| unshETH | Aug 7, 2023 | $3.3m | Seed | Liquid Staking Protocol | on-chain staking yields
and swaps for LSDs | | | | Soma Capital, MH Ventures, Iconiq Capital, EFENT, 922 Capital, Electric Ant, Backend Capital, The Lao, Fan Zhang, Epakon, Ross Lipson, Marty Hu, Kevin Li, Jai Prasad, Ejaaz Alhamadeen, 300DAO |
| Ethena | Jul 17, 2023 | $6m | Seed | DeFi | startup developing the first-ever ‘internet bond’ and a new Ethereum-based stablecoin secured by derivatives | Dragonfly Capital | | | Maelstrom, Deribit, Bybit, Mirana Ventures, OKX Ventures, BitMEX, Gemini, Lightspeed Faction, Huobi Ventures, Nascent, BlockTower Capital, Delphi Digital, Wintermute Ventures, GSR, CMT Digital, Tangent, Finality Capital Partners, No Limit Holdings, Cobie, Anthony Sassano, Julian Koh, Jai Prasad |
| Ambient Finance | Jul 11, 2023 | $6.5m | Seed | DEX | Zero-to-One Decentralized Trading Protocol | BlockTower Capital | | | Jane Street, Circle Ventures, Tensai Capital, Naval Ravikant, Yunt Capital, Susa Ventures, Quantstamp, Hypotenuse Labs, Julian Koh, llllvvuu, Dogetoshi, afkbyte, Jai Prasad, Don Ho |
