Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on all things infrastructure across Web2 and Web3. They are early investors in Databricks, Vectara, Zeet, RapidAPI, Agora.io, etc and have built a top notch team spanning across networks in terms of industry background and operating experience.

Race Capital

3KVC is a New York-based venture fund focused on early-stage investments. The company intends to invest in the software and financial services industries.

Third Kind Venture Capital

Airtree is a venture capital firm backing Aussie and Kiwi founders, building the iconic technology companies of tomorrow. We’re powered by our network, dedicating extraordinary resources to help founders shortcut company-building firsts and accelerate their journey from idea to global household name. As one of the largest and most active early-stage investors in Australia and New Zealand, Airtree’s 100+ portfolio features the region’s breakout tech companies, including Canva, Go1, Employment Hero, Pet Circle, Immutable and Linktree.

Airtree Ventures

Amber Group is a crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading, and asset management services. Amber Group was founded in 2017 by a group of finance professionals from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bloomberg. Amber Group operates around the world and around the clock with a presence in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, and Vancouver. The company provides services to 200+ institutional clients, cumulatively trading over $200 billion across 60+ electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume between $100-200 million. Amber Group is committed to serving clients around the globe by combining the best-in-class technology with sophisticated quantitative research to offer a streamlined crypto finance experience. Its goal is to optimize investment flexibility, maximize investment returns, and provide long-lasting value for its clients. In 2019, Amber Group raised $28 million in a Series A funding round led by global crypto heavyweights Paradigm and Pantera, with participation from Polychain Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Blockchain.com, Fenbushi Capital, and Coinbase Ventures.

Amber Group

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

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

QCP Capital is a crypto-asset trading firm that manages the proprietary investment and trading strategies with a focus on quantitative methods, arbitrage, and derivatives. In addition, QCP runs a large over-the-counter trading desk and provides crypto-trading services such as risk management solutions and market-making operations. QCP has a strategic focus on Southeast Asia but also operates in the UK, Japan, and Australia. QCP Capital was founded in 2017 and is based in Singapore.

QCP Capital

Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fund investing in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.

Digital Asset Capital Management

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

Ryze Labs

GBV Capital is dedicated to invest, develop, and the support blockchain and crypto projects to build our future

GBV Capital

Orthogonal Trading exploits inefficiencies in the nascent digital asset markets by marrying a consistent positive carry arbitrage trading backbone with fat tail capture via intelligent systematic trend following and alpha-generative options strategies. This mix provides an all-weather investment vehicle that we believe will provide an unprecedented risk/return profile to our investors. Orthogonal Trading targets uncorrelated annualized returns of >50% with a sharpe ratio >3.5 and max monthly drawdowns of 5%.

Orthogonal Trading

SkyVision Capital (SVC) is founded with the mission to promote new, open decentralized technology and its development. We provide advisory services and a strong ecosystem to overcome barriers to allow you to succeed in your space. We will forge a strategic partnership with you to promote, develop, and deliver new, open decentralized technology and architecture. We are a Venture Capital Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.

SkyVision Capital

mgnr is a systematic proprietary trading firm that uses innovative quantitative research and rigorous engineering to capture trading opportunities around the globe 24/7/365. mgnr have deep domain expertise across the cryptocurrency space and are supportive seed / early stage investors to a number of successful founders / projects.

mgnr.io

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Solana Ventures

Wintermute’s mission is to enable, empower and advance the truly decentralized world for more transparent and efficient markets and products. We believe in a future that is decentralized and not controlled by few dominant players or ecosystems. We invest with the goal of building a world, where various trading platforms, chains, and products co-exist, enabling various use cases, competing on token designs, and ultimately solving for a diverse, decentralized future. As one of the largest players in DeFi, we support projects where we know we can be true value-adding, develop a partnership and help influence the positive outcome consistently, throughout bear or bull market cycles. We do not target large ownership stakes, decentralized ownership is an important prerequisite to transitioning to Web3. We invest flexibly from the ideation stage through to later stage growth funding and we adjust ticket sizes accordingly. We have ambitious price targets for our investments, meaning we are in for the long term.

Wintermute Ventures

Zeta Markets

Zeta Markets is an under-collateralized DeFi derivatives platform that offers liquid derivatives trading to both individuals and institutions. Zeta Markets offers DeFi derivatives, allowing anyone to hedge, speculate, and take positions on an infinite number of market movements. Zeta Markets uses Solana's censorship-resistant infrastructure to offer users pricing updates, liquidations, the capacity to execute trades, and the ability to settle positions in less than a second for less than one cent in gas costs.

