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Basis Exited
Bitso
Burnt Finance
Caliza
Celo
Circle
Cloudwalk
Coinbase DIRECT LISTING ON NASDAQ
Credix
Dapper Labs
Domain
ECO
Flow
Hashdex
Joyride
Ledn
Lemon Cash
Molten
Open Forest Protocol
Origami
Parfin
Ribon
Strike
Valora
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Basis

New York, USA basis.io

Basis is a price-stable cryptocurrency based on an algorithmically-regulated monetary policy. Basis has the potential to take crypto mainstream enabling distributed apps, the formation of credit markets, the toppling of hyper-inflationary dictatorships, and more. Location: New York, USA

Bitso

Mexico City, Mexico bitso.com

Bitso is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows users to buy and sell bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Bitso specializes in the fields of bitcoin, fintech, and blockchain. Its platform enables its users to make payments using their mobile and other devices. Bitso was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico

Burnt Finance

New York, USA burnt.com

Burnt Finance is a fully decentralized NFT auction protocol that allows users to mint and trade assets in an entirely permissionless ecosystem.

Caliza

United States caliza.co

Caliza provides an API that allows fintechs around the world to open synthetic USD accounts (digital dollar accounts backed by fiat-pegged stablecoins), enabling customers to provide their users access to the USD digital economy.

Celo

San Francisco, USA celo.org

Celo aims to build a more inclusive financial system by developing an open-source, reserve-based, programmable crypto stablecoin protocol. By doing so, Celo aims to unlock several financial use cases that are currently impossible due to high transaction costs and the limiting nature of the global financial system to an unbanked global population of 1.7 billion. The company's vision is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions for prosperity for all.

Circle

Boston, USA circle.com

Circle is a global fintech and crypto company that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle is also the creator of USDC, a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to US dollars with more than $20B in market cap that empowers Circle's platform to offer a best in class product suite for consumer and corporate clients with the end goal to bridge the gap between crypto and the fiat world.

Cloudwalk

São Paulo, Brazil cloudwalk.io

Cloudwalk is a next-generation, tech-enabled merchant acquirer with the goal to create the best payment network worldwide. Through the power of AI and Blockchain, the company is building a strong relationship with customers, offering the lowest prices in the market and superior customer service. CloudWalk is growing at a very fast pace and has processed more than US$1 billion annually, with presence in more than 250,000 businesses.

DIRECT LISTING ON NASDAQ

Coinbase

San Francisco, USA coinbase.com

Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. The company’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

Credix

Antwerp, Belgium credix.finance

Credix is rethinking and rebuilding how debt capital markets should work. It combines the most scalable web3 infrastructure including proprietary, highly scalable algorithms and innovative smart contract logic to provide institutional investors the experience and opportunities they’ve been looking for. Credix enables high quality loan originators around the world to access previously untapped capital in a matter of days, in a digital and regulatory compliant platform.

Dapper Labs

Vancouver, Canada dapperlabs.com

Dapper Labs was spun out of Axiom Zen, a consumer-focused innovation studio and venture builder, to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology by mass consumers. After having developed CryptoKitties, the famous decentralized application built on top of Ethereum, Dapper is now building Flow, a general-purpose, programmable blockchain protocol that allows developers to build thriving applications on blockchain.

Domain

New York, USA domainmoney.com

Domain is the first crypto neo-bank, focused on offering a broad range of high quality services, built by an experienced team. They built a platform to deliver serious control to customers, making it easier to invest across asset classes. They provide highly useful investment tools, coupled with world-class security and live customer agents.

ECO

San Francisco, USA eco.com

Eco provides a digital global cryptocurrency platform that can be used as a payment tool for daily-use transactions. Eco’s mission is to reimagine not only how consumer financial products work — but also to reimagine money itself.

