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Nascent
Total Investments53
DeFi16
Infrastructure12
RWA3
Liquid Staking Protocol2
L22
NFT2
Analytics2
MEV1
AI1
Smart contract security1
Trading1
L11
Zero Knowledge Industry1
Payments1
Smart contract audits1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenor | Jul 22, 2026 | Seed | DeFi | Tenor is a non-custodial lending platform for asset managers and large borrowers providing access to fixed-rate onchain lending markets | Variant | Nascent, Prelude, Coinbase Ventures, Lattice, Very Early Ventures | |||
| Cordant | Jul 21, 2026 | $8m | Seed | Payments | Cordant is a financial infrastructure command center that unifies data across payment rails, banks, ledgers, compliance, and risk systems to monitor money movement and coordinate operations in real time | Motive Partners | Bitso, Paxos, Bankless Ventures, FJ Labs, SignalFire, Quona Capital, Next Stage, Selah Ventures, Nascent, Flatironx, SilverCircle, Generative Ventures | ||
| 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 Crypto, ParaFi Capital | Nascent, Robot Ventures, Chapter One, Consonant Ventures | ||
| Birch Hill Holdings | Feb 11, 2026 | $2.5m | Pre-Seed | RWA | Birch Hill Holdings is a digital asset infrastructure firm focused on institutional on-chain finance, specializing in RWA tokenization and on-chain credit management. It provides credit underwriting, structured token issuance, vault and risk configuration, and ongoing monitoring and compliance to bridge traditional credit markets with DeFi. | ParaFi Capital, Castle Island Ventures | Nascent, FalconX, Flowdesk, The Operating Group, Polaris Fund, Escape Velocity, JST Capital | ||
| Tenbin Labs | Jan 27, 2026 | $7.1m | Seed | RWA | Tenbin Labs is a tokenized asset protocol building institutional-grade commodities and FX markets using CME futures rather than custody-based wrappers. It offers real-time pricing, instant fee-free minting and redemption, and passes futures basis yield to token holders, starting with tokenized gold and later high-yield emerging-market FX tokens | Galaxy Digital | Wintermute Ventures, GSR, Archetype, Variant Fund, JPEG Trading, FalconX, Nascent, Reverie, Bankless Ventures, Primitive Ventures, Alpen, Fenbushi Capital, Uniswap Labs Ventures | ||
| Project Eleven | Jan 14, 2026 | $20m | Series A | Infrastructure | Project Eleven is an applied quantum computing lab focused on protecting blockchains and digital assets from quantum threats. It develops quantum-resilient cryptographic tools, including Yellowpages, which links existing Bitcoin addresses to post-quantum keys without requiring on-chain transactions | Castle Island Ventures | $120m | Coinbase Ventures, Lattice Fund, Variant Fund, Nascent, Quantonation, Balaji Srinivasan | |
| Pye Finance | Dec 8, 2025 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Pye is a Solana-based protocol that turns stake accounts into tradable liquid assets through “liquid staking bonds” (LSBs). It lets validators issue stake positions with customizable yield terms and enables users to trade staked assets, bringing liquidity and DeFi composability to Solana’s native staking layer | Variant, Coinbase Ventures | Solana Labs, Nascent, Gemini Frontier Fund | ||
| SpaceComputer | Nov 26, 2025 | $10m | Seed | Infrastructure | SpaceComputer is an orbital computing infrastructure that uses cryptographic technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs, multi-party computation, and fully homomorphic encryption to create a decentralized root of trust. By deploying secure compute nodes in space, it aims to provide resilient, tamper-resistant infrastructure for blockchain applications, including zk-rollups and secure on-chain auctions. | Maven 11, Lattice Fund | Superscrypt , Ethereal Ventures, Arbitrum Foundation, Nascent, Hash3, Starship Ventures, CMS Holdings, Blockchain Builders Fund, Bitscale Capital, HashKey Capital, Amber Group, Offchain Labs, Bodhi Ventures, Chorus One Ventures, imToken Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Wise3 Ventures, Encode Club | ||
| Flying Tulip | Sep 29, 2025 | $200m | Seed | DeFi | Flying Tulip, the new crypto project founded by DeFi veteran Andre Cronje, to build an onchain exchange that spans "all of DeFi" — including spot, derivatives, lending, stablecoins, and insurance under one system | Brevan Howard, DWF Labs, CoinFund, Hypersphere Ventures, Lemniscap, Selini Capital, Nascent, Tioga Capital, FalconX, Sigil Fund, Virtuals Protocol, Republic Digital | |||
| Coop Records | Sep 22, 2025 | $4.5m | Seed | DeFi | Coop Records is an on-chain music label where fans, collectors, and artists share in the label’s growth through songcoins and staking. Artists release tracks as digital collectibles, while holders govern releases, stake tokens for rewards, and help make decisions. The label uses open editions, subscriber airdrops, and real-time payments to give artists direct, transparent income. With 150+ artists and hundreds of releases, Coop Records combines Web3, music discovery, and community governance | 1kx, Nascent | 1Confirmation, Coinbase Ventures, Base Ecosystem Fund | ||
| Stable | Jul 31, 2025 | $28m | Seed | L1 | Stable is a Layer 1 blockchain built for stablecoin-native applications, using USDT (Tether) as its gas token. It enables zero-fee peer-to-peer USDT transfers and supports smart contracts that operate directly in stablecoins. Its USDT0 system allows cross-chain USDT transfers without bridges. The platform offers a gas-less user experience, integrated fiat on-ramps, and high throughput, targeting use cases like cross-border payments, treasury management, FX, and institutional finance | Bitfinex, Hack VC, USDT0 | Franklin Templeton, eGirl Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Bybit, Mirana Ventures, SIG DT Investments, Nascent, Blue Pool Capital, BTSE, KuCoin Ventures, Gate Ventures | ||
| Neutrl | Apr 16, 2025 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Neutrl is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that democratizes hedge fund-style altcoin arbitrage strategies through its NUSD “synthetic dollar” token | Accomplice Blockchain, Stix | Amber Group, Nascent, Figment Capital, SCB Limited | ||
| Ligero Inc | Feb 26, 2025 | $4m | Seed | Zero Knowledge Industry | a privacy-focused technology company developing zero-knowledge solutions for blockchain | Galaxy Digital, 1kx | $20m | Franklin Templeton, Anagram, Nascent, DCG, Robot Ventures, Zero Knowledge Validation | |
| Cabal | Feb 12, 2025 | $3m | DeFi | Cabal is a yield-generating protocol built on Initia’s Layer 1 | Hack VC, Delphi Digital, Nascent, CitizenX, Darren Lau | ||||
| Whetstone Research | Feb 11, 2025 | $1.3m | Pre-Seed | DeFi | building the future of onchain markets | Variant Fund, Nascent, Credibly Neutral, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Ambush, Figment Capital | |||
| Reservoir | Feb 5, 2025 | $14m | Series A | Infrastructure | Reservoir is an open-source developer platform that provides powerful tools and APIs for building next-generation NFT products | Union Square Ventures | Variant Fund, Archetype, 1kx, Square Peg, Nascent, Delphi Digital, PTC Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Spaceship DAO, The Lao, Framework Ventures, Sapphire Ventures | ||
| Alluvial | Nov 12, 2024 | $4.3m | Strategic | Liquid Staking Protocol | a software development company supporting the staking standard Liquid Collective | Variant | Ethereal Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, F-Prime Capital, Nascent | ||
| Phylax Systems | Oct 31, 2024 | $4.5m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | A hack prevention protocol | Figment, Nascent | Robot Ventures, Hash3, Bankless Ventures, Breed VC, Public Works | ||
| EarthFast | Sep 25, 2024 | $1.4m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | Decentralized frontend hosting | The General Partnership, Nascent | Bodhi Ventures, Kain Warwick, Roneil Rumburg | ||
| EarthFast | Sep 24, 2024 | $1.4m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | EarthFast empowers projects to build + host decentralized apps with ease, offering a scalable, secure and performant alternative to traditional cloud platforms | The General Partnership, Nascent | Bodhi Ventures, Kain Warwick, Roneil Rumburg | ||
| Sorella Labs | Aug 20, 2024 | $7.5m | Seed | MEV | developing tools to tackle Ethereum's MEV issue | Paradigm | Uniswap Labs Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Robot Ventures, Nascent | ||
| Nebra | Apr 17, 2024 | $4.5m | Pre-Seed & Seed | Infrastructure | The Shared Settlement Layer (SSL) of the new internet | Nascent, Bankless Ventures | Tim Beiko, Kartik Talwar, Nick White, Sandy Peng, Haichen Shen | ||
| Mezo | Apr 9, 2024 | $21m | L2 | Bitcoin Layer 2 Network | Pantera Capital | Multicoin Capital, Hack VC, ParaFi Capital, Nascent, Draper Associates, Primitive Ventures, Asymmetric Ventures, Dan Held, DCF God |