Warlock
Seed Round in 2025
Warlock Labs specializes in creating an omni-chain liquidation engine aimed at enhancing the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols. By recapturing maximal extractable value, the company's technology systematically dis-intermediates value generated during liquidation processes. This approach not only improves efficiency for miners but also fosters user retention and engagement within various protocols. Warlock Labs is focused on advancing the decentralized finance landscape through innovative solutions that bolster both safety and profitability.
Level is a fintech company that develops stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
Biton
Venture Round in 2025
Biton is a full-chain ecology trading platform that offers services to simplify the trading process and mitigate cross-chain risks.
Fluent Labs
Seed Round in 2025
Fluent Labs is a blockchain development company. It aims to simplify blockchain development and enhance compatibility across different virtual machines.
Ethena
Funding Round in 2025
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.
Oshi is a platform that connects anime creators and fans worldwide, leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate collaborative creation and licensing transparency. It enables intellectual property owners to maintain control over their works while supporting anime production through a decentralized ecosystem.
Superform Labs
Venture Round in 2024
Superform is a non-custodial yield marketplace. The protocol enables access to Erc-4626 vaults using any Evmchain.
Hyperbolic
Series A in 2024
Hyperbolic is a software development company specializing in web and networking solutions. It focuses on building decentralized computing platforms.
Talus Network
Seed Round in 2024
Talus Network is a pioneering blockchain-based platform that seeks to democratize artificial intelligence. It develops a decentralized system that merges blockchain technology with autonomous AI agents, fostering consumer-friendly on-chain AI applications, notably smart agents. These agents seamlessly integrate into everyday on-chain content, empowering developers to create more secure, transparent, and efficient decentralized, autonomous systems.
Noble XYZ
Series A in 2024
Noble XYZ is an asset issuance appchain that seeks to communicate and exchange assets directly with each other by using blockchain communication.
Brevis is an efficient, verifiable off-chain computation engine that brings limitless computation capacity to existing smart contract blockchains.
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.
Yellow Card
Series C in 2024
Yellow Card operates a cryptocurrency platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and manage digital assets using local currencies and mobile money across Africa. The platform functions as a crypto exchange and payments solution, offering over-the-counter trading, merchant services, currency exchange, and crypto gift cards. It provides an on/off ramp for stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD through a payments API, supporting secure, cost-effective transfers and borderless transactions. The company serves customers in numerous African countries and has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions, reflecting its role in promoting financial inclusion and access to digital finance. Founded in 2016 and active in the market, Yellow Card aims to simplify crypto access for individuals and businesses through a scalable, local-currency-first approach.
Yala is a technology company that develops infrastructure to connect Bitcoin liquidity with a meta-yield stablecoin, enabling users to securely and transparently earn yield on their Bitcoin holdings within a DeFi ecosystem. Its modular, on-chain, and permissionless infrastructure aims to be capital-efficient, fostering a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.
Bitlayer is a technology company focused on enhancing Bitcoin's scalability while maintaining its security. It operates the first second-layer network built on BitVM, aiming to serve as Bitcoin's computing layer. The platform offers ultra-scalability and equivalent security to Bitcoin's main chain (L1), enabling users to innovate for faster, safer transactions with increased flexibility.
Apro Oracle
Seed Round in 2024
APRO Oracle specializes in providing comprehensive data support for the Bitcoin ecosystem. It is renowned for being the most widely integrated oracle within this environment. The company's core service involves accurately calculating prices by aggregating data from leading institutional-grade suppliers and exchanges, utilizing the Time-Weighted Average Price (TVWAP) method. APRO Oracle ensures data security through a decentralized network of submitter nodes and partnerships with top-tier security audit firms, allowing clients to verify multiple data points off-chain, minimizing on-chain transactions, and reducing gas costs.
Level is a fintech company that develops stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
Solayer Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Solayer Labs operates a re-staking network that builds upon the Solana blockchain, extending its capabilities to secure additional systems and enable horizontal scaling. By leveraging the economic security of SOL tokens and sharing Solana's validator network, Solayer allows application developers to achieve a higher degree of consensus and customize block space, enhancing the efficiency and versatility of decentralized cloud infrastructure.
Story Protocol
Series B in 2024
Story Protocol is a technology company focused on revolutionizing the creation of narrative universes in the web3 space. Its platform enables creators to develop, own, govern, and license intellectual property on-chain, fostering an ecosystem where story elements can be remixed and composed.
