Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in Australia (August 2026)

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• Mecka AI — Mecka is the data and deployment layer for Physical AI.
• Spearbit — Spearbit connects independent security experts to Web3 projects that need them.The company offers a range of services, including expert-conducted security reviews and ongoing security reviews through retainer agreements. These services provide clients with an operational layer, freeing them from time-consuming administrative tasks and clientsourcing and due diligence.
• TVL Capital — TVL Capital is a financial infrastructure firm specialising in Chain Traded Products (CTPs).

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• Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
• Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• CryptoSlate — Source for crypto news, predictions & data, reaching 1M+ users each month.
• Saturn — Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience.
• Nakamoto — Nakamoto is a newly established Bitcoin-native holding company and a prominent player in the cryptocurrency industry. Nakamoto Company is designed to serve as a global conglomerate focused on accelerating Bitcoin adoption and utility across capital markets.

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• Bloom — Moved to @bloomsocial
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization

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• 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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• RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
• Macropod —
• Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

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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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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• Stablecorp — Stablecorp is igniting a "step-function" improvement in financial services with our suite of products.
• Subzero Labs — Subzero Labs is developing Rialo, a developer-first Layer 1 blockchain built for internet-scale decentralized applications.

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• xBacked — xBacked DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization focused on developing decentralized stable assets for the Algorand blockchain. The primary product is xUSD, a permissionless stablecoin fully backed by decentralized collateral. The organization aims to achieve capital efficiency in the stablecoin market on Algorand and beyond. xBacked DAOoperates with a mission to provide a stable and secure financial ecosystem through its innovative blockchain solutions.
• Vitruveo — A Blockchain For Art & Entertainment. The world's first rebasing Layer 1 Blockchain | Re-imagining the Creator Economy https://t.co/8xJmpByHij
• Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.

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• Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
• Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
• SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.

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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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• Hylo — Liquidation-resistant leveraged tokens. Highest yielding stablecoin on Solana. Backed by @robotventures @colosseum @solanaventures
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Exponent Finance — Outperform market rates with Solana's leading yield exchange. Community: https://t.co/tROuLHqyfC

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• V12 — V12 is your security agent for mission critical code.
• THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance
• Inversion — Acquiring durable businesses.

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• Mevvy Network — Where MEV Happens Discover, create, and capture MEV faster Backed by @multicoincap
• Inference — Inference infrastructure for AI-native teams
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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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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• MultiversX — Scale across the Multiverse.
• Entangle Protocol — Connect data, assets, and more with Entangle's fast and fully customizable interoperability primitives.
• Hatom Labs — Building Hatom - the pioneering, non-custodial liquidity protocol on #MultiversX

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• zkPass — zkPass enables a trust graph where any entity - human or AI agent - can verify claims about any other without exposing raw data.
• B² Network — B² Network is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that utilizes ZK rollup and on-chain logical gate commitment verification mechanisms. It is a supplementary network that runs on top of the Bitcoin Network. It also introduces smart contracts to Bitcoin, which could open up new possibilities for DeFi, NFTs, and derivatives.
• Konnex World — Building the GDP of autonomous systems. Turning robot labor into on-chain liquidity. $KNX

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• Meta Pool — Meta Pool is a multi-chain, liquid staking-based ecosystem with Vote-to-Earn DAO governance.
• Amnis Finance — Stake APT on the best liquid staking protocol on Aptos to receive daily rewards with an attractive APR of 2%.
• Velvet Capital — Trade any crypto onchain - spot and perpetuals across 7 chains with AI-powered routing. Non-custodial DeFi trading terminal + AI trading bot. 100K+ traders.

