Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in South Korea in October 2023

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• Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
• Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.

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• Hyku — Hyku Biosciences is developing the next generation of covalent medicines by targeting histidine, tyrosine and lysine binding pockets in disease-causing proteins.
• Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.
• Passionate Powerhouse — Passionate Power as a full-fledged multi-content IP in the future by designing and producing games, cartoons, movies, franchise items, and so on in constant partnership with domestic and overseas partners.

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• Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
• Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
• Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.

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• Pillyze — mobile health care startup
• InHandPlus — We are working to solve the issue of medical nonadherence, where patients don't follow their prescribed medical regimes. This is a common and costly problem, and can even result in serious consequences. Our proprietary smartwatch is able to tell what medicine users take, and when they take it. Our AI-based management platform then collects thedata and provides personalized healthcare services and insights.
• Test Valley — Test Valley sells smartphones, tablets, cameras, computers, and household appliances.

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• Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
• AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
• Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

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• NRISE — NRISE is develops MOCI and WIPPY services. NRISE research and develops social media services to bring people the joy of communication.
• Goodoc — Goodoc (굿닥) is a Korean smartphone application that helps users with a variety of medical services. The app allows users to access reliable information on doctors, hospitals, and other medical services. It also provides users with information on doctors' fees, hospital fees, contact numbers, and more.
• Sangwha — Sangwha is an immersive content production company.

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• sTraffic — sTraffic provides fast and safe transportation system solutions.
• Com2Verse — 'Com2Verse', the ALL-IN-ONE metaverse platform of Com2uS
• Source.ag — Our AI supports both experienced and new growers to produce more fruit and vegetables anywhere in the world, increasing business results while reducing risks

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• IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
• fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain
• Spearbit — Web3 Security At Scale

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• Bionsight — We are pioneering a new era of AI to facilitate the long journey from a laboratory to the patients in drug discovery
• Superblock — Superblock vision removes centralized web servers and puts blockchain run by the people in the system's core.
• Pribit Technology — Pribit Technology is a technology agency that provides cloud network security technology to related technology services.

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• Eastend — Eastend is an e-commerce company engaged in the fashion business.
• Pillyze — mobile health care startup
• Luten Technologies — Luten Technologies is a provider of AI portal services.

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• Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
• Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
• Maverick Protocol — Trade. Earn. Any Asset. Stop paying for price discovery. Enjoy higher capital efficiency.

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• Dot Inc — Dot Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, innovative, braille cell that is 95% smaller and 90% cheaper than the standard piezo-electric cells. The Dot Cell has brought revolutionary changes to the world through advancements in electromagnetic actuator technology. The Dot Watch is the first fully-Braille smartwatch in the world. We believeeveryone has the right to move freely and connect with the world, regardless of circumstances. Dot Inc., through its mission, will reduce the information gap through tactile literacy all around the world.
• Jente — Jente provides a B2B service that connects boutiques with domestic companies. The company's online platform offers distinct products that become trendsetters as a result of rapidly discovering and sourcing new brands, allowing clients to quickly bring new products from boutiques.
• Phantom AI — Phantom AI is democratizing the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to reduce accidents, save lives and make driving more enjoyable, while delivering tomorrow’s self-driving technology. The company provides a comprehensive autonomous driving platform featuring computer vision, sensor fusion and control capabilities.Phantom AI hascreated the most accurate and highest-performing AI solutions available today that meet car manufacturer requirements, at a much lower price than existing solutions. Delivered through a modular, software-based vehicle stack, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can select the components they wish to integrate and customize the configuration for unparalleled flexibility.

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• Bit2Me — He buys and sells cryptocurrencies from home. With the security, ease, and speed that only Bit2Me can provide.
• DRepublic — DRepublic is a metaverse company who are the developers behind the upcoming 3A blockchain game Cradles.
• Skynet EGLD Capital — Investment Fund Focused on Growing the Elrond Network

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• Artue — Explore a diverse collection of artwork by new and emerging artists on Artue.io. Buy and sell original paintings, sculptures, photography, and more.
• B GARAGE — B GARAGE is an autonomous drone and service company for warehouse inventory management. B GARAGE is an homage to Willow Garage, a widely respected robotics research company that developed an open-source robotics software platform.
• ZUZU Hospitality — ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management.As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being greathoteliers.

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• Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
• KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
• Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.