Flow

Vancouver, Canada onflow.org

Flow is a fast, decentralized, and developer-friendly blockchain, designed as the foundation for a new generation of games, apps, and the digital assets that power them. It is based on a unique, multi-role architecture, and designed to scale without sharding, allowing for massive improvements in speed and throughput while preserving a developer-friendly, ACID-compliant environment. Flow power games such as NBA Top Shot and was created by Dapper Labs.

Hashdex

São Paulo, Brazil hashdex.com.br

Hashdex exists to bridge the still nascent digital assets world and traditional markets. It aims to unlock the blockchain potential to mainstream investors across the largest financial markets globally. At Hashdex, Wall Street meets Silicon Valley bringing together years of finance experience and state of the art technology to build secure,transparent, automated and cost effective products.

Joyride

Palo Alto, California onjoyride.com

Joyride is a web3 modern publishing platform for game creators. Joyride aims to offer casual game developers a comprehensive platform allowing them to transition from the current to the blockchain model, with all the tools needed on iOS, Android, and Unity to build, publish, and scale blockchain games.

Ledn

Ontario, Canada ledn.io

Ledn is an emergent crypto-banking platform focused on lending and borrowing products for digital assets. Ledn’s crypto products and differentiated geographic focus target an underserved customer base with growing demands for crypto banking services. Weak local currencies, limited access to banking infrastructure and dominant Latam market positioning place Ledn in a strong position to capitalize on the Latam market’s secular and macro tailwinds.

Lemon Cash

Buenos Aires, Argentina lemon.me

Lemon is a crypto startup within the fintech sector born in Argentina. Its objective is to expand the cryptocurrency revolution throughout Latin America with a focus on usability and financial inclusion. Lemon Cash, its main product, is a virtual wallet to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, send and receive money and receive crypto profits every week.

Molten

Boston, USA molten.co

Molten is building an end-to-end integrated infrastructure for digital media by providing solutions ranging from storage, to content and rights management, distribution, encoding, and payments in a single platform. The company’s main goal is to support film studios in their transition to the cloud by helping them visualize, manage, distribute, and trade content rights in a single platform.

Open Forest Protocol

Zug, Switzerland openforestprotocol.org

OFP is a web3 protocol designed to improve speed, scalability, quality and economics of carbon verification. It comes in the form of a DAO challenging forestry carbon credit MRV (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) using blockchain technology in contrast with the centralized incumbents (Verra, Gold Standard).

Origami

Delaware, USA joinorigami.com

Origami is building DAOs for the most valuable networks in the world. They are developing tools and processes that solve problems now inherent to DAOs, helping companies successfully build and grow one.

Parfin

London, UK parfin.io

Parfin connects traditional and digital finance into a secure and unified platform, bridging the Brazilian financial industry to the global crypto markets. The Parfin platform is a technology infrastructure for institutional clients to seamlessly manage and operate digital assets and traditional currencies across a wide set of digital asset exchanges, brokers, custodians and banks. The company is prepared to support the transition of financial markets infrastructure into the digital assets space, including crypto, security tokens (STOs) and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

Ribon

São Paulo, Brazil ribon.io

RibonDAO is a decentralized donation protocol that allows donors to call other people to donate with them most easily: automatically—making it possible to increase donations to charities. Decentralizing the platform enables a unique approach to the donation market, a wider adoption, and more innovation on top of it.

Strike

United States strike.me

Strike allows users to send and receive payments anywhere, instantly, for free. Strike is built on top of the Bitcoin Lightning network – the largest global, interoperable, and open payments standard. Strike believes that open payment networks enable universal participation in the financial system, ushering in a new digital economy with truly borderless money transfers.

Valora

San Francisco, USA valoraapp.com

Valora is a mobile-first crypto wallet native to the Celo Platform, available on both iOS and Android devices. Valora makes blockchain useful and accessible even on the most basic smartphones, enabling 6 billion smartphone users worldwide to reliably save, send, and spend crypto as easily as sending a text message.

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