Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Australia in October 2023

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• Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
• Socket — Socket, which acts as a meta-layer that connects all chains, enables unified, multichain applications with shared liquidity and state across chains.
• Maple Finance — Fast and easy borrowing for Corporate and Institutional borrowers

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• Parcision — Parcision revolutionizes the hiring process on Wall Street by introducing a crucial element: quantifiable skill. The current Wall Street hiring practice puts too much emphasis on alma mater and network connection, which deters many candidates. We aim to establish a quantitative approach that enables individuals from all backgrounds to assess theirskills and demonstrate their accuracy in analyzing critical market events, such as company earnings and economic announcements. We firmly believe that regardless of identity, sex, race, location, or educational background, everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in the financial industry. Through our blind hiring and skills-first approach, we hope to change the DNA of Wall Street.To achieve this, we harness the power of Web 3 technology, specifically smart contracts, to facilitate and oversee tamper-proof tests that quantify candidates' analytical capabilities. By leveraging this advanced technology, we ensure a transparent, auditable, and provable performance metric for participants. The most accomplished participants are duly acknowledged financially and reputationally based on their exceptional proficiency. This recognition is facilitated through participants' undeniable track records on Parcision.Parcision is chess for financial analysts.
• PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
• Quantum Temple — Quantum Temple is the Web3 platform that enables equitable exchanges between conscious collectors and ancestral communities. Our goal is to protect and share the knowledge, traditions, and art forms of cultures around the world in perpetuity through blockchain technology.

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• Unlockd — Maximize the return on your NFTs with cross-chain, instant loans while keeping their utility.
• Fluidity Money — Fluidity Money is the blockchain incentive platform that rewards with yields to people for using their crypto.
• Sandstorm — Sandstorm platform connects brands with the best metaverse builders.

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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• GoldLink — GoldLink is a decentralized, on-chain undercollateralized lending protocol utilizing a novel and modular lending architecture to offer borrowers powerful, sophisticated investment strategies beyond anything offered in the space today.
• Optix — Optix is ​​a multi-chain option protocol service provider.

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• Tribu — Here at tribu we aim to make running an MSP stress-free and simple. Remove complexity and repetitive shackles to give you the freedom in business so that you can have freedom in life.
• Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
• One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.

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• Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
• Foxbit — Aprenda como investir em criptomoedas com a Foxbit, uma das maiores exchanges de criptoativos do Brasil! Pare de adiar sua liberdade financeira, vem pra Foxbit!
• XanPool — Buy and Sell Bitcoin around the World with Cash

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• Marhaba Defi — MRHB Defi is a halal, decentralized finance platform built to embody the true spirit of an “Ethical and Inclusive Defi” by following faith-based financial and business principles, where all excluded communities can benefit from the full empowerment potential of Defi.

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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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• Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
• Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
• Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.

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• GPU.Net — GPU Network is a decentralized graphics processing unit on-demand infrastructure that supports the next generation of Generative AI, Web3 Metaverses, high-end graphics rendering, and cryptocurrency mining.
• Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.
• Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.

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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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• KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
• LiveArtX — LiveArtX is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with web3. Built by art industry leaders, LiveArtX brings creators, collaborators, and collectors into the metaverse.
• Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.

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• PARSIQ — Comprehensive tools for analyzing, detecting, and preventing cryptocurrency fraud.
• Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
• Kernal Biologics — Kernal biologics is an onco-selective mRNA therapeutics company located in Cambridge, MA

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• Lanterne — Lanterne is an award-winning startup based in London. Our mission is to improve people’s quality of life by unlocking the value of data. Our product makes micromobility systems responsive and profitable by predicting user demand and optimising operations.
• Cleverbean — Find explicit and quality literacy units and lessons all aligned to the Australian Curriculum
• Lewi Software — Lewi Software - process engineering meets cloud computing. we implement software to accelerate process engineering workflows.

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• Rigor — Rigor decentralizes lending and coordinates payment flows with construction logistics.
• Fluidity Money — Fluidity Money is the blockchain incentive platform that rewards with yields to people for using their crypto.
• Tempus — Tempus is building the most important blocks of DeFi and Web3. Join us and shape the future!

