Crypto & Web3 Startups

LM5 Capital is a Netherlands-based alternative asset manager offering market-neutral, low-volatility yield strategies across traditional and digital asset markets for institutional, professional and eligible investors. Its Gemini Fund, a Dutch fiscally transparent fund (FGR), pursues returns from structural market inefficiencies such as arbitrage between traditional instruments and their on-chain counterparts, with a focus on capital preservation and risk management.

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LNbits is an open-source payment platform that enables point-of-sale transactions, online checkouts, subscriptions, and micropayments using Bitcoin Lightning Network and Nostr protocols. It serves merchants, developers, and community organizations with a modular architecture and extensible API for custom payment workflows.

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Localcoin operates a cryptocurrency ATM network designed to make cryptocurrency accessible to users regardless of their experience level. The company serves the cryptocurrency consumer market in Canada.

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LOCKON is a crypto investment product that builds automated, on-chain index tokens by analyzing over 1 billion wallet addresses and tracking the best-performing ones, with frequent automated rebalancing. It targets retail crypto investors who hold the index tokens, and currently operates on the Polygon network with Arbitrum support planned.

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Lockchain is a cybersecurity and risk management company founded by experienced security veterans. The company appears to focus on enterprise cybersecurity solutions and services.

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Sentient Coin is a cryptocurrency project aimed at enabling machines to autonomously participate in economic activity and decentralized governance. It also funds education, advocacy, and research in AI ethics.

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Session is an end-to-end encrypted, decentralized messaging app that lets users sign up without a phone number or email and routes conversations through onion-routed paths run by a community of nodes. It offers private one-on-one, group, and community chats with disappearing messages and open-source code.

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Lombardor offers euro loans collateralized by Bitcoin, letting holders access liquidity (from €10,000, up to 50% LTV) without selling their coins, which stay in cold storage with a regulated German custodian. It is a licensed Bitcoin-only fintech serving EU-based Bitcoin holders, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

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LondonLink was a UK-based digital asset brokerage service. As of September 2025 it ceased operations and transferred its brokerage business and clients to Archax, an FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker and custodian.

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Longenesis operates a platform for health and biomedical data management used to run research studies, including managing study participants across the Baltics and Mediterranean regions. It partners with genomics providers to offer services such as whole genome sequencing to study participants.

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The LongTail Building is a restored historic venue in Louisville, Kentucky serving as a multi-use entrepreneurial event space and offices for early-stage crypto-first investment funds, family offices, and startups. It hosts blockchain-focused events, tastings, and workshops, broadcasts DePIN networks, and serves as Kentucky's host for the BAXUS spirits marketplace.

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Loom Network is a multichain interoperability platform and Delegated Proof of Stake blockchain (Basechain) that lets developers build and host Solidity-based, Ethereum-compatible decentralized applications with fast, gas-free transactions. It serves dapp developers across major chains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Tron, and also runs CryptoZombies, a code school for learning to build Ethereum dapps.

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Loopring was a project built on zero-knowledge technology; the company has ceased operations.

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Loot is a community-driven NFT project built on Ethereum around randomized "Loot bags" of adventurer gear, with a broad ecosystem of derivative collections, on-chain maps, characters, and games that make up the "Lootverse." It serves NFT collectors, builders, and game developers who create and expand interoperable on-chain worlds.

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Loyyal uses blockchain and smart contract technology to build a Blockchain-as-a-Service platform for creating, rewarding, and managing loyalty and incentive programs. It serves loyalty programs across verticals such as airlines, banks, telecoms, and retail, offering partner onboarding, network expansion, and multi-partner campaign tools.

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LUKSO is a Layer 1 EVM blockchain built for social, culture, and creator communities, providing user-centered standards and smart profiles for digital ownership and decentralized applications. It aims to simplify Web3 onboarding and enable creative economies through standardized, interoperable tools for identity, assets, and social interaction.

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Lulo is a DeFi product that allocates stablecoin deposits across top lending and yield protocols (such as Morpho, Kamino, Maple, and Pendle on Solana and Ethereum) using a rules-based weighting by TVL and rate, with automated smart contract coverage that protects principal if a covered protocol fails. It offers a RESTful API so wallets, apps, and platforms can offer this protected yield to their own users.

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Lumida is a digitally native wealth management firm offering discretionary and non-discretionary advisory services with an endowment-style, cross-asset approach that includes venture capital, private equity, private credit, real estate, and digital assets. It serves high-net-worth clients such as successful founders and executives seeking to grow and preserve their wealth.

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LYNC provides a developer stack for building and scaling web3 products, including wallets, gas sponsorship, gaming SDKs, and on-chain deployment tools. It offers APIs and cross-chain abstractions across EVM, Move-based, and emerging blockchain ecosystems for engineering teams.

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Lynx offers high-performance interactive charting tools built on TradingView technology, letting traders track Bitcoin and other asset prices with features like heatmaps, alerts, and Pine Script. The product is aimed at traders performing in-depth market analysis.

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Lyquor builds service-centric, cloud-native decentralized infrastructure where nodes run services rather than chains, combining the openness of blockchain with the performance of modern cloud systems. The company targets infrastructure layer improvements for blockchain and decentralized applications.

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Lyra provides virtual payment cards that can be funded with cryptocurrency, enabling users to make purchases and pay subscriptions across the internet.

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LYS Labs provides a Web3 data and execution platform on Solana, offering historical on-chain datasets, real-time analytics, and high-frequency trading execution. It serves enterprises, hedge funds, and HFT firms, and supplies data to fuel AI model training and trading strategies.

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M31 Capital is an investment firm that uses systematic research across physics, history, macroeconomics, technology, and geopolitics to identify emerging technology paradigm shifts. The firm advises private investors, institutions, and sovereign wealth funds on long-term technology trends and investment positioning.

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