OKX

OKX is a prominent global cryptocurrency exchange, recognized as the second largest by trading volume and a key player in the Web3 ecosystem. The platform serves over 50 million users worldwide and provides a secure, efficient environment for trading more than 350 tokens with over 100 local currencies. OKX offers a robust trading app tailored for professional traders, featuring tools that allow users to replicate the strategies of top industry traders with ease. Additionally, the OKX Wallet empowers users to manage their crypto, NFTs, and digital assets effectively. With a strong commitment to innovation and transparency, exemplified by its monthly Proof of Reserve releases, OKX envisions a future where blockchain technology enhances financial access and the potential of decentralized finance.

Jay Hao

CEO

Star Xu

Founder

Past deals in Crypto

Hyperion

Funding Round in 2025
Hyperion is an on-chain DEX that combines an order book and AMM, built for Aptos.

Memes Lab

Seed Round in 2025
Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.

Blum

Seed Round in 2025
Blum is a technology company that operates a decentralized exchange platform for cryptocurrencies. Its platform enables direct trading from third-party crypto wallets, utilizing an off-chain order book and on-chain settlements. This design allows for streamlined listing processes of crypto projects and instant transactions from personal wallets, such as MetaMask or Trust Wallet.

SignalPlus

Series B in 2025
SignalPlus is an enterprise technology company dedicated to enhancing accessibility in trading options for digital and crypto assets. It offers a fully automated trading system that addresses the infrastructure gap between centralized finance (CeFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Utilizing an AI-powered trading robot, SignalPlus automates market making and risk hedging, enabling traders to manage their risks effectively. The platform features a comprehensive cryptocurrency trading dashboard, which includes a variety of pricing, analytics, and execution algorithms, as well as multi-vendor and direct market access. This setup supports high-touch trading strategies while ensuring there is no cost commitment for users.

Haedal Protocol

Seed Round in 2025
Haedal Protocol is a ecosystem liquidity pledge protocol provider, aiming to provide services to maximize DeFi returns in the ecosystem.

Usual

Series A in 2024
The new playbook for financial freedom.

DuckChain

Seed Round in 2024
DuckChain specializes in making blockchain technology more accessible to everyday users. It develops a consumer layer for the TON Blockchain, aiming to simplify user interaction with this platform. DuckChain offers features such as ISO certification, EVM compatibility, and a growing ecosystem of decentralized applications, enabling developers to create user-friendly blockchain applications and attract a broader user base to the TON Blockchain.

0G Labs

Seed Round in 2024
0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.

Mocaverse

Venture Round in 2024
Mocaverse is a membership NFT collection developed by Animoca Brands, designed to support its companies, projects, investments, shareholders, and partners. It features 8,888 unique characters that represent the diverse collaborations within the Animoca ecosystem. The primary goal of Mocaverse is to provide web3-native tools that facilitate onboarding and growth for various gaming and entertainment projects. By leveraging its membership structure, Mocaverse aims to enhance community engagement and foster innovation within the web3 landscape.

StakeStone

Seed Round in 2024
StakeStone is a technology company that develops an omnichannel liquidity protocol for optimizing crypto staking and asset management. Its protocol integrates dynamic staking networks, deep liquidity pools, and adaptive consensus mechanisms to maximize staking yields and ensure secure, transparent transactions. This enables cryptocurrency investors and developers to achieve efficient, scalable, and high-return staking operations across multiple blockchain networks.

Castile

Seed Round in 2024
Castile is a Web3 gaming platform that operates a gaming studio focused on role-playing games. Players engage in dungeon battles to level up and acquire resources, while also having the opportunity to earn and trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in an integrated marketplace. This model allows gamers to enhance their gaming experience and generate income sustainably.

Amnis Finance

Seed Round in 2024
Amnis Finance is a technology company that specializes in liquid staking solutions on the Aptos blockchain. It enables users to earn rewards on their APT tokens while maintaining liquidity, allowing them to participate in various DeFi applications.

zkMe

Seed Round in 2024
zkMe operates a verification network platform that focuses on managing online identity and personal information through zero-knowledge Identity Oracles. This technology enables truly decentralized and anonymous cross-chain credential verifications, ensuring that users maintain full control over their digital identities. By processing no personal information beyond what the user provides, zkMe eliminates the risks of data leaks and misuse by service providers. The platform allows users to selectively disclose their credentials to authorized parties while preserving their privacy. Additionally, zkMe stands out as a fully decentralized KYC provider compliant with FATF regulations, offering a comprehensive suite of products, including solutions for anti-bot and anti-sybil measures, along with KYC services.

Curio Research

Seed Round in 2024
Curio Research is a developer of blockchain games that emphasizes user-generated content and rich social interactions. By leveraging blockchain technology and smart contracts, the company creates on-chain games that allow players to co-create governance structures and economic systems. This innovative approach empowers players to draft game rules and engage with one another in dynamic ways, enhancing their creative experiences within the gaming environment. Curio Research aims to unlock new types of gameplay that foster collaboration and creativity among its user base.

