Electric Capital is a crypto asset management firm. The company invests in tokens that are Programmable Money and invest in both liquid and illiquid tokens that are emerging stores of value and rooted in novel technology. Electric Capital is started by technology entrepreneurs, engineers, and successful investors. Prior to Electric Capital, they started six companies (five acquired), invested in 100+ technology startups with a cumulative market cap in the tens of billions, and served as executives at technology companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. They have been investing personally in cryptocurrencies since 2013 and were early believers in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero. Prior to Electric

Electric Capital

Dragonfly Capital Partners brings together the leading participants in the decentralized economy. Its global ecosystem enables us to invest in and support the most promising opportunities in the crypto asset class.

Dragonfly

Galaxy Digital operates as a technology-driven financial services and investment management firm that provides institutions and direct clients with a full suite of financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem. Galaxy Digital operates five synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining.

Galaxy Digital

gCC is a boutique early-stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Since 2018, we have supported some of the best builders in the industry, adding value through our entrepreneurial experience and global networks. We believe the Internet will become the single largest market in human history, and it will be rebuilt on a foundation of new protocols that protect and coordinate the transfer of digital assets, resources and intellectual property, generate consensus, incentivize network participants and decentralize ownership.

gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)

Fabric is a venture contributor building and backing the boldest ideas in Web 3, to create a more fair, productive and sustainable economy—an Open Economy.

Fabric Ventures

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.

Alameda Research

Unanimous Capital is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments while opportunistically participating in later stages. The firm also invests in founders solving meaningful problems by creating or disrupting markets at scale. Their range of operational experience allows them to capitalize on the current gap in early-stage funding and makes us uniquely qualified to help companies thrive. Unanimous Capital was founded in 2018 and is based in San Mateo, California, USA.

Unanimous Capital

Wintermute Ventures is the investment arm of Wintermute, a global algorithmic trading firm, liquidity provider, and leading OTC desk in digital assets.  Drawing from Wintermute's expertise in pioneering DeFi trading and powering liquidity across the entire ecosystem, Wintermute Ventures is uniquely positioned to back early-stage Web3 projects with hands-on support. Focused on long-term growth, the company takes a flexible approach, investing from early ideation to later-stage expansion. Committed to developing strategic relationships and driving positive outcomes, Wintermute Ventures prioritizes decentralized ownership, ensuring its investments align with the company’s broader vision of a decentralized future. Since 2020, it has invested in over 100 projects.

Wintermute Ventures

YTWO is a global international venture capital and assets management fund that invests in early-stage crypto startups.

YTWO

LedgerPrime is a quantitative and systematic investment firm in the Digital Asset space. With a data centric approach and a commitment to rapid innovation and technology, LedgerPrime seeks to become a global leader in generating sustained and superior risk-adjusted returns.

LedgerPrime

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance. We have been deeply entrenched in the crypto markets since early 2017, and invest in liquid cryptocurrencies on the secondary market as well as early-stage funding rounds. We aim to be power users of the project we invest in and help projects with bootstrapping liquidity, token economics, market making, marketing, and connecting founders with our vast network.