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• OKHOME — OKHOME adalah penyedia jasa kebersihan terbaik untuk rumah, apartemen dan berbagai tempat yang membutuhkan pembersih profesional.
• Hexlant — Hexlant - Blockchain Laboratory. Build Blockchain Security Environment in just few days. With Simple Installation, Expand your Business onto Blockchain.
• Deepbrain AI — Deepbrain AI has proven its world-class conversational artificial intelligence technology to be highly utilizing in many areas, including broadcasting, education, and in service industry. State-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology, analogous to real people say, can be applied in a wide variety of areas. Also, it is expected that demandwill increase significantly with differentiated technology in the age of diversification.In recognition of its competitiveness and value, the company has received $2M investment from IDG Capital in 2019, and up to date, it has accumulated $9.5M. In addition, the company is currently growing in partnership with major companies such as Microsoft, Kakao Partner, and SK Telecom. It is expected to accelerate its external growth and profit expansion in the new market as it is set to make inroads into the global market based on its performance so far.

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• AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
• CLASSUM — CLASSUM is an interactive learning platform for higher education. CLASSUM aims to make communication easy, simple and smart for better education. With its unique UI/UX, which is based on chatting UI and SNS features, it lowers the communication barrier between the users(students and instructors). Also with their A.I./Big-data analysistechnique, CLASSUM provides users an in-depth class report which can be applied to improve their class and gain overall information about their students and the course.
• Genome Insight — Genome Insight is revolutionizing healthcare through whole genome sequencing, enabling personalized patient care.

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• ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
• MetaBeat — The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform.

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• Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
• Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
• Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.

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• Campaign — Simple no-code platform for brands to build loyalty apps with native NFTs. Brands can revitalize their loyalty programs with NFTs that allow customers to sell memberships, evolve their rank over time, and leverage interoperability to redeem them outside of just the store.
• Paima Studios — Paima Studios is unlocking the trustless web3 gaming future through an innovation-first approach.
• Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.

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• TEEware — TEEware is a security technology to create a secure and dependable IT environment by protecting valuable digital assets from the threat of hacking that is emerging in new fields such as blockchain, Fintech, IoT, autonomous driving, and healthcare.
• Openull — Openull offers BNPL products and services.
• EMERGE Group — EMERGE Group is a leading Martech organisation that specialises in developing optimal commercialisation solutions for content creators, intellectual property right holders, advertising inventories and brands.

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• 3Commas — 3Commas provides a platform for cryptocurrency investors to trade with minimal risks, limit losses, and increase profits. 3Commas was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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• Opolis — Opolis is next-gen Digital Employment Platform for Freelancers providing payroll, benefits and other services for independent workers and freelancers.
• GAST Clearwater — GAST Clearwater is a US-based, next-generation water treatment company with a mission to provide Water for Mankind one drop at a time. Operating in various industries and markets from Real Estate, Wastewater Treatment, Municipal Potable Water, and various others in particular focusing on the recovering and recycling of different waters in acentralized or decentralized way. The company also does artificial beaches, urban lagoons, wave pools, surf parks, aquatics to sewerage treatment, wastewater, and drinking water.
• Alef Aeronautics — Armada operates in a stealth mode

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• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
• Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
• Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

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• Delivus — Delivus offers small package delivery in major U.S. cities in the shortest amount of time, with real-time delivery tracking, at the same cost as the current courier To facilitate this, we provide Delivery as a Service.
• S-Alpha Therapeutics — Digital approach for unmet medical needs. We embody technology that understands and cares for humans.
• Stellar Vision — StellaVision can interpret synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, an unparalleled radar technique for interpreting satellite data. Information is critical for making investment or policy decisions. Historically, we relied on news sources and government figures to make decisions. However, relying entirely on previously published knowledge may causeyou to be late to the game, and making decisions based on rumors or gossip may result in big losses. Satellite imaging provides a solution to this information mismatch. Satellite imaging is becoming a key decision-making tool in a variety of businesses due to its ability to give fast and accurate information.

