Asset Management

Startups

LSDx is an ultra-liquid protocol that optimizes the financial value of liquid staking derivatives (LSD) assets, which suffer from limited liquidity and lack of connection with various DeFi protocols. The protocol offers an ultra-liquid solution for all LSD assets, enabling users to benefit from the opportunities that staked assets provide and to stake their LSD assets to receive ETHx for yield farming, liquidity provision, collateralization, and more.

Foresight Ventures

LSDx Finance

P2P cryptocurrency exchange on the Bitcoin Testnet. Hodl Hodl is a P2P cryptocurrency exchange that allows users to trade directly with each other and it doesn't hold user's funds — locking it in multisig escrow instead — which minimizes the possibilities of crypto assets theft and reduces trading time.

Hodl Hodl

We’re taking over the financial system and using it for Good. Our first step is giving away Good Money shares to all new members. Now, you own the bank.

Good Money is a bank owned by the people in service of the planet, providing best-in-class mobile banking while empowering citizens to be part of a more equitable and transparent world.

According to the GoodMoney project team, the large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies despite their many advantages is still limited. A few reasons they cited are: 1) Poor user interfaces, 2) Sub-par go to market strategies and 3. few teams that have experience building massive direct-to-consumer brands that scale. GoodMoney’s proposes to build a platform that will be known as “the first global alternative to fiat and fee-based banking.”

To address the 3 reasons for the limited adoption of cryptocurrency they are building:

Stable Coin and a multicoin Wallet.

The stable coin will be a 1–1 fiat to crypto which will have the following features: auditing, user friendly interface, peer-to-peer, will enable token holders to manage both their fiat and crypto cryptocurrencies in a single mobile app.

Exchange for fiat and crypto pairing without banking fees.

Token holders will be able to easily convert crypto to fiat and back. Alongside that, the GoodMoney project team expects that the “no banking fee” will entice the public to adopt their crypto solution.
Further, they are utilizing Smart Contracts, Blockchain 3.0, Stablecoin Protocol, and Stablecoin API.

The team is comprised of leaders who have built 4bn companies.

Gunnar Lovelace, Founder & CEO, a serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Thrive Market. He also co-founded and is the current Chairman of Love Heals, a socially conscious boho chick jewelry selling globally in 450 stores.

Seth Taube, Co-founder, the founder and CEO of an investment banking company specializing in asset management services called Medley Management Inc and has taken to date 3 companies Public. Moreover he is the current Chairman and CEO of Sierra Income Corporation.

Nick Sullivan, Co-founder & CTO, the former VP of a data management platform later acquired by Salesforce. He is a technology expert who founded ChangeTip, a tipping platform later called ChangeTip which was acquired later by Airbnb.

Andrew Masanto, Co-founder & CSO, was a former employee at Rothschild as an Investmetn Banking Analysst. He co-founded Hashgraph Public Ledger, and he is an advisor and early contributor of AirSwap.

Bear Kittay, Co-founder & Head of Business Development. In the last three years, Bear Kittay (not in the photo above) is both Advisor and Investor of Partnered and Shaker. He is a member of the Board of Directors at Bridges for Music. He is also known for being a Social Alchemist and Global Ambassador for the Burning Man, and the Project Lead of the Fly Ranch Project.

Good Money

Current liquidity is segmented. You get to choose one of: Swaps (Uniswap, Sushiswap, Bancor, …); Options (Deribit, Hegic, Opyn, Primitive, …); Loans (Aave, Compound, DyDx, …)

Deriswap (currently under audit), combines Swaps, Options, and Loans into a capital efficient single contract, allowing interaction between the two assets that make up the pair.

Deriswap allows for a consolidated, capital efficient market for trading, Options, Futures, and Loans, allowing LPs to keep their exposure and enjoy additional fees and rewards.

Deriswap

A coalition of companies and developers building open source tools and infrastructure for the Handshake network. Promote and support the adoption of Handshake by building the tools and infrastructure necessary for developers and other crypto ventures to take advantages of the many benefits of HNS’s underlying technology, to promote a free and more private web while pushing adoption forward.

Handshake Alliance

Celo is a platform for fast, secure, stable digital payments to any mobile number at a fraction of today’s cost.

Celo, pronounced /ˈtselo/, means ‘purpose’ in Esperanto. In a similar spirit, we are aiming to create a new platform to connect people globally and bring financial stability to those who need it most. We believe blockchain technology is one of the most exciting innovations in recent history and as a team we look to push the boundaries of what is possible with it today. More importantly, we are driven by purpose -- to solve real-world problems such as lack of access to sound currency, or friction for cash-transfer programs aimed to alleviate poverty. Our mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions for prosperity for all.

Celo

SWIFT is a global member-owned cooperative and the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services.

SWIFT is driven and defined by its vision, mission and three core values: Excellence, Community and Innovation. Privacy is a fundamental commitment at SWIFT, an essential component of our core services and integral to the SWIFT environment.

SWIFT

Axiom Zen is an innovation studio, venture studio. We build products and teams that power successful businesses. We work at the cutting edge of emerging tech to build and scale future-facing companies. Yes, we created CryptoKitties.

Axiom Zen is an idea catalyst: they build, launch, and accelerate iconic companies.

They are thinkers and builders; artisans and architects. Reflecting Vancouver and San Francisco, the two dynamic cities that surround us, they are a diverse, multi-faceted, and multi-national team with an extraordinary range of perspectives and experiences.

Their team of creatives have built complex infrastructure and award-winning applications serving millions of delighted users, working with industry giants like Apple, Google, Baidu, and Facebook.

Axiom Zen team members have also helped build, grow, and successfully exit multiple technology startup companies, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in shareholder value and giving their team a unique perspective on product ideation, launch, and iteration to market fit.

Axiom Zen

Consensys Diligence is the arm of Consensys dedicated to performing audits, building security tools and promoting best practices in the Ethereum ecosystem. We are blockchain security experts who can increase trust & confidence in your Ethereum applications.

ConsenSys Diligence

Kadena is developing the leading blockchain platforms for businesses and entrepreneurs by solving the scalability & security concerns that impede widespread blockchain adoption and offering simple solutions & tools for developing on a blockchain. 

Kadena's founders have proven experience creating and building software systems for the financial industry and government including for JPMorgan Chase Bank and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

LSDx Finance

An ultra-liquid protocol for all LSD.

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