Crypto & Web3 Startups

KLON worked on identity verification and AI, building a tamper-resistant layer to verify identity and content and help users navigate deepfakes and misinformation, along with an Avatar Generator and a personal AI agent. The company is shutting down after failing to reach sufficient adoption and an unsuccessful financing round.

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Knights of Cathena is a turn-based, multiplayer PvP strategy game set in the fantasy world of Altea, where players build fighter formations, collect weapons and equipment as NFTs, and earn the in-game token Cathena Gold ($CGO). The blockchain-based game features tradeable items, noble houses, and a play-to-earn economy.

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KODA (KODAX) provides digital asset custody for corporate and institutional clients, offering cold-wallet storage, MPC key security, staking, and compliance and reporting tools. The company focuses on the South Korean market as a licensed virtual asset service provider.

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Komainu provides infrastructure and services for institutional investors to enter and operate in the digital asset ecosystem. Built for financial institutions, it offers custody, collateral management, and staking solutions with regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

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Komet is a platform for discovering, minting, and trading NFTs across multiple blockchain networks with low transaction fees. It offers one-click unified multi-chain addresses, scheduled and bulk minting, instant flipping of NFTs from marketplaces, and community notifications for creator drops and rewards.

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KONA I is a South Korean fintech company that develops smart IC chip operating systems and payment platforms, having built the world's first transit card system in 1998 and serving as a global top-tier smart card provider. It operates payment, decentralized ID, mobility, and blockchain platforms, including EMV prepaid cards and regional/local currency services across Korean municipalities.

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KONET is a high-performance Layer 2 blockchain built on the OP Stack with EVM compatibility, focused on stablecoin payment infrastructure for enterprise environments. It stores receipts, payment histories, and settlement records on-chain to provide a transparent, tamper-proof payment verification system, and offers a wallet, bridge, and developer grant programs.

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Konomi is a publishing platform that produces educational content about blockchain technology and its applications across various industries beyond finance.

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Kora is a payment infrastructure platform that enables African businesses to go global and helps multinational corporations scale within Africa by providing end-to-end payment solutions.

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Koshance is a crypto finance management platform that provides security, access controls, and operational tools for Web3 teams through MPC-based wallets and transaction management features.

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Kosmos is a real-time market intelligence platform that unifies prediction markets, equities, and crypto across venues like Kalshi and Polymarket into a single feed. It links news and conversations to the markets they move, provides forecaster track records and calibration scores, and offers autonomous agents that monitor markets and surface odds shifts continuously.

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Krain provides an AI app portal that helps users discover, compare, and rate AI applications through an NLP-powered discovery engine, plus a workflow builder that turns prompts into executable multi-app workflows. The ecosystem is powered by the $KRAIN crypto token used for premium features, subscriptions, staking rewards, and governance.

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Braiins Manager is a software platform for managing Bitcoin mining operations at scale, offering features like miner monitoring, remote configuration, energy market integration, and automated fleet optimization. It serves self-hosted miners, hosting providers, and industrial-scale mining operations worldwide.

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Kriptomat is a cryptocurrency trading and staking platform that enables users to earn rewards by staking digital assets through its KriptoEarn feature. The platform provides on-chain staking for seven cryptocurrencies with features including zero fees, slashing insurance, and compound interest for investors.

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Kriptown operates a stock-exchange-style platform for startups and SMEs, enabling equity financing through digital assets that members can hold, use, or trade on a secondary market. It also offers an employee engagement product called Incentive 2.0 as an alternative to instruments like BSPCE and BSA, and is registered as a PSAN with the AMF.

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Kronos Research is a quantitative trading firm that operates across 40+ exchanges, combining proprietary machine intelligence and research to provide liquidity and market-making services. The company focuses on high-frequency trading, market making, and venture investment to build efficient markets for professional investors.

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Kurtosis is an open-source tool for building, deploying, and testing multi-container environments, with a focus on blockchain development and testing workflows through reusable packages. It serves developers who need to spin up private, portable devnets and testing setups.

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Kvants Studio is a builder for quantitative AI trading agents where users describe a trading strategy in plain English and the AI drafts an editable quantitative model with signals, position sizing, and risk rules that can be backtested, walk-forward validated, paper traded, and exported to TradingView Pine Script or a portable file. It targets self-directed retail and systematic traders working in crypto and US equities (via Alpaca), using metered AI compute funded by the KVAI consumption token.

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Kwikpik is a fintech and logistics platform that integrates payments, recurring billing, and last-mile logistics for digital commerce in Africa. The company serves consumers and merchants seeking simplified payment and order management across food, groceries, and farm produce categories.

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Gated Assets provides patented technology for embedding programmable compliance rules directly into blockchain tokens, often by wrapping existing assets like ERC20s and linking wallets to dynamic proofs or attestations. It targets regulated industries and financial markets needing on-chain enforcement of requirements such as KYC/AML, investor accreditation, and jurisdictional rules.

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KYD is an infrastructure platform that enables venues and artists to directly manage ticket sales, audience relationships, and revenue from live events without intermediaries.

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Kyo Finance is a DeFi protocol offering a cross-chain DEX aggregation and execution layer that routes swaps across multiple liquidity sources and chains for optimized results. It provides a decentralized exchange with a veDEX model, AI-driven intent parsing, and developer APIs for integrating optimized routing across aggregated liquidity.

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Kyuzan is a Tokyo-based blockchain startup that develops NFT games and provides blockchain technology services. It has built the blockchain game EGGRYPTO and an NFT marketplace.

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La Collection is a global platform connecting communities of art collectors around art, culture, and NFTs. It offers new ways to experience art by combining expertise from the art and technology sectors.

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