TON Telegram Open Network
Seed Round in 2024
TON is a fully decentralized layer-1 blockchain designed by Telegram
SeeleTech
Seed Round in 2021
Seele is a blockchain 4.0 platform that aims to spearhead development in the Internet of Value era.
PROPS
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.
Cosmochain
Seed Round in 2020
Cosmochain is a blockchain-based beauty platform that facilitates connections between beauty content creators and consumers. The platform enables customers to share their experiences and insights on cosmetics, allowing users to communicate their skin issues, information, and photos. By leveraging blockchain technology, Cosmochain collects and utilizes customer data to offer personalized commerce channels and targeted advertisements. The company also selects customers for product testing, enhancing the overall consumer experience within the beauty industry.
Cortex Labs
Seed Round in 2020
Cortex Labs is the first ever blockchain technology that allows the execution of AI algorithms on the blockchain.
Cosmochain
Seed Round in 2020
Cosmochain is a blockchain-based beauty platform that facilitates connections between beauty content creators and consumers. The platform enables customers to share their experiences and insights on cosmetics, allowing users to communicate their skin issues, information, and photos. By leveraging blockchain technology, Cosmochain collects and utilizes customer data to offer personalized commerce channels and targeted advertisements. The company also selects customers for product testing, enhancing the overall consumer experience within the beauty industry.
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Seed Round in 2019
Golem Factory GmbH is a company based in Zug, Switzerland, that develops tools aimed at enhancing accessibility to complex applications for software developers and enterprises. The company's offerings include a software development platform that enables developers to publish and deploy their applications, as well as an application registry security platform that integrates these applications. Golem's innovative technology allows for the execution of application code on other users' computers by utilizing a sandboxing approach, which grants the necessary minimal privileges for functionality. Additionally, Golem Network establishes a decentralized marketplace for idle computer power, allowing users to rent out unused CPU and GPU cycles, thereby facilitating a new model of cloud computing powered by cryptocurrency.
Plair
Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Plair Limited is a Hong Kong-based company that develops and operates a decentralized video-gamer-focused blockchain platform. The platform aims to create a community space where gamers can connect through online and offline events and tournaments. Plair provides tools that enable gamers to earn a sustainable living and pursue career opportunities within the gaming industry. By leveraging blockchain technology, Plair incorporates an economic model that quantifies the contributions of its members and rewards them with Plair Tokens, a crypto asset. The company is dedicated to empowering the video gaming community by fostering social interaction and financial incentives for all participants.
Blockfolio
Series A in 2018
Blockfolio, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a mobile application for cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management. Founded in 2014 and based in Marina Del Rey, California, Blockfolio's application enables users to build and monitor their cryptocurrency portfolios, providing real-time prices, market data, and news updates from prominent figures in the crypto sector. The platform also facilitates automated portfolio tracking by integrating with users' exchange accounts, allowing for seamless management of investments. With millions of users, Blockfolio is recognized for its commitment to providing free access and valuable insights, helping individuals stay informed about the dynamic cryptocurrency landscape. As of August 2020, Blockfolio operates as a subsidiary of FTX Trading LTD.
FOAM is a company focused on developing spatial protocols that aim to enhance location services through a decentralized approach. The FOAM protocol is designed to provide a crowdsourced map and fault-tolerant location verification system, utilizing an open network of terrestrial radios that can be operated by anyone. This innovative framework allows clients to centralize maps and location services while eliminating reliance on a single point of failure. FOAM operates from the New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, collaborating with a diverse team of blockchain developers, designers, architects, and urban planners to explore the geospatial implications on global infrastructures.
Wetez is a professional web3 service provider. Wetez provides API, infrastructure, and service to Web3 projects.
Immutable Systems
Seed Round in 2018
Immutable Systems, founded in 2018 and based in Sydney, Australia, develops video games that integrate blockchain technology to enhance player experience. The company, previously known as Fuel Games, focuses on creating a platform that allows players to own digital assets and engage in secure trading. By utilizing the Ethereum blockchain, Immutable Systems aims to provide scalable infrastructure that promotes transparency in in-game economies, empowering players with greater control over their gaming experiences. The company's innovative approach includes offering tools and services that facilitate the development and management of player-owned assets, fostering a user-friendly environment for both gamers and developers.
Contentbox
Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Contentbox is a blockchain platform designed to enhance the digital content industry by connecting users, creators, and advertisers through a decentralized ecosystem. It focuses on the audio and visual sectors, providing a secure environment for multi-party payments and identity verification. The platform offers a centralized payout system, facilitating micro-payments and financing infrastructure tailored for content applications and websites. Additionally, Contentbox aims to streamline the monetization process in the digital content space by implementing in-app incentive structures, thereby promoting a more efficient and unified approach to content distribution and engagement.
Origo Network is a developer of a decentralized platform focused on preserving data privacy for various applications. By utilizing zero-knowledge proofs, the platform ensures that transaction details and smart contract inputs and outputs remain confidential, addressing concerns about sensitive information in the blockchain space. This capability allows users to create and execute smart contracts without exposing private data to the public. Origo serves multiple sectors, including finance, insurance, supply chain, personal data management, and artificial intelligence, fostering broader adoption of blockchain technology among businesses and individuals wary of data security. The platform is designed to be accessible for developers, as it provides a compiler that generates cryptographic protocols without requiring specialized knowledge in cryptography. Based in the United States, Origo Network aims to establish a new standard for privacy, security, and fairness in decentralized applications.
