, Here Not There Labs offers an anti-meeting tool that facilitates efficient and decentralized conversations, reducing the need for traditional meetings. This tool connects individuals based on relevant topics, allowing for discussions that are timely and focused, thereby enhancing collaboration among teams. Through these innovations, Here Not There Labs aims to transform how communities interact and collaborate online.

Parcel is focused on facilitating virtual real estate transactions within the metaverse. It has created a comprehensive marketplace that aggregates digital land listings, connecting landowners and creators to support the growth of the metaverse community. Parcel offers a variety of services, including real-time appraisals and extensive industry knowledge, while minimizing costs through zero marketplace fees and low gas consumption. By streamlining access to virtual properties, Parcel aims to empower users to navigate the virtual ecosystem more efficiently and affordably.

Chainflip is a decentralized protocol that facilitates direct cross-chain swaps among various blockchains without requiring a trusted intermediary. The platform is designed to support the seamless exchange of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to conduct anonymous and permissionless transactions. Utilizing robust frameworks, including Rust, Chainflip enables users to move funds across different blockchains and ecosystems without the need for additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets. This approach provides a trustless environment for investors seeking to exchange assets across multiple networks efficiently.

Volt Protocol is a digital currency platform designed to provide users with a yield-bearing currency that combines the benefits of self-custody and censorship resistance with the ease of transactions typically found in traditional banking. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, Volt Protocol utilizes smart contracts to ensure a non-custodial experience, allowing token holders to maintain control over their assets. The platform focuses on decentralized savings and credit systems, tracking the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for urban communities instead of relying on fiat currencies. This approach empowers users to protect their savings while minimizing reliance on intermediaries, thus fostering a more equitable financial ecosystem.

Operator of a decentralized order flow marketplace intended to bring open and fair payment-for-order-flow markets to crypto. The company's marketplace emphasizes establishing decentralized order flow markets to support partnerships with sources of retail order flow and rapidly build towards a main net launch, enabling clients to earn rebates on each trade.

Upshot 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.

Prime Protocol is a decentralized multiple blockchain prime brokerage that facilitates borrowing and lending of assets across various blockchains. The platform enables users to obtain collateralized loans based on the value of their entire portfolio, offering cross-chain margining and competitive interest rates. This approach enhances liquidity and mitigates risk for borrowers, allowing them to improve capital efficiency and diversify their investment portfolios. By providing a seamless and integrated financial service across multiple blockchain networks, Prime Protocol aims to streamline the borrowing process and broaden access to capital for its users.

Swell Network is a permissionless, non-custodial, and liquid ETH staking protocol that is built for stakers, node operators, and the Ethereum ecosystem. A community-driven and open-source protocol backed by the industry’s leading funds and angels.

Developer of a decentralized platform designed to facilitate trading perpetual futures. The company's platform helps traders tokenize their most profitable perpetual future positions so that they can be utilized as collateral on other Defi protocols, enabling traders to borrow against their profitable perpetual futures positions.

Socket is a developer of a multichain interoperability platform that connects various blockchain networks, facilitating seamless asset and information transfers. By acting as a meta-layer, Socket enables the creation of unified, multichain applications that share liquidity and state across different chains. Its platform simplifies the development of cross-chain applications by unifying liquidity across bridges and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), allowing users to route funds based on their preferences such as fees, speed, or security. This approach enhances the efficiency and functionality of blockchain interactions, benefiting developers and users alike.

Parcel is focused on facilitating virtual real estate transactions within the metaverse. It has created a comprehensive marketplace that aggregates digital land listings, connecting landowners and creators to support the growth of the metaverse community. Parcel offers a variety of services, including real-time appraisals and extensive industry knowledge, while minimizing costs through zero marketplace fees and low gas consumption. By streamlining access to virtual properties, Parcel aims to empower users to navigate the virtual ecosystem more efficiently and affordably.

Chainflip is a decentralized protocol that facilitates direct cross-chain swaps among various blockchains without requiring a trusted intermediary. The platform is designed to support the seamless exchange of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to conduct anonymous and permissionless transactions. Utilizing robust frameworks, including Rust, Chainflip enables users to move funds across different blockchains and ecosystems without the need for additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets. This approach provides a trustless environment for investors seeking to exchange assets across multiple networks efficiently.

Developer of crypto networks designed to earn digital currency using crypto applications. The company provides tokens for doing onchain actions, offers tools to distribute ownership and quests that upon completion offer rewards, enabling users to acquire XP, level up, and earn rewards for interacting with well-known blockchain protocols.

SynFutures operates a decentralized derivatives platform that facilitates the trading of synthetic assets, allowing users to create and trade various digital asset pairs using a single digital token as margin. The platform aims to establish an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on any asset with a price feed. By promoting a free market environment and increasing the diversity of tradable assets, SynFutures seeks to lower the barriers to entry in the derivatives market, thereby fostering a more equitable exchange for digital assets.

Fei Labs is focused on developing a decentralized stablecoin that aims to address challenges associated with existing dollar-pegged products, particularly those influenced by large holders, commonly referred to as "whales." The company has created a unique stablecoin mechanism that is undercollateralized and designed for scalability, promoting capital efficiency and equitable distribution among users. By leveraging this innovative approach, Fei Labs enables users to utilize their stablecoins to maintain liquid secondary markets, thereby enhancing overall market functionality while ensuring a fully decentralized framework.

Saddle Finance operates an automated market maker (AMM) platform specifically designed for trading pegged value crypto assets. Its innovative financial trading platform facilitates trading and earning opportunities with these assets by utilizing a tokenized bitcoin pool. This approach enhances on-chain liquidity, allowing traders to execute transactions with minimal slippage and reduced transaction fees. By focusing on the unique requirements of pegged value assets, Saddle Finance aims to provide an efficient and cost-effective trading experience for its users.

DODO is a decentralized exchange that utilizes the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm to enhance capital efficiency in liquidity provision. It offers a straightforward token issuance mechanism, which is particularly beneficial for long-tail assets. By focusing on on-chain liquidity provision, DODO enables independent price discovery, allowing users to invest, issue, and trade cryptocurrency assets effectively. The platform operates primarily on Ethereum and the Smart Chain, facilitating liquidity token trading while maintaining a low barrier to entry for users.

Teller is a United States-based blockchain project focused on decentralized lending. It provides a platform that connects to users' bank accounts to offer risk-assessed, unsecured loans, eliminating the need for collateral. By utilizing an algorithmic credit risk protocol, Teller aims to create decentralized lending markets that enhance lending opportunities while minimizing risks. The company's cloud-based system effectively delivers creditworthiness data, enabling users to engage in loans with digital currency. Through this innovative approach, Teller seeks to transform the lending landscape by making access to loans more efficient and secure.