Antic’s scalable infrastructure is intended for any business seeking the addition of a co-ownership layer to their offerings. Its infrastructure freely enables businesses and individuals to do whatever they want with whatever they own - sell it, provide access to it, add additional co-owners to it and more. With original, seamless co-sharing functionalities like ad-hoc multi signature wallets and group decision making to retrieve assets, Antic’s new approach makes any digital asset or IP accessible to all parties interested in joining, unlocking new revenue streams for every co-owner.
Pinata develops tools designed to easily create and manage content on the interplanetary file system. The company's tools simplify immutable data and combine blockchains with immutable off-chain data storage, enabling developers to increase the speed and stability required for production applications.
Optic monitors blockchains to reveal the origins of any NFT and how it’s been reimagined, remixed, or copied.
Orderly Network is a permissionless, decentralized exchange protocol built on NEAR. Founded in April 2022 with the mission to create the most robust liquidity layer infrastructure for any dApp to utilize and build on, Orderly Network offers market-leading execution with low latency, minimal fees, and access to ample liquidity options.
Ancient8 is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on creating the infrastructure for GameFi, emphasizing community development and software solutions. As Vietnam's largest blockchain gaming guild, it facilitates access to the Metaverse through various initiatives, including scholarships, blockchain education, and comprehensive research. Ancient8 aims to democratize social and financial opportunities within the Metaverse, striving to educate and empower a new generation of users. By providing tools and resources, the organization enables individuals to engage in play-to-earn video games while earning rewards, fostering a collaborative environment for the growth of blockchain technology and its applications in gaming.
Developer of a mobile cryptocurrency application designed to create convenience for the crypto market. The company's application provides all the features of a crypto exchange platform and gives access to different financial services and the opportunity to safely buy, sell, manage, and utilize blockchain-based assets, enabling crypto owners to accelerate the transition towards an open financial system.
Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company focused on developing Web3 games and interactive content designed to foster community engagement and social experiences. The company aims to inspire imagination by connecting individuals globally through immersive environments created from cross-generational intellectual properties. By leveraging blockchain technology, Metatheory empowers users with digital ownership and audience-driven story development, allowing gamers to engage in fun gameplay while exploring new virtual worlds. The company's mission emphasizes the importance of community-driven adventures, creating a platform where creativity and social interaction thrive.
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.
Jambo is building the Web3 super app that will educate, bank and entertain the continent. Jambo aims to pioneer the largest, most influential Web3 user acquisition portal across the continent and serve as the bridge between Africa and applications from around the world seeking to tap into the African market. The opportunity here is immense. We have a long-term vision of realizing financial prosperity for Africans.
InfiniGods is a game development company focused on creating blockchain games set in a mythological universe. With a team of seasoned professionals from the gaming industry, InfiniGods aims to transform the gaming experience through digital ownership. The company specializes in developing web and mobile games that incorporate elements of mythology, featuring gameplay styles such as puzzles, strategy, and city building. By prioritizing accessibility, InfiniGods seeks to offer gamers an easy and affordable entry into the world of blockchain gaming, fostering a new era of interactive entertainment.
Ondo Finance is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform that aims to make decentralized finance (DeFi) accessible to a broad audience. The platform offers users the option to choose between downside protection and enhanced returns, catering to individuals with varying risk tolerances. By providing these choices, Ondo Finance enables users to effectively access DeFi yields while managing their investment risks.
0x Protocol operates an open protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the protocol serves as a standard for decentralized exchanges, promoting interoperability among applications that require exchange functionality. The offerings include 0x Instant, which allows for crypto purchasing within apps and websites, and the 0x Launch Kit, which assists in launching relayers. Additionally, ZEIP-23 enables the trading of bundles of assets. The protocol supports developers in building relayers, utilizing networked liquidity, and engaging in market making, catering to a diverse range of markets from gaming items to financial instruments.
MetaLend provider of a bank for NFT digital economy.
Developer of a capital-efficient protocol designed to provide liquidity on cryptocurrency assets. The company offers interest-free loans that provide users with instant liquidity without creating a taxable event with ongoing interest payments, enabling users to deposit and borrow against their Solana tokens.
