Top Blockchain / Cryptocurrency Startups in 2024

We're building the next generation of live event ticketing. Backed by Comcast, Techstars, Aptos, and an executive team from Live Nation / Ticketmaster, we have a unique advantage to dominate the live events industry over the next decade.

We are going to launch the largest crypto to crypto exchange. This exchange will be used as an easy to use exchange with no login required. We other products in the works.

Namefi tokenizes domain names for DeFi. Namefi is the world's first platform and protocol that tokenizes DNS domain names (like .com, .xyz) on Ethereum. As the pioneer in this space, Namefi has achieved several industry-first milestones: First to launch on Ethereum Mainnet and Base, a leading Ethereum Layer 2 network Pioneered innovative technologies like Namefi NFT, NamefiService Credit, AutoPark, AutoENS, and PrivacyMax (patent pending) Namefi was founded by Victor Zhou, one of the 7 EIP/ERC Editors of Ethereum, and a team with 30 years of ICANN experience. The platform has already tokenized over 500 domain names and has a thriving community of domain traders.

CoinFantasy is a Play to Invest platform that brings the world of investment to users through engaging games. With multiple categories of games, it aims to make investing fun, intuitive, and enjoyable for users. It features a sandbox environment in which users are exposed to the end-to-end investment journey without risking financial losses. Website: coinfantasy.io

Hashstack provides a permissionless zk-native money market protocol enabling secure under-collateralised loans to the crypto retail. Built on Starknet L2[announcement], Hashstack leverages the capability of zero-knowledge proofs to provide a cost & capital-efficient lending solution. Hashstack scales upon the foundations of incumbent money markets (Compound, Aave, Euler Finance) by addressing the blindspots & grey areas for better-balanced risks, and value-add for the system participants, with composability at its core. A basic summary of Hashstack's Open is as follows: Developed on the protocol of the same name, through Open, anyone anywhere worldwide can borrow up to three times their collateral, completely permission-less, without the need for trusted 3rd parties. That is, one can borrow up to US$300 with collateral of as little as US$100. This is 328% more loan against the collateral when compared to the incumbent money markets — Compound, Aave, MakerDao. The $300 loan can be spent in two ways: 1. Use the loan in its entirety as trading capital. 2. Withdraw a portion[ up to $70, i.e. up to 70% collateral equivalent] into the borrower’s personal wallet, with the balance of $230 staying within the protocol to be used as trading capital. The ownership of the balance loan remains with the Open, with the borrower having the right to spend. Open integrates dapps of critical novelty across zk L2 & L1s, where the loan can be spent. For, eg, A borrower can trade the $300 loan for equivalent BTC on a dex on Starknet. Here, the transfer of assets happens on a protocol level between Open & the dex, while the state change of the loan market is recorded for the borrower. If the trade returns a positive yield, the borrower makes a profit, which is for his to keep. The borrower can repay the debt and exit the transaction with positive returns.

3Box Labs is a crypto company focused on building protocols and tools for Web3 application development. We're inventors of Ceramic, the high-performance data layer for building real-time Web3 data applications. Ceramic enables user data sovereignty, multi-application data interoperability, and is used by the leading distributed web projects and protocols. Founded in 2018, 3Box Labs is a remote-first, globally-distributed team backed by world-class investors like USV, Multicoin, Placeholder, and many more.

R3 is a leading financial innovation firm, led by former ICAP electronic broking CEO David Rutter, that is spearheading a partnership with over 80 of the world's leading banks to design and deliver advanced distributed/shared ledger technologies to global financial markets. R3 and its partner banks collaborate on research, experimentation, design, and engineering to help advance state-of-the-art enterprise-scale shared ledger solutions to meet banking requirements for security, reliability, performance, scalability, and audit. We have established the industry’s first collaborative joint working groups to lead these efforts, which leverages the R3 team as well as experts within the partner banks. We lead the design and guide the development of all layers of this new architecture. In addition, the group works within a collaborative lab environment or “sandbox” to test and validate distributed ledger prototypes and protocols.

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Aphid is a global automation network for people and businesses to utilize artificial intelligence bots.

Boost’s mission is to increase global economic opportunities by making it more rewarding to participate in onchain protocols. We’re accomplishing this mission by building a distributed incentives network — a protocol to deploy targeted incentive to perform onchain actions. Since launch in 2023, Boost has become the #1 most used protocol across L2s in terms of usage, with 3,000+ quest creators deploying over $1.2M to drive 2,4M actions. Boost is backed by Electric Capital, Greylock, and TCG Crypto.