69 Best Smart Contract Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Smart Contract Startups

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There are 163 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $9.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $141.3m.

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

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$32.1m

Money raised

SupraOracles is a company developing a blockchain network

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$910.0m

Money raised

An end-to-end blockchain and NFT solution for video games.

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$118.0m

Money raised

Qredo is a cross-chain protocol for asset managers and traders active in the digital asset markets.

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$9.0m

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Tendermint is now Ignite. Tendermint was the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain network.

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$142.5m

Money raised

The first and most experienced company in bitcoin payments, BitPay builds powerful tools for spending, accepting, and building with bitcoin. The company has offices in North America, Europe, and South America and has raised over $70 million from top investors including Index Ventures, Aquiline Technology Growth, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, and S

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$17.5m

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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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$7.9m

Money raised

t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.

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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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$119.2m

Money raised

Phantom is a cryptocurrency wallet by Solana to manage digital assets and access decentralized applications.

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$5.0m

Money raised

Jupiter Exchange is a swap aggregator on Solana.

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$1.2b

Money raised

CoinDCX is a blockchain company founded in 2017 by Sumit Gupta. CoinDCX is India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange.

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$34.0m

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

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Funding Rounds

$165.1m

Money raised

Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and software provider.

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Funding Rounds

$54.2m

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Layer1 is a cryptocurrency investment and infrastructure platform.

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$24.0m

Money raised

Ondo Finance is an open, permissionless, decentralized investment bank

Urbit is a stack that allows for a decentralized filesystem address space created by startup Tlon.

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$764.7m

Money raised

Bitmain is a Beijing-based multinational semiconductor company, founded in 2013, that manufactures products for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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$2.3m

Money raised

A web and API platform that provides Bitcoin and Altcoin conversion.

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$8.5m

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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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$6.0m

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Maximum protection and yield, fully protected through Protocol Controlled Underwriting.

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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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$898.4m

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Wise, previously TransferWise, is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.

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$15.4m

Money raised

SynFutures is a decentralized Derivatives Protocol.

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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

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

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$63.1m

Money raised

The Arianee is a multichain token and protocol built on both the Ethereum core network and the Ethereum sidechain called POAnetwork.

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$1.4b

Money raised

BlockFi is a blockchain platform for high-interest crypto accounts and low-cost credit products.

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$5.7m

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Massa is a decentralized and scaled blockchain.

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$5.0m

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STEX is a cryptocurrency exchange.

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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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$217.0m

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Aztec is an open source layer 2 network.

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$75.9m

Money raised

Unstoppable Domains is a company that offers alt-route domain names based on blockchain technology.

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$15.2m

Money raised

Lit Protocol is decentralized access control designed to bring more utility to the web.

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$9.8m

Money raised

Facial recognition company Kairos today announced the alpha release of the Kairos Protocol, a biometric verification system for cryptocurrency transactions.

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Cryptocurrency company

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$8.6m

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Nebula Genomics is a genetics company developing a platform for individuals to get their personal genome sequenced, and then enable them to store and control that information through cryptographic encryption on the blockchain.

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$43.2m

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Making trusted blockchain a reality with fully automatic exact verification technology for smart contractsontract security platform.

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$7.0m

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Unocoin is a cryptocurrency service company focused on serving people living in India.

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$3.5m

Money raised

SkyChain Technologies Inc. is a Vancouver-based company.

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$157.0m

Money raised

Magic Eden is a California-based company that has developed a multi-chain non-fungible token (NFT) platform of the same name.

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$170.0m

Money raised

Autograph is an NFT platform that brings together the iconic brands in sports and culture to create unique digital collections.

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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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$8.0m

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

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$79.4m

Money raised

Dune is a software development company specializing in developing solutions for cryptocurrency analytics.

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$3.8m

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Decentralized exchange for perpetual futures built on Solana

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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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$18.8m

Money raised

ChainSafe Systems is a blockchain company founded in 2017.

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$16.5m

Money raised

Multis is a company that has created a cryptocurrency bank for companies. It was founded in 2018 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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$82.5m

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Lightning Labs is a software development company based in San Francisco developing software for the Lightning Network.

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$23.0m

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DSRV is a blockchain infrastructure company.

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$8.5m

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Heavy Rain is a video game founded in 2018 by Manoj Duggirala.

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$6.7m

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FQX is radically facilitating trade finance & money markets by using eNotes™

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$1.0m

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Mattereum is a project working on the development of legally enforceable smart contracts.

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$200.0k

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Alkemi is a blockchain company founded in 2018 by Ryan Breen.

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$80.0m

Money raised

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

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$1.3m

Money raised

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

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$4.9m

Money raised

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

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$40.0m

Money raised

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

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$1.5m

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Capsule Social is a decentralized publishing platform where writers can share their stories and knowledge without compromising their integrity.

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$58.0m

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Platform that allows developers to build web3 applications

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$4.2m

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Brahma aims to simplify the interaction with DeFi primitives through easy to invest vaults, which leverage composability with multiple protocols to deliver superior risk-adjusted yield to users.Brahma provides an alternative to inflationary returns via liquidity mining and discourages mercenary capital .

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$51.5m

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Yummy is a Caracas, Venezuela-based company developing a food delivery super-app and a quick commerce platform for the LatAm market.

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$50.0m

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EigenLayer is a platform to leverage Ethereum security through the innovative method of restaking, the innovative EigenDA is a highly customizable and hyperscaled data availability service on Eigenlayer(designed for Optimistic and ZK rollups). Everyone can add new features to Ethereum on it. Founded by Sreeram Kannan.

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$5.0m

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BTCC is a company offering a platform for exchanging cryptocurrencies and holding digital currencies in cryptocurrency wallets.

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$16.0m

Money raised

Skrumble Network is a communication-centric blockchain and decentralized social media application.

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$2.3b

Money raised

Building the Swiss army knife for owning your data

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Quixotic is a the largest NFT marketplace on Optimism founded in 2021 by Mark Dawson.

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