Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Portugal (October 2026)

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• Aptoide — Find, discover and download the best apps and games for Android in the official Aptoide app store
• Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
• Outgoing — A ticketing tool that allows organizers to sell tickets directly on WhatsApp and Instagram. Users can purchase tickets through a personalized checkout process entirely within the chat, without registration or redirects. It also offers customer support that answers questions in real time.

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• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
• Blueprint Finance — Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing.
• M0 —

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• Chamelio — Chamelio builds intelligent technology for in-house legal teams. We understand that every in-house legal team operates uniquely - shaped by their industry context, company culture, and strategic priorities. Our platform adapts to these distinct characteristics, delivering hyper-personalized workflows that evolve with your team's specific needs.
• Bria — Bria is a Computer Software company.
• Mesh Security — Mesh Security is the industry’s first complete Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM) SaaS platform, a single source of truth that enables companies to implement a unified Zero Trust Architecture on top of their existing stack. Without using agents, Mesh effortlessly and seamlessly maps a company’s entire cloud XaaS estate in minutes, providing fullcontextual visibility, control, and protection of the Everywhere Enterprise.

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• Zynk — Make Global Payments Instant
• Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.
• BIO Protocol — Biotech's new financial layer.

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• Chainalysis — Chainalysis helps government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions engage confidently with cryptocurrency.
• Lifetime Health — We are a digital platform, transforming the healthcare landscape with our innovative hospital-at-home care services. Our mission is to create an efficient healthcare system that provides essential services, including lab tests, express check-ups, nursing care, and medical devices, right at your doorstep.
• Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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• Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
• Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
• Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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• Oh — The OpenAI of the spicy content industry, combining consumer platforms (@ohchatai | @ohdotfun) with infrastructure (https://t.co/BMwDSzAg14)
• Paxos Labs — Blockchain infrastructure for enterprises. Regulated by the OCC in the US, FIN-FSA in the EU, and MAS in Singapore. For support, visit https://t.co/qmOCfQa262
• Zcash Open Development Lab — Builders of the Zcash protocol and flagship Zcash wallet, Zodl @zodl_app. We envision a world without mass financial surveillance.

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• Meesho — Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
• Pine Labs — Pine Labs offers a merchant platform that includes technology and financial solutions for merchants. These solutions are aimed at helping merchants in increasing their revenue and reducing cost, complexity, and risk.The company connects financial institutions and consumer brands to enable merchants to deliver value to their retail customers. Itpowers offline and online last-mile retail transactions, provides customer insights for targeted sales, and offers financial solutions. The company’s cloud-based platform powers 3,50,000+ POS terminals across 3700 cities and towns in India and Malaysia.Over 1,00,000 merchants across sectors - electronics, food and beverage, fashion, airlines, and more, use Pine Labs’ solutions. 15 major banks, 7 financial institutions, and 100+ brands are part of Pine Labs’ platform.
• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.

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• Sapiom — The platform vertical AI companies build, ship, and scale agentic products.
• City Protocol — City Protocol offers growth incentives and creative tools driven by AI. A portable reputation is created via City ID.
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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• Haraka — Haraka issues stablecoin-based microloans based on social reputation.
• moreliquid — moreliquid is a digital assets platform that offers end-to-end services to asset managers for tokenised securities.
• Silver Koi — First equities perpetuals protocol. Long & short US stocks, forex, commodities, crypto, and more with up to 200x leverage. - https://t.co/Hy8QCUKnXW

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• Mento Labs — Mento is bringing FX onchain. We provide institutions with access to onchain FX at real-world rates.
• Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
• Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

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• Chord — Chord is a commerce data platform purpose-built for modern brands. Chord enables brands to unify, synthesize, and orchestrate their data to drive radical decisions and revenue.
• Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
• Probely — Probely is a web application and API vulnerability scanner for agile teams. Automate Security Testing by adding Probely into your SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Shardeum — Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that maintains low gas fees while providing true decentralization and solid security
• BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.