Multiple Network

Seed Round in 2024
Multiple Network is a web3 DePIN project that uses SD-WAN technology to create a network layer that allows for high-speed transfer of digital assets and data.

Cysic

Seed Round in 2024
Cysic is a blockchain company that specializes in providing zero-knowledge (ZK) hardware computation. It focuses on delivering real-time ZK proof generation in a manner that is faster, more cost-efficient, and user-friendly. The company develops a hardware design architecture platform aimed at offering hardware acceleration systems for zero-knowledge proof protocols. By utilizing this cryptographic technique, Cysic enables the verification of statements without disclosing their content, thereby facilitating secure transactions. Its innovative solutions are designed to help businesses scale their web-three applications and make advanced blockchain technology more accessible to a wider audience.

Jambo

Venture Round in 2024
Jambo is a company focused on creating an extensive on-chain mobile network, centered around its flagship product, the JamboPhone, a powerful mobile device designed for the crypto-native market. With a foundation of over 800,000 mobile nodes spanning more than 120 countries, Jambo aims to accelerate decentralization and enhance network effects for various applications, such as validators and peer-to-peer networking. The JamboApp serves as a gateway for millions of users to engage with the on-chain economy, offering innovative earning opportunities, a decentralized application (dApp) store, and a multi-chain wallet. By integrating blockchain technology into its products, Jambo empowers users to participate in gaming, cryptocurrency trading, and decentralized finance, particularly benefiting individuals in emerging markets. Central to Jambo's ecosystem is the Jambo Token, which facilitates rewards, discounts, and other incentives, positioning the company as a key player in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.

Monad

Venture Round in 2024
MONAD is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain and decentralized computation platform that combines the best of performance and portability.

Pencils Protocol

Seed Round in 2024
Pencils Protocol is a decentralized finance platform that provides a comprehensive auction service and yield aggregation for users of the Scroll network. It focuses on facilitating peer-to-peer lending and borrowing of digital assets, enabling users to engage in decentralized financial transactions efficiently. By offering a user-friendly interface and robust functionality, Pencils Protocol aims to enhance the experience of individuals participating in the decentralized finance ecosystem, thereby contributing to the growth and accessibility of financial services in a decentralized manner.

Rage Trade

Seed Round in 2024
Rage Trade operates a decentralized trading protocol on the Ethereum and Arbitrum mainnets, focusing on double-legged trading. This platform enables users to engage in eternal swaps of ETH with leverage of up to 10 times. By addressing liquidity challenges commonly encountered in perpetual trading, Rage Trade provides a yield-farming product that allows users to earn additional returns from trading fees. The protocol employs a mechanism designed to maintain a neutral position amid asset price fluctuations, facilitating the use of liquidity provider tokens from other protocols as liquidity for perpetual traders. Through various vault strategies, Rage Trade aims to recycle underutilized tokens, thereby enhancing overall liquidity in the market.

Open Social

Venture Round in 2024
Open Social is a firm that focuses on creating a decentralized and sustainable ecosystem for creators, protocol developers, and Dapp developers.

Legend of Arcadia

Venture Round in 2024
Legend of Arcadia is a developer of casual strategy card games that leverage blockchain technology. The company's platform offers a play-to-earn gaming experience, combining traditional gaming with web3 game finance (Game-Fi). Players can engage in role-playing games, earn cryptocurrency through gameplay, and boost yields through activities like staking, battling, and mining. The platform aims to provide a decentralized gaming experience with various game types and a great gameplay experience.

Last Odyssey

Venture Round in 2024
Last Odyssey is a groundbreaking 5X game that combines MMOSLG gameplay and web3 components, blurring the lines between traditional and blockchain games.

Bedrock

Seed Round in 2024
Bedrock is a trailblazing company that has developed a multi-asset liquid restacking protocol. This protocol enables users to instantly convert their tokens into liquid assets, providing immediate access to funds without the need to sell or trade. Users can restack any amount of tokens and receive rewards, all within a single, efficient protocol.

Thruster

Seed Round in 2024
Thruster operates a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Blast blockchain, catering to developers, yield seekers, and traders. It offers a user-friendly automated market maker (AMM) DEX experience, enhanced with features to improve on-chain interactions. Notably, liquidity provider (LP) tokens on Thruster are fungible and can be employed for on-chain leverage, collateralization, and earning yield through various liquidity tools and Blast-native yield opportunities.

Aark

Seed Round in 2024
Aark is a decentralized derivatives exchange operating on the Arbitrum network. It specializes in facilitating the trading of perpetual contracts across diverse assets, offering users capital efficiency, collateral alternatives, and substantial liquidity pools. The platform's unique automated market-making architecture ensures liquidity reflection, allowing traders to access a broader range of assets and enjoy greater trading flexibility, comparable to centralized exchanges.

