Mirana

Adaptive Lab partners with world class companies to help them change, grow and compete in business sectors where disruption is the new normal.

Adaptive Lab

Youbi Capital is a venture capital firm investing in Blockchain technologies and disruptive decentralized applications. The firm is committed to long-term value investment in the Blockchain ecosystem and has invested in more than 20 next-generation Blockchain technologies. It was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Grand Cayman, Midland.

Youbi Capital

WolfEdge is a crypto-based investment fund that focuses on early-age blockchain startups. Its approach is avant-garde in the sense that they are not constricted by the conventional bounds of financial services. It also runs validator nodes on multiple networks. The firm is in partnership with influencers, exchanges, hedge funds, investment funds, family offices, syndicates, and blockchain startups to get possible deal flow. It travels around the world to strengthen these partnerships and always look forward to meeting interesting folks.

WolfEdge

Tess Ventures does what it takes to move customers from the earliest stage to Series A and beyond. At the earliest stage, they help customers refine the idea, product, and all aspects of the company’s operations, investor relations, and market positioning. They often invest in you through a seed round and sometimes at a later stage.

Tess Ventures

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Puzzle Ventures

Everest Ventures Group provides digital assets and blockchain technologies. They also provide fintech, blockchain, secure investment, unicorns, start-ups and blockchain, and defi infrastructure services.

Everest Ventures Group

Nothing Research is more than a venture. We work closely and build together with founders, and most of our investments are made at an early stage, in open finance initiatives.

Nothing Research

Lucid Blue Ventures operates as a venture capital firm.

Lucid Blue Ventures

GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on technology companies developing AI-enabled enterprise software, consumer platforms, and healthcare technology. The firm backs entrepreneurs building disruptive businesses that have the potential to dominate multi-billion dollar markets. GSR Ventures currently manages about $3.7 billion across its funds.

GSR Ventures

Funded by Norwest Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and other leading venture firms, CyberX delivers the only cybersecurity platform built by blue-team experts with a track record of defending critical national infrastructure. That difference is the foundation for the most widely deployed platform for continuously reducing IoT/OT risk and preventing costly outages, safety and environmental incidents, theft of intellectual property, and operational inefficiencies. For more information, visit CyberX.io or follow @CyberX_Labs.

CyberX

Developer of a smart lock designed to provide secure and unattended access to homes, commercial and rental properties. The company's smart lock utilizes a motion-activated camera, two-way audio, keyed deadbolt and an integrated Wi-Fi antenna all of which is powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, enabling homeowners to give trusted and reliable home access to their family, friends and common household services and deliveries while they are away. The company was acquired by Smartfrog Group.

Gate Labs

Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia.  Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance, healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods.  Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.

Fenbushi Capital

Social networking app for game players based in Shanghai.

Bixin

DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and a multi-chain Web3 developer platform. DoraHacks partners with over 40 Web3 ecosystems, such as Solana, Polygon, and Avalanche, to provide infrastructure for open-source communities and foster blockchain technology innovations. The company offers various tools and services, including hackathons, bounty programs, quadratic funding, and privacy voting mechanisms, all aimed at supporting the development and governance of decentralized applications.

DoraHacks

Babel Finance is a global leading cryptocurrency financial institution dedicated to serving high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients worldwide with professional crypto financial services including 3 core businesses: crypto lending, crypto asset management, and crypto prime financing.

Babel Finance

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

Hashkey Exchange

IOSG Ventures is a pioneering crypto fund founded in 2017 that invests in the future of Web3. As a thesis-driven firm, we assist founders in developing community-driven protocols that are primed to transform the crypto landscape. Our portfolio comprises a wide range of innovative and high-potential investments, including ZKRU (Scroll, StarkWare, Arbitrum, zkSync), Security Auditing(Runtime Verification, Hexens), MEV (Flashbots, Blocknative), DeFi/NFT-Fi (1inch, MetaMask), FOG (Big Time, Illuvium), and a number of industry leaders including Arweave, Cosmos, Celestia, EigenLayer, Scroll, zkSync, Nil Foundation, and Mina, etc. We are passionate about investing in crypto-native paradigms that have the potential to transform the future of the industry, whether you’re building infra, middleware, security, gaming, or social platforms.

