Top 20 Web3 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Malta in October 2023

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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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• Arcade2earn — Arcade2earn is the GameFi platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn access to the ecosystem.
• HitBox Games — HitBox Games was founded by industry veterans to provide dev teams around the world with a transparent and ethical publishing option.
• Aether Games — Aether Games are the creative talent behind both of the widely expected NFT-based game titles: Gates of Ethernity and Cards of Ethernity. In addition, the studio's creative efforts are up to be represented by the CGI mini-series "Aether" and many more.

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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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• Blue Protein — Blue Protein is a biotechnology company that focuses on the research and development of animal feed or edible insects.
• Theia Studios — Icons of Theia - a tactical turn based strategy game
• Qiming Supply Chain — Qiming Supply Chain aims to empower brand owners and distributors, providing them with comprehensive services such as channel construction, system services, and logistics delivery. The main service categories are fast-moving consumer goods. The current coverage area includes East China, Northeast China, North China and other regions, and Continueto expand outwards and build itself into an omni-channel consumer goods distribution service provider in the whole country.

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• Coinweb — Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.
• THORSwap — THORSwap is a cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) built on THORChain.

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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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• Binance — Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that combines digital technology and finance. The platform features a portfolio of crypto products and offerings, including trading and finance, education, data and research, social good, investment and incubation, decentralization and infrastructure solutions, and more.
• Yuncaiyuan — Yuncaiyuan (subordinate to Beijing Wofeng Harvest Technology Co., Ltd.) optimizes the wholesale circulation system, relies on the national origin resources, attracts brokers, wholesalers and other companies to enter the Yuncao Garden platform, directly connects the production area, the wholesale market docking vegetable sellers, forming theagricultural product purchase order entry, providing A package of supporting services to achieve "base" → "community", "wholesale market" → "home delivery", forming a full industrial chain B2B platform
• Qingruan Haixin — Qingruan Haixin is a developer of 3D printing equipment and modeling software.

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• Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
• PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
• Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.

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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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• Coinweb — Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.

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• ICON — ICON already boasts communities comprised of reputable institutions – banks, securities, insurance, hospitals, universities, and more. ICON’s decentralized applications (DAPPs), including Blockchain ID and Payment & Exchange, can benefit current and future communities. For instance, Blockchain ID can be issued by financial securitiescommunity and be used for ID verification in all other communities. Likewise, ICX issued by hospitals can be used for payment & exchange in all other communities.
• Kadena — Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live withpartners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.
• Ren — Introducing RenVM, our core product providing access to inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications. Bringing BTC, BCH and ZEC to your Ethereum dApp.

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• Cor — Sign-up to device waitlist at www.corhealth.com
• Gym+Coffee — Gym+Coffee is an Irish-designed athleisure brand. We are passionately committed to encourage our community to Make Life Richer by socialising through exercise. We believe in awesome things to do, rad people to do them with and quality gear for all your adventures.
• Statespace — StateSpace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential. It uses cognitive science and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way humans improve. Leveraging expertise as neuroscientists, data scientists, video game developers, and computer visionaries, the productsbring much needed standardized performance analytics to train.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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• Enjin — Enjin offers a suite of integrated products that make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) easy for individuals, businesses, and developers.
• Fragcolor — Fragcolor is developing a fully distributed game platform and creation system.
• Alter — Alter is the most secure communications platform built on private blockchain technology powered by Secret Network's Private Smart Contracts and ECDH encryption. Alter has leveraged this technology and made something that was historically available only to limited groups of people, institutions and government organizations - accessible toeveryone and anyone to make sure there's higher control over own data privacy and it is truly secure.

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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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• Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
• HyperPlay — HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game.
• Intuition — Intuition provides decentralized infrastructure, developer tools, and applications enabling the creation of an open, flexible knowledge graph enhancing the quality and availability of social knowledge.

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• Lenudo — Lenudo manufactures multi-touch smart coffee.
• Biplusplus — Biplusplus is a Blockchain company.
• More Sales — More Sales engages in supply chain management services focusing on FMCG.

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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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• Coinweb — Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.

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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.
• Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
• 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

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• MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.
• 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.
• Thetanuts Finance — Thetanuts is a multi chain structured products protocol with automated strategies to generate income