Bankless Ventures

0G Labs

hybrid

0G Labs develops and operates 0G, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 and decentralized AI stack. Its products provide blockchain, compute, distributed storage, data availability, and private AI inference capabilities for developers, enterprises, researchers, and AI applications.

1Money Network

crypto

1Money Network builds the first Layer 1 blockchain exclusively for stablecoin payments with instant confirmations and fixed fees.

Aligned Layer

crypto

Aligned is a vertically integrated stack for building applications on a verifiable internet. It provides the foundation for provable execution with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and ZK services for financial infrastructure and AI systems. The company is creating the foundation for a trustless, verifiable internet, empowering developers to build applications on Ethereum. Aligned is a blockchain infrastructure project, likely an Actively Validated Service (AVS), and is seeking operators for its Mainnet Beta.

Almanak

hybrid

Almanak provides an agentic swarm that builds institutional-grade, code-based strategies for users, enabling them to operate like a quant without needing to write code themselves.

APRO

crypto

APRO is an oracle provider serving RWA, AI, prediction-market, and DeFi ecosystems. It supplies data feeds, on-demand data access, proof-of-reserve reporting, and verifiable randomness services for blockchain applications and developers.

Astria

crypto

Astria is a sequencing layer that provides the easiest way to deploy decentralized rollups.

Beam

crypto

Beam helps businesses send and receive payments by bridging crypto and traditional payment networks.

BOB

crypto

BOB is a hybrid Layer 2 that combines Bitcoin security with Ethereum EVM compatibility, enabling users to access DeFi applications and earn yield on Bitcoin.

BounceBit

crypto

BounceBit creates institutional-grade yield products by combining centralized finance security with decentralized finance innovation.

Brevis

crypto

Brevis provides a zero-knowledge computing layer for Web3. It enables applications to run complex off-chain computations and verify the results quickly with cryptographic proofs.

BSX

crypto

BSX is a decentralized platform for trading perpetual futures on-chain.

Chainbound

crypto

Chainbound is a research and development organization building optimized infrastructure and networking tools for blockchains.

Conduit

crypto

Conduit provides production blockchain infrastructure and operational expertise for organizations deploying and operating chains. Its offerings include custom chain deployment, high-performance sequencing, privacy infrastructure, RPC nodes, and professional services for enterprise, payments, institutional, and DeFi workloads.

Confetti

crypto

Confetti is a Web3 platform where users buy votes on contests to fund reward pools and earn rewards by voting for winning entries early. Users can also create their own contests on any subjective question and earn a share of contest volume.

Diva Staking

crypto

Diva Staking is a liquid-staking protocol using distributed validator technology. It enables ETH stakers to receive divETH while permissionless node operators run distributed validator nodes.

ether.fi

crypto

ether.fi helps users stake ETH, BTC, and stablecoins while earning rewards and maintaining full control through liquid restaking tokens integrated across DeFi protocols.

Euphoria

crypto

Euphoria is a financial technology company creating a new trading experience called 'Tap Trading'. Their platform is designed to be a mobile-first, gamified, and social experience for derivatives trading, aiming to make it fun, intuitive, and accessible, particularly for a younger generation of traders.

Fermah

crypto

Fermah is a crypto infrastructure company building 'Protocol Agency' — an autonomous execution layer that lets smart contracts observe, decide, and act without human or centralized-server intervention. Its core engine, Fermah Kernel, powers two live products: Fermah Froben, a universal ZK proof marketplace matching proof requests to GPU compute suppliers across any proof system or chain, and Flashcast Social, a prediction market platform that creates and resolves markets instantly from natural-language questions. Fermah serves ZK protocol teams and chains (e.g. ZKsync, Scroll, Gateway) as well as developers needing trustless off-chain computation.

Fhenix

crypto

Fhenix is a blockchain R&D company building privacy-preserving infrastructure for Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Its CoFHE coprocessor and developer tooling enable confidential smart contracts and private DeFi applications.

Gunzilla Games

crypto

Gunzilla Games is an independent, player-focused game studio developing next-generation interactive entertainment. Its flagship project is Off The Grid, a AAA battle-royale third-person shooter, alongside the GUNZ blockchain initiative.

Hyperbolic

ai robotics

Hyperbolic is an open-access AI cloud that provides on-demand, reserved, and private GPU infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, inference, and production workloads. It serves startups, researchers, AI labs, enterprises, and compute providers.

Infinex

crypto

Infinex provides a self-custody crypto wallet and unified portfolio application. It supports multi-provider, multi-chain trading, including swaps, perpetual futures, yield, NFTs, and prediction markets.

INFINIT

hybrid

INFINIT is an on-chain marketplace for AI-managed trading vaults operated by independent strategy managers. Users connect a wallet, deposit USDC, receive ERC-20 vault receipt tokens, and redeem their pro-rata vault share at maturity.

INIT Capital

crypto

INIT Capital is a decentralized, non-custodial Liquidity Hook money market protocol on Mantle. It provides lending and borrowing functionality and enables dApps to integrate permissionlessly through Liquidity Hooks.