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4K is a platform that bridges asset ownership across physical and digital goods.

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Aave

Aave allows users to earn interest and borrow assets without any intermediaries.

AnotherBlock

AnotherBlock is a marketplace for users to share royalties with the artists they’re streaming. Artists like Rihanna have already joined the platform.

AtlantisDAO is a web3 community organized around social impact and sustainability initiatives. Mercy Corps Ventures (”MCV”) partnered with AtlantisDAO to build a network for verifying and accessing clean water. The pilot will focus on 45,000 people across five remote villages in the Chikmagalur district of Karnataka, India.

Balancer

Balancer is a decentralized automated market maker (”AMM”) that represents a flexible building block for programmable liquidity.

Beefy

Beefy is a decentralized, multi-chain yield optimizer platform that maximizes rewards from various liquidity pools (LPs),‌ ‌automated market making (AMM) projects,‌ ‌and‌ ‌other yield‌ farming ‌opportunities in the DeFi ecosystem.

Bitnomial

Bitnomial is one of two CFTC-regulated futures and options exchanges for Bitcoin.

BurstIQ

BurstIQ helps doctors securely manage and gather insights on sensitive health information.

Candy

Candy is an NFT marketplace and ecosystem. Candy works directly with athletes, artists and content owners on developing their NFT projects. They have partnerships with brands like Major League Baseball, Netflix, WWE, among others.

CLV Wallet

Clover is a one-stop infrastructure platform for cross-chain and decentralized applications. CLV Wallet is a cross-chain all-in-one wallet that supports in-app messaging, asset management, seamless transfer of cryptocurrencies, and now enables users to store their verifiable credentials. CLV Wallet allows users to prove their access rights in a privacy-preserving way through ZK proofs.

Coinversation

Coinversation is a DeFi and cross-chain crowdfunding platform that began as a synthetic asset protocol.

Compound

Compound connects lenders and borrowers - by way of smart contracts, not intermediaries - using incentives paid in cryptocurrency.

Courtyard

Courtyard allows users to verify the authenticity of physical collectibles - by shipping and storing them in secured vaults - and turn them into digital collectibles to trade and earn passive income. Courtyard partnered with Brink’s (an American private security and protection company) to ensure the security of the physical asset storage.

Cozy Finance

Cozy Finance is building a protocol that would protect users against financial risks (like hacks or scams) when engaging with DeFi.

Curve

Curve Finance is an automated market maker (”AMM”) that maintains low fees and low slippage by only accommodating liquidity pools made up of similarly behaving assets. Curve DEX is a decentralized exchange (”DEX”). crvUSD is a collateralized-debt-position (CDP) stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar.

Delegate Cash

Delegate Cash allows NFT owners to safely interact with NFT-locked benefits (e.g., airdrop claims, token governance, and more) without having to keep high-value assets in risky “hot” wallets. At the time of writing this, Delegate protects $608+ million worth of assets for 15,750 wallets across 90 projects.

DerivaDEX

DerivaDEX is a decentralized derivatives exchange where the community owns the insurance fund backing the trading activity.

Disco

Disco is a digital identity “data backpack” where users can stash their private data in a way that they retain ownership and control of that data.

DraftKings

DraftKings, an American sports betting company, has launched three main initiatives using the blockchain. 1. “DraftKings Marketplace” is a digital collectibles marketplace where users can buy, sell, and access exclusive NFTs from sports, entertainment, and culture using their existing DraftKings account. Many iconic athletes — including Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles and Derek Jeter — have already launched their own NFT collections on this Marketplace. 2. “DraftKings Reignmakers” offers gamified athlete cards (as NFTs) licensed by the NFLPA, PGA TOUR, and UFC, which can be used in various fantasy contests based on athletes' real-life performances. As of August 9th, 2023, this NFT collection has reached $4.5M daily trading volume. 3. DraftKings also partnered with Zero Hash, a B2B digital assets infrastructure provider, to stake digital assets and become a Polygon network validator.

dYdX

dYdX is decentralized exchange platform where users can margin trade cryptocurrencies and perpetual contracts. At the time of writing this, in the past 24 hours, dYdX had $1.7+ billion trading volume, 620,000+ trades, and $256+ million open interest.

