Top Blockchain / Cryptocurrency Startups in 2024

Games on Joyride are about having fun with friends and strangers through social experiences. In the apps powered by Joyride, you can play casual multiplayer games that create immersive social experience with new and old friends. Backed by Bitkraft, we are building a superb collection of games with deep social layers that feels intuitive and magical.

Committed to institutionalizing digital asset investing, Hivemind combines crypto-native technology and expertise with institutional-grade risk management and practices. With a thesis-driven and multi-strategy approach, Hivemind unlocks the potential of digital asset to be a major asset class by providing curated and scalable access to institutional investors. Founded in 2021, Hivemind is headquartered in the US with offices across the globe.

Music is severely under-monetized, and creators lose 85-90% to middlemen, so very few people can actually earn a living making music. Controlla makes interactive experiences out of songs for artists that allow their fans to control the music. Artists bring their most engaged, active fans to our community to play these interactive experiences, and this enables direct artist-to-fan and fan-to-fan financial relationships.

Odyssean is a digital asset manager, market maker, and proprietary trading firm. Our technology provides unique capabilities for high volatility and liquidity-driven opportunities. An exceptionally strong team combines deep experience across investment management, software development, operations, and cryptography.

We see the contributor journey of DAO in different modules: Onboarding, Engagement, and Rewarding. We are starting by creating different templates for DAO creation and contributor onboarding as the primary use case (for new/existing contributors). Longer-term, we are positioning it to become a default solution to manage contributors.

DERA is a first-mover startup on a mission to unlock trapped value in closed ecosystems. We help companies to enter digital economies by providing them with the infrastructure to create digital assets. Our payment currency DERA is built to be the robust and solid backbone that powers all interest-bearing assets across various digital economies.

Sherlock’s mission is to create an open, uncensorable financial system that is secure enough for billions of people to trust with their life savings. Sherlock is the only smart contract auditor to offer a "best of both worlds" solution to auditing, as well as back Sherlock audits with up to 5M USDC in smart contract exploit coverage. The best of both worlds approach combines traditional auditing (reserving 1-2 highly talented security experts) with an audit contest approach that gets hundreds of eyes on a codebase and surfaces things that teams of 2 can just never find. And Sherlock is the only auditor to offer smart contract exploit coverage behind each audit that we do. If activated, it means Sherlock will pay out up to 5M USDC if the contracts Sherlock audited get hacked. Sherlock also includes a 500k USDC bug bounty on covered contracts. Sherlock has done more audits than almost anyone else since launching audit contests in Sept 2022. Customers include DODO, NounsDAO, Merit Circle and dozens of others. And Sherlock is currently protecting ~25M USDC of funds on-chain right now (yes, even in a bear market) and growing quickly. Sherlock's coverage customers are some of the top DeFi protocols, including Euler, Opyn and Lyra. Join Sherlock's world-class team at the ground floor, backed by some of the leading Silicon Valley and crypto venture capitalists including Dragonfly Ventures, IDEO, Archtype, Spartan, A Capital, Scalar Capital, DeFi Alliance, GSR, Coinfund, LedgerPrime, and Synthetix founder Kain Warwick.

TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. Our products are trusted by leading companies including PayPal, Visa, Uniswap, Anchorage, and federal agencies such as the FBI and IRS. Every day, we tackle challenges in data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to advance our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people. To accomplish our mission, we have raised nearly $80M from JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Citi, PayPal, Block, Tiger Global and Bessemer. Our team is made up of world class experts from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, US Treasury Department, McKinsey, Coinbase, and top-tier tech companies. TRM is a remote-first workplace, with hubs in San Francisco, Washington, DC and London. We are looking for people with grit, passion, and humility to join our global team.

Bytemine is a FinTech SaaS platform for traders, algo-traders and investors.

The Risk Protocol is a unique, cutting-edge crypto investment platform that provides investors risk-controlled exposure to crypto in an intuitive and frictionless manner. The product is highly scalable and has very significant TAM. The company is led and backed by highly experienced senior finance professionals with extensive backgrounds in the investments sector, quantitative finance, derivatives and risk management. We are currently in stealth mode and thoughtfully building out our team. We have a compelling strategic vision, a strong cohesive core team, solid financial backing and the experience and operational chops to successfully execute on plan. We are seeking high-quality candidates in select roles to round out the team. The primary attributes we are looking for in a candidate include: highly driven and motivated, strong work ethic, self-starter, master in his/her field of expertise, a no nonsense approach with open transparent communication and importantly, easy to get along with. If this sounds like you, we would genuinely love to hear from you.