Who are the main players in the DeFi ecosystem?
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Some segments of the digital asset industry, such as custody services, have attracted traditional institutional players. However, DeFi has so far been dominated by
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From August 25th to 28th, there were 7 DeFi-related transactions, which shows that the frequency of transactions continues to increase
The Block provides a directory of 138 companies involved in the space and what projects make up their portfolios
Ethereum’s decentralized finance or DeFi ecosystem has been growing rapidly. At the same time, the growing popularity of the field has attracted developers and venture capitalists."Our chart highlights the 166 projects and startups that make up the DeFi segment. In this statistical map iteration, we provide a directory of 138 companies involved in this segment, and what items make up their portfolios."Some niches of the digital asset industry, such as custody services, have attracted traditional players—that is, DeFi has so far been dominated by
propelled. Crypto-focused venture firms accounted for about 39% of investors exposed to DeFi. As for other categories, apart from traditional venture capital, the vast majority of investors in other categories are composed of crypto-focused companies. The current makeup of investors is likely to prompt investors to question the path to profitability for decentralized protocols.
Funding many of these projects has previously been difficult to fund as investors questioned how the protocols could capture value and provide lucrative returns. Now, the frequency of deals in this part of the project is continuing to grow, with both VCs and new players trying to get into deals.
For the sake of observation, from March to May, there were only 6 financing events related to DeFi. However, in the past week alone, there were seven cases in three days.
While growth in this space has forced some funds to rethink their growth strategies, others in the fund industry have placed themselves in a good position with funds emphasizing or focusing on DeFi. Some of these investors include Dragonfly Capital, Framework Ventures, Paradigm, ParaFi Capital, and Three Arrows Capital.
Although other institutions do not have the theoretical drive of DeFi, they do not shy away from making early bets on the industry. Andreessen Horowitz recently led an $11 million funding round in Uniswap and has previously invested in Numerai, dY/dX, Compound, and MakerDAO.
Coinbase’s venture arm has made at least 10 investments and one acquisition in DeFi-related projects. The popular exchange made its first DeFi-specific investments in 2018, with investments in lending protocol Compound and synthetic asset issuance platform UMA. Coinbase also made its only acquisition in this space that year, when it acquired Paradex, a non-custodial decentralized exchange.
Overall, at least 138 investors have made at least one investment in Ethereum’s DeFi ecosystem, which The Block lists below.
Hashed is an encrypted asset fund based in South Korea and San Francisco (notable investments: Bodhi, Origin Protocol).
Block8 Incubator is a blockchain development studio and accelerator (famous DeFi investment: Synthetix).
Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Boost VC funds blockchain and VR companies (notable DeFi investments: Fairmint, Zerion, Ripio Credit Network, Guesser).
Consensys Labs is an accelerator and the venture capital arm of Consensys (famous DeFi investments: Nuo network, Atomic Loans, Juno, PoolTogether).
IDEO Lab Ventures is a venture capital firm and accelerator (famous DeFi investments: PoolTogether, Fairmint, InstaDapp).
Longhash Ventures is an accelerator and investor for early-stage startups (famous DeFi investments: InstaDapp, Bifrost).
Techstars is an accelerator based in Boulder, Colorado. (Famous DeFi investment: Groundhog)
Y Combinator is an accelerator that provides seed funding for early-stage startups (famous DeFi investments: Request Network, Set Protocol, Opensea).
angel investment
Arthur Cheong became an investor in DeFi applications through Defiance Capital (famous DeFi investment: Mstable).
Balaji Srinavasian is an angel investor who served as CTO at Coinbase and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (famous DeFi investments: Dharma, Opyn, Juno, InstaDapp).
Barry Silbert is the founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group and Grayscale (famous DeFi investment: Ripio Credit Network,
Bobby Ong is the co-founder and COO of Singapore-based crypto data analytics firm CoinGecko. (Famous DeFi investment: DODO)
Brain Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase (famous DeFi investment: Ampleforth, dYdX).
David Namdar is a partner of digital asset firm Galaxy Digital (famous DeFi investment: Bella Protocol).
