Top Blockchain / Cryptocurrency Startups in 2024

Valory makes AI software that groups of people or organizations can control together. This creates new opportunities in web3, science, and enterprise ventures, and means powerful AI systems can be owned by everyone. We co-created Olas, the platform for co-owning AI, specifically autonomous AI agents, coordinated by the OLAS token. It's made up of the Olas Stack, an open-source framework for building the agents and the Olas Protocol, a blockchain protocol for incentivizing the agents. We believe AGI will be agentic and must be co-owned. We are proving that the majority of crypto users will be AI agents, and they're already here.

Scrollmark is a DM Marketing platform that grows user acquisition on social media by at least 50%. We do this by using the most underutilized channel in marketing today - social DMs. Our integrated tools help you build automated chat funnels on social media to collect leads, grow followers, and drive downloads. We enable brands to boost engagement by rewarding followers with points redeemable for exclusive rewards, automate responses to comments, collect leads, build DM mailing lists, and sell subscriptions/products directly via social messengers. These automations work on paid, influencer, and organic media and are supported on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Brands using Scrollmark achieve a 90% open rate on their DM’s, CTR’s of 25%+, and an average conversion rate of 15%. Our mission is to make every social media interaction count towards enhancing customer experiences and driving business growth. Want to be a part of the Scrollmark Crew? We’re hiring at: jobs.ashbyhq.com/Scrollmark

We are building a web application and blockchain infrastructure to digitize real estate data. We work with the United States government track real estate (and related) transactions. Web app: app.balcony.technology

We invest in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Arista Networks Cloudera, Coinbase, Discord, Dropbox, Facebook, Figma, Instagram, LinkedIn, Medium, Nextdoor, Okta, Pure Storage, and Roblox.

The Witnet distributed oracle network connects smart contracts to any external data source: sport results, stock prices, weather forecasts, other blockchains... you name it!

Localcoin is a financial technology company that operates the largest cryptocurrency ATM network in Canada. Our network allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum at over 400 retail locations across North America in more than 9 provinces and 3 states. Founded in 2017, Localcoin empowers consumers to join the cryptoeconomy by offering a simple cryptocurrency buying/selling experience to over 40,000 customers. Our partners include independent retailers and franchises such as Hasty Market and Gateway Newstands. We are a profitable cryptocurrency startup and we are growing at an exponential rate with over 50 new locations opened monthly. Localcoin’s mission is to bring cryptocurrency to your community, one ATM at a time. Learn more at localcoinatm.com.

Fuel is an open-source, optimistic rollup built to scale the Ethereum network. Our technology enables Fuel to process low cost, high throughput transactions compared to existing alternatives.

Primitives is working to build the most accessible crypto wallet and the easiest, most joyful way to create and share NFTs. We’re excited to be building on Solana.

BitGo provides the most secure and scalable wallet solutions for the digital asset economy, offering regulated custody, staking and trading, and core infrastructure to investors and builders alike. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets and established BitGo New York Trust in 2021. In 2022, BitGo launched institutional-grade DeFi, NFT and web3 services. BitGo secures approximately 20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value and supports more than 700 digital assets within its platform. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. For more information, please visit bitgo.com

SKALE Labs is the foundation behind SKALE, the gas-free invisible blockchain network designed to scale gaming, AI, social, and high-performance dApps to the masses. SKALE is BUILT DIFFERENT. Chains are gas-free, fast, modular, and fully EVM-Compatible, making them ideal for a wide range of decentralized applications. With a commitment to driving the mass adoption of Web3 technologies, SKALE empowers developers and businesses to build scalable, efficient, and user-centric blockchain applications. Harmonizing speed, security, and decentralization, SKALE Labs was born in Cali in 2018 by Jack O’Holleran and Stan Kladko, PhD. As of Q3 2024, the network serves over 5 Million monthly active users and has saved $8 Billion in gas fees. SKALE supporters include Arrington Capital, Blockchange, ConsenSys Labs, Hashed, HashKey, Floodgate, Multicoin Capital, Recruit Holdings, Signia VP, and Winklevoss Capital.