Lont Game

Seed Round in 2024
As the digital finance sector is undergoing rapid changes, the development of BRC20 has brought new vitality to crypto assets amidst a multitude of competing standards.The BRC20 token standard ushers in a new era of development in the digital finance field. As a universal token encoding standard, BRC20 has immense potential in promoting the interoperability and liquidity of digital assets. The standardized protocol it adopts provides developers with more flexibility, allowing projects to integrate and blend into the diverse ecosystem of the digital economy more easily. As more and more projects choose BRC20, we look forward to witnessing its leading role in digital financial innovation.

Tomo

Seed Round in 2024
Tomo is an all-in-one Web3 social wallet that transforms users' online presence into a universal hub, fostering genuine, spam-free interactions and financial incentives. Tomo lets users connect directly with creators, participate in private discussions, and explore the new generation of digital art with Tomoji. Active participation earns users Tomo Points, enhancing your social capital.

Lumoz

Seed Round in 2024
Lumoz is a technology company that provides a three-layer infrastructure platform specializing in ZK-rollup-as-a-service (ZK-RaaS). This innovative solution allows developers to deploy applications on the Opside layer 3 without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure, granting them greater flexibility. The platform handles layer 2 consensus and data availability, ensuring that all transactions and data are securely hashed and stored on the Opside chain. This approach is particularly beneficial for on-chain applications that require faster transaction processing and lower fees, making it suitable for various use cases, including gaming and social networking. Through its software development kit, Lumoz empowers developers to build and scale their applications more efficiently.

CELL Studio

Seed Round in 2024
CELL Studio is a technology company specializing in blockchain software development. It primarily focuses on the Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem, aiming to drive integration and enhance interoperability and scalability. The company's services include exploring Layer Two frameworks, integrating Nostr, facilitating micropayments, and developing intent-based decentralized applications (d-apps).

BitSmiley

Venture Round in 2024
BitSmiley is a cryptocurrency platform that focuses on addressing the gaps in stablecoin and lending infrastructure within the Bitcoin ecosystem. The company specializes in providing an over-collateralized stablecoin, enabling users to utilize Bitcoin as collateral through its BitSmileyDAO and Mint BitUSD services. In addition to its stablecoin offerings, BitSmiley facilitates peer-to-peer lending and has developed insurance and credit default swap (CDS) derivatives based on its lending framework. This diverse range of services allows users to engage in various financial activities, enhancing the overall functionality and accessibility of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

MyShell

Seed Round in 2024
MyShell is a technology company that operates a decentralized platform for AI developers. This platform facilitates the discovery, creation, and staking of AI-native applications. It leverages advanced generative AI models to transform users' ideas into accessible applications, fostering a creative ecosystem.

StakeStone

Seed Round in 2024
StakeStone is a technology company that develops an omnichannel liquidity protocol for optimizing crypto staking and asset management. Its protocol integrates dynamic staking networks, deep liquidity pools, and adaptive consensus mechanisms to maximize staking yields and ensure secure, transparent transactions. This enables cryptocurrency investors and developers to achieve efficient, scalable, and high-return staking operations across multiple blockchain networks.

Nubit

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Founded by UCSB professor Yu Feng, Nubit is building the Trustless World Computer for Bitcoin, enabling open scaling and programmability of Bitcoin through Bitcoin-native technology (BitVM, OP_CAT, DA, etc). Nubit lets developers build any native application, onboarding the world to Bitcoin. Backed by Polychain. Learn more at Nubit.org.

Meson Network

Venture Round in 2024
Meson Network is focused on establishing an efficient bandwidth marketplace within the Web3 ecosystem. It employs a blockchain protocol to replace traditional labor-based sales models by consolidating and monetizing idle bandwidth from long-tail users at lower costs. This platform serves as a foundation for data transmission, supporting decentralized storage, computation, and the growing ecosystem of decentralized applications (dapps). By enabling users to monetize their spare bandwidth, Meson Network enhances the overall efficiency of bandwidth utilization in the decentralized internet landscape.

DLC.Link

Seed Round in 2024
DLC.Link is a platform that enables users to lock their Bitcoin in a non-custodial escrow while maintaining full ownership. By allowing users to supply their Bitcoin as collateral, the platform facilitates the earning of yield without the risks associated with centralized custodians, which have historically resulted in significant losses due to hacks and failures. Currently, only a small percentage of Bitcoin is actively utilized, but DLC.Link aims to unlock the remaining liquidity by enabling over $1 trillion in Bitcoin to be available for lending on Ethereum and other blockchains. The platform employs a decentralized approach, utilizing a network of independent node operators to validate transactions, thus providing a secure and efficient solution for cryptocurrency traders and application developers.

Shentu Chain

Seed Round in 2024
Shentu Chain is a software company focused on enhancing security and trust in decentralized systems through its blockchain platform. It offers a security infrastructure that helps developers create more secure smart contracts and decentralized applications, thereby preventing attacks on cryptocurrency. By providing critical security insights, Shentu Chain aims to foster a safer environment for blockchain technology and its users.

Zeus Network

Seed Round in 2024
Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.