Sahara AI
Series A in 2024
Sahara AI is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain platform for open and collaborative artificial intelligence development. Its platform enables businesses to deploy autonomous AI securely and privately, while allowing cross-agent communication, knowledge transfer, and capitalization. This fosters a collaborative environment where businesses can own, monetize, and scale their proprietary knowledge.
Hyperbolic
Seed Round in 2024
Hyperbolic is a software development company specializing in web and networking solutions. It focuses on building decentralized computing platforms.
Namcon provides blockchain infrastructure services that rely on numerous devices and trusted execution environments for secure computing.
ORA is a blockchain protocol designed to facilitate trustless AI and decentralized computing on the Ethereum network. It aims to enable developers to deploy AI models and utilize computing resources directly on the blockchain, leveraging its decentralized nature for security and scalability.
BabylonChain
Series B in 2024
Babylon builds security protocols to enhance the security of decentralized systems by leveraging Bitcoin's established security. The company's solutions include timestamping data on the Bitcoin blockchain and enabling Bitcoin holders to stake their coins on Proof-of-Stake blockchains without needing a custodian.
Cysic specializes in blockchain technology, focusing on zero-knowledge proof hardware acceleration. Its platform offers real-time ZK proof generation, enhancing efficiency and usability while maintaining decentralization.
Intensity Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Intensity Labs pioneers Shogun, a breakthrough DeFi protocol based on purpose. Shogun enables users to traverse decentralized finance with purpose-driven interactions, resulting in a dynamic financial ecosystem.
Polymarket
Series A in 2024
Polymarket is a prediction market platform that enables users to wager real money on the outcomes of debated current events. The service operates on blockchain technology, primarily Ethereum, with additional use of the Polygon network to improve scalability and reduce transaction costs. Participants connect through an Ethereum-compatible wallet and place bets using the USDC stablecoin on topics such as politics, healthcare, economics, and other areas where public discussion centers on likely outcomes. The platform transforms speculative activity into market-based insights by allowing users to express expectations about future events and realize gains or losses based on actual results.
Botanix Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Botanix Labs is a technology company that develops decentralized applications (dApps) for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. It combines the strengths of Bitcoin and Ethereum to create a platform that offers secure, decentralized, and fair distribution of cryptocurrencies. This platform enables users to explore decentralized lending, earn interest on their assets, and manage their wealth with ease.
Movement Labs
Series A in 2024
Movement Labs is a modular framework platform that builds and deploys move-based blockchains and applications in distributed settings. Its platform offers a composable and horizontally scalable network that provides unparalleled smart contract security and asset portability to help users solve the cold start problem with unprecedented interoperability.
Berachain
Series B in 2024
Berachain develops an Ethereum-compatible blockchain tailored for financial applications. Its core technology allows staked assets like Ether (ETH) to be utilized in decentralized finance protocols, enhancing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency while ensuring network security.
Stream Trading
Seed Round in 2024
Stream Trading offers capital-efficient and low-latency software for optimal performance in DeFi.
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.
Ritual
Venture Round in 2024
Ritual is a reaction to the aforementioned issues. Fundamentally, it is envisioned as an open, modular, and autonomous AI execution layer. Ritual connects a distributed network of nodes with access to compute and model developers.
Sofamon
Seed Round in 2024
Sofamon is a software developer specializing in social platforms for blockchain projects. It offers a user-friendly interface with features such as personal chat stickers, private group chats, and friend invitations.
DappOS is an innovative company focused on enhancing the usability and accessibility of decentralized applications (dApps) within the blockchain ecosystem. By developing a unified operating protocol, DappOS creates a user-friendly layer that simplifies interactions between users and various blockchain infrastructures, including public blockchains and cross-chain bridges. This approach allows for intuitive user interfaces and streamlined experiences, making dApps as easy to use as mobile applications. DappOS aims to lower the technical barriers associated with blockchain technology, facilitating greater mass adoption of decentralized applications and contributing to a more interconnected and user-centric blockchain environment.
Sailing player
Seed Round in 2024
Sailing player is a high-tech enterprise focusing on blockchain, Web3.0, AR, and Yuanverse industries, focusing on research, development, and international application development.
Clique coordinates diverse compute resources, allocating them dynamically for general applications and smart contracts. This includes co-processors for verifiable computing on-chain data, oracles for external data sources, and specialized hardware for privacy, AI, and secure computation.
