Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Floodgate

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce. Until 2014, Pantera focused on global macro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

Pantera Capital

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committed to exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

Polychain

MetaStable Capital

Bollinger Investment Group

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

Sequoia Capital

Paradigm is a research-driven crypto investment firm that funds companies and protocols from their earliest stages, often when there’s no more than an idea. We were founded in 2018 by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam on the belief that crypto is driving one of the most important technical and economic shifts of our time, as money, a financial system, and a new internet platform. We’re builders, not just investors. Many of us have worked on tools, protocols, and companies that are now some of the most used in crypto. We build software, much of it open source, that aims to advance the frontier of crypto for everyone. Research is at the core of everything we do. We believe depth is a prerequisite for invention, and that real progress happens at the frontier, not in the boardroom or the ivory tower. We are as likely to collaborate on a research paper or ship code as we are to advise on product or business strategy. If you’re building something ambitious at the frontier, come build with us.

Paradigm

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. It partners with technology founders at the Seed stage and beyond with a particular focus on Europe, leveraging deep operational experience to supercharge their growth. The company's team of founders, investors, and operational leaders have been responsible for global expansion, hiring, and marketing at companies from Skype, Google, and Twitter to Wise and Snowflake. It specializes in seed, startup, Series A, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, and growth capital investments.   Atomico was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in London, England, with offices in Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm

Atomico

Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting cloud and AI infrastructure, edge, 5G, autonomy, cybersecurity, client & gaming, enterprise applications, silicon design and manufacturing, and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.9 billion in more than 1,582 companies worldwide. Intel Capital has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Intel Capital

Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption. The fund centers around two macro themes which drives business innovation in the coming years: the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Craig Shapiro founded it in New York in 2010.

Collaborative Fund

DCVC backs entrepreneurs using Deep Tech to solve problems and multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its cost. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. The transformative companies in their portfolio combine the latest advances in science and technology with unique computing and algorithmic advantage, reducing CAPEX and OPEX.

DCVC

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.

Founders Fund

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plus outcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

Wing Venture Capital

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

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

Bossanova Investimentos

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven cryptofund that invests long term in tokens that reshape entire sectors of the global economy. It is on a mission to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the industrial age to the decentralized institution of the internet age. By accelerating the transition from permissioned to permissionless financial systems, Multicoin aims to accelerate humanity’s ability to achieve its full potential. Multicoin Capital was established in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Multicoin Capital

Scalar Capital is a hedge fund company specializing in cryptoassets. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Scalar Capital

Capitoria is a venture capital firm that was founded in 2017.

Capitoria

Semantic Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in open markets and networks. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.

Semantic Ventures

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

OKX Ventures focuses on exploring the best blockchain projects on a global scale, supporting cutting-edge blockchain technology innovation, promoting the healthy development of the global blockchain industry, and investing in long-term structural value. Through its commitment to supporting entrepreneurs who contribute to the development of the blockchain industry, OKX Ventures helps build innovative companies and brings global resources and historical experience to blockchain projects.

OKX Ventures

Founded by three former public company CEOs who have each been investors, operators and financial service industry pioneers, Communitas seeks to invest in and partner with some of the most exciting and impactful FinTech and marketplace companies. Communitas will also help democratize the world of venture capital through its crowd-syndication solution that will provide accredited investors, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals a simple way to invest in these same companies on the same terms as their.

Communitas Capital Partners

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

Three Arrows Capital is a hedge fund manager that provides risk-adjusted returns. The firm was established in 2012 by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, Singapore.

Three Arrows Capital

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

Coatue is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public equity markets globally focusing on investments in technology, media, and telecommunications in addition to other sectors. It employs a long or short strategy to make its investments.

Coatue

‍Greenoaks makes concentrated, long-term investments in generational teams building enduring companies. The firm invests behind exceptional leaders early in their journeys, building partnerships that endure for decades.

