Top 25 Payments Startup Investors in Malta in January 2026

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• A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
• NeuronX — NeuronX Protocol is the pioneering decentralized lending protocol on Dfinity, setting the stage for smart DeFi. By focusing on AI-driven automation and enhanced user experiences, NeuronX aims to revolutionize the DeFi landscape and appeal to a broader audience. At the core of NeuronX is a groundbreaking innovation: AI-Powered Smart LiquidityPlatforms (AILPs). These AILPs are advanced vault strategies operated by intelligent AI algorithms. Users can effortlessly gain leverage by simply depositing a base asset. Behind the scenes, AILPs leverage AI to automate complex transactions and continuously rebalance positions, ensuring optimal leverage without the risk of liquidation. This integration of AI streamlines the process, making advanced financial strategies accessible and hassle-free.
• Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

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• 3RM — Verified contact at any decentralized organization. Manage new business, partnerships, and engagement across organizations like never before.
• ELYZIO — MENA's Leading Developer & Publisher for Indies
• Cedro Finance — An Omnichain Liquidity Protocol that connects fragmented liquidity across chains for greater capital efficiency.

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• Wave — Wave is a US blockchain SUI ecosystem that offers DeFi and GameFi products.
• Domin Network — Domin Network is a decentralized business network that connects software and hardware in many business situations using the NFT middleware protocol and DePIN rollup technology.
• E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.

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• Centrifuge — Centrifuge is the platform for tokenized real-world assets, providing the infrastructure and ecosystem to tokenize, manage, and invest into RWAs.
• Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
• Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

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• Coinweb — Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.
• THORSwap — THORSwap is a cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) built on THORChain.

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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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• 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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• ICON — ICON already boasts communities comprised of reputable institutions – banks, securities, insurance, hospitals, universities, and more. ICON’s decentralized applications (DAPPs), including Blockchain ID and Payment & Exchange, can benefit current and future communities. For instance, Blockchain ID can be issued by financial securitiescommunity and be used for ID verification in all other communities. Likewise, ICX issued by hospitals can be used for payment & exchange in all other communities.
• Kadena — Kadena is capable of powering global finance. Build your future on our scalable Proof of Work blockchain.
• Ren — Introducing RenVM, our core product providing access to inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications. Bringing BTC, BCH and ZEC to your Ethereum dApp.

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• Biplusplus — Biplusplus is a Blockchain company.
• Didi — Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services.The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As apractitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.
• More Sales — More Sales engages in supply chain management services focusing on FMCG.

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• Binance — Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that facilitates the trading of digital assets. It provides services such as spot and futures trading, a blockchain network for decentralized applications, and a platform for token sales. Binance also offers staking, savings, and liquidity farming options, as well as a payment system for cryptocurrencytransactions. Additionally, it supports the trading and creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
• Yuncaiyuan — Yuncaiyuan (subordinate to Beijing Wofeng Harvest Technology Co., Ltd.) optimizes the wholesale circulation system, relies on the national origin resources, attracts brokers, wholesalers and other companies to enter the Yuncao Garden platform, directly connects the production area, the wholesale market docking vegetable sellers, forming theagricultural product purchase order entry, providing A package of supporting services to achieve "base" → "community", "wholesale market" → "home delivery", forming a full industrial chain B2B platform
• Qingruan Haixin — Qingruan Haixin is a developer of 3D printing equipment and modeling software.

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• Coinweb — Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.
• U-topia — U-topia is the leading MediaFi & AI Technology Company rewarding engagement with Digital and Real World Assets from a 70,000 products catalog of physical merchandise across our digital media products of games, music & movies.
• Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.