GUN is an open source real-time graph database platform that enables developers to build applications adaptable to offline environments. Focusing on seamless data synchronization, GUN simplifies the merging of conflicts and the handling of offline changes. Its platform leverages websockets for efficient data streaming, ensuring fast, scalable, and stable functionality. Designed for versatility, GUN's database engine operates across various environments, including web browsers, mobile devices, and servers, making it a valuable tool for developers looking to enhance user experience and application performance.
RSK Labs
Seed Round in 2018
RSK Labs Limited, headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializes in developing bitcoin-based contract platforms. Its flagship product, RSK, is an open-source smart contract platform that facilitates a two-way peg with Bitcoin. This enables merge-mining, rewarding Bitcoin miners while allowing them to actively participate in the smart contract revolution. The company aims to enhance the Bitcoin ecosystem by facilitating smart contracts, near-instant payments, and higher scalability.
MobileCoin
Seed Round in 2018
MobileCoin, established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing a cryptocurrency focused on privacy and security for peer-to-peer transactions. Its blockchain-based product aims to facilitate seamless mobile payments by enabling integration with popular messaging platforms like WhatsApp or Signal.
ZIPPER
Venture Round in 2018
ZIPPER is a blockchain company based in Singapore that focuses on creating a robust ecosystem for digital asset transactions. The company provides services designed to facilitate secure and efficient financial transactions through its proprietary zipper system and various blockchain types. By emphasizing financial-grade safety and payment efficiency, ZIPPER enables users to build and maintain secure blockchain networks that support a wide range of digital asset activities.
CertiK, established in 2018, is a leading blockchain security company. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, it specializes in securing smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. CertiK offers security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification services, utilizing AI technology to protect and monitor blockchain protocols and smart contracts in real-time. The company, founded by professors from Yale and Columbia Universities, aims to secure the web3 world by applying cutting-edge academic innovations to enterprise-level applications.
Algorand Technologies
Seed Round in 2018
Algorand Technologies, established in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, specializes in blockchain technology. It operates a decentralized digital currency and transactions platform, offering features such as Algorand Standard Asset, Atomic Transfers, and Algorand Smart Contracts at the Layer-1 level. The company is renowned for its innovative approach to blockchain scalability, enabling rapid and efficient user consensus, even for small transactions, regardless of transaction volume or user base. This results in low-cost, near-instant blockchain transactions. Additionally, Algorand Technologies develops and maintains decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and digital identity solutions.
Loom Network
Seed Round in 2018
Loom Network Inc. is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to create and operate large-scale decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain and other compatible chains. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, Loom Network provides a comprehensive solution for both smart contract and traditional developers, allowing them to build applications without the need to switch programming languages or manage servers manually. The platform supports various blockchain architectures, facilitating high-performance decentralized applications and offering seamless integration with third-party APIs for enhanced functionality. By simplifying user onboarding, Loom Network minimizes the friction typically associated with crypto wallet software, thereby enhancing the overall developer experience.
Internet of Services
Initial Coin Offering in 2018
The Internet of Services (IOS) offers a secure and scalable infrastructure for online service providers. Its high TPS, scalable and secure blockchain, and privacy protection provides infinite possibilities for online service providers to serve their customer base. IOST has offices in Beijing and San Francisco.
Hydro Protocol
Series A in 2018
Hydro Protocol provides centralized exchange, DEX upgrade, protocols, prediction markets, and a range of DeFi projects. They offer to acquire and invest in DEXs. Their services enable developers to find opportunities on a variety of blockchains.
Zen Protocol
Seed Round in 2018
Zen Protocol Development Ltd, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, has created a blockchain platform designed to empower individuals to secure their assets without relying on trusted custodians. The platform, developed from scratch in F#, incorporates a unique contracting language in F* and merges the efficiency of Bitcoin's UTXO model with the programmability of Ethereum's EVM model. Zen Protocol offers various tools, including a software development kit (SDK) for creating smart contracts and digital assets, an application programming interface (API) for network interaction, and ZEN JS for connecting web applications to the Zen Network using JavaScript. This infrastructure facilitates peer-to-peer trading, allowing users full control over their financial assets.
