Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Taiwan (August 2026)

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• Wizzwoods — 1st pixel farm game integrates interchain capabilities with a SocialFi twist.
• SuperIntent — SuperIntent is a cryptocurrency AI app that streamlines on-chain earning tactics. Developed on a multi-agent framework with abundant yield sources.
• SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.

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• zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
• PolkaFantasy — PolkaFantasy provides digital collectibles, this marketplace will bring together artists, creators, and crypto. It is an NFT marketplace that offers diverse functionalities across a cross-chain marketplace with low transaction costs. They can game to battle and interact with each other.
• Saros Finance — Saros DEX - connecting traders, LPs & builders, enhancing liquidity flow for sustainable growth. Powered by @solana.

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• Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
• Oh Gamers — Gamer-centric, leading Web2 gamers into the Web3 world!
• Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.

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• Origin Lab — Origin Lab licenses premium content from game studios and 3D universes - delivering structured, multimodal data for AI training.
• Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
• Asterix — Hybrid is the future

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• OP_NET — OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions.
• Watch.fun — Luxury watch drops. Win a Rolex for as little as $7, drops weekly. Certified by Wristcheck. Backed by @TheSpartanGroup @SolanaVentures @BigBrainVC and more...
• Space — The first leveraged prediction market on @solana

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• Atlas V — At the crossroads of the storytelling heritage and the most advanced video game technologies, Atlas V crafts immersive experiences. Emmy award winner 2022
• Hexa — Hexa is the world's first Immersive OS. The most powerful 3D tech stack to create, manage, display and analyze your 3D projects. Hexa's customers (Macy's, Logitech, Crate & Barrel, Unity), use their technology to lower visualization costs, increase sales, improve customer acquisition cost and globally display/distributetheir immersive content.
• Oatside — Oatside is a food and beverage services agency that mainly deals with oat milk supply services.

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• Walken — Walken develops a free2play blockchain game that aims to onboard millions to DeFi and Web3 while rewarding players for walking.
• Carv — CARV enables AI Beings to live, evolve, and govern as sovereign intelligences on-chain; not as tools, but as beings that act, learn, and lead.
• CARV — CARV enables AI Beings to live, evolve, and govern as sovereign intelligences on-chain; not as tools, but as beings that act, learn, and lead.

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• Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
• Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• Axis — Turning market inefficiencies into tokenized alpha. Backed by @galaxyhq, @FalconXGlobal, @okx.
• 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.
• Hypernova — The onchain prop firm, built to back traders.

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• 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• Almanak — Almanak is a decentralized finance (DeFi) smart agent platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to automate, optimize, and intelligently manage a wide range of DeFi investment strategies. It enables users to create and deploy automated DeFi trading and risk-management strategies through coordinated AI agents. It provides anenvironment where AI handles strategy coding, backtesting across thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, risk monitoring, deployment via non-custodial Safe-based multisig accounts, and real-time performance monitoring with alerting capabilities. The platform supports seamless interaction with multiple blockchains and protocols via an LLM-powered interface.Almanak targets active DeFi participants, developers building financial applications, investment professionals, and users seeking automated portfolio insights. It emphasizes enhanced automation, continuous strategy execution, and adaptive automation driven by emerging AI techniques to respond to evolving market conditions.
• Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.

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• Credbull — Credbull manages on-chain private credit funds that provide vital financing solutions to creditworthy small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
• Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.
• Velvet Capital — Trade any crypto onchain - spot and perpetuals across 7 chains with AI-powered routing. Non-custodial DeFi trading terminal + AI trading bot. 100K+ traders.

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• Jibo — Founded in 2012, Jibo is widely known for creating the eponymous robot, Jibo: the first social robot for the home. Jibo is built to interact and communicate with the people around him, and he uses advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with speech and facial recognition to forge relationships with his family. Jibo, Inc. officiallylaunched Jibo to the public in 2017 after nearly three years of intensive development and optimization. The company is privately held and headquartered in Boston.
• Locix — Locix creates spatial intelligence solutions that increase the efficiency and productivity of warehouses, factories, and commercial spaces by providing unprecedented visibility into operations and actionable insights through data analytics. Equipment utilization, forklift utilization, dock utilizati
• STARBIT — STAR BIT is the only choice of providing digital transformation solutions.

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• Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
• Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
• Blaze.tech — Blaze is the smarter no-code platform for teams to build internal tools. Create beautiful client portals, admin panels, inventory management systems, and automated workflows without needing to write any code. Trusted by enterprise companies for security and scale. Loved by startup entrepreneurs for being so easy to use and build applications.

