Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Asia in May 2026

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• PERL.eco — The Planetary Ecosystem Registration Ledger will be a dedicated blockchain for real-world ecological assets through tokenizing carbon credits and biodiversity, NFTs and decentralised (DeFi) rewards.
• Meter.io — Meter.io is a base layer hybrid consensus protocol built to address the volatility, scaling and interoperability problems in the existing cryptocurrencies.
• Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.

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• Tradoor — Tradoor protects traders, LPs, and the protocol against unforeseen market fluctuations by using clever math and safety measures to enable traders to trade with confidence.
• Runes DEX — Swap Runes for BTC seamlessly, enjoy low fees, fast transactions, and earn yield as a liquidity provider.
• Nested — The best decentralized portfolio management & copy trading experiences

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• AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
• AlchemyNFT — AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.
• Mask Network — Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

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• fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
• Blitz Electric Mobility — Blitz provides electric vehicles and fleet management software to food and beverage delivery, courier, and logistics companies.
• Blueprint Bryan Johnson — On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.

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• PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
• Momentum — Momentum is a move central liquidity engine with multi-sig treasury management, token vesting, and liquidity provisioning.
• Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.

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• zkMe — zkMe delivers reusable zero-knowledge KYC, zkKYA (Know Your Agent) and zkKYC for the agentic economy. Verify the human principal behind every AI agent.
• Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
• Legend of Arcadia — Legend of Arcadia is a mobile card-based RPG inspired by Kingdom Hearts, leveraging blockchain technology for immersive gameplay. Players can engage in real-time PvP modes, trade highly composable NFTs, and earn rewards through strategic gameplay.

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• MugglePay — MugglePay is a crypto payment solution that accepts USDT/USDC on Celo, Arbitrum, Ton, ICP, Stellar, Polygon, Base, Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron in just 5 minutes. We offer solutions for AI Agents, Crypto Debit Cards, NFT presales, DePIN, Buy Now Pay Later BNPL, and Cashback for Crypto. MugglePay supports plugins like WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, WHMCS, and Payment Links. A seamless, borderless solution for businesses, empowering easy crypto payments and flexible transactions.nts.
• Alpha Impact — Discover your trading potential with cross-exchange auto copy trading platform. Generate alpha and make impactful decisions through tokenized trade signals.
• Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now

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• Gondi — Gondi is a non-custodial decentralized NFT lending protocol designed to build the most effective NFT credit market. The protocol allows for ongoing underwriting and full and partial refinancing of all outstanding loans, resulting in a more dynamic and liquid market.
• Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
• Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.

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• Era Software — Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.
• Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
• Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.

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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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• Canza Finance — We are an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets, backed by Polychain, Avalanche, CoinMarketCap...
• OceanEx — OceanEx is one of the fastest-growing and reputable cryptocurrency exchange.
• AlchemyNFT — AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.

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• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
• Ref Finance — Ref Finance is a DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol that costs less than $0.01 for transactions.
• Parallax — Parallax offers a cross-border payments platform for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. The service enables receiving international client payments, holding funds in USD, exchanging currencies, and sending money to domestic bank accounts and mobile wallets. Users manage balances and transfers through a web app with quoted rates anditemized fees. The platform supports global payouts and recurring disbursements to partners and team members. Compliance measures include identity verification and transaction monitoring aligned with regulatory standards. Documentation and support resources guide account setup, funding, and cash-out.

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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.
• Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.
• 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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• Arf — Arf, a VISA Innovation Program company, is a global #payment network enabling instant and fully compliant fiat-to-fiat #cross-border payments by leveraging regulated stablecoins for #financial institutions, especially EMIs, PIs, MSBs, ewallets, neobanks and digital #remittance companies.
• Obita — Obita provides enterprise-grade borderless payment infrastructure for fiat and compliant stablecoins, supporting global collections, payouts, and treasury operations.
• aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.

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• pieverse — Pieverse is a Web3 platform that turns people’s time into tradable digital value.
• 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.
• Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.

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• Obita — Obita provides enterprise-grade borderless payment infrastructure for fiat and compliant stablecoins, supporting global collections, payouts, and treasury operations.
• Inversion — Inversion is a technology-first investment company that acquires and transforms legacy businesses with blockchain technology.
• Heritage Distilling — Heritage Distilling Co. (HDC) is a craft distillery based in Gig Harbor, Washington. HDC is the most awarded craft distillery in North America by the American Distilling Institute 10 years in a row. We pour a little of our heart into every batch of spirits we make.

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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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• NodeOps — NodeOps offers AI-enabled infrastructure to Node Operators, speeding Web3 protocol development.
• RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
• E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.

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• Ad-Shield — Start measuring revenue lost to ad blockers and learn how to get additional revenue through Ad-Shield Recovery today
• Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.
• Decentralised Gaming Ventures — D.G.Pals is a virtual pet, NFT Game Project that focuses on Squad-battler (PvP and Competitive), Siege Defence, Clan System, and various types of genre revolving around the IP as part of the ecosystem in the D.G.Verse.

