Burnt is a New York-based Web3 company and the core team behind XION, a Layer 1 blockchain built to make crypto invisible to everyday users. Founded by Anthony Anzalone - better known as the artist-provocateur 'Burnt Banksy' - the company uses 'generalized abstraction' to remove wallets, private keys and gas fees so that people can sign in with an email or a face scan and pay in USDC. Burnt has raised more than $36M from investors including Animoca Brands, Circle Ventures and Multicoin, and pitches XION as consumer-grade infrastructure for brands like Uber, BMW and others. In 2026 the XION network rebranded to Verona.

ZeroDev is a New York-based B2B blockchain infrastructure company that provides account abstraction wallets as a service. Founded in 2022 by Derek Chiang and backed by Y Combinator (W23), ZeroDev built Kernel — the first modular, extensible smart contract account — enabling developers to ship wallets with social login, gasless transactions, session keys, and transaction batching without seed phrases. By the time of its acquisition by Offchain Labs (Arbitrum's creator) in August 2025, ZeroDev powered 5+ million smart accounts across 130+ EVM-compatible chains for 100+ applications including Gemini, Crossmint, and DIMO.