Genblock Capital

Kronos Research

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Coinbase Ventures

Altonomy is a trading, advisory, and asset management firm specializing in cryptocurrency and digital assets. It is the sell-side trading desk to provide institutional-grade liquidity solutions, OTC trading, advisory, and asset management services under one roof. Altonomy maintains a robust network of partners, including the industry's top crypto projects, exchanges, and hedge funds. Altonomy now has three services: OTC trading and execution services, liquidity management and advisory, and institutional cloud mining (AltMiner). 1.	OTC trading and execution services Altonomy provides 24/7 OTC transaction services for crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto transactions, while simultaneously offering best-in-class coverage for illiquid tokens. Our proprietary Hybrid IQ methodology combines the team's extensive crypto market experience with market-making algorithms to provide deep order book depth and optimal spreads. In doing so, Altonomy ensures best execution of token trades with varying liquidity. 2.	Liquidity management and advisory Altonomy helps aspiring token issuers and cryptocurrency exchanges meet their respective requirements for public listings and liquidity management. The firm also acts as a market-maker for a variety of publicly-listed tokens. Offering broad access to crypto-themed investment firms, family offices, and syndicates across the globe, Altonomy has direct partnerships with more than 80 token issuers, among which 40-plus are ranked top-200 by market capitalization, as well as top global and regional investment funds. 3.	Institutional cloud mining (AltMiner) AltMiner is a cloud-based mining product tailored to international institutions and accredited investors seeking long-term exposure to bitcoin. This entitles them to a share of any digital assets the machine successfully recoups over that period, without incurring the same cost overheads as direct ownership of mining technology would.

Altonomy

GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its trading technology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs.  We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

Space Whale Capital is a multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund.

Space Whale Capital

Founded in 2018, Evernew Capital is a venture fund focused on supporting decentralized finance (DeFi), NFT, and infrastructure projects that add new dimensions of utility to the emerging multi-chain crypto ecosystem. The firm announced that it will establish a 20M ecosystem fund in partnership with the Solana Foundation. The Ecofund will focus on cultivating the crypto developer ecosystem in Taiwan, providing resources and services to incubate promising projects for the Solana ecosystem. Evernew provides a range of services to its portfolio projects such as strategic advising, tokenomics development, marketing support, technical feedback, auditing, further product ideation, and connections to potential partner projects. The fund’s strong presence and network in the Taiwan and East Asia region enables them to introduce products to those target markets more efficiently and help teams with navigating local regulatory hurdles.

Evernew Capital

Kraken Ventures invests in businesses and projects at the nexus of both the fintech and blockchain/crypto revolutions. The company provides a combination of the two by being a completely autonomous fund backed by Kraken's resources and expertise. Kraken Ventures invests in financial infrastructure, Web3, digital economies, consumer crypto protocols, and enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Kraken Ventures

Jump Crypto is building a cryptocurrency infrastructure to help the blockchain and all things Web3 grow. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Jump Crypto

Hashflow

Hashflow is a DEX Aggregator that enables users to trade digital assets on and across leading blockchains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana in just a matter of seconds. Hashflow leverages an intent-based smart order routing architecture to offer traders the best prices, access over $8B in liquidity, and the ability to trade every token. Since launching in April 2021, Hashflow has facilitated over $18B in total trade volume. Hashflow's team consists of top minds from both web2 and web3 including Airbnb, Amazon, Arbitrum, Booz Allen Hamilton, Creative Artists Agency, Goldman Sachs, Google, Meta, Citadel, Genesis Trading, NASA, NBCUniversal, Twitter, Uber, Vayner3, and more. Backers include Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Digital, GSR, Wintermute Trading, Balaji Srinivasan, Meltem Demirors, Anthony Sassano, and Jason Choi.

Hashflow offers a decentralized exchange platform for users to trade digital assets. The platform is built for interoperability across multiple chains, zero slippage, and maximal extractable value (MEV) protected trades. Hashflow employs a proprietary request-for-quote (RFQ) model that directly connects institutional market makers with traders to set token prices. The off-chain nature of this model reportedly makes for better asset prices and guarantees transactions made on the platform.