Polyhedra Network
Series A in 2024
Polyhedra Network develops a Web3 infrastructure platform that facilitates secure, interoperable cross-chain communication among layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains using advanced zero-knowledge proof protocols.
Eclipse is building Ethereum's first Solana Virtual Machine Layer 2. While other L2 networks on Ethereum focus on providing Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility, Eclipse leans into performance improvements developed by the Solana Layer 1 and adds additional verification features to deploy the blockchain as a rollup.
The Eclipse team includes veterans from dYdX, Uniswap, Citadel, and Airbnb. Eclipse Labs is backed by top investors including Polychain, Placeholder, and DBA.
Sahara AI
Seed Round in 2024
Sahara AI is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain platform for open and collaborative artificial intelligence development. Its platform enables businesses to deploy autonomous AI securely and privately, while allowing cross-agent communication, knowledge transfer, and capitalization. This fosters a collaborative environment where businesses can own, monetize, and scale their proprietary knowledge.
Talus Network
Seed Round in 2024
Talus Network is a pioneering blockchain-based platform that seeks to democratize artificial intelligence. It develops a decentralized system that merges blockchain technology with autonomous AI agents, fostering consumer-friendly on-chain AI applications, notably smart agents. These agents seamlessly integrate into everyday on-chain content, empowering developers to create more secure, transparent, and efficient decentralized, autonomous systems.
Gasp
Initial Coin Offering in 2024
A ZK-rollup L2 with universal connectivity to L1s, enabling cross-chain liquidity of native assets. Powered by Starkware zero-knowledge technology and Eigenlayer's restake finality.
In it's core, MEV minimization and gas-free swaps are out of the box.
AltLayer offers a rollups-as-a-service platform that enables developers to deploy on-demand rollups for Web3 projects. The system provides highly scalable, application-dedicated execution layers whose security derives from an underlying base layer, delivering elastic and customizable scaling to transform blockchain infrastructure, speed up time-to-market, and support innovative deployment models for decentralized applications.
Superform Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Superform is a non-custodial yield marketplace. The protocol enables access to Erc-4626 vaults using any Evmchain.
Squid is a developer of financial software that facilitates seamless connectivity between users and developers in the cryptocurrency market. The company's platform enables the swapping of any token across different blockchains, providing a streamlined approach to accessing decentralized applications with a single click. Squid's solution includes an application programming interface and software development kit that allows for native token swaps and messaging between users and applications across various chains. This functionality empowers investors with composable, cross-chain financial logic, enhancing their ability to navigate the complex landscape of cryptocurrency liquidity and applications.
Canza Finance
Seed Round in 2024
Canza Finance is developing a decentralized finance system aimed at providing accessible financial services to the underserved populations in Africa. Its platform leverages web3 and blockchain technology, partnering with local money market players to distribute transaction-based services and create an open financial portal for emerging markets.
Particle
Seed Round in 2024
Particle is a permissionless decentralized leverage trading technology that may be used with any digital asset, including tokens and NFTs. The Particle protocol allows traders to borrow directly from liquidity pools at automated market makers (AMMs) with concentrated liquidity
Bitfinity Network
Venture Round in 2024
Bitfinity Network is a creator of a blockchain platform that allows users to generate, stake, and swap tokens on their internet-connected computers. The company focuses on developing new decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain primitives. Its main services include research and development into cross-chain wallets that support Bitcoin and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-based chains and exchanges and automated market-making activities.
BabylonChain
Series A in 2023
Babylon builds security protocols to enhance the security of decentralized systems by leveraging Bitcoin's established security. The company's solutions include timestamping data on the Bitcoin blockchain and enabling Bitcoin holders to stake their coins on Proof-of-Stake blockchains without needing a custodian.
Sona is a new web3 streaming protocol that employs DeFi primitives (decentralized finance fundamental building blocks) to give artists more financial power through a rewards scheme, auctions, and ad-free streaming. Sona came out of the woodwork today, announcing the open beta launch of its first product, Sona Stream, a free music streaming service with no subscriptions or ads combined with a marketplace where artists share music and auction off SONAs, or "digital twins" or digital assets of songs that can only be owned by one person at a time.
Shrapnel is a moddable extraction shooter game developed by an acclaimed team using Unreal Engine 5. It incorporates blockchain technology, allowing players to earn non-fungible tokens as rewards for in-game achievements, which can then be used to purchase items and participate in a decentralized economy.
