Coinbase Ventures

The first federally regulated prediction market exchange in the United States, approved by the CFTC as a Designated Contract Market in 2020. Enables users to trade event contracts on real-world outcomes spanning economics, politics, weather, sports, and culture. Emerged from Y Combinator's W19 batch.

Dapper Labs builds consumer applications for the tokenized economy, creating CryptoKitties (which introduced the ERC-721 NFT standard), NBA Top Shot, NFL ALL DAY, and the Flow blockchain. The company is one of the most prominent in the NFT and Web3 space, enabling people to own, earn, and trade digital assets from major brands.

Alchemy is a blockchain infrastructure and developer platform often described as the 'AWS of blockchain.' The company provides APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tools that power the majority of top Web3 applications, including OpenSea, MetaMask, and Robinhood. Alchemy handles over $100B in annualized on-chain transactions and serves developers across 197 countries.

Layer 1 blockchain company building the Aptos network, designed for safety, scalability, and mainstream Web3 adoption. Uses the Move programming language originally developed for Meta's discontinued Diem stablecoin project. Features a parallel execution engine (Block-STM) for high throughput. Founded by two former Meta engineers who led key aspects of the Diem blockchain.

Rain is a global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, providing infrastructure to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly via Visa rails across 150+ countries.

Layer 1 blockchain platform that uses zero-knowledge cryptography to enable developers to build privacy-preserving, scalable decentralized applications. Offers a hybrid approach where developers choose what data is public and what remains private. Provides Leo, a programming language for writing zero-knowledge smart contracts. Mainnet launched September 2024.

Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that enriches on-chain data with millions of wallet labels across multiple blockchains. Crypto investors and institutions use Nansen to discover opportunities, perform due diligence, and defend portfolios with real-time dashboards and alerts, tracking over 244 million labeled wallets across 11+ blockchains.

Arweave is a decentralized permanent data storage network that uses a blockchain-based structure called a "blockweave" to store data indefinitely. The protocol enables a "permaweb" where websites, applications, and files are preserved permanently without risk of deletion or censorship.