Top Crypto Startups to Watch (and Work for) in 2023

• In 2021, Fireblocks scaled revenue by 600% to between $50 million - $100 million, grew its customers from 100 to 800 and doubled the assets it secures on the platform to $2 trillion.

• As of May 2023, Fireblocks powers 1,800 customers across Web3 & Fintechs like MoonPay, Magic Eden, Wealthsimple, eToro; Banking & Payments like Revolut, Checkout.com, Bitso, and BNY Mellon; Trading & Brokerage like Genesis, ParaFi Capital, and Woorton; Exchanges & Lending like Salt, BlockQuake, and CoinFLEX.

• $4 trillion in assets are now secured on the platform.

• 1 million users+ track $50 billion in crypto assets on CoinTracker, accounting for 3% of crypto’s market cap.

• CoinTracker supports 10,000+ crypto assets.

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• As of May 2023, $38,520,770,560 assets depend on Gauntlet.

• Gauntlet customers include Aave, Celo, ApeSwap, Immutable, Venus, Moonwell, BENQI, and Sushiswap.

• From March 2021 to March 2022, Gauntlet reported 20x revenue growth.

• NYDIG has partnered with the New York Yankees, GetPayroll, Deloitte, CSI Partners, Bottlepay, Jack Henry, and STAR Bank.

• As of May 2023, DeSo reported 2 million wallets (i.e., 2 million users), $85 million+ transactions, $2 billion total transaction volume, and $30 million in creator earnings on their blockchain.

• As of May 2023, 200+ run on the DeSo blockchain, including Openfund, Desofy, and Diamond.

• As of May 2023, StarkWare minted 107 million NFTs.

• As of May 2023, StarkWare’s total volume traded was $957 billion, total equity locked was $511 million, and the total amount of various transactions processed was 431 million.

• In 2021, OpenSea’s transaction volume increased by 600x.

• In 2022, OpenSea creators earned $1.1 billion in creator fees. For comparison, Snap paid its Spotlight Creators $250 million in 2021.

• As of May 2023, OpenSea’s transaction volume is $20 billion, with 80 million+ NFTs on the platform and two million+ collections.

• As of May 2023, Skiff has 400,000 users.

• As of May 2023, Skiff’s Discord community has 9,772 members.

• In 2022, Skiff launched Skiff Mail, Skiff Drive, and Skiff Calendar.

• As of March 2022, Skiff has 20,000 users, up from 8,000 waitlist users in May 2021.

• Privy customers include web3 companies like Lighthouse, Mad Realities, Decent, Courtyard, Xeenon, and Molecule.

• As of May 2023, Parallel has 300,000+ users (up from 3,000 users in August 2021) and has $219,408,475 in total locked value (up from $700 million in total locked value in April 2022).

• As of May 2023, Parallel’s Discord community has 128,561 members.

• As of April 2022, Parallel has captured 22% of the total DOT crowd loan market.

• As of October 2022, nxyz has processed over 5 billion transactions across Ethereum, Polygon, Binance, Avalanche, Arbitrum, and Optimism.

• As of May 2023, nxyz now supports transactions across Gnosis, Moonbeam, and Celo.

• nxyz customers include BitGo, Fractal, Citrus, and Crossmint.

• As of May 2023, Multis has hundreds of customers, including Axie Infinity, Planner DAO, Cauris, Standard DAO, GODA, Tellor Oracle Protocol, Orange DAO, The Sandbox Game, and Audius.

• As of November 2021, Iron Fish has attracted ~2,000 self-identified crypto miners to its community.

• As of May 2023, Iron Fish’s Discord community has 50,869 members.

• As of May 2023, Iron Fish has 6,000 active nodes (operators and miners), representation in every country, 50,000 blocks mined, 13,000+ assets mined, and 140,000+ graffitis.

• As of May 2023, Uniswap’s protocol has facilitated 151 million trades and $1.4 billion in trade volume.

• As of May 2023, Uniswap’s Discord community has 100,482 members.

• As of May 2023, Uniswap has 300+ integrations and 4,400+ community delegates.

• As of May 2023, Slingshot has 50,000+ cryptocurrencies available to buy, sell, and swap on its platform.

• As of May 2023, Slingshot has rated 4.8/5 stars from 29 ratings on the Apple App Store and 2.9/5 stars from 72 reviews on the Google Play Store.

• As of December 2021, Slingshot has surpassed 100K+ wallets, 1 million+ trades, and $2 billion in trade volume.

• As of May 2023, Redefine claims its technology has secured $4.3 billion in transactions.

• As of May 2023, Redefine reports 80,000+ smart contracts analyzed from customer transactions, 18,000+ wallets analyzed concerning customer transactions, and 70,000+ events scanned from customer transactions.

• As of May 2023, the Provenance Blockchain has $9.4 billion in total value locked and 52 active validators.

• As of 2023, the Provenance Blockchain has supported $12 billion+ in financial asset transactions.

• As of May 2023, the Provenance Blockchain Discord has 998 members.

• As of October 2021, Osmosis had $500 million in total value locked in the Cosmos exchange.

• In May 2022, Osmosis launched a grants program with $4.4 million worth of OSMO tokens.

• As of May 2023, Osmosis’ Github has 733 stars, 381 forks, and 120 contributors.

• As of May 2023, Osmosis’ Discord community has 19,833 members.

• As of May 2023, Lightning Labs’ GitHub has 6.9K stars, 1.9K forks, and 327 contributors.

• As of May 2023, Lightning Labs’ developer Slack community has 6,805 members.

• As of May 2023, Helium has a network of 991,170 in total hotspots and 143,934,821 circulating HNT supply.

• As of May 2023, Helium’s Discord community has 167,441 members.

• Helium customers include Choovio, Awair, AIRICA, and Abeeway.

• As of July 2021, Genesis has mined over 1 billion in Bitcoin, built 20 industrial-scale mining farms, and brought over 300,000 miners online.

• As of May 2023, Genesis has 16 data centers online, 400+ MW online, and 120K+ rigs online.

• As of May 2023, 10,434 total trades have been made on the platform worth $4,200,368,117 in all-time trade volume.

• As of February 2022, Figure has 60,000+ members across the United States and provided $5 billion in funding for members.

• As of May 2023, Figure has a 4.4/5 star rating from 2,151 reviews on Trustpilot.

• As of May 2023, the Digital Currency Group has made 200+ equity investments, 50+ fund investments, 30+ digital asset and token holdings, and invested across 25+ countries.

• Digital Currency Group investments include BitPay, Chainalysis, Circle, CoinList, Coins.ph, Dapper Labs, Mercari, and Ripple.

• As of May 2023, Chainalysis has 1,000+ customers (up from ~750 customers in May 2022), including Dapper Labs, Square, Commonwealth Bank, Barclays, Rarible, Gemini, and BNY Mellon.

• From May 2021 to May 2022, Chainalysis increased its customer base by 75%, its private sector clients by 2x, and financial services clients by 3x, and increased the number of customers with $100 million ARR by 75% to 150.

• As of May 2022, Chainalysis reported a net promoter score (NPS) of 80+.

• As of May 2023, Arbitrum has $6.15 billion in total value locked, 66.45% rollup market share, 5.8 million total users, and $1.29 billion in ETH gas saved.

• As of May 2023, Aave’s Discord community has 49,229 members.

• As of May 2023, Aave’s community treasury has $109.2 million.

• As of May 2023, Aave has $7.835 trillion of liquidity locked across 5 networks and 11 markets.

• As of June 2021, Xclaim reports more than 2 million creditors, claims of $3.5 trillion of unsecured debt, and $20 million in trading volume.

• As of April 2023, Xclaim has a $200 million trading volume.

• As of July 2023, Meanwhile is regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority and policies are available for US citizens.

• As of July 2023, Thirdweb has 100,000+ web3 developers on the platform (up from 55,000 in August 2022), 300,000+ contracts have been deployed (up from 150,000 in August 2022), and 5 million transactions have occurred on the platform.