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Blocktorch is a multi-chain observability platform that empowers web3 developers to scale every decentralized component globally. With Blocktorch engineers can access metrics, logs, and traces across the used decentralized stack in one place.

Savings, visibility, and infrastructure guardrails. One automated platform.

Satellite IM utilizes leading decentralization and encryption technology to provide a platform to build extensible apps.

Socket is a Web3 privacy infrastructure for social interactions for crypto-related purposes.

PwnedNoMore is a cloud-based fuzz testing platform that helps web3 projects to secure their codebase. Build by top class white hat hackers.

NFTPort provides one-stop and developer-friendly NFT infrastructure and APIs for developers such as Stripe for NFTs. The company was founded by Kaspar Peterson and Johannes Tammekänd, and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

Cometh is a game development studio that creates blockchain games that can seamlessly connect with DeFi protocols. The studio also builds B2B solutions that promote blockchain adoption in the video game industry. It engages in mining, piracy, manufacturing, trading, exploration, and other activities undertaken by the player. The platform makes use of the decentralized finance ecosystem to build a long-lasting and sustainable outer space. The company's new game called Cometh Battle is a free-to-play galactic blockchain trading card game in which can own, trade, rent, and battle with the NFT cards and spaceships. Cometh was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Float Capital is a blockchain-based financial application made for use in the financial sector. Users can meet their financial needs due to the company's platform, which offers a next-generation synthetic asset protocol for minting synthetic assets without over-collateralization or liquidations.

PILabs is an agency for creators and startups.

Phi Labs is a contributor to the Archway protocol that rewards blockchain developers.

DOOMSDAYX is a creative technology studio for web3 artists and fans, focused on redefining culture on-chain.

Juried Protocol Galleries is a registry-based protocol that focuses on NFT curation and brings collectors, curators, and artists together. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Lewes, Delaware, United States.

Building & enabling agentic cultural products

Rumble League Studio's purpose is to empower players by changing the existing quo of digital ownership.

Burrata is a computer software provider and developer that bridges Web2 to Web3.

Neon Labs builds innovative blockchain products.

Immunefi is a bug bounty and security services platform that protects crypto projects from Web3 bugs. This platform facilitates network hosting, bug triaging, and program management in the blockchain. It also offers smart contract projects that help to review code, disclose vulnerabilities, secures projects against malicious exploits, and preserves against undetermined attacks. Immunefi was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Singapore.

THORSwap is a cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) built on THORChain.

Gelato is web3’s cloud platform empowering builders to deploy their own Ethereum Rollups with a single-click. Designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable, Gelato rollups allow anyone to build and deploy their fully serviced Layer 2 chains on Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Celestia and Eigenlayer at a pace natively integrated with Web3's favorite tools and services like Gelato's industry leading smart contract automation & relaying services, Etherscan, The Graph, Pyth, Layer Zero and many more launching a production-ready web3 development environment.

Nine Chronicles is a fully decentralized RPG powered by the players.

4k.com is the creator of a web-based NFT marketplace for bridging ownership and authenticity of physical products. Their platform provides NFTs backed by physical assets. The product catalog includes clothing, shoes, watches, consumer electronics, and video games.

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.

Umee is the most programmable, safety-first lending algorithm built as a blockchain that enables seamless borrowing and lending of digital assets between distinct blockchain ecosystems. Umee is reshaping the global debt markets in Web3.

Primitive is the core developer of Arbiter, an open-source software framework for crypto transaction simulation.

MOUND is a finance startup that optimizes Binance Smart Chan (BSC) and Ethereum (ETH). The company's products include Pancake Bunny and Smart Vaults. Pancake Bunny is a yield farming aggregator. Using leveraged lending products, Smart Vaults is used to farm single asset yields.

Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.

Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorro and Alberto Niego in 2018.

Blocknative is a provider of real-time blockchain transaction management and monitoring solutions for public blockchain networks. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Boardroom is a DAO governance aggregator helping members make faster, smarter, and more informed decisions. Our mission is to enable stakeholder-owned platforms to scale while upholding the interests of all their constituencies. We are a small but driven team that believes in the power of crypto networks to uproot traditional management and ownership structures. We are thoughtful about code quality, testing, and architecture. We value positive energy, continuous learning, and clear communication and are committed to building an inclusive environment for people from every background.

Slingshot is a web3 company developing and using decentralized technologies to help retail users access and interact with digital assets in a secure, trustless and self-sovereign way. Available on Web, Android and iOS, Slingshot combines the performance and ease of centralized platforms, with the openness, transparency and security of decentralized finance. Users can buy, sell, swap or bridge over 50k cryptocurrencies at the best prices Slingshot aggregates across decentralized exchanges. Slingshot is feature packed with a choice of wallets, live prices and charts, portfolio tracking, live chat, collectibles, rewards, top-notch support and much more. Slingshot was founded in 2020 and is a remore-first company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects technical and design talents with organizations. The marketplace that the company offers a user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with highly skilled technical and design talent that they need. It connects organizations directly to top tech talent, offering 40-70 percent savings by removing middlemen. The company charge a flat 10 percent project fee and talent keep 100 percent of their revenue. Braintrust aims to build a talent platform that disrupts traditional hiring methods and aligns incentives and redistributes value to talent and organizations. Adam Jackson, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, and Brian Flynn co-founded Braintrust in San Jose, California in 2018.

Chia Network is building a blockchain based on proofs of space and time to make a cryptocurrency that is less wasteful, more decentralized, and more secure.

River Financial is a challenger financial institution specializing in Bitcoin financial services. River Financial's flagship product, a Bitcoin brokerage, provides sophisticated retail investors with a high-touch platform to buy and sell Bitcoin. Founded in 2019 by Alexander Leishman and Andrew Benson, River's brokerage product provides its clients with best-in-class security, a world-class client service experience, and investment performance tools such as cost basis tracking.

A vision of more efficient, transparent, and accurate payments for all is shared by many. However, it’s our approach that sets us apart. Where others seek to bypass the current financial system, we bring together the best of what already exists and restructure it to make it more efficient. All while staying within current regulatory frameworks. While others have taken a more radical approach, we embrace visionary pragmatism and partner with businesses and banks to move payments forward. Based in Seattle, we’ve brought together top cryptographers and financial-system specialists with world-class software and hardware engineers to partner with banks and businesses to create innovative settlement solutions. Come work with us. We're hiring!

PoolTogether is a no-loss, audited savings game powered by blockchain technology.

Optimism is an Ethereum-based decentralized infrastructure platform that allows for instant transactions and scalable smart contracts. The company is a public benefit corporation, a for-profit corporation that is obligated to balance the financial interests of our stockholders with the best interests of our community and society. Optimism, which was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, provides an Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution to assist developers in building on the blockchain.

Futureswap is a decentralized perpetuals exchange

Instadapp is a DeFi middleware for users and developers to seamlessly manage multiple DeFi applications to maximize returns in various protocols in a fraction of the time. With Instadapp, developers can build use-cases and monetize their models to earn money by serving their users with high reliability.

Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorro and Alberto Niego in 2018.