| Ground | Jun 24, 2026 | $3.6m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | Ground provides API infrastructure that lets fintechs, neobanks, exchanges, and asset managers embed onchain yield products into their apps without building direct blockchain integrations | Bain Capital, ParaFi Capital | | | Nascent, Robot Ventures, Chapter One, Consonant Ventures |
| Zcash Open Development Lab | Mar 9, 2026 | $25m | Seed | Infrastructure | Zcash Open Development Lab develops core protocol infrastructure and user-facing tools for the Zcash privacy cryptocurrency. Its main product, the Zodl wallet, provides a self-custodial platform designed to expand usability and interoperability across the Zcash ecosystem | | | | Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Maelstrom, Chapter One, Cypherpunk Holdings Inc |
| BULK | Sep 24, 2025 | $8m | Seed | DeFi | BULK is a high‑performance perpetuals DEX built on Solana that offers lightning-fast settlement | Robot Ventures, 6th Man Ventures | | | Chapter One, Mirana Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Anatoly Yakovenko |
| Flashnet | Feb 4, 2025 | $4.5m | Seed | DeFi | Flashnet is a non-custodial Bitcoin exchange enabling instant, low-fee trading via Lightning Network and UTXO transactions | Abstract Ventures | | | UTXO Management, Soma Capital, HF0, Chapter One, Accomplice |
| Hyperbolic | Dec 10, 2024 | $12m | Series A | AI | Hyperbolic is an AI cloud platform that unites global compute resources to provide accessible, affordable, and scalable GPU resources and AI services | Variant, Polychain Capital | | | Lightspeed Faction, GSR, Bankless Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Chapter One, Vertex Ventures, Blockchain Builders Fund, Wintermute Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Ambush |
| Fiamma | Dec 4, 2024 | $4m | Seed | Zero Knowledge Industry | Building the Future of Finance and the Internet on Bitcoin with ZK and BitVM2 | Lightspeed Faction, L2 Interactive Ventures | | | BOB L2, Astera Ventures, Contribution Capital, Sats Ventures, Chapter One, FounderHeads VC |
| Daylight | Sep 24, 2024 | $6m | | Web3 | The home button recommender for all things onchain | USV, 1kx | | | Framework Ventures, Chapter One, Evgeny Yurtaev, Vadim Koleoshkin, Corbin Page, Ido Ben-Natan, Raz Niv, Nir Kabessa, Shreyas Hariharan |
| Helius | Sep 19, 2024 | $21.25m | Series B | Infrastructure | Crypto's #1 developer platform — RPCs, APIs, private infra | Haun Ventures, Founders Fund | | | 6th Man Ventures, Foundation Capital, Chapter One, Spearhead |
| Hyperbolic | Jul 30, 2024 | $7m | Seed | AI | Open-Access AI Cloud | Polychain Capital, Lightspeed Faction | | | Chapter One, Longhash Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Blackdragon Capital, Nomad Capital, CoinSummer Labs, Third Earth Capital, Republic, Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin, Casey Caruso, Tekin Salimi, Santiago Roel Santos, Aaron Buchwald, Saturnin Pugnet, Ansem, WSBmod, Alex Lin, Sandeep Nailwal, Shumo Zhu, Yi Tong, Sandy Peng, Haichen Shen, Victor Ji, Kenny Li, Homie Luo |
| Avail | Jun 4, 2024 | $43m | Series A | Infrastructure | Web3 infrastructure layer that allows modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust minimized way | Dragonfly Capital, Founders Fund, Cyber Fund | | | SevenX Ventures, Figment Capital, Nomad Capital, LocalGlobe, Chapter One, Superscrypt, Foresight Ventures, Mirana Ventures, RW3 Ventures, KR1 plc, AllianceDAO, HashKey, Elixir Capital, Altos Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Longhash Ventures, Gate Ventures |
| ether.fi | Feb 28, 2024 | $27m | Series A | Liquid Staking Protocol | Native liquid restaking on Ethereum | CoinFund, Bullish | | | Amber Group, Bankless Ventures, OKX Ventures, ConsenSys, Foresight Ventures, Fourth Revolution Capital, Punk Ventures DAO, White Star Capital, Relayer Capital, Collider Ventures, Lvna Capital, Draper Dragon, Arrington Capital, North Island Ventures, Chapter One, Version One Ventures, Node Capital, Stani Kulechov, Sandeep Nailwal, Defi Dad, Parallel, Will Price, leptokurtic, MrBlock |
