Story Protocol Valuation, Funding & Investors

OpenSea is a leading peer-to-peer marketplace for non-fungible tokens and crypto collectibles on blockchains like Ethereum and Polygon. It supports trading of digital art, gaming items, virtual land, and domain names through smart contracts. New York-headquartered since its 2017 founding, OpenSea dominates the NFT sector with integrations for major wallets and collections.

1inch is a decentralized exchange aggregator operating across 10 blockchains including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, and Arbitrum. Headquartered in DIFC, UAE, and operated by Degensoft Ltd in BVI, it offers smart routing for optimal swaps, a non-custodial wallet, fusion mode for gasless trades, and institutional APIs for high-volume liquidity access.

Mexico City-headquartered Bitso serves as Latin America's leading cryptocurrency exchange. The platform supports trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over 50 altcoins, with fiat on-ramps in local currencies across Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and El Salvador. Bitso enables mobile payments, remittances, and institutional custody services through its API integrations. Founded in 2014, the exchange processes millions in daily volume and partners with Mercado Pago for broader fintech accessibility in the region.

CoinDCX is a cryptocurrency exchange offering trading in over 200 digital assets with deep liquidity, advanced wallets, and multi-layer security protocols. Mumbai-headquartered since 2018, it provides products like spot trading, futures, margin trading, and staking for retail and institutional users across India. The platform processes billions in monthly volume, integrating with UPI for fiat on-ramps. CoinDCX holds regulatory approvals from FIU-India and partners with Ledger for hardware wallet support.

Mercado Bitcoin is Latin America's largest bitcoin exchange and Brazil's biggest crypto exchange by market valuation. Founded in 2013, it is part of the 2TM holding company, which also provides digital asset custody through Bitrust and multi-asset wallets through Meubank. The exchange had grown to more than 3 million clients by late 2021.

Paxos is a New York-headquartered regulated trust company founded in 2012. The firm issues stablecoins including Pax Dollar and partners with PayPal for PYUSD, while providing settlement services for gold tokens and crypto brokerage. Paxos operates under New York Department of Financial Services oversight, serving institutions like Venmo and Interactive Brokers with digital asset custody and trading infrastructure.

2TM is a blockchain infrastructure provider for financial markets, headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 2013, it operates Mercado Bitcoin, Latin America's largest cryptocurrency exchange handling over $10 billion in annual volume. The platform facilitates secure trading, custody, and investment operations across 15 countries. 2TM supports institutional clients with staking services and tokenized assets on Ethereum and Solana networks.

0G Labs is a San Francisco-headquartered blockchain infrastructure company developing modular data availability layers for decentralized applications. The firm emphasizes AI-integrated rollups and zero-knowledge proofs for scalability in DeFi and gaming sectors. Founded in 2023, it raised seed funding to build interoperability with Ethereum and Solana ecosystems.

Immutable Systems is a Sydney-based blockchain infrastructure provider for gaming. It delivers layer-2 scaling solutions on Ethereum for NFT-based video games like Gods Unchained. The platform processes millions of transactions daily, enabling true asset ownership in titles from GameStop and others. Immutable supports studios with SDKs and gods unchained marketplace.

Wormhole is a cross-chain interoperability protocol connecting over 30 blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and Aptos. It enables secure transfers of native assets, NFTs, and arbitrary data through its Guardian validation network. Developers leverage Wormhole's SDK for building multi-chain DeFi protocols, gaming platforms, and governance systems. Launched in 2021 by Jump Trading Group, the platform integrates with wallets like Phantom and Ledger. Costa Rica-based Wormhole Technology maintains ongoing expansions to chains such as Sui and Sei.

21.co is a Zug, Switzerland-headquartered cryptocurrency enterprise offering user-friendly access to digital assets. As parent of 21Shares, the world's largest issuer of cryptocurrency exchange-traded products listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, it utilizes the Onyx technology platform for issuance and operations. Founded in 2018, 21.co also oversees Amun for decentralized finance accessibility, with offices in Zurich and New York.

Aptos Labs is a Palo Alto-headquartered Web3 company building the Aptos Layer 1 blockchain, emphasizing scalability with parallel execution and the Move programming language. Founded in 2021 by former Meta Diem team members, Aptos Labs powers DeFi, gaming, and NFT applications for developers worldwide.

Babel Finance is a cryptocurrency financial services firm offering lending, asset management, and prime brokerage to high-net-worth individuals and institutions. Licensed in Singapore and operating globally from its Hong Kong headquarters, it processes over $1 billion in monthly collateralized loans at competitive rates. The platform supports major assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins through OTC trading desks and custody solutions partnered with Fireblocks. Babel Finance facilitates structured products including yield farming and hedging strategies.

CertiK is a New York-based blockchain security auditor founded in 2018 by Yale and Columbia professors. The firm has secured over $200 billion in DeFi value through AI-driven smart contract audits and formal verification for protocols like Binance Smart Chain and Polygon. With 300 employees, it monitors 10,000 projects via Skynet platform, detecting exploits in real-time.

SharpLink Inc is one of those publicly traded companies to adopt ETH as its primary treasury reserve asset - a move that aligns the company with the future of digital capital and gives investors direct exposure to Ethereum, a smart-contract platform and a digital asset. The company is also a trusted marketing partner to sportsbooks and online casino gaming operators world-wide. Through its iGaming affiliate marketing network, SharpLink owns and operates a portfolio of direct-to-player, state-specific, affiliate marketing websites designed to attract, acquire and drive local sports betting and online casino gaming traffic to its valued partners which are licensed to operate in each respective state.

Securitize Holdings Inc provides a platform for tokenized real-world assets specializing in tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) like funds, equities, and fixed income on blockchain networks. The company operates across two primary verticals: i) Tokenization: It consists of on-chain infrastructure and tokenization & distribution, ii) Asset Servicing: It covers post-issuance transfer agent and fund management services. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the Tokenization vertical.

OSL Group Ltd is an investment holding company. Along with its subsidiaries, the company operates an insured and SFC-licensed digital assets and blockchain platform business in the Asia-Pacific region, which mainly includes an OTC trading business to trade digital assets with corporate and individual customers, and the provision of automated digital assets trading services through its proprietary platforms. It provides a comprehensive range of services, including brokerage, custody, exchange, and SaaS. The group's platform caters to institutional, professional, and retail investors, facilitating them to manage their digital assets. Geographically, it operates in Hong Kong, Australia, Japan, Singapore, and Mainland China.

Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform focused on providing market infrastructure and information services. Its objective is to provide mission critical products and services that are designed to help institutions grow their businesses, empower individual investors, and drive the adoption of stablecoins, digital assets, and blockchain technology. It expanded its product offering to provide trusted insights, authoritative news, data, indices and transparent analysis to the digital assets industry while facilitating partnerships, investment opportunities, and community engagement through its flagship Consensus conference.