<div>Based in Singapore, Zeta Markets offers a decentralized exchange platform built on the Solana blockchain, which enables users to trade several crypto derivatives. Users can deposit their USDC (stablecoin pegged to the value of USD) and trade with up to 20x leverage. The platform features an order book and matching engine powered by Serum as well as a pricing oracle on the Pyth Network, an oracle platform that offers on-chain market data to decentralized applications. The platform operates as a DAO and is governed by holders of its native token, Z.&nbsp;</div>

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Zeta Markets' Airdrop Outperforms Expectations, Surging to $30M in Value

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 Based in Singapore, Zeta Markets offers a decentralized exchange platform built on the Solana blockchain, which enables users to trade several crypto derivatives. Users can deposit their USDC (stablecoin pegged to the value of USD) and trade with up to 20x leverage. The platform features an order book and matching engine powered by Serum as well as a pricing oracle on the Pyth Network, an oracle platform that offers on-chain market data to decentralized applications. The platform operates as a DAO and is governed by holders of its native token, Z.&nbsp;
 
 
 As of May 2024, the company was also developing what it claims to be the first DeFi Layer 2 (L2) built on Solana. The solution aims to improve the order latency and throughput of the platform to that of a centralized exchange while maintaining its self-custodial nature. The L2 network will operate via central limit order books (CLOB) and enable users to bridge directly from the Solana blockchain and begin trading. The firm planned to launch the testnet of its rollup in Q4 2024 and mainnet in Q1 2025.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In January 2022, Zeta Markets partnered with Ribbon Finance, a DeFi Options Vaults (DOVs) provider, to serve as its underlying infrastructure provider and enable it to launch on the Solana ecosystem. The company also partnered with Notifi, a Web3-focused notification technology provider, in January 2024, to enable users to receive real-time notifications for critical trading events such as deposits, withdrawals, trades, and liquidations.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In May 2024, Zeta Markets
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 raised USD 5 million
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 in new funding led by Electric Capital to redesign its DEX, expand its team, improve its go-to-market strategy, and speed up the development of its proposed Layer 2 network.&nbsp;
 
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MakerDAO is a DAO (governed through the MKR token) that manages the Maker Protocol.Developed on the Ethereum blockchain, the Maker 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.MakerDAO offers access to investing and borrowing DAI through the Oasis app which was developed by some of the creators of Maker Protocol. In addition, the Maker Protocol is available for developers of DeFi apps who can build apps to facilitate earning, investing, and borrowing DAI. As of May 2024, the Maker Protocol had integrated with over 400 applications ranging from payment systems to gaming platforms. MakerDAO 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.In April 2022, MakerDAO 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.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, MakerDAO 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.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 MakerDAO governance security. The first phase of the update is expected to be rolled out in the summer of 2024.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. Funding and financialsAs of May 2024, MakerDAO had around USD 8.1 billion in total value locked (TVL). The company’s most recent funding round was in April 2020 for an undisclosed sum. Previously, the company had raised USD 27.5 million through the sale of its MKR token to Dragonfly Partners and Paragon to expand its operations to Asia.

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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

Organizations that provide digital wallets for users to take custody of DeFi tokens

Blockchains and related protocols that allow developers to build DeFi apps

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Promotes financial inclusivity, allowing those that won't traditionally have access to credit to raise funds

Companies with the infrastructure segment offer solutions for users to build decentralized applications

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 Zeta Markets, a Solana-powered decentralized exchange (DEX), has garnered USD 5 million in recent funding led by Electric Capital, with contributions from Digital Asset Capital Management, Selini Capital, and Airtree Ventures, among others. This financing round increases the firm's total funding to USD 13.5 million.
 Zeta Markets intends to employ this capital in revamping its DEX, expanding its team, refining its market approach, and accelerating its proposed layer-2 (L2) network's development. The company plans to unveil the testnet of its rollup in the fourth quarter of 2024, followed by the mainnet in the first quarter of 2025.
 The Singapore-based enterprise provides a DEX platform founded on the Solana blockchain, facilitating the trading of various crypto-derivative products. The company is also working on what it asserts to be the first DeFi L2 built on Solana. The solution aims to enhance the platform's order latency and throughput to match that of a centralized exchange, while preserving its self-custodial nature. The L2 network plans to operate through central limit order books (CLOB) and permit users to directly bridge from the Solana blockchain and start trading.
 
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