| Helius | Feb 22, 2024 | $9.5m | Series A | Infrastructure | Webhooks, enhanced Solana APIs, and powerful RPCs | Foundation Capital | | | Reciprocal Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Chapter One, Propel VC |
| Squid | Jan 31, 2024 | $4m | Strategic | DEX | secure cross-chain router that enables interoperability between blockchains and apps | Polychain Capital | | | Nomad Capital, North Island Ventures, Maelstrom, Chorus One Ventures, The Department of XYZ, Breed VC, Binary Builders, Typhon Ventures, Distributed Global, Fabric Ventures, Node Capital, Chapter One |
| Portal | Feb 28, 2023 | $5.3m | | Infrastructure | Web3 wallet infrastructure | | | | Slow Ventures, Haun Ventures, Acrew Capital, Chapter One, William Hockey, Henrique Dubagras, Diogo Monica |
| Ether.Fi | Feb 28, 2023 | $5.3m | | Liquid Staking Protocol | Non-custodial liquidate staking platform | North Island Ventures, Chapter One, Node Capital | | | Arthur Hayes, Arrington XRP Capital, Version One Ventures, Purpose Investment |
| Phi | Feb 17, 2023 | $2m | Seed | Gaming | Web3 social gaming onboarding platform | Chapter One, Delphi Digital | | | Polygon Ventures, Stani Kulechov, Anthony Sassano, Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffmann, Kartik Talwar, Scott More, Tim Beiko, Makoto Inoue, 0xmons, Zefram |
| Squid | Jan 31, 2023 | $3.5m | Seed | | Cross-chain liquidity & messaging router built on Axelar | North Island Ventures | | | Distributed Global, Fabric Ventures, Galileo, Chapter One, Noble Capital, Axelar |
| Elixir Protocol | Jan 17, 2023 | $2.1m | Seed | DEX | decentralized, algorithmic market making protocol | | | | FalconX, OP Crypto, Chapter One, Arthur Hayes, MH Ventures |
| Nillion | Dec 12, 2022 | $20m | | Infrastructure | Secure Processing Layer of Web3 | Distributed Global | | | AU21 Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Chapter One, GSR, HashKey, OP Crypto, Salt Fund |
| Daylight | Nov 30, 2022 | $3m | Seed | | Discover your wallet address’s abilities: mints, airdrops, unlocks, votes, and mor | Chapter One, Framework Ventures | | | OpenSea Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Tomahawk VC, Spice Capital, Nick Beattie, Itamar Lesuisse, RAZ, Trevor McFedries, Alex Adelman, Alex Zhang, Serafin Lion Engel, Will Papper, Brenner Spear, Jon Wu, Chase Adams |
| Helius | Oct 19, 2022 | $3.1m | Seed | Infrastructure | Webhooks, enhanced Solana APIs, and powerful RPCs | Reciprocal Ventures, Chapter One | | | Solana Ventures, Alchemy Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, Propel VC, Zhuoxun Yin, Stepan Simkin |
| Spindl | Oct 19, 2022 | $7m | Seed | | Web3 attribution | Dragonfly Capital, Chapter One | | | Polygon Ventures, Solana Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Anthony Pompliano, Dan Romero, Ryan Selkis, Multicoin Capital, Arjun Sethi, Furqan Ridhan, South Park Commons, Eric Seufert, Auren Hoffman, Mike Eisenberg, Messari Crypto, Magna Tokens, Bruno Faviero |
| Hexens | Oct 17, 2022 | $4.2m | Seed | | Blockchain Security | IOSG Ventures | | | Delta Blockchain Fund, Chapter One, Hash Capital, imToken Ventures, Tenzor Capital |
| Bond Protocol | Oct 6, 2022 | $2.5m | Seed | DeFi | Bonding-as-a-Service | Ideo CoLab, Chapter One | | | Hypershere, Alchemy Ventures |
| Dust Labs | Sep 6, 2022 | $7m | Seed | | | | | | Chapter One, Foundation Capital, Magic Eden, Hello Moon, Big Brain Holdings, Unlock Venture Partners, Metaplex, FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto, Jupiter, Hyperspace, Solana Ventures, Mysten Labs, Cymbal |
| MatchboxDAO | Aug 17, 2022 | $7.5m | Seed | | Gaming Ecosystem DAO | StarkWare, Big Brain Holdings, Geometry, Road Capital, Delphi Ventures, Bitkraft Ventures, 1kx, Fabric Ventures, Lemniscap, Mirana Ventures, Chapter One, Game7 DAO, NeonDAO, C2 Ventures, ReadyPlayerDAO, Matt Slater, Larry Cermak | $50m | | |
| Coherent | Aug 5, 2022 | $4.5m | Seed | | Developer Toolkit | Kindred Ventures, Foundry Group, Matchstick Ventures | | | Coinbase Ventures, Awesome People Ventures, Draft Ventures, Moonbase Capital, Chapter One, Istari Ventures, Rob Witoff, Dan Romero, Justin Mart, Brenner Spear, Patrick Chang, Michael Montano, Christian Strat, Alex Treece |
