Top 10 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

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• Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
• DeepSafe — The world's 1st CRVA (Crypto Random Verification Agent) solution, leveraging MPC, ZKP, TEE & RingVRF, creates a secure verification network for blockchain & AI.
• SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.

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• WingRiders — WingRiders is a British Virgin Islands-based exchange platform that leverages the benefits of Cardano to correct the issues plaguing DEXs on Ethereum.
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
• Redacted Coin — Redacted is a Web3 entertainment and gaming platform.

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• Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
• EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.

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• Polemos — Enter the Polemos Forge - the first decentralized GameFi platform for asset lending, Play and Earn Blockchain Game University, scholarships, staking, & more!
• UCTalent — UCTalent is the Decentralized Talent Network on a mission to disrupt the $320B+ global Tech recruitment industry by decentralizing headhunting, freelance work, and professional development with Blockchain and AI. Our long-term vision is to foster a comprehensive ecosystem for all talent-related services. We operate as a dynamic, unified platformwhere freelance headhunters, companies, gig-based professionals, and coaches can collaborate and create value. This ecosystem is composed of four key pillars: a Headhunting Marketplace for full-time roles, a Freelancer Marketplace for project-based work, a Talent Board for direct engagement, and a Coaching Marketplace for skill development. This ecosystem is powered by proprietary Dual AI Agents for automated sourcing and career optimization, all running on a strategic multi-chain architecture for maximum accessibility. On-demand privacy technologies are integrated to ensure sensitive data remains confidential. The result is a secure, efficient, and highly incentivized network where talent is sourced more effectively, professional growth is accelerated, and everyone is rewarded for creating value.
• COTI AI Agents — Generative AI Agents and Web3 empowering digital creation and engagement

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• CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
• Avalon Finance — Avalon Finance is a decentralized protocol that offers a BTC liquidity mechanism for production.
• Stoneblade Entertainment — Stone Blade Entertainment makes Ascension, Shards of Infinity, Ascension Tactics and SolForge Fusion. Find the games, rulebooks, digital versions and news.

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• Kapkap — KAPKAP x PISCES88 menghadirkan akses APK Slot88 online dengan koleksi permainan dari berbagai provider dalam satu platform. Nikmati pilihan game yang beragam, tampilan responsif, akses praktis melalui perangkat mobile, serta informasi permainan terbaru.
• PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
• 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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• STBL — STBL is a next-generation stablecoin system that strives to refocus the stablecoin economy around the user. It enables users to create fully collateralized stablecoins from tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). At STBL, we’re transforming the stablecoin landscape with a groundbreaking approach that enables individuals and institutions to mint,distribute, and profit from stablecoin usage. Founded by Reeve Collins (former CEO at Tether), with a vision to revolutionize digital finance, we empower our community by delivering both the control and profitability of stablecoin infrastructure directly into their hands.
• Myriad — Myriad Markets is a decentralized prediction‑market protocol that lets users trade short‑term, outcome‑based markets on events across crypto, sports, politics, gaming, and culture.
• Agentum — Agentum provides an autonomous economic layer built on the BNB Chain that enables AI agents to transact trustlessly with one another without human intervention. The protocol utilizes a combination of TEE confidential computing, zkVM verifiable evaluation, and specialized ERC standards to ensure secure task execution, portable agent reputations, andautomated escrow settlements. By aligning economic incentives at the protocol layer, it ensures that honest machine-to-machine commerce always carries higher payoffs than deceptive practices.

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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.
• Saturn — Saturn Labs is building a stablecoin protocol backed by Bitcoin Credit
• THEA-AI — We build AI agents for risk markets. You can find out more information in these sections.

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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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• 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.
• PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
• Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.