A global, multi-strategy investment firm focused on crypto and open finance

0x API is a professional grade liquidity aggregator enabling the future of DeFi applications.

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.

Alchemix

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.

Balancer

Coin98 is a multi-chain wallet & DeFi Gateway designed to seamlessly connect users to the crypto world in a safe and secure manner.

Coin98

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.

Etherscan

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.


Messari

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. 


Zapper

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.

ribbon

Optimism is a low-cost and lightning-fast Ethereum L2 blockchain.

Optimism

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.

JPG Space

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

Olympus is building OHM, a community-owned, decentralized and censorship-resistant reserve currency that is deeply liquid, asset-backed, and used widely across Web3.

Olympus

Interchain Liquidity Lab - Swap, earn, and build on the leading decentralized Cosmos exchange.

Osmosis

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.

Seed Club

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

Primitive Finance

PoolTogether is a crypto-powered savings protocol based on Premium Bonds. Save money and have a chance to win every day.


PoolTogether

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.

Flashbots

Web3’s decentralized backend.
Enabling developers to create augmented smart contracts
that are automated, gasless & off-chain aware

Gelato

The open protocol and network for secure web3 messaging. Build with XMTP to send messages between blockchain accounts, including DMs, alerts, announcements, and more

xmtp

Aztec is building blockchain encryption without trade-offs.
Their advanced zero-knowledge cryptography means applications can be efficient, private, and secure.

Aztec

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.

Saddle

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. 

Castle Finance

Eco is one simple balance that lets you spend, send, save and make money.

Friends with Benefits is a worldwide group of cultural creators, thinkers, and builders who convene digitally and IRL to collaboratively shape web3's future. 

Friends With Benefits

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.

Futureswap

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.

Macro

Neon is a fully Ethereum-compatible environment on Solana

Neon Labs

Fixed rate borrowing & lending protocol with $650M+ in total lending volume. 

Notional Finance

Institutional grade crypto derivatives - Trade options, futures, perpetuals and hedge all in one place.

Powertrade

Making web3 experiences simple | Building on-chain branded NFT experiences

Recur

Sense is permissionless infrastructure for fixed income.
Earn fixed yield & make long/short bets on ETH and DAI yield.

Sense 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.

Slingshot Finance

Socket is a complete interoperability stack which allows asset & data transfer across chains, enabling developers to build truly cross-chain apps

Socket

Spearbit connects independent security experts to the Web3 projects that need them.


Spearbit

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.

Thesis

Nascent

Dan Elitzer

Josh Felker

Theresa Regenstreif

Brock Elmore

Matt Klein

Chris Novick

Hedeer El Showk

Nicolas Neven

Elle

Jamaal Montasser

Jessy Huang

Austin Williams

Top auditors compete to keep high severity bugs out of production.
Community-driven contests for smart contract audits.

Nascent

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