Inventory of the U.S. Blockchain Ecosystem

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2020-02-17 01:00

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Covers a total of 120 companies in the United States.

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Covers a total of 120 companies in the United States.

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Since 2012, approximately $8.4 billion has flowed into blockchain companies in the United States;

Despite the continued influx of investment, a high percentage of U.S. companies surveyed by The Block believe that unclear regulations and guidelines have been an obstacle to the development of blockchain companies;

We surveyed 121 blockchain companies in the US, covering 19 segments that represent a large portion of the industry.

We find the US to be in an interesting position when assessing its position in the blockchain/digital space.

Previously, when we looked at North America more broadly, we found that the region dominated blockchain investment, accounting for nearly 54% of the total value of deals in 2019.

In 2018, investments in U.S. blockchain companies amounted to approximately $3.5 billion, a 218% increase from the previous year. There is no shortage of investors in the U.S.; 23% of companies in the U.S. ecosystem map are involved in investments in this space.

Despite the fact that investment is domestic, a recent survey of U.S. companies by The Bock found that 91% of respondents believe that unclear U.S. regulations and guidelines for digital asset and blockchain business operations are a barrier to entry into the U.S. market . About 43% of the companies surveyed said that regulatory uncertainty has brought heavy legal costs to their services, and 91% of the companies surveyed want US policymakers to clarify regulations.

The Block lists a total of 121 companies in the United States, covering 19 segments that represent a significant portion of the industry in the United States.

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business application

Abra is an application for buying and selling digital currencies.

Lolli is a "cashback" site that allows users to earn up to 30% back in BTC when they shop online at any of the site's supported retail stores.

Ripple is a cross-border payment platform.

Uphold is an electronic currency trading platform that can trade digital assets, precious metals or national currencies.

Veem is a business-to-business payment platform.

Circle develops products for exchanging, storing, sending and receiving digital currencies.

BitPay is a BTC payment processor.

MyCrypto is a platform for storing, sending and receiving digital assets.

O(1) Labs' OpenBazaar is a free online marketplace where users can buy and sell products in BTC and other digital currencies.

Fold APP enables users to use BTC in the real world by converting BTC into digital gift cards.

Flexa is a digital currency payment network.

infrastructure

Celo is a digital payment platform.

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infrastructure

Blockstack has a decentralized computing power and identity network.

Kadena intends to be a scalable private chain.

Brave has developed a privacy-focused web browser and blockchain-based advertising platform.

AVA Labs,Solana is a decentralized platform that intends to solve the scalability problem through the PoH (Proof of History) consensus mechanism.

Inc. is the developer of the blockchain network Avalanche.

exchange

Decred is a digital currency utilizing a hybrid consensus model of on-chain governance.

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exchange

ErisX is an exchange that offers digital currency spot and futures contracts.

Kraken is a digital currency exchange and over-the-counter trading platform.

Founded in New York in 2015, Gemini is a digital currency exchange that provides a wide range of services including custody. The company launched its qualified hosting service in 2018.

LedgerX is a US-regulated BTC derivatives exchange and clearinghouse.

Founded in 2012, Coinbase is a San Francisco-based digital currency exchange that provides custody and other services. The company launched a qualified hosting solution in 2018.

Bakkt is a BTC futures exchange.

Alphapoint provides the infrastructure for the operation of the exchange.

Genesis Global Trading is a digital currency trading company that provides institutions with over-the-counter transactions.

Cash App is a mobile payment application developed by Square that allows users to buy, store and send BTC.

Seed CX is a digital asset trading platform for spot and derivatives.

ShapeShift is a non-custodial digital currency exchange.

Paxful is a peer-to-peer BTC marketplace connecting buyers and sellers.

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Hedge Fund

Blocktower Capital is a New York-based digital currency investment firm.

Tetras Capital is a New York-based crypto hedge fund that invests in blockchain technology.

Polychain Capital is a crypto hedge fund based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pantera Capital, headquartered in California, is an investment firm targeting blockchain technology and digital assets.

Scalar Capital is a San Francisco-based hedge fund that specializes in digital assets.

Paradigm is a digital fund backed by Pantera Capital and Yale University.

Ikigai Asset Management is a long/short digital asset hedge fund based in Marina Del Ray, California.

8 Decimal Capital, headquartered in San Francisco, is a multi-investment firm focused on blockchain technology.

CoinFund is a digital asset investment and research firm based in Brooklyn, New York.

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venture capital

Headquartered in New York, Digital Currency Group was founded in 2015 and has been providing investments in BTC and blockchain companies (notable investment projects: BitGo, Blockstream, Coinbase).

Blockchange, headquartered in New York, is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage blockchains (notable investments: The Block, Skuchain, Tokenize).

Blockchain Capital, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, was established in 2013 and has been providing venture capital for the blockchain industry (notable investment projects: Abra, Bitfury, Bitwise).

