Crypto & Web3 Startups

Bankless is a global community providing educational content and resources to help users navigate and understand cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. The platform offers articles, podcasts, and daily programs for individuals seeking to adopt crypto tools for financial sovereignty and self-reliance.

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Banxa provides a platform that enables cryptocurrency token projects to list and sell their tokens to retail users globally through integrated payment methods, without requiring exchange listing.

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Barter is a DeFi infrastructure protocol on Ethereum that enables wallet holders to earn fees by providing liquidity for swaps without depositing funds, and offers a top-tier swap router that aggregates liquidity across AMMs and off-chain sources. The protocol serves traders and wallet developers seeking yield generation and improved swap execution on Ethereum.

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A financial trading and payment platform that enables users to trade multiple asset classes including stocks, crypto, perpetuals, and prediction markets from a single account, with borderless spending via a Visa card across 90M+ merchants worldwide.

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Based is a self-custodial trading app for buying US stocks, crypto perpetuals, and commodities from a single wallet around the clock without a bank account, letting users hold their own private keys. It also offers a Visa debit card for spending crypto at merchants worldwide.

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Baton Systems provides DLT-based post-trade infrastructure for automating and optimizing collateral management, intraday liquidity management, and payment-versus-payment (PvP) settlement for banks and financial market participants in the derivatives and FX markets. Its solutions support real-time settlement, netting, and matching across trade lifecycles for wholesale market institutions.

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Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) is an NFT collection where ownership of an "Ape" token serves as membership, granting access to member activations, a clubhouse, and other perks. Membership is acquired by purchasing an Ape.

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Beam Ventures is a frontier-technology venture fund based in Abu Dhabi that plans to back early-stage founders in Web3 sectors including AI, gaming, and finance. It also runs Booster, an accelerator offering mentorship and incubation, and connects founders with government partners and industry networks in the UAE.

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RockX provides staking, RPC (remote procedure call), and validator infrastructure for cryptocurrency institutions, enabling them to operate blockchain nodes and manage assets without managing the underlying technical infrastructure. The company serves exchanges, custodians, networks, and foundations with production-grade, non-custodial infrastructure across multiple blockchains.

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Beefy is a decentralized, multi-chain yield optimizer that automates DeFi strategies such as staking and concentrated liquidity management (CLM) across protocols like Uniswap. It offers products including yield vaults, BIFI earnings pools, and cross-chain vault-to-vault zaps for crypto users.

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A blog focused on cryptocurrency-based gaming that reviews crypto games, discusses blockchain integration in gaming, and shares player experiences with crypto rewards.

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BenFen provides Web3 infrastructure centered around stablecoins, including an MPC blockchain wallet with built-in DID identity, a native cross-chain bridge, a crypto payment card, and a decentralized lending protocol. Built on the Move language with a DAG-based consensus, it targets stablecoin ecosystem users and dApp developers seeking cross-chain payments and self-custody finance tools.

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Birdeye is a crypto analytics and trading platform providing real-time token data, trader tracking, charts, and market discovery tools across multiple blockchains including Solana, Base, Ethereum, and BNB Chain. It offers features such as trending tokens, smart money tracking, profitable trader rankings, and large trade monitoring for crypto traders.

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BitBull Capital runs crypto-focused investment vehicles, including a Crypto Fund of Funds and an Opportunistic Fund, giving accredited investors exposure to early-stage blockchain projects and mainstream digital currencies like Bitcoin. It targets traditional VCs and angel investors seeking to diversify into digital assets, using due diligence across a network of 600+ crypto hedge funds.

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BitDAO operates Mantle Network, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain using zero-knowledge proofs, along with a treasury and token-holder governed product roadmap. The organization manages the Mantle EcoFund, a $200M investment vehicle that funds ecosystem projects and provides venture capital support to blockchain-based initiatives.

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BitMEX is a cryptocurrency derivatives trading exchange offering leveraged trading (up to 250x), copy trading of top traders, staking rewards, and features such as a low-latency matching engine and daily Proof of Reserves. The exchange is scheduled to close in September 2026.

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Bitpowr provides digital asset custody and wallet infrastructure, offering APIs and developer tools for institutions and developers to create and manage secure wallets across 15 blockchains and over 2000 assets. Its platform includes treasury management, tokenization, compliance (AML/KYT), and a configurable policy engine for building blockchain-based financial products.

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BitRobot is a decentralized network that coordinates researchers, hardware operators, and compute providers to advance embodied AI and robotics R&D. It runs focused "subnet" missions with real robots to collect data and train models, and funds robotics research through grand challenge competitions.

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Bitspawn is a blockchain gaming protocol built around the SPWN token, offering NFTs, a Proof-of-Respawn reward mechanism, and a gaming data oracle that lets developers build gaming applications. Its platform Bitspawn.gg lets competitive and social gamers host events, run tournaments, and form communities.

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Blast is a blockchain platform that offers yield on USD deposits for users and holders, with an associated mobile application.

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Blast API's products are discontinued following Alchemy's acquisition of Bware Labs, with users directed to migrate to Alchemy. The page provides migration instructions and options for existing customers to convert remaining funds to Alchemy credits or request refunds.

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Blaze provides a digital payments and prepaid card platform for cross-border transfers and peer-to-peer transactions globally. The service supports multiple currencies and payment methods to facilitate international money movement for travelers and remote workers.

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Blink operates a private mempool that provides MEV (maximal extractable value) protection while helping businesses extract and monetize value from order flow. It is a B2B platform serving crypto wallets and RPC providers across chains including Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Solana, and Arbitrum, offering MEV recovery, gas rebates, and gas-sponsored swaps.

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Blockcast builds decentralized, community-owned content delivery network (CDN) infrastructure that uses single localized streams to reduce internet congestion and delivery costs. Growing out of UC Berkeley's TIER lab and its open-source Magma cellular core project, the company works with CDNs and ISPs to develop scalable, decentralized media delivery infrastructure.

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