CoinDCX is a company that specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. The company focuses on developing borderless financial services that ensure a simpler and uninterrupted flow of capital. Its liquidity, powerful wallet, and impenetrable security make the trading experience fast, reliable, and effortless. CoinDCX has empowered its traders with a bouquet of industry-first products to trade using liquidity from exchanges. The products are designed for all types of traders keeping their trading experience, risk tolerance, and trading frequency into consideration. The company aims to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone. CoinDCX was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Metaverse Game Studios is a prominent blockchain game development studio focused on creating cross-platform gaming experiences. The company specializes in narrative-driven multiplayer strategy games, allowing players to enhance their gameplay through immersive storytelling and interactive features. By leveraging blockchain technology, Metaverse Game Studios aims to innovate the gaming landscape, offering unique experiences that integrate decentralized elements and community engagement.
Metaverse Game Studios is a prominent blockchain game development studio focused on creating cross-platform gaming experiences. The company specializes in narrative-driven multiplayer strategy games, allowing players to enhance their gameplay through immersive storytelling and interactive features. By leveraging blockchain technology, Metaverse Game Studios aims to innovate the gaming landscape, offering unique experiences that integrate decentralized elements and community engagement.
Swim is a developer of cross-chain infrastructure that facilitates the seamless transfer of tokens across different blockchain networks. By utilizing multi-token liquidity pools and Solana's Wormhole, Swim offers a solution that eliminates delays and the need for centralized bridges or wrapped assets. The company's tools empower users to swap native assets from one chain to native assets on another, thereby reducing reliance on existing bridges and centralized exchanges. This innovative approach enhances the efficiency and accessibility of cross-chain transactions for clients, allowing them to easily swap, send, and receive native assets.
Space Runners is the first Metaverse Fashion brand focused on cross-chain/interoperable fashion items that can be plugged into any Web3.0 Metaverse and games. Our belief is that there are many players working on Metaverses and games, but not enough players working on what users will wear as items in the Metaverse. We collaborate with artists/brands to provide an end-to-end service on design, 3D modeling, marketing, engineering to co-launch a fashion NFT collection that can be plugged into different metaverses. Below are some key points about the project: * Largest NFT community on Solana with 500k+ members across Twitter, Discord, and Instagram * 1st collection sold out in 9 minutes on Dec 23rd: the 10,000 "NBA Champions Collection" with Kyle Kuzma & Nick Young * Consistent Top 1-5 trading volume on Solana since launch * NFTs integrate with games, metaverses and virtual events, wherein each shoe has differentiated power and speed. Our overall vision is to become the first end-to-end digital fashion ecosystem on blockchain as the largest supplier of fashion items.
Rarify is currently working on making a service where minting and selling digital assets can become a non-hassle for industries such as music, gaming, applications and entertainment.
Subspace Labs is building a decentralized cloud database stored on end-user devices. Like Google Firebase, but decentralized and stored across people's phones, tablets, and computers. Their mission is to make it easy for developers to build decentralized apps so that users can own their data, and the Internet can work without having to rely on servers, data centers, and tech monopolies.
VALR is a cryptocurrency exchange platform based in Johannesburg, South Africa, founded in 2018. It provides a digital asset trading service that allows customers to buy, sell, store, and transfer over 50 different cryptocurrencies. The platform emphasizes security, incorporating multiple layers of protection to safeguard customer accounts and funds. VALR aims to offer a fair and transparent financial service, contributing to the development of a more inclusive financial system.
Developer of a blockchain-based gaming platform designed to empower people to build the future of sports, gaming, and entertainment. The company offers a gaming platform, competitive compensation, company equity, and benefits, enabling users to own teams of fictional non-fungible tokens (NFT) athletes to compete in simulated games, tournaments, and leagues for crypto prices.
mrgn labs is a team focused on democratizing essential financial infrastructure for the betterment of mankind.
Amber Group is a prominent cryptocurrency financial services provider headquartered in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals with backgrounds from major institutions. The company facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrency products and offers a range of services including yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, execution services, and electronic market making. Operating globally, Amber Group serves over 200 institutional clients, engaging in significant trading activity across numerous electronic exchanges with an average daily trading volume between $100 million and $200 million. The firm is dedicated to optimizing investment flexibility and maximizing returns for its clients by leveraging advanced technology and quantitative research, thereby enhancing the overall crypto finance experience. In 2019, Amber Group secured $28 million in a Series A funding round, attracting investment from notable players in the cryptocurrency sector.
