IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries. IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

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NEO Global Capital is the strategic investment vehicle NEO foundation and one of the largest institutional owners of cryptocurrencies. It was founded 2017 and is based in Singapore.

NGC 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.

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Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce. Circle uses blockchain technology with Circle Pay to ease and improve how users send money. Circle expands its services with a crypto-currency investment product with Circle Invest, enabling anyone to buy and sell crypto assets. It provides crypto-coins and offers OTC trading services via Circle Trade. Its crypto-trading desk provides one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading and averages $2 billion in monthly volume. Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners backs the company, with its headquarters in Boston, and branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.

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Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Elixir is a DeFi liquidity provisioning platform that lets users earn market-maker rewards for providing liquidity across decentralized order books and centralized exchanges. Exchanges can also provision liquidity for token pairs by integrating Elixir’s algorithmic market-making into their infrastructure. Notably, the protocol is compatible with a number of API-based central limit order books and includes over 20 back-end integrations to decentralized exchanges like dydx, SudoSwap, and Perennial Finance.Elixir uses a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism and offers staking rewards to validators in the form of its native token (named EXLR). As of October 2023, the company provided market-making services to over 50 dApps. Furthermore, it announced plans to launch its mainnet and integrate with more exchanges such as Vertex, dYdX, and Hyperliquid in March 2024.&nbsp;

Uno Re is an Ethereum-based protocol that offers a decentralized insurance and reinsurance platform that enables users to invest and trade in risk for returns. The platform also allows community members to propose new insurance products.In April 2022, Uno Re launched “Cover Portal,” a decentralized application that enables users to insure their crypto-assets. The dApp scans users' wallets as well as staking and farming pools across chains, detects insurable assets, and measures potential risks using an AI-driven algorithm. Users can then choose which tokens to cover and how much to insure while paying their premiums in the USDC stablecoin. Additionally, Uno Re also offers features to tokenize an insurance company’s reinsurance pool. Automobile insurer Marshmallow is also among the insurer clients of Uno Re.In April 2022, the platform partnered with a number of popular Ethereum protocols such as Telos, Umbrella Network, Syscoin, and Polkadot.

Cryptocurrencies

Banxa is an Australian publicly-traded company that operates a fiat-to-digital currency payments infrastructure platform. It aims to bridge the gap between traditional financial systems and digital asset platforms by enabling the conversion of fiat currencies into cryptocurrencies and vice versa. Banxa's core offering is its Plug-and-Play Fiat Onramp, which allows users to seamlessly buy and sell digital assets using various payment methods.
The company's platform is designed to handle regulatory compliance, fraud detection, and anti-money laundering measures across multiple jurisdictions. Banxa has established local entities in various countries, including Brazil, Turkey, the UK, and the US, to facilitate local payment processing and comply with regional regulations. In May 2022, the company launched support for the USDC stablecoin on the Hedera blockchain, marking its entry into the Web3 ecosystem.
Banxa's technology integrates with nearly 300 crypto exchanges and platforms, providing access to millions of potential users. The company's revenue model is not affected by cryptocurrency price fluctuations, as it generates income from the transaction fees charged for facilitating fiat-to-crypto conversions.

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Obscuro Labs is the developer of The Encrypted Network (TEN), an Ethereum layer-2 (L2) rollup network focused on encryption. TEN leverages secure enclaves technology to enable developers to choose which parts of their smart contracts they want to be private and which parts to be public. This approach allows TEN to run the EVM in an encrypted space, offering smart contracts, decentralization, scalability, and encryption.&nbsp;TEN generates confidential roll-ups, aiming to provide efficiency similar to Optimistic-based L2 networks while maintaining full encryption. The network’s key features include programmable encryption, where any Ethereum smart contract can have both public and private states as well as shared state. It also allows developers to continue using Solidity and all Ethereum tools without modifications and providing users with a straightforward three-click setup to start using dApps on TEN. In addition, it features a unique, immediate bridge that operates without delay while maintaining complete decentralization.Key customers and partnershipsNotable dApps deployed on its network include Architech, Flush, Galxe, Peerswap, Rubic, and Witnet.Funding and financialsIn March 2024, the company announced that it raised USD 9 million in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27633">funding</a> over three stages spanning two years, with the most recent tranche being completed in December 2023. It had earmarked the funds to expand its team.