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Hashflow offers a decentralized exchange platform for users to trade digital assets. The platform is built for interoperability across multiple chains, zero slippage, and maximal extractable value (MEV) protected trades. Hashflow employs a proprietary request-for-quote (RFQ) model that directly connects institutional market makers with traders to set token prices. The off-chain nature of this model reportedly makes for better asset prices and guarantees transactions made on the platform. The protocol operates as a DAO governed by holders of its native token, HFT. The token can be staked by users to earn rewards or used to vote on governance proposals. Moreover, in November 2023, the platform enabled trading fees on its platform to provide token holders with an additional share of revenue via staking.In December 2023, Hashflow announced Hashflow 2.0, an upgraded version of its flagship platform that features intent-based "Smart Order Routing" (SOR) architecture. The technology automatically matches orders with around USD 8 billion of liquidity across multiple sources and reportedly fills trades of any size at the best price. The company planned to initially roll out this new solution on Ethereum before expanding to other layer 2 blockchains as well as Solana. It went on to launch its DEX aggregator solution on Arbitrum in March 2024. It also announced that it expanded its native governance token onto Arbitrum in addition to Ethereum and BNB Chain.Key customers and financials&nbsp;In May 2023, Hashflow partnered with MoonPay, a crypto payments infrastructure provider, to integrate crypto on-ramps to the exchange. The partnership enables Hashflow users to purchase crypto using fiat currency via credit cards and bank transfers across 160 countries.Funding and financialsIn July 2022, Hashflow <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11782?industryIds=64">raised USD 25 million</a> in Series A funding from Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital Partners, and Wintermute Trading, among several others at a valuation of USD 400 million. The company planned to use the funding to support its RFQ model and offer structured financial products in permitted jurisdictions in late 2022.

MakerDAO is a DAO (governed through the MKR token) that manages the Sky protocol (formerly known as Maker).&nbsp;Developed on the Ethereum blockchain, the protocol allows users to place their funds (through cryptocurrency) as collateral in exchange for its stablecoin DAI, which is pegged to the USD. DAI can be used like any other cryptocurrency and even as savings since holders of DAI are entitled to a return based on the DAI Savings Rate (DSR). The DSR is determined by members of the DAO using a mix of public and proprietary market data.Sky offers access to investing and borrowing DAI through the Oasis app which was developed by some of the creators of protocol. In addition, the protocol is available for developers of DeFi apps who can build apps to facilitate earning, investing, and borrowing DAI. As of May 2024, Sky had integrated with over 400 applications ranging from payment systems to gaming platforms. It generates revenue through stability fees (akin to interest payment on borrowed DAI) and liquidation fees which is an additional charge that occurs when the value of the submitted collateral falls below a set liquidation amount.&nbsp;In April 2022, the protocol announced that it was bridging to StarkNet, a reportedly cheaper and faster zero-knowledge (ZK) overlay chain built by StarkWare. Along with its expansion on Ethereum, the DAO had planned to move toward a multi-chain offering with this rebuild. It planned to roll out this offering in four phases, beginning with a simple bridge between the main blockchain and StarkNet’s Layer 2.&nbsp;In February 2023, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16269?industryIds=64">launched a new lending platform</a> named Spark Protocol, to enable users to borrow, lend, and stake DAI, the protocol’s stablecoin. The platform, which is a fork of Aave's version 3 (v3), will be built by Phoenix Labs, a research and development company formed by the DAO. Additionally, the company also announced the deployment of etherDAI, a liquid staking derivative for Ethereum that will be pegged to the value of ETH. Furthermore, in March, the protocol went on to<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17322"> approve several new proposals </a>that make changes to both its governance structure and the investment of its treasury. These changes divide the DAO’s current structure into smaller self-governed and self-sustained units named SubDAOs, which will also have their own tokens in the MakerDAO ecosystem. Moreover, the proposal also planned to increase the protocol’s revenues by investing a part of its reserves (worth USD 7 billion) into real-world assets and money-market funds.&nbsp;The platform outlined its plans for a major update (named Endgame) in May 2023. The launch was proposed to take place in five phases and will ultimately lead to the creation of a new blockchain. The road map is as follows: 1) launching new branding and website as well as upgraded versions of Dai and MKR tokens; 2) launching six Maker SubDAOs, specializing in user acquisition, decentralized frontends, and collateral allocation; 3) introducing new AI tools to assist governance, including tools for summarizing, interpreting, and generating governance proposals; 4) enabling rewards for governance participation; and 5) deploying a new blockchain to house backend logic for SubDAO tokenomics and governance security. The first phase of the update is expected to be rolled out in the summer of 2024.&nbsp;In August 2024, the protocol followed through with the first phase of its plans by <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32993">rebranding itself under the new name "Sky"</a>, and launching new versions of DAI and MKR tokens named the USDS and SKY.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn September 2024, Sky<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33252"> partnered with Aave Labs</a>, to launch the “Sky Aave Force” initiative. The initiative featured key proposals such as integrating the newly launched USDS and sUSDS stablecoins on Aave’s V3 protocol, introducing an incentive program for sUSDS suppliers and deploying a direct deposit module for USDS into the Aave Lido Market. Additionally, the partnership will enable the companies to distribute SPK tokens, the native token of Sky’s lending protocol Spark, to create a market for sUSDS on Aave. Collectively, these initiatives enable users to earn yields on their sUSDS deposits from the revenues generated by Sky’s protocol and mint USDS directly on Aave without meeting the usual collateral requirements.

