Top Blockchain / Cryptocurrency Startups in 2024

Zora is a group of individuals working towards a new paradigm for creators by enabling the creation, curation, and collection of cryptomedia (cryptomedia.wtf). We believe that by enabling a more equitable system for creators and communities, we will fundamentally rediscover the power of the internet. Zora is built on top of Ethereum: an incredibly powerful tool for open, transparent, internet-native value creation and exchange. Powerful, but famously hard to use. We’re working tirelessly to make Zora available to as many creators as possible, and to make it easy for everyone to use day to day. Luckily, our team has experience in doing just that for millions of people around the world during our time at Coinbase—one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. Join us in our mission to build a new creator and community-owned economy. Read our manifesto: zora.co/manifesto

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Monad Labs is accelerating the Ethereum Virtual Machine so that decentralized apps can eat the world. The EVM is the ubiquitous standard of web3; over 96% of all capital in DeFi is in EVM apps. In spite of this, EVM-compatible blockchains have extremely low throughput: Ethereum supports roughly 10 transactions per second, and no EVM rollup is over 50 tps. We are solving this problem with Monad, the performant Layer-1 blockchain that introduces parallel execution and superscalar pipelining to the EVM. Deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack - from the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. Monad introduces these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization. We recently raised $225M in series A funding to scale our team in bringing the Monad blockchain to production.

Crypto has had tremendous growth over the last several years. That growth comes with inevitable regulation. Regulation, in our view, is a good thing because once the industry passes through this phase, then crypto can access the rest of the world. We believe it’s going to be the companies that enable this transition from the pre-regulation to post-regulation industry and the companies that can properly navigate it, or better yet, be the ones that facilitate it - those are the most relevant companies in this next wave. Toku will be one of those companies. Toku’s products enable crypto-native companies to compliantly compensate their teams in both fiat and tokens in over 100 teams globally. Toku’s growing list of customers includes Aragon, Astar, dYdX, Filecoin Foundation, Gitcoin, Gnosis, Hedera Hashgraph, Mina, Protocol Labs, Teller, Safe, Storyverse, and others. Paying people with tokens is such an obvious first real-world use case of any token. It doesn’t matter what the token does. All tokens can be used to compensate workers. And in fact, are! Toku ensures that all the worker compensation that all those tokens need to do can be done legally, and proper taxes paid is a critical part of the transition to a post-regulation crypto industry. Toku raised $20 million from a consortium led by Blockchain Capital with Protocol Labs, GMJP, OrangeDAO, Orrick, Reverie, Quantstamp, Next Web Capital, and prominent angel investors including Protocol Labs founder Juan Benet and Alchemy co-founders Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau. Read more about Toku in Fortune, Yahoo Finance, and CoinDesk. To learn more, check our website.

Ripple is the leading provider of crypto solutions for businesses. Founded in 2012, our vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. As a leading enterprise blockchain company with products in commercial use by hundreds of customers across 50+ countries, our unique crypto solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost effective than traditional financial services – solving inefficiencies that have long defined the status quo.

At Figment, our mission is to create an Internet that is truly decentralized where users can freely interact, share, collaborate, and exchange goods and services in a trustless environment. We offer staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for token holders and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technologies. Together, we can build a better Internet.

Whether in the world of payment, finance, fashion, art or retail, more and more companies have decided to adopt blockchain and digital assets. However, these companies are faced with a fundamental problem: how to adopt these new assets without jeopardizing their accounting processes and their “auditability”? Created in 2018 by Antoine Scalia, Cryptio is a startup that has taken on the incredible challenge of inventing the foundations of accounting and financial reporting for digital assets (crypto-currencies, NFT, digital assets). How? By offering a SaaS accounting, auditing and tax solution that bridges the gap between blockchain and accounting systems - turning data into verifiable records for accounting, treasury and tax reporting. We enable pioneering companies in the crypto ecosystem, large enterprises and financial institutions to confidently navigate the fragmented digital asset landscape. Our mission is to tackle one of the biggest challenges in crypto right now - building the infrastructure to help institutional adoption. And we're playing to win. Cyptio wants to become the source of truth in the world of crypto!

Genies is Gen Z’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar ecosystems. Genies provides tools that allow users to create their own avatars, avatar wearable fashion lines, avatar worlds, and avatar interactive experiences in web3. The company has 99% celebrity avatar market share through its partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their “official avatar and digital goods provider with thousands of Genie creators including Justin Bieber, Migos, Cardi B, and J Balvin. Our avatar marketplace “The Warehouse” built with Dapper Labs, allows creators to design and sell their avatar ecosystem creations (i.e. avatar fashion lines) to the masses. Genies has raised $200M from investors such as Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Breyer Capital.

Sorare is at the intersection of sports, gaming, and NFT collectibles. Through tradable digital cards, Sorare is designing a collective fantasy sports experience where you can manage your favorite players, hone your passion to earn prizes, and be part of a thriving community. Anyone, anywhere, can connect with the game on Sorare. The company’s mission is to build “the game within the game” and to give fans, players and clubs the platform to celebrate, share, and own your game. Founded in 2018, Sorare has seen tremendous growth. The platform has a card sales volume of over $400M since January 2021 (up from $8M in sales in 2020) and now has exclusive partnerships with over 250 football (soccer) clubs, the MLB & MLBPA, and the NBA & NBPA. Sorare is trusted by a world-class team of investors including Softbank, Benchmark, Accel Partners, athletes such as Serena Williams and Kylian Mbappé, and key tech investors such as Alexis Ohania - all who believe in the future of integrating NFTs with Gameplay.

Space Runners has 3 main products: 1. Our open fashion metaverse (see demo at spacerunners.com/spaceverse), where users can show off their digital fashion wardrobes and brands can build gamified retail experiences for their fans. We are building the next generation platform for fashion retail and events that will also engage users with a wear-to-earn mechanic that rewards the most fashionable with token awards. 2. Digital fashion collections, launched in collaboration with the most beloved fashion brands. Our team of fashion and 3D designers build beautiful fashion items that rival real life clothing, but with a fun reality-defying quality only digital items can have, that you can wear across different metaverse platforms. 3. Experiences to enhance the fun of socializing in the metaverse, including a Web 3 dating application called Fame