| Vest Exchange | Mar 11, 2025 | $5m | | DeFi | Vest Exchange is a decentralized perpetual futures platform that leverages zero-knowledge proofs | | | | Jane Street, Selini Capital, Amber Group, QCP Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Mozaik Capital |
| Membrane Labs | Oct 11, 2023 | $20m | Seed | Trading | Crypto Prime Broker | | | | Brevan Howard Digital, Point72 Ventures, Jane Street, Flow Traders, QCP Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Electric Capital, Jump Crypto, Jump Capital, Electric Capital, GSR Markets, Belvedere Trading, Framework Ventures |
| 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 |
| Kaito | Feb 21, 2023 | $5.3m | Seed | | AI-powered search engine for crypto | Dragonfly Capital | | | Sequoia Capital, Jane Street, Mirana Ventures, Folius Ventures, Alpha Lab Capital |
| Vest Exchange | Jan 29, 2023 | | Seed | | decentralized perpetual exchange | | | | Jane Street, QCP Capital, Big Brain Holdings, AscendEX, Builder Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Robert Chen, Pear VC, Cogitent Ventures, Moonshot Research, Fugazi Labs |
| Panoptic | Dec 5, 2022 | $4.5m | Seed | DeFi | decentralized protocol for perpetual options | gumi Cryptos Capital | | | Uniswap Labs Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Jane Street, Blizzard Fund, Hailstone Ventures, MH Ventures |
| Texture | Nov 4, 2022 | $5m | Private | DeFi | Automated leveraged staking on Solana | P2P Capital, Sino Global | | | Wintermute Ventures, Semantic Ventures, Jane Street |
| Shardeum | Oct 18, 2022 | $18.2m | Seed | L1 | EVM-based L1 which uses dynamic state sharding to achieve linear scalability. | | | | Jane Street, Big Brain Holdings, Struck Crypto, The Spartan Group, Ghaf Capital, Digital Finance Group, Coingecko Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Jsquare, Cogitent Ventures, WeMade, Veris Ventures, ZebPay, Tupix Capital, MapleBlock Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Mayur Gupta, Ajeet Khurana, Harsh Rajat, Michael Montero, Ravi Adusumalli, Vijay Pravin Maharajan, Nakul Gupta, Ganesan Swaminathan, Pankaj Gupta, Rohan Chauhan, Yele Bademosi, MH Ventures |
| Euler | Jun 7, 2022 | $32m | | DeFi | Non-custodial, permissionless lending protocol | Haun Ventures | $375m | | Variant Fund, FTX Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Jump Crypto, Jane Street, Uniswap Labs Ventures |
| Vertex | Apr 27, 2022 | $8.5m | Seed | DeFi | Hybrid Orderbook-AMM DEX | Hack VC, Dexterity Capital | | | Collab+Currency, GSR, Huobi Ventures, HRT Ventures, Jane Street, JST Capital, Big Brain Holdings, Lunatic Capital |
| Bastion | Apr 21, 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, Lyrik Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Maven 11, Big Brain Holdings, block0 |
| bloXroute Labs | Apr 13, 2022 | $70m | Series B | Infrastructure | Blockchain Distribution Network | SoftBank | | | Dragonfly Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Jane Street, Rockaway Blockchain Fund, Blindspot, ParaFi Capital, Flow Traders, GSR, Portofino |
| 1Inch | Dec 1, 2021 | $175m | Series B | DeFi | DEX Aggregator | Amber Group | $2.25b | | Jane Street, VanEck, Fenbushi Capital, Alameda Research, Celsius Network, Nexo, Tribe Capital, Gemini Frontier Fund, Gate Ventures |
