Crypto & Web3 Startups

Melee is a prediction markets platform where users complete tasks and build a "Melee Score" to participate. The page indicates a launch countdown and a queue of "predictors."

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MemeCore is a Layer 1 blockchain designed for meme culture and creators, supporting "Meme 2.0" community-driven internet economies where participation and contribution are tracked. It offers infrastructure, tools, and a native token ($M) for developers and communities building culture-first web3 projects.

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Mento operates a multi-currency stablecoin platform that brings world currencies onchain, offering decentralized stablecoins pegged to major and emerging market currencies (from USD, EUR, and JPY to the Kenyan Shilling and Nigerian Naira). It provides FX infrastructure for onchain currency swaps, cross-border payments, remittances, and DeFi integration, serving traders, businesses, and individuals across borders.

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Mento operates a decentralized multi-currency stablecoin platform that brings foreign exchange onchain, offering stablecoins pegged to currencies such as the US Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, Kenyan Shilling, and Nigerian Naira. Its infrastructure supports onchain FX trading, cross-border payments, remittances, and DeFi integration for traders, businesses, and individuals across more than 140 countries.

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Mercuryo provides crypto payment infrastructure for web3 companies, including a fiat-to-crypto on-ramp and virtual co-branded cards for spending crypto from connected wallets. It offers integrated products supporting 70+ cryptocurrencies across leading L1 and L2 blockchains for wallets, DEXs, and other web3 businesses.

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Merge provides stablecoin-based payment infrastructure for B2B and enterprise customers, enabling treasury teams to settle cross-border transactions using digital assets while maintaining regulatory compliance as a licensed Electronic Money Institution.

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MERJ Exchange operates a securities trading marketplace and platform providing exchange services for financial markets, with leadership expertise spanning capital markets strategy, technology development, and fiduciary operations.

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Merkle Trade operated a decentralized trading platform in the DeFi space, serving retail crypto traders. The protocol processed over $30B in cumulative volume with a community of 160,000+ traders, and is now winding down while offering a claim page for users to withdraw remaining funds.

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Merkle Manufactory is a software company that contributes to the Farcaster protocol and builds clients for it. Farcaster is a decentralized social networking protocol.

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MetaCartel is a community-based ecosystem of creators and builders focused on web3 and DAOs, pooling ETH to fund projects and granting contributors DAO membership. It operates as a decentralized community centered on supporting early-stage web3 development.

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MetaCartel Ventures is a for-profit venture DAO focused on early-stage crypto and web3 projects. It is collectively managed by its members ("mages") — founders, engineers, and investors from the crypto ecosystem — who source and make investment decisions together.

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Metados is developing a blockchain-enabled battle royale game featuring a "Time-as-Currency" mechanic, playable Hunter characters with unique abilities, and customizable realistic firearms, with NFT sales and esports tournaments. The game is planned for PC and mobile release and targets competitive gaming and esports audiences.

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Metalayer Ventures is an early-stage, first-check venture capital firm that invests in founders building blockchain-based financial systems and infrastructure.

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MetalGear provides stablecoin treasury and global payout infrastructure. It targets businesses handling cross-border payments and treasury operations using stablecoins.

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Metanova Labs uses AI and decentralized competition powered by Bittensor to approach drug discovery and design. The company focuses on accelerating molecular discovery for pharmaceutical development.

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MetaverseAI builds a privacy-preserving AI data engine and decentralized user data network, using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to protect user data while enabling AI training. Its VerseOS product is an AI data marketplace built on a modular, Web3-based data architecture.

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Mezzanine is an on-chain protocol that structures crypto yields into tranche-based risk tiers. It offers investors different risk levels through a tranche-based DeFi yield product.

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MIAX operates electronic trading platforms and exchanges for equities, futures, and derivatives. The company serves institutional and retail traders through its U.S.-based automated exchanges and international subsidiaries in Bermuda and Guernsey.

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micapass integrates KYC/AML compliance solutions for blockchain-based applications, including security exchanges, open banking, and privacy protocols. It serves companies operating in the blockchain and crypto space.

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Milo is a U.S.-regulated crypto financing company that lets crypto holders borrow against their Bitcoin and other digital assets to obtain mortgages and loans without selling their holdings. It targets crypto investors seeking real-world financing, offering crypto mortgages with assets held by qualified custodians and no rehypothecation.

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Mimir Quiz is a free-to-play trivia game built on blockchain technology, where players earn Mimir Tokens by competing in livestreamed knock-out tournaments and 1-vs-1 matches. It offers a Play-To-Win mode in which players stake tokens for larger prize pools, with tournaments broadcast from Stockholm, Sweden.

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MiniPay is a stablecoin wallet built on the Celo blockchain that lets users send, swap, and spend USDT, USDC, and cUSD using only a phone number, with conversion to and from local currencies via card, mobile money, or bank transfer. It targets consumers making cross-border and everyday payments, with usage concentrated in African markets such as Nigeria and Uganda.

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