Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Middle East 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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• PPKING — PPKING is a unique decentralized financial platform that specializes in beneficial liquidity and MEME token trading.
• BTA Protocol — BTA Protocol is a decentralized ecosystem protocol based on BTC that includes applications such as staking, liquidity, range stability, launch pool, and lending protocols.
• Nexus Network — Nexus Network brings secure yields for idle bridge assets. Nexus Network delivers utilises the latest staking technology to offer a non-custodial and transparent way to generate yields for rollups and EVM chains

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• DotOracle — DotOracle is a chainless decentralized network. They use a combination of the PBFT protocol and the elliptic curve multi-signature technique to enhance node communication and speed up node agreement. Their polka dot ecosystem by providing a decentralized oracle service to transfer information from the real world to polka dot in real-time.
• Vent Finance — The easiest way to research, apply, and purchase early crypto project tokens. Sign up and get started today.
• Zeitgeist PM — Zeitgeist PM is a blockchain tech to facilitate prediction markets and the futarchy form of governance.

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• Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
• 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
• Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.

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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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• Me3 — Me3 is a crypto wallet to purchase, send, receive, and exchange tokens and NFTs.
• dKloud — dKloud is an enterprise-level cloud platform that helps customers build better software and more efficiently through our products.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sophont — Multimodal foundation models for healthcare
• Sei Labs — Accelerating the Future The Fastest Layer 1 Blockchain
• Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration

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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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• Quranium — Quranium (founded in early 2024) is the world’s first Convergence Layer, a Layer‑1 blockchain infrastructure purpose-built to fuse quantum security, AI-native automation, and EVM compatibility. Headquartered in Switzerland with offices in UAE (DMCC) and Singapore, it leverages post-quantum cryptography (NIST-approved SLH‑DSA, ML‑KEM) andhigh-performance PoS consensus to create an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable foundation for Web3 Quranium is designed for a post-quantum world, it delivers an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable decentralized infrastructure. Quranium is not just a blockchain — it’s the foundation for a new era where quantum, AI, and Web3 converge securely and seamlessly.
• Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
• Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.

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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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• Sovryn — Sovryn is a Bitcoin-based decentralized trading and lending platform. It's developed on RSK, a side chain of the Bitcoin blockchain-powered by merge-mining, and is governed by the community.
• Otonomi — Transformative insurance for an industry in motion. Our blockchain-powered parametric MGA platform provides claims automation, digital funds management and algorithmic underwriting.
• RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.

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• Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
• T-Rex — T-Rex is a new blockchain ecosystem intended specifically for consumer-facing applications, with the goal of transforming the Web3 attention layer via its revolutionary Proof of Engagement (PoE).
• Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.

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• ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
• Open Game Protocol — Open Game System is a project that helps web games work better on phones, allowing the games to use tools that phones already have.

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• Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
• Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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• Lite Strategy — MEI Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEIP) is a San Diego-based oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapies for cancer. The Company’s clinical development pipeline includes lead drug candidate Pracinostat, a potential best-in-class, oral histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor. Pracinostat has been tested in more than 150 patients inmultiple Phase I and exploratory Phase II clinical trials, including advanced hematologic malignancies such as myelodysplastic syndrome, acute myeloid leukemia and myelofibrosis. The Company expects to initiate a randomized Phase II trial of Pracinostat in combination with standard-of-care in at least one hematologic malignancy toward the middle of 2013. In addition, MEI Pharma is developing two drug candidates derived from its isoflavone-based technology platform, ME-143 and ME-344. Results from a Phase I trial of intravenous ME-143 in heavily treated patients with solid refractory tumors were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in June 2012. A Phase I clinical trial of intravenous ME-344 in patients with solid refractory tumors is ongoing.
• aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
• SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.

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• BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.

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• Sekuya — Sekuya is an anime gaming metaverse platform that transform the gaming landscape through a community-driven approach in an entirely new anime epic fantasy universe.
• STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
• Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.