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• Akash Network — Akash is a peer-to-peer and open market to trade compute resources. Purpose-built for public utility.
• Sentinel — The Sentinel Network has the ability to host open-source distributed & decentralized applications that provide users with assurance that their session information is private, their communications are not being logged, and that not even the application creator has access to any of their data.
• Sifchain Finance — Sifchain is the world's first omni-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) for digital assets, unlocking liquidity in various chains to free people from egregious fees and inefficient trades. To bring this intention to reality, we envision extensive cross-compatibility with DEXs and centralized exchanges (CEX). The future of Sifchain is aDecentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and, for DAOs to self-sustain, they need access to massive capital. We believe that building cross-chain liquidity will be fundamental to the future of the blockchain industry: an expectation, not a feature.Sifchain is built on the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK). Therefore, it is compatible with other Cosmos Network blockchains like Kava, Akash, and Terra via the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. As such, it is 100 times more efficient than Ethereum-based DEXs like Uniswap in terms of both trading fees and transaction speed.As a decentralized exchange, Sifchain combines the best elements of liquidity pools and order books for optimal order execution.

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• Voltpost — The lamppost electric vehicle charger.
• Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
• Ocean Rainforest — Ocean Rainforest offer a collection of premium fully-traceable seaweed products, mostly for food and cosmetic producers.

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• Wayru — Wayru is a decentralized Internet service provider for the urban development world aiming to democratize Internet access
• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is the innovative DeFi platform to lend, borrow, trade and manage digital assets.
• Fluidity Money — Fluidity Money is the blockchain incentive platform that rewards with yields to people for using their crypto.

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• Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
• Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
• Obscuro Labs — Obscuro is a layer 2 solution for Ethereum that brings privacy. It ensures the inputs, ledger state and execution are always encrypted. No changes to Dapps, just migrate and gain privacy.

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• Amasa — Amasa puts a new world of income streaming in the palm of your hand. Combine, stabilise and amplify micro income streams of cryptocurrencies. We want to help people improve their financial position, and be producers and participants, not products.
• reNFT — Multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and rev-share. Start building!
• DeHorizon — With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more andmore blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.

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• Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
• Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
• Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.

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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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• Marqo — A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows.
• BioticsAI — Advancing Fetal Ultrasound Screenings Using AI
• Kiki — Kiki is a subletting startup that matches listers with people looking to rent for up to six months.

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• ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
• Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
• Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

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• zkMe — zkMe operates as a zero-knowledge Identity Oracle provider.
• Hourglass — Our mission at the Hourglass Collective is to grow adoption of real-world blockchain utility by incubating projects that bridge the crypto space with mainstream entertainment, popular apps, major retail brands and large-scale events
• Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.

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• DRiP — Collectibles every week from your favorite creators. For free.
• Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
• SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.

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• Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
• Tableland — A 3k generative NFT built from 1,074 handcrafted works of art for the builders and creatives of cyberspace.
• FastLane — FastLane is an easy to integrate protocol that rewards participating validators for protecting the health of the Polygon blockchain.

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• Bluejay Finance — Bluejay Finance is building the first Asia-focused capital-efficient protocol for multi-currency stablecoins. The aim is to mirror the foreign exchange market in the fiat world onto the blockchain, in order to accelerate financial inclusion and access to DeFi for all users and businesses. Bluejay Finance allows stablecoins to be provided, withdeep liquidity backing directly from a DAO through protocol-owned liquidity. We designed our protocol this way in order to tackle one of the biggest challenges of building stablecoins for non-dominant currencies (e.g., USD, Euro), which is bootstrapping liquidity.Some key elements of our designs: 1. Bonding mechanism to fund stablecoin minting 2. Protocol-owned liquidity to back stablecoins 3. Stabilizer bonds for bringing stablecoins to peg
• Collective Shift — Collective Shift is a research platform designed to help investors understand and navigate the world of cryptocurrency through community and education.