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• Blue Protein — Blue Protein is a biotechnology company that focuses on the research and development of animal feed or edible insects.
• Five hundred — Five hundred is an e-Commerce platform providing farm fresh fruits and vegetables to customers on a subscription basis.
• Theia Studios — Icons of Theia - a tactical turn based strategy game

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• Cor — Sign-up to device waitlist at www.corhealth.com
• Gym+Coffee — Gym+Coffee is an Irish-designed athleisure brand. We are passionately committed to encourage our community to Make Life Richer by socialising through exercise. We believe in awesome things to do, rad people to do them with and quality gear for all your adventures.
• Statespace — StateSpace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential. It uses cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, the productsbring much needed standardized performance analytics to train.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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• Infracost — Infracost creates cloud cost estimates for infrastructure as code in pull requests, so developers know how much their cloud resources will cost before launching them, creating a cost-aware engineering organization.
• Catch — Catch is a payment method that provides a new way to pay and earn store credit.
• Papaya — Pay any bill in a matter of seconds. No stamps, no complicated portals, no stress.

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• DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
• Ertha — Build The World You Want To Live In
• KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.

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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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• Imot.io — Boost your Sales team with AI-powered Quality Assurance
• Neatsy.ai — Access top orthopedic surgeons virtually for you and your family. Expert guidance, virtual consultations, and comprehensive support from injury to full recovery at a reasonable cost.
• Proaction.pro — Proaction testing system was developed based on the experience of domestic HR experts in banking, telecommunications, commercial, construction and other industries.

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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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• Solfy — Solfy is a Fintech startup which builds a unique international ecosystem of banks, merchants and customers where banks provide loans to customers, customers make purchases using Solfy mobile app and payment cards backed by free loans to be repaid in fixed monthly instalments, merchants finance the loan interest.Solfy helps all participants ofthe scheme to solve major problems: for banks to sell more credit products with less risk, to get more clients and increase the volume of retail transactions; for merchants to increase sales and customer loyalty; for customers to have a privilege of interest-free loans for happy shopping.

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• Aark — An all-in-one Crypto Derivatives Exchange: Perpetuals, Futures, Options, Margin, and Exotics.
• Itheum — As we enter the web3 and metaverse era; Itheum unlocks data silos and generates new value for your data.
• Fanable — Fanable is a Web3 marketplace specialized in Pokémon, comic books, and collectibles, allowing users to purchase, sell, and engage with their favorite products in both physical and digital forms.

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• 2CrazyNFT — 2crazynft provides NFT, NFTgaming, crypto, and bitcoin. They provide players with their revolutionary NFT platform, gaming, and eSports. They offer by placing a bid with tokens, enabling users to play against them.
• PlatoFarm — PlatoFarm is a multichain blockchain game from Second Space that integrates a decentralized wallet, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), a decentralized exchange, and social features to enhance user experience and lower barriers to entry.PlatoFarm will also introduce a unique decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) governance model that combines thetraditional token asset model with a time-of-play model, where players in the community can also participate in DAO governance based on their time spent playing PlatoFarm. This unique DAO governance model provides a new solution for blockchain games, and even for the entire blockchain industry.
• Parastate Labs — Parastate Labs takes Ethereum chain support to the next level through WasmEdge.

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• Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
• Kyoko.finance — KYOKO. A cross-chain GameFi NFT lending market for guilds and players.
• Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS revolutionizes AI, DeSci, RWA, Enterprise, and more with secure, transparent, and traceable data solutions. Delivering AI computing and data infrastructure, CESS enables data privacy and sovereignty with a focus on AI Agent applications and frameworks.

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• Coinweb — Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.

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• Coinweb — Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.

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• Ancient8 — Ancient8 is building an ETH gaming Layer 2 with OP Stack. Ancient8 offers a suite of Web3 gaming infrastructure tools that serve as the distribution and marketing channel for games globally.
• Aura Network — Aura Network is the dedicated RWA chain designed for the next generation of enterprise, entertainment, and government innovation, delivering enhanced efficiency, transparency, and accessibility
• Deliq Finance — Deliq Finance is a decentralized liquidity provisioning protocol that provides outsourcing services for the Avalanche ecosystem.