E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.

AutoLayer is a Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRT) Finance application.

TEN is a Layer 2 rollup that hyper-scales and encrypts Ethereum. TEN allows Ethereum smart contracts to contain public and private elements without changing the user or developer experience.

Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market.

Exverse is a new AI-powered free-to-play universe that provides players with an unmatched and immersive gaming experience. With its intricate world-building, lore, and novel gameplay systems, all built on Unreal Engine 5, consisting of 3 Planets,

Arcade offers a GameFi Platform that allows crypto enthusiasts, institutions, game developers, and those interested in the metaverse to play and earn with access to the ecosystem. The company was established in 2021.

DeMR is a Solana Chain-based decentralized Mixed Reality (MR) infrastructure network (MR-DePIN) that guides worldwide users into the MR realm.

ISSP is a multi-chain interoperability system for inscription protocols that incorporates an inscription marketplace and inscription exchange, exploiting the sui network's unique objects model to naturally benefit inscription systems. ISSP.io is renowned for its exceptional contributions to blockchain technology

StarTerra develops a gamified launchpad for terra blockchain.

League of Ancients is a mobile NFT game inspired by DoTA2 and League of Legends. They aspire to create an engaging community and provide free-to-play and play-to-earn mechanics by leveraging blockchain technology. They transform the eSports scene into a place where everybody can earn like a professional gamer.

Dovi is a community-driven bitcoin layer 2 and EVM-compatible smart contract platform that to improve scalability, lower transaction costs, and build a more secure and decentralized financial ecosystem.

Dmail Network is a Web 3.0-based collaborative platform which integrates the functions of message communication, asset management, data storage, workspace and etc. In the end, Dmail will be a fundamental infrastructure tool and DID for users to come into the Web 3.0 era and a bridge that links Web 2.0 users to easily use blockchain services.

Kryptview provides a Research Wizard that allows a contributor to share research about different aspects of digital assets, including team and advisors, token, community traction, and competition. The platform uses a proprietary analytical framework to collect structured information.

Lifeform provides decentralized identity systems for Web3 avatars.

Port3 helps to build a protocol to aggregate and standardise off-chain and on-chain data to build a social data layer that is universally accessible for Web3 use cases. It is a Web3 social data portal developer.

Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.

HurricaneSwap is a cross-chain DEX developed on the Avalanche blockchain. It allows transferring assets directly across chains, without performing complex operations through a cross-chain bridge.

Perion seeks to unlock the nascent potential of the gaming community by playing to win across the Metaverse Our vision is to create a decentralised organisation founded, championed and owned by gamers, building the heroes of tomorrow and uplifting communities in ways once thought unimaginable How we make it happen. Perion connects the best gamers in the field with a rapid turnover tech pipeline and training programs that continue to foster the highest achieving player-base in the play-to-earn ecosystem In leveraging its collective strengths in metagame analysis and resource allocation, Perion will seek out supernormal returns and create ideal scenarios for our vast network of dedicated members to participate in the play-to-earn ecosystem In championing our players we drive brand recognition, creating a network effect that positions Perion as the foremost representative of the competitive play-to-earn gaming community So what exactly is Perion? Perion is a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) that purchases, leases and manages NFT assets, for use in play-to-earn economies. We engage gamers as independent contractors, allowing them to leverage their skillsets to earn exceptional remuneration. We are built upon a community of globally ranked gamers, skilled developers and finance professionals

Tortle Ninja specializes in providing a visual programming language designed specifically for the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. This innovative platform simplifies the creation and understanding of DeFi products for users, making it accessible to a wider audience without the need for extensive coding knowledge. Tortle Ninja's platform is composed of several key components including a user-friendly dashboard, a versatile composer for DeFi product creation, customizable nodes, combo triggers for complex operations, and an analytics engine for performance tracking. The security of its smart contracts has been validated by a comprehensive audit from PeckShield, ensuring they adhere to the highest standards of safety and reliability.

