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Top Crypto Startups 2022

No sector is trending as much as Crypto. Enthusiasts from all over the world are trying to navigate the metaverse — setting up wallets, minting NFTs, exploring DAOs, watching floor prices, and paying gas fees.

Finding the right role in crypto can be a dizzying task, with emerging startups trending left, right, and center across Twitter and Discord.

We compiled 30 of the fastest-growing and most reputable crypto startups with help from our panel of judges in the center of it all: Jeff Morris Jr, Gaby Goldberg, and Niraj Pant.

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Judges

Jeff Morris Jr.

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Founder & Managing Partner, Chapter One

Gaby Goldberg

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Crypto Investor, TCG

Niraj Pant

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General Partner, Polychain Capital

Companies

OpenSea

Marketplace for cryptogoods.

Backed by Coatue

Mirror

Revolutionizing the way we express, share and monetize our thoughts.

Backed by Union Square Ventures

Uniswap

Decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum

Backed by Union Square Ventures

dYdX

Open trading platform for crypto assets.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Fireblocks

Bringing all exchanges, OTCs, counterparties, hot wallets, and custodians into one platform.

Backed by Sequoia Capital

Aleo

Developer platform for enabling absolute privacy on blockchains.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

MakerDAO

Decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.

Backed by Paradigm

Ponto

Bridging the gap between cryptocurrencies and digital banking.

Backed by Musha Ventures

Ava Labs

Blockchain platform with revolutionary scalability, decentralization, security, and flexibility.

Backed by Polychain Capital

Dapper Labs

Fun and games on the blockchain.

Backed by Coatue

Solana Labs

Architecture for a high-performance blockchain.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Rainbow

Mobile app of Ethereum wallet for managing your assets.

Backed by Digital Currency Group

Aave

Creating a transparent and open infrastructure for decentralized finance.

Backed by Blockchain Capital

Zapper

Hub for managing DeFi assets & liabilities.

Backed by Sound Ventures

Axie Infinity

Game centered around collecting, raising, and battling fantasy creatures called axies.

Backed by 500 Startups

Nansen

Open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Compound Labs

Instant transactions and scalable smart contracts on Ethereum.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Optimism

Blockchain analytics platform that enriches on-chain data with millions of wallets labels.

Backed by Accel

Phantom

Crypto wallet and browser extension for accessing decentralized finance applications.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Polygon

Platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development.

Backed by Coinbase Ventures

Zora

Crypto-driven marketplace.

Backed by Coinbase Ventures

Flashbots

Mitigating the negative externalities of current MEV extraction techniques.

Backed by Paradigm

Offchain Labs

Building the Arbitrum platform to unlock the full potential of smart contracts.

Backed by Lightspeed

Celestia

First modular consensus and data network to power scalable, secure Web3 applications.

Backed by Binance

Fractional

Fractional ownership of the world’s most sought after NFTs.

Backed by Paradigm

Yield Guild Games

Gaming guild, bringing players together to earn via NFT games.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

The Graph

Indexing and query protocol for Web3 using GraphQL.

Backed by Tiger Global

MoonPay

Payments infrastructure for crypto.

Backed by Tiger Global

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