Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Seychelles (August 2026)

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• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
• Cambrian — The financial intelligence layer for agents & institutions. Cambrian's API helps you make the best financial decisions onchain. Testnet waitlist @ https://t.co/eohvz17ALp
• M0 —

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• TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• NFTPad — What is NFTPAD.FI NFT gaming. art. DeFi.NFTPad has been founded to aid the growth of the NFT Industry and Ecosystem in a safe and sustainable way. NFTPad allows users to mint NFTs in minutes, auction them or raise liquidity so that they may be traded on AMMs such as PancakeSwap and Uniswap. Launchpad for Blockchain
• DROP — DROP is an entertainment service intended to give a new shape to the music industry. They are defining the future of music ownership, distribution, and publishing via NFT standards, decentralized governance, and automated finance, providing audio creators with a new shape and sustainable future with their innovations.
• Cryptomeda — Own a valuable NFT card collection and start earning profit now! Find out more.

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• UNO.farm — Building next gen DeFi
• Yalla!Market — YallaMarket / Fast grocery delivery from 15 minutes
• ThunderLands — Thunder Lands - a project that unites classic MMORPG gameplay with blockchain technology and p2e mechanics. It is a gaming metaverse set in the dark fantasy genre and built on Unreal Engine 5.Thunder Lands is a string of dark worlds, where a player takes on the role of mercenaries, treasure seekers or squad commanders in order to travel touncharted lands full of danger to gain wealth and glory. We provide a unique gaming experience through a combination of traditional meta-game and blockchain mechanics.The project has strategic cooperation with YGGSEA, IVC, Shima Capital, Vespertine Capital, CGU, and others.Thunder Lands successfully closed the first private round (Pre-Sale) in January and second private round (Round 1) at the end of May. INO (Initial NFT Offering) will happen in the middle of June instead of the IDO. First gaming mechanic is set to release alongside INO and TGE.

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• V12 — V12 is your security agent for mission critical code.
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Legend. trade — Where traders become Legends.

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• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
• Perceptron Network — AI agents that learn, earn, and reward trust. Perceptron powers a decentralized mesh of reputation and revenue. Perceptron Network is the first AI-powered system where interactions drive growth and earn real rewards.

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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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• Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
• DeepSafe — The world's first Cryptographic Random AI Verification Network for trustless verification of any on-chain and off-chain messages.
• SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.

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• AINN Layer2 — AINN Layer2 is a decentralized Bitcoin Layer2 network development.It promotes large-scale AI applications
• ME Group — MetaEra is a one-stop resource aggregator for Web3.0. Meta Era focuses on blockchain and metaverse exploration, pursuing professional, thorough, and reliable information and data.
• Aperture Finance — Cross-chain Investment Made Easy

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• OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
• Stabble — stabble is a protocol revolutionizing liquidity pools by introducing protocol-managed and arbitrage pools. This allows stabble to tackle critical inefficiencies prevalent within Solana's decentralized exchanges.
• AI Cross Matrix — AI Cross Matrix is a DeFi platform that makes the crypto economy simple by streamlining the exchange process with useful solutions.

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• Owlto — Owlto Finance is an intent-centric interoperability protocol, 'Bridge the World with AI Agent'.
• Unitas — Unitas, Unipay's Solana-based yield-bearing stable coin protocol, uses a delta-neutral arbitrage engine with Jupiter Liquidity Provider (JLP) pools.
• townsquare — Crosschain infrastructure bringing institutional & onchain yields to retail, powering institutional strategies, & RWAs | https://t.co/5glAR6k007

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• Burrow — Burrow is a non-custodial liquidity pool platform that functions as a decentralized money market, allowing users to supply and borrow assets for trading.
• Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
• Sender Wallet — Sender Wallet is a NEAR ecological encrypted wallet.

