Near-Zero Fees: Why It Matters

USDH: A Stablecoin Decided by Validators

The Contenders: Paxos, Frax, Agora/MoonPay, and Stripe

Community Pushback Against Stripe

Permissionless Token Creation with Staking & Slashing

Market Impact and Ecosystem Metrics

Key Takeaways

Hyperliquid

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Hyperliquid is reshaping DeFi trading with near-zero spot fees, a validator-led stablecoin vote, and permissionless token creation. The protocol’s push positions it closer to centralized exchanges in liquidity and governance scale.

Paxos

Frax

MoonPay

Stripe

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ZenGo

United States of America

Samsung NEXT is the innovation arm of the Samsung Group, a global conglomerate. Samsung NEXT is known for its role in identifying, investing in, and developing cutting-edge technologies and startups. The primary focus of Samsung NEXT is to explore and invest in emerging technology trends that align with Samsung's broader business strategies.

Samsung NEXT

Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.

Distributed Global

BlockNation

FJ Labs

Israel

Elron Ventures

Benson Oak Ventures

Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.

Insight Partners

Austin Rief Ventures

Hong Kong

Tether

Meso Network

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Solana Ventures

Investing in the crypto-powered Web3 and creator economy ecosystems

6MV (6th Man Ventures)

Archie Puri

Bill Ready

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.

Ribbit Capital

Chris Kalani

Canonical Crypto

United Kingdom

Outlier Ventures Lights the Way for Visionary Web3 Founders and Provides an Innovative Platform to Bring Their Big Ideas to Life.

Outlier Ventures

Singapore

NGC Ventures is one of the largest institutional investors of blockchain technologies, and has been a key contributor to a number of leading projects.

NGC Ventures

South Korea

Factblock is a leading blockchain accelerator and consulting firm, focused on connecting global blockchain startups to the Korean market

Factblock

SIG is a global quantitative trading firm committing its own capital to trade financial products around the world.

Susquehanna International Group (SIG)

Stake Capital

Amber Group is a one-stop crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading and asset management services 24/7.

Amber Group

Mirana Ventures is a leading global investment fund that provides long-term capital and strategic partnerships to visionary founders and fund managers in the Web3 space.

Mirana Ventures

Scott Moore

Republic is an investment platform providing access to startups, real estate, crypto, and video game investments.

Republic

Bitgo

We are a pre-seed/seed level investor to empower and support gifted entrepreneurs!

Cogitent Ventures

Lex Sokolin

Web3.0 Infrastructure Innovator and Builder to Return Data Ownership Back to Users.

ByteTrade Lab

Presto Labs

Taisu Ventures is a VC firm that invests in and empowers early-stage web3 companies across the globe.

Taisu Ventures

Selini is a global trading firm focused on systematic trading, liquidity provision, efficient execution, and venture investing—all within the digital assets space.

Selini Capital

Paper Ventures is a first-in, innovative investment firm, focusing on the ever-changing landscape of emerging technologies.

Paper Ventures

Mantle

G20 Ventures

EVM Capital

Mario Nawfal

Tony Gu

SpiderCrypto

Francesco Andreoli

Vanessa Grellet

Switzerland

ConsenSys develops enterprise applications, invests in startups, builds developer tools, and offers blockchain education.

ConsenSys

chainyoda.eth

Marwan Alzarouni

Alex Oak

Billy Luedtke

Ciarra Pardo

Scott Parazynski

GaiaNet

Coinbase Ventures is the venture capital arm of Coinbase, one of the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Coinbase Ventures is focused on investing in early-stage companies and projects in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. It provides funding, resources, and support to startups and entrepreneurs working on innovative blockchain and crypto-related technologies and applications.

Coinbase Ventures

Uniswap

GSR, founded in 2013, is a global leader in digital asset trading and market making.
GSR is a crypto market maker and ecosystem partner

GSR Markets (GSR)

Anagram Crypto

Activist investor focused on machine economies, accelerated by open-source intelligence, and settled on trustless value networks.

GenerativeVentures

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that invests in crypto and web3 startups

a16z crypto CSX

Glider

Plume Network

Iron

The CMT Group has acted as a valued collaborator to numerous exchanges, clearing firms, and trading and investment teams, generating edge by pairing market insight with early adoption and innovation of nascent technologies.

CMT Digital

gumi Cryptos Capital is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.

gumi Cryptos Capital

Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm with over $1.6 billion in assets under management that focuses on using product science and data to design N-of-1 companies and investments.

Tribe Capital

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and qualified individuals shape a changing economy.