Arrington XRP Capital is a digital asset management firm focused on investing in blockchain technology (notable investments: Ripple, Blockstack, Bloom, Totle, Sentinel Protocol, NuCypher, Libra Credit, Telegream).

Placeholder is a venture capital firm that invests in blockchain-related companies (investment projects include: Decred).

Medici Ventures, a subsidiary of Overstock.com, manages its investments in the blockchain space (notable investments: tZero, Ripio, Factom).

Primitive Ventures is a long-term digital asset fund based in San Francisco, California.

Avon Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, and is the parent company of Fidelity Invenstments.

baby sitting program

Winklevoss Capital is a family business co-founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.

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baby sitting program

Founded in 2012, Paxos is a New York-based digital currency service provider offering exchange services, stablecoins and custody.

Founded in New York in 2018, FireBlocks provides digital currency custody services in addition to white label custody technology solutions.

Casa was established in New York in 2016 as a BTC service provider. In addition to hosting services, the company also provides full-node hardware appliances.

Founded in 2017, Anchorage is a San Francisco-based state trust company that provides qualified custody solutions.

Fidelity Digital Assets is the digital currency subsidiary of Fidelity Investments launched in 2018. The company provides trading and custody services.

Founded in 2017, Unchained Capital is a Texas-based digital currency custody services company. The company provides managed services to institutions and consumers.

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Research and Development Services

Gauntlet uses agent-based modeling models and other tools in algorithmic trading to reduce the cost of experimentation, allowing teams to quickly design, release, and scale decentralized systems.

Chaincode Labs is a BTC and digital currency research and development group.

TQ Tezos is a research and development group focused on growing, enhancing and solving the Tezos ecosystem.

Lightning Labs develops a scalable protocol for BTC.

Skale Labs is developing layer-2 scaling solutions for blockchains through the use of sidechains.

The Electric Coin Company is the development group behind Zcash, a privacy-focused digital currency.

Blockstream develops BTC infrastructure and services.

Protocol Labs builds protocols, systems, and tools for storing and transferring data, and supports the development of Filecoin.

open finance

Tendermint is a research group focused on developing the Tendermint consensus algorithm. It is the main company behind the development of the Cosmos blockchain.

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open finance

Compound is an open-source protocol for the Ethereum money market, through which users can borrow and lend digital currencies.

MakerDAO is a smart contract platform that issues CDPs (Collateralized Debt Positions) to help stabilize the value of the associated decentralized stablecoin (Dai).

Dharma enables users to borrow and lend digital assets.

dY/dX is an open source protocol for decentralized financial derivatives and margin trading.

data analysis

0x is an open source protocol for decentralized exchanges.

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data analysis

Chainalysis developers use tools and services to prevent, detect and investigate digital currency money laundering, fraud and compliance violations.

CoinMarketCap provides data on the digital currency market.

Nomics is a digital asset data company that provides market data (APIs).

Coinmetrics provides data analytics for digital assets.

Digital Assets Data develops enterprise-grade software and data research for crypto hedge funds and other market participants.

Paradigm provides an API for encrypting data.

OnchainFX is a dashboard for crypto metrics.

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Media and Research Center

The Block is not only a media, but also a digital asset research company.

CoinDesk (a DCG subsidiary) is a news site covering digital assets and blockchain technology.

BTC Media is the media company behind a digital currency/blockchain publisher, including Bitcoin Magazine.

asset Management

BlockWorks Group hosts conferences and podcasts for the blockchain and digital currency space.

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asset Management

Galaxy Digital is a digital merchant bank based in New York, Cayman Islands, New Jersey, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Arca is an institutional asset manager engaged in digital and blockchain investments.

Grayscale, based in New York, is an investor in the blockchain industry, providing exposure to the asset class.

Amentum is a hybrid digital asset investment firm investing in blockchain technology. Some of its current investments include Namebase, Handshake, Mattereum, Cent Network, and Token Soft.

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Enterprise Group

R3 is an enterprise blockchain software company.

Hedera Hashgraph is an enterprise-oriented public chain protocol.

Axoni develops enterprise tools for blockchain assets.

lending platform

Digital Asset produces open source software that allows customers to create new distributed applications and business interactions.

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lending platform

Celsius Network is a lending platform.

Figure Technologies offers a home equity line of credit that can be processed by the blockchain.

Salt allows you to obtain cash loans using digital assets as collateral.

OasisLabs is a privacy-focused cloud computing platform.

marketable securities

Peernova is a platform for financial institutions to synchronize data across multiple systems.

marketable securities

tZERO is a security token marketplace.

Symbiont is a distributed ledger designed to host financial instruments and manage their lifecycle.

Layer1 is a digital currency investment company.

fund

Tagomi is a digital asset brokerage.

fund

Staking

Headquartered in San Francisco, Bitbull Capital provides a diversified and fully liquid encrypted digital portfolio.

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Staked provides institutional clients with non-custodial collateral services for many digital currencies.

BisonTrails is a mortgage service platform that provides services including staking, verification, voting, trading, and securing blockchain protocols.