Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Portugal (October 2026)

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• Blueprint Finance — Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing.
• M0 —
• Crusoe — Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support.

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• Oh — Chat live with uncensored AI girlfriends and digital twins of top creators. Flirty, personalised conversations, voice, and steamy images. Discover your favourite companion on OhChat.
• Paxos Labs — Platforms shouldn't have to choose between stablecoin capabilities and control over them. Paxos Labs delivers compliant, customizable infrastructure to mint, move, and monetize digital assets, with predictable economics at every layer. Incubated within Paxos, the regulated infrastructure behind $180B+ in tokenization.
• Zcash Open Development Lab — Built for financial sovereignty. The most private way to transact, period. Your data is yours alone. Make private payments from shielded ZEC to any crypto.

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• Sapiom — The agentic economy is here, but it cannot progress until AI agents can autonomously access and operate across real-world systems and services.Sapiom gives AI agents trusted access to the API economy.We provide the essential infrastructure (KYA, wallets, spending and usage controls, and multi-rail payments) to unlock secure, programmaticcommerce for the AI era.Built for the next era of commerce where agents buy, sell, and negotiate on our behalf.We're backed by world-class investors and are hiring exceptional engineers in SF to define the financial infrastructure for the agentic era.Learn more & join us: https://www.sapiom.ai
• City Protocol — City Protocol offers growth incentives and creative tools driven by AI. A portable reputation is created via City ID.
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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• Derivio — Be early. Trade smarter. One terminal.
• PayGo — PayGo is a financial technology platform built for the machine-to-machine economy, allowing artificial intelligence (AI) agents and software tools to pay each other instantly.
• Zoo Finance — A Structured Protocol for Better Liquidity Utilization

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• Waymo — Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google’s labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world’s first fully self-drivingtrip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities.It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California.
• Pine Labs — Pine Labs offers a merchant platform that includes technology and financial solutions for merchants. These solutions are aimed at helping merchants in increasing their revenue and reducing cost, complexity, and risk.The company connects financial institutions and consumer brands to enable merchants to deliver value to their retail customers. Itpowers offline and online last-mile retail transactions, provides customer insights for targeted sales, and offers financial solutions. The company’s cloud-based platform powers 3,50,000+ POS terminals across 3700 cities and towns in India and Malaysia.Over 1,00,000 merchants across sectors - electronics, food and beverage, fashion, airlines, and more, use Pine Labs’ solutions. 15 major banks, 7 financial institutions, and 100+ brands are part of Pine Labs’ platform.
• Devoted Health — Devoted Health is a new healthcare company serving seniors. Aiming to launch Medicare Advantage plans in 2019, their mission is to build a healthcare solution good enough for Mom. They will be devoted to the health and wellness of their members by helping them navigate the health care system with personal guides, by utilizing world-class technologyto enable a simplified experience, and by partnering with top providers for better health outcomes.

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

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

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• Azura — The most powerful onchain trading platform
• Botanix Labs — Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier.
• Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.

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

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

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

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• KAIO — The first protocol purpose-built for RWAs, ensuring seamless movement, compliance, and liquidity in DeFi through a sovereign AppChain.
• TrueDAO — TrueDAO is a new-generation AI-native decentralized autonomous financial infrastructure. Built on the underlying logic of DAO community co-governance, it leverages smart contracts to construct an on-chain financial system integrating AI algorithm scheduling, staking, and dynamic protection. It optimizes economic parameters and asset strategies inreal time via AI models, delivers low-volatility and sustainable value growth paths for digital assets, and pioneers an innovative paradigm of autonomous finance.
• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the Web3 economy

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• Thirdverse — Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan.
• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
• Lombard — Lombard is behind LBTC, BTC.b, Bitcoin Earn and Bitcoin Smart Accounts. We're onboarding $1 trillion in Bitcoin to DeFi.

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• Yellow — Trades clear off-chain through state channels. Only the net result settles on-chain, across the chains participants already use.
• KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• Greenlane — BeraStrategy by Greenlane Holdings, Inc. is a Berachain-focused Digital Asset Treasury.
• Seismic — We power the complete stablecoin stack. Spin up virtual accounts, send global payments, run compliance workflows, and a whole lot more. All in one place.
• Cluster Protocol — Liberation Engine for Internet Capital Market

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• TonUP — TonUP offers cryptocurrencies as well as IDO services.
• 4Everland — 4EVERLAND is a Web 3.0 cloud computing platform that integrates storage, computing, and network core capabilities.
• Ordz Games — Ordz Games is a gaming provider for the Bitcoin eco-chain.

