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еther.fі is a decentralized, non-custodial delegated Ethereum staking protocol ($4.75B in TVL), with a liquid staking derivative token (eETH). It raised $32.3M in a funding round backed by Chapter One, ConsenSys, North Island Ventures, Arrington Capital and others.

• Current $ETHFI price: $0.6
• Current FDV: $603M

Theo builds trading infrastructure for institutions to help them grow their onchain capital.

Rather than investing in more L1s (core blockchains), we focused on building applications on Solana and being the first user for our founders, from providing liquidity to running solvers and operating hardware services, says Victor Fischer, founder and CEO of RockawayX.

Infrared is a liquid staking protocol that was incubated through the Berachain Foundation's Build-a-Bera program and has created two liquid staking tokens: iBGT and iBERA.

It raised $2.5M in three funding round backed by YZi Labs, Framework Ventures, Animoca Brands, Synergis, Shima Capital, Tribe Capital, NGC Ventures.

Initia is a Layer 1 network on Cosmos $ATOM with customizable Optimistic rollups for application developers to easily launch their L2.

It has raised $25M in seed funding round backed by Delphi Ventures, Theory VC, Hack VC, Nascent, Figment Capital and received investment from Binance Labs.

Backed by Paradigm Reddio is a high-performance parallel Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 that leverages zero-knowledge technology to achieve unrivalled computation scale with Ethereum-level security.

Currently: $BTC ~$92.3K, $ETH ~$1,759, $XRP ~$2.15

ℹ️ Zora focuses on providing accessible tools to create NFT collections and independent marketplaces built using the Optimism tech stack.

It raised $60M in three funding rounds (last at $600M valuation) backed by Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, Kindred Ventures and others.

Symbiotic is a shared security protocol with around $870M in TVL that provides a flexible, permissionless coordination layer, allowing network builders to control and adapt their restaking and staking implementations.

Previously, it has raised $5.8M in a seed funding round co-led by Paradigm and Cyber Fund.

0G Labs is the first decentralized AI operating system that acts as the foundational layer for decentralized AI applications and chains. It raised $75M in two funding rounds backed by Hack VC, OKX Ventures, GSR, Animoca Brands, Arca, NGC Ventures, Delphi Digital, Samsung Next, DWF Labs and others.

Polyhedra builds the next-generation infrastructure for Web3 interoperability, scalability, and privacy through advanced ZKP technology. It raised $45M in several funding rounds backed by Polychain, Binance Labs, Animoca Brands, Hashkey Capital and others.

• Current $ZKJ price: $2.2
• Current FDV: $2.2B

Currently: $BTC ~$93K, $ETH ~$1,787, $XRP ~$2.25

IOTA is an open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency designed for the Internet of Things.

• Current $IOTA price: $0.17
• Current FDV: $817M

ℹ️ 0G Labs is the first decentralized AI operating system that acts as the foundational layer for decentralized AI applications and chains. It raised $75M in two funding rounds backed by Hack VC, OKX Ventures, GSR, Animoca Brands, Arca, NGC Ventures, Delphi Digital, Samsung Next, DWF Labs and others.

Moreover, 0G Labs has raised over $32.6M via AI alignment node sale with 91.8K nodes sold. Up to 15% of the total $0G ecosystem supply is allocated to node holders to build and maintain the ecosystem.

Arch is building ArchVM, a specialised virtual machine that processes complex off-chain computation and enables high-throughput, Turing-complete smart contracts.