Ejara

Ejara, a Mercy Corps Ventures (”MCV”) portfolio company, is a savings and investment platform for cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokenized assets. Ejara and MCV partnered to launch a pilot that provides Cameroonian users with the opportunity to invest in fractionalized government bonds through savings plans directly within the Ejara app.

Evernym

Evernym allows individuals to manage their identities all over the web.

Fordefi Wallet

Fordefi is an institutional-grade, multi-party computation wallet that allows institutions to securely transact, trade, lend, stake, and vote in DeFi protocols.

Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund

Franklin Templeton announced that the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX) (the “Fund”) is the first US-registered mutual fund to use a public blockchain to process transactions and record share ownership. As of March 2023, the Fund has $270+ million in assets under management.

Gamma

Gamma is a non-custodial, automated, active liquidity management protocol.

Hashflow

Hashflow is a liquidity protocol that allows market makers to source liquidity and price assets using off-chain pricing functions, enabling greater capital efficiency.

Hourglass

Hourglass released the first-ever marketplace to trade Time-Bound Tokens (”TBTs”) that tokenize a user's staked assets in a DeFi protocol based on its lock-up time period.

HydraDX

HydraDX is a decentralized exchange (”DEX”).

Integral

Integral helps companies and protocols manage their crypto treasuries and use crypto rails for day-to-day operations such as paying bills.

iomob

iomob aims to create a mobility-as-a-service platform based on blockchain technology, whereby mobility service providers can “plug in” and offer their services.

KnownOrigin

KnownOrigin is an NFT marketplace. It was acquired by eBay in 2022.

Kresko

Kresko is building a synthetic assets protocol that is accessible on a mobile phone.

Lens Protocol

Lens Protocol is a Web3 social graph that is designed to empower creators to own the links between themselves and their community. It is equivalent to a web3 version of social media that gives users control over their digital footprint.

Llama

Llama is a governance system for on-chain organizations like DAOs.

LLamaPay

LlamaPay streamlines payments from DAOs to contributors in noncustodial fashion.

Magic Eden

Magic Eden is the leading NFT marketplace on Solana.

MeanFi

MeanFi is a permissionless and non-custody treasury management protocol. It allows users and teams to secure the treasury, automate token vesting, and set up payroll streams for the team.

Membrane Labs

Membrane Labs is a digital asset management solution offering OTC trading and cross-custodial clearing and settlement to institutions.

MetaMask

MetaMask is the leading self-custodial wallet that allows users to manage permissions with whom they share data, cryptocurrency, NFTs, etc.

Mirror

Mirror is a decentralized publishing platform that allows writers to tokenize their work and users to collect it.

NBA Top Shot

Dapper Labs partnered with the NBA to create NBA Top Shot - an NFT marketplace - for digital media from NBA players or teams.

Nebula Genomics

Nebula Genomics aims to understand the human genome and keeps all data private through a blockchain-based encryption.

Nifty Gateway

Nifty Gateway — owned by Gemini — is an NFT marketplace that hosted art by artists like Beeple, Pak, Refik Anadol, among others. It shut down operations in August 2023.

OAK Network

OAK Network provides trustless automation for payments and finance infrastructure in Web3 (e.g., scheduling future transactions and auto-trading).

Obligate

Obligate is a blockchain-based debt securities protocol. Muff Trading AG, a Swiss physical commodities trading boutique specializing in sourcing precious metals and raw materials from South America, issued corporate bonds using Obligate’s platform. Lamar Olive Oil has also issued an on-chain bond using Obligate.

OmniBTC

OmniBTC is a decentralized multichain liquidity aggregation protocol that connects and integrates decentralized exchanges (”DEXs”) and bridges, enabling composable cross-chain DeFi transactions.

Onboard Wallet

Onboard is a self-custody wallet that gives individuals control over their own assets. Currently, Onboard only supports the Nigerian currency (Naira) and two payment methods: bank transfers and mobile wallets.