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• Runes DEX — Swap Runes for BTC seamlessly, enjoy low fees, fast transactions, and earn yield as a liquidity provider.
• Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
• Hexagon Wireless — Hexagon Wireless is a provider of decentralized wireless technology.

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• MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
• Soter Insure — Soter Insure is a provider of insurance products tailored to the digital asset economy. It provides the Web3 ecosystem with institutional-grade insurance for broader adoption against a lack of appropriate products and scarce capacity.
• Zodia Markets — Zodia Markets' mission is to be the most trusted and reliable partner for your institutional crypto trading. Secure your institution's digital assets today.

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• HashPower — HashPower is a professional blockchain expert that provides investors seamless access to blockchain mining.
• Inferix Labs — Inferix Labs is ​​a decentralized GPU network that provides GPU visual computing solutions dedicated to 3D/AR/VR rendering and AI inference.
• Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy

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• Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
• SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
• SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.

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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• Reposwap — RepoSwap offers seamless token launches, optimized liquidity provision, and robust community governance. Key features include a VC Launchpad, Crosschain DEX, and Advanced Staking options.
• Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.

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• TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
• Synervest — Synervest Group is a fintech platform offering regulated cross-border trading, payments, and financial technology infrastructure for institutional clients, for both B2B and B2C models. It's headquartered in ADGM and operates in Europe and the Middle East, with offices in the UK and Cyprus.
• Cookie3 — Cookie3 is an AI-driven MarketingFi platform bridging Web2 and Web3 by providing comprehensive analytics spanning off-to-on-chain data, applied across 12+ EVM blockchains to enhance user journey tracking, attribution, and campaign ROI. It includes tools like analytics dashboards, CRM, campaign manager, affiliate marketplace, reputation scoring, andan airdrop shield; all unified by its token and Cookie DAO for governance and user rewards. It empowers campaigns with AI insights, fraud protection, and a transparent, incentivized marketing economy.

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• Aark — Trade crypto perpetuals with up to 1000x leverage, zero gas fees, and an industry-low 0.01% trading fee. Earn payback on losses with VIP rewards. RWA & altcoin perps on Arbitrum. Backed by OKX Ventures.
• Itheum — As we enter the web3 and metaverse era; Itheum unlocks data silos and generates new value for your data.
• 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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• ETHGas — ETHGas aims to redefine how users engage with Ethereum by providing low-latency, 3ms settlement times, and real-time trading, as well as a comprehensive product suite for exact order execution.
• Rio Network — Rio Network is an operator of a public proof-of-stake blockchain platform intended for the issuance, investment, and life-cycle management of digital securities and crypto assets.
• Allora Labs — The source for NFT pricing. Upshot uses machine learning to provide deep insight into NFT markets and unlocks a wave of exotic new DeFi possibilities.

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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.
• Caldera — Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.

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• Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
• Lympid — We believe that anyone should have access to the amazing opportunities found on the blockchain, from DeFi protocols (aave, compound, yearn…) to Crypto Indexes, there's so much to discover! At Lympid you will be able to do it all easily in the same app, and directly through EUR.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• Cowboy Snake — Cowboy Snake is the TvT play-to-earn game inspired by snake on the blockchain. Cowboy Snake is a product of OrenCT Ltd.
• Formless — Formless enables gamers, NFT enthusiasts and digital collectors to find their favourite game while helping games find their targeted fans.
• Clear Protocol — Clear Protocol, Inc. is a healthcare IT company. Our product, Clear Protocol, is Software-as-a-service for hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.

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• VOID — The framework for building sovereign multi-chain apps. Deploy once, access everywhere.
• MSquared — MSquared (M²) develops a network that allows metaverses to be used together. It uses blockchain and cryptocurrency to connect digital assets to various organizations. MSquared is based in London, United Kingdom.
• BIO Protocol — The BIO Protocol (BIO) allows onchain scientific communities to fund, build, and co-own research and products in specific biomedical domains including lifespan, brain health, and rare disorders. BIO, founded by senior VitaDAO members, empowers worldwide communities of scientists, patients, and investors to take science into their own hands andbring solutions to life more effectively than traditional pharmaceutical companies.

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• CertiK — CertiK, the largest Web3 security service provider, uses AI and formal verification to protect and monitor smart contracts and protocols, securing the Web3 ecosystem.
• Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.
• Onboard — Onboard strives to provide the best financial platform and community for on-chain developers and creators.

