Asset Management

Startups

Stride is Multichain liquid staking for the Cosmos ecosystem. Liquidity for your staked assets. Earn both staking and DeFi yields across IBC. Sell your staked tokens for instant liquidity.

Cerulean Ventures

Imperator.co

Cosmostation

Everstake

North Island Ventures

Distributed Global

1confirmation

PANTERA Capital

Riley Edmunds

Stride

Tgrade is a robust, secure, fully decentralized platform that offers the ability for self-sovereign groups to form and interact with each other. This is important as it ensures that these groups know who they are interacting with and have certainty of the origin of funds. With this framework and the smart contract platform, there are many opportunities around tokenization and the exchange of value within a regulatory compliant environment.

Our vision is for self-sovereign groups, bound by their local jurisdiction and regulations, trading P2P programmable financial instruments.

Tgrade

Vee.Finance is a decentralized cross-chain lending platform for traditional financial users and crypto users, dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional finance and DeFi and providing better digital asset management services for users, who can participate in deposit, lending, long-shorting and other functions. The project's mission is to reduce the barriers to traditional users' participation in DeFi and optimize the efficiency of global asset allocation.

Vee.Finance

Paddle.Finance is a decentralized English auction platform for multiple objects (e.g., ERC20).  Compared to existing platforms, Paddle.Finance has the following benefits: Transparent, Efficient, Auto price discovery.

Decentralized platform for token sales is a powerful tool to distribute tokens to early project participants.  There are a couple of existing platforms in the market:

First-come first-sell pool, a.k.a. ICO.  The basic idea is to put a fixed amount of base token (token to be sold) in the pool, set a fixed price between base token and quote token (token used to buy), and a start time. After the start time, users can buy the base token at the ratio using quote token.  This was a very popular model in 2017 ICO boom.  However, this model favors early buyers, which results in gas war (e.g., Bancor ICO).  Further, the early big buyers may take most of the base tokens and then dump them later in secondary market.

Crowd pooling. The basic idea is to put a fixed amount of base token in the pool,  set the number of quote token expected to receive (thus the price), and a time window for selling.  During the time window, it could accept the quote token as much as possible.  If the number of quote token exceeds the pool's expected value, then the participants only receive the quote token proportional to their deposited quote token.  Crowd pooling addresses gas war issue of ICO, but if the token has a large demand, it favors the big buyers since they will receive more base tokens.

Initial Bonding Curve Offering (IBCO).  IBCO is similar to crowd pooling except that the price is not fixed - it is determined by the ratio between base token to sold vs. quote token received when the pool is closed.  As a result, the participant has no idea about the final price when joining IBCO, and the final price may be significantly higher than expected.

Dutch auction or descending auction.  Given a time window and the amount of the token to sell, Dutch auction will decrease the price over the time window.  The buyer can choose any time to buy, but the tokens may be sold out if late. One concern of Dutch auction is that early bidders may hardly take profit since they may buy the tokens at much higher price than others.

English auction or ascending auction.  Given a time window and the amount of the token to sell, the buys place their bids with (price, amount).  When the auction is closed, the bids are settled by the order of price - the bids with higher price will be settled first, and if all the tokens are sold, the rest of bids will not receive the token and the fund (quote tokens) are returned. Since the whole procedure is transparent, everyone could know how much tokens are bought by their bids and decide to place new bids or raise existing bids (raise a paddle in auction field) if they would like to buy more with higher prices. In this procedure, the price of the base token (token to sell) can be better discovered.

Paddle.Finance

Entropy focused on our vision of launching the first ever truly trustless Decentralized Asset Custodian protocol.

Entropy’s mission to build a decentralized and trustless custody solution will revolutionize how people interact with and use crypto. Their product will be an absolute necessity in a multi-chain world. The Entropy team has remarkable experience delivering in the crypto ecosystem.

Entropy is the crypto-native solution.

Our objective is to deliver a community owned and led decentralized network leveraging advanced threshold cryptography and multi-party computation (MPC) to enable users to securely store and use their crypto *on any blockchain*. Think: decentralized Fireblocks… except for everyone. Entropy recognizes the multi-chain reality ahead of us and is set on delivering a solution that will allow anyone and everyone to engage with the rising web3 ecosystem.

Entropy

NETA is money on the Juno Network - A decentralized store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account.

NETA

ETHA Lend is The DeFi agnostic yield optimizer built on Ethereum.

It is a chain agnostic yield optimizer powered by Polkadot and currently on the Ethereum Blockchain. ETHA Lend offers users a sophisticated interface with clean and simple features to eliminate the complexity of the original DeFi lending space. ETHA Lend’s defining feature is the use of an intelligent algorithm that automatically calculates risk factors, allocates assets across the best matching protocols, and optimizes yield opportunities.

Users can also enjoy an elegant process of direct matching with lending protocols and DEXs across the two networks. With this amount of agility and operational efficiency, ETHA Lend can provide a relatively simple channel for liquidity providers to interact with different protocols and yield opportunities without having to constantly deal with manual actions or opaque decision-making. We see this as a necessary step to level the space, allowing small investors to have access to the same opportunities that were only available to expert yield farmers before.

ETHA Lend

Lido is a DAO that develops and maintains decentralized liquid staking protocols.

Governed by the Lido DAO, Lido has emerged as the largest and most utilized liquid staking protocol in the world. With roots in Ethereum staking, Lido is expanding to provide liquid staking to other protocols such as Terra and Solana. For their expansion to Polkadot, Lido selected Moonbeam to provide the underlying parachain infrastructure and cross-chain integrations because of its Ethereum-compatible smart contract functionality that allows Lido to use familiar Ethereum tools and existing code to get to market quickly.

Lido

izumi Finance is a Multi-chain liquidity mining platform. Earn more with concentrated liquidity on izumi! Stake to earn additional rewards with Uniswap V3 positions NFT besides your LP fees.

izumi Finance

Router Protocol is building a suite of cross-chain liquidity infra primitives that aims to seamlessly provide bridging infrastructure between current and emerging Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchain solutions.