Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Taiwan in October 2023

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• Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
• Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
• Alluvial Finance — Building the enterprise-grade liquid staking standard

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• Lootex — Lootex is a blockchain-based trading platform that offers services ranging from software integration to channel sales to its corporate clients. Lootex is located in Taipei City, Taipei.
• Chain Crisis — Chain Crisis is a Cyberpunk MMORPG on the Solana blockchain
• Exotic Markets — Exotic Markets bring wealth management and structured products out of the bank and in the decentralized finance world. Exotic Markets Maximise the investments with simple and sustainable products.

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• Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
• Flow — Flow is an NFT ecosystem developer primarily focused on the research and development of an NFT ecosystem centered around Rollup.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• Hexa — Elevate your eCommerce experience with a 3D tech-stack that lets you create, manage, analyze, and distribute your 3D commerce assets.
• Camsense — Camsense focuses on R&D and manufacturing of vision space positioning technology. It provides customers with highly precise sensors with its self-developed core algorithm and chips. Its products can be applied in consumer robots, industrial test, and surgeries.
• Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse

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• 37xDubai — 37xDubai is a space where Art and Technology come together to create the most unique expressions of creativity.
• Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
• CryptoSimple — CryptoSimple is a roboadvisor-based crypto investing solution that is simple, smart and secure, without the crypto lingo.

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• Trend — Trend connects brands with content creators in order to scale user-generated content across a variety of platforms while increasing their marketing ROI.
• Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
• Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability tool for reducing Snowflake costs & Snowflake query optimization. Get started on Snowflake Observability for free.

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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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• Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
• Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
• Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

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• Aidoc — Powered by an exclusive aiOS, Aidoc is trusted by 1,000+ hospitals to support physician decision-making at all points of care. See how our connected system of intelligence works.
• QT Medical — World's leading medical ECG/EKG machine company that aims to make hospital-grade 12-lead ecg machines available for everyone. Best portable ecg device during the pandemic. Focusing on innovations in the field of telemedicine and home care, we continue to invest in research and development of products that will bring better cardiac care to patients.
• Micronbrane Medical — Micronbrane provides affordable, rapid, and accurate pathogen detection solutions for human bloodstream infections with patented product and sequencing methods.

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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
• SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• Cognaize — Cognaize, an Intelligent Document Processing company, automates unstructured data with hybrid intelligence. Our data-centric AI platform facilitates meaningful cooperation of AI and humans.

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• Web3Go — Web3Go is a blockchain startup that provides data tools powered by artificial intelligence.
• MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
• Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.

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• Suberra — Payment protocol for Web 3.0
• Datawisp — Datawisp is a no-code data exploration and analysis platform for web3 and web2.
• Sweatcoin — Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.

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• Laevitas — Laevitas is a data analytics platform based on quantitative finance models for the crypto-asset market. The company aims to provide analysis by implementing mathematical models on data from a variety of crypto-asset derivatives markets
• Size — SIZE Markets | On-Chain OTC
• Orderly Network — Orderly Network is a decentralized orderbook protocol designed for DeFi developers and traders in Web3 to experience accelarated trading with low fees and deep liquidity.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• Deribit — World's biggest Bitcoin and Ethereum Options Exchange and the most advanced crypto derivatives trading platform with up to 50x leverage on Crypto Futures and Perps.
• MPCH — MPCH Labs was founded on the belief that Multi-Party Computation technology is the foundation for a new world of trade, technology, and commerce.
• Fractal — A new standard for on-chain finance.

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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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• C14 — C14 is building the next generation of fiat to crypto payment flow. We build seamless fiat on-ramps and off-ramps for crypto, blockchain, and web3 businesses. With a seamless user experience and meaningful coverage for emerging crypto markets around the world, C14 is on a mission to empower users ev
• PoseiSwap — PoseiSwap is a decentralized exchange service provider.
• MetaEra Media — MetaEra is a one-stop resource aggregator for Web3.0. Meta Era focuses on blockchain and metaverse exploration, pursuing professional, thorough, and reliable information and data.

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• Gomu — Gomu supercharge your app, dapp, wallet with actions and data in NFTs, DeFi, DEX, DAO. Built by a team hailing from Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, Chainlink, Zendesk and Millennium. Request for a demo today.
• Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
• Suberra — Payment protocol for Web 3.0

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• Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy
• TwitterScan — Twitterscan and NNS are working together to create a cross-chain name service network that will connect Web3.0 users, data, and assets.
• Volare Finance — Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.

