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Raises
CMS
Total Investments21
DeFi10
Infrastructure3
Stablecoin2
DEX2
Web31
L11
Liquid Staking Protocol1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drake Exchange | 29 Sep 2025 | $1m | Seed | DeFi | Drake Exchange is a Monad-based perpetual DEX with a limit order book, cross-margin trading, AMM backstop liquidity, and leverage up to 50×, alongside liquidity provision and automated yield vaults | CMS | |||
| Ducat | 23 Aug 2024 | $2.5m | Pre-Seed | Stablecoin | Bitcoin-Native Stablecoin on Runes | UTXO | CMS, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Aurion Capital, Marin Ventures, Samara Asset Group, Bitcoin Startup Lab, Bitflow, X+, Revelo Intel | ||
| Kuru | 25 Jul 2024 | $2m | Seed | DEX | on-chain CLOB on Monad | Electric Capital | Brevan Howard Digital, CMS, Breed VC, Velocity Capital, Pivot Global, Keone Hon, Eugene Chen, Jarry Xiao | ||
| Kintsu | 25 Jul 2024 | $4m | Seed | Liquid Staking Protocol | Monad liquid staking protocol | Castle Island Ventures | Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, Spartan Capital, Breed VC, Arche Capital, CMS, Animoca Brands, F Prime, Reciprocal Ventures, LBank Labs, Marin Tvrdic, Robinson Burkey, Mike Dudas, Mark Strome, Chris Hermida, Geoff Renaud, Alex Matthews, Ross Trachtman, Sean Lippel | ||
| Satoshi Protocol | 09 Jul 2024 | $2m | Seed | Stablecoin | Universal stablecoin $SAT backed by Bitcoin | CMS, RockTree Capital | Cypher Capital, Side Door Ventures, Optic, Metalpha, Outliers, Comma3 Ventures, Paul Taylor, Yenwen Feng, MH Ventures | ||
| Arch Network | 09 May 2024 | $7m | Seed | Infrastructure | platform for programmability on Bitcoin | Multicoin Capital | Portal Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, OKX Ventures, CMS, Tangent, UTXO Management, ABCDE, Cypher Capital, Newman Capital | ||
| Scallop Protocol | 03 Mar 2024 | $3m | Strategic | DeFi | lending and borrowing protocol | CMS, 6th Man Ventures | KuCoin Labs, Side Door Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, Signum Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, Cypher Capital, Mysten Labs, Kyros Ventures, 8186 Capital, 7UpDAO, LBank Labs, ViaBTC Capital, Cetus Protocol, Zellic, AC Capital, Criterion VC, UOB Venture Management | ||
| Velar | 01 Feb 2024 | $3.5m | Seed | DEX | Perpetual DEX on Bitcoin | Bitcoin Startup Lab, CMS, Black Edge Capital, Samara Asset Group, GBV, Trust Machines, Cypher Capital, MH Ventures | |||
| Root Protocol | 19 Jan 2024 | $10m | Seed | Infrastructure | Market Making - OTC Trading | Animoca Brands | $100m | Dao5, Shima Capital, Gate Labs, Digital Finance Group, Signum Capital, Ankr, Digital Strategies, CMS, Genblock Capital, Cypher Capital, Meltem Demirors, Tekin Salimi, Lucy Gazmararian, Evin McMullen, Ben Lakoff | |
| Republik | 11 Oct 2023 | $6m | Seed | Web3 | web3 creator platform | OKX Ventures, 6MV, Arcane Capital, CMS, Comma3 Ventures, Define, Enjin, FBG Capital, HTX, Mirana Ventures, OIG Capital, Signum Capital, Sora Ventures, OIG Capital | |||
| Infinity Exchange | 14 Sep 2022 | $4.2m | Seed | Money Market | GSR, SIG DT Investments, CMS, C² Ventures, Flow Traders, block0, Mentha Partners | ||||
| Contango | 14 Jul 2022 | $4m | Seed | DeFi | ParaFi Capital | $45m | Juan Guillen, Andrew Milenius, Michael Chen, Mika, Windra, Yenwen Feng, Brainjar, Nick Avramov, Wil Barnes, dlab, Advanced Blockchain, Coinbase Ventures, The Spartan Group, AngelDAO, Cumberland DRW, GSR, Amber Group, CMS | ||
| Bastion | 21 Apr 2022 | $11m | Series A | DeFi | Bastion is the first and only major DeFi protocol with both Stableswap and Lending products | 3AC | FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto, Jane Street, The Spartan Group, CMS, Crypto.com Capital, Alex Shevchenko, Ryan Selkis, Move Capital, Puzzle Ventures, Maven 11, Big Brain Holdings, block0 | ||
| zkLend | 31 Mar 2022 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Lending | Delphi Digital | 4RC, StarkWare, Genesis Block Ventures, CMS, Metacartel Ventures, DCVC, Amber Group, TPS Capital, Ascensive Assets, D3Web Capital, SkyVision Capital | ||
| Slope Finance | 25 Feb 2022 | $8m | Series A | Infrastructure | Cross-Chain wallet | Jump Capital, Solana Ventures | Sequoia Capital, CMS, Circle Ventures, OKX, Gate.io, Huobi Ventures, Genesis Global Trading, Spark Digital, The Spartan Group, Fenbushi Capital, Mirana Ventures, Wave Financial Group, OKX Ventures, Gate Ventures | ||
| Pact | 24 Feb 2022 | $2.1m | Seed | DeFi | AMM | Hivemind Capital Partners, Borderless Capital | $20m | Meld Ventures, CMS, Orthogonal Trading, MXC, DVG, DAO Jones, 0x Ventures, Valhalla Capital, Ellipti, Elves Long Term Capital, Parea Capital, Algopulse | |
| Hubble Protocol | 16 Dec 2021 | $10m | Seed | DeFi | Hubble is a decentralized financial protocol that allows for long-term borrowing, lending, and structured products. | AllianceDAO, CMS Holdings, Decentral Park Capital, DeFiance Capital, Delphi Digital , Digital Strategies, Jump Capital, Mechanism Capital, Spartan Capital, 3AC, DCG, Crypto.com Capital, ParaFi Capital, CMS | |||
| SynFutures | 16 Jun 2021 | $14m | Series A | DeFi | SynFutures is a next generation synthetic assets derivatives exchange focused on creating an open and trustless derivatives market . | Bybit, CMS, Framework Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Kronos Research, Pantera Capital, Parachain Ventures, Polychain, Wintermute Trading | |||
| Umee | 15 Jun 2021 | $6.3m | Seed | L1 | L1 | Polychain Capital | Coinbase Ventures, ConsenSys, Tendermint, CMS, Ideo Colab, Brian Kelly Capital Management, Alameda Research, Argonautic Ventures | ||
| Injective Protocol | 20 Apr 2021 | $10m | Strategic | DeFi | cross-chain derivatives trading | Pantera Capital, Mark Cuban, BlockTower Capital, Hashed, Cadenza Ventures, CMS, QCP Capital | |||
| Oin Finance | 25 Aug 2020 | $1m | ICO | DeFi | Oin Finance is a Defi company building liquidity pool lending platforms. | Alameda Research, BlockWater Management, CMS, FBG Capital, FTX Ventures, GBIC, Ruby Capital, Signum Capital, Waterdrip Capital |