Startups

Light Protocol, DeFi Privacy Infrastructure that Scales. It protects sensitive user data at scale so that web3 can go mainstream.

Swen Schaferjohann

Light Protocol

ZettaBlock is building a customizable and managed data stack. This infrastructure-as-code tool reduces the time and engineering resources customers need to orchestrate a modern data platform.

The easiest way to assemble, deploy and manage a programmable data stack.

ZettaBlock

Lossless Protocol freezes fraudulent transaction based on a set of fraud identification parameters and returns stolen funds back to the owner’s account.

Our code detects fraud, freezes and reverses stolen funds. Token creators insert Lossless code into their protocol to mitigate the losses suffered from exploits & hacks.

lossless

Irreverent Labs, led by longtime entrepreneur Rahul Sood is combining a flurry of the latest tech trends — NFTs, blockchain, machine learning, metaverse — into futuristic gaming experiences.

The game is set in a metaverse, a vague concept touted by some as the next frontier for online interaction through computer-generated avatars, blending the physical and digital worlds. Users will be able to “own” characters in this metaverse that can be bought and sold. That’s where NFTs — non-fungible tokens, or unique digital assets — come in. Those characters will be powered by AI, so they can get smarter over time. There will also be ways for users to earn currency as they play.

The idea takes inspiration from similar games such as Zed Run, the digital horse racing game that garnered attention. Similar to Zed Run, the game from Irreverent will also feature a breeding aspect. Sood was an early investor in the company behind Zed.

Sood previously co-founded esports betting startup Unikrn, which was acquired this year, and led Microsoft Ventures. He co-founded Unikrn in 2014 and grew the company into a leading esports wagering company that let people bet on video game matches. The startup attracted investment from celebrity investors including Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher. It also ran into legal trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Irreverent Labs

Kira Core is a software development company building a full stack DeFi ecosystem and truly distributed applications.

The first decentralized solution that enables trustless and permissionless asset exchange.

Trade tokens originating from independent blockchains without any scaling limitations. Through sharding of our blockchain application, Kira can achieve throughput and availability not achievable with any current DeFi system.

Kira is secured by our custom Multi-Bonded Proof of Stake consensus, this allows users to generate revenues from staking both cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, NFT’s and real-world assets such as digital fiat and commodities.

Kira’s consensus can infinitely increase the network security with every new token at stake and does not create honeypots like other solutions in the ecosystem.

Kira Core

Ali and Ryan started Obsidian Systems in 2014, after graduating from Harvard Law and spending a few years working with tech startups in Boston and New York. The waste we saw during those years convinced us that there had to be a better way to build products, and this conviction is part of everything we do at Obsidian. It informs our technology choices and our investments in open source. Most importantly, it effects how we build products.

We build, invest in, and select technologies that have the potential to drastically improve the way products are built. We use the Haskell programming language because it is the future of coding, and we use Nix to reliably build and package our projects for desktop and mobile. Where tools or libraries are lacking, we build the right solution rather than settle for less.

Obsidian Systems

Building the world's first Decentralised Finance (#DeFi) Platform on Bitcoin. First product is CakePool. Founded by Dr. Julian Hosp and U-Zyn Chua.

Cake DeFi

Discreet Labs believes the digital future is more private and self-sovereign, and is building the technology necessary to achieve this vision. Discreet Labs combines the reliability and transparency of decentralized, public blockchains, together with the security and privacy of zero-knowledge proofs, to enable confidential transactions. 

Applications developed by Discreet Labs provide both the transactional privacy that institutions desire, along with the proofs of compliance that regulators require.

Discreet Labs

The Akropolis project is building the largest alternative pensions infrastructure in the world. A Trustless Financial Future for Everyone. Akropolis is a lightweight, universal protocol layer capable of being deployed on a variety of blockchains.

Akropolis

Verso Finance, Decentralised marketplace connecting DeFi to traditional finance, Verso standardises how financial products are distributed and paves the way for mass adoption.

Verso is built for the regulated financial service industry and community-governed by its participants, which comprises financial service providers and regulated financial institutions. It uses proprietary smart contracts to facilitate the distribution and product-specific money flow between service providers, financial institutions and their customers.

Light Protocol

Privacy on Solana.

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