MakerDAO

Founded by former executives of Qualcomm, Solana Labs is the developer of the Solana blockchain, which uses the native cryptocurrency SOL. The company enables developers to create decentralized applications in its blockchain and is capable of carrying out 50,000 transactions per second (TPS) with a theoretical upper limit of 710,000 TPS for the architecture. As of May 2024, the blockchain averaged around 2,400 TPS. This is in contrast to Ethereum’s average of between 13 to 15 TPS. In addition to transaction speed, Solana also has other advantages such as lower transaction fees and improved scalability, given its proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and underlying architecture. The mechanism also enables users to stake their SOL and earn yields for validating the network. Solana provides the ability to create specialized tooling and programming functionality to tokens through <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25910">Token Extensions</a>. This allows developers and businesses to establish rules for tokens, such as dictating their functionality and determining their holders, as well as embed features like whitelisting, automatic transfer fees, and confidentiality provisions for transfers.Solana also provides guides and a content aggregator website for developers to discover tools to create dApps on its blockchain. As of May 2024, more than 440 dApps were created on Solana, ranging across use cases such as DeFi, NFTs, and gaming. It also <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18094">launched a ChatGPT </a>(a chatbot built on OpenAI's GPT model) plugin to allow developers and users to query the blockchain for on-chain data. The plugin works through the ChatGPT interface and allows users to perform various tasks such as checking wallet balances, transferring tokens, and purchasing NFTs.Key customers and partnershipsWeb browser developer Opera partnered with Solana in December 2021 to integrate the blockchain and create a built-in crypto wallet onto the Opera browser to improve accessibility to dApps hosted on the blockchain.As of May 2024, the company served several enterprise clients such as Shopify, Asics, Helio, and Tiplink.Funding and financialsThe total value locked (TVL) in DeFi projects across the Solana blockchain amounted to USD 4 billion as of May 2024. The company raised USD 314 million through an initial coin offering (ICO) of SOL. The ICO was co-led by Polychain Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. The funding was to be used to create a venture investing arm, a trading desk, and support the development of new applications in its blockchain.

Solana

Swiss-based Eidoo is a developer of a wallet that supports cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, along with tokens such as DAI, MKR, AAVE, and UNI, among others. In addition, Eidoo provides a DeFi marketplace that integrates with its wallet, allowing users to trade any tokens that they hold. Eidoo also offers a debit card that allows the conversion of digital assets into fiat currencies, such as the GBP and EURO, and spending or even withdrawing cash from ATMs.Eidoo began with the proprietary token EDO, which it also used to raise USD 27.9 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017. The token was then upgraded following its merger with blockchain oracle provider Provable Things to establish pNetwork, the infrastructure that facilitates cross-chain interactions between multiple decentralized apps, governed by the token PNT. To obtain an Eidoo debit card, users are required to stake PNT ranging from 20 to 200,000 for various service tiers.Eidoo had several applications such as virtual account numbers to deposit money and obtain a tokenized representation of their deposit as well as features to buy, hold, and trade NFTs in the roadmap as of December 2021.

