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Polymer Labs wants your money to arrive whole
Nearly $2 billion moved through its USDC bridge in nine months, the company says. Behind the tidy transfers is a more interesting idea: let applications prove what happened elsewhere, then get on with business.
The Company That Lets Blockchains Rehearse
Tenderly began by explaining failed smart contracts. Now it gives developers, treasuries and risk teams a private dress rehearsal for decisions that would be expensive to discover in public.
Hashgraph Is Building the Private Door Into Public Money
Banks want blockchain's shared rails without putting their books in a shop window. Hashgraph's answer is a private network, a ready-made tokenization stack and a plan to connect the islands without bridges.
The Lab That Tried to Replace the Web Became a 750-Team Operating System
Protocol Labs started by giving data an address that could survive a broken link. A decade later, it is testing a larger idea: whether an open network can move research from strange prototype to useful company faster than a conventional lab can.
LayerZero Labs
LayerZero wants blockchains to behave less like rival islands and more like one programmable network. Its bet is that the winning bridge will not feel like a bridge at all - but its configurable security model makes the builder part of the defense.
Supra
Most Layer 1s rent their oracles, bridges, and randomness from other companies. Supra built all of it into one chain - and is betting 500,000 transactions a second that owning the whole stack beats gluing it together.
Input Output Group
The company that built Cardano is attempting a harder trick: turning peer-reviewed blockchain research into products people can use, while gradually handing more of the machinery to independent teams.
Aspen Digital
Aspen Digital is an ADGM-regulated digital asset management platform built for private wealth. Founded in 2021 and co-incubated by Everest Ventures Group and TTB Partners, it gives family offices, external asset managers and ultra-high-net-worth investors a single regulated account to trade, custody, earn yield on and report across crypto - plus a white-label infrastructure stack that lets other wealth managers offer the same. It is backed by RIT Capital Partners (the Rothschild investment trust) and Liberty City Ventures.
Fuze
Fuze is a Dubai-based digital asset infrastructure company that lets banks, fintechs, and enterprises across MENA and Turkey offer regulated crypto and stablecoin services through a single API. Its stack spans Digital Assets-as-a-Service, an OTC trading desk, stablecoin payment rails, embedded trading, and custody, all built on regulated, compliant infrastructure. Licensed by Dubai's VARA and holding a Retail Payment Services license from the UAE Central Bank, Fuze has onboarded hundreds of institutions and processed billions in digital asset volume since its 2023 launch.
Particle Network
Particle Network is a Singapore-based Web3 infrastructure company building chain abstraction technology so users can interact with any decentralized application on any blockchain from a single account and balance - no bridging or network switching required. Founded in 2022 as a wallet-abstraction provider, it evolved into a modular Layer-1 blockchain that coordinates transactions across chains through its flagship Universal Accounts, Universal Liquidity and Universal Gas products. Its stack has been integrated by hundreds of dApps, helped secure billions in user assets, and reached millions of users; its native PARTI token launched in March 2025.
RockX
RockX is a Singapore-based Web3 infrastructure company that runs institutional-grade staking, validator, and RPC/node-API services across major proof-of-stake blockchains. Founded in 2019 by veterans of Zilliqa and RockMiner and led by CEO Zhuling Chen, it operates 13,000+ validators and has secured more than US$1.5B in staked assets. RockX is also an early contributor to Bedrock, the multi-asset liquid restaking protocol behind uniETH, uniBTC and the BR token, positioning the company at the center of institutional staking and Bitcoin-based DeFi in Asia.
Cubist
Cubist is a security-first Web3 infrastructure company that builds hardware-backed key management and confidential compute for digital assets. Its flagship platform, CubeSigner, keeps cryptographic keys sealed inside secure hardware (HSMs and AWS Nitro Enclaves) while giving developers low-latency signing through revocable sessions and a programmable policy engine - resolving the old tradeoff between cold-wallet security and hot-wallet speed. Founded by applied cryptographers and security researchers from Carnegie Mellon and UC San Diego who designed primitives underlying Ethereum and Avalanche, Cubist serves staking providers, DeFi protocols, bridges, and institutions building on internet capital markets.