Nascent
A global, multi-strategy investment firm focused on crypto and open finance
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0x
0x API is a professional grade liquidity aggregator enabling the future of DeFi applications.
Alchemix
Alchemix Finance is a DeFi protocol that allows people to create yield-backed synthetic tokens in exchange for providing their cryptocurrencies as collateral. Visitors can for example deposit their DAI into the protocol, and receive (a lesser amount of) alUSD tokens, equally pegged to $1. The protocol uses the collateral provided by its visitors to collect yield and dynamically repay the depositors' debt, essentially giving its users an immediate claim on the future yield of their tokens. The protocols native token is ALCX, used to govern the development and directional decisions of Alchemix.
Aztec
Aztec is building blockchain encryption without trade-offs. Their advanced zero-knowledge cryptography means applications can be efficient, private, and secure.
Balancer
Balancer is a multi-token automated market maker (AMM) that functions as a self-balancing weighted portfolio protocol. Balancer is built on the Ethereum network. It allows anyone to create or add liquidity to customizable pools and earn trading fees. Compared to a typical constant product AMM model, Balancer uses a generalization formula that could be adjusted to any number of tokens at any amount of weightage.
Castle Finance
Castle is building the next generation of crypto-native products that enable organizations to deploy their assets in a risk-conscious manner. We empower protocols, companies, and DAOs with the decentralized financial tools they need to function at their highest capacity and execute on their vision. Time wasted in the trenches of DeFi is better spent innovating, scaling, and achieving goals.
Coin98
Coin98 is a multi-chain wallet & DeFi Gateway designed to seamlessly connect users to the crypto world in a safe and secure manner.
Eco
Eco is one simple balance that lets you spend, send, save and make money.
empty set
A DAO building trust-minimized, composable protocols for web3
Etherscan
Etherscan is the leading BlockChain Explorer, Search, API and Analytics Platform for Ethereum, a decentralized smart contracts platform. Built and launched in 2015 it is one of the earliest and longest running independent project built around Ethereum and its community with the mission of providing equitable access to blockchain data.
Flashbots
Flashbots is a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities posed by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) to stateful blockchains, starting with Ethereum.
Friends With Benefits
Friends with Benefits is a worldwide group of cultural creators, thinkers, and builders who convene digitally and IRL to collaboratively shape web3's future.
Futureswap
Futureswap is a decentralized non-custodial perpetual protocol where users can gain leveraged exposure (up to 256x) to assets. Liquidity providers deposit passive liquidity in order to earn passive income from trading fees and FST incentives. This liquidity is utilized by the Futureswap AMM and other AMMs under the hood to create leveraged exposure. Realistically under the hood, Futureswap operates as a lending protocol as no leverage contracts are being created but only liquidity providers lending funds while holding collateral.
Gelato
Web3’s decentralized backend. Enabling developers to create augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless & off-chain aware
JPG Space
Juried Protocol Galleries (JPG) brings together curators, collectors, and artists through a registry-based protocol focused on curation. NFT owners and curators contribute to an open, community-generated collection and a network of galleries.
Macro
Quality Audits with Low Lead Times - Macro delivers The Audit You Need. Don't leave your protocol to chance. Leverage our expertise. Secure your smart contracts.
Messari
Messari is a company providing data, tools, and research to help stakeholders in the cryptocurrency industry make informed decisions. They offer insights and analytics on various crypto assets, aiming to bring transparency and clarity to the complex world of crypto markets. Messari's platform serves investors, regulators, and the general public with detailed information on market trends, project developments, and financial metrics.
Morpho
Morpho Blue is a decentralized protocol enabling the overcollateralized lending and borrowing of crypto assets (ERC20 Tokens) on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. The protocol is implemented as an immutable smart contract, engineered to serve as a trustless base layer for lenders, borrowers, and applications. Morpho Blue is licensed under a dual license (BUSL-1.1 and GPLv2) which you can find [here](https://github.com/morpho-org/morpho-blue/blob/main/LICENSE). Once deployed, Morpho Blue will function in perpetuity, provided the existence of the Ethereum blockchain. ### Why Within a year, Morpho has become the third-largest lending platform on Ethereum, with over $1.5B in deposited assets. Morpho's initial version, Morpho Optimizer, operates on top of Compound and Aave to enhance the efficiency of their interest rate model. But consequently, Morpho Optimizer’s growth is constrained by the current underlying lending pool design. In particular, the current lending paradigm is: - Not Trustless: It relies heavily on its DAO and trusted contractors to monitor and update hundreds of risk parameters daily or upgrade large smart contracts. - Not Efficient: It provides inefficient rate spread, low collateralization factors, and charges fees to maintain the platform itself. - Not Flexible: It has a limited number of assets listed. Users have no choice but to subscribe to the one-size-fits-all risk-return profile proposed by the DAO. Although DeFi lending has grown rapidly under existing protocols like Aave and Compound, we need to rethink decentralized lending from the ground up to reach the next order of magnitude. Having spent two years developing the most significant platform built on top of these onchain funds, Morpho is uniquely positioned to recognize and address its limitations. As anticipated in the initial whitepaper, Morpho must metamorphose to become fully autonomous and improve the current state of DeFi lending. We call this evolution Morpho Blue 🟦.
Neon Labs
Neon is a fully Ethereum-compatible environment on Solana
Notional Finance
Fixed rate borrowing & lending protocol with $650M+ in total lending volume.
Olympus
Olympus is building OHM, a community-owned, decentralized and censorship-resistant reserve currency that is deeply liquid, asset-backed, and used widely across Web3.
Optimism
Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain.
Osmosis
Interchain Liquidity Lab - Swap, earn, and build on the leading decentralized Cosmos exchange.
PoolTogether
PoolTogether is a crypto-powered savings protocol based on Premium Bonds. Save money and have a chance to win every day.
Powertrade
Institutional grade crypto derivatives - Trade options, futures, perpetuals and hedge all in one place.
Primitive Finance
Primitive is an ecosystem of efforts to build an innovative and oracle-free solution to DeFi derivatives. Under Primitive is a US equity company Primitive Bits, the decentralized RMM protocol, and the Primitive Products
ribbon
Ribbon Finance is a suite of DeFi protocols that help users access crypto structured products. It combines derivatives and fixed income to improve a portfolio's risk-return profile.
Saddle
Saddle is a decentralized automated market maker on the Ethereum blockchain, optimized for pegged value crypto assets such as stablecoins and wrapped BTC. Saddle enables cheap, efficient, swift, and low-slippage swaps for traders and high-yield pools for LPs. Saddle’s open-sourced StableSwap implementation in Solidity is the pillar for many DeFi projects, across different verticals and blockchains.
Seed Club
Seed Club is a DAO that builds and invests in communities. We’re building a future where the value created by communities on the internet is captured by people, not platforms.
Sense Finance
Sense is permissionless infrastructure for fixed income. Earn fixed yield & make long/short bets on ETH and DAI yield.
Slingshot Finance
Slingshot is a DeFi application that lets you buy, sell, and swap over 40k cryptocurrencies at the best prices, with 0% swap fees. Slingshot combines the performance and ease of centralized exchanges, with the openness and transparency of decentralized exchanges.
Socket
Socket is a complete interoperability stack which allows asset & data transfer across chains, enabling developers to build truly cross-chain apps
Spearbit
Spearbit connects independent security experts to the Web3 projects that need them.
Thesis*
Thesis believes in your right to choose; to personally determine membership in our culture and centralized institutions. We build and fund products and protocols in cryptocurrency and decentralized technology.
xmtp
The open protocol and network for secure web3 messaging. Build with XMTP to send messages between blockchain accounts, including DMs, alerts, announcements, and more
Zapper
Zapper is a DeFi platform that allows users to manage their investments across various blockchain protocols without needing to navigate each one individually. It simplifies tracking and managing assets by providing a unified dashboard for viewing investments, liquidity pools, and yield farming opportunities. Zapper aims to make DeFi more accessible and user-friendly.