Quoth makes it easy to search and authenticate NFTs using AI, machine learning, and blockchain data.

Shade Protocol is an ambitious array of application-layer products focused on a simple end user experience that involves the incorporation of privacy by default. These interconnected privacy-preserving DeFi products built on Secret Network will change DeFi as we know it empowering the next generation of value creation and exchange.

Balthazar is a develops games. They provide services that include design, development, supplies, and installation. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.

The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform.

Gunzilla Games is an independent, innovative, and player-focused developer of AAA games. It also develops a platform that breaks down technological boundaries to pursue deeply engaging gaming experiences. They are currently developing 'Off The Grid,' which is a cyberpunk battle royale game featuring highly customizable weapons and advanced 3D scanning technology. The studio aims to break down technological barriers and deliver titles that gamers can truly immerse themselves in.

PlayZap is a community-driven gaming platform where players can compete in skill-based tournaments on proven and highly engaging casual games to win crypto rewards. Our mission is to simplify gaming for everyone and reward skilled and loyal players by introducing the value of blockchain and Non-fungible tokens. Our team includes expert game development and blockchain technology team is highly motivated to bring Esports styled experience to casual players community with fair play and a secure environment for them to compete and win tokens.  PlayZap is a combination of 2 multibillion dollar markets with Casual Games free to play and Play to earn; all merged by blockchain & NFT technologies, another multibillion dollar market that just started to take off.

Oasys is a Blockchain designed exclusively for the gaming industry.

Magic Square is a portal for discovering and engaging with the Web3 crypto and blockchain ecosystem. Their offering is a Web3 App Store where users can find community-vetted apps and games. They provide unique Use2Earn capabilities that add actual value to the projects listed in the store as well as the overall ecosystem. They also provide a range of tools for active and engaged community and user-base expansion.

Superpower Squad is a superhero-themed, third-person shooter game.

WAX is a decentralized platform that enables anyone to operate a fully functioning virtual marketplace with zero investment in security, infrastructure, or payment processing. Developed by the founders of OPSkins, the world’s leading marketplace for online video game assets, WAX is designed to serve the 400+ million online players who already collect, buy and sell.

SolChicks is run by 50+ dedicated team members covering strategy, development, partnerships, marketing, social media, and community. Every member of the team is fully committed to long-term visions for the success of the project.

Aura Network is an NFT – centric blockchain platform that provides infrastructure assisting to bring assets to the decentralized market. The company aims to provide an open system, maximize interoperability, and moẻ utilities for NFTs on the Internet of blockchain. Aura Network was founded in 2021.

Skynet EGLD Capital is an Investment Fund focused on growing the Elrond ecosystem.

Naxfy.com established in 2022 in Singapore, is the cryptocurrency trading platform equipped with the high-tech blockchain technology.

MojitoSwap is the first audited decentralized exchange that comes with Automated Market Maker and a high APR. It provides users a safe environment for their assets and a place (we call them pool and bar) to potentially yield a high return.

LiveArtX is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with web3. Built by art industry leaders, LiveArtX brings creators, collaborators, and collectors into the metaverse.

X Rush is a shooting gamefi project powered by Unity 3D engine and compatible with most web3 wallets.

Mizar makes crypto trading simple and accessible to everyone. On Mizar, you can manage and automate your orders on different exchanges from a single place or copy successful traders and perform as they do. Mizar is subscription-free, that means you will never be asked to pay any monthly or fixed fee.

Arenum is here the gaming metaverse revolution with bold innovation and relentless pursuit for perfection.

Ref Finance is a DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol that costs less than $0.01 for transactions.

Galaxy Fight Club is a cross-IP, cross-platform PvP fighting game for different NFT collectors to battle with each other to earn rewards.