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• Bitmark — Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights
• Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
• FlexCompute — Our aerodynamics & electromagnetic simulation solutions reduce solve times, time to market, overall cost, and ensure a more robust product.

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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
• Kingdomverse — Kingdomverse is a dynamic, open-world metaverse that allows players to form guilds, build, battle and conquer the lands. It is the first metaverse to combine a 3D virtual world with Real-time Strategy (RTS) with casual mobile games.
• 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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• OMO Group — OMO Group operates as a blockchain firm.
• Ex Populus — Our vision is to bring joy to people around the globe with the world's most compelling games and entertainment at the highest level possible.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• banco — BANCO offers fintech, digital banking, supply chain finance, and corporate financing services.
• Zodia Custody — Zodia is an institutional crypto custodian enabling global institutions, corporations, and investors to realize the potential of the digital asset future.
• My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies is a financial company that offers financial inclusion for banked and unbanked firms.

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• Boba Network — For visionary developers, Boba Network is the only hybrid blockchain that delivers off-chain data and compute, enabling smarter applications for mass adoption.
• Neptune Mutual — Need Crypto Insurance? You don't need to submit loss proof to receive payouts. No need to wait after creating a claim. Get a free price quote now.
• Skynet EGLD Capital — Investment Fund Focused on Growing the Elrond Network

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• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.

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• GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET 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.
• Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.

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• TeleportDAO — Trustless cross-chain settlement solution
• Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
• Social Future — Social Future is an AI-driven social networking metaverse company.

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• TooNFT — Create, Subscribe, Trade webtoon in the NFT-based Blockchain Ecosystem.
• 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.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• dipp, inc. — Scale your eCommerce design for free. With dipp's design automation and analysis, your brand can have beautiful visual content that drives conversion.
• FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
• Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.

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• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.

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• Caduceus Foundation — Caduceus a foundation building a blockchain protocol for the metaverse. Caduceus has developed a meta-array full-merge transaction engine that draws on the matric processing methods of GPUs and AI NPUs.
• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.
• Compendium Finance — A compendium of trading tools offering free spot and futures trading bots, grid bots, portfolio tracking, automated social trading groups, copy trading, and more. Connect to popular exchanges like Binance, OKX, ByBit, BitGet, BitMEX, and more.

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• Read2N — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.
• Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
• KOK Chain — KOK Project - KOK | Keystone of Opportunity and Knowledge - Fair and Shared Digital Contents Blockchain

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• cabuu — cabuu creates scalable interactive educational content for simple fact learning
• klaep — klaep is an app-based social network for musicians and singers, in which every user can record, edit and publish their own musical ideas and collaborate time-shifted with other users worldwide in split-screen videos (ReJam). All published compositions can be viewed, commented on and rated, so that pure music listeners also enjoy added value.
• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.

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• InvestaX — InvestaX is a MAS licensed platform offering end-to-end solutions for the issuance, trading, and custody of digital securities.
• InvestaX — InvestaX is a financial services company that offers an online platform that focuses on digital securities and financial investment for real estate, private equity, and venture capital. Its platform specializes in real estate investment, finance, technology, private equity, digital securities, DSO, and blockchain.InvestaX was founded in 2015 andheadquartered in Singapore.
• InvestaX — InvestaX is an investment and trading platform for digital securities. InvestaX is a MAS licensed digital securities platform offering end-to-end solutions for the issuance, trading and custody of digital securities for private market assets.

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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.
• Range Protocol — Permissionless Infrastructure for Smart Money Management. We are the leading gateway to smart on-chain money managers, bringing maximised yields and optimal capital efficiency to users of different risk profiles.
• The Animal Age — Animal-based metaverse that brings together animal lovers and animal clubs worldwide.

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• Chillchat — We're Club Penguin... on steroids. Pixel art virtual worlds powered by Solana and created by you. Discord: https://discord.gg/jKNpZ6Q2SD
• Nomad — Nomad is a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication.
• Magic Square — Discover, use, and manage all dApps, DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, and engage with the community in one convenient place. Magic Square - It's all there.