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

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• BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
• Lombard — Lombard is behind LBTC, BTC.b, Bitcoin Earn and Bitcoin Smart Accounts. We're onboarding $1 trillion in Bitcoin to DeFi.
• Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

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• BULK Trade — BULK is a leaderless network designed so you never need to trade anywhere else.
• Pave Bank — Pave Bank is built for programmable finance. Hold, move and manage traditional currencies, stablecoins and digital assets from one corporate account, 24/7.
• Nova Markets — Decide what's next on Hyperliquid.

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• Hyperbolic — Access open-source inference and compute at a fraction of the cost. Build with us.
• Mastra — Ship AI agents that reason, remember, and act in TypeScript. Mastra provides memory, tools, MCP, and observability to go from prototype to production.
• Gravity — Gravity helps AI platforms earn revenue and connects advertisers with high-intent buyers through personalized ads inside AI answers.

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

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• StaySAFU — Join in legal crypto casino Rainbet Canada and play thousands of casino games, slots, and betting markets. Claim a welcome bonus up to C$1500 with fast, secure payments for Canadian players.
• Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.
• Mobula Labs — Stream-based, modular & blazing fast APIs powering the best onchain products.

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• Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• Hypernova — Hypernova is the on-chain crypto prop firm. Up to $300k in total funding, transparent on-chain rules and instant smart-contract payouts. Keep 80% of your profits.

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• V12 — V12 is your security agent for mission critical code.
• Tako — Tako is a web and data search API for AI agents: one call returns cited web results and structured data from authoritative sources.
• Augusta Labs — Transforming businesses using AI.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Gateway — Gateway is a decentralized protocol for creating, consuming, and displaying verifiable credentials.
• Ethereum Institutional — Ethereum Institutional is an independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.

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

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

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• Rhuna — One white-label stack for payments, ticketing, access, and data across live entertainment.
• Entravel — Enjoy premium & luxury hotels at insider prices and save up to 60%. Entravel is the leading luxury hotel booking platform offering non-public, exclusive prices to its members.
• Cork Protocol — Cork's new DeFi primitive, Depeg Swaps allows investors to hedge and trade the risk of their pegged asset (LST/LRTs, Stablecoins, RWAs).

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• ORO AI — Human data infrastructure for AI
• PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
• Templar Protocol — The first cypher lending protocol, borrow dollars against Bitcoin, without trusting centralized institutions, be your own bank.

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

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• Pye Labs — Pye is the first market to trade future staking rewards on Solana. Get paid today for rewards you'd earn later - across any whitelisted validator.
• Octane — A developer-first platform to stress-test your smart contracts with cutting-edge AI. One-click install. Save time and money on security.
• BitVault — A stablecoin earning secure, risk-adjusted yield

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• Watch.fun — Watch.fun is a platform that offers ticket-based entries for luxury watch giveaways.
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Exponent Finance — Trade interest rates, hedge yield risks, and access automated yield vaults to construct your onchain portfolio. Built on battle-tested, open smart contracts thoroughly audited by leading security firms.

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• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the Web3 economy
• Ethereum Institutional — Ethereum Institutional is an independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.
• Digital Prime Technologies — Full-Service Institutional-Grade Prime Brokerage for Digital Asset Management. DLCC offers full-service Prime Brokerage solutions for digital assets. Our all-in-one user interface leverages both API and Saas product offerings to connect clients with a growing network of liquidity providers to transact, borrow, and lend digital assets, and managecollateral. Our product suite also offers traditional Prime Brokerage services, such as consultation and capital introduction.

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• Credit Coop — Earn through curated credit vaults backed by vetted borrowers, transparent on-chain repayments and programmable collateral. Lend to real businesses with Credit Coop.
• Daler Trading — Leading crypto market maker delivering institutional-grade liquidity solutions for exchanges, tokens & protocols. Expert in options, futures & spot trading.
• WeatherXM — Join WeatherXM's global network powered by blockchain. Earn WXM tokens with accurate, hyperlocal forecasts for agriculture, energy, and more.

