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Planetarium is a Web3 gaming company that empowers communities by creating decentralized gaming ecosystems. It uses Libplanet, a blockchain-based gaming library integrated with Unity engine, enabling peer-to-peer networking without central servers.

Centrifuge is a blockchain-based platform that connects the global financial supply chain through a decentralized, privacy-preserving protocol for exchanging financial documents and data. It enables businesses to transact in a peer-to-peer network while retaining ownership of their information, including company details, relationships, and transaction history. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco with a Berlin office, Centrifuge supports on-chain tokenization and management of assets, allowing the tokenization, management, and distribution of asset-backed products. The platform also enables third-party developers to build applications on top of its data, effectively serving as a decentralized operating system for the financial supply chain and facilitating global transactions while preserving data ownership.

Karma3 Labs is a developer of a decentralized trust protocol that facilitates the creation of on-chain ranking and recommendation systems for applications. The company offers a platform that includes peer-to-peer social attestations, open data, and reliable algorithms, allowing developers to build personalized recommendations and Sybil-resistant systems within social graph protocols. With a focus on contextual and customizable features, Karma3 Labs aims to enhance the functionality and trustworthiness of app ecosystems.

Maple Finance operates a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace that connects institutions seeking loans with liquidity pools funded by the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The platform employs a peer-to-pool model, allowing experienced investors to manage these liquidity pools while providing borrowers, such as crypto corporates, market makers, exchanges, and miners, with access to tailored loans. By facilitating this process, Maple Finance enables institutions to efficiently secure capital while offering investors the opportunity to participate in a diversified and high-yielding portfolio of corporate and institutional loans.

DFlow is a payment-for-order-flow marketplace that provides transparent and market-driven price discovery for order flow. They provide a decentralized market platform to ensure the most optimal execution environment for consumers. The market-driven approach to PFOF used by DFlow allows the public to see live market prices for token pairs.

LayerZero develops a blockchain interoperability platform that enables data exchange between disparate blockchains. Its platform achieves speed and security by validating as an on-chain light node, allowing companies to build cross-chain applications using a low-level communication primitive.

CLST facilitates a global network of institutional borrowers and lenders, acting as the primary gateway for short-term digital assets debt markets. It aims to bridge traditional finance (TradFi) with crypto-native institutions, fostering institutional adoption of digital assets.

Hubble Protocol is a decentralized financial platform that facilitates long-term borrowing, lending, and the creation of structured financial products. It aims to democratize access to decentralized finance by offering a range of sustainable financial services. The protocol's software supports multi-asset collateral and enables zero-interest borrowing, allowing users to leverage yield-bearing assets for loans. Additionally, Hubble enhances yield generation on deposits of various tokens, providing clients with optimized financial opportunities while minimizing costs associated with loans.

DeNet is a decentralized data storage platform and ecosystem that provides a cloud-like experience with strong data security and competitive pricing. It enables users to store data and non-fungible tokens across a multichain network by utilizing unused hard drive space on computers for decentralized hosting. Participants can earn tokens by sharing their storage capacity, while the platform targets applications ranging from personal file storage to secure NFT storage, offering an alternative to traditional cloud services.

LayerZero develops a blockchain interoperability platform that enables data exchange between disparate blockchains. Its platform achieves speed and security by validating as an on-chain light node, allowing companies to build cross-chain applications using a low-level communication primitive.

BENQi is a developer of a decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity protocol built on the Avalanche blockchain. The company focuses on creating a seamless platform for lending, borrowing, and earning interest on digital assets. By combining elements of traditional finance and decentralized finance, BENQi aims to democratize access to financial products, offering permissionless lending and borrowing options. The protocol is designed to be highly scalable and user-friendly, with an emphasis on low fees. Additionally, BENQi seeks to bridge multiple blockchain ecosystems, including Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain, through Avalanche's subnets, positioning itself as a cross-chain DeFi solution that enhances liquidity and accessibility in the digital asset space.

Maverick Protocol is a decentralized finance platform that offers a crypto derivatives market designed to be open, transparent, and efficient. The protocol enables permissionless trading and staking across a wide range of asset pairs and supports perpetual contracts with capital efficiency, driven by an automated market maker. It aims to provide liquid, borderless access to decentralized trading and to allow traders to gain exposure through perpetuals backed by a diverse set of assets.

DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.