DeBox

Seed Round in 2024
DeBox is a web3 social platform that utilizes blockchain decentralized identifiers to foster a collaborative environment for developers. The platform offers a range of decentralized social features and services, including token-based chat, tools for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and multi-dimensional social graphs. By enabling the creation of web3 communities, DeBox aims to enhance the authenticity of social information and reduce the risk of fraud, thereby encouraging broader participation in its development and use.

ether.fi

Series A in 2024
EtherFi is a company that offers a decentralized and non-custodial Ethereum staking solution. Its platform allows users to maintain control of their keys while delegating staking responsibilities to node operators in exchange for rewards. This approach ensures that investors retain ownership of their keys in a secure location, independent of the node operators. EtherFi's innovative software facilitates a transparent and secure staking process, empowering users to participate in Ethereum staking without relinquishing control of their assets.

BounceBit

Seed Round in 2024
BounceBit is a company that develops a crypto trading platform focused on providing users with a bitcoin restacking infrastructure. The platform enhances yield and connects decentralized finance (DeFi) with centralized finance (CeFi) through Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility secured by Bitcoin. This integration allows users to trade cryptocurrencies seamlessly and efficiently while ensuring financial security. BounceBit's solution aims to create a smart contract execution environment centered on the Bitcoin Token, enhancing the trading experience for its users.

Delphinus lab

Seed Round in 2024
Delphinus Lab specializes in trustless computation, offering an open-source zero-knowledge virtual machine, ZKWasm, which supports WebAssembly. Their platform provides automated proving and batching services, enabling businesses to build secure and efficient decentralized applications, thereby making Web3 more accessible and user-friendly.

Bitmap Tech

Venture Round in 2024
Bitmap Tech is a cryptocurrency company focused on enabling users to create land non-fungible tokens (NFTs) within its ecosystem. The company develops innovative protocols and products on Bitcoin layers, enhancing the functionality and experience for users engaging in the NFT market.

DEXTools

Seed Round in 2024
DEXTools is a blockchain technology platform focused on the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools and resources, including real-time pricing data, to assist users in making informed trading decisions within the rapidly evolving crypto market. By offering various subscription tiers, DEXTools allows users to unlock additional features of the DEXT ecosystem, enhancing their trading experience. The platform aims to equip traders with the necessary insights to navigate the complexities of DeFi, ensuring they remain competitive in this dynamic landscape.

Portal

Seed Round in 2024
Tides is a financial services company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2018, Tides specializes in trading cryptocurrency without putting coins at risk, all from within a secure and controllable wallet. The company offers a platform that allows users to conveniently trade crypto assets while maintaining security and control over their investments. By leveraging innovative technology, Tides aims to provide a seamless and efficient trading experience for its customers in the ever-evolving cryptocurrency market.

BitSmiley

Initial Coin Offering in 2024
BitSmiley is a cryptocurrency platform that focuses on addressing the gaps in stablecoin and lending infrastructure within the Bitcoin ecosystem. The company specializes in providing an over-collateralized stablecoin, enabling users to utilize Bitcoin as collateral through its BitSmileyDAO and Mint BitUSD services. In addition to its stablecoin offerings, BitSmiley facilitates peer-to-peer lending and has developed insurance and credit default swap (CDS) derivatives based on its lending framework. This diverse range of services allows users to engage in various financial activities, enhancing the overall functionality and accessibility of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Orbiter Finance

Series A in 2024
Orbiter Finance is a company specializing in decentralized, cross-Layer 2 (L2) protocols. It focuses on developing disruptive product advancements, particularly in zero-knowledge (ZK) technology. The company operates a platform designed for transferring blockchain native assets across different rollups, supporting cross-rollup composability by customizing types, transfer quantities, and environments. Orbiter Finance enables the creation of decentralized applications with cross-environment capabilities, providing clients with liquidity support in a decentralized manner without the need to mint new assets.

NAVI Protocol

Seed Round in 2024
NAVI is the first Native One-Stop Liquidity Protocol on Sui. It enables users to participate as liquidity providers or borrowers within the Sui Ecosystem.

Hashkey Group

Series A in 2024
HashKey Group, established in 2018, is a Hong Kong-based digital asset financial services provider. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including a regulated digital asset exchange, custody solutions, brokerage, venture capital, and asset management. The company caters to institutions, family offices, funds, and accredited investors, providing access to the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem. HashKey Group aims to evolve into a fully regulated global virtual asset ecosystem.

0xScope

Seed Round in 2024
0xScope specializes in developing graph protocol software that efficiently and cost-effectively organizes data. The platform translates scattered web-three data into a structured knowledge graph, providing users with enhanced due diligence capabilities, advanced address clustering tools, transaction tracking, live event alerts, and financial risk management. This approach allows for improved data accessibility and analysis, facilitating better decision-making in various financial contexts.

Renzo

Seed Round in 2024
Renzo operates a liquid restaking protocol within the EigenLayer ecosystem, designed to enhance yield generation for users participating in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. By allowing clients to restake both native ether and liquid re-staking tokens, Renzo provides an opportunity to earn rewards that exceed traditional ether staking yields. This third-generation platform focuses on securing Actively Validated Services (AVSs), offering a more efficient and profitable staking experience for its users.