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• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• Fly Media — AI-native IPs at infinite scale. If Disney were created today, it would look more like Fly Media.
• Superstate — Superstate is modernizing investing through tokenized financial products

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• 375ai — 375ai is an edge data intelligence network on Solana that provides advanced real-time data collection and analysis to power a smarter, more connected world.
• Power Protocol — The ecosystem for blockchain entertainment. Fueled by $POWER. Launch Partner: @Fableborne Power Up Your Play
• Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

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• StablR — StablR issues compliant stablecoins StablR Euro (EURR) and StablR USD (USDR), backed by reserves and audits. Built for secure payments, DeFi, and fintech.
• Kemet Trading — Kemet provides the industry’s leading digital asset derivatives trading platform. Kemet’s turnkey, all-in-one technology platform supports the full trade lifecycle with high-performance portfolio, execution and risk management capabilities and a full suite of APIs, enabling institutions to execute across the entire digital asset derivatives marketfrom a single endpoint. Built on state-of-the-art technology, the Kemet platform provides maximum flexibility and can be enhanced quickly in response to client requests.Led by a team of technologists from the world’s most advanced trading institutions, including D.E. Shaw, Jump Trading, DRW and Cboe, Kemet’s platform meets the most demanding standards for latency, reliability and security. Kemet is backed by some of the biggest names in digital asset trading and VCs in addition to a host of some of the best angels in the industry.
• Arbelos Markets — Arbelos Markets provides unprecedented access and transparency to counterparties through powerful technology.

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• Mento Labs — Mento Labs' mission is to enable real-world adoption of digital assets by providing transparent and reliable technological primitives to our partners around the world.
• 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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• Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
• Redpill AI — Access 200+ AI models with privacy-first infrastructure. Private models in GPU TEE, OpenAI-compatible API, zero data retention.
• The FishVerse — FishVerse combines GameFi, AI, and blockchain technology, allowing players to fish in a dynamic open environment from their own homes.

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• Chomp — Chomp is a social network platform that focuses on on question-and-answer with prediction-based systems.
• Ayble Health — Ayble is your digital guide to better gut health.
• Realm.Security — Realm.Security transforms sprawling security data into a unified intelligent entity. Leveraging AI and cutting edge data processing technology, we deliver the right information to the right destination at the right time.

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• SnakeLite — Predict the performance of Hyperliquid traders, track the flow of smart funds, and earn profits in the decentralized prediction market through AI signals and real-time data.
• Sophon — Soph(+) is a tech studio building novel consumer experiences in crypto and ai. we build, own, and ship our own products, starting with pyre.
• A.A.A C(H+A)RM — AAA C(H+A)RM (Autonomous AI Agents Launchpad & Layer3) is the first AI-first, agent-focused orchestration platform.

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• Redpill AI — Access 200+ AI models with privacy-first infrastructure. Private models in GPU TEE, OpenAI-compatible API, zero data retention.
• Rivet.cloud (Formerly OpenRelay) —
• 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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• Rain — Rain is a vertically integrated issuing partner for global platforms. Enabling innovative financial products through modern APIs, flexible infrastructure, supporting electronic and digital money. Launch a card program in days not months.
• Leap Wallet — Leap is the ultimate crypto wallet for Cosmos blockchains, offering seamless exploration of multiple chains, asset transfers, staking rewards, governance participation, and more. With best-in-class UX design, managing your crypto assets has never been easier. Stay in control with our 100% non-custodial wallet, securely storing your private keys on your computer. Discover the future of crypto wallets with Leap.
• Flipside Crypto — AI tools fail on expert work because they're missing context. Edisyl supplies the domain knowledge and proprietary data they need, inside the tools you already run.

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• Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
• Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
• Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.

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• Navra — Navra is a bridge between traditional finance and the blockchain economy, built on railroads that have already moved billions.
• Enigmata — Enigmata is an AI data security company focused on protecting sensitive data while keeping it usable for AI and analytics. Its technology combines cryptography, anonymization, governance, and audit controls to enable secure AI workflows. The platform helps enterprises unlock regulated and confidential data without exposing the underlying sensitiveinformation
• OptimizeGEO.ai — OptimizeGEO.ai is an AI search visibility platform whose proprietary engine helps brands dominate LLM and AI search results

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• Oh — Chat live with uncensored AI girlfriends and digital twins of top creators. Flirty, personalised conversations, voice, and steamy images. Discover your favourite companion on OhChat.
• Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance
• Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance

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• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond

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• Creator.Bid — Creator.Bid allows content creators to create AI-driven digital assets to monetize their content.
• NATIX Network — Earn passive income by owning a part of your favourite city
• Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

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• Haraka — Haraka issues stablecoin-based microloans based on social reputation.
• moreliquid — moreliquid is a digital finance platform helping asset owners raise capital.
• Silver Koi — First equities perpetuals protocol. Long & short US stocks, forex, commodities, crypto, and more with up to 200x leverage. - https://t.co/Hy8QCUKnXW

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