IOSG Ventures

Perpetual Protocol is a decentralized perpetual contract trading protocol for every asset.

Perpetual Protocol

WOO Network is a trading platform provider that aims to provide above-average liquidity for spot and futures trading while charging zero or negative trading fees. The company's platform connects traders, exchanges, institutions, and Defi platforms, democratizing access to liquidity and trading execution

WOO Network

Since 2018, the Cadenza team has managed investment vehicles with a focus on decentralized technologies.

Cadenza Ventures

Founded in 2018, MEXC Global is a centralized exchange that employs a high-performance mega-transaction matching technology. The CEX platform is run by a team of professionals with extensive financial industries and blockchain technology experience.

MEXC Global

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Utonic Protocol is a blockchain restaking platform. UTONIC decentralizes TON's blockchain by allowing users to repurpose staked tokens for secure applications. Restakers earn triple yields, including native validator rewards, AVS yield, and farming incentives. This supports cross-chain bridges, oracle networks, and sidechains, enhancing network security.

Izumi Finance is a non-homogenous liquidity mining protocol to provide Uniswap lp token staking rewards in different price ranges. Izumi Finance improves the efficiency of incentive distribution for reward providers and enhances the earnings of liquidity providers in Uniswap.

Headquartered in Tokyo, iZUMi Finance offers multi-chain liquidity solutions that enable users to make token swaps with digital assets or convert them into cash. Liquidity providers can earn liquidity mining rewards as well as trading fees on <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1045527">Uniswap</a> V3. Built on the Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, and Arbitrum blockchains, the protocol offers a USD pegged bond “iUSD,” which is in turn backed by iZUMi’s collateral and future revenue. The token is primarily issued and sold to private investors. The protocol operates as a DAO governed by its native token “veiZi.”

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Headquartered in Tokyo, iZUMi Finance offers multi-chain liquidity solutions that enable users to make token swaps with digital assets or convert them into cash. Liquidity providers can earn liquidity mining rewards as well as trading fees on <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1045527">Uniswap</a> V3. Built on the Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, and Arbitrum blockchains, the protocol offers a USD pegged bond “iUSD,” which is in turn backed by iZUMi’s collateral and future revenue. The token is primarily issued and sold to private investors. The protocol operates as a DAO governed by its native token “veiZi.”In May 2022, iZUMi launched “iZiSwap,” a decentralized exchange that leverages an automated market-making (AMM) protocol. The AMM model optimizes the price ranges and amount of liquidity for liquidity providers to prevent slippage.Key customers and partnershipsiZUMi has partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1587674">Solv Protocol</a>, EthSign, and Cobo Wallet to collaborate on increasing security for bond farming. In July 2024, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31137">partnered with Core</a>, a Bitcoin layer-2 network, to provide the latter’s users access to its DeFi services. Through this integration, Core users can participate in token trading, liquidity provision, and earning fees and rewards via iZUMi’s product ecosystem.Funding and financialsIn April 2023, iZUMi Finance <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18026">raised USD 22 million</a> in a funding round from Unicode Digital, NextGen Digital Venture, Bella Protocol, and Incuba Alpha, among others. The company earmarked the funding for providing early liquidity for iZiSwap Pro.

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.

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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

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iZUMi Finance, a multi-chain liquidity provider and decentralized exchange, has partnered with Core, a Bitcoin layer-2 network, with the aim of expanding user's access to its DeFi services. The integration offers Core users the ability to participate in token trading, liquidity provision as well as earn fees and rewards with iZUMi Finance's product ecosystem.

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