Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Cayman Islands (August 2026)

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• Deblock — Better than your bank: IBAN, Visa card, instant SEPA transfers, 4% a year, and a self-custody wallet for your crypto.
• Harbor — Future Proof Finance
• Dakota Ridge — Stablecoin infrastructure that enables global money movement.

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• Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
• Prodigy.Fi — Prodigy.Fi is a decentralized platform dedicated to facilitating income generation through on-chain dual investment trading strategies.
• Rails — Experience unparalleled speed and efficiency with Rails, your go-to platform for lightning-fast crypto perpetuals trading.

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• CAEX — CAEX is a crypto asset exchange operator. CAEX builds transparent and secure crypto asset trading platform for investors.
• Coinone — Coinone is the cryptocurrency exchanges. Under the vision to ‘Bring Blockchain into the World,’ they aspires to lead the new world of finance through blockchain technology. They currently operates the third largest exchange. They prioritizes the protection of clients’ assets and is dedicated to providing the most secure investing environment.
• townsquare — Crosschain infrastructure bringing institutional & onchain yields to retail, powering institutional strategies, & RWAs | https://t.co/5glAR6k007

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• Almanak — Almanak is a decentralized finance (DeFi) smart agent platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to automate, optimize, and intelligently manage a wide range of DeFi investment strategies. It enables users to create and deploy automated DeFi trading and risk-management strategies through coordinated AI agents. It provides anenvironment where AI handles strategy coding, backtesting across thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, risk monitoring, deployment via non-custodial Safe-based multisig accounts, and real-time performance monitoring with alerting capabilities. The platform supports seamless interaction with multiple blockchains and protocols via an LLM-powered interface.Almanak targets active DeFi participants, developers building financial applications, investment professionals, and users seeking automated portfolio insights. It emphasizes enhanced automation, continuous strategy execution, and adaptive automation driven by emerging AI techniques to respond to evolving market conditions.
• Megapot — Megapot is a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol that connects liquidity providers, apps, and gamers, allowing anyone to effortlessly sell tickets while also using them for retention and monetization purposes, allowing customers to earn huge yields.
• Tenbin Labs — TradFi liquidity with DeFi utility. Global markets, tokenized on-chain.

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• Blitzy — You Describe It, We Build It
• Satflow — Satflow aims to improve Bitcoin DEXs, enhance decentralization, and address issues like lack of advanced order types, high-speed data, and liquidity pools.
• Build on Bitcoin — BOB (Build on Bitcoin) is the first Bitcoin L2 with full EVM compatibility

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• CloudZero — CloudZero is the only cloud cost intelligence platform that puts engineering in control by connecting technical decisions to business results.
• Digital Reef — Digital Reef, Inc. provides scalable and open platform for eDiscovery services and digital information governance applications. It helps meet the needs of corporate and law firm clients to significantly lower costs, mitigate risks, and reduce time associated with the handling and processing of high volumes of electronically stored information (ESI)in the wake of eDiscovery.
• Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce delivers 3D printed patient-specific braces. Generated from a digital orthodontic treatment plan. Made for one. Born from light.

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• Obita — Obita provides enterprise-grade borderless payment infrastructure for fiat and compliant stablecoins, supporting global collections, payouts, and treasury operations.
• Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
• Questflow — AI Finance Agent for Outsized Returns. An AI finance agent that lets you invest alongside top investors across markets.

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

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• XFX — Powering international settlement
• Cyclops.io — Cyclops is the only crypto and stablecoin platform exclusively for payments companies. Cyclops enables payment service providers to accept crypto, do stablecoin settlement, and manage digital assets with enterprise-grade security. We provide PSPs, Card Networks, Acquirers, PayFacs and otherws with compliant crypto solutions without building in-house. Cyclops is chain agnostic, supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, USDT, and multi-chain stablecoin settlement. White-label and turnkey offerings.
• Birdai Labs — Birdai operates at the base of the chain, measures where value leaks between an order and its fill, and is built to return it to the people who create the order flow.

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• Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
• Wave — Wave is a US blockchain SUI ecosystem that offers DeFi and GameFi products.
• Domin Network — Pioneering the Future of Multi Chain E-Commerce, backed by @animocabrands https://t.co/16gnnhOcLy

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• Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
• Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.
• Particle — Particle: Diversified Restaking for Leverage Trading and Interest Rate Swap.

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• X10 — X10 operates as a hybrid crypto exchange provider.
• Trace Finance — Trace Finance enables secure and swift connections between businesses and their customers through payments and automatic transaction reconciliations on a large scale, promoting integrity and efficiency.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
• AIsa — Powering AI apps with one integration for premium APIs, data, compute, and payments. Backed by @AlibabaGroup @drapervc @Tribecap
• Databento — Databento provides real-time and historical market data APIs. Access data for equities, futures, options, and more with one integration. Sign up for $125 in free credits.