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• BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
• Lombard — The Bitcoin finance protocol. Bringing Bitcoin onchain with $LBTC, $BTC.b, Bitcoin Smart Accounts, Bitcoin Earn and the Lombard SDK.
• Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

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• Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
• Dirac Labs — Universal Navigation Powered by Quantum Sensing & AI
• Physical Superintelligence — Physical Superintelligence develops physical superintelligence systems that use AI-driven research to study physics, engineer physical systems, and explore new physical laws. Its approach combines human scientists with virtual physicists that conduct autonomous research campaigns covering hypothesis development, verification, experimentation,engineering, and deployment. The company focuses initially on the physical infrastructure underlying AI, including energy, materials, computation, sensing, and manufacturing.

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• Lyzer — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Primetag — AI-native influencer & creator marketing platform for brands & agencies. Find the best creators, analyse the market and competitors, and measure campaign performance.

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• TBook — The first embedded RWA liquidity layer that brings institutional-grade tokenized yield into user-facing apps
• Depinsim — The Free Internet Protocol. Earn free mobile data at https://t.co/xm18x6oDwx
• Honeypot Finance — Discover the ideas shaping AI and Web3. Independent perspectives, technical education, and smart contract licensing from Honeypot Finance.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Calimero Network — Welcome to Calimero's blog featuring news and educational content from the world of web3. With focus on privacy and scaling. For both techy and non-techy audience.
• MetaVersus World — MetaVersus World is a Web3 metaverse service provider.

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• Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• Hypernova — The onchain prop firm, built to back traders.

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• Pye Labs — Pye Finance is a Web3 startup that builds a staking-market infrastructure on the Solana blockchain.
• Octane — A developer-first platform to stress-test your smart contracts with cutting-edge AI. One-click install. Save time and money on security.
• BitVault — BitVault is a DeFi protocol that provides a crypto-native money solution via its BTC-backed stablecoin, bvUSD, and yield-bearing staked stablecoin, sbvUSD.

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• Akave Cloud — The Al-Ready Sovereign Cloud | Own your data. Control your costs. A modern S3-Compatible object storage.
• Hemispheric — Hemispheric develops fundamental AI technologies aimed at deciphering brain activity for innovative applications.
• Synchron — The endovascular brain computer interface.

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• Reddio — The fastest Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 with GPU-powered Parallel EVM and ZK Proofs for AI, gaming, and real-time applications.
• Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
• Pipeshift — Inference for real-time agents

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• Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
• Redpill AI — Access 200+ AI models with privacy-first infrastructure. Private models in GPU TEE, OpenAI-compatible API, zero data retention.
• The FishVerse — FishVerse combines GameFi, AI, and blockchain technology, allowing players to fish in a dynamic open environment from their own homes.

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• Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
• Aino — Aino is a location intelligence tool that enables businesses to analyze spatial data in just minutes. Aino saves hundreds of hours on data work for real estate, retail, urban planning, and geo-marketing companies.
• Orbital Paradigm — Orbital Paradigm builds reusable vehicles that carry cargo to space and bring it back. Dedicated missions, any orbit, on your schedule. Based in Madrid.

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• ARX — Secure chips, onchain. Creators of @useburner @offlinecashco @kongiscash.
• Nava labs — Guardrails for the agentic economy || Join our waitlist for private testnet
• Plastic Labs — Radically Decentralizing Alignment

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• LNT — LNT provides a Bitcoin Taproot-based token system that allows basic asset creation and transfers with limited available details.
• ChimpX AI — ChimpX AI is an AI-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) superapp designed to simplify crypto trading, cross-chain asset management, and blockchain interactions through natural language commands. The platform focuses on making complex DeFi operations accessible to everyday users by combining artificial intelligence, automation, and gaslesstransactions into a single interface.
• ZENi — ZENi is a data intelligence engine that powers autonomous AI agents. The platform transforms real-time on-chain and off-chain signals into actionable insights, enabling agents to make decisions, automate workflows, and execute tasks with high precision. Built as a decentralized data intelligence layer, ZENi supports Web3, fintech, e-commerce ,gaming and enterprise applications that require scalable, intelligent agent operations.