Dylan Field is the CEO of Figma (famous DeFi investment: Opyn).
Elad Gil is an angel investor, co-founder of Color Genomics, and former co-founder and CEO of Mixer Labs. (Famous DeFi investment: dY/dX)
Fred Ehrsam is an angel investor and co-founder of Paradigm, and co-founded Coinbase (famous DeFi investment: dY/dX, Numerai).
Joe Lubin is the co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of Consensys (famous DeFi investment. MolochDAO, Juno
Linda Xie is the co-founder and managing director of Scalar Capital. Xie is also an advisor to Project 0x. (Opyn, Celo)
Mariano Conti was the head of smart contracts at the Maker Foundation, the foundation behind Ethereum-based credit loans (notable DeFi investment: Zapper).
Naval Ravikant is an angel investor, co-founder, chairman and former CEO of AngelList (famous DeFi investment: dY/dX, InstaDapp).
Paul Veradittakit is an angel investor and partner at Pantera Capital (famous DeFi investment: Ripio Credit Network).
Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and the general partner of Robot Ventures (famous DeFi investments: Opyn, Reflexer Labs, DODO).
Spencer Noon is an angel investor and an investor of dtc.capital (famous DeFi investment: DODO, Aave, The Graph).
Timothy Draper is the founder of Draper Associates, Draper University and DFJ (famous DeFi investment: Ripio Credit Network)
Vitalik Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum (famous DeFi investment: MolochDAO).
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Blockchain.com is a crypto wallet and service provider (famous DeFi investment: Argent).
Blockstack is a blockchain startup that aims to build a decentralized, user-centric network (famous DeFi investment: Opensea).
Coil Technologies is a blockchain startup for content currencies (notable DeFi investment: Kava Labs).
Coinbene is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange founded by Yoni Assia (famous DeFi investment: Bella Protocol).
CoinGecko is a crypto data and analytics platform based in Singapore. The company was founded by TM Lee and Bobby Ong (notable DeFi investments: Zapper, Frontier, DODO).
Cointelegraph is an encryption/blockchain media (famous DeFi investment: Etherisc).
FTX is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange (famous DeFi investment: 1inch.exchange, Serum).
Developer of Gnosis smart contract Ethereum wallet and decentralized exchange (famous DeFi investment: Argent).
Huobi is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange (notable DeFi investments: Ampleforth, dForce Foundation).
Shapeshift is a non-custodial digital asset exchange where users can exchange assets (DeFi famous investment: Zerion).
Wyre is a payment API for digital assets (DeFi famous investment: Linen App).
Corporate Venture Capital
Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange (famous DeFi investments: 1inch.exchange, Terra, Injective Protocol, Tellor, Deaux)
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Coinbase Ventures is the investment arm of Coinbase, investing in early-stage blockchain companies (famous DeFi investments: InstaDapp, Dharma, UMA, Compound, Linen App, Opensea, Authereum, DerivaDEX, The Graph and the acquired Paradex ). )
Salt Lake City-based Medici Ventures, a subsidiary of Overstock.com, manages their investments in the blockchain space (famous DeFi investment: Ripio credit network).
Xpring is the venture capital arm of Ripple Labs (famous DeFi investments: Compound, Kava Labs, Vega Protocol, Alkemi).
Crypto Venture Capital
1confirmation is a venture capital firm dedicated to the crypto ecosystem, headquartered in San Francisco (famous DeFi investments: dY/dX, Nexus Mutual, MakerDAO, Opensea, Augur).
1kx is an early token fund (famous DeFi investment: Opyn, Terra).
Alphabit is a venture fund based in San Francisco, California, focusing on digital assets (famous DeFi investment: Bella Protocol).
Arrington XRP Capital is a digital asset management company focused on investing in blockchain technology (famous DeFi investments: Totle, Kava Labs, Terra, Reserve).
AU21 is an investment company focusing on encryption technology (famous DeFi investment: Frontier).
Ausum Ventures is a crypto venture fund based in San Francisco, Cali (famous DeFi investment: Zerion).
