Crypto & Web3 Startups

Grove, originally founded as Pocket Network Inc., built decentralized infrastructure including the Pocket Network protocol and the Grove Portal gateway serving blockchain data access. It later pivoted to a payment platform enabling humans and AI agents to pay creators directly for content using the x402 open payment protocol. The company is winding down.

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Guardrail provides real-time security for onchain finance, monitoring transactions across smart contracts, wallets, bridges, and mempools to detect threats and trigger automated protective responses. It serves DeFi-native teams, stablecoin issuers, and regulated institutions, offering runtime detection, compliance monitoring, and incident response across more than 30 blockchains.

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handle.fi is a decentralized finance protocol for trading perpetual futures with up to 100x leverage across cryptocurrencies, FX, and commodities. It lets users mint multi-currency stablecoins (fxTokens) in currencies such as EUR, JPY, GBP, and AUD, borrow in local currencies, and stake to provide protocol liquidity in exchange for fees and $FOREX rewards.

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Hanzo Industries develops AI-powered marketing and development platforms that help businesses scale through intelligent technology and data-driven decision-making. The company serves entrepreneurs and small businesses seeking to compete with larger enterprises using tools like AI code editors, marketing automation, and the Sensei mentorship framework.

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Hashed is a venture firm and team of blockchain specialists that backs and helps founders building in the crypto and blockchain space. It operates across multiple international hubs.

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HashKey Capital is a venture capital and investment firm that manages portfolios and investments in blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital asset sectors.

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HashQuark provides Web3 infrastructure and yield services focused on staking and asset appreciation for clients in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

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Hashstack is a decentralized finance protocol that lets traders borrow against their crypto collateral, offering up to 500% leverage for trading and yield farming. It supports assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, and Starknet through supply and borrow markets.

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Hata is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that lets users buy, trade, and grow crypto with features such as an OTC Desk, Auto-Invest, and Staking, with purchases starting from $10. It is regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority and holds customer funds 1:1 through a licensed trustee.

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Hatom delivers a suite of decentralized finance products designed to create an integrated DeFi ecosystem. The platform targets users seeking liquidity management and financial services on blockchain networks.

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Haven1 is a permissioned yet decentralized EVM Layer 1 blockchain focused on DeFi and real-world assets (RWAs), offering an ecosystem of vetted and audited applications ("hApps") built by verified developers. It emphasizes KYC'd users, security, and fraud prevention to provide a safer Web3 environment.

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Hawala offers a mobile USD and EUR account with real account details and a Visa card, letting users get paid by international clients, spend online and in store, and send money home across borders. It targets freelancers, remittance senders, and multi-currency spenders, holding balances as fully backed dollar stablecoins with regulated partners.

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Healthy Hip-Hop is a music and entertainment platform offering original hip-hop content designed for children and families. The service features culturally diverse characters and a music library accessible via an iOS app for home and classroom use.

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Heartcore is a European early-stage venture capital firm that invests in and supports technology founders from inception through liquidity. Founded in 2007, it manages over €700M in assets and has backed more than 100 companies.

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Hecto Financial is a fintech company that provides payment solutions and financial services in Korea, enabling secure online and offline transactions through virtual account and easy cash payment technologies.

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Hedge is a decentralized protocol on Solana that lets users deposit SOL collateral into personal vaults and mint USH, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, through interest-free loans. It targets crypto holders seeking liquidity or leverage (up to 6x–11x) against their assets at a fixed fee.

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Hedgehog provides automated portfolio management for cryptocurrency, allowing users to hold diversified baskets of digital assets spanning the majority of the crypto market.

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Helios is a decentralized cross-chain Layer 1 Bitcoin lending protocol that lets Bitcoin holders unlock liquidity and earn yield without selling, and borrow across blockchains without centralized bridges or wrapping. It also offers the Helios Reserve Card, virtual and physical Visa cards issued via Rain that allow users to spend against their crypto at merchants where Visa is accepted, serving individual holders, institutions, yield curators, and liquidity providers.

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Hellas is a network for decentralized, serverless AI compute secured by an L1 blockchain and powered by catgrad, its own deep learning compiler that uses category theory to compile AI models into efficient code without frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. It offers a permissionless, token-incentivized compute economy where providers join the network and developers run any model across distributed hardware, with computations verified via zero-knowledge proofs.

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Hermetica offers hBTC, a self-custodial, on-chain Bitcoin product that generates daily Bitcoin yield from multiple yield sources across Bitcoin L1 and L2 chains. It also provides USDh, a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin that can be staked for yield and used in Bitcoin DeFi.

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WalletOne (Hexlant) builds blockchain infrastructure and security solutions for digital asset custody and trading, including its Octet product for enterprise Web3.0 clients and the O-HI wallet for individual users. The company serves businesses entering the blockchain sector and, per its own claim, holds roughly 50% of the South Korean virtual asset market.

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Elsa is an AI assistant for crypto and DeFi that lets users discover opportunities, execute trades, swap and bridge assets across chains, and manage portfolios through natural-language conversation. It uses a multi-model architecture and is building infrastructure for autonomous agents using x402 machine-to-machine payments and ERC-8004 identity standards.

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HIFI is a composable API platform for moving, converting, and routing money across stablecoins and bank rails, offering programmable transaction logic such as conditional transfers, escrow, multi-party routing, and multi-chain settlement. It serves teams from startups to large enterprises for use cases like treasury automation, global payouts, marketplace settlement, and cross-border conversions.

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Hive Intelligence provides AI agents with live cryptocurrency market data through multiple interfaces, ensuring every data point includes its source, freshness, and verifiable receipt. The company offers API access, CLI tools, and MCP server connections to a catalog of crypto market data, DeFi metrics, wallet information, and token risk assessments.

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