OneOf

OneOf is an NFT marketplace. eBay partnered with OneOf to launch an NFT collection called “Genesis” that features animated 3D renditions of Sports Illustrated athletes with the first one being Wayne Gretzky.

Open Music Initiative

Open Music Initiative is a non-profit initiative creating an open-source protocol for the uniform identification of music rights holders and creators.

OpenGrants

OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of grant experts. It launched its digital securities - $GRANT offering - on the Ethereum blockchain.

OpenSea

OpenSea is the largest NFT marketplace on Ethereum. It has formed a number of large partnerships and hosts projects from major brands such as: Twitter, Meta/Instagram, Givenchy, Adobe, Stella Artois, Ralph Lauren, among others.

Osmosis

Osmosis is the leading decentralized exchange on Cosmos. It has $113+ million in total value locked, $15 million in 24 hour trading volume, and 1000+ interchain transfers.

Parcl

Parcl is a noncustodial automated market maker (”AMM”) designed for perpetual synthetic assets - real estate - that cannot otherwise support liquid trading markets.

Patientory

Patientory is a digital healthcare system for patients and doctors, backed by blockchain technology.

Phoenix

Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book that is on-chain and non-custodial.

PolkaDEX

PolkaDEX is a decentralized exchange (”DEX”).

Primitive

Primitive built the Replicating Market Maker ("RMM") protocol, an oracle-free solution for replicating derivative payoffs.

Propy

Propy is a global real estate marketplace that lets users buy and sell homes on Web3 technology.

Quickswap

Quickswap is a decentralized exchange “(”DEX”).

Rarible

Rarible is an aggregated NFT marketplace.

Recur

Recur is an NFT marketplace that mints popular brand figures - like those on Nickelodeon and Star Trek - into digital collectibles for consumers.

Royal

Royal is a marketplace for discovering, investing, and trading music. Artists like Nas, Diplo, and The Chainsmokers have already joined the platform.

Saber

Saber is an automated market maker (”AMM”) for trading assets on Solana

Saddle

Saddle is an automated market maker (”AMM”) optimized for pegged-value crypto assets (”stablecoins”). It has $2.2+ billion in cumulative volume, $11+ million in total value locked, and 3,000+ total token holders.

Slingshot

Slingshot is a decentralized trading platform.

SushiSwap

SushiSwap is decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform (a “decentralized exchange” or “DEX”).

Sweet

Sweet is an NFT marketplace for collectibles. It has formed a number of large parternships. One of them was with Macy’s for its Thanksgiving Day Parade, which generated ~250,000 sales that was donated to Make-A-Wish. Additional partnerships include: Build-A-Bear, Old Navy, New York Knicks, among others.

Syndicate

Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network that allows users to create investing communities through DAOs.

Synthetix

Synthetix is a derivatives liquidity protocol.

Tokemak

Tokemak is a market making protocol that provides sustainable DeFi liquidity and capital-efficient markets to users.

Tonic

Tonic is building a protocol for trading any asset on the NEAR and Aurora networks.

Trisolaris

Trisolaris is the top decentralized exchange (”DEX”) on NEAR’s Aurora engine.

Ubeswap

Ubeswap is a decentralized exchange (”DEX”) and automated market maker (”AMM”).

Uniswap V3

Uniswap is one of the largest decentralized cryptocurrency trading platforms with $1.4+ trillion in trade volume and 151+ million all time trades.

Verida Wallet

The Verida Wallet is a self-custody, mobile wallet that allows users to manage their self-sovereign decentralized identities and encrypted personal data.

WholeCare

WholeCare simplifies and streamlines patient care by bringing personalized care plan information. It keeps patient information on a blockchain network to provide HIPAA-compliant record keeping.

Xcapit

A UNICEF Innovation Fund portfolio company, Xcapit, is a self-custodial wallet that provides access to key financial services in informal economies. For example, access to credit. In Argentina, where the initial pilot took place, 91% of applicants are rejected in traditional credit requests. Xcapit is addressing this challenge with its credit processing and lending infrastructure.

Zeta Markets

Zeta is building an options and futures decentralized exchange (”DEX”) on Solana.

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