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• 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.
• Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
• BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.

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• Freed — Join thousands of happy clinicians saving 2+ hours a day. Use Freed's AI medical scribe for instant clinical documentation.
• Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
• Sierra — Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI.

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• Briefcase — Automate your accounting workflows with AI
• Silas Insurtech — Streamlining manually intensive and laborious Insurance Underwriting processes within Commercial and Specialty Lines.
• Low Observable Technology — Low Observable Technology delivers solutions in digital asset trading infrastructure, specializing in market making and liquidity provision. The firm also develops stealth technologies for defense applications, focusing on electronic countermeasures and low observability systems critical to undetectable aircraft missions.

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• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
• Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
• Pontem Network — Pontem lets you find product market fit in a permissionless environment prior to launching on the Facebook-backed Diem Blockchain.

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• Obex — Obex helps to fund stablecoin projects backed by compute, energy and fintech credit on the Sky protocol.
• Kite AI — Kite AI is a purpose-built, EVM-compatible L1 designed to power the AI economy.
• Seismic — Seismicy enables developers to establish innovative financial partnerships and investment instruments.

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• Bitfury Group — Bitfury is a global technology incubator shaping the next generation of ethical innovation.
• TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
• Digital Asset — As leaders in blockchain technology, Digital Asset empowers customers with Daml, the leading platform for multi-party applications; an innovative smart contract language and Canton, our privacy-enabled distributed ledger technology.

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• Homeis — Checkout the full domain details of Homeis.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller!
• Simplex — Buy crypto instantly with credit card, bank transfer, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more. Simplex provides a fast, secure fiat-to-crypto onramp.
• Rewire — Secure financial services designed to help migrants make cross-border money transfers. Rewire offers great rates, fast delivery, multilingual customer support

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• GenLayer — GenLayer is a platform that focuses on intelligent contracts.
• Spicenet — Spicenet enables universal access to the top DeFi venues across all networks, creating better financial outcomes for all.
• YeagerAI — YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization.

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• Versatus — Build the future in any language.
• Hydro — The Ultimate Platform for Staked Assets
• Helix Labs — Decentralized Finance Focused Universal ZK Rollup

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• STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
• CrossCurve Metelayer — Your Unfair Advantage for Building in DeFi. Any token. Any chain. Any operation. One MetaLayer.
• Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.

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• Aternity — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
• Worklight — Signup to be the first to know when we launch.
• Sensible Medical Innovations — Sensible Medical Innovation Ltd. is introducing a breakthrough sensing and monitoring technology providing actionable and accurate data for guiding the management and treatment of several chronic medical conditions representing today’s biggest burden on US and worldwide healthcare budgets.

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• BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.
• Checkstep — Checkstep is the trusted AI content moderation software that helps global platforms detect harmful content, enforce policies, and stay compliant at scale. Combine powerful automation with human expertise to deliver safe, relevant, and compliant digital experiences.
• Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans

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• Web3Auth — Web3Auth is simple, non-custodial auth infrastructure that enables Web3 wallets and applications to provide seamless user logins for both mainstream and native Web3 users.
• Project SEED — Project Seed is an one-stop blockchain gaming ecosystem that accelerates mass-adaption.
• Horizon Land — Horizon Land is the infrastructure platform that empowers builders to construct their own open and accessible virtual worlds; and to scale in a complete ecosystem of Games, Education, Entertainment, Social networks, …

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• Vend Park — Unlock the true value of your parking asset with a fully digital parking access and revenue control system
• Wolf — Get all the tools and expertise you need to launch your own branded on-demand staffing platform, SpaaS and apps.
• Dataplor — Leveraging machine learning, AI, and human capital, dataplor delivers verified international places data to the world's leading companies.

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• Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
• 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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• Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
• Kairos Loan — Kairos Loan is a new type of lending protocol allowing you to borrow instantly using an NFT as collateral and with the best rates on the market.
• Webb Protocol — Welcome to Webb, an ecosystem of infrastructures and applications designed to extend privacy to the blockchain space. We are committed to a future where privacy is accessible for all in the multi-chain world.

