49 Best Decentralized Finance Startups to Watch in 2024

Regenerative Finance platform & Launchpad for credible carbon credits

Platform for building modern reactive apps with realtime collaboration and offline capabilities.

Aave is an open-source, non-custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets.

Solana is a decentralized blockchain built to enable scalable, user-friendly apps for the world.

1inch is the developer of a decentralized finance platform and includes the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, the 1inch Liquidity Protocol, the 1inch Limit Order Protocol and the 1inch Wallet.

Bella Protocol is a platform that provides a suite of DeFi products designed to make crypto banking simpler and more accessible. The protocol aims to create a better user experience by eliminating the high fee and slow transaction issues that can affect some blockchain platforms — while simultaneously improving the user experience through its simpl

Alchemy is a San Francisco-based blockchain development company offering enterprise clients the capability of building scalable decentralized applications without needing to manage the blockchain infrastructure.

Cosmos is an ecosystem of interoperable blockchain apps and services.

Polkadot is a blockchain network built to enable Web3 and decentralized internet.

Ramp is a multi-chain DeFi lending platform.

Mythical Games is a Los Angeles-based video game development company developing games for playable non-fungible tokens to identify game characters that players can own and offers players a secondary market.

Mauve is a decentralized exchange that provides the compliance of traditional finance. The platform offers its users TradFi-level compliance guarantees to drastically reduce counterparty risk. Mauve relies on Violet's on-chain compliance infrastructure, which issues privacy-preserving compliance credentials, in addition to leveraging multi-facto...

Flint is a global crypto investment app offering a range of passive investment assets to its users built on top of crypto.

Polygon is a protocol and a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks.

Braintrust is a decentralized talent network. Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects skilled tech experts with clients.

Decentralized data exchange protocol to unlock data for AI

Compound is an algorithmic, autonomous interest rate protocol built for developers to unlock a universe of open financial applications.

A blockchain company offering a utility cryptocurrency token running on the Ethereum blockchain that is stabilized by the U.S. dollar.

API3 is a DAO-driven project to build dAPIs - fully decentralized, native blockchain APIs - that will be configured, managed, insured and monetized at scale with API3 DAO.

Etherscan is a block explorer for Ethereum.

LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications (dapps) across disparate blockchains

Web3 trading platform on Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, and more - Connect wallet, start trading

A network of decentralized marketplaces and communities built on the d0xINFRA framework.

Strips Finance is the FIRST revolutionary interest rate derivatives exchange on Arbitrum

Slope Finance offers a cross-platform wallet in Solana.

pSTAKE is the protocol that unlocks liquidity for staked assets.

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

A decentralized capital market powered by a cross-margin cross-collateralization clearing engine protocol.

Meter is a stablecoin cryptocurrency founded in 2018 by Xiaohan Zhu.

Orderly Network is a decentralized trading infrastructure

SuperFarm is a developing blockchain-based, DeFi platform for farming, creating, selling, and trading non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.

Advanced end-to-end security solutions for DeFi investors and traders.

Osmosis is a decentralized peer-to-peer blockchain that people can use to create liquidity and trade IBC enabled tokens.

Coinbase is a digital asset exchange company. It operates exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin.

HTX, formerly branded as Huobi, is a blockchain company and crypto assets exchange.

MoHash is a decentralized finance company founded in 2021 by Arun Devarajan.

Gauntlet is a New York-based software development company and DeFi-native economic research firm.

Futureswap is a non-custodial perpetuals exchange that focuses on being the best execution environment for trades.

IOST describes itself as a “super-fast”, complete and decentralized blockchain network and ecosystem with its own nodes, wallets and based on a “next generation” consensus protocol dubbed “proof-of-believabilit

Decentralized AI blockchain platform for an open, equitable, and collaborative economy.

OneKey is a crypto hardware wallet.

IoTeX is a company with a decentralized network for the internet of things, built using blockchain technology.

STEPN is a Web3 lifestyle app with Social-Fi and Game-Fi elements.

Formation Fi is a Warsaw-based company founded by Krzysztof Gagacki.

SiaCoin is a cryptocurrency for distributed file storage

Uniswap is an automated liquidity protocol on Ethereum.

Cred is a company founded in 2016 by Ben Fried.

Decentralized Social, also known as DeSo, is a software development company providing a platform and tools intended to decentralize social media.