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• Cubist — Cubist brings modern software engineering practices and first-class security to web3 builders. Cubist’s toolkit makes it safe and easy to build, test and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain dapps in automated pipelines that handle keys and sequencing.
• Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• Watch.fun — Luxury watch drops. Win a Rolex for as little as $7, drops weekly. Certified by Wristcheck. Backed by @TheSpartanGroup @SolanaVentures @BigBrainVC and more...
• Focus Universal — Focus Universal Inc. is a Universal Smart Instrumentation Platform ("USIP") developer and Universal Smart Device ("USD") manufacturer for the Internet of Things market. The Company's USIP generalizes instruments into a reusable foundation and architecture-specific components (sensor modules), which together replace thefunctions of traditional instruments at a fraction of the cost. The USIP has an open architecture and features the ability to connect thousands of sensors and probes from different industries and vendors communicating with the same device. This interoperability and reusability gives Focus Universal a major edge over competitors.
• Healthcare Triangle — Delivering cloud expertise & clinical and operational excellence to aid providers, payers, and life science firms in achieving better outcomes. $HCTI

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• FUNX — FUNX is a virtual reality game platform for relaxation use. They use a cloud gaming app or web browser to connect remotely to a virtual PC and play the game from there. There isn't any hardware, wires, installation or download time for games, firmware updating, or anything else that is often associated with playing games locally on a PS5, XboxSeries X, or laptop.
• ShareX — ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
• SignalPlus — SignalPlus is a leading platform for digital asset options trading, providing professional tools and insights.

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• TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• Asgard Finance — We help fearless investors take structured positions in Internet Capital Markets
• Orochi Network — The Verifiable Data Layer For RWA. Granted by @Ethereum | Mainnet now live. Explore: https://t.co/Y29cF9pv7C
• Temple Digital Group — Private and compliant financial market infrastructure for the world's institutions on the @CantonNetwork

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• Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
• Watch.fun — Luxury watch drops. Win a Rolex for as little as $7, drops weekly. Certified by Wristcheck. Backed by @TheSpartanGroup @SolanaVentures @BigBrainVC and more...
• Reown — A complete, compliant payment method built on the world's largest wallet network, designed to fit directly into existing PSP stacks with a single, future-ready integration.

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• Karak — The Global Base Layer for Programmable GDP.
• Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
• Canton Strategic Holdings — Effective February 18, 2026, Tharimmune Inc. is now Canton Strategic Holdings. Find us at @CantonStrategic.

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• AEON — Powering #agenticeconomy #x402 | AEON is settlement layer bridging autonomous AI interactions (A2A & A2M) with real-world value flows. Backed by @yzilabs $AEON
• KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
• Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.

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• Wondera — Make music about anything.
• Tokenz — Tokenz is a global payment platform designed to help digital content creators and businesses scale their revenue seamlessly. Supporting payment methods worldwide, Tokenz enables brands to build customizable web stores, optimize conversions, and expand direct-to-consumer sales. As a Merchant of Record (MoR), Tokenz ensures global tax compliance,fraud protection, and multi-currency transactions—allowing businesses to sell with confidence across international markets.
• Surf Music — SURF Music is a digital marketplace ecosystem for music creators and buyers across the global entertainment industry.

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• Hitcard — Hitcard is a trendy card culture brand that uses technology to upgrade card-like consumer products.
• Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
• MetaverseGo — MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to Play-and-Earn Games, Guilds, NFTs, and Decentralized Applications allowing users to own assets, connect with industry players, and use their earnings across multiple payment platforms.

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• Cambrian — The financial intelligence layer for agents & institutions. Cambrian's API helps you make the best financial decisions onchain. Testnet waitlist @ https://t.co/eohvz17ALp
• World Foundation — World is a new standard of trust for the internet - private proof of human, powerful financial infrastructure & the human-first experiences they enable.
• Perceptron Network — AI agents that learn, earn, and reward trust. Perceptron powers a decentralized mesh of reputation and revenue. Perceptron Network is the first AI-powered system where interactions drive growth and earn real rewards.

