33 Best Smart Contract Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Smart Contract Startups

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There are 166 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $119.4m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$32.1m

Money raised

SupraOracles is a company developing a blockchain network

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CEX.IO is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that supports a range of cryptocurrencies and has different deposit and withdrawal methods that its traders can utilize for buying or selling digital assets through the usage of FIAT currency.

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$118.0m

Money raised

Qredo is a cross-chain protocol for asset managers and traders active in the digital asset markets.

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$9.0m

Money raised

Tendermint is now Ignite. Tendermint was the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain network.

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$17.5m

Money raised

Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

3

Funding Rounds

$34.0m

Money raised

Parallel Finance is a decentralized lending and staking protocol on Polkadot and Ethereum.

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$165.1m

Money raised

Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and software provider.

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Funding Rounds

$54.2m

Money raised

Layer1 is a cryptocurrency investment and infrastructure platform.

3

Funding Rounds

$764.7m

Money raised

Bitmain is a Beijing-based multinational semiconductor company, founded in 2013, that manufactures products for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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$2.3m

Money raised

A web and API platform that provides Bitcoin and Altcoin conversion.

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$6.0m

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Maximum protection and yield, fully protected through Protocol Controlled Underwriting.

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$12.2m

Money raised

Gelato is a protocol to automate smart contract executions on Ethereum.

6

Funding Rounds

$898.4m

Money raised

Wise, previously TransferWise, is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.

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$1.4b

Money raised

BlockFi is a blockchain platform for high-interest crypto accounts and low-cost credit products.

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$5.7m

Money raised

Massa is a decentralized and scaled blockchain.

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$5.5m

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deBridge is a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol that allows decentralized transfer of data and assets between various blockchains.

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Funding Rounds

$15.2m

Money raised

Lit Protocol is decentralized access control designed to bring more utility to the web.

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$9.8m

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Facial recognition company Kairos today announced the alpha release of the Kairos Protocol, a biometric verification system for cryptocurrency transactions.

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Cryptocurrency company

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$8.6m

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Nebula Genomics is a genetics company developing a platform for individuals to get their personal genome sequenced, and then enable them to store and control that information through cryptographic encryption on the blockchain.

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Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

Unocoin is a cryptocurrency service company focused on serving people living in India.

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$3.5m

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SkyChain Technologies Inc. is a Vancouver-based company.

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$170.0m

Money raised

Autograph is an NFT platform that brings together the iconic brands in sports and culture to create unique digital collections.

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$5.2m

Money raised

Sense Finance is an adding Dimension to DeFi founded in 2021 by Kenton Prescott.

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$79.4m

Money raised

Dune is a software development company specializing in developing solutions for cryptocurrency analytics.

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Funding Rounds

$18.8m

Money raised

ChainSafe Systems is a blockchain company founded in 2017.

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$16.5m

Money raised

Multis is a company that has created a cryptocurrency bank for companies. It was founded in 2018 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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$82.5m

Money raised

Lightning Labs is a software development company based in San Francisco developing software for the Lightning Network.

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Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

Heavy Rain is a video game founded in 2018 by Manoj Duggirala.

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$200.0k

Money raised

Alkemi is a blockchain company founded in 2018 by Ryan Breen.

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$4.2m

Money raised

Brahma aims to simplify the interaction with DeFi primitives through easy to invest vaults, which leverage composability with multiple protocols to deliver superior risk-adjusted yield to users.Brahma provides an alternative to inflationary returns via liquidity mining and discourages mercenary capital .

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Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

BTCC is a company offering a platform for exchanging cryptocurrencies and holding digital currencies in cryptocurrency wallets.

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Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

Skrumble Network is a communication-centric blockchain and decentralized social media application.

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