Noble XYZ
Seed Round in 2023
Noble XYZ is an asset issuance appchain that seeks to communicate and exchange assets directly with each other by using blockchain communication.
Drift Protocol is a developer of a decentralized derivatives exchange that focuses on providing on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures trading on the Solana blockchain. The platform aims to enhance the efficiency of trading futures through an upgraded decentralized system that features a new pegging mechanism. This innovation allows users to adjust liquidity based on market demand and open interest, thereby improving the overall trading experience. Drift Protocol's approach positions its exchange as a competitive option for margin trading within the decentralized finance space.
GoldLink
Pre Seed Round in 2023
GoldLink operates a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that facilitates on-chain, leveraged lending to borrowers. It offers risk management tools, real-time data visualization, and access to advanced investment strategies, aiming to enhance profits and transparency in the DeFi market.
Manta Network
Series A in 2023
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.
P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
Connext, Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in creating an interoperability protocol that facilitates fast and fully-trustless communication between different blockchains. Its innovative technology aims to foster the formation of an interconnected network of blockchains, commonly referred to as the internet of blockchains. Additionally, Connext provides users with tools to purchase and manage blockchain applications, offering features such as direct card purchases for token acquisition, access to current vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities.
Webb Protocol
Seed Round in 2023
Webb Protocol is a multi-chain privacy technology that allows assets to be transferred across blockchain protocols while ensuring financial anonymity. We incentivize privacy creation through innovative economic design and aim to become the most decentralized privacy system imaginable.
Thetanuts Finance
Venture Round in 2023
Thetanuts Finance operates a DeFi platform that offers crypto derivatives, structured products and customizable vaults to generate yield. The platform serves treasury management needs for DAOs and enables retail traders to earn yield on their tokens. Its vaults simplify options trading, making complex instruments accessible and allowing users to monetize volatility in a risk-adjusted manner. The company enables access to cross-chain crypto derivatives and structured products across multiple networks, expanding options markets for native tokens and providing competitive, risk-adjusted yield opportunities.
Berachain
Series A in 2023
Berachain develops an Ethereum-compatible blockchain tailored for financial applications. Its core technology allows staked assets like Ether (ETH) to be utilized in decentralized finance protocols, enhancing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency while ensuring network security.
Polyhedra Network
Series A in 2023
Polyhedra Network develops a Web3 infrastructure platform that facilitates secure, interoperable cross-chain communication among layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains using advanced zero-knowledge proof protocols.
Cubist offers a web3 key management platform and modular toolkit that enables developers to safely design, test, and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain decentralized applications in automated pipelines. By handling keys and sequencing, the solution supports secure cross-chain deployments from a single program.
Scroll.io
Venture Round in 2023
Scroll, founded in 2021 and based in Victoria, Seychelles, is focused on developing an EVM-equivalent zk-rollup, which utilizes a robust proving network. The company operates within the technology sector, with an emphasis on enhancing blockchain scalability and efficiency. By leveraging zero-knowledge proof technology, Scroll aims to facilitate faster and more secure transactions on decentralized applications. The firm's innovative approach positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of blockchain infrastructure.
Space ID is focused on creating a universal name service network that facilitates the connection of individuals, data, and assets across various blockchains and applications. The company is developing a decentralized identity protocol that allows for the representation of all identities and multi-chain addresses. This includes features such as composable naming layouts, connected identifiers, and customized top-level domains that provide a human-readable identity. Additionally, Space ID integrates with NFT projects, enabling communities to enhance user engagement and growth through the use of personalized domain names.
Polyhedra Network
Seed Round in 2023
Polyhedra Network develops a Web3 infrastructure platform that facilitates secure, interoperable cross-chain communication among layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains using advanced zero-knowledge proof protocols.
Nil Foundation
Venture Round in 2023
Nil Foundation facilitates and supports research in database management systems and applied cryptography.
Quasar Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Quasar Labs operates a digital asset management platform that simplifies investing within the multi-chain universe. The platform allows users to create and join independent asset containers, known as Vaults, which utilize inter-blockchain communication (IBC) technology to facilitate value capture across different blockchains, particularly in the Cosmos ecosystem. This innovative approach addresses the fragmentation within decentralized finance (DeFi) by providing a streamlined and secure method for investors to manage their digital assets. Quasar Labs empowers investors to efficiently design Vaults and aggregate liquidity, making it easier for them to put their digital assets to work with minimal effort.
