Top Blockchain / Cryptocurrency Startups in 2024

Blockstream is the global leader in Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Applying cutting-edge cryptography and security engineering, we’re building the products and networks that make financial markets more efficient by reducing reliance on trust. Bitcoin is at the heart of everything we do. From enterprise-grade settlement networks, to consumer wallets, to Bitcoin satellites, our technology is accelerating the adoption of bitcoin-based peer-to-peer finance. Blockstream's key innovation is in sidechains, which enable the introduction of brand new features to Bitcoin, as well as the issuance of new digital assets. OUR PRODUCTS: - The Liquid Network: sidechain-based settlement network for traders and exchanges - Blockstream Green: simple and secure Bitcoin wallet with Liquid support - Blockstream Mining: colocation services for Bitcoin miners - Blockstream Satellite: the Bitcoin blockchain beamed from space - Many major contributions to Bitcoin open source software and research

Auros is a major disruptor to the cryptocurrency trading space. Founded in 2019, we are a team of market-leading talent working across 15 different geographies globally, leveraging in-house technology to deploy high frequency trading strategies and external, commercial partnerships. Commanding an already meaningful proportion of total cryptocurrency turnover globally, we are a well-funded, established business that is expanding rapidly, providing a point of difference, fast becoming a market leader in the space.

Ava Protocol (avaprotocol.org) is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly enables private autonomous super-transactions for numerous use cases, such as DeFi, NFTs, and games. We're enhancing decentralized applications with scheduled and recurring payments, stop-loss orders, streaming rewards, and more. Ava Protocol’s event-driven execution model triggers cross-chain transactions based on signals such as time, price changes, and smart contract updates. Developers can easily schedule and automate functions across different blockchains, including Ethereum, ensuring efficient and reliable execution without compromising privacy.

At Offchain Labs, we’re building a platform to unlock the full potential of smart contracts, making them private, affordable, and easy for developers. Our working prototype of Arbitrum runs on top of Ethereum and interoperates with native Ethereum contracts and tokens. We make smart contracts easier to develop at scale, with production level security. Our developer tools do the heavy lifting to add a flexible second layer to decentralized application architecture so our clients can focus on business logic and user experience.

Parcl is a synthetic real estate protocol that enables users to invest in the price movements of the residential real estate market in many cities and neighborhoods around the world. Parcl brings investing, hedging, and liquidity to the world’s largest asset class, for the first time. The Parcl Price Feed powers the Parcl Protocol; it continuously tracks underlying price movements in any given Parcl - allowing users to benefit from broad (or highly granular) exposure to desirable Real Estate. Parcl requires no minimum investment, is highly liquid, and carries low transaction fees so investors can now trade their favorite cities & neighborhoods just like they trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other crypto assets.

Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks. Check us out! youtube.com/@Strongholdpay/featured

Stakin.com is a leading European staking service provider with operations on 40+ blockchain networks, 53,000+ delegators, and $1.6b+ in assets under delegation. We empower the next generation of blockchain protocols that are more efficient, sustainable, democratic, and scalable. Thanks to our expertise and infrastructure, we enable Proof-of-Stake digital asset holders to earn interests on their holdings, and take part in decentralized governance, in a strictly non-custodial manner. Our contribution to blockchain and communities reaches far beyond simple secure validation. Deeply invested in each of the protocols where we operate, we also operate network infrastructure for decentralized Oracle projects such as Chainlink, and cross-chain connectivity services including IBC relayers for the Cosmos ecosystem and dedicate bridge infrastructure for projects such as DeBridge. This positive contribution mindset has led Stakin to take part in multiple Testnets, helping to stress-test and debug the next generation of blockchain protocols before they come to market. The company also frequently publishes articles and guides on its own blog and dedicated media channels. The team is also able to build tools, custom APIs and dashboards to cater to the needs of institutional customers.

AlphaLab Capital Group is a technology-driven trading group that transacts over $2B daily in cryptoassets on 40+ exchanges, both centralized and decentralized. Since 2017, we have consistently generated exceptional returns (aka alpha). We were one of the first movers in quantitative trading on the blockchain, and today we operate thousands of algorithms 24/7 on a globally distributed network of trading servers. We see blockchain as the foundational technology of our generation. Just as ship-building innovations in the 1450s launched the Age of Exploration or TCP/IP in the 1970s launched the internet as we know it, blockchain now opens up new worlds of possibility. Much of the infrastructure, applications, and software that we will all take for granted in a few decades are only glimmers in someone’s imagination today. We founded AlphaLab because there is huge potential in building that future. It’s also going to be a lot of fun.

Center is building the NFT infrastructure for the internet. We make it easy for builders to build NFT-enabled apps. Today, building NFT apps is incredibly time consuming. Imagine if in order to put up a personal website, you first had to crawl the entire internet. That would make launching a website pretty hard, right? That's exactly the case with NFTs today. We eliminate all this complexity for builders. Instead of spending months of engineering time building NFT infrastructure, developers use Center's APIs to search, show, and interact with NFTs on 14 blockchains.