Blockchain Capital, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an encryption venture fund established in 2013 (famous DeFi investment. UMA, Radar Relay, Nexus Mutual, Opensea, Augur, 0x)
Carnaby Capital is a private equity investment and management institution for digital assets (famous DeFi investment: Aave, 0x, Kyber Network, Lendroid, Chainlink).
CoinFund is an encrypted asset investment and research company located in Brooklyn, New York (famous DeFi investment: Opyn, Balancer Labs, Numerai).
CoinIX is a cryptocurrency portfolio manager (famous DeFi investment: The Graph).
Collider Ventures is an early venture capital blockchain and encryption fund (famous DeFi investment: The Graph).
DACM (Digital Asset Capital Management) is a blockchain technology investment management company (famous DeFi investment: Mstable)
Digital Currency Group, headquartered in New York, was established in 2015 and has been providing investment for Bitcoin and blockchain companies (DeFi famous investment projects: Radar Relay, Ripio credit network, The Graph).
Digital Finance Group, headquartered in San Francisco, manages blockchain assets for many different funds (notable investment: Ripio Credit Network).
Divergence Ventures is an encryption operator fund (famous DeFi investments: 1inch.exchange, Compound, Balancer Labs, DerivaDEX, dHEDGE, The Graph, Serum, Polymarket)
Gragonfly Capital is a venture capital company focusing on encryption technology. Its business is divided into Beijing, China and San Francisco, California (famous DeFi investments: UMA, MakerDAO, dY/dX, Nuo Network, Compound, Opyn, DerivaDEX, Juno, Celo, Numerai, 1inch.exchange) DTC Capital is an encrypted native investment fund (famous DeFi investment: The Graph, Opyn, PoolTogether).
Electric Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focusing on cryptocurrency and blockchain technology (famous DeFi investments: DerivaDEX, Celo, dY/dX, MakerDAO).
FBG Capital is a digital asset management company headquartered in Beijing (famous DeFi investment: Ampleforth, Hedget).
Fenbushi Capital, headquartered in Shanghai, China, is one of the earliest blockchain funds (2015), mainly focusing on blockchain companies (famous DeFi investment. InstaDapp, Ripio credit network, KEEP network, Paradex)
FinForge is a risk laboratory for blockchain projects (famous DeFi investments: 0x, Kyber Network).
Framework Ventures is an encryption venture company (famous DeFi investments: Chainlink, Synthetix, Teller Finance, Futureswap, Aave, The Graph, Kava Labs, dHEDGE, Fractal, Dodo Finance, Pods.financial, Primitive, Yearn Finance, Zapper)
Galaxy Digital is an encryption firm headquartered in New York, Cayman Islands, New Jersey, Tokyo and Hong Kong (famous DeFi investment: 1inch. exchange)
Greenfield One is a venture fund investing in decentralized infrastructure (famous DeFi investments: 1inch.exchange, Celo, Vega Protocol).
Hex Capital, headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, invests in early-stage encryption/blockchain companies (famous DeFi investments: 0x, Bloom).
Infinite Capital is an encryption investment fund, formerly Synapse Capital (famous DeFi investments: MakerDAO, Ren, Synthetix, Futureswap, 0x, KEEP Network, Authereum, DAOStack)
IOSG is a research-driven venture capital firm focusing on the open financial ecosystem (famous DeFi investments: 1inch.exchange, Kyber Network, Kava Labs, DDEX, MakerDAO, Basis)
Jun Capital is a Singapore-based investment management platform founded by Tom Sweeney. (Famous DeFi investment: DIA)
Kenetic Capital, headquartered in Hong Kong, is a blockchain investment and consulting company (famous DeFi investment: Terra, Nexus Mutual).
KR1 is a digital asset investment company located in Europe (famous DeFi investment: Etherisc, Nexus Mutual, Augur, 0x, Vega Protocol).
Lemniscap is an investment company specializing in encrypted assets and blockchain technology (famous DeFi investments: The Graph, Futureswap, Kava Labs, Serum, dHEDGE, Dharma)
Libertus Capital is a venture capital firm investing in protocol and blockchain companies (notable DeFi investments: Aztec, 1inch.exchange, Zapper).