Helium Systems Inc. specializes in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, focusing on the development of smart sensor devices for various industries. These sensors monitor critical environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light, aiding in facility management and quality control for medical products, energy efficiency, air quality, and refrigeration. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard that allows users to manage and access their sensor data easily. Additionally, Helium operates a peer-to-peer wireless network designed to enhance connectivity for low-power IoT devices. This network incentivizes individuals to act as network operators by rewarding them with cryptocurrency for verifying transactions and maintaining coverage through a unique algorithm called Proof-of-Coverage. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium continues to innovate in the IoT space, providing robust solutions for data transfer and network connectivity.
Private Equity Round in 2022
The DeFi infrastructure built to facilitate the most liquid markets, powered by Maverick AMM.
Summoners Arena is an idle-RPG blockchain-based game that integrates traditional and blockchain gaming to provide countless opportunities for players to take part in immersive gameplay, experience true ownership over gaming assets whilst earning crypto assets.
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.
Rift Finance is a decentralized protocol focused on enhancing the growth of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) through innovative incentive structures. The platform enables DAOs to deploy governance tokens from their treasuries, thereby increasing token liquidity while retaining ownership. This approach assists crypto companies in meeting their liquidity objectives, offering a means to generate attractive and safer returns for liquidity providers. By streamlining the process of token deployment, Rift Finance contributes to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of financial services in the Web3 ecosystem.
BCB Group is a regulated financial services company that specializes in providing cryptocurrency prime brokerage services tailored for institutional clients. Its offerings include over-the-counter (OTC) trading, trade execution, settlement, compliance, and digital custody. BCB Group enables traditional financial institutions, such as brokers, hedge funds, and private banks, to effectively engage with the cryptocurrency market by offering a comprehensive suite of services that simplifies onboarding and operational processes. Through its turn-key solutions, BCB Group alleviates the complexities associated with cryptocurrency trading and custody, allowing clients to focus on their core investment strategies and enhance their product offerings in the digital asset space.
Ancient8 is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on creating the infrastructure for GameFi, emphasizing community development and software solutions. As Vietnam's largest blockchain gaming guild, it facilitates access to the Metaverse through various initiatives, including scholarships, blockchain education, and comprehensive research. Ancient8 aims to democratize social and financial opportunities within the Metaverse, striving to educate and empower a new generation of users. By providing tools and resources, the organization enables individuals to engage in play-to-earn video games while earning rewards, fostering a collaborative environment for the growth of blockchain technology and its applications in gaming.
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.
Developer of machine learning-powered financial software designed to provide credit cards, loans, accounts, payments, and expense management. The company's platform offers software banking services, enabling medical clients to find the right balance between supporting their patients and running their practice, starting with tools that deliver a simpler, smarter way to manage their spending.
Arcade provides an infrastructure layer for NFT liquidity that enables the financialization of non-fungible assets, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.Arcade’s Wrapped NFT technology allows NFTs to be bundled to secure one loan. Arcade is also an open-source Defi primitive it allows developers to build on top of the platform.
Gemini is a next-generation cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets. The company was founded in 2014, by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to build a bridge to the future of money. Its goal to build a world-class digital asset exchange and custodian based in the United States.
GuildFi is a gaming platform that empowers all gamer communities and creates interoperability across the Metaverse.
Developer of blockchain-based games designed to unlock player-driven and decentralized game economies. The company develops games by leveraging blockchain technology to make hyper-social games with player-driven economies which allow players from around the world to earn tokens and rise in the leaderboards, enabling players to have a realistic and vivid gaming experience.
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.
Genopets is a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life.
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine developed by the NEAR Protocol team, offering a seamless solution for developers to run applications on an Ethereum-compatible platform. It combines the benefits of Ethereum compatibility with the scalability and low transaction costs of the NEAR Protocol, creating a high-throughput environment for decentralized applications. The platform is designed to deliver an exceptional user experience, enabling Ethereum developers to transition effortlessly by simply changing the RPC endpoint. Aurora aims to facilitate the development of decentralized applications while ensuring affordability and efficiency for users.
Developer of a decentralized financial protocol and application designed for efficient stake management on public blockchain networks. The company's application brings sustainable staking yields from digital assets and is a distribution layer of staking while building protocols and products, enabling clients to enhance the security, decentralization, liquidity, and governance of some of the major blockchain networks.
Developer of a decentralized financial protocol and application designed for efficient stake management on public blockchain networks. The company's application brings sustainable staking yields from digital assets and is a distribution layer of staking while building protocols and products, enabling clients to enhance the security, decentralization, liquidity, and governance of some of the major blockchain networks.
BitOasis Technologies FZE is a fintech company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, founded in 2015. The company operates an online platform that enables users to buy and sell bitcoins across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. BitOasis aims to provide a secure and regulated infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading, catering to both retail and institutional clients. Its platform includes a bitcoin exchange, wallet services, and various integrations designed to facilitate seamless digital transactions. By focusing on emerging markets, BitOasis seeks to onboard consumers and businesses into an efficient, borderless payment system using blockchain technology.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users. BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.
Audius, Inc. develops a decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating using blockchain technology to share music. It provides features that include audio file hosting and streaming, creator dashboard, exclusinve content, listen without downloading additional software, and earn royalties. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Offchain Labs, Inc., based in Princeton, New Jersey, was founded in 2018 to enhance the development of scalable and secure smart contracts, particularly for applications in the gaming industry and financial services. The company's platform enables developers to create decentralized applications with greater efficiency by providing tools that facilitate the integration of a flexible second layer to their architecture. This approach allows for increased transaction capacity while maintaining privacy and reducing costs, combining the benefits of off-chain solutions with the security of on-chain methods. Offchain Labs aims to simplify the smart contract development process, enabling developers to focus on business logic and user experience.
Ondo Finance is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform that aims to make decentralized finance (DeFi) accessible to a broad audience. The platform offers users the option to choose between downside protection and enhanced returns, catering to individuals with varying risk tolerances. By providing these choices, Ondo Finance enables users to effectively access DeFi yields while managing their investment risks.
Developer of a mobile cryptocurrency application designed to create convenience for the crypto market. The company's application provides all the features of a crypto exchange platform and gives access to different financial services and the opportunity to safely buy, sell, manage, and utilize blockchain-based assets, enabling crypto owners to accelerate the transition towards an open financial system.
MakersPlace is an online marketplace based in San Francisco that focuses on authentic and unique digital creations, leveraging blockchain technology to ensure proof of authenticity, ownership, and scarcity. Founded in 2016, the platform allows digital creators to protect and sell limited editions of their work, thereby enabling them to capture the full value of their creations. By connecting artists with fans and collectors globally, MakersPlace fosters a vibrant ecosystem where digital art can be bought and sold securely. The platform serves as a crucial link between creators and their audience, promoting the appreciation and acquisition of rare digital artworks.
Dyad AI specializes in developing artificial intelligence tools tailored for the healthcare sector. The company leverages graph machine learning and knowledge graphs to create integrated applications that enhance collaboration, visibility, and data trustworthiness. Its AI-powered platform serves as a universal translator, providing a curated knowledge base linked to local clinical operations. This approach helps reduce waste and lower costs by anticipating the needs of healthcare facilities, thereby enabling professionals and organizations to improve performance and meet government standards. Dyad's solutions facilitate the standardization and contextualization of healthcare operations data in near real-time, supporting value-based care initiatives for both payers and providers.
Developer of blockchain-based games designed to unlock player-driven and decentralized game economies. The company develops games by leveraging blockchain technology to make hyper-social games with player-driven economies which allow players from around the world to earn tokens and rise in the leaderboards, enabling players to have a realistic and vivid gaming experience.