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• Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
• Cassava Network — Cassava Network is a blockchain infrastructure solution that builds several disruptive DeFi and NFT solutions for Africans to connect with the global mass of crypto enthusiasts and blockchain finance.
• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• GEMS — GEMS is an Esports 3.0 aggregator Platform that combines the elements of GameFi, Esports, Metaverse and SocialFi (GEMS).
• 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

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• STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
• Aetherium X — AetheriumX is a Web3 platform combining DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, and prediction markets in one non-custodial ecosystem.
• Mind AI — The first all-in-one platform with a private Data Layer of market intelligence.

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• HTX — HTX serves its 10 million+ users worldwide with secure and stable trading services. Here at HTX, you can buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, SHIB, and over 500 quality cryptocurrencies anywhere, anytime.
• OriginTrail — Discover OriginTrail's ecosystem, organizing knowledge in a Decentralized Knowledge Graph to enable trustworthy, verifiable AI with humans in the loop.
• Dusk — Dusk is a regulated and decentralised network build for institutions, businesses and users.

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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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• Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
• DeepSafe — The world's first Cryptographic Random AI Verification Network for trustless verification of any on-chain and off-chain messages.
• aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.

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• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
• Sidus Heroes — gaming company
• Legends of Mitra — Legends of Mitra is a Free-to-Play-to-Earn game that rewards players with tokens and NFTs depending on their engagement and skills in the game.

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• Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
• Coinshift — Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.
• Infludesk — Infludesk works with leading brands all over the world and creates influencer marketing campaigns that speak directly to their target audience.

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• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• 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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• Portal to Bitcoin — The only custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin. Swap native BTC, Ordinals, Runes with L2s and L1s
• SubQuery — SubQuery delivers fast, flexible, and scalable Web3 data indexing, decentralized RPC, and AI-ready infrastructure to power production blockchain applications.
• Credits.com — Credits.com is a retail disruptive mobile digital neobank/challenger bank, with a live Mastercard, checking accounts, transfers, purchase/sale and exchange of cryptocurrencies on proprietary technology. With full operational and licensed status.

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• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• Cookie3 — Conversations, clicks, conversions. Every interaction and transaction, all in one platform. Track it all. From yaps to swaps, know what is driving results, which KOLs are pulling their weight, and activate your community. Data-driven insights, every step of the way.
• Deliq Finance — Deliq Finance is a decentralized liquidity provisioning protocol that provides outsourcing services for the Avalanche ecosystem.
• Swell — Swell is the restaking chain, powered by Proof of Restake. The protocol is backed by the industry's best venture capital firms and angels.

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• Qredo — Qredo is a cross-chain protocol for asset managers and traders active in the digital asset markets. Using our institution-grade, layer 2 infrastructure, investors can now hold all their crypto assets securely in one place, with unlocked access to a wide range of liquidity venues and DeFi yield opportunities.
• Colony Lab — Colony Lab is a community-driven initiative to power the Avalanche Platform growth by investing in early-stage projects.
• Pontem Network — Pontem lets you find product market fit in a permissionless environment prior to launching on the Facebook-backed Diem Blockchain.

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• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
• Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.
• Mask Network — Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

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• PlaceWar — PlaceWar is a strategic play-to-earn social game universe deployed on a multi-chain with highly engaging artillery gameplay that allows players to create and define the outlook of the in-game world through building, battles, and alliances. Inspired by Worm and r/place, PlaceWar creates a gamified and open Internet culture metaverse and putsusers in control.
• MetaFi — MetaFi is a blockchain-based technology project that focuses on combining decentralized finance (DeFi), social trading, and the metaverse into one ecosystem. The platform aims to create a virtual financial environment where users can trade digital assets, interact with other traders, and participate in Web3-based financial activities.
• Heroes & Empires — Heroes & Empires is the next-gen NFT gaming project.

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• Solak — Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world.
• Sidus Heroes — gaming company
• Imaginary Ones — Imaginary Ones is a developer of a gaming platform designed to gain a different digital asset based on a special rarity.