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• Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
• Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
• Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• SuperIntent — SuperIntent is a cryptocurrency AI app that streamlines on-chain earning tactics. Developed on a multi-agent framework with abundant yield sources.
• Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

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• Blockspace — Blockspace is an Ethereum infrastructure company operate out-of-protocol transaction pipelines.
• Blockspace — Connecting the world to Ethereum.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum

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• StripChain — StripChain unifies all the blockchains
• 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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• Novastro — Building the PayFi layer for stablecoin-powered payments, settlement, and real onchain financial utility.
• Shiba Inu Coin — Shiba Inu Coin is an Internet Publishing Company.
• 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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• 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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• Wixpool — Wixpool is a liquidity mining mechanism that is based on the Wixpool Rate Stabiliser (WRS) algorithm. Wixpool, led by WRS, allows anybody to invest in high-yield liquidity pools with a steady interest rate by pooling the assets of private users into an automated ecosystem.
• Elixir — Powering deUSD, a yield bearing and fully collateralized decentralized dollar on the Elixir Network, bringing institutional-grade liquidity to RWAs.
• Frontrunner — Alexistogel atau di kenal sebagai alexistoto adalah salah satu situs slot yang sudah terpercaya dengan banyaknya yang ingin maxwin hari ini

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• MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
• DigiBuild — Automate your construction supply chain with AI.
• HIFI — HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increasevisibility, and combat fraud.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.

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• Alphea — ALPHEA is an AI-native execution OS that awakens intelligence across every surface.
• Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
• Fortune Protocol — Fortune Protocol brings the age- old tradition of fortune cookies to the modern prediction market.

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• SeeleTech — Seele is a blockchain 4.0 platform that aims to spearhead development in the Internet of Value era.
• PROPS — PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.
• TON Telegram Open Network — An ultrafast, scalable blockchain integrated with Telegram

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• RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
• Truemarket — Onchain yield-bearing markets
• Rarimo Foundation — Trustless ZK Registries powering identity & verifiable data. Fully client-side, private, sovereign

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• MNX — Trade Anthropic, memory stocks, and H100 prices with leverage on the first AI-focused decentralized futures exchange.
• Alien — Alien develops decentralized digital identity infrastructure focused on privacy-preserving proof of humanity and trust online. It builds a blockchain-based human network that uses biometric verification, cryptographic proofs, and decentralized protocols to authenticate unique humans and AI agents. The platform enables human verification, access tohuman-only spaces, and accountable AI systems.
• HYFIX Spatial Intelligence — HYFIX Spatial Intelligence is a Machinery Manufacturing firm developing IoT-friendl software and hardware.

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• Alkane Resources — Alkane Resources (ASX:ALK | TSX:ALK | OTCQX:ALKRY) is an Australia-based gold and antimony producer with three operating mines across Australia and Sweden.
• Westgold Resources — Westgold has laid solid foundations to secure growing gold production, which will ensure the companies status as a major player in the Australian Gold Sector.Westgold has commissioned and operates four production facilities in Western Australia, the Murchison Gold Operations, Fortnum Gold Project, Higginsville Gold Operations and the recentlystarted Cue Gold Operations. Once steady state production is achieved in the near future, Westgold will be significant producer with multiple high quality long life projects.
• Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners — For general queries, please use the contact form to get in touch.

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• Range — The financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoins, crypto and fiat rails.
• THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance
• Adjacent Markets — Event indexing and @AdjacentNews

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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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• Greenlane — Full-service, global platform for bringing premium products to market in the burgeoning head shop, smoke shop, dispensary channels and beyond
• Seismic — A privacy enabled blockchain.
• Cluster Protocol — Orchestration layer for autonomous workflows and prompt to dapp browser based IDE on @base all powered by x402 Backed by @daofive and @papervc

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• Spearbit — Spearbit connects independent security experts to Web3 projects that need them.The company offers a range of services, including expert-conducted security reviews and ongoing security reviews through retainer agreements. These services provide clients with an operational layer, freeing them from time-consuming administrative tasks and clientsourcing and due diligence.
• Noise DAO — A DAO supporting music and technology.
• Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.

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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
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• Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
• Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.
• Aperture Finance — Cross-chain Investment Made Easy

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• Ultrade — Ultrade is a powerful decentralized crypto trading platform with the best DeFi tools, all-in-one app, including: A Decentralized Exchange, Leveraged Perpetuals DEX, Swap Crypto DEX, Crypto Lending and Borrowing.
• QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
• Sanctum — Stake SOL and earn optimized LST returns from JupSOL, bbSOL, and more, and launch your own custom LST and Solana validator.

