Top Blockchain / Cryptocurrency Startups in 2024

Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure company building transparent and transformative financial solutions. We power today’s financial leaders to build a more open, trusted economy - including PayPal, Novi, Mercado Libre and Interactive Brokers.

Mode Earn App. Mode Earn App, a rewards-based superapp with over 30 million registered users and rapidly growing, gives people around the world the opportunity to earn supplemental income, up to $600 per year or more, for doing everyday activities such as listening to music, playing games, reading the news, unlocking and charging their phones, shopping, completing surveys, watching videos, and doing search. Additionally, consumers can redeem for gift cards like Amazon, PayPal, etc. The Android-based Mode Earn App in the Google Play app store has garnered a 4.4 star rating from over 2.4 million verified reviews and 30+ million installs. Mode Earn Phone. Mode Earn Phone is the smartphone that pays for itself, enabling budget-conscious consumers the opportunity to earn supplemental income, up to $900 per year by using it 4 hours per day, while using their phones and doing everyday activities such as listening to music, playing games, reading the news, unlocking and charging their phones, shopping, completing surveys, watching videos, and doing search. Consumers not only get a high-quality Android-based phone available via either subscription or purchase, they also get a brand new Mode Earn Phone every 12 months with the latest features. Our Values: Action-Driven Curious Caring Thorough Our Norms: Allow OKRs to Guide Us. Assume Positive Intent Agree to Disagree & Commit Set New Precedents Accomplish More with Less Hold Yourself & Others to High Standards Speak Up Be Resourceful Follow the 80/20 Rule

QuillAudits is a leading smart contract audit firm with $30B+ secured. We provide smart contracts auditing and DApps pen testing services for web3-based, DeFi and NFT-based gaming projects. Building the QuillAI Network : AI Agents Safeguarding Web3 Join our security squad builders?️

At River, we are committed to building financial solutions that power a transparent and efficient global economic system made possible by Bitcoin. We have built leading Bitcoin brokerage, mining, and custody products to keep our clients ahead of the curve. We aim to bring premier Bitcoin solutions that offer our clients a full array of financial services.

Aptos is building a Layer 1 blockchain designed with an emphasis on absolute safety, extensible scalability, and credible neutrality — values that we know firsthand and viscerally understand. Now, on the fourth iteration of the consensus protocol, we are confident that Aptos is capable of bringing affordability, decentralization, and speed to the daily lives of billions of internet users. It is the lowest latency, optimistically-responsive BFT protocol available, and it features a robust, on-chain reputation system and novel methods for parallel execution — a key enabler of speed at scale. We will rapidly deploy many key innovations in performance, functionality and improvements to the overall user experience and leverage our ability to do major upgrades seamlessly in the process.

Powerloom Protocol is a composable data network primarily aimed at serving the onchain data needs of smart contract-based applications within DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, and more. We incentivize participating peers to reach a consensus on state transitions and event emissions observations across many smart contracts. By utilizing data compositions on smaller, consensus-reached data units, Powerloom stands as a peer-validated and accurate information source, empowering rich data applications like dashboards, bots, aggregators, and insights trackers.

Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet, supporting Ordinals, Runes, BRC20, Stacks, and Rare Sats. Available on iOS, Android, and as a Chrome browser extension, Xverse enables secure management of Bitcoin on layer 1 and layer 2 networks like Stacks, with more networks coming soon. Our globally distributed, agile, and fast-moving team is focused on onboarding the next 1 billion users to web3, positioning Xverse as the go-to wallet and gateway.

At the intersection of banking and technology, Cross River is on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion and the democratization of financial services. Our company enables our clients to deliver responsible financial solutions that empower consumers anytime, everywhere. We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Ribbit Capital; our partners include companies such as Affirm, Stripe, Coinbase, and many others. At a quick glance, we were founded in 2008, have over 800 employees, and 80+ partnerships and have originated over $93 Billion in loans. We specialize in Marketplace Lending, Payments, and our Compliance framework. Our approach focuses on: -Compliance, our regulatory and compliance standards are strategic assets, at the heart of everything we do. -Technology, through constant innovation, we provide streamlined solutions that make our clients' vision come to life -Leadership, we put our trusted experience to work on behalf of our clients, so they can lead the industry forward. As an innovative company we are also brining Crypto to the next 1B users by offering, Crypto backed lending, fiat on/off ramps, and Custody buy, sell and hold. Cross River offers amongst the best benefits in the industry: Family Medical Plans with minimal outlay to the employee, generous time off, matching 401K, pre-IPO equity, flexible and hybrid work culture, a shuttle from Manhattan to the office, and many more perks and amenities.

Parallax is an early stage, VC-backed startup bringing the benefits of crypto to b2b payments. We’re backed by an amazing suite of fintech & crypto investors, led by Dragonfly Capital. Our mission is unlock the power of crypto for all businesses. We believe that crypto is a superior form of money movement. It's faster, cheaper, and more convenient -- especially for international transfers, where the alternative is a wire that has a hefty fee, takes forever, and may or may not get lost on the way. We’re building the infrastructure to make crypto the ubiquitous form of business money movement. Our first product makes crypto b2b payments dead simple from communicating the need for a payment, all the way down to accounting, so businesses can get back to doing what they do best.