Crypto & Web3 Startups

Tinyman is a decentralized trading protocol built on the Algorand blockchain that enables users to trade and provide liquidity for Algorand Standard Assets. The platform serves traders, liquidity providers, and developers with features including automated swaps, recurring orders, and liquid staking rewards.

3 investors

tokenproof provides a platform that lets brands verify token or NFT ownership to gate online and real-world experiences, offering token-holders access to exclusive content, products, events, and offers. Its toolkit supports wallet-based and email-based authentication, ticketing and raffles, personalized retail offers, and in-person event gating for consumer engagement and loyalty.

3 investors

TONX builds on-chain finance infrastructure for the TON blockchain ecosystem, including liquid staking solutions (KTON), multisig wallets (TonKey), and a blockchain API for institutions and developers. The company operates in the Web3/crypto space with a focus expanding from Asia to the United States.

3 investors

Torram is an open-source, Bitcoin-native infrastructure stack for tokenizing real-world assets and settling programmable financial applications on Bitcoin, including a programmable token standard, decentralized oracle, indexer network, and virtual machine. It targets institutional users such as Bitcoin treasuries, family offices, and large holders seeking to issue tokenized assets and earn native yield.

3 investors

Tranched provides on-chain securitisation infrastructure that enables loan originators to tokenise and distribute loans to institutional investors through smart contracts. The platform automates regulatory reporting, loan assignment, and payment waterfall management for fintech originators and institutional investors in credit markets.

3 investors

Trever provides an institutional-grade digital asset operating system that unifies order and execution management, treasury and settlement, and bookkeeping and reporting for financial institutions such as banks, brokers, OTC desks, exchanges, and FinTechs. The regulatory-compliant platform supports the full lifecycle of digital assets including tokenized securities, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and asset reference tokens.

3 investors

UMOJA DeFi is a US company working in decentralized finance and Web3. Its focus is on products that let Bitcoin holders generate returns on their holdings, with an emphasis on custody and risk considerations.

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Unchained provides bitcoin financial services including loans and custody solutions built on collaborative custody structures. The company serves bitcoin holders seeking to preserve, grow, and transfer wealth while maintaining ownership and control.

3 investors

Uniblock provides a unified Web3 API layer that connects developers to 300+ blockchains and 55+ RPC providers (such as Alchemy, Infura, QuickNode, and Ankr) through a single interface, with real-time routing, failover, and unified billing. It also offers dedicated nodes, an MCP server, webhooks, and websockets for multi-chain application builders.

3 investors

Universal provides a multi-chain trading platform that enables users to swap tokens and assets across different blockchains and connect traditional stock trading from a single application interface.

3 investors

Unlock is an open-source, community-governed protocol that lets developers, creators, brands, and platforms create time-based memberships represented as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It aims to help projects convert users into members and monetize online and offline memberships without a centralized intermediary.

3 investors

Uphold is a cryptocurrency trading and staking platform that enables users to buy, sell, and stake digital assets, and offers USD interest accounts. The platform emphasizes transparency, providing real-time asset verification and supporting a broad range of cryptocurrencies.

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UXUY is a non-custodial, AI-routed trading protocol built on stablecoins, offering gasless, cross-chain swaps across networks including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Base, and TRON. Through a single account it provides spot and perpetuals trading, tokenized stocks, copy trading, yield, and stablecoin payments for global users.

3 investors

Valinor is a credit institution building infrastructure for "Open Credit," aiming to connect traditional credit markets with onchain finance. It offers capabilities across institutional capital, onchain finance, investing, capital markets, and advisory for borrowers and lenders.

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Veda provides onchain yield infrastructure for institutions, including its BoringVault vault standard, smart contracts, SDKs, and APIs to launch branded DeFi yield products with configurable risk and compliance controls. It offers cross-chain access to assets and protocols along with whitelisting, permission, and curator controls to meet jurisdictional and internal compliance needs.

3 investors

Veracity Protocol develops Vision AI-based protocols for product authentication, serialization, and traceability using microstructure fingerprinting without physical tags or invasive methods. The platform serves manufacturers and supply chain operators across all industries to comply with digital product passport regulations and detect counterfeits.

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Vertalo builds compliance infrastructure for tokenized real-world securities, connecting issuance to trading and maintaining the registry/cap-table records that securities issuers are legally required to keep. Starting as SeriesX, the company completed one of the first compliant on-chain issuances of tokenized real-world equity under Regulation D and now serves securities issuers.

3 investors

Volmex publishes a family of crypto volatility benchmarks — including BVIV, BVIV-US, and EVIV — that provide 30-day implied-volatility references for Bitcoin, US-listed Bitcoin ETFs, and Ethereum, along with realized volatility, correlation, and prime-rate indices. These settlement-grade indices are used by institutional trading desks, quant teams, and researchers to settle OTC options, prediction markets, and perpetuals, and are distributed via API and platforms such as Bloomberg Terminal and LSEG.

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W3GG is a Web3 gaming hub in Southeast Asia where players compete in seasonal challenges, join guilds, and complete quests to earn rewards and on-chain assets. The platform serves gamers seeking to participate in competitive gaming, game testing, and community engagement with opportunities to earn cryptocurrency.

3 investors

Witnet is a decentralized oracle network that supplies smart contracts and blockchains with external real-world data (such as prices, weather, and event results) using cryptographic and Proof of Stake mechanisms. It offers cross-chain compatibility, node staking with its native $WIT coin, and developer tools for building blockchain applications.

3 investors

Wivity is a consulting firm that helps organizations design and run decentralized governance for Web3 projects, including forming blockchain consortia and infrastructure DAOs. It offers a governance framework called Wivity Governance and applies experience from technical standards bodies to guide decision-making for Web3 collaborations.

3 investors

Xai is a web3 gaming platform that offers incentives, financial support, and infrastructure to game developers building projects on its network. It also provides a Steam game database with over 130,000 games, offering real-time player counts, charts, review trends, and pricing analytics for PC games.

3 investors

XFX operates a liquidity layer that provides unified fiat and stablecoin liquidity with intelligent routing and near-instant settlement, letting institutions trade across fiat and stablecoin pairs without pre-positioning capital. It targets financial institutions and teams building payments and FX infrastructure.

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XLD Finance operates X, an EVM-based blockchain built on the OP Stack for commercial payment applications, using its native stablecoin xUSD to enable cross-border payments and settlement between digital assets and traditional finance. It offers DeFi applications for trading, yield, lending, and swaps, along with real-world uses such as virtual cards and cross-border settlement.

3 investors