69 Best Decentralized Finance Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Decentralized Finance Startups

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There are 290 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $28.5m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$17.5m

Money raised

Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

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$23.0m

Money raised

P2P Validator is a company with a platform that helps investors compound their cryptocurrency investments by participating in staking.

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$454.1m

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Mythical Games is a Los Angeles-based video game development company developing games for playable non-fungible tokens to identify game characters that players can own and offers players a secondary market.

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$126.5m

Money raised

Celo is an open platform that offers financial tools to mobile phone users.

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$17.0m

Money raised

Zapper is an interface for managing DeFi assets and liabilities.

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$5.0m

Money raised

Jupiter Exchange is a swap aggregator on Solana.

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$34.0m

Money raised

Parallel Finance is a decentralized lending and staking protocol on Polkadot and Ethereum.

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$29.5m

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Immunefi is a bug bounty security services platform that focuses on bug bounty and security services for Web3 projects.

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$5.1m

Money raised

Flint is a global crypto investment app offering a range of passive investment assets to its users built on top of crypto.

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$24.0m

Money raised

Ondo Finance is an open, permissionless, decentralized investment bank

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$8.5m

Money raised

Zeta Markets is the premier derivatives protocol on Solana.

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$9.3m

Money raised

Cega is a Singapore-based company developing a decentralized finance application designed to create derivative contracts as well as consumer-facing staking products for the retail audience.

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$8.5m

Money raised

Decentralized autonomous organization focused on the democratization and innovation in betting

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$12.0m

Money raised

MyCointainer is a staking, masternode, lpos, pos, proof of stake coins solution.

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$12.2m

Money raised

Gelato is a protocol to automate smart contract executions on Ethereum.

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$2.4m

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Cake is an all-in-one decentralized finance (DeFi) platform.

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$263.3m

Money raised

LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications (dapps) across disparate blockchains

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$5.6m

Money raised

Pods is a decentralized non-custodial options protocol. Users can create options and trade them through an Options AMM on the Ethereum Blockchain.

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$9.0m

Money raised

Primitive - Crypto derivative products built on the Replicating Market Maker protocol, an oracle-free solution to scalable and efficient on-chain derivatives.

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$8.0m

Money raised

Regulated crypto exchange. Built the world's first regulated tokenised assets platform. It aims to revolutionise cryptocurrency investment.

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$10.0m

Money raised

FluidAI is a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to provide a host of solutions for the digital assets industry. The company is based in the United Arab Emirates.

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$50.0m

Money raised

imToken is a company providing a multi-chain cryptocurrency wallet.

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$100.0m

Money raised

Matrixport is a cryptocurrency financial services platform enabling users to earn, invest, trade, loan and purchase crypto assets.

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$2.1m

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Cypher is a decentralized synthetic asset protocol.

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$5.5m

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deBridge is a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol that allows decentralized transfer of data and assets between various blockchains.

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Laminar is a decentralised financial protocols founded in 2019 by Bette Chen, Bryan Chen and Ruitao Su.

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Etherscan is a block explorer for Ethereum.

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$6.4m

Money raised

Block Earner is a blockchain powered fintech on a mission to provide a user-friendly interface for everyday Australians to access the benefits of decentralised finance.

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$5.0m

Money raised

GIANT Protocol is a developer of a blockchain protocol for decentralizing and democratizing access to the internet and financial services through tokenized bandwidth.

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$4.6m

Money raised

Router Protocol is a blockchain that offers cross-chain dApp interoperability to developers.

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$3.2m

Money raised

Staking Rewards is an information hub and data aggregator offering investment insights for the crypto staking industry.

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$1.0m

Money raised

Increment is a decentralized money market and liquidity engine on Flow blockchain.

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$4.8m

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Penumbra is a shielded, cross-chain network allowing users to securely transact, stake, swap, or marketmake without broadcasting their personal information.

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$23.5m

Money raised

Walletconnect Association is the company behind WalletConnect, an open protocol designed to enable secure communication between wallets and dApps (Web3 apps).

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$1.6m

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Crypto hedgehog is a San Jose, CA-based investment management software company providing a portfolio management app for cryptocurrencies.

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$3.6m

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A decentralized capital market powered by a cross-margin cross-collateralization clearing engine protocol.

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OpenZeppelin provides security products to build, automate, and operate decentralized applications.

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$5.3m

Money raised

Aperture Finance is a cross-chain marketplace for investing strategies in the decentralized finance domain.

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$5.2m

Money raised

Sense Finance is an adding Dimension to DeFi founded in 2021 by Kenton Prescott.

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$2.1m

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Pact aims to bring secure, safe and reliable DeFi to the Algorand ecosystem.

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$8.0m

Money raised

Trading on Any Asset with up to 10x Buying Power. Capital-Efficient Staking with High Yield.

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$3.8m

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Decentralized exchange for perpetual futures built on Solana

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$61.5m

Money raised

Flipside Crypto is a blockchain company founded in 2017 by Dave Balter, Jim Myers and eric stone.

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$7.9m

Money raised

Teller is an algorithmic credit risk protocol, built to enable the creation of decentralized lending markets that can offer unsecured loans, without the need for collateral.

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$1.2m

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Advanced Cross-Chain Liquidity Aggregation Protocol and cross-chain NFT sale.

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Borrow and lend cryptos on Torches, a leading lending protocol on the secure, fast and low-cost KuCoin Community Chain (KCC). Lend digital assets to earn passive income. Borrow digital assets using collateral without selling the assets.

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$3.0m

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MarginFi is a decentralized portfolio margining on Solana founded in 2021.

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$2.0m

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IndexZoo is a DeFi ecosystem of tokenized ETFs to protect crypto investors from market downturns and volatility risks.

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$24.0m

Money raised

MetaStreet is a decentralized interest rate protocol.

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$17.5m

Money raised

Coinshift (Formerly MultiSafe) is simplifying crypto treasury management on top of Gnosis safe

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$34.0m

Money raised

Aligned is a company founded in 2022 by Sam Cassatt.

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$36.4m

Money raised

Element is an open-source protocol for fixed and variable yield markets.

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$5.7m

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ICONIUM works with projects in digital assets, metaverses, and blockchain.

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$52.0m

Money raised

Entropy is a decentralized asset custody protocol founded in 2021.

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$15.0m

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YGG SEA is a Taiwan-based company founded in 2022 by Evan Spytma, Irene Umar and Dan Wang.

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Retrograde is a supercharging Yields and Governance on Terra.

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$176.0m

Money raised

Prime Trust is a technology-driven trust company unlike anything else in existence. We are doing to the traditional trust industry what Paypal did to merchant processing; completely disrupting it by writing software that brings services to the masses and that business partners can build on top of. As a chartered, regulated financial institution we are overseen by the banking commissioner's office at the Financial Institutions Division. As a trust company we hold cash and non-cash assets such as stocks, bonds, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, tokens, real estate, and private business ownership interests. We act as custodian and trustee for a wide variety of personal and corporate trusts, as well as a major part of the crowdfunding industry, and work with individuals, corporations, lawyers, brokers, investment advisers and others on holding and managing specialized custodial, escrow and trust services. Our team has deep experience in all facets of trust operations, banking, securities regulations, and governmental affairs, and we have our own team of full-time, in-house, security-vetted engineers. Together we deliver world class solutions and services to individuals and corporations of all sizes to keep them protected. Member, American Bankers Association and Nevada Trust Company Association.

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$80.0m

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Fuel Labs is a group focused on sustainable scaling using optimistic rollups.

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$5.6m

Money raised

Building the IPOR Protocol #DeFi Interest Rate Benchmark & Interest Rate Derivatives

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$1.3m

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Send Crypto Instantly and Save up to 100x on Ethereum Fees Cheap. Fast. Secure.

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gDEX Metaverse is a gaming platform in the metaverse.

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$4.9m

Money raised

Platform for building modern reactive apps with realtime collaboration and offline capabilities.

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$11.0m

Money raised

Advanced end-to-end security solutions for DeFi investors and traders.

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$40.0m

Money raised

Banking and payments built on crypto, for the digital economy.

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$5.0m

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Shade Protocol is an array of connected privacy-preserving DeFi applications built on Secret Network

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$11.0m

Money raised

Aplo (formerly SheeldMarket) is a cryptocurrency broker.

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$2.8m

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Algofi is a New York-based decentralized finance company offering a blockchain for users to earn yield on their cryptocurrencies without depositing it in a bank or with a centralized custodian.

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$2.1m

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Elixir is a company that has developed a protocol for decentralized finance.

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$44.7m

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Gauntlet is a New York-based software development company and DeFi-native economic research firm.

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