Startups

Layer3 is a platform that enables anyone to contribute to a DAO. We provide a marketplace of bounties where users can earn governance tokens by doing things as simple as putting out a tweet or as complex as re-designing a front-end.

For DAOs, this is the missing piece in their tool kit. A mechanism to coordinate, track, and reward contributors.

Mirana Ventures

Lattice Capital

Red Beard Ventures

Kinjal Shah

Jai Bhavnani

Nick Emmons

ParaFi Capital

Jordan Momtazi

Balaji Srinivasan

Electric Capital

Felix Feng

Tony Sheng

6th Man Ventures

Kain Warwick

Dariya Khojasteh

Brandon Kumar

Layer3

We are building a fully decentralized communications and storage utility that is open-source and maintains state by utilizing proof of stake (Casper).

RChain is pioneering transparent and secure transactions with an ultra-fast, global scale technology platform. Cooperative governance and a sustainable economic model make RChain a public utility that can be applied to climate change, data security, digital identity, and many other challenges we are collectively facing.

Intelligent concurrency throughout the network and right-sized validation of every transaction prevents wasted resources. Transactions now happen with low execution costs and greater efficiency.

RChain's decentralized architecture design does not compromise security to achieve scale. Rholang, RChain's contract programming language, lets developers write for concurrency and formally verify all processes.

An inspirational and radically transparent open-source cooperative. RChain's member-driven contributions enrich every part of the system, resulting in unlimited organic growth.

RCHAIN

Stacks is a new decentralized internet where users own their data and apps run locally.                     Take back control over your digital life. A browser is all you need to get started.

Stacks makes Bitcoin programmable, enabling decentralized apps and smart contracts that inherit all of Bitcoin’s powers.

Stacks

Balancer is a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor. It has risen to prominence since its launch as a AMM-based DEX and it currently is one of the top DEXes in the world by Total Value Locked (TVL).

Balancer is a generalization of the AMM idea that Uniswap pioneered, allowing end users more control over the pools that can be created. A key Balancer feature is the ability to create pools with multiple assets that can have different weights rather than the more traditional asset pair that is maintained in a 50/50 ratio. Balancer supports up to 8 assets that can be weighted in different ways to create asset portfolios to express different ideas and use cases. Trading activity on a given Balancer pool will maintain the asset allocations that have been setup. Other important features include the ability for users to set the trading fee for pools that are created, as well as specifying if the pools should be public or private.

Balancer

Dai is an Ethereum ERC20 token that is pegged to $1 USD — every Dai is worth $1.

Dai is created by users borrowing against locked collateral and destroyed when loans are repaid. Anyone can create new dai by depositing ether as collateral and drawing an appropriate amount of dai. Locked collateral can be recovered at any time by paying back the borrowed dai (plus a stability fee). Thus, all dai in circulation is at all times backed by at least as much collateral. You can also exchange for Dai at both traditional exchanges and decentralized exchanges. 
 
Hedging: During periods of high market instability, Dai offers a safe harbour to store value without having to exit the crypto space.

Lending: High volatility creates an uncertain lending environment as borrowers and lenders cannot comfortably plan for the future. Dai’s low volatility makes them a perfect medium for a stable, predictable loan.

Decentralized Leverage: In creating CDPs, users can get more capital without spending collateral they are bullish on.

Payments / Online Purchases: Users can spend Dai at merchants that accept crypto at point of sale.

Decentralized exchanges: Decentralized exchanges are frequently unable to provide fiat-offramps. Dai allows their users to trade their assets for a low volatility currency that is stable relative to other widely accepted currencies like the US Dollar.

Exchange pairs: Crypto-to-crypto trading can be a complicated proposition. It is difficult to track earnings when the base trading pair is rising and falling in value as users are making trades. Creating low-volatility pairings with Dai allows for greater price predictability.

Supply Chain: As goods and assets exchange hands, middlemen take large fees for ensuring safe transactions, lending stable capital, and brokering cross-border initiatives. Dai and blockchain can reduce the costs of supply chain and international trade.

Prediction Markets: Long term betting becomes infeasible if users also have to gamble on the future price of the asset they are wagering. A cryptocurrency with price stability like Dai can be the natural choice for prediction markets and gambling applications.
 
Important features of Dai  - Each Dai is worth $1.
- All Dai are backed by real assets, a surplus of collateral that has been escrowed into audited, ownerless, and publicly viewable Ethereum smart contracts.
- It’s solvency doesn’t rely on trusted counterparties.
- It’s a currency that lives entirely on the blockchain.
- It’s stability is unmediated by locality.

Crypto-Exchange. Decentralized Settlement. Liquidity Services.

The European cryptocurrency exchange of trust for individual and institutional traders and investors.

Blockchain.io

The decentralized dream, realized. Speed privacy and security on a global scale. Many have dreamed of scaling decentralized technology, providing consumers with the speed they are accustomed to and the privacy they expect — all without compromising security.

Elixxir

Solidified launched in early 2017 and has established itself as the #1 full-audit service for smart contracts. Having helped secure companies such as Gnosis, Polymath, Bankera, Melonport and more than 50 others, Solidified has established itself as the leader for high-quality technical audits on Ethereum. With 200+ Solidity experts and more than 85M EUR secured, Solidified has the largest verified community of auditors, its own dedicated bug bounty platform and incorporates all stages of technical due diligence to bulletproof smart contracts.

Solidified

The Graph is a protocol for building decentralized applications quickly on Ethereum and IPFS using GraphQL.

We're building The Graph because we've seen the challenges in getting data off blockchains. We envision The Graph as a truly decentralized ecosystem where the community can collaborate on curating quality data sources available to all. Together we can build a new generation of the web free from data silos and monopolies.

The Graph

"Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear." —Henry H. Fowler, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Distributed ledger technologies enable the coordination of people without a central authority. And while this technology has cultivated a mass of new ideas across many domains, we continue to believe that the most salient opportunity presented is that of disintermediating the issuance and regulation of money. 

This belief has led us to think extensively about what qualities an independent money should have, and what problems an independent money can solve that a sovereign money cannot. 

And we have concluded that the single greatest advantage of independent money is its ability to remain solely focused on the responsible regulation of supply—such that purchasing power remains undiminished by cycles of inflation. 

There is a very real possibility that a digital asset can make obsolete the problem of nonuniform inflation; and a solution to this problem would decouple us from the conflict between national and international interests that has been so troublesome for sovereign monies and the global economy to date. 

Many stablecoin projects today are recreating fiat on distributed ledgers, and we think this is worthwhile because it opens up the free trade of money—lifting the floor of quality to that of the best fiat money. 

However the true potential of independent money lies not in lifting the floor, but in lifting the ceiling of money quality. For this reason, we have chosen instead to address this much older, bigger problem of inflation and its connection to national policy. 

The Bitcoin protocol has made enormous strides in this direction, but its fixed supply policy limits functionality to that of a digital gold. Our mission is to produce a money that is both sound, like gold; and stable, like fiat. For the first time ever, this is possible.