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• Hahow — Hahow is an educational marketplace that allows experts to share their knowledge and earn money through crowdfunded video course.At Hahow, talent and knowledge are not only valued but also valuated. More importantly, Hahow allows for such skills to be more effectively passed on by lowering the barriers for cross-domain learning.We believe thateducation is a way of life. Through proper utilization of technology and creativity, we hope to serve as the catalyst for the transfer and circulation of knowledge and skills, thereby spreading the joy of learning worldwide.
• pakku — Personalized Nutrition Using AI System
• OmniEyes — OmniEyes is an IT company that collects and digitizes live street videos and converts them using AI technologies.

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• RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
• GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
• Imperium Empires — Imperium Empires builds an AAA-quality metaverse with an experienced team of in-house game developers, game designers

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• Republic — Republic gives people the opportunity to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from over one million members of the global community. With a globalteam in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList, and more.
• Subspace Labs — Web3 @ Internet Scale. Subspace is a fourth generation blockchain built for the next wave of crypto creators
• Neptune Mutual — Need Crypto Insurance? You don't need to submit loss proof to receive payouts. No need to wait after creating a claim. Get a free price quote now.

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• MetaDojo — Bridging the gap between Web2 & Web3.
• Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• XREX Inc. — XREX is a neo fintech leveling the playing field by partnering with banks, regulators, and verified users to redefine banking together. Our blockchain-driven solutions create a collective financial system that empowers all to participate and contribute to the global economy.
• CloudMile — CloudMile is a leading AI and cloud service company that empowers enterprises by utilizing machine learning, big data, and Google Cloud services.

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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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• Edgecortix — At Edgecortix, we automate the design of AI accelerators for on-device deep learning. Our Dynamic Neural Accelerator IP, and performance optimized AI Software & Hardware Co-exploration framework, reduces time to market and brings massive cost savings across multiple industry verticals.
• Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

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• Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
• JDI Global — JDI Global is a Web3 hardware manufacturer.
• Econia Labs — Say hello to Econia: the high-performance on-chain order book for the Aptos blockchain. Built for equitable, global market access and engineered for composability, Econia is the settlement layer for Aptos DeFi.

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• Turn.bio — Turn Biotechnologies is a Stanford spinout developing therapies to effectively return mature differentiated cells to a dramatically younger state leaving their differentiated identity unaltered.​Turn Biotechnologies surpasses traditional approaches based on single gene/pathway manipulations and tackles the multifaceted manifestation ofcellular age at the organ, tissue, and organismal level to extend the healthspan of people. As a result, age is reset by epigenetically reprogramming cells.
• XREX Inc. — XREX is a neo fintech leveling the playing field by partnering with banks, regulators, and verified users to redefine banking together. Our blockchain-driven solutions create a collective financial system that empowers all to participate and contribute to the global economy.
• Wuhan General Group — We Develop Innovative Healthcare Solutions Through Cannabis & Mushroom Based Sciences About Psilosybin & Cannabinoids Psilocybin - The Active Compound found in

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• Sei Labs — Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage
• LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• Delysium — Delysium is a playable AAA MMO web3 game.
• Safeheron — Safeheron is a platform that enables open and transparent self-custody of digital assets.
• TwitterScan — Twitterscan and NNS are working together to create a cross-chain name service network that will connect Web3.0 users, data, and assets.

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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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• Bhex.com — BHEX is the next generation digital asset trading platform, with top grade performance of matching system which designed for million level of concurrent transactions. It further evolves to a globally distributed multi-nodes system and provides decentralized custody and clearing services of digital assets to institutional and retail investorstransparently.
• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.
• Lambda — Lambda is a fast, safe, and scalable blockchain infrastructure project, which provides decentralized applications (DAPPs) data storage capabilities with unlimited scalability and fulfills services such as multi-chain data co-storage, cross-chain data management, data privacy protection, PDP, and distributed intelligent computing through logicdecoupling and independent implementation of Lambda Chain and Lambda DB

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• Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
• Enview — Enview offers the next generation of Geospatial Analytics Software and GEOINT technology for energy companies and governments to protect their critical infrastructure.
• GOSU Data Lab — Try the World`s first game voice assistant to master the game effortlessly. Learn more - how it works and how can it help you.