Maven 11 Capital is a European investment company focusing on blockchain and DLT (famous DeFi investment: Teller Finance).
Machanism Capital is a newly established venture fund that invests in the field of digital assets (famous DeFi investments: Frontier, Perpetual Protocol).
Multicoin Capital is an Austin-based thesis-driven crypto fund investing in tokens and blockchain technology (notable DeFi investments: The Graph, dForce Foundation).
NGC Ventures is a cryptocurrency investment fund (famous DeFi investments: Vega Protocol, Totle, Hedget, Frontier, Bifrost).
Nuevalue is a blockchain venture fund (famous DeFi investment: AlphaWallet).
Outlier Ventures is a digital asset accelerator investing in web3.0 protocols (famous DeFi investments: Chainlink, DIA, Alkemi, Aragon).
Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Pantera Capital is an investment company focused on blockchain technology and encrypted assets (famous DeFi investments: Dharma, Ripio Credit Network, Ampleforth, Origin Protocol, 0x, Kyber Network, Bloom, Sparkswap, InstaDapp, Paradex)
Paradigm is a crypto fund backed by Sequoia Capital and Yale University. The company was founded by Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang (notable investments in DeFi: Numerai, KEEP Network, Uniswap, Compound, Argent).
ParaFi Capital is an encryption venture company focusing on the DeFi market (famous DeFi investments: Compound, Nexus Mutual, Synthetix, Yearn Finance, The Graph, Uniswap, Aave, Teller Finance, Kyber Network, MakerDAO, Futureswap, Set Protocol, KEEP Network)
Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in blockchain-related companies (notable DeFi investments: Argent, UMA, Balancer Labs, Numerai).
Robot Ventures is an early investor in crypto companies (famous DeFi investments: Compound, Opyn, FutureSwap, Ampleforth, Centrifuge)
Signal Ventures is an investment company focusing on blockchain technology (famous DeFi investments: bZx, Ren, Origin Protocol).
Sino Global Capital is a Beijing-based crypto consulting firm founded by Matthew Graham (famous DeFi investments: Serum, Nexus Mutual, Sushi, Balancer).
Sora Ventures, headquartered in Hong Kong, is an encryption-backed venture capital firm focused on investing in digital assets and blockchain-related companies (famous DeFi investment: Origin Protocol).
Spark Digital Capital is an encryption fund/family office (famous DeFi investment: Stafi, Frontier) located in the Greater New York area.
Station 13 is the sister entity of JDS Sports, Sports, Media and Entertainment Holdings. The branch of JDS Sports invests in blockchain-centric projects (famous DeFi investment: Framework Ventures' technology studio).
Sustany Capital is a blockchain venture fund (famous DeFi investment: The Graph).
Tally Capital, headquartered in Chicago, provides venture capital for companies in the blockchain industry (famous DeFi investment: The Graph).
TRG Capital is a seed-stage venture capital company located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (famous DeFi investment: Kava, Jarvis, StaFi).
Woodstock Fund is a multi-asset investment fund investing in blockchain-related start-ups. The company was founded by Pranav Sharma and Himanshu Yadav (famous DeFi investments: Band Protocol, Frontier, Stafi
Zee Prime Capital is a venture firm based in Bratislava, Slovakia. The fund invests in digital assets and early-stage companies (famous DeFi investments: Metacartel Venture DAO, Synthetix, Ren, DeversiFi, Flux Protocol, Perpetual Protocol, Pods.financial, Terra, Yearn Finance)
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Zhen Fund, headquartered in Beijing, is a venture capital fund (famous DeFi investment: DDEX, TrueUSD).
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Hedge Fund/Trading Firm
8 Decimal Capital, headquartered in San Francisco, is a multi-investment company focusing on blockchain technology (famous DeFi investments: TrueUSD, 0x, Kyber Network, Chainlink).