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• Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.
• SekaiE — Sekaie is a company that provides solutions and services in various sectors, including technology and digital transformation. Their offerings include web development, mobile application development, and digital marketing services. Sekaie aims to help businesses enhance their online presence and improve operational efficiency through tailoredsolutions. The company focuses on leveraging technology to meet the unique needs of its clients, helping them remain competitive in the digital landscape.
• welevel — Building games with attitude

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• DAOBase — DAOBase is an AI-powered data and infrastructure platform developed particularly for DAOs. By employing innovative algorithms, the company assists DAOs and voters in establishing on-chain and off-chain data reputation layers, allowing users to intelligently monitor DAO governance, make educated decisions, and investigate future job models.
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Konnex World — Building the GDP of autonomous systems. Turning robot labor into on-chain liquidity. $KNX

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• BULK Trade — One Exchange Infinite Markets
• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• Nova Markets — The next billion-dollar market starts here. Powered by @HyperliquidX

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• bestat — bestat is a developer of platforms for 3D data creation, management, and utilization using AI and offers digital twins services.
• BitBiome — BitBiome is a biotechnology company focused on analyzing microbial genomes and discovering enzymes and proteins that can be applied across industries such as pharmaceuticals, food production, and sustainable manufacturing. The company uses single-cell microbial sequencing technology to study microbes that are difficult to culture throughconventional laboratory methods, enabling the creation of a large microbial genome database called bit-GEM. Its platform supports enzyme discovery, genome analysis, and bioengineering efforts aimed at developing bio-based alternatives for industrial processes. bitBiome also works with academic institutions and commercial partners on research projects involving areas such as biodegradable materials, biomass conversion, and pharmaceutical ingredient synthesis. The company positions microbes as a resource for advancing the bioeconomy by providing tools and data that support biotechnology research and industrial applications.
• PopChill — PopChill generates an online marketplace for second-hand trade, enabling users to share their fashion styles and sell idle items.

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• ARPA — ARPA is a network that provides secure computation, which enables data to be shared and used without disclosing the raw data to anyone during data-at-use. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under majority malicious condition using Information-theoretic MAC and Zero- Knowledge Proof. By using state-of-the-art Multi-party Computationalong with innovative node communication scheme, our privacy-preserving computation protocol enables a new way of data monetization called Data Renting.
• ARPA Network — ARPA Network is a decentralized computing network designed to improve the fairness, security, and privacy of blockchain technology.
• Sanctum — Stake SOL and earn optimized LST returns from JupSOL, bbSOL, and more, and launch your own custom LST and Solana validator.

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• SIBEX — Trade securely and directly between BTC and any ERC20 - Atomic cross-chain swaps. No Account Creation. No middlemen. Global Liquidity.
• OceanEx — OceanEx is one of the fastest-growing and reputable cryptocurrency exchange.
• BlockSeer — Raw data; real insight. Built for Bitcoin mining teams that want answers, not overhead. Free Bitcoin transaction explorer and wallet monitoring tool.

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• Woo X — Founded in 2018, high-performance trading workspace. Built by traders for traders. Backed by YZi Labs @yzilabs (Previously Binance Labs) @WOO_X_Japan
• WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.

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• Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
• Hyperdrive — Next: Lending markets built for RWAs. No oracle, no AMM, no liquidator.
• Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.

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• Xsensio — Xsensio develops the unique Lab-on-Skin™​ sensing platform to sense in real-time biochemical information at the surface of the skin, providing unprecedented real-time information about our health and wellness, in a simple and non-invasive way.The Xsensio Lab-on-Skin™ sensing chip relies on a unique, highly-miniaturized sensing platform developedat the Nanolab of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. By leveraging semiconductor properties, our sensing platform unleashes a whole new set of possibilities in continuous health monitoring.
• AdMaster — AdMaster (AdMaster精硕科技) is focused on domestic advertising, and is a third party provider of solutions for marketing massive data in China. It is also the key domestic independent third party of massive data management platform at present. AdMaster aims at helping advertisers to realize the monitoring and optimization of digital marketing effect aswell as improving the overall marketing ROI by technology-driven massive data perception research. AdMaster has a server cluster which processes more than 200 billion data and iterates more than 100 types of data models every month. The main research and service areas include digital marketing effect monitoring and researche, valuation and management of social media marketing effect, analysis and management of social big data, and more.
• R+W — R+W is a global agency & startup incubator based in Hong Kong, Taipei, New York and Washington DC.

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• Laevitas — Laevitas is a data analytics platform based on quantitative finance models for the crypto-asset market. The company aims to provide analysis by implementing mathematical models on data from a variety of crypto-asset derivatives markets
• Delio — Crypto Financial Services Provider
• Orderly Network — Omnichain orderbook infrastructure for DeFi. Launch your own perp DEX with shared liquidity across 17+ chains.

