Lemniscap is an early stage investment firm specializing in investments in emerging crypto assets.

Lemniscap

Faction is a venture fund focused on early stage blockchain opportunities

Faction

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

SNZ Holding was founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists.

SNZ Holding

Founded in December 2015, LBank is a centralized digital asset trading platform for international users. It aims to provide professional asset management solutions. At present, LBank offers hundreds of digital currency pairs. LBank also claims to have one of the highest staking rewards on any exchange. LBank exchange has labs to research and invest in good projects.

LBank

Mr.Block is a blockchain community that creates a connection between international projects and another country. It believes that this is crucial to growing a healthy market for blockchain and cryptocurrency.

Mr. Block

BH Digital offers institutional investors access to a diverse array of compelling opportunities. Brevan Howard Digital combines Brevan Howard's institutional governance, controls, and risk management with specialized expertise inherent to crypto markets in both investing and business operations.

BH Digital

Canonical Crypto is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in technology companies building web3 and blockchain infrastructure. They fund and support developer-entrepreneurs that are creating the tools and services required for the successful deployment of decentralized applications.

Canonical Crypto

Animoca Ventures seeks out, finances, and supports creators who will grow into the Internet's titans of the future. It is based on web3 and blockchain.

Animoca Ventures

Concave Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps to invest in innovative ideas.

Concave Ventures

Bankless Ventures is an early-stage Web3 fund empowering pioneers to explore the frontier of Web3.

Bankless Ventures

(3, 3) DAO is a team of experts from various countries including China

33DAO

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

IoTeX is a modular Web3 infrastructure platform connecting smart devices and real-world data to blockchains. It empowers developers to integrate Web3 into everyday life through innovations in connected smart vehicles, city mapping, green energy initiatives, super-charged fitness platforms, environmental data tracking, proof-of-presence applications, proof of humanity, and more. With the launch of W3bstream, the world's first off-chain compute framework for smart devices and real-world data, IoTeX has become the leading Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) technology provider, enabling vertical innovations for machines, humans, businesses, and dApps to interact with trust and privacy. Backed by a global team of 60+ research scientists and engineers, IoTeX combines its L1, EVM-compatible blockchain, off-chain compute, and open hardware to connect billions of smart devices, machines and sensors and dApps across the physical and digital world.

IoTeX

Arcanum Capital is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage crypto, blockchain, Web3 opportunities

Arcanum Capital

Binance Labs identifies, invests, and empowers viable blockchain entrepreneurs, startups, and communities, providing financing to industry projects that help grow the larger blockchain ecosystem.

Binance Labs

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

Founded in 2014, Cherubic Ventures is the only early-stage venture capital firm that's active in both US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. Our team spreads across San Francisco, Singapore, and Taipei. We focus on seed stage investments that aim to transform industries. Some of our notable portfolio companies include Flexport, Hims & Hers, Calm, 91APP, Paidy, Tezign, and Pinkoi.

Cherubic Ventures

ConsenSys is an Ethereum software web3 company. ConsenSys enables developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. ConsenSys' product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for its clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets. Ethereum is a programmable blockchain in the world, business adoption, developer community, and DeFi activity. On this trusted, open-source foundation, ConsenSys is building the digital economy of tomorrow.

ConsenSys

Franklin Resources is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments. They have an extensive global presence, including offices in 33 countries and clients in more than 170. Their common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN and is included in the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.

Franklin Templeton

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

Mask Network build the bridge between Web 2.0 (Platforms such as Twitter) and Web 3.0 -  By letting users send encrypted messages to friends, send and receive cryptocurrency and share files, and interact with DApps, all on a decentralized level. Mask Network offers the ability to fund Gitcoin grant campaigns directly from Twitter, as well as plans to offer p2p payments and decentralized storage functionality. It is a decentralized portal that also allows users to use DApps like crypto payments, decentralized finance, decentralized storage, e-commerce (digital goods/NFTs) and decentralized organizations (DAO) over the top of existing social networks without migrating, creating what is referred to as a decentralized Applet (DApplet) ecosystem.

Mask Network

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and venture capital fund. We seek financial returns through venture building and investing in early stage blockchain start ups, with a mission to enable the Web 3.0 blockchain native economy. We source projects globally, leveraging especially on our strong Asia network across key hubs like Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. In addition to providing capital, we support portfolio companies with a rigorous hands-on venture building platform with strategy formulation, go-to market execution, and our comprehensive investor network.

LongHash Ventures

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.

Founded in 2018 with offices across three countries and two continents, InfStones is the world's leading blockchain infrastructure provider. Currently, InfStones provides services to large institutional clients around the globe, supporting thousands of nodes on more than 50 public blockchains through its universal platform.

InfStones

Avon Ventures

We are the leading staking service provider for blockchain projects. Delegate to us, stake with us.

stakefish

AP Capital is a one stop financial institution headquartered in Asia's financial Hub Hong Kong. It is primarily focused on Asset Management & Proprietary Trading. AP Capital aims at trading and investing globally across developed, emerging and frontier traditional financial markets and the digital future of finance. AP Capital utilizes a multi-strategy approach by employing a variety of market neutral strategies across global markets. The company has a well-diversified portfolio, low correlation to markets and high liquidity with excellent risk-adjusted returns on developed strategies.

