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Paradigm
Total Investments117
DeFi23
Infrastructure17
L29
L17
NFT5
Gaming4
Centralized Exchange4
MEV3
Payments3
Prediction Market3
Taxes2
AI2
Analytics2
Web32
Zero Knowledge Industry1
Liquid Restaking Protocol1
CeFi1
Social Platform1
Stablecoin1
Storage1
Trading1
RWA1
Wallet1
Mining1
Game1
Banking1
Digital Identity1
Betting1
Liquid Staking Protocol1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SendCutSend | 19 May 2026 | $110m | Infrastructure | Custom sheet metal and CNC parts | Paradigm, Sequoia Capital | $1b | Patrick Collison, John Collison, Sandy Kory | ||
| Pixie Chess | 02 Apr 2026 | $5.2m | Seed | Gaming | Pixie Chess is a Web3 chess game that combines traditional gameplay with trading card–style mechanics and crypto-native incentives, positioning itself as both a game and an experimental on-chain economic system | Paradigm | Seed Club | ||
| Zcash Open Development Lab | 09 Mar 2026 | $25m | Seed | Infrastructure | Zcash Open Development Lab develops core protocol infrastructure and user-facing tools for the Zcash privacy cryptocurrency. Its main product, the Zodl wallet, provides a self-custodial platform designed to expand usability and interoperability across the Zcash ecosystem | Paradigm, a16z crypto, Winklevoss Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Maelstrom, Chapter One, Cypherpunk Holdings Inc | |||
| Mesh | 27 Jan 2026 | $75m | Series C | Payments | Mesh is a global crypto payments network that connects exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to enable any-to-any digital asset payments. Using its SmartFunding technology, users can pay with any crypto while merchants receive instant settlement in stablecoins or fiat, unifying fragmented crypto infrastructure into a single payments layer | Dragonfly Capital | $1b | Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures, Moderne Ventures, SBI Investment, Liberty City Ventures | |
| Noise | 14 Jan 2026 | $7.1m | Seed | Prediction Market | Noise is an on-chain attention markets platform where users trade on the persistence of topics, brands, and narratives over time. It combines social data (via Kaito integration) with continuous, prediction-style market mechanics, allowing cultural relevance to be traded as an asset | Paradigm | Figment Capital, Anagram, GSR, JPEG Trading | ||
| Kalshi | 20 Nov 2025 | $1b | Series E | Betting | Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated event derivatives exchange where users trade binary contracts (yes/no) on real-world outcomes | Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, a16z crypto | $11b | Neo, CapitalG, Anthos Capital | |
| Rift | 07 Nov 2025 | $8m | DeFi | Rift is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading protocol that enables secure, self-custodied swaps without intermediaries. It integrates Uniswap’s liquidity infrastructure for efficient trading and uses Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to enhance privacy and security while connecting Bitcoin liquidity to DeFi markets | Paradigm | ||||
| Harmonic | 05 Nov 2025 | $6m | Seed | Infrastructure | Harmonic is an open block-building system for Solana that aggregates blocks from multiple independent builders to improve fairness, decentralization, and network performance. It optimizes validator revenue and throughput while reducing MEV and latency, featuring policy-compliant block inclusion, MEV-aware scheduling, and optional ACE (Application Controlled Execution) support for transparent, competitive block markets | Paradigm | |||
| Liquid | 03 Nov 2025 | $7.6m | Seed | Trading | Liquid provides a way to trade Bitcoin, ETH, and trending tokens with up to 40x leverage | Paradigm | General Catalyst, Ashwin Ramachandran, Eric Wu | ||
| Standard Economics | 28 Oct 2025 | $9m | Seed | Payments | Standard Economics is a blockchain fintech building an on-chain financial system for cross-border payments, aimed at the unbanked and underbanked. Using stablecoins, it provides access to global currencies like the US dollar without traditional banks, combining programmable financial tools and blockchain transparency to lower costs and promote financial inclusion | Paradigm | Lightspeed Faction | ||
| Kalshi | 10 Oct 2025 | $300m | Series D | Prediction Market | Kalshi is a CFTC‑regulated prediction market exchange | $5b | Sequoia Capital, a16z crypto, Paradigm, CapitalG, Coinbase Ventures | ||
| Divine | 24 Sep 2025 | $6.6m | Seed | AI | Divine is a decentralized protocol that makes AI models more transparent and verifiable by enabling developers to trace, validate, and interpret model behavior across open-source and permissioned environments | Paradigm | |||
| Plural | 04 Sep 2025 | $7.13m | Seed | RWA | Plural uses blockchain to connect solar and wind developers with investors, enabling renewable energy investments from $10 with smart contracts that provide yield and liquidity | Paradigm | Volt Capital, Maven 11, Neoclassic | ||
| Etherealize | 03 Sep 2025 | $40m | Banking | Electric Capital, Paradigm | Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation | ||||
| Agora Finance | 10 Jul 2025 | $50m | Series A | Stablecoin | Paradigm | ||||
| Kuru | 07 Jul 2025 | $11.6m | Series A | DeFi | Find, trade, and launch your favorite coins on a fully on-chain CLOB. Powered by Monad | Paradigm, Electric Capital | Brevan Howard Digital, CMS Holdings, Breed VC, Pivot Global, Velocity Capital | ||
| Kalshi | 25 Jun 2025 | $185m | Series C | Prediction Market | Kalshi is a CFTC‑regulated prediction market exchange | Paradigm | $2b | Sequoia Capital, Multicoin Capital, Neo, Bond | |
| The Global Token Exchange | 23 Jun 2025 | $15m | Series A | DeFi | GTE, a decentralized exchange startup confident that its trading capabilities rival giant centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase | Paradigm | |||
| WILDCARD | 18 Jun 2025 | $6m | Game | Wildcard is a third-person, 2v2 collectible card action game (CCAG) developed by The Wildcard Alliance, | Paradigm, Arbitrum Gaming Ventures | ||||
| 3Jane | 04 Jun 2025 | $5.2m | Seed | DeFi | 3Jane is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Ethereum’s Base layer, designed to create the first scalable credit-based money market in the crypto space. | Paradigm | Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Breed VC, Robot Ventures, Bodhi Ventures, Andre Cronje | ||
| Reddio | 31 May 2025 | Series A | L2 | Reddio is a Layer 2 solution designed to scale decentralized applications and games on Ethereum using StarkWare’s zkRollup technology | Paradigm, Arena Holdings | $80m | WAGMI Ventures, Oak Grove Ventures, Skyland Ventures, Gate Ventures, Paramita, Contribution Capital, Good News Ventures, Legends Group, Crouton Digital | ||
| Nous Research | 25 Apr 2025 | $50m | Series A | AI | a decentralized AI startup using the Solana blockchain as a key component in the process it uses to train its open-source models | Paradigm | $1b | ||
| Consensus Value Creation | 20 Apr 2025 | $20m | Strategic | Digital Identity | CVC’s platform leverages AI, decentralized identity systems (DID), and real-time data distribution to redefine content as assets and user interactions as value, aiming to shift from Web2’s platform-centric model to a user- and content-centric Web3 ecosystem, addressing issues like data monopolization | Paradigm |