Coinbase is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, founded in June 2012 by Brian Armstrong, a former Airbnb engineer. As of July 2022, it has around 98 million verified users, 13,000 institutions, and 230,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries. People trust Coinbase to easily and securely invest, spend, save, earn, and use crypto. Coinbase's mission is to increase economic freedom globally.

Ethereum is the first decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. It was initially described in a white paper by Vitalik Buterin in late 2013 and launched in 2015. This network serves as the foundation for an ecosystem of interoperable, decentralized applications (dApps) powered by token economies and automated smart contracts. Assets and applications designed on Ethereum are built with self-executing smart contracts that eliminate the need for a central authority or intermediary. 
The network is powered by its native cryptocurrency ether (ETH), which is used to pay transaction fees. Ethereum has the characteristics of being open-source, programmable, private, and censorship-resistant, forming the backbone of a decentralized internet.

CoinDesk is a leading media platform providing crypto news, research, and data.

Binance is one of the world's largest digital asset exchanges, aiming to be the infrastructure services provider for the blockchain ecosystem. It features a portfolio of crypto products and offerings, such as trading and finance, education, data and research, social good, investment and incubation, decentralization and infrastructure solutions, and more.

Solana is a high-performance blockchain protocol designed to enable scalable, user-friendly applications for the world.

The Uniswap is a decentralized exchange protocol that provides liquidity and facilitates the trading of tokens. It eliminates the need for trusted intermediaries and unnecessary forms of rent extraction, enabling safe, accessible, and efficient exchange activities.

Polygon is a decentralized Ethereum scaling platform that enables developers to build user-friendly, scalable dApps with low transaction fees without compromising security.

Founded in 2013, Cointelegraph is the leading independent digital-asset media ecosystem. It is focused on digital assets, the future of money, and emerging new technologies of the metaverse world. It provides original content from all over the world, and its international editorial teams are integrated with native Web3 communities. They publish unique insights in 11 different languages to a loyal audience interested in disruptive technologies, digital assets, and fintech applications. The digital news platform is part of the broader Cointelegraph ecosystem, which includes market analysis and research, a Magazine publication, educational content, social media, and consulting services. These services help all industries learn and benefit from blockchain technology and Web3.

The Block is the leading information services brand in the digital asset space. The Block’s expertise across research, news, and data is unmatched and delivers objective and nuanced insight into how this emerging industry intersects with technology, government, and financial markets.

CoinMarketCap is a price-tracking website for cryptoassets. Its mission is to make crypto discoverable and efficient globally, empowering retail users with unbiased, high-quality, and accurate information, so they can draw their own informed conclusions.

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator. It can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain. The cryptocurrency was invented in 2008 by an unknown person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Its implementation was released as open-source software in 2009 and began to be used then.

Bitcoin Magazine is the oldest and most established source of news, information, and expert commentary on Bitcoin, its underlying blockchain technology, and the industry it has spawned. Since 2012, Bitcoin Magazine has provided analysis, research, education, and thought leadership at the intersection of finance and technology.

Messari is the leading provider of crypto market intelligence products that help professionals navigate the crypto space. For individuals and institutions alike, Messari combines deep analysis, data, news, and powerful tools to improve industry transparency and enable smarter participation in crypto.

Optimism is an Ethereum Layer 2 solution that utilizes optimistic rollup technology. It drastically reduces costs and transaction times while preserving the benefits of Ethereum's security.

OpenSea is an NFT marketplace for discovering, collecting, and selling NFTs.

OKX is a cryptocurrency exchange that builds the next-gen financial ecosystem and provides spot, margin, futures, options, perpetual swaps trading, DeFi, lending, and mining services.

MetaMask is the world's popular unmanaged digital wallet and Web3 gateway.

Arbitrum, created by the Offchain Labs team, is an Ethereum Layer2 scaling solution based on Optimistic Rollup technology. It leverages the ability to communicate between L1 and L2, allowing any form of Ethereum asset to be transferred between Layer 1 and Layer 2 without the need for trust. Even though Arbitrum transactions are still settled on Ethereum, only raw transaction data is submitted to Ethereum, with execution and contract storage occurring off-chain. This makes the gas fee required on Arbitrum much smaller than on the mainnet, and contracts are fully compatible with no gas limit.

In early 2019, Binance launched Binance Chain. By 2020, the community utilized source code from the Ethereum network and launched a modified EVM-compatible blockchain called Binance Smart Chain. In February 2022, both the Binance Chain (rebranded as BNB Beacon Chain) and the Binance Smart Chain (rebranded as BNB Smart Chain) evolved into a unified, modular system referred to as BNB Chain. This dedicated layer1 blockchain is dedicated to building the infrastructure powering the world’s parallel virtual ecosystem. When the two blockchains merged, the Beacon Chain became the dedicated layer used for Governance (staking & voting), and the BNB Smart Chain became the dedicated layer for EVM consensus and execution.

zkSync is a Layer-2 scaling solution that preserves the security properties of the underlying blockchain by leveraging the latest generation of succinct zero-knowledge proofs. All funds in zkSync are held in a smart contract on the mainchain, while computation and storage are performed off-chain. For each Rollup block, a state transition zero-knowledge proof (SNARK) is generated and verified by the mainchain contract. This SNARK includes the proof of the validity of every transaction in the Rollup block.

NEAR is a sharded, proof-of-stake, layer-one blockchain that aims to incentivize a network of computers to operate a platform for developers to create and launch decentralized applications. Central to its design is the concept of sharding, a process that splits the network's infrastructure into several segments so that nodes only have to handle a fraction of the network's transactions. The NEAR mainnet went live in August 2020.

Sky is a peer-to-contract lending platform that enables over-collateralized loans by locking Ether in a smart contract and minting Dai, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. Dai's stability is achieved through a dynamic system of collateralized debt positions, autonomous feedback mechanisms, and incentives for external actors. Once generated, Dai can be sent to others, used as payments for goods and services, or held as long-term savings.

CoinGecko is committed to democratizing access to independent and reliable data and providing actionable insights to crypto users.

Base is a secure, cost-effective, and developer-friendly Ethereum Layer 2 built to bring the next billion users to web3. Base is incubated by Coinbase and plans to gradually decentralize in the coming years.

WatcherGuru is a whale watching website that uses real-time data to show users which currencies are being bought or sold. The site also has a dedicated blog with articles on the latest coins and tips for successful trading, as well as videos created by WatcherGuru's expert analysts.

Bankless is where readers explore the frontier of crypto money and crypto finance. It offers five actionable newsletters every week, providing practical tactics to enhance their crypto money skills. It is supplemented with podcasts and videos to help readers become experts in using crypto to generate returns.

Aave is a decentralized finance protocol for borrowing and lending, where users can participate as depositors or borrowers. Depositors provide liquidity to the market to earn a passive income, while borrowers are able to borrow in an overcollateralized (perpetually) or undercollateralized (one-block liquidity) fashion. AAVE is used as the center of gravity of Aave Protocol governance, allowing users to vote and decide on the outcome of Aave Improvement Proposals (AIPs). Additionally, AAVE can be staked within the protocol's Safety Module to provide security/insurance to the protocol and depositors. Stakers earn staking rewards and fees from the protocol.

Polkadot is a cross-chain protocol designed to connect and secure different blockchains. It provides interconnectivity and interoperability between them, enabling independent chains to securely exchange messages and perform transactions without relying on a trusted third-party. This allows for cross-chain transfers of data or assets between different blockchains, as well as the development of cross-chain DApps (decentralized applications) using the Polkadot Network. The Web3 Foundation is responsible for building Polkadot.

ConsenSys is an Ethereum and decentralized protocols software company that enables developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launch modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Its product suite, composed of Infura, Quorum, Codefi, MetaMask, MetaMask Institutional, Truffle, Diligence, and an NFT platform, serves millions of users, supports billions of blockchain-based queries for clients, and has handled billions of dollars in digital assets.

1inch is a decentralized exchange aggregator that aims to provide traders with the best prices and lowest fees on their transactions. Rather than having to manually check and compare prices across exchanges, 1inch collects real-time pricing data from various DEXs, allowing traders to identify the optimal price across the market and take advantage of trading opportunities within a single platform.