Matr1x

Venture Round in 2024
Matr1x is a pioneering mobile gaming company, specializing in shooting games within the Web3 ecosystem. It offers a platform for immersive, metaverse-based shooting battles, featuring non-fungible token assets, diverse game modes, and a commitment to fair play. The platform encourages creativity, boasting a wide range of customizable skins and AI-generated content. It also facilitates real-time collaboration, cross-chain automation, and robust security measures, ensuring an optimized gaming experience.

Mocaverse

Venture Round in 2023
Mocaverse is a membership NFT collection developed by Animoca Brands, designed to support its companies, projects, investments, shareholders, and partners. It features 8,888 unique characters that represent the diverse collaborations within the Animoca ecosystem. The primary goal of Mocaverse is to provide web3-native tools that facilitate onboarding and growth for various gaming and entertainment projects. By leveraging its membership structure, Mocaverse aims to enhance community engagement and foster innovation within the web3 landscape.

StarryNift

Venture Round in 2023
StarryNift operates as an integrated gamified platform that specializes in the creation, incubation, auction, and transaction of NFT collectibles. The platform aims to empower creativity through technology and promote value appreciation in a decentralized manner. By offering frictionless design tools and comprehensive services, it facilitates the sharing of prosperity among creators, collectors, and investors. StarryNift's vision centers on exploring innovative avenues within the metaverse, blending elements of gaming, art, decentralized finance, and NFTs, making it a unique destination for digital collectibles.

MYX

Seed Round in 2023
MYX is a decentralized derivative exchange that "uses intelligent rates and exposure hedging mechanisms to ensure protocol stability and provide sustainable high returns" through a peer-to-pool-to-peer paradigm.

Kakarot

Seed Round in 2023
Kakarot is a developer of a blockchain virtual machine focused on enhancing the scalability of the Ethereum ecosystem through its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) written in Cairo. The platform utilizes layer two scaling technology, specifically validity rollups, to improve transaction efficiency while ensuring compatibility with existing Ethereum applications. By leveraging stark proofs, Kakarot facilitates provable transactions and blocks, allowing developers to execute smart contracts with a high level of transparency and security. This innovative approach positions Kakarot as a significant contributor to the ongoing evolution of blockchain technology.

ZKM

Seed Round in 2023
ZKM is a technology company specializing in blockchain interoperability. It develops an Ethereum scaling platform designed to unite diverse blockchains, creating a unified settlement layer on Ethereum. The platform's core innovation is a verifiable computing solution, which uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZK proofs) to confirm computations performed by untrusted users. This enables secure, native asset sharing across different blockchains without additional security assumptions.

Celestia

Series B in 2023
Celestia is a provider of modular blockchain networks based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Founded in 2019, the company specializes in deploying decentralized blockchains without the need for extensive initial setup. Celestia's platform serves as a scalable data availability layer for decentralized applications and sidechains with minimal trust requirements. This allows developers to efficiently store and manage blockchain data collectively, optimizing performance for various applications.

StarkWare Industries

Venture Round in 2023
StarkWare Industries Ltd is a technology company based in Netanya, Israel, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software and hardware solutions focused on the generation and verification of computational integrity proofs. Its primary offering, known as STARK, is a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances privacy in blockchain applications, increases transaction throughput, and enables off-chain computation. StarkWare Industries aims to create a comprehensive proof stack to facilitate secure and efficient computational processes across various applications.

DappOS

Seed Round in 2023
dappOS is a company focused on improving the usability and accessibility of decentralized applications (dApps) and blockchain technology. It develops an operating protocol that simplifies interactions between users and various crypto infrastructures, including public blockchains and cross-chain bridges. By creating intuitive user interfaces and streamlining the user experience, dappOS aims to make dApps as user-friendly as mobile applications. The company's goal is to lower technical barriers, enabling a wider audience to engage with decentralized applications and facilitating mass adoption within a more interconnected blockchain ecosystem.

Ethena

Seed Round in 2023
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

Aark

Venture Round in 2023
Aark is a decentralized derivatives exchange operating on the Arbitrum network. It specializes in facilitating the trading of perpetual contracts across diverse assets, offering users capital efficiency, collateral alternatives, and substantial liquidity pools. The platform's unique automated market-making architecture ensures liquidity reflection, allowing traders to access a broader range of assets and enjoy greater trading flexibility, comparable to centralized exchanges.

AlienSwap

Series A in 2023
AlienSwap is a membership-based NFT marketplace to trade and earn.

HUG

Seed Round in 2023
HUG is a social marketplace that links artists with current and prospective collectors by allowing them to sell digital and tangible goods. HUG highlights various creators, including and especially those from underprivileged and marginalised populations, through a community-driven, decentralised selection process, it offers educational and advisory programs for Web3 startup founders and creative entrepreneurs.