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• Perena — Perena is a startup developing the basic infrastructure to address significant difficulties in the stablecoin sector.
• SOON — SOON is building the highest throughput stack that allows for any SVM L2 to be deployed on any L1.
• ChainOpera AI — The Blockchain and Protocol for Co-owning and Co-creating Decentralized AI Apps and Agents for Humanity. Backed by Federated AI OS and Platform

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• 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.
• Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
• Zypher Network — Zypher Network, Portal for Revolutionary Fully-on-Chain Games using ZKP & AI

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• Samansa — Samansa is a film production company that offers planning, production, and distribution of telefilms, dramas, and short series.
• AndGAMER — AndGAMER is an eSports agency that develops custom controllers and gaming products for players.
• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.

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• ether.fi — EtherFi is a non-custodial decentralized ETH staking method that distributes staking to node operators in exchange for rewards.
• Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
• QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.

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• Payy — Payy is a fintech application that enables stablecoin transactions, seamless payments, cryptocurrency wallets, and exchange services.
• Wildcat Labs — Wildcat Labs provides on-chain credit and grants access to a detailed view of all market parameters and logs for real-time monitoring.
• Euphoria — Euphoria is a crypto derivatives trading app that aims to simplify options and perpetual trading.

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• Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
• Joystream — Joystream is a block chain-based, decentralized video platform.
• Konnex World — Konnex is building the decentralized coordination, verification, and payment layer for autonomous robots. Powered by Large Behavioral Models and Proof-of-Physical-Work, it connects machines into a single global network where robots can understand, collaborate, and transact.

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• FereAI — Unlock real-time AI crypto insights and automated trading with FereAI. Discover top crypto trends, optimize investments, and start trading smarter with your personal AI team.
• Legend. trade — Legend. trade is a crypto trading company by decentralized exchange.
• Euphoria — Euphoria is a crypto derivatives trading app that aims to simplify options and perpetual trading.

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• KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
• DeepNode AI — DeepNode connects researchers, data scientists, and enterprises into one transparent, verifiable network for building real-world AI. DeepNode AI a technology service provider focusing on decentralized AI infrastructure,
• Renaissance — Renaissance allows artists to amplify their streaming traction and tap into a community of their super fans.

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• NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
• Bitlight Labs — Make Bitcoin Smart
• Pop Social — Pop Social is the ultimate social gateway to Web3. Experience a multi-chain social ecosystem and discover your online social lifestyle. Connect and engage with a decentralized global community to leverage content and ownership economy.

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• Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
• Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
• FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.

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• Deep Infra — Deep Infra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.
• Healthy.io — Delivering home urinalysis and digitised wound care in minutes
• Bastion — Bastion blends the best of web2 and web3 technologies to broaden opportunities for organizations and their customers.

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• Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
• Coinshift — Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.
• Infludesk — Infludesk works with leading brands all over the world and creates influencer marketing campaigns that speak directly to their target audience.

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• Medable — Medable is powering the future of clinical trials, with our decentralized and remote trial platform.
• Shihang Intelligent — Shihang Intelligent is a company that creates water robots and intelligent unmanned equipment. It requires "the ability to fight in wartime and respond in emergencies, with a focus on independent research and development, production, and sales of water robots and intelligent unmanned equipment. The company focuses on surface/underwaterspecial operation robots and takes "being able to fight in wartime, respond in emergencies, and provide peacetime services"
• Hezhong Enterprise Cloud — Hezhong Enterprise Cloud offers digital working capital solutions for enterprises. They use proprietary algorithms to create a reasonable market pricing model, improve capital flow efficiency, and achieve a win-win situation for both parties.

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• Adot — Adot is a pioneering decentralized search network for the AI Internet, providing users with privacy, accessibility, and sophisticated AI capabilities while transforming the digital landscape through decentralized architecture and cutting-edge technology.
• Amulet Protocol — DeFi insurance protocol
• Parallax — Parallax offers a cross-border payments platform for freelancers, remote workers, and businesses. The service enables receiving international client payments, holding funds in USD, exchanging currencies, and sending money to domestic bank accounts and mobile wallets. Users manage balances and transfers through a web app with quoted rates anditemized fees. The platform supports global payouts and recurring disbursements to partners and team members. Compliance measures include identity verification and transaction monitoring aligned with regulatory standards. Documentation and support resources guide account setup, funding, and cash-out.

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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.
• Noise Labs — Noise Labs offers a programmatic liquidity platform for people to trade trends and narratives as assets.
• RockSolid Network — RockSolid Network is a DeFi protocol offering institutional-grade liquid vaults and white-label vault solutions.

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• Evolv — Evolv is equipping brands with the technology to create immersive experiences for their customers.
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
• Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!

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• CLST — Buy & sell Bitcoin and cryptos with our easy and seamless Uncollateralized lending. Tust the world's finest crypto borrowing, trading or exchange platform
• Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
• Tarta Labs — Tarta Labs is dedicated to building a next-generation anime IP ecosystem and aims to innovate within the anime gaming space by blending engaging narratives, high-quality visuals, and community-driven gameplay experiences.