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• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
• Perceptron Network — AI agents that learn, earn, and reward trust. Perceptron powers a decentralized mesh of reputation and revenue. Perceptron Network is the first AI-powered system where interactions drive growth and earn real rewards.

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• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• Mighty Bear Games — The Singapore-based AI product studio behind SecretSauce.
• Martial Arts Awakening — Martial Arts Awakening is a blockchain game developer focused on the long-term development of blockchain, Web3.0, Metaverse, and NFT ecosystems.

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• Zkcandy — The L2 Gaming ZK Chain supercharged by iCandy Interactive and ZKsync
• Woo X — Founded in 2018, high-performance trading workspace. Built by traders for traders. Backed by YZi Labs @yzilabs (Previously Binance Labs) @WOO_X_Japan
• Liquorice — We're thrilled to announce our $1.2M pre-seed round, led by @greenfield_cap and with participation from @l2iterative, @polymorphiccap, @HoradrimCapital, and @HASHCIB. Angel investors include founders from @1inch.

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• Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
• PublicAI — PublicAI is a Web3 distributed AI training network that helps people to earn rewards by contributing data work.
• Power Protocol — The ecosystem for blockchain entertainment. Fueled by $POWER. Launch Partner: @Fableborne Power Up Your Play

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• Meld — Access stablecoins and digital assets anywhere
• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• Bitblox Games — Offer innovative and engaging blockchain-based games on your platform and attract a new wave of players with Bitblox.

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• Metagood — Metagood is the operating layer for tokenized assets across their full lifecycle: compliance, transfer rules, entitlements, corporate actions, and audit.
• Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
• Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

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• FereAI — Fere AI runs autonomous crypto agents in the web app or inside ChatGPT & Claude via MCP. Chat-to-trade, 24/7 strategies, and Polymarket with an edge.
• Oh — The OpenAI of the spicy content industry, combining consumer platforms (@ohchatai | @ohdotfun) with infrastructure (https://t.co/BMwDSzAg14)
• Share — From subsea cables to last-mile networks, Share coordinates fragmented infrastructure into a single ecosystem.

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• Anichess — Anichess develops a decentralized chess game.
• EarlyFans — Welcome to EarlyFans! A new way to find your favorite creators, support them early, and get rewarded for it.
• CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative

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• Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
• Genesis Shards — Crafting a whole new suite of NFT powered products across multiple blockchains
• Hedgehog Protocol — Don't scroll. Predict.

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• Kingdomverse — Kingdomverse, a metaverse mobile game developer.
• The Kingdom — The Kingdom is an upcoming open world metaverse focusing on culture-led experiences. Explore immersive cities, embark on missions and quests, dress up your NFT avatars and create your own world in The Kingdom.
• The Kingdom — The Kingdom is an upcoming open world metaverse focusing on culture-led experiences. Explore immersive cities, embark on missions and quests, dress up your NFT avatars and create your own world in The Kingdom.

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• OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
• Farcana — Experience fast-paced 4v4 PvP battles in a futuristic sci-fi landscape. Compete as one of 24 Stars with unique abilities to dominate the arena.
• Access Protocol — Publish written content. Mint NFTs. Build communities on Discord & Telegram. All under a single subscription.

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• Artue — Artue is pioneering the art industry's digital transformation.
• E-Pal — E-Pal connects high-caliber gamers worldwide, offering you supportive gaming companions anytime, anywhere. You'll never battle alone!
• Moonlake AI — Vibe code games and worlds into existence.

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• YeagerAI — YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization.
• Surge — The open infrastructure powering the Bitcoin-native Credit Line. Powering @surge_credit
• Ducat Protocol — Bitcoin-native credit and stablecoin protocol. Vaults, loans, redemptions, and liquidations on Bitcoin L1, enforced by Bitcoin Script and verifiable on Bitcoin.

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• WOO Network — Trade better on WOO X with low fees and deep liquidity. Buy, sell and earn on your crypto on a secure and trusted platform with live proof of reserves.
• Neptune Mutual — Need Crypto Insurance? You don't need to submit loss proof to receive payouts. No need to wait after creating a claim. Get a free price quote now.

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• Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
• TAC — TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access Telegram users, and it enables Ton wallet holders to easily interact with EVM dApps deployed on TAC.
• Bion — Bion is a Web3 shopping application that uses blockchain technology to enhance the shopping experience.