Hi there! if you’re reading this, you’re probably like us – have pretty much all your wealth stored in digitized (or soon to be digitized) assets like money in your bank, mutual funds, stocks or real estate. You probably have a financial advisor guiding you through your investments, a manager from your bank who helps you stay on top of your mortgage payments and a government that prints money responsibly to not de-value your lifetime of savings. But how do you know that the bank manager or your financial advisor has your best interests at heart instead of their own fee and commissions? Your contract explicitly states that they are not responsible for your loss even as they verbally assure you otherwise. How do you know that the digital assets won’t be hacked (traditional bank websites get hacked all the time)? Or that your physical assets won’t be stolen(bank robberies) or taken by fraud (enough examples in real estate)? Governments fall all the time, or change their monetary policies - and your currency today can literally have no value tomorrow (Indian demonetization, Argentina, Venezuela). How do you know it won’t happen to your country? Do you ask these questions? Well, we do all the time. To answer these questions and why we created the Bank of Hodlers, we have to dive into the details of how banking evolved. As early as the 2nd century BC, people who could save money started lending them out to people who could borrow and pay back with interest. Banking as an industry thrived in Italy and grew with the expansion of the Roman Empire. During the 20th century, developments in telecommunications and computing caused major changes to banks' operations and let banks dramatically increase in size and geographic spread. This consolidated the industry and gave the power to a few firms. Fast forward to 2007: their recklessness caused the financial crisis of 2007–2008 forcing failure of many banks, including some of the world's largest banks. The government let the banks live by infusing 1.2 trillion dollars of the taxpayer’s money into a handful of banks and in turn, created the need, wave of innovation and a community for blockchain and the concept of decentralization to thrive. Here’s Alan Greenspan (Chairman – Federal Reserve: 1987-2006), the guy who decided how much money to print in America, admitting that his model was flawed in 2008. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lZPWNFizQ In 2009, something magical happened, Satoshi Nakamoto released his white paper which removed the need for a centralized authority to facilitate transactions in a purely peer to peer and decentralized fashion and making truly beneficial for every user holding the currency. Some governments, after looking at the threat that bitcoin poses, have decided to take an anti-crypto stance. This ensures the network effect doesn’t happen at a scale where it replaces their national currency. This is where we come in. At the Bank of Hodlers, we intend to treat your cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class and offer services to ensure technologies based on blockchain are usable as of today, negating the need for the network effects and government acceptance to come in. We give every HODLer the ability to completely bank on blockchain today. Every once in a while, there’s a technology jump so large that completely leapfrogs every existing solution out there. Blockchain is this technology jump and the banks know this.
Eco is a digital cryptocurrency platform designed to facilitate global transactions for everyday use. It operates independently from any single organization or government, aiming to create a more equitable distribution of resources by sharing the majority of the economic value generated with its community. The platform features a digital wallet that combines savings accounts, rewarded spending, and bill payment into a single, user-friendly interface. This innovative approach encourages effective money management and aligns the interests of the company with its users, fostering a sustainable financial system. Additionally, Eco is supported by a network of verified organizations worldwide, ensuring that its services remain safe and reliable for all users.
Amber Group is a prominent cryptocurrency financial services provider headquartered in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals with backgrounds from major institutions. The company facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrency products and offers a range of services including yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, execution services, and electronic market making. Operating globally, Amber Group serves over 200 institutional clients, engaging in significant trading activity across numerous electronic exchanges with an average daily trading volume between $100 million and $200 million. The firm is dedicated to optimizing investment flexibility and maximizing returns for its clients by leveraging advanced technology and quantitative research, thereby enhancing the overall crypto finance experience. In 2019, Amber Group secured $28 million in a Series A funding round, attracting investment from notable players in the cryptocurrency sector.
Private Equity Round in 2021
BitDAO is one of the world's newest and largest decentralized autonomous organizations, formed with the vision of leveling the economic playing field for every person in the world through the acceleration of the decentralized tokenized economy. The company allocates significant financial and talent resources to drive decentralized finance growth.
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.
Private Equity Round in 2021
Rangers Protocol is a future virtual world blockchain infrastructure, fully compatible with Ethereum, professionally supports NFT and complex applications, and integrates and expands cross-chain, NFT, EVM, and distributed network protocols.
Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.
Unbound Finance operates a decentralized finance platform that specializes in 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 while offering a debt-free liquidity provision system. This approach facilitates the compounding of earnings from liquidity pool tokens, enhancing the ability of users to access liquidity across various platforms. Unbound Finance serves as a treasury for these tokens, streamlining the process of unlocking capital tied up in existing liquidity pools.
Developer of a blockchain-based pricing platform designed for illiquid assets.The company's platform uses a Determinant-based Mutual Information (DMI) mechanism, in which participants are asked subjective multiple-choice questions to find a fair price for illiquid assets, and predicts pricing information for pre-IPO stocks, private equity, and other illiquid assets.
Developer of a blockchain-based pricing platform designed for illiquid assets.The company's platform uses a Determinant-based Mutual Information (DMI) mechanism, in which participants are asked subjective multiple-choice questions to find a fair price for illiquid assets, and predicts pricing information for pre-IPO stocks, private equity, and other illiquid assets.