Vana is a decentralized platform that empowers individuals to retain control over their personal data while contributing to the development of artificial intelligence. The platform facilitates user-owned data management and monetization, providing tools for users to develop and profit from AI models. By utilizing decentralized autonomous organizations, Vana allows users to share data, such as social media and professional information, in exchange for various benefits. The platform emphasizes data portability, enabling users to log in with digital wallets and access their information across multiple platforms without relying on centralized systems. Vana's infrastructure ensures privacy and security through cryptographic verification, allowing developers to create more personalized applications while maintaining user privacy.
Finterest
Seed Round in 2022
Finterest is a financial platform that operates within the web3 and decentralized finance ecosystem. It specializes in facilitating the lending and borrowing of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, ICP, and stablecoins. The platform allows users to engage in cryptocurrency trading while also enabling token holders to participate in governance decisions, such as voting on future tokens to be integrated into the protocol. Finterest aims to enhance user engagement by incentivizing the utilization of its services, and it plans to incorporate Ethereum into its offerings, broadening its appeal within the digital asset market.
Fleek is an open web platform that installs anything on a computer or deals with the command line. The platform is helping to build the tools necessary to make the Open Web available to anyone, and easy to build on. It makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship-resistant, and free of centralized gatekeepers. Using Open Web protocols that make a decentralized, trustless, and permissionless infrastructure native to the web. This stack is ever-shifting and open-source.
t3rn
Private Equity Round in 2022
Founded in 2020 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, t3rn specializes in secure, efficient cross-chain executions. It leverages its modular stack for storage, validation, settlement, and consensus.
Evmos facilitates the transfer of Ethereum-based applications and assets onto the interconnected networks within the Cosmos ecosystem.
Light Protocol
Seed Round in 2022
Light Protocol develops a privacy-focused protocol built on Solana. It enables secure scaling of state using zero-knowledge compression, allowing developers to integrate private transactions at scale while preserving security and performance.
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.
Tapio Protocol
Seed Round in 2022
Tapio Protocol is a synthetic asset protocol that unifies different formats of staking and crowdloan derivatives into an efficient standard. Tapio is powered by the Stable Asset system, which enables efficient trading while minimizing risk by utilizing uniform, closely pegged assets with stable swaps and stable asset capabilities.
Pine Street Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Pine Street Labs develops enterprise wallet software aimed at expanding and democratizing the use of public blockchains. The company's platform simplifies the complexities of supporting various blockchain networks, allowing enterprises to concentrate on their core business operations. Pine Street Labs offers walletOS, which enhances custody infrastructure and facilitates the management of custody operations in-house. The software is designed to accommodate new blockchain initiatives while providing functionalities such as sending, receiving, staking, and executing smart contract calls. By creating a composable developer experience with modular integrations and a well-defined API, Pine Street Labs enables businesses to execute transactions seamlessly and efficiently in mission-critical environments.
Uniswap Labs
Series B in 2022
Founded in 2018 by Hayden Adams, Uniswap Labs develops decentralized finance (DeFi) products. It specializes in creating user-friendly platforms for secure, peer-to-peer digital asset swapping, with a focus on accessibility and empowerment of liquidity providers and traders.
Eclipse
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Eclipse is building Ethereum's first Solana Virtual Machine Layer 2. While other L2 networks on Ethereum focus on providing Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility, Eclipse leans into performance improvements developed by the Solana Layer 1 and adds additional verification features to deploy the blockchain as a rollup.
The Eclipse team includes veterans from dYdX, Uniswap, Citadel, and Airbnb. Eclipse Labs is backed by top investors including Polychain, Placeholder, and DBA.
Yellow Card
Series B in 2022
Yellow Card operates a cryptocurrency platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and manage digital assets using local currencies and mobile money across Africa. The platform functions as a crypto exchange and payments solution, offering over-the-counter trading, merchant services, currency exchange, and crypto gift cards. It provides an on/off ramp for stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD through a payments API, supporting secure, cost-effective transfers and borderless transactions. The company serves customers in numerous African countries and has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions, reflecting its role in promoting financial inclusion and access to digital finance. Founded in 2016 and active in the market, Yellow Card aims to simplify crypto access for individuals and businesses through a scalable, local-currency-first approach.