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• Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.
• LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• Ola — Ola is a ZKVM-based, High-performance, Privacy-focused layer2 platform.
• Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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• Revoland — Revoland is an e-sport game based on Blockchain technology. Challenge yourself with various game modes: MOBA & Battle Royale, coming with monthly updates and attractive rewards.
• IQ Labs — IQ Marketplace offers unique NFTs with exclusive utilities, boosting your in-game experience. With flexible renting parameters and multiple payment options, rent without collateral and unlock the full utility of NFTs. Say goodbye to gas fees with our gasless renting feature and multiply the value of NFT collections with our multi-utility renting. Explore now
• Obscuro Labs — Obscuro is a layer 2 solution for Ethereum that brings privacy. It ensures the inputs, ledger state and execution are always encrypted. No changes to Dapps, just migrate and gain privacy.

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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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• Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
• Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
• YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

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• EDX Markets — Edx description website
• Friend.Tech — Friend.tech is a decentralized social media app that allows users to tokenize their friends.
• Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.

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• Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
• Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
• Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.

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• Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
• The Animal Age — Animal-based metaverse that brings together animal lovers and animal clubs worldwide.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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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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• Marli Technology Solutions — Marli uses decentralised finance and crypto technologies to enable the cross-border exchange of standardized carbon units. Every Marli token either absorbs or saves 1 tonne of CO2. Using blockchain and smart contracts we ensure that no credit is spent twice and prices are predictable. The annual market for carbon credit is expected to reach $50B by2030.Existing solutions to offset emissions are fragmented marketplaces. Low liquidity, transparency and the lack of automation are major barriers preventing wide-spread adoption. Marli is addressing these challenges.We’re a team of dedicated experts with background ranging across environmental sciences, technology, agriculture, sales, marketing and economics.After securing pre-seed funding from Borderless Capital and the Algorand Foundation for building our MVP, we’re currently raising funds for our seed round to build dedicated sales and development teams.

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• Dgraph Labs — The only fault-tolerant, distributed graph database with native GraphQL that gives developers the tools to quickly build distributed applications at scale.
• PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum is building the world's first useful quantum computer.
• SafetyCulture — Raise your game with an easy to use mobile app and software inspection solution. iAuditor by SafetyCulture is available on iOS and Android.

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• Willed — Willed is an Australian online estate planning platform.
• Earnity — Your new favorite crypto community. Build a portfolio in minutes, copy and share collections, and discuss the latest tokens and research. Create your profile now.
• Buildxact — Buildxact is an easy to use construction management and estimating software designed for small builders and contractors. Sign up for your 14-day free trial.

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• GoldLink — GoldLink is a decentralized, on-chain undercollateralized lending protocol utilizing a novel and modular lending architecture to offer borrowers powerful, sophisticated investment strategies beyond anything offered in the space today.
• P0x Labs — P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
• Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.

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• Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
• Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
• AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.

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• AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
• Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
• Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.

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• Frontrunner — Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. Byleveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.
• MetaVersus World — MetaVersus combines gaming with Web3 to provide a hyper-realistic digital environment for brands to build in and for users to discover as MetaCitizens
• Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy

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• ZKX — ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet.
• Euler — Euler Labs is a software development and risk management company.
• Carbon Based Lifeforms — Carbon Based Lifeforms is an indie video game studio in the heart of Scotland pioneering play-to-earn virtual worlds.

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• FirstMate — FirstMate is a software company that designs and develops software tools for NFT creators.
• Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
• Rocket Pool — Your friendly decentralised Ethereum staking protocol

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• ShapesXR — ShapesXR is a provider of a web-based platform for content creation and collaboration for VR applications.
• Space DOTS — The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits.
• Cascade Biocatalysts — Cascade Biocatalysts is built on a novel way to immobilize enzymes. Our technology keeps enzymes active and stable under difficult industrial conditions.

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• Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
• Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

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• Sort — Sort: Supercharged collaboration for your database
• Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
• Stroom Network — Liquid staking protocol in bitcoin lignthning network

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• Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
• Huddle01 — Building the 1st decentralized real-time communication network. Leverage Huddle01's suite of developer-friendly SDKs to enable live audio & video experiences with just a quick plug-in.
• RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.