Blockstream is a leading blockchain development company founded in 2014. Its core focus is on developing new infrastructure for the legacy financial system, with key developments revolving around Bitcoin sidechains and other blockchain-related applications. Their flagship technologies include their own implementation of the Lighting protocol and the Elements Project, an open-source sidechain blockchain platform. Blockstream has launched a number of products, such as Liquid, an inter-exchange settlement network based on Bitcoin, Blockstream Green, a secure bitcoin wallet, as well as other products that provide real-time and historical cryptocurrency trade data, and colocation services for bitcoin mining operations.
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$ 210 M
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| Oct 15 | |
Celestia is a modular blockchain network whose goal is to build a scalable data availability layer, enabling the next generation of scalable blockchain architectures - modular blockchains. Celestia scales by decoupling execution from consensus and introducing a new primitive, data availability sampling. It's built to enable anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain with minimal overhead.
CelestiaTIA |
OTC
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$ 100 M
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$ 3.5 B
| Sep 23 | |
Infinex is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange that makes it easier for traders to access decentralized perpetuals by removing friction points such as convoluted accounts controls and having to sign off on every transaction.
Infinex |
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$ 65.3 M
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| Sep 25 | |
Azra Games is a blockchain games company, aiming to create mainstream collectible and combat role-playing games.
Azra Games |
Series A
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$ 42 M
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| Oct 15 | |
Yellow Card is a cryptocurrency exchange that offers the safest way to buy and sell Bitcoin with various payment options. You can also send, receive, and store your crypto with your Bitcoin wallet on Yellow Card.
Yellow Card |
Series C
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$ 33 M
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| Oct 16 | |
TON (The Open Network) is a fully decentralized Layer-1 blockchain designed by Telegram. It offers ultra-fast transactions, minimal fees, easy-to-use apps, and is eco-friendly.
The Open NetworkTON |
OTC
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$ 30 M
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| Sep 18 | |
Bitnomial was founded in 2014 to create a marketplace connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders. It offers improved derivatives exchange technology coupled with new digital asset settlement systems.
Bitnomial |
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$ 25 M
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| Oct 16 | |
Drift Protocol is a Solana on-chain asset trading center, offer Perps, Prediction Market and so on services.
DriftDRIFT |
Series B
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$ 25 M
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| Sep 19 | |
Helius aims to help creators overcome these obstacles by providing APIs (or application programming interfaces) to understand on-chain data and query transactions, as well as webhooks that enable automations and bots, plus RPC nodes that allow Solana apps to interact with the blockchain. All in all, they are designed to simplify complexity and facilitate application development.
Helius |
Series B
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$ 21.75 M
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| Sep 19 | |
Ithaca is developing Odyssey, an open-source Layer 2 network, built with Reth, the OP Stack and Conduit. Ithaca was spun out of Paradigm.
Ithaca |
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$ 20 M
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| Oct 11 | |
Hemi Network is a modular Layer 2 network facilitating Ethereum smart contract functionality secured by the Bitcoin network. The chain introduces the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM), which integrates a full Bitcoin node within the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) — Ethereum’s core smart contract engine. HVM allows developers to create smart contracts that interact with Bitcoin’s state, unlocking Bitcoin-based DeFi applications including staking, lending markets, and democratized MEV marketplaces.
Hemi Network |
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$ 15 M
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| Sep 18 | |
Initia is a network for 0-to-1 omnichain rollups built by fusing a novel L1 with an interwoven application-specific L2 infrastructure system. The Initia Platform provides product ready rollups that enables teams to build scalable and sovereign systems while eliminating the UX complexities end users face when interacting with a modular multi-chain universe. Initia’s ownership of the full tech stack allows for a suite of chain-level mechanisms that align the economic interests across users, developers, L2 app chains, and the L1.
Initia |
Series A
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$ 14 M
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$ 350 M
| Sep 25 | |
zkPass is a private data protocol leveraging 3P-TLS and Hybrid ZK technologies, providing tools and applications for secure, verifiable data sharing with privacy and integrity assurances from any HTTPS website without Oauth APIs.
zkPass |
Series A
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$ 12.5 M
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$ 100 M
| Oct 17 | |
Opacity is the ZKP protocol for proving anything without revealing the details. Opacity’s zero-knowledge proof protocol connects provers and verifiers for trustless sharing and verification of information—within minutes.
Opacity Network |
Seed
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$ 12 M
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| Oct 16 | |
SecondLive is committed to providing players with a series of metaverse infrastructure, economic systems, and social systems, as well as introducing singers, DJs, sports stars, and artists.
SecondLive |
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$ 12 M
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| Sep 30 | |
Solv is a Decentralized Bitcoin Staking Protocol to unlock the full potential of Bitcoin assets through a liquidity consensus infrastructure. By addressing the fragmentation of BTC assets, yield opportunities, and custody solutions, Solv offers Bitcoin holders a gateway to BTCFi, continuously builds pathways and confidence for traditional funds to enter the crypto world.