Corite is a fan-funding platform where fans invest in the music they love in exchange for a share of the revenues. Building Aflow.co, the music industry co-pilot for artists and their teams.

Zodium is a play-to-earn gaming project based on NFTs, created by the former co-founder of Line Friends.

UnoRe is a risk trading reinsurance platform for the community to invest and trade in risk and receive sizable returns on their investments.

xHashtag is a play to earn DAO for # Future of Work. xHashtag is Solana's first community DAO that helps in shaping the future of Web3.0.

StarSharks is a NFT-GameFi ecosystem based on the BSC chain developed by game players, governance committees, and game developers.

YGG SEA is a sub-decentralized autonomous organization (subDAO) of the play-to-earn blockchain game YGG. The YGG SEA will be based on smart contracts built on the Etherum blockchain.

Led by CEO, Toby Gilbert, and CTO, Knut Vinger, Coinweb aims to become the first general-purpose layer-2 platform delivering truly unified interoperability, removing current transactional and computational bottlenecks. Coinweb enables maximum horizontal scalability while still maintaining the consistency and reliability of underlying blockchains’ security and decentralized properties. The platform solves many of the problems found in current cross-chain implementations without the unnecessary use of bridges or additional layers of consensus. Utilizing the WebAssembly runtime environment, making it easier to run uniform deployment through all blockchains and parallel execution of smart contracts. 2 DeFi projects, OnRamp and Blockfort, have been built as a proof of concept. Having secured various digital asset licenses all around the world, Coinweb offers multiple-fiat on-ramping and off-ramping solutions within its multi-tenancy wallet. Coinweb’s cross-chain tokenization platform and a simple marketplace help large and established traditional businesses digitize aspects of their businesses.

Starly is a launchpad and marketplace for gamified NFT collections. Aimed to make the NFT creating, selling, and collecting as simple as possible, it offers the ultimate experience to creators and their fans. Created by an experienced team who previously founded social networks F3 with 30+ million users and Ask.fm with 150+ million users, Starly is powered by the engines and techniques used for creating virality.

Karastar is committed to building an entertaining world for game players, who can not only earn money but also can find peace and love.

Geojam harnesses the power of proprietary machine-learning technology to prompt users to share their unfiltered thoughts and content with their friends.

Solice is a virtual reality and cross-platform PC game inspired by decentraland and the sandbox.

Torum is a Web3-integrated SocialFi ecosystem specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.

Partisia Blockchain is WEB 3.0 public blockchain built for trust, transparency, privacy and speed of light finalization. The World's Most Advanced Zero-Knowledge Layer 1 Blockchain Protocol.

GooseFX is a full suite DeFi & NFT exchange. We provide the most efficient CLMM, DEX with perps, NFT Aggregator, and Single Sided Liquidity pools.

Symbiosis Finance is a decentralized multi-chain liquidity enabler.

Swash is an online earning portal where you can earn points for being active and completing tasks online. Redeem your earnings for crypto or choose to donate to causes you believe in. Whether you’re surfing the web, seeing ads, or sharing opinions, you deserve to be thanked for your efforts.  New ways to amp up your earnings are added to Swash every month! Alongside the Swash earning dashboard, Swash consists of a wide network of interlinking collaborators including: - brands that publish ads with Swash Ads - businesses that buy and analyse data with sIntelligence - data scientists who build models with sCompute - developers who innovate on the Swash stack - charities who receive your donations with Data for Good Swash has completed a Data Protection Impact Assessment with the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK and is an accredited member of the Data & Marketing Association.

Bloktopia is the virtual reality metaverse that will allow users to Learn, Earn, Play, and Create and provides a central hub for everything cryptocurrency

The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.

We gamify sports challenges and reward users for being healthy and active. Earn $PUMLx and Athlete NFTs when being active in sports or in the Metaverse

DAOSquare is an incubator from the Web3 era. DAOSquare is committed to establishing a Web3 incubator that aspires to be the Web3 equivalent of YCombinator.