Greenoaks

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossover strategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Tiger Global Management

StarkWare Industries

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

dYdX is a decentralized exchange (governed by its native token DYDX) that offers perpetual, margin, and spot trading in a number of cryptocurrency markets via Ethereum smart contracts.&nbsp; In August 2021, dYdX reportedly became the first perpetual decentralized exchange protocol to implement a layer-2 solution to allow traders to deposit funds and trade instantly without paying gas fees for every transaction. This was achieved through a strategic partnership with StarkWare, a blockchain scalability solutions provider. As of June 2024, the exchange had over USD 142.7 million in open interest.&nbsp;In May 2022, dYdX launched a mobile app of its platform on the Apple app store (which had over 200,000 people already signed up for the beta version of the platform ahead of the full launch). In June 2022, dYdX <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11264?industryIds=64">announced that it would be moving away from Ethereum </a>to its own blockchain on the Cosmos Network. The migration, dubbed “V4” aims at fully decentralizing the protocol. dYdX leveraged the Cosmos software development kit (SDK) to decide the parameters of its own chain and create new tools such as an in-memory off-chain order book as well as a matching engine.In June 2021, the exchange raised USD 65 million in a Series C led by Paradigm. It also received direct support from Kronos Research, MGNR, Menai Financial Group, QCP Capital, CMS Holdings, CMT Digital, Sixtant, and Finlink Capital as liquidity providers.

Argent offers a DeFi smart wallet application built on Ethereum for users to buy, store, and send crypto, including the major DeFi coins. The company launched a Layer 2 version of its wallet in March 2022. Built on zkSync, an Ethereum-focused scaling solution, the new version will reportedly cut the fiscal and environmental cost of transactions made on its platform by reducing gas fees to a dollar and reducing carbon emissions by 95% per trade. Argent also offers an open-source, browser-based wallet named “Argent X” built on StarkNet, an alternative blockchain infrastructure.As of April 2022, Argent reported that its app had more than 500,000 sign-ups.Key customers and partnershipsIn August 2023, the company partnered with Starknet to launch a startup incubator named Hito Studios. The companies earmarked “several million” in funding for a number of projects built on Starknets, Ethereum scaling infrastructure such as DEXs, derivative platforms, options, and lending services.Funding and financialsIn April 2022, Argent raised USD 40 million in a Series B funding led by Fabric Ventures and Metaplanet. The funds were earmarked to accelerate the company’s product development, which included adding functionality for crypto games, such as infrastructure for onboarding new players and signing in-game transactions. The remainder was to be used to build out Argent’s services in Latin America (starting in Mexico) and hire new employees across the legal, finance, and treasury management functions. Additionally, Argent planned to hire a research team focused on Layer 2 protocols.

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 Braavos offers a self custodial wallet application built on Starknet for users to store and transfer their cryptocurrency assets and NFTs. Available as both an extension for web browsers and as a mobile app for iOS and Android devices, the solution combines the trusted execution environment capabilities of mobile devices with biometric identification to reportedly provide a similar level of security to hardware wallets. Braavos also provides a built-in crypto exchange, access to third-party dApps, and a &ldquo;Transaction Explainer&rdquo; that enables new users to understand transactions.
 
 
 
 
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Fordefi offers a multi-party computing (MPC) wallet platform and Web3 gateway that enables institutions to store cryptocurrencies and connect to dApps securely across a range of chains including Cosmos, Ethereum, and Solana. Developers can also embed wallets directly into their applications to provide access to end users via the platform’s wallet-as-a-service application programming interface (API). The platform also offers a range of additional tools including self-serve policy controls, smart contract address verification, transaction simulation, and real-time risk alerts, as well as a full-stack developer suite of native APIs and software development kits (SDKs).. The company has offices in New York and Tel Aviv, Israel.In November 2022, the company launched its MPC wallet and Web3 gateway for crypto-native funds, which the company claims were industry-firsts.Key customers and financialsAs of April 2024, the platform served several enterprise clients such as Backed, Starkware, DWF Labs, Pantera Stratos, and Wintermute.In August 2024, Fordefi <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33027">partnered with Sui</a>, a Layer 1 blockchain, to bring its institutional-grade multiparty computation (MPC) technology t o the Sui Network. The partnership will enable the company to integrate both its wallet platform and Web3 gateway with Sui, allowing institutional users to securely self-custody private keys and connect to dApps across various blockchains.Funding and financialsIn February 2024, Fordefi <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26582">raised USD 10 million</a> in venture capital funding led by Electric Capital, to extend its institutional-focused wallet offering to retail-facing platforms such as exchanges and fintech platforms.