Solv Protocol |
Strategic
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$ 11 M
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$ 200 M
| Oct 14 | |
delta is a network of autonomous execution environments that are connected via a decentralized, censorship resistant base layer. delta separates execution and ordering from data availability and settlement. delta provides two inalienable rights to its users — the right to self-custody and the right to exit permissionlessly.
delta |
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$ 11 M
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| Oct 09 | |
Mawari Network is a decentralized 3D and XR content delivery platform that breaks the bottlenecks of infrastructure supply for real-time rendering and the lack of local computing power on XR devices. It does this by orchestrating a decentralized network of GPU-powered nodes that run the Mawari Engine, a proprietary technology stack which allows for the interactive rendering of 3D content and efficient streaming in real-time to mobile XR devices at scale.
Mawari |
Strategic
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$ 10.8 M
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| Sep 26 | |
Mento Labs is a stablecoin and digital asset innovation lab spun out of cLabs (Celo). The lab provides support for Mento's basket of cryptoasset platforms, All Mento stables (cEUR, cREAL, cUSD) are fully backed by USDC and DAI. And loyalty and engagement, regenerative finance, and risk management, monitoring, and maintenance.
Mento |
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$ 10 M
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| Oct 17 | |
PiP World is a Web3 games and edtech ecosystem designed to make financial markets education fun, engaging and easy to understand. It has launched a tapping game called Gold Rush on Telegram. The game offers players meaningful financial education wrapped in a fun and addictive gameplay experience that simulates the thrills of crypto trading whilst creating the strategic building blocks to trade in crypto markets for real.
PiP World |
Seed
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$ 10 M
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Mind Network is a Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) layer for AI and Proof-of-Stake (POS) Networks. The layer accepts restaking tokens from ETH, BTC, and AI bluechips and operates as an FHE validation network, bringing consensus, data, and cryptoeconomic security to Decentralized AI, DePIN, EigenLayer, Symbiotic, and Babylon AVS, and many critical POS networks.
Mind Network |
Pre-A
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$ 10 M
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| Sep 27 | |
Yellow Network is a decentralized clearing network for digital assets, addressing the inefficiencies of traditional crypto trading systems. By leveraging state channel technology and chain abstraction, the protocol drastically reduces latency, enables horizontal scalability, and improves capital efficiency, providing a secure, non-custodial solution to the modern trading ecosystem. Yellow Network embodies a decentralized Layer-3 peer-to-peer mesh network allowing brokers to communicate, trade, and aggregate the liquidity of connected nodes.
Yellow |
Seed
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$ 10 M
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| Sep 18 | |
Dragonz Land is a Play-2-Earn game that promotes digital property rights and the development of the Web3 ecosystem. Dragonz Land combines NFTs with dynamic gameplay and community engagement. Players can buy, collect, upgrade and trade cards from 16 different factions while earning game tokens by clicking and completing various tasks.
Dragonz Land |
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$ 9 M
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| Oct 10 | |
Bitlayer is a Layer 2 solution offering Bitcoin-equivalent security and Turing completeness. It's also the first built on BitVM. Bitlayer aims to bring secure scalability to the Bitcoin ecosystem, promoting asset diversity and spurring innovation for a faster, safer, and more flexible user experience.
Bitlayer |
Series A1
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$ 9 M
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$ 300 M
| Oct 08 | |
Infinitar is a Web3 MOBA game that supports multiple arena modes, including 421 levels of personal ranking, 3v3, and 5v5 battles, catering to diverse player preferences.
Infinitar |
Series A
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$ 9 M
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| Oct 07 | |
TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange representing the next evolution in crypto markets dedicated to offering markets and liquidity as a service globally through reliable, innovative trading technology. TrueX features a proprietary matching engine to efficiently match trading orders, secure segregation between execution of trades and asset custody, while promising seamless completion of transactions using stablecoins. The default settlement currency on the exchange is PYUSD.
TrueX |
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$ 9 M
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| Sep 18 | |
OpenGradient is building a native intelligence network that aims to bring the world’s compute onchain. OpenGradient is the permissionless platform for open-source model hosting, secure execution, agentic reasoning, and application deployment.
OpenGradient |
Seed
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$ 8.5 M
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| Oct 09 | |
Yala connects Bitcoin liquidity with a meta yield stablecoin. Designed as both a potent asset and a liquidity enhancer, the stablecoin, yUSD, operates across various ecosystems, increasing efficiency without the need for bridges or relocating the underlying Bitcoin. Yala empowers Bitcoin holders and ecosystem participants with expanded utility, all while maintaining the security of Bitcoin’s infrastructure.
Yala |
Seed
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$ 8 M
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| Oct 10 | |
RD Technologies is an innovative fintech company born out of a mission to facilitate payments and commerce with trust, stability, and efficiency. RD Technologies is actively working on a HKD backed stablecoin (HKDR) to take the abilities and possibilities of money to the next level, and contribute to the vibrant Web 3.0 economy from Hong Kong and Asia to the world. RD Wallet is a licensed Stored Value Facility enables Hong Kong, overseas, and offshore businesses to open accounts on mobile and make transactions fast and efficiently in multiple currencies anytime, anywhere.
RD Technologies |
Series A1
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$ 7.8 M
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| Sep 30 | |
Predicate is a blockchain financial services application founded by two alumni of the blockchain Celo, which aims to connect blockchain applications with the financial world.
Predicate |
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$ 7 M
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| Oct 15 | |