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• Gleen AI — Accurate AI Support You Can Trust : Scale customer support with best-in-class AI solution and human expertise. Accurate answers and seamless integration with a variety of tools for a unified, cross-platform user experience.Helix offers a top-notch support solution for Discord, Telegram, and Twitter communities.Advanced AI: Learns fromdocuments, wikis, and chats for accurate responses; compatible with Discord and websites. Community Engagement: Incentivizes experts to address support tickets, enhancing engagement and efficiency. Unified Ticketing: Centralizes support ticket management across Discord, Telegram, websites & Emails.
• OmniNetwork — OmniNetwork is an Ethereum interoperability protocol, focusing on the field of blockchain technology services.
• Catalyst — Contributing to Catalyst, the permissionless liquidity layer for modular chains.

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• GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
• Gusto Collective — First brandtech group using the latest technology to help brands create content and experiences across the physical and virtual worlds.
• OneFootball — OneFootball covers over 100 international soccer leagues and competitions live and in incomparable detail.

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• MetaBeat — The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform.
• Cypher — Cypher is a decentralized synthetic asset protocol, allowing retail and institutional investors to create and trade pre-public markets.
• Synesis One — Synesis One provides a play-to-earn model on the Solana blockchain that develops games on the frontend to incentivize users and on the backend creates datasets that train AI. This fully functional system has already been integrated with its beneficiary, Mind AI, which relies on natural language reasoning to produce conversational AI systems. Withcustomers already lined up, Synesis One's key appeal is its ability to attract other projects that will pay to use their AI solutions within the blockchain space and across different industries.

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• MetaBeat — The MetaBeat platform is an incentivization community platform powered by fan activities rewarded by a set criteria, the FANomance Index. Creators/artists and fans grow as partners through engagements and rewards on the MetaBeat platform.

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• Vizionware — VizionWare offers audio and video digital interconnect technology solutions for consumer and commercial A/V applications. It offers high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) digital interconnects, fiber optic HDMI interconnects, digital visual interface (DVI) digital interconnects, HDMI-to-DVI digital interconnects, switcher and digitalaudio synchronizers, integrator-friendly accessory products, HDMI and DVI swivel adapters, HDMI connector locking mounts, and heavy duty cable pull through socks. The company serves home theater, commercial, original equipment manufacturer, and consumer markets. VizionWare was founded in 2004 and is based in Austin, Texas.
• BlockOdyssey — Best Enterprise Blockchain Enabler, Block Odyssey

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• ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
• Verishop — Discover new brands for women and men, emerging names in home decor and trending beauty and skincare products. Enjoy free shipping over $35 and free returns.
• Headspace — Live a healthier, happier, more well-rested life in just a few minutes a day with the Headspace app.

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• HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
• bithumb META — bithumb META is a metaverse platform for the development of NFT marketplaces.

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• Backd — Backd offers to maximize the power of assets and begin generating yield. Backd is a protocol for reactive liquidity decentralized finance (Defi).
• Shardeum — Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that maintains low gas fees while providing true decentralization and solid security
• Eclipse — The first customizable, modular rollups, using the Solana VM. Sign up to access our testnet.

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• Syn City — BDSLOT adalah situs slot online si paling gacor dan situs judi online terpercaya dengan berbagai macam bonus menarik Dan RTP tertinggi, yang menyediakan slot online terlengkap gacor dan mudah menang.
• BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.
• Project Twelve — P12 | Project Twelve

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Mystic Games — Mobile games developer of Call of the VoYd. Pushing Free to play Roguelite ARPGs to the next level.
• Megaton Finance — Deposit crypto, reap reward everyday

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• NoTag — NoTag (노태그) is a Korean border e-commerce-based service provider that intends to provide customers with a cross-boundary online and offline service in which they can buy qualified and well-designed Korean products at affordable prices.NoTag provides global online and offline commerce solutions to small- and medium-sized Korean suppliers whowish to sell their own brands and products to a global market.NoTag also offers localized online and offline commerce services to global consumers and resellers who are interested in Korean products.
• AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.
• Piter Peter — Piter Peter is a pet healthcare platform that provides health care guides to companion animals based on genetic testing.

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• GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
• MathFLAT — MathFLAT is a B2B mobile solution for mathematics education.
• PlayList — PlayList is a web drama production company that produces dramas and music content. The company's two flagship web drama series, Love Playlist and A-Teen have gained huge popularity amongst the 18-24 age segment. Playlist dramas have over 10 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views.

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• GOMBLE — GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
• Intella X — The Next Generation of Web3 Gaming Platform
• Epic League — Epic League is a company specializing in Online RPG and blockchain ecosystem.