TanX (formerly known as Brine Fi) is an institutional decentralized exchange that offers non-custodial cryptocurrency trading services. Built on the Starkware Ethereum scaling solution, the platform uses zero-knowledge-proof technology to enable user privacy and prevent frontrunning attacks. Furthermore, Brine Fi lets users trade without paying gas fees (in addition to the platform’s trading fee) and claim up to 50% of their referrals’ trading fees as a rebate. It also claims that its matching engine can support up to 600,000 transactions per second (TPS).&nbsp;In December 2023, the company announced plans for further additions to its platform. These included “Dropmate,” an autonomous validity network that enables users to automate Web3 workflows via zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computation (MPC), and Safegate, a hybrid MPC wallet.As of September 2023, the platform had already achieved monthly trading volumes of USD 300 million, with over 100,000 users from more than 20 countries on its waitlist.Funding and financialsIn September 2023, Brine Fi <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21641">raised USD 16.5 million</a> in a Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital at a valuation of USD 100 million

Bitlayer offers a Layer 2 network that enables users to build and deploy decentralized applications natively on the Bitcoin blockchain. It provides developers access to a novel computational paradigm named BitVM, which verifies off-chain transactions on Bitcoin without requiring changes to the network's consensus rules. This mechanism enables the network to support multiple virtual machines, including Ethereum virtual machine (EVM), so that developers can migrate existing decentralized applications and digital assets on other blockchains to the Bitcoin network.In July 2024, the protocol <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31906">announced the development of “Mainnet-V2,"</a> a Bitcoin-native rollup that combines zero-knowledge and fraud-proof technology.Key customers and partnersAs of March 2024, Bitlayer’s ecosystem partners included Hacken, AWS Cloud, Ankr, Polyhedra, Babylon, Particle Network, Meson, Nubit, and BitSmiley, among several others.Funding and financialsIn March 2024, Bitlayer <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29667">raised USD 5 million</a> in seed funding led by Framework Ventures and ABCDE Capital at a USD 80 million valuation. The company earmarked the funds for product development and the expansion of its business development and engineering teams. Bitlayer went on to secure an undisclosed amount in a strategic investment from OKX Ventures, the venture capital arm of crypto exchange OKX, in May 2024.

New technology allows individuals and organizations to become carbon intelligent

Carbon Management Software

France-based Carbonable marketplace allows businesses and individuals to trade carbon credits by initially purchasing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the company’s platform. Carbonable is built on Starkware, an Israeli blockchain software provider, to track the carbon credit lifecycle from the initial selection of biodiversity projects to the retirement of NFTs.Key customers and partnershipsThe company sold two projects in South Africa in 2022 and another in Africa at the start of 2023. Carbonable worked on launching projects in Europe, Asia, and South America. Carbonable’s client base spreads across varied industries ranging from cosmetics and pharmaceuticals to media, consulting, and Web3.Funding and financialsIn March 2023, Carbonable raised <a href="https://yqqqphhcg2hvaaua-test001.pj-initial.net/updates/17177">USD 1.2 million </a>in a seed funding round led by Ethereal Ventures. The company used the proceeds to further develop its Ethereum-based platform. Part of the funds were also used to fund team expansion activities.

Bringing the benefits of blockchain to the enterprise

Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

SendBlocks offers a blockchain-based data management platform that enables enterprise development teams to access flexible historical data and fully personalized notifications. Users can create custom functions to scan for data across multiple blockchains, enrich data for insights, and connect that data to their applications backends via webhooks. Moreover, the platform enables users to save large numbers of API queries on-chain and reduce the time spent on backend and database indexing efforts.

