| Nexio | Aug 8, 2024 | $2.2m | Pre-Seed | L2 | Parallelized Bitcoin Rollup | Lattice | | | HTX Ventures, Artichoke Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Sharding Capital, SNZ Holding, Sats Ventures, Wise3 Ventures, Danish Chaudhry, Paul Taylor, Santiago R Santos, Ruche Manche, Tim Wang, Paul Kim, R89Capital |
| RiskLayer | Jul 24, 2024 | | Private | Infrastructure | an economic security middleware for DeFi built on the shared security primitives of Eigenlayer | Antler, Momentum6 | | | WAGMI Ventures, Devfolio, Hypotenuse Labs, CoinSwitch Ventures, Symbiote Accelerate, Manvir Schneider, Chandan Chowdhary, Paul Taylor, Harsh Rajat |
| Satoshi Protocol | Jul 9, 2024 | $2m | Seed | Stablecoin | Universal stablecoin $SAT backed by Bitcoin | CMS, RockTree Capital | | | Cypher Capital, Side Door Ventures, Optic, Metalpha, Outliers, Comma3 Ventures, Paul Taylor, Yenwen Feng, MH Ventures |
| Openledger | Jul 2, 2024 | $8m | Seed | AI | The Sovereign Data Blockchain for AI | Polychain Capital, Borderless Capital | | | Finality Capital Partners, Hash3, HashKey Capital, TRGC, STIX, Mask Network, MH Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, Sreeram Kannan, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Kenny Li, Scott Moore, Chainyoda, Vyas Krishnan, Sebastien Borget, Paul Taylor, Alan Curtis, Trevor Koverko, Aniket Jindal, Dino |
| LayerEdge | May 24, 2024 | | Pre-Seed | L2 | Optimistic rollup with hybrid modular data availability on Bitcoin | | | | Blockchain Founders Fund, FounderHeads VC, BreakOrbit Ventures, Normie Capital, Paul Taylor, Saushank.eth |
| Crestal | May 3, 2024 | $2m | Pre-Seed | L1 | L1 built on Cosmos SDK | | | | LIF, Cogitent Ventures, Kyros Ventures, Veris Ventures, SMAPE Capital, MH Ventures, Layer Labs, Pragma Ventures, Builder Capital, NxGen, Artemis Capital, Quotient Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, Loi Luu, Thomas France, Heslin Kim, Andrew Vranjes, Paul Taylor |
