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t1 is a rollup that enables instant settlement to unify Ethereum

Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation.

MeshMap is building an open 3D map of the world through community submitted 3D scans rewarded by token incentives and fun gameplay. First place winner in the Gaming Track of the Solana Renaissance Hackathon. Colosseum Accelerator Cohort 1 alum.

PIN AI: Democratizing Personal On-device Intelligence for everyone, turn your digital footprints into your Personal Executive Assistant

Merit aims to solve the ''attribution problem'' in software development. In the world of open source, which powers more than 97% of the apps that customers use daily, both IT titans and freelance programmers contribute to products that are freely available for anybody to access and enhance.

Opacity fosters user cooperation by employing cryptography for secure, trustless data sharing across closed digital ecosystems, enhancing privacy and collaboration without compromising security.

Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting.

A local news and events app for suburbanites or those who live in smaller communities. Delivering localized information & letting locals host their own events.

Plai Labs is building the next generation of social platforms.

GroupUltra is a platform that allows users to program their groups and design their communities.

Scale web3 through optimistic verifiable computation.

KIKI World is at the heart of this evolution, a virtual-led beauty brand at the intersection of gamified commerce.

Modular Full-Stack Renewable Energy Solutions for Commercial and Industrial Applications

Ambient is a Layer-1 blockchain platform that combines Solana SVM compatibility with a novel Proof of Work mechanism. It aims to provide fast and affordable verified AI inference, with a long-term goal of developing an on-chain AGI-level AI foundation model. The platform is designed to make cryptocurrency more accessible to everyday users by offering a user-friendly interface, secure transactions, and educational resources. Ambient's focus on simplifying the crypto experience addresses common hurdles faced by newcomers to the cryptocurrency landscape.

NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.

We offer a comprehensive suite of personalized services catered to serve and address today’s informative needs. From meticulously crafted tailor-made security briefings to state-of-the-art technological solutions providing real-time updates; we are dedicated to securing your aviation experience throughout your journey. Our commitment goes beyond conventional norms, ensuring a level of attention and service that is unmatched in the industry.

Miden is a financial technology corporation that specializes in card programs, as opposed to a regular bank.

Inco is the universal confidentiality layer of Web3, powered by fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and secured by Ethereum, enabling the development of next-frontier decentralized applications (dApps), providing confidentiality to existing blockchains, and breaking down the final barrier to Web3 adoption at scale.

Neynar is a developer platform that allows users to own, read, and write form web3 social.

Axal is a smart web3 systems by just stating your intent.

Kiosk offers on-chain assets that are essential for social media clients that build feedback loops between assets and communities.

Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.

We’re building web3 technology to revolutionize how narrative universes are created. Our mission is to unleash an entirely new way to create, govern, and license IP on-chain, ultimately forming an ecosystem of “story legos” that can be remixed and composed.

Adim is a community of storytellers, fans and friends working together to create and own a new generation of characters and stories.

NodeKit engage in users to transact across blockchains with ease.

Anode Labs is a technology company committed to building a more stable, sustainable, and abundant energy system for humanity.

Shibuya is a web3 platform for users to fund and become producers of content.

Stelo Lab's mission is to make web3 more secure and usable. The Stelo extension interprets and enriches transactions to keep you safe from crypto phishing, fraud and scams. Remote first with a priority on in person interactions.

Azra Games is a blockchain-based developer of collectable combat role-playing games for core gamers.

KYD Labs enables event organizer and artist events to be 2x more profitable through audience ownership, loyalty, and ticket resale.

Imagine a world where every time you went to buy a cup of coffee, there was a small chance that all of your money was stolen, says Stelo Labs, a web3 security company. So you have three wallets: one for coffee, one for shopping, and one for your parents' basement.

CreatorDAO is a decentralized community that invests in creators by providing capital, technology, and operational support. It was founded in 2022 and is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Blackbird Labs is a web3 hospitality technology platform that should directly connect restaurants and customers.

Term Labs is a blockchain research and development business, is to provide scalable, transparent fixed-rate lending on blockchains. It helps to provide institutional-scale borrowers and lenders transparent, affordable, and crypto-native options.

