Startups

Contango is a unique decentralized exchange offering expirable futures without order books or liquidity pools. When a trader opens a position, the protocol borrows on the fixed-rate market, swaps on the spot market, then lends back on the fixed-rate market. Contango offers physical delivery and a minimal price impact for larger trades.

Juan Guillen

Nicolas Remond

Mirza Uddin

Nick Avramov

Alex Smirnov

0xbrainjar

dLab

Joshua Lim

Advanced Blockchain

CMS Holdings

Mika Honkasalo

Yenwen Feng

Francesco George Renzi

ParaFi Capital

Julien Bouteloup

Larry Cermak

Alpha Venture DAO

Wil Barnes

Windra Thio

SPARTAN

Michael Chen

AngelDAO

Cumberland

Amber Group

Coinbase Ventures

Eric Chen

Contango

Shield, The First Decentralized Risk-free Perpetual Contract.

We hold the belief that only decentralized blockchain network based on a fully non-cooperative game can build up a secure, stable and open derivatives trading market in the long run.

Shield devotes to developing a trustless, censorship-resistant and accessible protocol—the next generation of global derivative infrastructure.

Shield

Voltz Protocol is The Interest Rate Swap AMM. It is a novel defi primitive, powering leveraged interest rate swaps. The first ever synthetic interest rate swap AMM, Voltz AMM utilizes concentrated liquidity, creating a market that’s c.3000x more capital efficient.

Voltz Protocol

Best prices out of multiple decentralized exchanges. A decentralized exchange that solves the DEX market inefficiencies by aggregating multiple liquidity networks.

We want to help the DeFi space reach new heights!

ParaSwap offers a simple, fast and safe way to exchange Ethereum-native tokens by pooling together the liquidity from many decentralised services in one unique interface. It is a middleware layer connecting wallets and traders to digital assets.

Key facts:
-We raised $5.7M since our creation, gathering over 33 investors including big names in the crypto industry. Among the list are CoinGecko, a cryptocurrency price comparison website, Blockchain Capital, a venture firm in the blockchain space, and Stani Kulechov, the founder of DeFi protocol Aave.
-Our stack is based on cutting-edge technologies: Solidity, Vyper, Layer 2 solutions (Starkware, zkSync,..), TypeScript, Node.js, React, Redis, Go, Rust...
-We are an international team based around the globe, all working fully remotely, using English as main language.

ParaSwap

Orca, The DEX for people, not programs. At Orca, we pride ourselves on designing for people, not programs. Since Orca was little more than sketches on printer paper, we’ve had an ongoing feedback loop with real DeFi users. From this, we’d like to highlight three ways that Orca seeks to provide a simpler, more human-centered experience for traders on Solana.

Orca

IDEX is the most powerful DEX in the market, giving users the performance and throughput of a centralized exchange without sacrificing security. However, high gas prices and trade settlement costs make it cost prohibitive for traders and difficult for users to migrate away from existing platforms.

IDEX

Kinesis will be the first stableswap on Cosmos, built on Evmos. We allow users to swap stablecoins with other stablecoins at the lowest fees and the lowest slippage.

Kinesis Labs plans to actively work with and participate in governance for popular stablecoin protocols like Abracadabra, Alchemix, Fei, and Frax to bring all of EVM’s stablecoins onto Cosmos. We’ll work closely with stablecoin issuers to ensure there will be deep liquidity for stablecoins.

We are committed to bringing the first $100 billion of stablecoins onto Cosmos.

Kinesis Labs is a team of DeFi natives who have building since 2019. We have worked at top DeFi protocols like Risk Harbor and Yeti Finance, crypto trading firms like Hudson River Trading, and traditional tech companies like NVIDIA and Microsoft.

Kinesis Labs

PORTAL is a new, self-hosted Layer 2 Wallet and Exchange, engineered from scratch to make atomic swaps between Bitcoin and other digital assets fast, secure, and private.

Portal swaps is a layer 2 system purpose built to facilitate cross chain atomic transactions. It is like lightning network in that it is layer 2, but unlike lightning which is designed for peer to peer payments, Bridge(swaps) is designed for cross chain atomic exchange.

Build unstoppable applications that leverage the security, censorship resistance, liquidity and the largest user base of Bitcoin network.

Asset Swaps, Lending, Borrowing, Staking, Liquidity, Derivatives and other Financial Services built on bitcoin, securely accessible from your wallet.

Using Portal swaps and moving provable execution of these contracts to layer 2, you get the speed and liquidity of centralized alternatives, with the trust minimization guarantees of Bitcoin.

PORTAL

dTrade, Perpetuals & Options Trading on Polkadot. It is a decentralized exchange for derivative products built on Edgeware, a Polkadot Smart Contract Chain. The exchange is designed to function as a public utility, owned and controlled by the community of token holders. Modular, extensible smart contracts enable continuous upgrades and additions to the protocol. These contracts are open source, developer friendly, and built to leverage the performance and security of Substrate.

dTrade will launch an insurance fund and offer perpetual swap trading in Q2 2021, both with early participation rewards. Traders will benefit from a seamless trading experience, familiar to that of centralized exchanges, no gas fees and low trading fees. The protocol for trading options will go live later in the year. The number of features and assets on dTrade will grow over time. Soon, we will be able to rapidly launch new trading pairs and allow traders to gain the exposure they want, whenever they want. This is just the beginning — we hope you join us in creating the future of finance.

dTrade

Perpetual Protocol, formerly Strike Protocol, Decentralized perpetual contract for every asset.

20x Leverage On-Chain Perpetual Swap. Traders can trade with up to 20x leveraged long or short on Ethereum with low and transparent fees.

Trading On-Chain & Off-Chain Synthetic Assets. Strike supports both conventional and blockchain-based assets like gold, crude oil, fiat currencies, and BTC.

Guaranteed Liquidity Provided by AMMs. Automated Market Makers provide guaranteed on-chain liquidity and solve liquidity issues plagued by most orderbook-style DEXs.

Zero Impermanent Loss from Underlying Price Fluctuation. In contrast to popular DeFi protocols that also utilize AMMs, stakers on Strike do not suffer from any impermanent loss caused by price fluctuation.