A decentralized version of the web powered by the blockchain

Web3 Ecosystem

Fordefi offers a multi-party computing (MPC) wallet platform and Web3 gateway that enables institutions to connect to dApps securely across various chains. The company also offers Wallet-as-a-Service (Waas), which allows developers to integrate a non-custodial wallet into their dApps. In addition, Fordefi offers DeFi trading and staking solutions and crypto treasury management services to institutional investors.Key customers and partnershipsIts notable customers include Theia, Liquibit Capital, Ouroboros Capital, Keyrock, and DeFiance Capital.The company reported that its products were designed in collaboration with partners such as Electric Capital, JumpCapital, DeFinance Capital, ARC, Combine, and NIMA Capital.Funding and financialsIn February 2024, Fordefi raised USD 10 million in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26599">venture capital</a> led by Electric Capital, to extend its institutional-focused wallet offering to retail-facing platforms such as exchanges and FinTech platforms.

Cartridge's focus on verifiable on-chain games and autonomous worlds suggests they’re working at the intersection of blockchain technology and gaming.

SendBlocks helps you cut the time to market from months to weeks and save up to 80% on development efforts.

Bring is a fintech-driven company bridging ecosystems to enable new partnerships and offer great value to all sides. It opens partnerships between web3 platforms and retailers.

ZKX is the first StarkNet-based perpetual futures exchange to offer complex financial instruments as swaps. It is developing a strong set of decentralized solutions, including a proprietary derivatives exchange, modular DAO software, and developer tools based on zero-knowledge technology. The company was founded in 2021.

Switchboard allows builders to unlock the power of solana by creating high-performance data feeds from any API. They will bring data on-chain that will enable developers to unlock the future of decentralized applications. They enable the SOL community to push any form of data on-chain.

Focus Tree is a web3 productivity software designed to combat social media addiction that pays users for putting down phones.

Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs.

Arbelos Markets provides unprecedented access and transparency to counterparties through powerful technology.

Chakra is a bitcoin restaking technique based on ZK proof. Chakra creates a safe bitcoin proof-of-stake system to activate the liquidity of long-term Bitcoin assets and deliver decentralized services that are managed by asset holders.

X10 operates as a hybrid crypto exchange provider.

Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.

Universal Verification Layer for Ethereum using Eigenlayer

Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.

Espresso Systems provides scaling and privacy systems for Web 3 applications. The company specializes in the emerging blockchain field of ''shared sequencing'', where sequencers are responsible for verifying and batching transactions made on layer-2 blockchains and then sending them back to a layer-1 chain like Ethereum to be settled.

Utila is an institutional crypto operations platform enabling organizations of all sizes to manage their digital assets securely. We simplify digital asset management and day-to-day crypto operations for institutions without compromising security or usability. We offer a secure, non-custodial, chain-agnostic, enterprise-grade wallet platform powered by MPC key management for ultimate security and a robust transaction policy engine for granular control. With our institutional MPC wallet, institutional investors, trading firms, and Web3 builders can efficiently manage crypto assets across multiple blockchains, wallets and users on a single platform without any complexity. Additionally, developers can leverage our API to build custom offerings on top of our secured multi-chain wallet infrastructure. Trusted by industry leaders like Fasanara, Starkware and Psalion, Utila has secured over $3 Billion in transaction volume within a few months and is growing rapidly.  Our mission is to make enterprise-grade wallets more accessible, secure and usable.

QED is the world's first zk-Native blockchain protocol, built to scale trustless computation and privacy for the next generation of the internet.

Taproot Wizards is a Bitcoin Ordinals project dedicated to expanding Bitcoin's potential.

Ingonyama envisions a future in which ZKP hardware is embedded in everything from huge organizations' data centers to mobile phones, blockchain nodes to gaming machines, and cloud instances to IoT devices. The gear we create is critical to enabling this future. Their objective is to lead the pack by laying the groundwork for applications demanding Zero Knowledge Proof performance to be built at a faster and larger scale.

tanX.fi is a trading platform that provides access to trade multiple assets across multiple networks chains.

