| Blockspace | Aug 4, 2026 | | | Infrastructure | Blockspace is a for-profit Ethereum infrastructure company building and operating out-of-protocol infrastructure across Ethereum’s transaction pipeline | BlueYard Capital | | | Ether.fi, Quasar, Breed VC, SharpLink, Luganodes, Stakely.vc |
| Hyperbeat | Aug 15, 2025 | $5.2m | Seed | DeFi | Hyperbeat, The Native Yield Layer of Hyperliquid | Electric Capital, ether.fi Ventures | | | Coinbase Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Selini Capital, Maelstrom, Anchorage Digital, Node Capital, Relayer Capital, 4RC, dlab, Breed VC, Flowdesk, Heartcore Capital, MEV Capital, Luganodes, Nonce Classic, DCF God, MrBlock, Bryan Pellegrino |
| Capx AI | Mar 26, 2025 | $3.14m | Seed | L2 | Capx is an Ethereum Layer 2 network designed to empower users to build, monetize, and trade AI agents | Manifold, Luganodes | | | Echo, P2 Ventures, Gate Ventures, STIX, MH Ventures, Blue7, Cogitent Ventures, Autonomy Capital, Next Web Capital, Blockarm Capital, Mythos Ventures, Arcanum Capital |
| Etherfuse | Jul 20, 2024 | $3m | Seed | RWA | RWA tokenization platform | White Star Capital, North Island Ventures | $12.5m | | Stellar Development Foundation, FunFair Ventures, Department of XYZ, Anna Yuan, Alice Ann Schwartz, Luganodes, Pendle, LayerZero, Kyber Network, Stakestone, Ether.fi, Renzo, Elixir Capital, Merit Circle, Kelp, Pumpbtc, Ankr, Hashflow, Galxe, Parallel, RockX, Axelar, Signum Capital, Bloq, Maelstrom, Symbolic Capital, RockTree Capital, Borderless Capital, F2Pool, Nonce Classic, Gate.io, Arcanum Capital, Wormhole Crosschain Ecosystem Fund |
| Router Protocol | Jun 19, 2024 | | Strategic | Infrastructure | Secure, Scalable, Modular, Composable Framework for Cross-chain Interoperability | | | | Keone Hon, Anurag Arjun, Amrit Kumar, Aniket Jindal, Zaki Manian, Parker Jou, Amitej Gajjala, Ravindra Kumar, Ajit Tripathi, Gokul Rajaram, Surojit Chatterjee, Wintermute Ventures, Woodstock, DeFi Capital, Crypto Banter, Raven, Luganodes |
| Shardeum | Jul 7, 2023 | $5.4m | Strategic | L1 | EVM-based L1 which uses dynamic state sharding to achieve linear scalability. | | $248m | | Amber Group, Galxe, J17 Capital, TRGC, Jsquare, Bware Labs, Tané Labs, Hyperithm Group, Luganodes |