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• Tangem — Tangem designs and develops secure microchips, smart cards, and other embedded solutions with native support for blockchain operations. The company sources integrated semiconductor platforms directly from global leaders such as Samsung and NXP; it also fabricates its own chip designs at UMC in Singapore and Taiwan. The final products offerunparalleled levels of security compliance, with silicon design and manufacturing evaluated by institutions like CEA-Leti and EMVCo, and the code and architecture under audit by Kudelski Security and Applus+.Tangem operates in B2B2C and Enterprise segments, shipping complete products such as smart banknotes, hardware wallets, cold storage, contactless HSM, cryptographic bearer notes. The company also provides expertise to large institutions in the fintech sector and works with multiple state-level and national-level central banks worldwide.
• TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
• Flow — Flow is an NFT ecosystem developer primarily focused on the research and development of an NFT ecosystem centered around Rollup.

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• InnoQD — InnoQD is a developer of thin-film materials for quantum dots, which are ultra-fine semiconductor particles on the nanometer scale
• Nex Eye — Nex Eye is a start-up that develops first-in-class antibodies targeting refractory factors of immuno-oncology drugs.
• Saige Research — Saige Research specializes in artificial intelligence solutions for industrial inspection and quality control. The company provides a deep learning vision inspection platform optimized for the manufacturing industry to solve inspectors' difficulties and increase work efficiency; its technology provides power detection, speed detection, wideversatility, and development convenience.

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• ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
• Galaxy Fight Club — The first cross-IP PvP game for the NFT universe

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• 33M2 — 33M2 is a housing rental platform.
• POSTYPE — POSTYPE is a content open market where anyone can sell and buy digital content.
• Bigwave Robotics — Bigwave Robotics is a developer of robotics devices designed to automate processes.

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• TomoChain — TomoChain is a highly scalable and secure blockchain network in mainnet since 2018, taking a community-driven approach to accelerate the mass adoption of web3 applications.
• BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.
• Minterest — Minterest is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol for decentralized financial. Its unique design attracts and rewards long-term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance. Minterest was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallin, Estonia.

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• Fanzee Labs — We develop fan engagement platforms that help sports and entertainment organisations meaningfully connect with their fans through immersive gamifcation experiences
• Megaton Finance — Deposit crypto, reap reward everyday

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• Onmeta — Onmeta
• MintStars — MintStars is a content subscription platform with your interests at heart. Earn more, reduce burnout, and protect your content, powered by NFTs.
• BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.

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• XinFin — XinFin is an open source hybrid blockchain platform.
• Lightnet — Lightnet is the next-generation financial network that is built on the true interoperability concept by bridging between existing banking rail and non-bank agent networks to provide efficient and instantaneous transactions.Lightnet is bidding to take on the trillion-dollar remittance market, starting with the millions of unbanked migrant workerscurrently using what it calls outdated, costly, and fragmented services in major Southeast Asian markets.
• SKY Play — Creating a revolutionary new blockchain ecosystem with our own unique and innovative SKYPlay platform and SKP Token

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• Mars4 — Mars4 (MARS$) defines itself as a virtual reality platform powered by the blockchain, that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications and earn passive income through revenue generating Mars NFT Land Plots. In this virtual world on Mars, users purchase plots of land that they can later navigate, build upon and monetize.
• Velo Labs — Velo Labs is software company revolutionizing the old correspondent bank system by creating a global settlement network. We are empowering financial institutions with blockchain-based and compliance-friendly solutions to move money across borders.
• Parex Market — Parex Market provides DAO ecosystem that includes a range of solutions.

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• Antic — Antic develops a digital assets platform that builds foundations of a shared ownership economy by helping people collaborate, coordinate and earn together as a group, enabling users to own digital assets collectively and empower groups to purchase together what they could not alone, seamlessly.
• Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
• Spexi Geospatial Inc. — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data

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• Luxon — Read transaction history to match your game play style.
• ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
• ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.

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• Lemonex — Lemonex specializes in drug delivery technology and biosensor technology.
• Selecxine — Selecxine is a biopharmaceutical development company specialized in the field of immunotherapeutics. Selecxine strives to develop immunotherapeutics a new paradigm of pharmaceuticals– through a specialized antibody development process, using an innovative platform technology of functional antibody screening and development.
• StradVision — Vision AI for all