We are on a mission to empower creators and their communities

Halliday is offered Buy gaming and metaverse NFTs and start using them right away.

AminoChain facilitates the handling of biosamples by linking data from healthcare companies. The platform enables users to manage bio-sample inventories, maintain ownership of their assets, and collaborate effectively. It offers an integrated solution for sample procurement, agreements, and payments within a single platform.

Tweed Payments plans to provide NextGen payment rails through 3.0 infrastructure for 2.0 Enterprises The company is still currently in stealth mode. Tweed Payments was established in 2022 in New York, USA.

Lightspark is created to explore, build and extend the capabilities and utility of Bitcoin.

Loop Crypto is a platform that enables autopay with crypto.

LayerZero Labs is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications (dapps) across disparate blockchains.

Farcaster is a social network that helps coders, fitness enthusiasts, and meme makers find people based on their interests. The company focuses on increasing daily active users and adding developer primitives to the protocol, such as channels and direct message delivery. It aims to create a decentralized social network that allows users to communicate directly without the need for intermediaries.

Royal is a platform where you can buy ownership in songs directly from your favorite artists and earn royalties with them.

Entropy provides crypto custody services to keep private keys secure and make assets available on demand. Its services specialize in creating a decentralized network leveraging advanced threshold cryptography and multi-party computation. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York.

Rye builds developer tools and APIs to build eCommerce experiences

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.

Yuga Labs is a blockchain technology company that develops NFTs and digital collectibles. It specializes in the fields of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital media. Yuga Labs was founded in 2021 by Wylie Aronow and Greg Solano and headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Linera is a fast and scalable multi-chain protocol for the next generation of web3 applications. Learn more: linera.io/whitepaper and linera.io/overview

Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of web3.

Dynamic was founded to help accelerate the adoption of wallet-based authentication. We make it easy for developers to create wallet-based login, onboarding, and authentication flows, allowing them to focus on their core product. Dynamic was started by two MIT alumni (who built and launched many products together) who are passionate about user identity and authentication. We are backed by some of the world’s leading investors.

IYK helps brands, artists, and creators bridge the physical and digital worlds. Its products and services provide tools to launch Web3 activations.

Flowcarbon is a pioneering climate technology company that brings carbon credits onto the blockchain. Its mission is to make carbon markets accessible and transparent, enabling billions of dollars to be invested directly into projects that combat climate change. Flowcarbon is committed to driving re... Read more

Scene Infrastructure Company is a software company that offers improved tools for sociability.

Tally Labs is build characters, and tools of the metaverse.

EigenLayer is a blockchain infrastructure startup that enables the restaking of ETH across various decentralized applications. They also provide developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Traditionally, staking requires validators to lock up ETH as a security deposit to engage in the network's consensus mechanism, earning rewards for contributing to network security and validating transactions. However, once ETH is staked, it is generally immobilized until withdrawn, restricting validators from utilizing these assets elsewhere. EigenLayer aims to tackle this challenge by allowing staked ETH to be restaked across diverse decentralized applications and services without removing it from the original consensus mechanism.

VeeFriends is an NFT project around meaningful intellectual property and an extraordinary community. The VeeFriends characters were created to help inspire happiness in others, and were first launched as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain to create unprecedented opportunities for utility, collectibility, and community building.

Phantom is a digital wallet reimagined for DeFi and NFTs. Phantom makes it safe & easy for you to store, send, receive, stake, and swap tokens on the Solana blockchain. It was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Alongside is a financial services company currently based in San Francisco, California, United States. It has been founded in 2021.

FORMLESS is a Boston, Massachusetts headquartered music technology company with the mission of creating virtual and physical experiences that enable people to live more fulfilling lives. Formless was founded in 2018 by Brandon Tory, a signed artist, former Staff Engineer at Google AI, and former Sen... Read more

Palmstreet is a community-obsessed live shopping platform connecting over 2 million passionate collectors and sellers. Starting with plants in 2020, Palmstreet has evolved to include handmade crafts, vintage decor, and unique finds from talented sellers worldwide.

TrueFi is a decentralized protocol for uncollateralized on-chain lending. The aim is for TrueFi to become the ultimate market-driven, automated credit rating and lending system, freeing money to move wherever it creates the most value instantly. On TrueFi, lenders enjoy competitive rates and full transparency of how their assets are utilized. Meanwhile, borrowers get access to fast, fixed rate loans with no collateral requirements, all while building an on-chain credit history. The process of vetting borrowers for creditworthiness and approving new loans is in the hands of holders of TRU, the TrueFi platform token. TrueFi was developed by TrustToken, the same team that launched and grew TUSD and four other leading stablecoins into asset-backed tokens trusted by many, attested live on-chain and now moving billions of dollars in monthly volume across +100 trading partners and 112 countries.

E-Pal is the Best-in-class social network for gaming enthusiasts, gamers pay for skill and interest-based matching with skillful ePals.

Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.

TITLES is a platform for discovering, remixing, and publishing crypto media.

Espresso Systems provides scaling and privacy systems for Web 3 applications.

Here Not There Labs develops a fully decentralized chat protocol for online communities. The company is composed of a team of web3 creators led by CEO Ben Rubin. Here Not There Labs is the developer of Towns, a protocol and a web-based chat app designed to facilitate self-owned and self-governed online communities.

Headquartered in Germany, Tools for Humanity is a global software and hardware development company building the tools to bring blockchain and digital identity technologies and products to billions of people, including by contributing to the development and growth of the Worldcoin ecosystem and other projects.

Levels develops a health and wellness platform designed to monitor metabolic fitness. The platform tracks blood glucose in real-time, enabling users to optimize their diet and exercise. The company was founded in 2019 and is a remote-first company.

Worldcoin is a new global digital currency that will launch by giving a free share to every human on Earth.

Oasis Labs is delivering a cloud computing platform on blockchain built for superior privacy, security and performance. Oasis’s integrated hardware-software technologies aim to enable computationally-intensive processes, like artificial intelligence, for the first time on a blockchain. Oasis Labs is led by a team of academic and entrepreneurial leaders. For more, visit our blog: https://medium.com/oasislabs

Forte Labs, Inc. operates as a blockchain technology company. The Company offers platform that helps developers to apply blockchain technology to their game economies, supporting deeper monetization, and engagement with their players. Forte Labs serves customers worldwide.

Eco’s “Smart Money” digital wallet rewards you every time you save, spend or send your money, consolidating your entire financial life into one simple balance. Plus, you earn Eco Points with everything you do—an experiment in the future of a rewards economy. Eco isn’t a bank. It’s something better.

Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Our mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions of prosperity-for everyone. We are a decentralized community of creators -- developers, designers, dreamers, doers -- who are motivated by the power of accessible financial tools to make the world a better place. Globally, about one in every three adults do not have a bank account. As a simple consequence of this, they don’t have a straightforward means of receiving or storing value across distance, and therefore are excluded from a large part of the global economy. We believe that to create a truly inclusive financial system, we must start by building an infrastructure to serve those excluded from the current system. Further, we believe that if we are able do so, the resulting system will be more useful, more resilient, more full-featured, and more accessible for everybody. Visit celo.org for more info about our team, community & technology.

Clockwork Labs is creating virtual worlds through precision engineering.

NEAR Protocol is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end users while still providing the scalability necessary to serve those users.

NEAR is an open source platform that accelerates the development of decentralized applications. Developers can overcome high fees and slow speeds by building on NEAR’s fast, scalable, and low-cost blockchain protocol.

dYdX is the most powerful open trading platform for crypto assets. dYdX offers decentralized derivatives, margin, and spot trading. Our mission is simple: To build open, secure, and powerful financial products that are equally available to everyone, everywhere.

Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol compatible. By using Handshake, one can participate in a decentralized open naming platform secured by a decentralized peer-to-peer network.

Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of December 2019, Kickstarter has received more than $4.6 billion in pledges from 17.2 million backers to fund 445,000 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects.