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.
Ancient8 is building a DAO that develops the infrastructure layer for GameFi, with a focus on community and software. As Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guild, Ancient8 enables everyone to build the Metaverse through scholarship, blockchain education, institutional-grade research, community, and blockchain software products. Ancient8’s vision is to democratize social and financial access in the Metaverse, and is on a mission to reach, educate, and empower the next 100 million Metaverse citizens through the blockchain.
0x Protocol is an open protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company offers several tools to enhance the trading experience, including 0x Instant for purchasing cryptocurrencies in applications and websites, and the 0x Launch Kit for launching relayers. Additionally, 0x enables developers to create customized relayers, execute orders, access networked liquidity, and engage in market making. Its services cater to a wide range of markets, from gaming items to financial instruments, and include the ability to trade bundles of assets through ZEIP-23.
Amber Group is a prominent cryptocurrency financial services provider based in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals with backgrounds in major institutions. The company offers a range of services, including cryptocurrency trading, yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, and electronic market making. With a global presence that includes locations in Taipei, Seoul, and Vancouver, Amber Group operates continuously to serve over 200 institutional clients, facilitating trading across more than 60 electronic exchanges. The firm has cumulatively traded over $200 billion, maintaining an average daily trading volume between $100 million and $200 million. Amber Group emphasizes the integration of advanced technology with quantitative research to enhance investment flexibility, maximize returns, and deliver sustained value to its clients.
Private Equity Round in 2022
The DeFi infrastructure built to facilitate the most liquid markets, powered by Maverick AMM.
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.
Ancient8 is building a DAO that develops the infrastructure layer for GameFi, with a focus on community and software. As Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guild, Ancient8 enables everyone to build the Metaverse through scholarship, blockchain education, institutional-grade research, community, and blockchain software products. Ancient8’s vision is to democratize social and financial access in the Metaverse, and is on a mission to reach, educate, and empower the next 100 million Metaverse citizens through the blockchain.
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.
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.
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine developed by the NEAR Protocol team, designed to enable developers to run applications on a scalable and Ethereum-compatible platform. It offers a seamless user experience with low transaction costs and high throughput, making it accessible for developers transitioning from Ethereum. By simply changing the RPC endpoint, Ethereum developers can easily start utilizing Aurora's layer-2-like speed and scalability. This turn-key solution aims to provide a future-safe environment for app development, enhancing the capabilities of the Ethereum ecosystem.
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.
Amber Group is a prominent cryptocurrency financial services provider based in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals with backgrounds in major institutions. The company offers a range of services, including cryptocurrency trading, yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, and electronic market making. With a global presence that includes locations in Taipei, Seoul, and Vancouver, Amber Group operates continuously to serve over 200 institutional clients, facilitating trading across more than 60 electronic exchanges. The firm has cumulatively traded over $200 billion, maintaining an average daily trading volume between $100 million and $200 million. Amber Group emphasizes the integration of advanced technology with quantitative research to enhance investment flexibility, maximize returns, and deliver sustained value to its clients.
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.
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.
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.
Balancer Labs, Inc operates an exchange for decentralized finance. The company offers a platform for programmable liquidity. It offers exchange tokens without deposits, bids/asks, and order management. Balancer Labs, Inc was founded in 2018 and is based in the United States.
0x Protocol is an open protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company offers several tools to enhance the trading experience, including 0x Instant for purchasing cryptocurrencies in applications and websites, and the 0x Launch Kit for launching relayers. Additionally, 0x enables developers to create customized relayers, execute orders, access networked liquidity, and engage in market making. Its services cater to a wide range of markets, from gaming items to financial instruments, and include the ability to trade bundles of assets through ZEIP-23.
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.
API3 is a company based in the Cayman Islands that specializes in providing decentralized application programming interfaces (APIs) for the web. It focuses on creating data feeds known as dAPIs, which aggregate information from first-party oracles. These oracles are operated by leading API providers, ensuring high-quality and reliable data for decentralized applications. By leveraging these resources, API3 aims to enhance the accessibility and functionality of decentralized systems, allowing developers to integrate real-world data into their applications seamlessly.
Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform powering cross-blockchain liquidity and applications. It offers a suite of financial primitives: a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange to unleash liquidity to power more financial innovations.
Coinme Inc. operates as a bitcoin exchange and ATM operator. Its network of bitcoin ATMs, digital wallet, exchange, and digital currency IRA/401k solutions provide customers with access to the digital currency economy. The company also provides a proprietary API and digital wallet that crypto-enables existing ATMs, kiosks, PoS devices, and merchants. Coinme Inc. was formerly known as Western Coin LLC. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Amber Group is a prominent cryptocurrency financial services provider based in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals with backgrounds in major institutions. The company offers a range of services, including cryptocurrency trading, yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, and electronic market making. With a global presence that includes locations in Taipei, Seoul, and Vancouver, Amber Group operates continuously to serve over 200 institutional clients, facilitating trading across more than 60 electronic exchanges. The firm has cumulatively traded over $200 billion, maintaining an average daily trading volume between $100 million and $200 million. Amber Group emphasizes the integration of advanced technology with quantitative research to enhance investment flexibility, maximize returns, and deliver sustained value to its clients.
Meter.io is a base layer hybrid consensus protocol built to address the volatility, scaling and interoperability problems in the existing cryptocurrencies.
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Flexa is the payments company of tomorrow. We're enabling faster, more secure transactions in a world without borders. Where fraud is no longer possible and currency is a matter of choice. In 2018, Flexa is paving the way for the mass adoption of blockchain technologies and perfect authentication. Payments between people and places, not institutions—commerce as it should be.
SparkSwap is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2017 and based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is notable for being the first exchange built on the Lightning Network, which facilitates peer-to-peer trading without the need for users to deposit their assets on the platform. This design significantly reduces counterparty risk and combines advantages of both centralized and decentralized exchanges. SparkSwap is primarily used by cryptocurrency miners and traders to exchange Bitcoin and Litecoin, enabling trustless transactions and enhancing security for its users by mitigating the risks associated with centralized exchanges.
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Alluva Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in a blockchain-based decentralized application (DApp) designed for predicting and rating crypto-assets. Founded in 2019, the platform aims to create the world's largest analyst marketplace, enhancing institutional investment in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Alluva's model allows users to contribute insights on cryptocurrency, with rewards given in the form of tradable tokens. This incentivizes both individual contributors and expert analysts to provide accurate market analyses. The platform fosters clarity in the cryptocurrency space, helping investors avoid scams and discover promising blockchain technologies and startups. Additionally, Alluva tokens can be utilized in the Alluva Store for various products and services, further promoting the adoption of digital assets within the blockchain community.
ThunderCore is a fast, high performance EVM-compatible public blockchain with fully decentralized trust that brings scale to decentralized applications - with higher throughput, faster confirmation times, and lower costs. Based on years of groundbreaking research by Professors Shi and Pass of Cornell University, ThunderCore uses a breakthrough consensus protocol that overcomes the fundamental limitations of Nakamoto consensus. The result maintains fully decentralized trust while significantly improving performance.
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.
Synthetic Minds is a smart contract security startup. It has built automation that can read and write code using program synthesis.
CoinSuper Fintech (HK) Co., Ltd., doing business as Coinsuper, provides digital asset trading and customized services for professionals and individuals. It offers financial advisory, compliance, wealth management, and cryptocurrency and financial technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Central, Hong Kong.
Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Basis is a company based in Hoboken, New Jersey, that develops an algorithmic cryptocurrency protocol. Founded in 2017, Basis aims to stabilize the purchasing power of its cryptocurrency by managing its supply in a manner similar to how central banks operate with fiscal debt. The protocol is designed to expand and contract the supply of the cryptocurrency, thereby maintaining its value and ensuring stability in the market.