Gasless | Instant Multi-Chain | Secure Trustless.

Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.

What if DeFi fought climate change by rewilding Planet Earth ? It does.  Our nature-backed NFTs enable decarbonization projects and real-life impacts while providing you with daily/ongoing financial rewards.

Nil Foundation facilitates and supports research in database management systems and applied cryptography.

Layerswap Labs is developer of permissionless and trustless bridging protocol. This protocol handles millions of dollars in transactions every day across multiple networks. We ensure quick, reliable, and affordable crypto transfers, giving the freedom to move crypto anywhere.

The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi enables institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smart contract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.

Braavos is a smart contract based wallet for managing your funds & NFTs and connecting to dApps.

MatchboxDAO is hosting its first virtual Hackathon for building tools on Starknet.

Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto. It does everything you'd expect from a bank (and more). Without the bank. Earn interest and invest; borrow, store and send. Access DeFi and Dapps in a few taps.  Argent was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London.

Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services. The company was founded by Yubo Ruan in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining zk-rollup scalability, superior transaction speed, and cost-savings with Ethereum’s security.

Figment is Canada’s largest blockchain infrastructure and software provider. Our mission is to make it simple for token holders and developers to use, build and govern blockchains. We do this by providing a comprehensive set of tools & services including our enterprise-grade node and staking infrastructure, the Hubble Web 3 explorer, and DataHub developer APIs. With Figment you can discover and build the next killer blockchain based decentralized application.

Snapshot Labs is an off-chain gasless multi-governance tool for crypto projects to poll their user bases. Snapshot used by several companies in the DeFi space to help survey users.

XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange built by developers on a mission to build open, secure, and powerful financial products. dYdX runs on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, which eliminates the need to trust a central exchange while trading. We combine the security and transparency of a decentralized exchange, with the speed and usability of a centralized exchange. Founded back in 2017 from ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer, Antonio Juliano, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum. Users can earn interest or take loans for a nominal fee as well as trade on margin with custom leverage. Trade your crypto, the safe and secure way, with dYdX

DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.

Efficient Frontier is a cryptocurrency algorithmic trading firm and liquidity provider trading over $1 Billion a week.  With over 13 years of high frequency trading experience, we research and develop quantitative strategies and market make for many leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital asset issuers. Since entering the digital asset industry, we have built some of the most sophisticated trading infrastructure in this ecosystem for electronic trading and execution in both spot and derivatives markets.  Alongside our industry-leading partners, we have rapidly expanded our team and services and now work from two global hubs: Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

StarkWare Industries uses Stark technology to develop a full proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Netanya, HaMerkaz, Israel.

Based in Israel, StarkWare Industries provides infrastructure solutions that address the scalability issues of the Ethereum blockchain. The company offers two platforms: 1) StarkEx, a scaling engine for Ethereum, and 2) StarkNet, blockchain infrastructure for building decentralized applications. The company’s solutions work together to cut transaction costs by reducing the amount of information sent to the Ethereum blockchain. This results in faster transactions due to the reduction of blockchain congestion.

Based in Israel, StarkWare Industries provides infrastructure solutions that address the scalability issues of the Ethereum blockchain via two platforms–StarkEx and StarkNet. These platforms use STARK (Scalable Transparent Arguments of Knowledge) proof technology and support a number of use cases including NFT minting, contract trading, automated market making, spot trading, payments, and DeFi pooling.

StarkWare

StarkWare Industries Raises $100M; Valued at $8 Billion

Cartridge

BITKRAFT Ventures

Fabric Ventures

Primitive Ventures

Dune Ventures

Ergodic Capital

Sendblocks

Castle Island Ventures

Pitango VC

Illuminate Financial

Laser Digital

Companies that leverage blockchain technology to offer databases, query services and data sharing

StarkWare

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