Eidoo

Synthetix is a DAO (governed by holders of its native token SNX) that offers a platform on which users can trade and vote on the creation of on-chain synthetic assets, which are derivatives based on real-world assets. These synthetic assets enable traders to capture the price movements of assets such as cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies, stocks, and commodities, among others, with zero slippage. The protocol allows users to stake SNX as collateral for the debt pool and earn weekly rewards. As of April 2022, Synthetix had USD 642 million in total value locked (TVL).Additionally, Synthetix also offers the opportunity for developers to build on top of the platform to tap into its liquidity as well as develop decentralized perpetual futures, options markets, deal coordination markets, and more. As of December 2021, the protocol served large DeFi platforms including 1inch, Curve Finance, Yearn Finance, and Paraswap.In February 2023, Synthetix <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16609?industryIds=64">deployed version 3 (v3) of its platform </a>on the Ethereum mainnet. V3 reportedly offers more efficient architecture that enables developers to create products that offer a liquid market for any financial derivative, as well as more complex decentralized applications. Additionally, the solution also offers staking and differentiated debt pools, to enable stakers to earn fees from supplying collateral to specific asset pools. The company went on to deploy its protocol on Base, an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain developed by Coinbase, in April 2024. Moreover, the company announced plans to launch a new perpetual futures exchange named Infinex in the following months.Funding and financialsIn March 2023, Synthetix <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17267">received an investment of USD 20 million </a>from DWF Labs, a Web3 venture capital company. Synthetix plans to use this investment to drive volume for its protocol across both centralized and decentralized exchanges and invest in product development.

Synthetix

Compound is an open-source lending protocol built on Ethereum that allows developers to build DeFi applications for functions such as deposits and lending. Compound offers adjusted money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand and supports a number of Ethereum-based assets for users to take collateralized loans and lock-up assets without borrowing. Locked assets are automatically liquidated if an independent oracle determines that the price has dropped too low. Additionally, since assets are stored in a shared pool, even users with liquidated collateral can claim tokens if they are able to repay the general pool. Compound also <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13038">offers borrowing services</a> for institutional clients that allow them to borrow USD or USDC at a fixed annual percentage rate of 6% using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ether as collateral, with a loan-to-value of 90%.As of April 2024, Compound had a total value locked (TVL) of USD 2.3 billion. The protocol is governed by its native-token COMP, which along with a variety of other digital assets that are a part of the Compound ecosystem, are supported by Coinbase Custody, a crypto asset custodian. In August 2022, Compound launched a version of its protocol named “Compound III” which features a single borrowable asset. Users can supply collateral that can never be withdrawn by other users (except during liquidation) and borrow USDC.In May 2022, Compound<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10267"> received a B- credit rating from S&amp;P Global Ratings</a> on its enterprise credit facility which offers 4% annually on deposits of the stablecoin USDC. Notably, Compound claims that this is the first time an "institutional DeFi" product has been scored by a major credit rating agency.Funding and financialsCompound’s last funding round was in November 2019 where it raised USD 25 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto fund to help the company further decentralize the protocol by enabling crypto exchanges and custodians such as Coinbase to maintain the protocol going forward.

Compound

Organizations and protocols that allow individuals to lend their crypto assets and take out collateralized or uncollateralized loans from to/from these projects

Organizations that allow individuals to invest in tokenized financial and real assets

Organizations that provide fully decentralized insurance products

Organizations that apply NFTs across areas of finance such as documentation and non-fractionalized ownership records for assets

Decentralized exchanges that help connect buyers and sellers of DeFi tokens without the need to rely on an intermediary

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Blockchains and related protocols that allow developers to build DeFi apps

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