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• UnblockPay —
• Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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• EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
• KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
• Freehand — AI Teams for Complex Spend Management

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• Levl — Levl's infrastructure makes stablecoin-powered payments accessible, compliant, and operationally seamless. Supporting USD, EUR, GBP Named Accounts and liqudity into emerging markets.
• Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
• OpenTrade — OpenTrade providers web3 treasurers, institutions, and accredited investors access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment grade RWAs.

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• TBook — The first embedded RWA liquidity layer that brings institutional-grade tokenized yield into user-facing apps
• Catapult — Market agnostic, hyper-volatile charts. Ride 100x in minutes. https://t.co/kMSFE0RKBI
• Euclid Protocol — The Unified Liquidity Layer for DeFi | Euclid Protocol is a cross-chain DeFi infrastructure enabling efficient token swaps, liquidity aggregation, and optimized routing across 50+ blockchains on Evm, Cosmos and Solana.

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• Grego AI — AI-powered security tool to detect vulnerabilities in smart contracts.
• Pally — Pally is an AI Agent for your network.
• TrueNorth — The first Agentic Brokerage - build your own professional trading desk

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• Kaizan — Kaizan is a Client Intelligence Platform for Client Success teams to retain and grow revenue
• Baanx Group — Replacing Banking With Technology - Our technology enables self-custody transactions, allowing users to buy, spend, and borrow directly against digital assets securely and effortlessly.
• Build on Bitcoin — BOB (Build on Bitcoin) is the first Bitcoin L2 with full EVM compatibility

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• Bloom — Moved to @bloomsocial
• 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.
• VersiFi — VersiFi is a prime services platform. It provides full-service prime brokerage solutions.

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• Opendoor Technologies — Opendoor is the new way to sell your home. Skip the hassle of listing, showings and months of stress, and close on your own timeline. Get a free offer today!
• Steven.com — The operating system for the creator economy. Connecting creators to resources, platforms, community and technology where trust shifts to individuals.
• Clouted — Clout Kitchen is THE Virality Engine for brands and creators, designing data-driven viral campaigns with distribution marketing.

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• InsideDesk — Reduce AR days, boost collections, and streamline billing operations with InsideDesk's centralized revenue cycle management platform.
• CWX — CLOUDWERX provides elite engineering resources to accelerate your business.
• Lightworks — Lightworks is a Canadian consulting company that focuses on enterprise AI infrastructure and control systems. The company works with the biggest and most regulated companies in the world to plan, manage, and safeguard AI-powered systems.

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• Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
• Moso — Get started today! Shop online and earn crypto at 2,000+ stores.
• Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.

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• Mintify — Mintify is a VC-backed NFT multi-chain aggregator, analytics platform and trading terminal to deploy sophisticated NFT investment strategies. Our platform caters to a new type of trader looking for better tooling to discover, trade, and manage their NFT portfolios.
• Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
• Rhinestone — Infrastructure for modular account abstraction

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• Metya — Metya is an innovative dating platform that combines AI with Web3 technologies to offer a new approach to online dating.
• HolmesAI — HolmesAI is a decentralised AI agent that offers persona customisation, tool integration, and task-specific agent deployment services.
• LSP Finance — LSP is a full-featured digital asset management platform that is transforming DeFi by enabling Proof of Stake (PoS) networks to provide liquidity. The goal of the asset issuance protocol LSP.Finance is to develop tradable and interest-bearing solutions for assets such as beta tokens, Alpha project shares, and POS node shares.

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• Neutrl — Neutrl partners with online brands to provide a sustainable shopping experience - allow customers to remove carbon emissions from their orders.
• Optimum — Optimum constitutes a decentralized, high-performance memory infrastructure tailored for use across various blockchains.
• Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

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• Metafoodx — Metafoodx is on a mission to solve the challenge of food waste. We believe that it is one of the most critical factors for achieving global sustainability.
• Galaxy Bot — Galaxy Bot is an innovative robotics company that provides intelligent universal service robotic products.
• BetterCompany — At BetterCompany, it is our mission to help companies connect with best candidates at the best time, when they're looking! We use a blend of art and science to match candidates to roles and companies and we understand that timing is everything.

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• Drop — Drop provides liquid staking protocol for Interchain assets. It is an inaugural member of the Lido Alliance. It removes the specified protocol from a database.
• OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
• Hedgehog Protocol — Just Hedge It.