ThunderCore is a fast, high performance EVM-compatible public blockchain with fully decentralized trust that brings scale to decentralized applications - with higher throughput, faster confirmation times, and lower costs. Based on years of groundbreaking research by Professors Shi and Pass of Cornell University, ThunderCore uses a breakthrough consensus protocol that overcomes the fundamental limitations of Nakamoto consensus. The result maintains fully decentralized trust while significantly improving performance.
Codex is the decentralized title registry for the $2 trillion arts & collectibles (“A&C”) ecosystem, which includes art, fine wine, collectible cars, antiques, decorative arts, coins, watches, jewelry, and more. Powered by the BidDex native token, the Codex Protocol is open source, allowing third party players in the A&C ecosystem to build applications and utilize the title system. Codex’s landmark application, Biddable, is a title-escrow system built on the Codex protocol, which solves long-standing challenges in auctions: non-performing bidders, lack of privacy, and bidder access.
Tari Labs, LLC is a company based in Oakland, California, that develops and operates a blockchain protocol focused on digital assets. Founded in 2018, the platform allows users to manage, utilize, and transfer a variety of digital assets, including tickets, loyalty points, and virtual goods. In addition to its core offerings, Tari Labs provides Aurora, a mobile payment wallet designed for the transfer of digital currency. The company's mission is to create a decentralized platform that enables individuals to produce and manage digitally scarce items that resonate with users.
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.
ShapeShift AG, founded in July 2014 and based in Zug, Switzerland, operates a web and API platform that facilitates the conversion of Bitcoin and various altcoins with a focus on consumer protection and efficiency. The platform allows users to exchange a range of cryptocurrencies, including Litecoin, Peercoin, and Dogecoin, among others. In 2019, ShapeShift enhanced its services to enable users to self-custody their crypto assets, providing the capability to buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive digital currencies without relying on third-party trust. Additionally, ShapeShift offers several tools and services such as the ShapeShift Lens Extension for payments, a mobile application for asset exchanges, and the Shifty Button for businesses to accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The company also operates CoinCap.io, a real-time crypto market data service, and acquired the hardware wallet company KeepKey in 2017.
Civic's blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities. They believe identity should be convenient, safe and secure, and put users in control. Civic allows people to control the use of their identity information. They use cutting edge identity verification technology to secure and protect personal information transfer. Having conducted a successful token sale in June 2017, they set their sights on building identity.com, an open source, first-of-its-kind marketplace for identity verification services built on blockchain. They are a team spanning five countries with one common goal: to revolutionize identity.
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.
Abra is a digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network that enables users to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin, as well as send both bitcoin and fiat currencies to any bitcoin wallet or other Abra users. Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, the company leverages bitcoin and blockchain technology to facilitate transactions in over 50 currencies. Abra aims to provide a secure and instant method for transferring money, allowing users to do so without incurring fees through its mobile platform. Based in Silicon Valley, Abra is focused on transforming the way money moves globally.
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.
Bitaccess Inc. is a technology company based in Ottawa, Canada, founded in November 2013. The company specializes in manufacturing Bitcoin Automatic Teller Machines (BTMs) that facilitate access to digital currencies for consumers. Bitaccess also provides software services to support a wide range of fintech businesses across more than 15 countries, serving clients from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Its software solutions are designed to enhance core infrastructure, compliance, security, and support services within the financial technology sector. The company's mission focuses on enabling universal access to public blockchain technology through the development of secure, accessible, and user-friendly technologies.
Xapo operates a digital banking and bitcoin security platform that provides a comprehensive suite of financial tools and vault services for secure bitcoin storage. The company offers two primary products: an easy-access bitcoin wallet and a highly secure cold storage vault. This dual approach allows users to manage their bitcoin conveniently for everyday transactions while ensuring robust security for long-term savings. Xapo's platform includes a peer-to-peer payment system and access to digital currency, enabling users to utilize their bitcoin globally. The firm emphasizes the importance of trust in the digital currency space, employing a team of financial services and security experts to create a reliable and user-friendly storage experience for bitcoin users.