Fractal is an identity verification platform, ranging from human uniqueness for sybil-resistance to KYC/AML for regulatory compliance. Fractal provides decentralized identity solutions for Web3 users and chains ensuring trustless systems and empowering users to exchange their data in a privacy-preserving way It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

BANXA (TSX-V:BNXA – Banxa Holdings Inc.) is a Payment Services Provider (PSP) with a mission to build the bridge between traditional financial systems, regulation and the digital asset space. Our goal is to onboard the general public to digital currency by building a fully compliant payment infrastructure that enables simple and secure conversion of fiat currency to digital currency (USD/CAD to BTC/ETC). Banxa has offices in Australia and the Netherlands. For further information, see www.banxa.com

Cryowar is a real-time multiplayer game developer that produces PVP arena games. They created a multi-blockchain gaming platform to allow RPG players to earn better rewards by increasing their in-game skills.

Bitcoin.com.au is one of Australia’s longest standing Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges. Headquartered in Melbourne, we have helped hundreds of thousands of Australians buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum.

KuCoin is a global cryptocurrency exchange for numerous digital assets and cryptocurrencies. Launched in September 2017, KuCoin has grown into one of the most popular crypto exchanges and already has over 8 million registered users across 207 countries and regions around the world.   Known as ''People’s Exchange'', KuCoin operates in Seychelles, providing users with 24/7 multi-language customer services. Meanwhile, KuCoin has established about 19 local communities in North America, Europe, SEA and other regions, providing users with highly localized services.   As the home of crypto gems, KuCoin has supported over 420 projects with 790+ trading pairs. A number of projects like ICP, BOSON, AERGO, RNDR, and DAO had a primary listing on KuCoin.   In November 2018, KuCoin announced $20 million (USD) round A funding from IDG Capital and Matrix Partners. In 2021, Forbes Advisor named KuCoin as one of the Best Crypto Exchanges.

KuCoin is a cryptocurrency exchange that offers users the ability to buy, sell, and trade a number of DeFi tokens (over 700 tokens as of May 2022). The platform provides spot trading, margin trading, P2P fiat trading, futures trading, staking, and lending services. It also offers a community-built public blockchain named KuCoin Chain (KCC) that is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and ERC-20 smart contracts. The chain leverages a proof-of-stake consensus system and operates as a DAO governed by its native token “KCS.” As of May 2022, it served over 18 million users from over 200 countries around the world.

KuCoin is a global cryptocurrency exchange platform that facilitates trading in over 700 cryptocurrencies across more than 1,200 trading pairs. Launched in September 2017, the Seychelles-based exchange has rapidly grown to become one of the largest crypto trading platforms, serving over 30 million users across 207 countries and regions.

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Poolz Finance

Staked.vc

Dewhales Capital

Obscuro Labs

Republic Crypto

Jets Capital

Magnus Capital

Big Brain Holdings

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Also known as layer-2 solutions, this includes providers of scaling solutions, such as sidechains, state channels, and rollups, which improve the speed and throughput of transactions occurring in layer-1 blockchain networks.

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CMS Holdings

6th Man Ventures

UOB Venture

Signum Capital

AC Capital

Side Door Ventures

Kyros Ventures

8186 Capital

ViaBTC Capital

Criterion VC

Mysten Labs

Zellic

7updao

Cypher Capital

LBANK Labs

Oak Grove Ventures

Cetus

280 Capital

Exverse

Cointelligence

Moonrock Capital

Cogitent Ventures

Epic Games

Seedify

ChainGPT

Arcade2earn

Crypto.com Capital

Shima Capital

Solana Ventures

DeMR Network

ISSP

League of Ancients

StarTerra

Dovi

Dmail

Amino Capital

Draper Dragon

Gate.io

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HG Ventures

Oracles Investment Group

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Red Swiss Venture Capital

Kryptview

Bitpanda

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GeekCartel

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Foresight Ventures

K24 Ventures

Port3

SNZ Holding

Elixir

Betaworks

Chapter One Ventures

Quantstamp

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Inception Capital

Gate

Commonwealth Capital Ventures

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