Top 25 Blockchain VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in October 2023

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• Reitio Protocol — We’re creating an effortless way for everyone to create custom metaverse assets visually via an intuitive and codeless templates-based design toolkit, introducing reitio protocol.
• Alphadex — Alphadex is the ultimate cross-chain AMM, incubator and NFT launchpad powered by Moonriver.
• Web3Auth — Web3Auth is simple, non-custodial auth infrastructure that enables Web3 wallets and applications to provide seamless user logins for both mainstream and native Web3 users.

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• Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
• Sei Labs — Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage
• Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.

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• Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
• Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
• Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• BHR — Streamline home research and diligence. Real estate data from 30+ industry-leading providers. Powered by an AI real estate copilot. Available for every home in the US.
• Webb Protocol — Welcome to Webb, an ecosystem of infrastructures and applications designed to extend privacy to the blockchain space. We are committed to a future where privacy is accessible for all in the multi-chain world.

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• Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
• Jumbo — Jumbo is the solution for a decentralized solution that is ungoverned that seeks to lower the entry point to trade. They develop, tune, and process inherently present on the near blockchain. Their interface is used to configure a set of parameters for the asset. They provide a set of functionalities and interface-embedded constituents that help todetect the pools.
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.

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• Karmaverse — Karmaverse is a gamefi multiverse,it is created by the team behind two of the top 10 SLG games in the mobile gaming history.
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.
• Mangata Finance — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.

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• SuiPad — SuiPad is an IDO&INO platform, with selected projects, flexible whitelist, and fair level as the core positioning.
• CEBG Studio — CEBG Studio is a gaming studio.
• Monopoly Millionaire Game — Monopoly Millionaire Game is a marine-themed GameFi that involves island construction, cultivating, shooting and more.

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• IronMill — IronMill is a Web3 infrastructure provider that focuses on offering customized integration solutions to program developers.
• GamePhilos — GamePhilos is to offer player digital ownership to mobile strategy games.
• Buidler DAO — Buidler DAO describes itself as a "network of web3 projects and talents." The effort brings together developers, researchers, and operators with the goal of providing an infrastructure and accelerator for cryptocurrency ventures.

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• SubQuery — SubQuery is a blockchain developer toolkit powering web3 developers in Polkadot, Ethereum, Polygon, BSC, Avalanche, Cosmos, Algorand, NEAR, and more!
• Acala Network — The DeFi & Liquidity Hub of Polkadot

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Sumi Network — Sumi Network is a decentralized storage solution provider.
• Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.

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• NFT3 — NFT3s will become a direct monetization path for individuals to associate value on their terms with various aspects of their data journeys through life with different projects, individuals, social networks, companies, and institutions.
• Bitcoin.com — The world's gateway to Bitcoin & cryptocurrency. Buy, sell, spend, swap, and invest in BTC, ETH, BCH, AVAX, MATIC & hundreds more digital assets. Stay informed about crypto, DeFi, and Web3.
• Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.

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• Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
• Omni — Access all of Web3 in one easy-to-use wallet! Earn and manage assets at once with Omni's built-in staking, yield vaults, bridges, swaps and NFT support.
• CrowdPad — CrowdPad is the world's first mobile social token app built on Solana to enable creators to build tokenized communities

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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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• Veax — The Future of Decentralized Trading powered by Near blockchain.
• Optix — Optix is ​​a multi-chain option protocol service provider.
• Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.

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• TRLab — TR Lab is a blank slate platform for discovering and collecting NFT art from the artists. The company offers NFT works to collectors and art lovers. TR Lab was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.
• Pianity — The new way to experience and discover music! Own rare musical gems attached to amazing fan experiences, Support talented upcoming artists, and join exclusive and authentic communities...
• Banksea Finance — Banksea Finance is an AI-powered NFT Oracle and NFT Pool-based Lending platform.

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• 3Box — 3Box Labs is a Web3 studio that creates software to advance a more open, safe, and composable Web3. We're hiring!
• Astaria — Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs.
• Immunefi — Review code. Prevent hacks. Build rep. Get paid.

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• Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
• Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
• Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure

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• Minteo — Digitizing the exchange of value in latin america
• Ondefy — Ondefy is building infrastructure that enables a simple access to decentralized finance. Integrate multiple DeFi services unders 1 line of code.
• Contango — Contango is a decentralised exchange bringing expirable futures to DeFi. In DeFi, only perpetual futures exist. But since funding rates are unpredictable, traders do not have control over their costs. With expirable futures, a final price is paid upfront to avoid any bad surprises. Contango is here to bring futures with expiry dates.

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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• jiritsu.network — Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.
• Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.

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• IronMill — IronMill is a Web3 infrastructure provider that focuses on offering customized integration solutions to program developers.
• 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.
• Franklin — Hybrid cash & crypto payroll

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• DFlow — DFlow is the protocol powering the first decentralized order flow markets
• Ethena — Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.
• One Trading — Discover an unrivalled trading experience with One Trading. We believe regulation powers user experience, not breaks it. Crypto - But regulated. Buy crypto now, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, DOGE, Solana, Cardano and more.

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• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Threecolts — The most comprehensive software for Amazon, Walmart, and eBay. Tens of thousands of customers are using Threecolts to grow faster, lower costs, and become more agile.
• Space and Time — Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale. A multichain data platform for dapps needing next-gen Web3 analytics. Connect analytics directly to smart contracts. Join on-chain and off-chain data in a single query.

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• Clozer — Sell experiences & run gamified giveaways to grow your music streams
• move.ai — Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.

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• SubQuery — SubQuery is a blockchain developer toolkit powering web3 developers in Polkadot, Ethereum, Polygon, BSC, Avalanche, Cosmos, Algorand, NEAR, and more!
• Covalent — Covalent provides a unified API bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points.

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• Supermojo — Supermojo is building the embedded customer lending experiences to power the growth of NFTs as a powerful new asset class.
• Tapio Protocol — The stability of native DOT, with the yield of LDOT.
• Volare Finance — Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.