Rio Network
Seed Round in 2022
Rio Network operates a public proof-of-stake blockchain platform designed for the issuance, investment, and life-cycle management of digital securities and crypto assets. The platform facilitates the creation of liquid restacking tokens, where the influence of validators is based on the collateralized staking tokens. This structure allows users to achieve a risk-managed total return while maintaining liquidity. Through its innovative approach, Rio Network aims to enhance the accessibility and efficiency of digital asset management.
MatchboxDAO
Seed Round in 2022
MatchboxDAO operates a gaming platform focused on developing the infrastructure for on-chain games. The company provides essential developer tools, infrastructure, and open-source primitives that facilitate the creation and deployment of fully on-chain games. By offering these resources, MatchboxDAO aims to simplify the process for developers, allowing them to easily access and utilize the necessary components to build innovative gaming experiences. Additionally, the organization is actively engaged in fostering a collaborative environment, as evidenced by its initiative to host a virtual hackathon aimed at encouraging the development of tools on the Starknet network.
END-Labs
Seed Round in 2022
END-Labs is a blockchain development studio focused on creating Web3 lending infrastructure. The company specializes in developing a suite of blockchain-based products designed to enhance the financial landscape by connecting fiat-native borrowers with institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) capital. Its platform operates as an application-specific blockchain, facilitating the integration of various decentralized applications that function together across the blockchain ecosystem. This innovative approach enables borrowers to identify and access sources of capital with optimized costs and terms based on the assets they wish to use as collateral, thereby driving capital efficiencies in the lending process.
Aurigami
Funding Round in 2022
Aurigami operates as a decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol that enables users to lend, borrow, and earn interest on digital assets. It functions as a liquidity protocol where lenders supply capital and borrowers access over-collateralized loans, with a focus on reducing smart contract risk and liquidations, and emphasizes secure, trust-minimized custody in a DeFi environment.
Quasar Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Quasar Labs operates a digital asset management platform that simplifies investing within the multi-chain universe. The platform allows users to create and join independent asset containers, known as Vaults, which utilize inter-blockchain communication (IBC) technology to facilitate value capture across different blockchains, particularly in the Cosmos ecosystem. This innovative approach addresses the fragmentation within decentralized finance (DeFi) by providing a streamlined and secure method for investors to manage their digital assets. Quasar Labs empowers investors to efficiently design Vaults and aggregate liquidity, making it easier for them to put their digital assets to work with minimal effort.
Nomad
Venture Round in 2022
Nomad is a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication.
DSCVR is an innovative Web3 social network designed to reward users for their content contributions while seamlessly integrating cryptocurrency features. The platform addresses usability challenges associated with crypto products, aiming to facilitate broader adoption of Web3 technologies. It has garnered significant traction among crypto and NFT communities, positioning itself as a launchpad for tokenized communities. Users can establish governance rules, define roles, and distribute rewards through airdrops, all within the social network. Additionally, DSCVR enables peer-to-peer transactions of NFTs and airdrops directly to user accounts, eliminating the need for external wallets and addresses. Built entirely on the Internet Computer, DSCVR serves as a decentralized protocol that enhances user engagement and monetization opportunities through its open application programming interface.
Sunscreen
Seed Round in 2022
Sunscreen develops advanced privacy technology, specializing in fully homomorphic encryption. Its platform enables engineers to perform complex computations directly on encrypted data without decryption, ensuring the protection of sensitive information while allowing operations on that data.
Hologram Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Hologram Labs is an innovative platform focused on digital identities and virtual beings. The company utilizes advancements in 3D technology, machine learning, and web3 to facilitate the creation, ownership, and engagement with immersive virtual characters and experiences within online communities. Hologram's self-expression engine transforms real-life assets into digital formats, employing motion-captured avatar technology that converts static avatars into dynamic, motion-tracked versions. This functionality is accessible through a browser extension, allowing users to animate their own avatars for video calls and create both short and long-form videos.
AltLayer
Seed Round in 2022
AltLayer offers a rollups-as-a-service platform that enables developers to deploy on-demand rollups for Web3 projects. The system provides highly scalable, application-dedicated execution layers whose security derives from an underlying base layer, delivering elastic and customizable scaling to transform blockchain infrastructure, speed up time-to-market, and support innovative deployment models for decentralized applications.