Alameda Research is a full-service cryptocurrency trading firm. Founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, the company manages more than $100 million in digital assets and trades between $600 million and $1.5 billion per day (famous DeFi investments: Perpetual Protocol, Frontier).
Black Edge Capital, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. The company was founded by Joshua Mateffy (famous DeFi investment: Frontier).
Blocktower Capital is a cryptocurrency investment company located in the Greater New York area (famous DeFi investment: TrueUSD, dHEDGE).
Morgan Creek Digital is a hedge fund headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (famous DeFi investment: Atomic Loans).
Polychain Capital is a hedge fund focusing on the encryption field (famous DeFi investments: dY/dX, Compound, Linen App, DerivaDEX, KEEP Network, KeeperDAO).
Three Arrows Capital is a hedge fund management company focused on encryption, headquartered in Singapore (famous DeFi investments: Aave, KeeperDAO, DerivaDEX, Mstable, Strike Protocol, Synthetix, Kyber Network, dHEDGE, Futureswap)
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CMB International is an investment bank incorporated in Hong Kong (famous DeFi investment: dForce Foundation).
The Ethereum Community Fund is a non-profit initiative with a funding program for projects built on Ethereum (famous DeFi investment: Daxia)
The Ethereum Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum (famous DeFi investments: MolochDAO, Uniswap).
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traditional venture capital
2020 Ventures is a venture capital and angel investment fund (famous DeFi investment: Kava Labs).
9yards Capital is a multi-stage venture capital company focusing on the technology industry (famous DeFi investment. (Set Protocol, Celo)
A. Capital is an early stage investment company focusing on technology (famous DeFi investments: Aztec, Opyn, Uniswap).
Accomplice is a seed-stage venture capital company (famous DeFi investment: Balancer Labs).
Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm with $2.7 billion under management. Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, the company was founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz (notable investments: Uniswap, Numeraie, Compound, dY/dX, MakerDAO).
Bain Capital, headquartered in Boston, is an investment company specializing in private equity investment and venture capital (famous DeFi investment: dY/dX, Compound, UMA).
BlueYard Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm (famous DeFi investment: Centrifuge).
Caffeinated Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm located in San Francisco, California (famous DeFi investment: dY/dX).
Collaborative Fund is a venture fund located in San Francisco and New York (famous DeFi investment: KEEP Network).
Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm located in San Francisco, California (famous DeFi investment: Set Protocol, 0x).
Deeptech Ventures is an early stage venture fund (famous DeFi investment: 0x).
Draper Associates is a seed-stage venture fund investing in software and financial services (famous DeFi investments: Ruipuao Credit Network, KEEP Network).
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm located in Palo Alto, California (famous DeFi investments: Opensea, Origin Protocol, Sparkswap).
Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm (famous DeFi investment: Opensea).
FundersClub is an online venture capital company headquartered in San Francisco (famous DeFi investment: Ruipuao Credit Network).
GGV Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in multi-stage companies and manages $6.2 billion in funds (famous DeFi investment: TrueUSD).
Hard Yaka, headquartered in Sausalito, California, provides fund investment for exchange space startups (famous DeFi investment: Kava Labs).
Index Ventures is a European venture capital firm headquartered in London and San Francisco (famous DeFi investments: Enjin, Argent).
Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm located in San Francisco, California (famous DeFi investments: Sparkswap, Atomic Loans).
Jump Trading Capital is a Series A and Series B venture capital firm investing in technology (famous DeFi investment: TrueUSD).
Kindred Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups (notable DeFi investments: dY/dX, Set Protocol, Radar Relay).
LAUNCHHUB Ventures is a seed and A-round venture capital fund (famous DeFi investment: 1inch.exchange).
SV Angel is an angel investment company that invests in Internet software companies (famous DeFi investments: Uniswap, Radar Relay).
True Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Palo Alto, California (famous DeFi investment: Ampleforth).
Headquartered in the Greater New York area, Tusk Ventures invests in tech companies with high growth opportunities that may fall into heavily regulated industries (notable DeFi investments: Radar Relay).
Uncorrelated Ventures is a venture fund that invests in software (famous DeFi investment: Opyn).