Developer of a mobile cryptocurrency application designed to create convenience for the crypto market. The company's application provides all the features of a crypto exchange platform and gives access to different financial services and the opportunity to safely buy, sell, manage, and utilize blockchain-based assets, enabling crypto owners to accelerate the transition towards an open financial system.
Rangers Protocol is a future virtual world blockchain infrastructure, fully compatible with Ethereum, professionally supports NFT and complex applications, and integrates and expands cross-chain, NFT, EVM, and distributed network protocols.
Bitso SAPI de CV is a prominent online trading platform based in Mexico City, founded in 2014, that facilitates the buying and selling of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. As Mexico's first Bitcoin exchange, Bitso allows users to trade Bitcoin with the Mexican Peso, providing a secure and professional environment for cryptocurrency transactions. Users can fund their accounts through various options, including in-person deposits at designated locations across Mexico. The platform operates with a central limit order book, similar to traditional currency exchanges, ensuring efficient trade execution. Additionally, Bitso offers an API that enables third-party applications, such as trading and charting tools, to integrate with its platform, along with a dedicated mobile application for seamless trading activities.
Notional is a decentralized protocol that facilitates fixed-rate, fixed-term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform allows users to lend or borrow stablecoins at predetermined interest rates for terms of up to six months, utilizing a token known as fCash. This token can be redeemed for an underlying currency, such as DAI, upon its maturity. Notional features specialized liquidity pools that enable the efficient exchange between cash and fCash, with the exchange rate determining the fixed interest rate for the duration of the fCash token's life. The protocol is designed to be flexible, allowing for the addition of new assets, collateral types, and extended maturities in the future. Prioritizing security, Notional collaborates with industry experts to ensure the robustness of its smart contracts and the soundness of its economic framework.
Risk Harbor operates a risk management marketplace focused on decentralized finance (DeFi), providing a platform that allows liquidity providers and stakers to protect themselves against smart contract vulnerabilities. The marketplace features an automated and transparent claims process, ensuring fairness and impartiality. It enables users to create diverse pools of protection using DeFi assets and offers functionalities such as objective claims handling and risk composability. By integrating new protocols, Risk Harbor enhances clients' potential for earnings and security, allowing them to assess risk and data in a secure environment. The company's mission is to facilitate a smooth transition to decentralized financial services by eliminating the necessity for trusted intermediaries, thereby promoting a truly open and permissionless financial system for all.
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.
Injective Protocol Inc. is a company that develops and operates a decentralized derivatives exchange and trading platform. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, it offers a layer-2 exchange protocol designed to enhance borderless finance. The platform supports various trading options, including margin trading, derivatives, and futures, while also enabling decentralized lending and short or long margin trading. Notably, it features mechanisms to eliminate front-running, ensuring fair liquidity sharing among users.
Virtue Poker is a decentralized poker platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain and peer-to-peer networking to provide an online poker site that's safe, honest, and fun.
Liquity AG operates a decentralized borrowing protocol on the Ethereum blockchain, providing interest-free consumer loans. Founded in 2020 and based in Baar, Switzerland, the platform allows users to obtain loans by using Ethereum as collateral. The loans are issued in a USD-pegged stablecoin, with a specific minimum collateralization ratio required to secure the borrowing. By eliminating interest fees, Liquity aims to offer a more accessible and cost-effective financial solution for users seeking to leverage their Ethereum holdings.
StarkWare Industries Ltd, founded in 2017 and based in Netanya, Israel, specializes in developing software and hardware for generating and verifying computational integrity proofs. The company has created STARK, a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances scalability and privacy in blockchain applications. This technology allows for increased transaction throughput and enables off-chain computation while ensuring that sensitive underlying data remains confidential. StarkWare's solutions are designed to improve the efficiency, security, and overall user experience of blockchain systems, making them a key player in the field of cryptographic proof platforms.
BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users. BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.
Anchor Protocol is a savings platform that provides crypto natives, fintech companies, and investors a stable, high interest rate finance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.
