Veris Ventures

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.

Humanity Protocol is developing Proof of Humanity, a novel feature designed to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms and give users complete ownership over their data and identity.

Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.

NATIX Network is developing an open geospatial intelligence network that leverages proprietary artificial intelligence and smartphone cameras to address the limitations of traditional geospatial data collection. Existing methods often suffer from high costs, limited data types, and infrequent updates. By utilizing driver assistant applications, token incentives, and computer vision AI, NATIX crowdsources real-time data to create a digital twin of the world. This innovative approach facilitates a range of applications, including autonomous driving and smart city services. In just 12 months, the network has registered over 100,000 drivers and covered more than 33 million kilometers, establishing itself as one of the fastest-growing geospatial networks globally.

Superfluid Finance develops an online cash streaming protocol aimed at revolutionizing asset movement in decentralized finance. The protocol focuses on token standardization and facilitates various financial transactions such as subscription funds, salaries, and rewards. By automating recurring transactions and enabling single on-chain exchanges, Superfluid provides customers with continuous settlement and per-second netting, enhancing capital efficiency in the decentralized finance landscape.

Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain finance.

Synonym is a cross-chain lending protocol that primarily offers cross-chain lending-related services. Synonym platform employs wormhole xChain technology, stack, and arbitrum, and allows users to borrow assets from one blockchain using collateral assets from another, providing cross-chain collateralization and flexibility.

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.

D8X is a decentralized platform focused on perpetual futures trading, designed to enhance the trading experience for both retail and institutional traders. By offering a financial engineering approach, D8X enables the trading of perpetual futures contracts specifically for mid-cap and small-cap assets at competitive prices. The platform allows users to utilize these contracts as hedging instruments, benefiting from low holding costs. This innovative solution aims to transform the on-chain trading landscape, providing traders with the opportunity to create new revenue streams.

Shardeum is a decentralized blockchain platform that focuses on enhancing transaction speed and efficiency through a technique known as sharding. By partitioning the network into multiple shards, Shardeum enables the processing, verification, and validation of transactions in parallel, which significantly increases the number of transactions per second as more nodes are added to the network. This innovative approach ensures that transaction costs remain low while maintaining a high level of security and true decentralization. Shardeum's linearly scalable architecture allows it to adapt to growing demand, making it an attractive solution for organizations that prioritize scalability, security, and decentralization in their blockchain applications.