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Nineteen companies, and what each one actually does

A logo doesn't tell you much. So here is the whole list, in words.

Unless you already know the logo, a wall of them tells you nothing. So every company here is named, with a plain sentence on what it does and where it is based.

The list, in full

Exchanges and trading venues

Bit2Me

Bit2Me

A regulated Spanish platform where people buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency.

Spain
Kraken

Kraken

A large American exchange where people buy, sell and hold crypto.

United States

Payments and access

Transak

Transak

Lets apps add a button for buying crypto with a card.

United Kingdom
Fiat Republic

Fiat Republic

Gives crypto companies one connection to banks for euro, pound and dollar payments.

United Kingdom
Íkualo

Íkualo

A Spanish account and card app for migrants, plus money transfers home.

Spain

Blockchain networks

TON

TON

The blockchain linked to Telegram, used for payments inside the app.

Switzerland
peaq

peaq

A blockchain for machines and robots to pay each other automatically.

Germany
TEN

TEN

An Ethereum side-network that keeps transactions and app data private.

United Kingdom

Built on Bitcoin

Stacks

Stacks

A network built on Bitcoin that lets people earn Bitcoin rewards.

United States
Hemi

Hemi

Builds tools that let Bitcoin be lent, moved and programmed.

United States

Infrastructure, data and AI

Parfin

Parfin

Software that lets banks safely hold and move digital assets.

Brazil
FLock.io

FLock.io

Trains AI models across many computers so no single owner holds the data.

United Kingdom

Gaming, media and brands

YOM

YOM

Streams video games from a shared network of gaming computers worldwide.

Netherlands
ReneVerse

ReneVerse

Places paid advertising inside video games and pays the game makers.

Singapore
Revelator

Revelator

Software that distributes music and pays royalties to labels and artists.

Israel
DeLorean

DeLorean

The revived DeLorean car brand, which issued its own crypto token.

United States

We still owe you a description of these

Immersive

Immersive

Description to be supplied.

Vainer

Vainer

Description to be supplied.

OH

OH

Description to be supplied.

We owe you a line on these three. Ask us and we will tell you.

Where you can check the paperwork yourself

Where a funding round naming us has been announced publicly, we have linked the announcement. For the rest of the list there is no public announcement, so we are not claiming one.

Hemi Labs

15 million dollar seed round, 18 September 2024, and a 15 million dollar growth round, 26 August 2025.

DefiLlama(opens in a new tab)

Transak

Strategic round of 15 to 16 million dollars, 12 August 2025.

DefiLlama(opens in a new tab)

YOM

3 million dollar strategic round, with Protein Capital named in the company's own announcement alongside Avalanche Foundation, CV VC, Borderless Capital and Blockraise.

Cointelegraph(opens in a new tab)

Ask us about any of them

If one of these companies is the reason you are here, say so, and we will tell you what we know and how we came to hold it.