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4K

crypto

4K is a decentralized protocol for creating physically-backed Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), effectively bringing real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain. The platform enables the tokenization of physical items, which are then stored and insured by a network of custodians called 'Guardians'. This allows for secure and frictionless trading, lending, and use of physical assets within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. 4K also offers a service called 4K Labs, which provides a full-service solution for brands to create 'Tokenized Merch'.

Acctual

crypto

Acctual helps businesses send and receive crypto and fiat payments globally through flexible invoicing and accounts payable automation.

Alliance

crypto

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community that helps crypto and AI startups reach escape velocity. They offer $500k in funding with interview invites within two weeks and immediate funding upon admission.

Antimetal

ai robotics

Antimetal provides an autonomous production-engineering system that continuously understands, operates, and improves software production environments. Its agents diagnose incidents, trace failures, propose fixes, and carry out approved operational workflows for engineering teams.

Archway

crypto

Archway is a Cosmos-native incentivized Layer 1 blockchain for building decentralized applications. It rewards developers through gas-fee rebates, inflationary rewards, and configurable smart-contract usage fees.

Blocknative

out of scope

Blocknative is the core development team behind Gas Network and previously provided blockchain infrastructure, open-source tooling, and APIs for gas estimation, mempool data, transaction monitoring, and wallet connectivity. Its team has joined Deloitte, while Blocknative Corporation is ceasing operations and its API services have sunset.

Blocktorch

crypto

Blocktorch provides end-to-end insights into decentralized applications.

Bond Protocol

crypto

Bond Protocol is a permissionless bond marketplace that enables protocols to acquire assets, own liquidity, and diversify their treasury, moving away from the instability of rented liquidity from yield farming. Launched on October 3rd, 2022, its product suite includes Permissionless Bonds and Options Liquidity Mining on networks like Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Optimism, aiming to foster sustainable treasury growth for crypto projects.

BUNNY

crypto

Bunny is a decentralized finance (DeFi) yield aggregator and optimizer for the Binance Smart Chain and Polygon. It allows users to earn compound interest on their crypto assets by depositing them into various 'Vaults' for single assets and liquidity provider (LP) tokens, primarily for PancakeSwap.

Burrata

out of scope

Burrata was a bridge infrastructure that allowed users to bridge their identity (and other private) data from the Internet to the blockchain. The project shut down in late 2023 after failing to find the right market fit.

Chia Network Inc.

crypto

Chia Network Inc. delivers blockchain software for enterprises to tokenize, custody, and trade assets with auditable authenticity and provenance. It operates the public Chia blockchain and provides wallets, farming software, developer tools, and solutions for financial, climate, and luxury-product use cases.

Coinvise

crypto

Coinvise is a platform for claiming onchain rewards, allowing users to access tokens, mints, and memberships from various web3 projects and creators. It aims to help brands grow by engaging and retaining users through these reward experiences.

Cork Protocol

crypto

Cork Protocol provides programmable, tokenized risk infrastructure for onchain assets. Its Cork Pools enable liquidity buffers, risk coverage, peg resilience, and protected looping for asset issuers, vaults, risk curators, and liquidity providers.

Den

crypto

Den helps onchain teams manage multi-signature wallets by automating transaction coordination, decoding complex transactions, and providing accounting tools.

DOOMSDAYX

crypto

Stealth

Enso

crypto

Enso is a platform that provides blockchain shortcuts, enabling developers to build and launch onchain applications, agents, protocols, and other tools quickly. It abstracts away the complexities of smart contract integrations with a shared engine, allowing builders to focus on their product and community.

Fini World

out of scope

Fini World creates digital beings that embody emotional ties and track crypto market trends.

Gelato

crypto

Gelato is a Web3 infrastructure platform for developers building wallets, gasless transaction flows, and custom Ethereum rollups. Its products provide account-abstraction infrastructure, transaction relaying, rollup deployment and management, and private RPC services.

Gitcoin

crypto

Gitcoin supports the funding of public goods, enabling communities to fund their shared needs.

Global Coin Research

crypto

Global Coin Research (GCR) is a community-first research and investment DAO focused on Web3. It provides crypto insights, research, and analysis through articles and podcasts, while also functioning as a community-driven platform where members source and invest in Web3 deals together. GCR has its own token, $GCR, and serves a community of over 30,000 investors.

Goldfinch

out of scope

Goldfinch is a decentralized credit protocol that brought private credit and crypto loans onchain. It is now in maintenance mode, maintaining the legacy app so users can access information and collect remaining repayments from legacy borrower pools.

Hashflow

crypto

Hashflow helps traders execute transactions across blockchains by providing zero-slippage, MEV-protected trades through an RFQ model.

Immunefi

crypto

Immunefi provides blockchain security solutions through bug bounty programs, audit competitions, and AI-powered security operations.

Instadapp

crypto

Instadapp lets users manage DeFi across multiple protocols through smart accounts and a smart wallet.