AP Capital

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Mechanism Capital

Inception Capital, formerly OP Crypto, is a first-check VC focusing on early-stage web3 startups. Since raising $50M in September 2021, we have been at the forefront of the industry, investing at the earliest stage in over 30 projects such as Scroll Tech, Merit Circle, Avalanche, Celestia. Backed by esteemed investors like Bill Ackman, Alan Howard, and Garry Tan, and institutions including Galaxy Digital, Animoca Brands, and Mirana, Inception Capital boasts an extensive, global network. This network spans venture funds, exchanges, expert advisors, and major ecosystem founders (Solana, Avalanche, Polygon, Scroll, et cetera), enabling us to source and secure the most competitive deals in the market. Our team, rooted in the United States yet deeply connected to the APAC region, positions Inception Capital as a vital conduit between East and West. This unique positioning allows us to offer our portfolio companies more than just capital. With a dedicated team providing portfolio support, we assist our founders in key areas such as marketing, tokenomics, and strategic networking, ensuring they have the tools and guidance necessary to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape. Discover more about Inception Capital and how we are shaping the future of crypto venture capital: Visit our website: https://www.inception.capital/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_inceptioncap

Inception 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

Formless Capital is a cross-border investment fund that invests in the future of blockchain and technologies.

Formless Capital

B1V, Bas1s Ventures focuses on investment to early stage digital technology, including blockchain infrastructure, web3 gaming, decentralized finance, and any application could achieve mass adoption for web3 in years.

Bas1s Ventures

CoinSummer is a cryptocurrency research platform, which help you instant access to insights and trusted research on the cryptocurrency market. The platform allows users to collect market history, build predictive models and identify trends and patterns from the data. It enables users to compare trends about crypto market observation, bitcoin analysis and blockchain data and more.

CoinSummer

Web3Port is an accelerator of Web 3 projects helping startups build from zero to one and to the next level.

Web3Port

Everstake Capital invests in early-stage blockchain startups and shares its profound technological expertise with them.

Everstake Capital

Dewhales Capital is a venture capital firm that specialized in the crypto market.

Dewhales Capital

a41 is a blockchain infrastructure startup that focuses on blockchain validator.

Moonhill Capital

Bunker.vc is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early-stage startups. The company provides financial support to innovative businesses, helping them to grow and succeed. Bunker.vc invests in a wide range of sectors, including technology, healthcare, and consumer goods. The company's investment strategy is to identify promising startups and provide them with the necessary capital to execute their growth strategies over an extended period of 5-10 years. Bunker.vc's approach allows the startups they invest in to focus on their core business operations, while also providing them with the financial resources they need to scale and expand.

Bunker.vc

Breed is a investment firm which is advancing the decentralized world.

Breed

LeadBlock Bitpanda Ventures is a investment fund focusing on early stage, and pre-listing digital assets start-ups.

LeadBlock Bitpanda Ventures

SwissBorg Ventures is an investment firm.

SwissBorg Ventures

Neuler is an AI-Native build arm for autonomous world.

Neuler

Puffer Finance

Puffer Finance operates a liquid staking platform designed to combat the over-centralization of Bitcoin staking. The company's platform provides a safe, scalable, and performant stake pool that encourages decentralization, allowing liquidity seekers to participate with permissionless node operators while preventing slashable violations.

Puffer Finance offers an open-source remote signing tool named Secure-Signer that enables users to restake their Ethereum while mitigating the effect of software bugs and user errors. Built on Ethereum staking platform EigenLayer, the platform’s permissionless Node Operator (NoOp) participation features enable users to stake upwards of 2 ETH and operate their own node in return for Puffer’s native liquid staking token, pufETH. This token accrues value via shared execution rewards and can be used to govern the protocol via its DAO.

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

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Puffer Finance offers an open-source remote signing tool named Secure-Signer that enables users to restake their Ethereum while mitigating the effect of software bugs and user errors. Built on Ethereum staking platform EigenLayer, the platform’s permissionless Node Operator (NoOp) participation features enable users to stake upwards of 2 ETH and operate their own node in return for Puffer’s native liquid staking token, pufETH. This token accrues value via shared execution rewards and can be used to govern the protocol via its DAO. Furthermore, the platform prevents Ethereum validators from committing slashable offenses by limiting access to validator keys and is integrated with ZK-2FA to improve the security and efficiency of layer-2 solutions. Funding and financialsIn August 2023, Puffer Finance <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20829">raised USD 5.5 million </a>in seed funding co-led by Lemniscap and Brevan Howard Digital to accelerate the development of its product and build its permissionless staking pool.In April 2024, the company raised USD 18 million in a Series A funding round led by Brevan Howard Digital and Electric Capital, to support the launch of its mainnet.

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.

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

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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