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• OpenEden — Mint and redeem TBILL tokens instantly 24/7 on the OpenEden TBILL Vault, and enjoy direct exposure to the U.S. risk-free rate.
• Ekiden — Ekiden is a next-generation decentralized exchange that combines a virtual AMM (vAMM), perpetual futures, and a central limit order book to provide the fastest, most equitable, and liquid on-chain trading experience with extremely low costs and MEV resistance.
• Fanable — Fanable is a Web3 marketplace specialized in Pokémon, comic books, and collectibles, allowing users to purchase, sell, and engage with their favorite products in both physical and digital forms.

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• YouSUI — YouSUI is an All-In-One platform running on the Sui Network, featuring a comprehensive suite of services including a decentralized exchange (DEX).
• Ekiden — Ekiden is a next-generation decentralized exchange that combines a virtual AMM (vAMM), perpetual futures, and a central limit order book to provide the fastest, most equitable, and liquid on-chain trading experience with extremely low costs and MEV resistance.

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• Derivio — Be early. Trade smarter. One terminal.
• PayGo — One request = one settlement. Pay-as-you-go payments for APIs, AI & agents. x402 on ENI
• Zoo Finance — Zoo Finance is a pioneering DeFi protocol focused on unlocking liquidity from locked assets, empowering users to access capital more efficiently while maximizing the utility of their on-chain holdings.

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• AlphaPoint — Join over 150 customers from 35 countries that have leveraged AlphaPoint's white label software to launch and operate digital asset markets.
• Argo Blockchain — Argo Blockchain (NASD:ARBK), is the First Climate Positive Bitcoin Mining Company. A Pioneer in Using Renewable Power & Innovation in Blockchain Technology
• Digital Prime Technologies — Full-Service Institutional-Grade Prime Brokerage for Digital Asset Management. DLCC offers full-service Prime Brokerage solutions for digital assets. Our all-in-one user interface leverages both API and Saas product offerings to connect clients with a growing network of liquidity providers to transact, borrow, and lend digital assets, and managecollateral. Our product suite also offers traditional Prime Brokerage services, such as consultation and capital introduction.

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• Greenlane — Greenlane is a distributor of premium cannabis accessories, packaging, vape solutions, and lifestyle products. It serves a diverse and expansive customer base with more than 8,000 retail locations, including licensed cannabis dispensaries, smoke shops, and specialty retailers. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Boca Raton, Florida.
• Seismic — Seismicy enables developers to establish innovative financial partnerships and investment instruments.
• Cluster Protocol — Cluster Protocol is the co-ordination layer for AI agents, a carnot engine fueling the AI economy making sure the AI developers are monetized for their AI models and users get an unified seamless experience to build that next AI app/ agent within a virtual disposable environment facilitating the creation of modular, self-evolving AI agents.

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• AllScale — AllScale is a next-generation platform empowering small businesses to scale globally faster with stablecoin. Payroll: Automate cross-border payroll in stablecoins—simplify contractor payments, eliminate costly intermediaries, and ensure instant global delivery.Invoicing: Create, e-sign, and send professional contracts and invoices in seconds.Get paid by clients in their preferred method and instantly receive stablecoin—maximizing liquidity, minimizing friction.Social Commerce: Transform your followers into customers. Embed a dynamic AllScale biolink on your social profiles, showcase your offerings, and securely collect instant stablecoin payments directly from your audience.
• Ekiden — Ekiden is a next-generation decentralized exchange that combines a virtual AMM (vAMM), perpetual futures, and a central limit order book to provide the fastest, most equitable, and liquid on-chain trading experience with extremely low costs and MEV resistance.
• Goblin Finance —

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• Walken —
• Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
• TrueNorth — Crypto's first AI discovery engine

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• Solak — Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world.
• Chainstack — Your cost-effective node API provider for low-latency onchain operations and deep historical data look-ups on 70+ chains.
• Ekiden — Ekiden is a next-generation decentralized exchange that combines a virtual AMM (vAMM), perpetual futures, and a central limit order book to provide the fastest, most equitable, and liquid on-chain trading experience with extremely low costs and MEV resistance.

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• Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
• Superstate — Superstate is modernizing investing through tokenized financial products
• Tools For Humanity — Tools for Humanity is a technology company building for humans in the age of AI.