Veridise
Funding Round in 2022
Veridise is a comprehensive blockchain security company founded by a team of renowned researchers. Specializing in auditing Zero-Knowledge Circuits and MetaMask Snaps, the firm possesses extensive expertise in smart contracts, blockchains, Layer 2 solutions, DeFi protocols, cryptocurrency wallets, tokens, and NFTs. Veridise has established a reputation for uncovering critical vulnerabilities that other auditing firms often overlook, identifying over 100 high-severity bugs in the first half of 2023 alone. The company's approach combines traditional auditing methods with advanced automated Web3 security tools, allowing them to tackle complex blockchain security challenges effectively. Through this innovative hybrid methodology, Veridise provides clients with detailed and actionable audit reports, enhancing the overall security of blockchain applications.
EigenLabs
Pre Seed Round in 2022
EigenLabs is a blockchain infrastructure startup that enables the restaking of ETH across various decentralized applications. They also provide developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Traditionally, staking requires validators to lock up ETH as a security deposit to engage in the network's consensus mechanism, earning rewards for contributing to network security and validating transactions. However, once ETH is staked, it is generally immobilized until withdrawn, restricting validators from utilizing these assets elsewhere.
EigenLayer aims to tackle this challenge by allowing staked ETH to be restaked across diverse decentralized applications and services without removing it from the original consensus mechanism.
Satori is a decentralized financial derivatives exchange tailored for both retail and institutional investors within the Polkadot ecosystem. The platform is designed to accommodate experienced traders, allowing them to leverage the potential of DOT through access to a dedicated derivatives environment. Satori collaborates with parachains, market makers, and retail users, facilitating a comprehensive trading experience that meets the demands of diverse market participants.
Bluefin
Venture Round in 2022
Bluefin operates a decentralized derivatives exchange that leverages innovative blockchain technology to facilitate access to global financial markets. The platform is designed for both novice and experienced traders, offering features such as leverage trading, short selling, and rapid trade settlement. By combining the security and transparency of decentralized systems with the efficiency and low costs typically associated with centralized exchanges, Bluefin aims to democratize trading for users worldwide. The company is supported by a group of prominent investors, enhancing its position in the competitive trading landscape.
Gasp
Venture Round in 2022
A ZK-rollup L2 with universal connectivity to L1s, enabling cross-chain liquidity of native assets. Powered by Starkware zero-knowledge technology and Eigenlayer's restake finality.
In it's core, MEV minimization and gas-free swaps are out of the box.
Scroll.io
Series A in 2022
Scroll, founded in 2021 and based in Victoria, Seychelles, is focused on developing an EVM-equivalent zk-rollup, which utilizes a robust proving network. The company operates within the technology sector, with an emphasis on enhancing blockchain scalability and efficiency. By leveraging zero-knowledge proof technology, Scroll aims to facilitate faster and more secure transactions on decentralized applications. The firm's innovative approach positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of blockchain infrastructure.
Founded in 2018, CoinDCX specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. It focuses on developing borderless financial services for simplified capital flow, offering powerful wallets and robust security. The company empowers traders with industry-first products tailored to individual trading experiences, risk tolerances, and frequencies. Its mission is to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone.
Nomad is a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication.
Quai Network
Seed Round in 2022
Quai Network develops merge-mined blockchains with the goal of creating efficient blockchains.
Allora Labs
Series A in 2022
Allora Labs is a blockchain-based protocol focused on providing reliable appraisals for digital assets, particularly in the realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The company offers a platform that incentivizes experts to deliver honest insights, facilitating an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs. By compensating these experts for their evaluations, Allora Labs captures the value of truthful information and creates new opportunities within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Its technology employs machine learning to analyze data, enabling crypto builders to optimize strategies, quantify risks, and make informed decisions based on real-time NFT appraisals. Through its innovative approach, Allora Labs aims to enhance the credibility and reliability of information in the digital asset market.
Gauntlet is a financial modeling and simulation company focused on enhancing the safety and efficiency of blockchain protocols and smart contracts. Through its advanced platform, Gauntlet employs agent-based simulation techniques to analyze and optimize key parameters of various protocols. This approach allows the company to model market risks and economic incentives effectively, helping clients improve their capital efficiency and maximize returns for stakeholders while minimizing associated risks. By driving sustainable growth for leading crypto protocols, chains, and on-chain treasuries, Gauntlet plays a crucial role in enhancing the financial performance of businesses in the blockchain space.