Blockaid
$50M
Web3 security startup, fighting cyber crime and crypto fraud
Investors: Ribbit Capital, Variant, Cyberstarts
Cygnus
$20M
Modular real yield layer & the first compliance mechanism layer
Investors: MIRANA, Manifold, OKX Ventures
Kinto
$20M
Ethereum L2 network with built-in compliance mechanisms
Investors: Brevan Howard
Altius
$11M
Modular VM-agnostic, high-performance framework builder
Investors: Pantera, Founders Fund, Digital Currency Group
Universal
$9M
Cross-chain wrapped asset protocol
Investors: Old Crypto, C Ventures, Flow Obito Capital
Fluent
$8M
Ethereum L2 blending Wasm, EVM & SVMs into one network
Investors: AV1 Ventures, Polychain Capital, Nomad Capital
Primus
$6.5M
Privacy-focused encryption layer protocol
Investors: Dispersion Capital, Varrock, Amber
Acre
$4M
Liquidity layer for Bitcoin scaling
Investors: BIG BRAIN Holdings, ORANGE DAO, Delphi Dragon
MANSA
$3M
Cross-border payment services platform
Investors: Tether, Faculty Group, Holdinding Capital
Maestro
$3M
Multi-product ecosystem of cryptocurrency bots on Telegram
Investors: Draper Associates, Wave Labs, Delphi Dragon