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• Rhuna — Rhuna is an AI and blockchain platform that transforms event management with NFT ticketing and token rewards.
• Utila — Secure stablecoin and digital asset infrastructure for fintechs and enterprises. Run stablecoin payments and digital asset operations on modular infrastructure with MPC wallets, embedded compliance, and policy-driven governance.
• Cork Protocol — Cork's new DeFi primitive, Depeg Swaps allows investors to hedge and trade the risk of their pegged asset (LST/LRTs, Stablecoins, RWAs).

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• Esprezzo — Esprezzo Dispatch allows enthusiasts, crypto traders and businesses to easily automate workflows using smart contract and DeFi events.
• Manifold — Manifold operates as a systematic quantitative investment firm focused on the cryptocurrency space.
• Alterscope — Solity Network provides the infrastructure for Decentralized Finance to enable real-time processing of risk across chains, protocols, and liquidity pools.

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• impactMarket — impactMarket enables any vulnerable community to implement poverty alleviation mechanisms, like Unconditional Basic Income.

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• impactMarket — impactMarket enables any vulnerable community to implement poverty alleviation mechanisms, like Unconditional Basic Income.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Clitch — Clitch is an online platform that helps you connect with gamers that are suited for you through a setting called recruitment.

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• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• The Arena — A next gen SocialFi app redefining how creators connect, engage, and monetize their content.
• Sigma Computing — Sigma is the only BI analytics tool purpose-built for your cloud data warehouse. Uniquely scalable, with an experience you already know: the spreadsheet.

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• BULK Trade — One Exchange Infinite Markets
• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• Nova Markets — Decide what lists next on @HyperliquidX and earn from every listing, forever.

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• V12 — Tune V12 to your codebase. Investigate security findings with the source, a reproducible proof, and a concrete fix.
• Tako — Tako is a web and data search API for AI agents: one call returns cited web results and structured data from authoritative sources.
• Augusta Labs — Transforming businesses using AI.

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• Canza Finance — We are an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets, backed by Polychain, Avalanche, CoinMarketCap...
• Ari Swap — Ari Swap offers a loyalty + rewards product that allows customers to earn loyalty rewards for their purchases and redeem rewards towards future purchases leveraging the existing $Ari token as the points systems. Targeting small- and medium-sized businesses, the Ari Swap platform also includes an NFT engine to create, send and redeem NFTs anddigital coupons, offers and promotions.
• impactMarket — impactMarket enables any vulnerable community to implement poverty alleviation mechanisms, like Unconditional Basic Income.

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• SnakeLite — 10-min prediction markets on Hyperliquid whale positions, BTC and ETH. Predict up or down. Settle onchain. From the 100M+ download SnakeLite game.
• Sophon — Soph(+) is a tech studio building novel consumer experiences in crypto and ai. we build, own, and ship our own products, starting with pyre.
• A.A.A C(H+A)RM — AAA C(H+A)RM (Autonomous AI Agents Launchpad & Layer3) is the first AI-first, agent-focused orchestration platform.

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• Brale — One regulated system for stablecoin issuance, custody, payments, and compliance. 75+ programs in production across 45 US jurisdictions. SOC 2 Type II. Book a demo.
• Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.
• Phlair — 77NEKO merupakan acces situs utama untuk permainan viral yang tentunya paling kekinian dan bukan hanya itu dengan memanfaatkan fitur yang tersedia pemain dapat berpeluang cuan lebih besar dan menjadi sultan.

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• Hyperbolic — Access open-source inference and compute at a fraction of the cost. Build with us.
• Mastra — Mastra is an AI software that helps users to typescript complex operations and complete set of work using AI.
• Gravity — The Ad Network for AI

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• Ammalgam — Trade your impermanent loss for permanent gain. Lend, trade or leverage any asset without oracles. Live now: https://t.co/2eend1xsPf
• CrossCurve Metelayer — Your Unfair Advantage for Building in DeFi. Any token. Any chain. Any operation. One MetaLayer.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

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• Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
• Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.

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• Mesh —
• Hata — Your crypto gateway to global opportunities. Regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority. Buy, sell, and trade crypto securely.
• Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform