Acala is a decentralized finance network that offers aUSD, a multi-collateral, crypto-backed stablecoin designed for the Polkadot ecosystem. Its Ethereum-compatible blockchain provides essential DeFi protocols, enabling developers to create applications with features like trustless staking derivatives and decentralized exchanges.

Agoric provides a framework for developing secure smart contracts that facilitate cross-chain interactions and multi-block execution, enabling developers to create sophisticated decentralized applications (dApps). This technology addresses the complexity of managing assets and services across multiple blockchains, enhancing user experiences with seamless, one-click interactions.

Alluvial develops enterprise-grade software products and services focused on next-generation staking for businesses. The company provides APIs for seamless management, permissioning, and reporting of staking operations. They also offer a customizable Stake Management System (SMS) to automate and optimize institutional staking across various providers.

Althea provides a permissionless, high-availability Hybrid EVM blockchain designed for infrastructure and connectivity, enabling the tokenization of networked utilities such as fiber optic cables and cell towers. This technology facilitates funding and coordination for internet access in challenging environments, enhancing connectivity for both individuals and machines.

Andromeda offers a decentralized on-chain operating system, aOS, that utilizes Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) to enable seamless connectivity between various protocols within the Cosmos ecosystem. This platform significantly reduces development time for Web3 applications from months to minutes by providing developers with intuitive tools and Andromeda Digital Objects (ADOs) for rapid app creation.

The startup has developed a blockchain protocol that enables private, asset-agnostic cash transactions through decentralized counterparty discovery and atomic multi-chain settlement. This technology allows users to securely and privately exchange cryptocurrencies at market rates while facilitating bartering among multiple parties.

Astria operates a shared sequencing network that enables multiple rollups to utilize a single decentralized network of sequencers, enhancing scalability and efficiency in transaction processing. This approach addresses the challenge of resource allocation in decentralized applications by providing a cost-effective and streamlined solution for deploying rollups.

The startup develops modular blockchain technology that enables scalable and interoperable execution layers while minimizing trust requirements. Its solution enhances the rollup experience for developers, facilitating secure and adaptable interactions across multiple blockchain ecosystems.

Axelar is a decentralized interoperability platform that connects multiple blockchain ecosystems, enabling seamless cross-chain communication and asset transfers through programmable smart contracts. This technology addresses the fragmentation of blockchain networks, allowing developers to build and deploy applications across various chains with minimal latency and enhanced security.

Celestia offers a modular data availability network that enables users to launch their own blockchains without the need for a new consensus mechanism. By utilizing data availability sampling, Celestia provides scalable throughput while ensuring verifiability, allowing anyone to run a light node and participate in the network.

Ceramic provides a decentralized data protocol that enables event streaming across a network of interoperable databases and applications. By publishing events to a globally ordered, Ethereum‑anchored ledger via hosted APIs, developers can build microservices, analytics pipelines, and full‑stack dApps without relying on centralized storage.

Cherry is a decentralized blockchain network that provides a trustless file storage system and a virtual machine for building and running decentralized applications, ensuring secure and censorship-resistant control over digital assets. It addresses the challenges of data privacy and ownership in media activities by enabling artists to manage their content through cryptographic proofs and a distributed consensus mechanism.

Composable Finance provides a trust-minimized interoperability solution that enables cross-chain execution across multiple blockchain ecosystems, including Polkadot, Cosmos, and Ethereum. By expanding the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol beyond its original framework, the platform allows users to seamlessly manage assets and execute transactions across diverse networks without relying on centralized intermediaries.

Everclear is a modular interoperability protocol that facilitates fast, trustless communication and transactions across multiple blockchains, enabling developers to stake or restake tokens in a single transaction. By providing a secure and efficient framework for crosschain applications, Everclear addresses the challenges of fragmented blockchain ecosystems and high transaction costs.

Delta provides a settlement control layer for agentic payments, ensuring funds only move when user intent and policy constraints are satisfied. It integrates with existing merchant APIs and payment rails—including cards, ACH, and stablecoins—without requiring merchant-side changes. Platforms can define complex transaction policies and use Delta’s proof engine to enforce verifiable, zero‑knowledge settlement guarantees.

Eigenlayer offers EigenCloud, a developer platform that adds cryptographic trust to any application through four primitives: EigenCompute for verifiable execution of arbitrary code on any blockchain, EigenAI for deterministic, provable AI inference compatible with OpenAI APIs, and EigenDA for high‑throughput, tamper‑resistant data availability. By leveraging billions of dollars of slashable stake, the platform ensures results are provably correct and auditable, enabling developers to build fully trusted agents, DeFi protocols, and other blockchain services without code changes.

The startup provides crypto custody services that utilize threshold cryptography and multi-party computation to secure private keys and ensure on-demand access to digital assets. This technology addresses the risk of key loss and unauthorized access, enabling crypto owners to safely store and transact across multiple blockchains.

FairSide Network is a decentralized cost-sharing platform that provides cryptocurrency users with theft protection against over 30 types of scams and attacks, including phishing and malware. By charging a low annual fee of 1.95% of the desired coverage amount, FairSide ensures members receive swift payouts for losses while maintaining full control of their assets.

The startup develops a platform that utilizes ecosystem-friendly MEV relays to minimize transaction spam and enhance network health. By enabling users to integrate sentry nodes with a single command line, the platform increases the efficiency of liquid staking derivatives and supports the success of beneficial bots.

Gasp is an Ethereum-native cross-rollup protocol that facilitates gas-free, lightning-fast swaps across multiple Ethereum Layer 2 networks while ensuring minimal MEV exposure. By providing omnichain liquidity and utilizing EigenLayer for enhanced security, Gasp addresses the inefficiencies and high costs associated with cross-chain trading.

Hyperlane is an open, permissionless interoperability framework that lets blockchain applications send arbitrary messages and assets across more than 150 chains, including EVM, Solana, Cosmos, and custom VMs. By deploying its modular contracts and configurable Interchain Security Modules, developers can add cross‑chain token transfers, multi‑step swaps, asset issuance, and governance without building bespoke bridges, while optional Hyperlane‑as‑a‑Service accelerates deployment.

Quicksilver provides a liquid staking solution for Cosmos assets, allowing users to stake with any validator while receiving liquid staked assets (qASSETs) for additional financial activities like swapping and lending. This approach enhances liquidity and user experience in decentralized finance without compromising network security, enabling seamless collaboration across over 50 IBC-enabled chains.

Initia provides an opinionated full‑stack framework called the Interwoven Stack that standardizes data availability, cross‑chain interoperability, and oracle integration for multichain dApps. The platform offers reusable components via InterwovenKit, one‑click rollup deployment, and economic incentives such as the Vested Interest Program and Enshrined Liquidity to ensure consistent user experiences and long‑term participation across connected blockchains.

Injective is a layer 1 blockchain designed for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, utilizing CosmWasm smart contracts for auto-executing functionalities and enabling rapid development of financial dApps. It addresses the need for interoperability by allowing seamless asset transfers and data sharing across major blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, while maintaining low transaction costs and high security through a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism.