Startups

Portal is the mobile wallet infrastructure that transforms platforms into portals to web3. We leverage advanced cryptography to build powerful seedless wallets for users.

It powers the largest consumer platforms in the world with embeddable, enterprise–grade blockchain infrastructure. Unlock web3 with great security and UX.

Haun Ventures

Diogo Monica

William Hockey

Canonical Crypto

Acrew Ventures

Chapter One

Slow Ventures

Raj Parekh

Portal

SOLANA, Blockchain Rebuilt for Scale. 710,000 tx/s with off-the-shelf hardware and no sharding. Scales with Moore's Law.

Proof of History: The Key to Speed. Similar to Google’s TrueTime, which relies on synchronized atomic clocks for a trusted source of time and ordering, Solana has created a cryptographically secure and trustless time source--and built a blockchain around it. We call it Proof of History.

By weaving this standardized timestamp into the blockchain, nodes in the network can verify the time and order of events without witnessing them directly. This drastically reduces messaging overhead and is one example of the many optimization capabilities that become available through Solana’s Proof of History.

SOLANA

A trusted authority on digital currency investing, Grayscale provides market insight and investment exposure to the developing digital currency asset class.

In this next wave of the digital revolution, digital currencies are emerging as what many believe to be the greatest innovation since the advent of the internet.

Digital currencies are poised to radically transform our financial system, but it won’t happen overnight. At Grayscale Investments, we believe investors deserve an established, trusted, and accountable partner that can help them navigate the gray areas of digital currency investing. That’s why we are building transparent, familiar investment products that facilitate access to this emerging asset class, and provide the springboard to invest in the new digital currency-powered “internet of money.”

Grayscale

It's time to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential. When Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, it was intended for everyone.

Inrupt

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

In this document, we outline the design for a Lightning Service Authentication Token (LSAT) for future services created by Lightning Labs. This specification is open source, with contributions accepted at our LSAT specification repository.  LSATs are a new standard protocol for authentication and paid APIs developed by Lightning Labs. LSATs can serve both as authentication, as well as a payment mechanism (one can view it as a ticket) for paid APIs. In order to obtain a token, we require the user to pay us over Lightning in order to obtain a pre-image, which itself is a cryptographic component of the final LSAT token.

The implementation of the authentication token is chosen to be macaroons, as they allow us to package attributes and capabilities along with the token. This system allows us to automate pricing on the fly and allows for a number of novel constructs such as automated tier upgrades. In another light, this can be viewed as a global HTTP 402 reverse proxy at the load balancing level for all our services.

LSAT

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

Blockchain.io

The decentralized reputation, incentive, and payments protocol for the global sharing economy, built on the blockchain.

Layer Protocol

0x is an open-source, decentralized exchange infrastructure that enables the exchange of tokenized assets on multiple blockchains.

The 0x protocol is, at its core, a set of secure smart contracts that facilitate the peer-to-peer exchange of Ethereum-based assets. The protocol serves as an open standard and common building block for any developer needing exchange functionality. 

In addition to the externally audited smart contracts, 0x also offers developer tools tailored to the ecosystem and open-access to a pool of shared liquidity.

Developers can integrate with 0x at the smart contract or application layer.

An open source blockchain technology suite allowing users and businesses alike to benefit from an array of disruptive technologies that seek to fundamentally restructure traditional fintech and corporate environments.