Sei Labs

Series A in 2023
Sei Labs is the layer 1 blockchain uniquely optimized for DeFi.

zkPass

Seed Round in 2023
zkPass is a technology company specializing in a privacy-preserving protocol for verifying private data. It enables users to selectively prove various types of sensitive information, such as identity, financial records, and healthcare data, from any HTTPS website without compromising privacy. The protocol, built on zkTLS and utilizing zero-knowledge proof computations, ensures data integrity and privacy, making it suitable for a range of applications in both financial and non-financial sectors.

Diva

Seed Round in 2023
Diva operates a community-driven liquid staking protocol on the Ethereum platform. It enables users to stake their assets through a network of distributed validators, which are designed to minimize the risk of censorship and outages. By doing so, customers can receive tradable divETH tokens that generate staking rewards, allowing for greater flexibility and accessibility in managing their investments. The platform supports a decentralized approach to staking, accommodating thousands of permissionless nodes to enhance security and reliability within the ecosystem.

zkPass

Seed Round in 2023
zkPass is a technology company specializing in a privacy-preserving protocol for verifying private data. It enables users to selectively prove various types of sensitive information, such as identity, financial records, and healthcare data, from any HTTPS website without compromising privacy. The protocol, built on zkTLS and utilizing zero-knowledge proof computations, ensures data integrity and privacy, making it suitable for a range of applications in both financial and non-financial sectors.

Nametag

Seed Round in 2022
Nametag is a Web3 platform designed to help users claim and showcase their digital collectibles, such as NFTs and Nokens. The platform serves as a digital collector lens, allowing individuals to search the internet for other collectors and view their collections. Nametag aims to bridge the gap between traditional social media and the decentralized web by providing a cross-chain, cross-platform service for managing usernames and social identities. Users can preview verified credentials and badges collected by others, share their own collections, and earn rewards for their participation.

Genesis Shards

Seed Round in 2022
Genesis Shards is a decentralized ecosystem designed to facilitate access to pre-initial decentralized exchange offering (IDO) tokens. The platform aims to create a secure environment where participants can efficiently trade these tokens, helping projects gain early liquidity and community support. By focusing on the early stages of token life cycles, Genesis Shards enhances price discovery for traders, fostering a more robust trading environment.

Kollider

Seed Round in 2022
Kollider develops tools and services designed to enhance access to financial markets through the use of Bitcoin's Lightning Network. The company offers an online trading platform that simplifies the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to open and close positions directly from their digital wallets. This streamlined approach aims to empower crypto traders by improving their return on investment and making trading more accessible across borders.

MetaFi

Seed Round in 2022
MetaFi is a developer of a trading metaverse platform that facilitates social trading experiences among users. The platform allows individuals to discuss trading ideas, purchase tokens and NFTs, and engage in conversations about their trades. By aggregating liquidity from various centralized and decentralized exchanges, as well as marketplaces, MetaFi ensures competitive trade pricing. This collaborative environment enables users to enhance their trading skills and potentially improve their financial outcomes by learning from one another. The goal of MetaFi is to create a fun, social, and engaging trading experience that empowers users to navigate markets collectively.

VirgoCX

Series A in 2022
VirgoCX is a prominent regulated cryptocurrency trading platform based in Canada, focused on providing a safe, easy, and affordable trading experience for users. The platform facilitates the trading of digital currencies through a fiat-to-crypto exchange, offering advanced technology and superior liquidity. It incorporates multi-level security measures and advanced trading analytics, ensuring a secure environment for individuals and crypto traders to buy, sell, and manage their digital assets. Furthermore, VirgoCX supports robust international payment services, contributing to the empowerment of the digital economy.

WAX

Venture Round in 2022
WAX is a decentralized platform that enables anyone to operate a fully functioning virtual marketplace with zero investment in security, infrastructure, or payment processing. Developed by the founders of OPSkins, the world’s leading marketplace for online video game assets, WAX is designed to serve the 400+ million online players who already collect, buy and sell.

Taki Games

Seed Round in 2022
Taki Games is on a mission to bring gaming’s 3 billion players and $200 billion in revenues onchain through TAKI. Powered by its unique tokenomics model, Taki Games lets loyal players earn real value and a stake in the TAKI network by earning TAKI rewards. Founded by pioneers in social, mobile, and free-to-play gaming who served as founders and executives of some of the biggest names in gaming, Taki Games is leading the revolution to let players get more from the games they love.

Ajuna

Seed Round in 2022
Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem focused on empowering gamers and creators. It offers a game development engine that enables developers and game studios to create decentralized games. The platform is fully integrated with blockchain technology, allowing for the incorporation of tokenized virtual assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) into gameplay. This integration provides developers with the ability to build an incentive layer within their games, enhancing user engagement and interaction through blockchain-based assets. By fostering innovation in game development, Ajuna Network aims to reshape the gaming landscape and create new opportunities for both creators and players.

Gamepad

Seed Round in 2022
GamePad is a platform that focuses on curating, nurturing, and accelerating leading projects in the game finance, guild, and metaverse sectors. It operates as a decentralized accelerator, providing a launchpad for various gaming initiatives. The platform enables game developers and metaverse creators to implement a dynamic non-fungible token (NFT) distribution system, leveraging community engagement to enhance project visibility and success. By fostering a collaborative environment, GamePad aims to help these projects build robust and thriving communities.

