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 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.
Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.
Chainflip is a decentralized, trustless protocol that enables cross-chain swaps between different blockchains.
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.
At InfiniGods, we are redefining the way people play games through digital ownership. Our team of gaming industry veterans brings real experience in building and scaling games that millions of people have enjoyed. Our mission is to bring this same passion to build blockchain games for everyone.
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 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.
MetaLend provider of a bank for NFT digital economy.
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 leading blockchain game development studio.
Metaverse Game Studios is a leading blockchain game development studio.
Swim provides a simple way to transfer tokens across chains via multi-token liquidity pools and Solana's Wormhole. No more delays, centralized bridges, or wrapped 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 operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform based in Johannesburg, South Africa, allowing users to buy, sell, store, and transfer a wide range of digital assets. Founded in 2018, the company offers access to over 50 cryptocurrencies along with a digital wallet service, ensuring secure and seamless trading for its customers. VALR aims to contribute to a more inclusive financial ecosystem by providing tools and services that empower individuals to manage their digital assets effectively.
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 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.
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.
Rift Finance is a decentralized protocol that supercharges DAO growth through restructured incentive frameworks. Rift allows DAOs to deploy governance tokens from their treasuries to deepen token liquidity without having to give up ownership.
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.
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 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.
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.
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, 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.
BitOasis Technologies FZE operates an online platform that enables users to buy and sell bitcoin in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Dubai, the company aims to provide the infrastructure for digital payment solutions utilizing blockchain technology. Its platform offers a bitcoin exchange, wallet services, and various integrations designed to facilitate access to a borderless and efficient digital payment system for both consumers and businesses. The platform is also available on iPhone and iPad, catering to a growing demand for digital financial services in emerging markets.
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., founded in 2018 and located in Princeton, New Jersey, specializes in developing solutions for various sectors, including gaming, financial applications, and consortium blockchains, with a primary focus on its Arbitrum platform. The company aims to simplify the development of smart contracts, enabling developers to build decentralized applications at scale while ensuring high levels of security. Offchain Labs provides a suite of developer tools designed to enhance application architecture by adding a flexible second layer, allowing developers to concentrate 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.
MakersPlace is an authentic and unique digital creation platform powered by blockchain technology for digital creators. The company enables creators to protect and sell authentic and unique editions of digital creations. The company connects creators with fans and collectors worldwide through a marketplace and network of partners. Creators are able to sign and set a limited supply on the work while delivering proof of authenticity, ownership. and scarcity on the blockchain. With MakersPlace, creators are able to better capture the full underlying value of the digital work. MakersPlace was founded on 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Dyad AI develops AI-powered tools for healthcare operations. The company utilizes a combination of graph machine learning and knowledge graphs, provides seamlessly integrated applications that address these issues while enhancing collaboration, visibility, and trust in data. Dyad uses AI-powered knowledge graphs to standardize and contextualize healthcare operations data in near real-time to drive high-impact solutions for payers and providers while enabling alignment around value-based care initiatives.
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 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 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 is a next generation synthetic assets derivatives exchange focused on creating an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on anything with a price feed. By cultivating a free market and maximizing the variety of tradable assets, SynFutures is lowering the barrier to entry in the derivatives market, creating a more equitable digital assets exchange market.
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 is the Defi treasury for liquidity pool tokens and enables unlocking from existing AMM 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.
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.
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.
Risk Harbor is a risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi) that utilizes a completely automated, transparent, and impartial claims process to protect liquidity providers and stakers against smart contract hacks and attacks. Our mission is to secure the world’s transition to decentralized financial services by removing the need for trusted intermediaries, thereby creating a truly permissionless and open financial system accessible to everyone.
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. develops and operates a decentralized derivatives exchange and trading platform. The company’s platform offers a layer-2 exchange protocol that unlocks the full potential of borderless finance by supporting margin trading, derivatives, and futures. It allows decentralized lending, short or long margin trading, and exchange decentralized futures and derivative products; and eliminates front-running for liquidity sharing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.
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 owns and operates a decentralized platform that offers zero interest consumer loans. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Baar, Switzerland.
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, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Injective Protocol Inc. develops and operates a decentralized derivatives exchange and trading platform. The company’s platform offers a layer-2 exchange protocol that unlocks the full potential of borderless finance by supporting margin trading, derivatives, and futures. It allows decentralized lending, short or long margin trading, and exchange decentralized futures and derivative products; and eliminates front-running for liquidity sharing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.