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• LW3 — LW3 offers sustainable traceability and provenance solutions by utilizing advanced, non-cloneable physical IDs (such as QR codes and NFC tags), integrated with interoperable blockchain technology to support a circular economy
• Arvo — ARVO aims to enable brands in a variety of industries by guaranteeing that their products are traceable, verifiable, and trustworthy, consequently improving customer experiences worldwide.
• Astrix — Astrix wants to revolutionize the ticketing sector by utilizing blockchain technology. Astrix envisions an enhanced event experience, real-time updates, and a system that is impenetrable to fraud. Astrix is an ecosystem that serves as a gateway to a more complex and captivating live event experience.

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• Bio.xyz — Biotech's new financial layer.
• Recall Labs — Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
• Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.

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• Laevitas — Laevitas is a data analytics platform based on quantitative finance models for the crypto-asset market. The company aims to provide analysis by implementing mathematical models on data from a variety of crypto-asset derivatives markets
• Delio — Crypto Financial Services Provider
• Orderly Network — Omnichain orderbook infrastructure for DeFi. Launch your own perp DEX with shared liquidity across 17+ chains.

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• Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
• Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
• Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth

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• DAOBase — DAOBase is an AI-powered data and infrastructure platform developed particularly for DAOs. By employing innovative algorithms, the company assists DAOs and voters in establishing on-chain and off-chain data reputation layers, allowing users to intelligently monitor DAO governance, make educated decisions, and investigate future job models.
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Konnex World — Building the GDP of autonomous systems. Turning robot labor into on-chain liquidity. $KNX

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• RedotPay — RedotPay is a leading crypto fintech bridging Web3 and traditional finance through innovative, cost-efficient blockchain solutions. Our intuitive crypto payment products enable millions of users globally to easily spend and send digital assets. We foster financial inclusion for the unbanked and serve crypto enthusiasts, advancing global adoption offast, accessible crypto payments.
• Brix — Brix Money is a blockchain platform tokenizing sovereign yield from emerging markets into programmable on-chain assets like the iTRY stablecoin, backed by Turkish money market funds for DeFi applications.
• Turnkey — Turnkey is an encryption service provider that offers secure APIs to manage private keys.

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• Euphoria — Euphoria is a crypto derivatives trading app that aims to simplify options and perpetual trading.
• 3Jane Protocol — cryptonative credit creation. Backed by @paradigm
• Noise Labs — Discover & Curate Culture

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• OP_NET — OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions.
• Watch.fun — Luxury watch drops. Win a Rolex for as little as $7, drops weekly. Certified by Wristcheck. Backed by @TheSpartanGroup @SolanaVentures @BigBrainVC and more...
• Space — The first leveraged prediction market on @solana

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• MNX — MNX is a company focused on decentralized futures exchanges in the AI economy.
• 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.
• Gaia — GaiaNet is a pioneer in decentralized AI technology, committed to transforming the IT industry through user privacy, transparency, and control. The cutting-edge open network infrastructure empowers users by ensuring privacy and censorship resistance in daily AI operations through a dynamic network of peer-to-peer edge nodes.

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• Zeller — Leading EFTPOS Terminal provider for thousands of Australian businesses. Zeller helps you accept card payments, manage your finances, cash flow & more.
• Immutable Systems — Zero gas fees, instant trades and scalability for games, applications, marketplaces, without compromise.
• FrankieOne — FrankieOne helps banks and fintechs make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage KYC/AML and fraud.

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• Myco — Myco lets people build digital communities which are co-owned by their members. We make it easy to manage an all-in-one community space for any niche or project, by merging fun social experiences with powerful business tools that can help large groups of people coordinate together online.
• Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.
• Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.

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• prePO — Trade the top pre-IPO companies with PreStocks. Get instant access to SpaceX, OpenAI, Anduril, and more. 24/7 trading, no minimums.
• Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
• Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.