Bullieverse

Seed Round in 2022
Bullieverse is a metaverse platform that focuses on creating an immersive play-and-earn economy for gamers and content creators. The company develops a crypto-centric ecosystem that offers arcade games within this metaverse environment. By combining engaging gameplay with a transparent and fair monetization system, Bullieverse aims to enhance the overall experience for its users, allowing them to enjoy both entertainment and financial rewards in a seamless manner.

Sidus Heroes

Seed Round in 2022
Sidus Heroes operates as a cross-platform gaming metaverse, integrating a cohesive storyline and unique Play-to-Earn mechanics within its framework. The platform allows players to engage in various gaming scenarios while earning rewards for their progress and achievements. By leveraging a non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem, Sidus Heroes enables users to accumulate tokens as they advance through the game, creating a value system that incentivizes participation and engagement.

Infinity Force

Seed Round in 2022
Infinity Force is a platform designed for blockchain game players, enabling them to create new guilds, recruit members, and manage performance effectively. It offers a web3 transformation solution that focuses on financial tools tailored for the blockchain gaming industry. The platform facilitates the reconciliation of blockchain transactions, provides real-time reporting, and utilizes crypto invoices. Additionally, it automates accounts payable and receivable through cross-chain smart contracts. By leveraging these features, Infinity Force empowers businesses to build and manage their own guilds, enhancing their operational efficiency and helping them reach their full earning potential.

Folks Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Folks Finance is a cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that addresses liquidity fragmentation by enabling users to deposit and borrow across different blockchain networks without the need for bridging or wrapping assets. It operates as a non-custodial platform, providing financial tools for digital assets, including strategies for earning yield and securing loans. Folks Finance has established itself as the largest application on the Algorand blockchain, offering a comprehensive hub for lending, trading, and liquid staking. The protocol has achieved significant growth, reaching an all-time high of $400 million in total value locked (TVL) in November 2024, making it one of the fastest-growing DeFi applications in the market. Users can earn yield on their deposits, utilize them as collateral for loans, and engage in governance activities within the Algorand ecosystem.

Space Falcon

Seed Round in 2022
Space Falcon is an innovative developer of a decentralized game situated within an intergalactic metaverse based on the Solana ecosystem. The platform focuses on creating engaging gaming experiences by allowing players to explore virtual assets, including planets, spaceships, and galaxies. Through the integration of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), players can own and control in-game items they purchase, earn, or craft. The use of blockchain technology facilitates fast and low-cost transactions, enhancing the overall experience and enabling gamers to receive incentives through a reward system.

Clover Finance

Funding Round in 2022
Clover Finance (CLV), or simply Clover, is a blockchain operating system. It provides a one-stop, easy‑to‑use blockchain infrastructure and an ethereum virtual machine (EVM) compatible framework for Substrate‑based applications. Clover Finance, another offspring of the Substrate-based Polkadot parachain aims at bridging the compatibility gap when building and operating across blockchains. The project was founded in May 2020 and the mainnet of Clover Finance launched in July 2021.

Ertha

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Ertha is a play-to-earn platform that offers a real-world simulation game where players can engage in various activities such as securing jobs, forming states, building industries, and even waging wars. The platform is built on the Binance smart chain, providing a governance model that generates continuous revenue growth as players gain experience. This model allows dedicated gamers to increase their ownership of properties within the game's metaverse, blending entertainment with opportunities for financial investment. Through its sophisticated mechanics, Ertha aims to create an engaging environment that mirrors real-world complexities.

Legends of Mitra

Seed Round in 2021
Legends of Mitra is a Free-to-Play-to-Earn game that rewards players with tokens and NFTs depending on their engagement and skills in the game.

DigiNation

Seed Round in 2021
DigiNation is a Web3 metaverse platform that focuses on NFT-based innovation and community-driven game development. Its vision revolves around creating an interconnected metaverse, featuring diverse gaming experiences and virtual spaces. The platform comprises four key components: DigiAvatar, NFT Live, DigiMaker, and the CryptoSurvivor game. Operating on the Ethereum blockchain, DigiNation provides a comprehensive virtual gaming client and a 3D design studio that empowers developers and communities to create their own unique metaverse environments. This interconnected ecosystem allows for the integration of various Web3 economic models, facilitating the introduction of innovative games and experiences in the market.

Matter Labs

Series B in 2021
Matter Labs is a blockchain technology company founded in 2018, with its headquarters in Berlin, Germany, and an additional presence in George Town, Cayman Islands. The company focuses on scaling Ethereum through the implementation of zero-knowledge proofs, which facilitate secure interactions between untrusted parties on the network. Matter Labs aims to enhance public blockchain adoption by providing solutions that improve scalability and privacy. Its technology allows decentralized applications to operate more efficiently while ensuring verifiable computation, enabling parties to prove integrity without compromising privacy. The company's mission is driven by a commitment to creating an open and free alternative to existing financial systems.