BCB Group is a regulated financial services company that specializes in providing cryptocurrency prime brokerage services tailored for institutional clients. Its offerings include over-the-counter (OTC) trading, trade execution, settlement, compliance, and digital custody. BCB Group enables traditional financial institutions, such as brokers, hedge funds, and private banks, to effectively engage with the cryptocurrency market by offering a comprehensive suite of services that simplifies onboarding and operational processes. Through its turn-key solutions, BCB Group alleviates the complexities associated with cryptocurrency trading and custody, allowing clients to focus on their core investment strategies and enhance their product offerings in the digital asset space.
Reflexer Labs, founded in 2020 and based in the USA, is a decentralized finance project focused on reducing volatility in the financial ecosystem. The company develops a low-volatility collateral designed to create a stable foundation for decentralized finance. Its innovative product employs a volatility-dampened synthetic instrument that utilizes control theory within smart contracts. This technology allows for the automatic adjustment of collateral supply in response to market conditions, maintaining a similar chart pattern to underlying assets while exhibiting lower volatility. By doing so, Reflexer aims to help businesses minimize the risk of investment losses, contributing to a more secure and stable decentralized finance environment.
Balancer Labs operates an exchange focused on decentralized finance, providing a platform for programmable liquidity. Founded in 2018 and based in the United States, the company facilitates the exchange of tokens without the need for deposits, bids, asks, or order management. As a non-custodial portfolio manager and liquidity provider, Balancer Labs also functions as a price sensor, enabling users to manage their assets efficiently while maintaining control over their funds.
0x Protocol operates an open protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the protocol serves as a standard for decentralized exchanges, promoting interoperability among applications that require exchange functionality. The offerings include 0x Instant, which allows for crypto purchasing within apps and websites, and the 0x Launch Kit, which assists in launching relayers. Additionally, ZEIP-23 enables the trading of bundles of assets. The protocol supports developers in building relayers, utilizing networked liquidity, and engaging in market making, catering to a diverse range of markets from gaming items to financial instruments.
Terra is a price-stable cryptocurrency designed for mass adoption. It builds financial infrastructure for the next generation of decentralized applications. Terra is backed by Luna, a decentralized asset that derives its value from transaction fees collected on the Terra network. Much like the moon stabilizes the earth’s rotation, Luna is Terra's eternal guardian of stability.
Wintermute Trading Limited is a global crypto market maker that specializes in proprietary trading and offers market making services to both crypto projects and exchanges. Founded in 2017 by experienced professionals from the high-frequency trading sector, the company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Wintermute develops its own algorithms and trading strategies, ensuring full compliance with the risk management and compliance practices of traditional financial markets. By leveraging its expertise, Wintermute plays a significant role in enhancing liquidity and efficiency within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Hi there! if you’re reading this, you’re probably like us – have pretty much all your wealth stored in digitized (or soon to be digitized) assets like money in your bank, mutual funds, stocks or real estate. You probably have a financial advisor guiding you through your investments, a manager from your bank who helps you stay on top of your mortgage payments and a government that prints money responsibly to not de-value your lifetime of savings. But how do you know that the bank manager or your financial advisor has your best interests at heart instead of their own fee and commissions? Your contract explicitly states that they are not responsible for your loss even as they verbally assure you otherwise. How do you know that the digital assets won’t be hacked (traditional bank websites get hacked all the time)? Or that your physical assets won’t be stolen(bank robberies) or taken by fraud (enough examples in real estate)? Governments fall all the time, or change their monetary policies - and your currency today can literally have no value tomorrow (Indian demonetization, Argentina, Venezuela). How do you know it won’t happen to your country? Do you ask these questions? Well, we do all the time. To answer these questions and why we created the Bank of Hodlers, we have to dive into the details of how banking evolved. As early as the 2nd century BC, people who could save money started lending them out to people who could borrow and pay back with interest. Banking as an industry thrived in Italy and grew with the expansion of the Roman Empire. During the 20th century, developments in telecommunications and computing caused major changes to banks' operations and let banks dramatically increase in size and geographic spread. This consolidated the industry and gave the power to a few firms. Fast forward to 2007: their recklessness caused the financial crisis of 2007–2008 forcing failure of many banks, including some of the world's largest banks. The government let the banks live by infusing 1.2 trillion dollars of the taxpayer’s money into a handful of banks and in turn, created the need, wave of innovation and a community for blockchain and the concept of decentralization to thrive. Here’s Alan Greenspan (Chairman – Federal Reserve: 1987-2006), the guy who decided how much money to print in America, admitting that his model was flawed in 2008. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lZPWNFizQ In 2009, something magical happened, Satoshi Nakamoto released his white paper which removed the need for a centralized authority to facilitate transactions in a purely peer to peer and decentralized fashion and making truly beneficial for every user holding the currency. Some governments, after looking at the threat that bitcoin poses, have decided to take an anti-crypto stance. This ensures the network effect doesn’t happen at a scale where it replaces their national currency. This is where we come in. At the Bank of Hodlers, we intend to treat your cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class and offer services to ensure technologies based on blockchain are usable as of today, negating the need for the network effects and government acceptance to come in. We give every HODLer the ability to completely bank on blockchain today. Every once in a while, there’s a technology jump so large that completely leapfrogs every existing solution out there. Blockchain is this technology jump and the banks know this.