OpenZeppelin
Seed Round in 2017
OpenZeppelin is a company that specializes in developing tools and conducting security audits for decentralized applications, which are critical for supporting multimillion-dollar economies. It has established itself as a leader in the open-source community with its library, OpenZeppelin Contracts, which is utilized by over 3,000 public projects and supported by a network of more than 180 contributors. The company provides security audits for prominent entities such as the Ethereum Foundation and Coinbase, helping to set industry standards for secure system development. In addition to its auditing services, OpenZeppelin offers consulting, development, and escrow services, aimed at reducing barriers for businesses seeking to secure their decentralized systems. With a commitment to fostering a robust ecosystem, OpenZeppelin is also expanding its offerings to include a development platform that caters to the increasing number of developers creating applications on decentralized protocols.
aelf, an AI-enhanced Layer 1 blockchain network, leverages the robust C# programming language for efficiency and scalability across its sophisticated multi-layered architecture. Founded in 2017 with its global hub in Singapore, aelf is a pioneer in the industry, leading Asia in evolving blockchain with state-of-the-art AI integration and modular Layer 2 ZK Rollup technology, ensuring an efficient, low-cost, and highly secure platform that is both developer and end-user friendly. Aligned with its progressive vision, aelf is committed to fostering innovation within its ecosystem and advancing Web3 and AI technology adoption.
Theta Network
Funding Round in 2017
Theta Network, developed by Theta Labs, is a decentralized video delivery platform that leverages blockchain technology and cryptocurrency to incentivize users to share their excess bandwidth for relaying video streams. This peer-to-peer network operates on top of existing streaming applications and networks, enabling low-latency live content streaming from platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and Twitter. By rewarding users for their contribution, Theta Network reduces content delivery costs and drives incremental revenues for video platforms. The company, based in Cupertino, California, has attracted strategic investments from prominent corporations and venture capital firms.
Zilliqa
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Zilliqa is a pioneering public blockchain platform that specializes in high throughput, capable of processing thousands of transactions per second. By implementing sharding, a novel protocol that enhances transaction rates as the network grows, Zilliqa effectively addresses the scalability needs of decentralized applications. The platform is particularly suited for data-driven applications, catering to sectors such as machine learning and finance. Zilliqa enables businesses to securely increase their blockchain transaction capabilities, allowing them to focus on innovation and the development of their ideas.
Raiden Network
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Raiden Network is a company that provides an off-chain scaling solution designed for efficient ERC20-compliant token transfers on the Ethereum blockchain. Utilizing bidirectional token payment channels, Raiden Network enables direct connections between participants, facilitating near-instant, low-fee, and scalable transactions. The technology allows for the relaying of token transfers through various channel routes, optimizing the natural topology of the network for enhanced performance. Raiden Network is engaged in ongoing research and development focused on state channel technology, aiming to define protocols and create reference implementations that further improve the efficiency and effectiveness of token transfers within the Ethereum ecosystem. The company is headquartered in the United States.
Polkadot
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Polkadot is a pioneering blockchain protocol that facilitates communication and data exchange between independent blockchains. By enabling interoperability among various blockchain networks, Polkadot enhances the efficiency and scalability of decentralized applications. Its unique architecture not only ensures the orderly and valid transfer of messages but also simplifies the exchange of cryptocurrencies. This capability allows merchants to accept and manage diverse cryptocurrency payments with ease, while benefiting from low trading and transactional fees. Polkadot's innovative approach positions it as a significant player in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology, promoting a more interconnected and versatile ecosystem.
SmartContract
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Smart Contracts verify an execute themselves by monitoring external data sources like digital payments, GPS or any other data that can be used to objectively prove a contract's performance. All Smart Contracts and their updates are placed into the blockchain, creating a secure record of proven contractual performance.
Chainlink Labs
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Chainlink Labs is a company that develops an online contract management platform aimed at connecting smart contracts with web applications, application programming interfaces, and widely accepted payment systems. The platform focuses on providing self-executing digital agreements that utilize real-time, objective data to enhance functionality. Chainlink Labs specializes in open-source blockchain oracle solutions that enable secure cross-chain connectivity, allowing smart contracts to interact with both public and private blockchains. This capability facilitates the execution of payments from smart contracts to existing bank accounts, thus empowering developers to create advanced decentralized applications. The company's mission is to accelerate the innovation and adoption of smart contracts across various sectors.
Filecoin
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Filecoin is a decentralized data storage network that leverages blockchain technology, similar to Bitcoin. It operates by renting out unused disk space from participants to store files securely. Users can earn Filecoin tokens for contributing their storage capacity. These tokens can be exchanged for other currencies such as Bitcoin and USD. The company is headquartered in the United States.
0x is a developer of an open protocol that enables decentralized exchanging of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The protocol serves as a standard framework that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions and promotes interoperability among decentralized applications that incorporate exchange capabilities. By providing a mechanism for users to seamlessly convert a diverse range of assets into cryptographic tokens, 0x aims to enhance the accessibility and efficiency of digital asset trading in a decentralized manner.
OmiseGO
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
OmiseGO enables financial inclusion and interoperability through the public, decentralized OMG network.
Qtum is an open-source public blockchain platform that integrates the security of the UTXO model with a unique architecture supporting multiple virtual machines, including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and an innovative x86 VM. Utilizing a proof-of-stake consensus protocol, Qtum is designed to offer flexibility and adaptability, featuring a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) that allows users to adjust specific blockchain parameters through smart contracts, eliminating the need for hard forks. The project aims to bridge the gap between Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, as well as between traditional industries and blockchain technology. Qtum's development team comprises experienced professionals from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems, alongside experts from major technology firms. This collaborative background aims to address significant industry challenges while fostering broader adoption of blockchain solutions.