Good Games Guild

Seed Round in 2021
Good Games Guild operates as a gaming hub focused on play-to-earn games that utilize NFTs and collectible tokens. The organization develops blockchain-based games within the decentralized metaverse, fostering a virtual economy by sponsoring millions of gamers engaged in play-to-earn models. Additionally, Good Games Guild invests in both play-to-earn games and their in-game assets, while also creating tools to enhance the gaming experience in the metaverse. This approach enables users to earn money while participating in gaming activities.

RabbitX

Series A in 2021
RabbitX is a decentralized finance platform that simplifies investment in global stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, and digital assets without charging commissions. The platform leverages advanced Zero-Knowledge decentralized scaling technology to enhance user experience and security. It offers unique features such as interest rate swaps, enabling users to trade, speculate, and hedge interest rates in cryptocurrency transactions. Supported by prominent investors, RabbitX aims to modernize finance by integrating traditional financial instruments into the digital landscape.

OPgames

Seed Round in 2021
OPgames is a suite of tools that enables game developers to provide mini esports experiences to their players through tournaments and PvP matchups with crypto as buy-in and pay-outs.

DeHorizon

Venture Round in 2021
DeHorizon is a gaming platform that aims to enhance the gaming experience by integrating blockchain technology within a metaverse game ecosystem. This ecosystem supports the development and interconnection of various blockchain-based games, addressing the current limitations in the GameFi marketplace. By focusing on a "play to earn" model, DeHorizon enables players to earn cryptocurrency while enjoying their gaming experience, promoting both engagement and mastery. The company is positioned to be a key player in the evolving landscape of GameFi, which is still in its early stages, and seeks to drive further growth by creating a comprehensive environment for gamers and developers alike.

Swivel Finance

Series A in 2021
Swivel Finance is a decentralized protocol that specializes in fixed-rate lending and tokenized cash flows, allowing lenders to secure fixed-rate interest rates on their ERC-20 tokens. Founded in 2020 and based in Austin, Texas, the company has developed an online lending platform that minimizes transaction overhead and reduces associated risks for users. By providing a mechanism for locking in interest rates, Swivel Finance aims to enhance the stability and predictability of returns in the decentralized finance sector.

Amasa

Seed Round in 2021
Amasa is a developer of a micro income streaming platform aimed at improving individuals' financial positions. The platform enables users to combine, stabilize, and amplify micro income streams from cryptocurrencies. It offers better peer-to-peer networks, facilitating participation in digital environments where users can aggregate, track, and invest earnings. By providing tools for users to engage with various digital worlds, Amasa helps individuals optimize their income potential through innovative financial solutions.

MonoX Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
MonoX Protocol is a blockchain-based platform that facilitates the listing of tokens without requiring significant capital investments. It employs a unique single liquidity pool model, which groups deposited tokens into a virtual pair with its own stablecoin, vUSD. This innovative structure allows users to trade with lower fees and enhances capital efficiency by eliminating the need for multiple token pairs. By simplifying the trading process and reducing barriers to entry, MonoX Protocol aims to make decentralized finance more accessible to a wider audience.

Domination Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Domination Finance is a developer of a non-custodial financial instrument that allows traders to speculate on market dominance metrics within the cryptocurrency sector. Its platform operates as an Ethereum application and is built on the UMA protocol, enabling users to take long or short positions on Bitcoin Dominance. Additionally, the platform is accessible on Polygon and Boba networks, providing a versatile trading environment. By offering synthetic tokens tied to market dominance, Domination Finance facilitates innovative trading strategies for participants in the cryptocurrency market.

Zenlink

Series A in 2021
Zenlink is a cross-chain blockchain network based in China, founded in 2020. It serves as a central hub for asset trading, enabling users to engage in seamless cross-chain transactions. The platform offers features such as the Zenlink DEX Protocol, which provides a unified trading framework, and the Zenlink DEX Module, allowing parachains to integrate decentralized exchange capabilities. Users benefit from low fees, low slippage, and high-speed trading, all within a single platform that minimizes the complexities associated with multiple chains. Additionally, the Zenlink Token facilitates governance and incentivizes participation in the ecosystem, supporting long-term network development.

DeFi Warrior

Venture Round in 2021
DeFi Warrior is a crypto character and crypto galaxy game. They create a miniature world of blockchain in the game and each warrior created is a representative of a cryptocurrency. The players can trade, buy, and lend necessary equipment. The NFT characters can be traded between players.

AlchemyNFT

Venture Round in 2021
AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.

Connext

Series A in 2021
Connext, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in developing software that facilitates the purchase and management of blockchain applications. It offers features such as direct card purchases for tokens, access to existing vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities. Additionally, Connext operates as an interoperability protocol, enabling fast and trustless communication between different blockchains. This innovation supports the creation of a more interconnected blockchain ecosystem.

Beyond Finance

Venture Round in 2021
Beyond Finance is a decentralized platform for creating and trading synthetic financial products designed to suit the needs of the synthetic creator. These synthetic products can be made to track prices of underlying assets, such as currencies, commodities, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and more.
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