Organizations

Proximity, DeFi on NEAR. Co-founded by Evgeny Kuzyakov.

Proximity Labs is a research firm focused on the NEAR ecosystem. The team works closely with many projects building on NEAR, provides grants, and creates open-source software targeting the NEAR blockchain.

Experts

Evgeny Kuzyakov

Proximity

Aave is an open source and non-custodial protocol enabling the creation of money markets. Users can earn interest on deposits and borrow assets.

AAVE

The operating system for the financial supply chain.

Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows any business, no matter how big, to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions.

Our team has built multiple companies over the last 18 years and we still enjoy working together. In the past, we created software that transacts billions of dollars each day and is used by 97 out of the Fortune 100. With the help of our world-class investors, advisors, partners, and team we started Centrifuge to go on building real software, solving real business problems.

Centrifuge

Nansen analyzes 46M+ labeled Ethereum wallets and their activity. So you can separate the signal from the noise in blockchain data.

Nansen is an analytics platform for blockchain, which combines on-chain data with a massive and constantly growing database containing millions of wallet labels. Customers use Nansen to access this data via user-friendly dashboards, direct SQL queries, or APIs.

Nansen

"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.

Ampleforth

NEAR is a decentralized application platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of the Open Web in their hands.

NEAR Protocol

Access quality private investments in a more liquid form. Harbor is an all-in-one platform for tokenized commercial real estate, investment funds, and more.

Built on blockchain technology, the Harbor platform lets you access premium private assets alongside leading investors – with lower investment minimums and the potential for enhanced liquidity and value.

HARBOR

Ledger is Your safe gateway to crypto. Unlock a world of crypto possibilities. Protect your crypto assets with the most popular hardware wallet in the market.

We are a unique digital security ecosystem that provides protection and is built on verifiable trust across our people, hardware and software. And in today’s world, we know that trust deserves proof. This is why we provide transparency into how our technology works.

We relentlessly stress-test our own technology solutions. Our Ledger Donjon team is made up of world-class experts with extensive backgrounds in the security and smartcard industries. They continuously look for vulnerabilities on Ledger products as well as our providers’ products in an effort to analyze and improve the security. We know security means never standing still.

What first started as an idea of building a secure element chip to safeguard digital assets for crypto enthusiasts has quickly evolved into the creation of a cutting edge security technology company serving individuals, institutional investors and enterprises. This goes beyond just crypto and bitcoin. From connected pacemakers to water supply systems to electric grids, there will be countless critical digital assets in the future that need security. If they’re not safe, they can be stolen or compromised, eventually hurting your wallet or even your life.

And through resilience, we give our clients and customers the ability to recover from setbacks, quickly adapt to change and keep going in the face of adversity. Resilience empowers our clients to explore and embrace pioneering opportunities like never before. 

Ledger enables resilience through verifiable trust. Knowing trust is the greatest way to make our world truly move forward and progress.

Ledger

The Decentralized Derivatives Association (DDA) seeks to be the first to market with a fully functional and truly decentralized option for derivatives. Currently, all transactions on the Ethereum network, including DDA contracts, are quite expensive. With the rising price of Ether, along with full blocks necessitating higher gas prices and longer transaction times, DDA ultimately relies on the Ethereum Foundation to succeed in scaling to provide an affordable and fast Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) for success. DDA is currently utilizing an Ethereum Foundation grant to develop and implement a short-term scaling solution that focuses on creating a bridged side chain for DDA products, a method that can be widely used by other Ethereum developers.

Daxia

At Digital Currency Group, it is our mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system. We do this by building and supporting bitcoin and blockchain companies through our network, insights, and access to capital. 

DCG has been the most active investor in the digital currency industry, with investments in over 100 companies in 30 different countries, including market leaders such as Coinbase, Circle, Ledger, Ripple, and ShapeShift. 

We also own and operate three businesses: CoinDesk (the industry's leading media, research, and events platform), Genesis Trading (the industry's leading digital currency brokerage firm), and Grayscale Investments (the largest digital currency asset management firm and the manager of 8 products, including the first publicly traded bitcoin investment vehicle, the Bitcoin Investment Trust (symbol: GBTC)).

Proximity

DeFi on NEAR.

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