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• Payflows — Payflows is a fintech company focused on treasury management program for businesses.
• Tomo — Friendly experts to guide you through the entire home buying journey
• Fenbeitong — Fenbeitong is the enterprise consumption platform for full process control. Through intelligent control rules and reminding measures, Debeitong helps enterprises to save a lot of money during travel, car use, procurement and other public consumption. Through the credit monthly payment and unified invoice consumption mode, Debeitong helps employeesto spare money. , free of charge, no reimbursement, greatly improve the efficiency of business operations.

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• Bodhi — Bodhi is a decentralized prediction market platform focusing on Chinese market.Bodhi prediction market will be built on top of the Qtum blockchain. Qtum combines Bitcoin Core infrastructure with Ethereum Virtual Machine to provide stability, modularity and interoperability for dApps build on its platform. Bodhi aims to be one of the earliest andlargest dApps run on Qtum.
• BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.
• RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.

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• StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.
• Doubler Pro — Join Doubler, become a Winner.
• Multiple Network — Multiple Network is a web3 DePIN project that uses SD-WAN technology to create a network layer that allows for high-speed transfer of digital assets and data.

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• Perena — Perena is a startup developing the basic infrastructure to address significant difficulties in the stablecoin sector.
• AlchemyNFT — AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.
• StakeStone — Discover the Autonomous Neo Bank redefining finance. Earn bank-grade yield, make borderless payments, and power intelligent money movement for humans, AI, and machines.

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• Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
• Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
• Billy Bets — Billy Bets is an AI platform that tracks sports bets, manages a wallet, and makes smarter bets with AI assistance.
• Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.

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• Meld — Meld empowers developers to build a Multi Vendor Fintech stack. With a few lines of code, developers gain access to a wide range of financial integrations across multiple domains. Meld helps you lower your overall 3rd party vendor costs, increase coverage and conversion rates, and save you time by launching integrations across markets faster. Weprovide performance analytics for every provider you integrate with - putting you back in control of your fintech stack.
• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• Coverd, Inc. — Finances made easy

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• Asigna — Asigna project started in late 2022, was established with full decentralization in mind, akin to Bitcoin's original vision. There has always been a pressing need in the Bitcoin community for a personal multi-sig that would offer peace of mind to all its holders. Moreover, Asigna is introducing itself to the rising player in the ecosystem: theStacks ecosystem, which operates as a layer 2 on top of Bitcoin.Asigna employs a native multisig solution. This makes it the safest multi-sig available since user privacy remains unaffected.Asigna digital vault offers a robust channel for storing, transmitting, and collecting various currencies such as BTC, Stacks, BRC20, and Ordinals. Additionally, it supports batch transactions. Soon to be added to the roadmap are Unisat, sBTC integration. Notably, Asigna integration with other Stacks dApps are flawless, allowing users to stake STX or directly acquire ordinals.
• Irys — Irys is a blockchain designed to store large volumes of data onchain for flexible durations and allow smart contracts to use that data directly during execution. Storage fees are separate from execution fees, and the protocol verifies data availability continuously.
• YeagerAI — YeagerAI is a pioneering AI research lab focused on developing technology that promotes sovereignty, transparency, and decentralization.

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• BEAM — Beam offers privacy, confidential assets, DeFi, NFTs, DEX, and a seamless user experience in a secure, decentralized environment.

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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
• W3.io — W3.io is a web3 company dedicated to driving Web3 adoption through open protocols and standards.
• Niobium Microsystems — The encrypted cloud has arrived.

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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.
• Blum — Blum is a decentralized exchange platform

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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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• 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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• Omi — Omi is where marketing teams generate and publish stunning product photos and videos. Generate eCommerce banners, Social Media visuals, Ads creatives, CRM bundles and Print materials.
• Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
• Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.

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• Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration