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NEAR is a modular, high-speed blockchain protocol designed for AI to act on behalf of users, enabling agents to own assets, make decisions, and transact freely across networks.

Aave is a decentralized non-custodial liquidity protocol that allows users to supply and borrow assets, earning interest on their deposits and accessing liquidity against collateral.

Optimism is a blockchain infrastructure scaling Ethereum, offering scalable, secure Layer 2 solutions. It uses the OP Stack to lower barriers for developers and focuses on solving complex problems with an optimistic mindset.

OpenZeppelin provides a suite of tools and services for building secure smart contracts and blockchain applications, including smart contract libraries, security audits, and interactive contract generation.

Gitcoin empowers communities to fund what matters to them through innovative funding tools and solutions, primarily focusing on public goods and open-source projects.

Braintrust is the AI observability platform for building quality AI products, providing tools for testing, monitoring, and improving AI applications.

Metalabel helps creative people build and share value together. We make apps, tools, and a whole ecosystem that helps creative people cooperate rather than compete.

Immunefi is the leading crowdsourced security platform for Web3, focused on making web3 safe for onboarding the world by providing bug bounty programs and security audits.

Seed Club works as a consumer venture network focused on supporting the next era of the Internet within the venture capital industry. The company provides backing and resources to founders that are often overlooked by funding institutions. Seed Club primarily caters to the emerging sectors driven by innovative internet-based communities and creators.

Syndicate is infrastructure for building and scaling appchains with programmable onchain sequencers, providing control over network, sequencer, and economy.

Goldfinch is a decentralized credit protocol that provides unprecedented onchain exposure to institutional-grade private credit funds, allowing investors to access a diversified pool of loans.

Notional Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that offers lending and leveraged yield strategies, enabling users to optimize their yield generation through innovative features like smart withdrawal.

Early-stage crypto VC that explicitly backs autistic and eccentric founders, offers market-building services (narrative design, meme propagation), and uses cross-border Web3 expertise and blue-chip co-investments to scale.

A strategic corporate venture arm backing crypto and Web3 projects aligned with increasing economic freedom, coordinating with Coinbase's AI+crypto roadmap and offering thought leadership, proprietary data, and customer distribution.

Framework Ventures is a crypto-native technology company that builds in-house software, tools and services, actively stakes and provides liquidity on-chain, and uses founders'Netflix/Snapchat consumer-tech expertise to design tokens and consumer-grade UX. Known as a DeFi power user fund, the firm's partners are frequently cited for specific market structure views on topics like protocol-owned L2s and real-world asset tokenization.

Founder-first investor for innovative entrepreneurs aiming to change the world. Focuses on early-stage founders building mission-critical capabilities.

Hybrid venture and hedge fund that backs brilliant founders working in blockchain.