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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.
• Sumer Money — Sumer Money is a cross-chain synthetic assets protocol that enables composable Defi across blockchains.
• Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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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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• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• ErisX — Improving the digital asset trading experience for institutions and individuals alike.
• LGO Group — Maximize Crypto Profits with our automated MEV, Arbitrage, and Flash Loan trading bots for Solana, Ethereum, and more.
• BLIFE Protocol — Bringing Web3 to Bitcoin with the backing of Animoca Brands. Merged with @Portalcoin

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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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• Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• Surge — The open infrastructure powering the Bitcoin-native Credit Line. Powering @surge_credit

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• Sapiom — Where agents run
• Venice — Private & Unrestricted AI | https://t.co/iIt1pyF1TK
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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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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• StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
• Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
• Switchboard — Switchboard allows builders to unlock the power of solana by creating high-performance data feeds from any API. They will bring data on-chain that will enable developers to unlock the future of decentralized applications. They enable the SOL community to push any form of data on-chain.

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• Porter Finance — Porter Finance is the web’s fastest growing binary options trading platform, offering an unmatched 1500% rate of returns on maximum returns on digital options. With a fast learning curve, user friendly interface and excellent customer support, Porter Finance offers its traders the best online trading experience on the net. The binary optionsplatform offers a wide variety of currencies, stocks, commodities and indices to trade binary options. In total, Porter Finance offers well over 100 different assets for trading options of all types. Offering one of the most comprehensive trading platforms, every investor is sure to find what they are looking for at Porter Finance.The company was formed on the principal that knowledge is power and though knowledge comes success. Launched in 2014, the company prides itself on excellent service and guarantees the best environment for success to their traders passing on their knowledge to traders in order to maximize their trading potential.
• Notional Finance — Earn leveraged yield on USDC, ETH, wBTC and more
• Shipyard Software — Shipyard Software is a decentralized exchange for retail crypto traders. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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• Kollider — Kollider build tools and services to make financial markets available to everyone, across borders, instantly and simply using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
• Clear Labs — Clear Labs harnesses the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to simplify complex diagnostics for clinical and applied markets. By creating a fully automated platform that brings together DNA sequencing, robotics, and cloud-based analytics, Clear Labs democratizes genomics applications to deliver increased clarity.Clear Labs’ turnkeyplatform accelerates outcomes and improves accuracy - from food-borne pathogens to infectious diseases, including SARS CoV-2. With a novel approach, Clear Labs is helping the world better understand, track, and mitigate tomorrow’s novel pathogens.
• Vinter — Making smarter indexes for crypto ETF issuers.

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• Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
• BlockFi — BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with aregistered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies.BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs.
• Coin Metrics — Crypto intelligence for the future of finance. Coin Metrics organizes the world's crypto data and makes it transparent and accessible.

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

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• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• 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.
• Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.

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• Acknoledger — Ackno API will consist of UCNS and Ackno plagiarism engine that will be used by NFT platforms, NFT Marketplaces, Metaverses, and Digital Universes UCNS will adopt a decentralized approach to provide unique identifier for any content that is validated across Metaverses and NFT platforms AcknoLedger will collaborate with the current NFT and MetaverseEcosystem Partners to deploy UCNS solutions to their existing Digital Assets
• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• MetaVisa — MetaVisa is a Layer 3 Middleware Protocol that provides a metaverse credit system based on blockchain data. MetaVisa Protocol helps users to establish and display reliable on-chain identity & credit records.
• Banksea Finance — Banksea Finance is an AI-powered NFT Oracle and NFT Pool-based Lending platform.
• Omnity Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

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• Stream — Stream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app. The app allows them to have complete control over when they get paid. It also effectively ends the need for employee advances, loans, and employee stress suffered from short-term, unplanned financial obligations. Thecompany aims to play a key role in reducing the poverty premium and preventing employees from entering cycles of debt caused by overdraft fees, high-interest credit, or payday loans.
• Lawhive — LawHive provides local UK solicitors for half the cost of a law firm. Connect with licensed solicitors online. Use any computer or smartphone.
• Goodstack — Fundraise now for the cause your care about most.