Bitso SAPI de CV is a prominent online trading platform based in Mexico City, founded in 2014, that facilitates the buying and selling of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. As Mexico's first Bitcoin exchange, Bitso allows users to trade Bitcoin with the Mexican Peso, providing a secure and professional environment for cryptocurrency transactions. Users can fund their accounts through various options, including in-person deposits at designated locations across Mexico. The platform operates with a central limit order book, similar to traditional currency exchanges, ensuring efficient trade execution. Additionally, Bitso offers an API that enables third-party applications, such as trading and charting tools, to integrate with its platform, along with a dedicated mobile application for seamless trading activities.
BitGo is the world's largest processor of on-chain Bitcoin transactions, processing 15% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and $15 billion per month across all cryptocurrencies. BitGo supports over 200 coins and tokens, and has over $2 billion in assets in wallet. Our customer base includes the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries. In 2018, we introduced BitGo Custody and launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. In 2019, we began providing clearing and settlement.
Ben Davenport, Michael Belshe, and Will O'Brien founded BitGo in 2013. It has its headquarters in Palo Alto in California.
1inch Limited is a company that specializes in developing decentralized protocols for cryptocurrency trading. Founded in 2019 and based in the United States, 1inch operates the 1inch Network, which includes several key protocols: the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, the 1inch Liquidity Protocol, and the 1inch Limit Order Protocol. These protocols work together to facilitate efficient and secure trading operations in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, allowing users to execute transactions that are both profitable and fast. Through its innovative technology, 1inch aims to enhance the trading experience for users in the growing cryptocurrency market.
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.
API3 is a company based in the Cayman Islands that focuses on creating decentralized application programming interfaces (APIs) for web use. It develops a decentralized API infrastructure designed to connect blockchain applications with off-chain data providers. API3 aggregates data from first-party oracles operated by leading API providers, allowing data providers to serve as their own blockchain oracles without the need for third-party intermediaries. The platform addresses the challenges of API connectivity by utilizing a decentralized approach, ensuring secure and quantifiable data feeds for decentralized applications.
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.
Braintrust is a decentralized freelancer marketplace that utilizes blockchain technology to link technical and design professionals with organizations seeking their expertise. Founded in 2018 in San Jose, California, by Adam Jackson, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, and Brian Flynn, Braintrust offers a user-controlled talent network that enables direct connections between businesses and top tech talent. By eliminating intermediaries, the platform provides significant cost savings for enterprises, charging a flat 10 percent project fee while allowing talent to retain 100 percent of their earnings. The company's mission is to revolutionize traditional hiring practices by redistributing value and aligning incentives between talent and organizations, ultimately creating a more efficient and equitable workforce ecosystem.
Developer of a financial platform intended to trade options, futures, perpetual, and hedges all in one place. The company's platform offers crypto options and derivatives trading services on mobile, request for quote (RFQ), a powerful tool for traders to manage risk and obtain the prices for large and complex trades, enabling professional traders to optimize profits and reduce the risk of impermanent loss.
Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub that operates on a blockchain-based platform, facilitating cryptocurrency transactions across blockchains linked to the Polkadot network. The platform enables users to send and receive USD while providing a suite of financial tools, including a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by various cross-chain assets, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange. These features enhance liquidity and support the development of innovative financial applications. Acala Network is headquartered in the United States.
Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate. Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges. Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
Audius, Inc. develops a decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating using blockchain technology to share music. It provides features that include audio file hosting and streaming, creator dashboard, exclusinve content, listen without downloading additional software, and earn royalties. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.