Galaxy

Borderless Capital is a Blockchain VC firm and a modern financial institution investing capital and co-building financial products with our portfolio companies that accelerates access, bootstraps adoption, and creates value globally through the Algorand Borderless Economy.

Borderless Capital

Kraken Ventures invests in businesses and projects at the nexus of both the FinTech and Blockchain / Crypto revolution.

Kraken Ventures

KuCoin

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm. Hack VC partners with online and offline hackers who are building the future of the internet.

Hack VC

Ethereal Ventures a new venture fund established by Joseph Lubin

Ethereal Ventures

Bing Ventures

Ambush Capital is an angel fund in New York that helps entrepreneurs through the early stages of building a company.

Ambush Capital

Mexico

Lvna Capital is an investment fund specialized in blockchain-based digital assets.

Lvna Capital

Protagonist is a crypto fund and incubation lab supporting foundational protocols in emerging blockchain ecosystems.

Protagonist

Portage is a global investment platform focused on fintech and financial services.

Portage Ventures

Bankless

F-Prime Capital

A100X

Karman Ventures

Pharsalus Capital

Variv

HEXA Global Ventures brings capital, resources, experience and talent – partnering with visionary entrepreneurs to help shape the best ideas into great companies.

HEXA Global Ventures

CoinFlip

1Money

Helio

The early-stage VC fully backed by entrepreneurs - with the scars to prove it.

Peak

BOOGLE

Traditional VC investor into digital assets. We invest globally into outstanding founders building next generation of financial services.

RockawayX

Founded by guys with mixed backgrounds (banking, e-commerce, industry), then our team was joined by tech savvy. Capital markets were always our passion and we have vast experience in investing and trading different asset classes (stocks, futures, options, ETFs). In 2020 we got blown away by crypto and mainly by DeFi so we decided to enter the space full time. And we are planning to stick here for a while.

Token Ventures

P2 Ventures is dedicated to supporting visionary teams across the multichain ecosystem. We invest at the earliest stages across all categories in web3.

P2 Ventures

BITKRAFT Ventures is an early-stage investment platform for gaming, esports, and interactive media.

BITKRAFT Ventures

Germany

tokentus investment AG

In private markets our mission is to invest in best-in-class venture and growth-stage companies.

Alpha Wave Global

Web3 Studios

Intract

Polychain Capital is a cryptocurrency-focused investment management firm and hedge fund. It was founded in 2016 by Olaf Carlson-Wee, who was the first employee at Coinbase and is known for being one of the earliest advocates of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Polychain Capital is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is considered one of the prominent players in the cryptocurrency investment space.

Polychain Capital

Paris Hilton

Crush music

Anthony Saleh

Chaac Ventures

UNIFIED Music Group

Dan Weisman

CreateSafe

TRGC invests in founders building category-defining companies at the forefront of digital assets, blockchain and blockchain-related companies.

TRGC

Techstars is a global platform that provides investment and innovation. Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates four divisions: TechstarsMentorship-Driven Accelerator Program supercharges success and Techstars Startup Programs inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs. Techstars Venture Capital Fund invests in innovative and disruptive companies. Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships help brands create products and services. Techstars accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,000 companies with a market cap of $8.1 billion.

Techstars

Draper Associates is a global venture capital firm that invests in companies driving transformative change across industries.

Draper Associates

Japan

EMURGO drives the adoption of Cardano and adds value to ADA holders by building, investing in, and advising projects or organizations that adopt Cardano’s decentralized blockchain ecosystem. EMURGO leverages its expertise in blockchain R&D as well as its global network of related blockchain and industry partners to support ventures globally.EMURGO is the official commercial and venture arm of the Cardano project, registered in Tokyo, Japan since June 2017 and in Singapore since May 2018. EMURGO is uniquely affiliated and works closely with IOHK to grow Cardano’s ecosystem globally and promote the adoption of the Cardano blockchain.

Emurgo

Blockchain Founders Fund (BFF) is a Singapore based early-stage Venture Capital Fund which invests in top-tier Blockchain startups globally.

Blockchain Founders Fund

Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups.

Draper Goren Holm

LBank is a digital asset exchange, investment and financial services provider company.

LBank Ventures

Isle of Man

FunFair Ventures

INCE Capital

Side Door Ventures

WWVentures

Investing in outstanding teams building new use cases for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Frontier Fund

Draper Round Table

Lunar Crush

Chile

Manutara Ventures was created to become the most relevant actor in the Venture Capital industry in Chile and Latin America.

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