Top 50 Payments 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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• Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
• TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
• Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!

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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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• 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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• 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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• Drivit — Drivit turns any smartphone into a high-quality telematics device. Power your mobility app with features that will show you the best way to a safer, cheaper and more sustainable driving.
• Youverse — Youverse is an information technology company that offers face biometric solutions for banking, hospitality, and retail sectors.
• Habit — Habit's mission is to bring context and meaningfulness to the way insurance is sold. We connect brands with insurers to enable the best way to distribute insurance - on digital.

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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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• 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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• CrowdSec — CrowdSec is an open-source and collaborative security stack leveraging the crowd power. Analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community. Join the community and le's make the Internet safer, together.
• Ubble.ai — ubble helps businesses fight against fraud with its frictionless online identity verification service that uses exclusive video live streaming and A.I. technology.
• Send — Send is a commercial insurance platform that connects underwriting data, workflows, and decisions for commercial and specialty insurers.

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• Rebar Labs — Rebar Labs is a company that offers research services and infrastructure for bitcoin. The company wants to help users in the Bitcoin ecosystem create more effective and better experiences by addressing issues related to maximum extractable value and offering services that guarantee equitable value distribution.
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.

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• Credit Coop — Leverage Future Cash Flows
• Daler Trading — Daler is an algorithmic trading firm and crypto market maker specializing in options and futures. We provide liquidity and market-making services for the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Real-World Assets (RWA) across over 30 centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX).
• 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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• Lyzer — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
• Cleanwatts — We simplify, amplify and accelerate energy decarbonization for companies and communities around the world. Our clients call upon us to improve their energy efficiency performance and to increase their access to affordable clean energy. Join Cleanwatts today.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers

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• UnblockPay —
• Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
• Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.

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

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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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• 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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• Augusta Labs — Augusta Labs is an artificial intelligence consulting and solutions company that develops automation, data, and cloud-integrated AI systems.
• Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.
• Dragonboat — Source of truth agentic platform with context and memory to orchestrate across SPM, PPM, and Product Management to accelerate outcome at scale.

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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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• 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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• Remox — Simplified and Collaborative Treasury Management for DAOs
• Predicate — Define transaction rules to secure financial products.
• Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.

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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.

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• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• SkinBit — SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions.
• heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
• Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Utexo — Move USDT from any major network, directly onto Bitcoin.
• Five Bells — Five Bells is an a blockchain-based settlement and clearing platform for digital assets that provides safe and open transactions.
• Foundation — Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet.They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoinwhile maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.