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• MYX — MYX is a decentralized derivative exchange that "uses intelligent rates and exposure hedging mechanisms to ensure protocol stability and provide sustainable high returns" through a peer-to-pool-to-peer paradigm.
• Parasail — Parasail enables actual users to attract finance and hardware effectively.
• Bool Network — Bool Network is a permissionless, decentralized, and secure Bitcoin verification layer that intends to securely decentralize the Bitcoin network's expansion while maintaining Bitcoin's consensus, ultimately increasing wealth within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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• Holyheld — Holyheld is a onchain crypto debit card. The one card for all crypto natives. Get your card, pay from your phone, use your wallet, and pick your crypto.
• Blockcast — Blockcast is a next-generation content delivery network that utilizes one-to-many distribution to save costs. It is an open content delivery network (CDN) with a distinct caching architecture that offers large, flexible capacity.
• Accountable — Verifiable Yield Opportunities

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• Setscale — Setscale simplifies trade & empower companies to scale with Purchase Order Financing. Setscale only get paid once you do! We fund Supply. You meet demand.
• Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
• Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

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• fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
• OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
• Trendies — Trendies is a provider of the Base Ecosystem Token Launch Platform, which is primarily designed for token holders.

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• Curvance — Curvance is a crosschain lending market for yield-bearing assets and any other ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum, Polygon zkEVM, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism and aspires to establish itself as the de-facto money market for any ERC-20 token.
• Darkbright Studios — Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.
• Fabric Cryptography — Fabric develops a custom cryptography hardware to accelerate cryptography algorithms. The chips, whose components exclusively serve cryptographic purposes, are based on Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs) which incorporate features of GPUs and ASICs to improve the speed and cost of advanced cryptographic workloads.

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• OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.

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• OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.

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• BitcoinOS — BitcoinOS is a Decentralized Finance company that builds and develops Bitcoin ecosystem.
• HackQuest — HackQuest is a Multichain Web3 developer and founder platform, with education, community events, hackathons, and accelerators at its core. HackQuest helps over 20 leading ecosystems such as Mantle, Solana, Arbitrum, and Linea onboard quality developers and supports developers to jumpstart their careers in Web3.
• Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.

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• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
• Avara Ventures — Avara creates smart contract-enabled products and public goods (open source protocols) that incorporate decentralized blockchain technologies and token-based economies.
• Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.

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• Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
• DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
• Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

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• IMUA — IMUA is a Layer 1 blockchain that provides shared security by combining decentralized security from well-known blockchains.
• Exocore — Exocore is the layer one blockchain for aggregated security.
• Voyage — Voyage AI is an AI infrastructure project building the first GEOFi network to make AI-generated content citable.

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• HolmesAI — HolmesAI is a decentralised AI agent that offers persona customisation, tool integration, and task-specific agent deployment services.
• Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
• aZen Protocol — aZen Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure for ubiquitous computing that utilizes blockchain technology to create a shared economy of computing power. It connects and manages resources globally to form a stable, distributed network that can support various applications such as DePIN, AI and Edge Computing.

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• Satflow — Satflow aims to improve Bitcoin DEXs, enhance decentralization, and address issues like lack of advanced order types, high-speed data, and liquidity pools.
• Riema Labs — Riema Labs is a bitcoin ecosystem platform that develops innovative solutions to reduce the cost of bitcoin transactions.
• Build on Bitcoin — BOB (Build on Bitcoin) is the first Bitcoin L2 with full EVM compatibility

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• NFT3 — NFT3s will become a direct monetization path for individuals to associate value on their terms with various aspects of their data journeys through life with different projects, individuals, social networks, companies, and institutions.
• Bitcoin.com — The world's gateway to Bitcoin & cryptocurrency. Buy, sell, spend, swap, and invest in BTC, ETH, BCH, AVAX, MATIC & hundreds more digital assets. Stay informed about crypto, DeFi, and Web3.
• Treasure — Treasure is building a gaming and entertainment powerhouse, built and owned by all.

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• kpk — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
• OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
• ETHZilla — Born from Ethereum. Built for everyone

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• Zulu Network — Zulu Network is the first DePin-focused Bitcoin Layer 2 to achieve the tokenization of computing power, allowing anyone to power DePIN innovation and earn Bitcoin.

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• Kuru — Kuru is an on-chain order book exchange.
• fomo — Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
• Commonware — Commonware is a startup that supplies developers with a "anti-framework" — effectively all of the building pieces for developing a blockchain — in order to go beyond the era of standardized, general-purpose software kits.

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• OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
• Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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• OneBalance — OneBalance is a new framework for credible accounts - combining chain abstraction, gas abstraction and permission management to solve the fragmented Web3 user experience.
• Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

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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.
• Bondex — Join Bondex, a Web3 network with 4M+ users. Monetize connections, build your reputation, and earn $BDXN rewards. Advance your career or discover top talent now.
• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade, and manage digital assets all in one place.

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• NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
• Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
• Zulu Network — Zulu Network is the first DePin-focused Bitcoin Layer 2 to achieve the tokenization of computing power, allowing anyone to power DePIN innovation and earn Bitcoin.

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• Ord.io — Search, browse, and vote on ordinal inscriptions like never before.
• Build on Bitcoin — BOB (Build on Bitcoin) is the first Bitcoin L2 with full EVM compatibility
• Smart Transactions — Smart Transactions is a protocol designed to execute transactions.