NEXUS Top 50 Startups

Meet the NEXUS Top 50, TOKEN2049’s selection of the most promising early-stage crypto and Web3 startups from around the world. Discover the companies building what’s next in crypto

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Meet the NEXUS Top 50

50 early-stage startups shaping what’s next in crypto and Web3.

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Abstraxn

Know Your Intent (KYI) - Intent Authorization and Evidence Layer for AI Agents
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Agama

Onchain yield infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets.
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Anafi

Direct Debit for Stablecoins
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ArcBook

ArcBook turns a market maker’s pricing function into the order itself, a programmable order book for professional liquidity.
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Ask Gina

Onchain execution infrastructure for AI agents across prediction markets, perpetuals and DeFi.
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Bedoo

Moving trade and cross-border payments onchain across Francophone Africa's $267 billion market.
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Belief Market

Tiktok for Opinion Battling
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Veridian

The internet trust layer: verifiable digital identity for governments, enterprises and AI agents.
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Zyfai

A personal agent for onchain yield
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BlockScholes

Institutional-grade data and oracle infrastructure
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Yodl

Yodl connects the world's local payment systems. Pay with anything: stablecoins, tokenized stocks or gold.
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Forest Jalan

Indonesian merchant credit born on-chain and repaid from the counter — every loan a live, verifiable record. Witnessed, not attested
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HyprEarn

The AI trading desk for perps
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Gyld Finance

Tokenised US corporate bonds
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Helix

The Infrastructure for Institutional Asset Tokenization
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Spout Finance

0% interest loans on equities powered by the options market
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Holonym Foundation

The identity and control layer between people, institutions and AI.
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DeSuite

The stablecoin settlement and reconciliation layer for Oracle Fusion ERP.
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TruMarket

TruMarket brings real-world agricultural trade yield on-chain, powered by an AI credit engine with a 0% default rate
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Everything

One pool powers swap, lending and leverage trading
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Surge Credit

The Credit Layer for Bitcoin
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Cede Labs

Making trading a sport
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Bermuda Bay

Compliant Privacy
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Deerbit

Deerbit is a non-custodial AI trading platform works in plain language, adapts as markets change, shows evidence, and runs across every asset class.
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MEV-X Homelander

A yield-maximization layer for AMMs: pools capture the arbitrage their own trades create instead of leaking it to outside bots.
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Sailo Technologies

KYR AI engine-driven transaction screening that prevents crypto threats before execution — and insures against breach if one occurs
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Mosaic AI Solutions, Inc.

AI + blockchain infrastructure for private assets and tokenized funds, from diligence and onboarding through digital ownership and servicing.
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Growi Finance

Allocation Layer
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CRSHMARKET

Livestream prediction market with 60-second settlements
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Crebit Pay, Inc.

24/7 FX hedging for the stablecoin economy.
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Toyow

One marketplace for RWA Assets
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OCINT

OCINT connects structured intake, cross-chain tracing, off-chain intelligence, monitoring, and evidence production in one case workflow.
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BioVergence GmbH

BioVergence is building the AI-native capital markets platform for science — pricing, financing, and creating investable scientific assets
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OKcontract

OKcontract builds Chainwall - the control and execution layer for privileged onchain operations
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kash

kash enables users to turn attention into markets, directly on social media
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Quants Space

The network platform connecting systematic trading teams, institutional capital, and exceptional quant talent.
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TAUNT

Real-money player versus player gaming platform for short casino-style games between players, not the house.
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KaleidoSwap

Trustless swap infrastructure for Bitcoin Layers
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kalqiX

KalqiX is one of the few providers of central limit order book (CLOB) trading, ZK privacy, AMM swap upgrades, and DEX as a Service.
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Eco World Village

EWV gives excluded farming communities a verified identity, then a bankable harvest — so lenders can fund what never existed on paper.
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Stormbit

Software that brings dealer pricing to any tokenized assets.
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MakeBanc

MakeBanc is the capital connectivity infrastructure layer for asset management, the Shopify moment for emerging asset managers.
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Sendr

Sendr is Building Stablecoin-Native Cross-Border Financial Rails for emerging markets.
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THAT

A digital currency built to be spent — 251 local businesses accept it.
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Liquida

Building regulated infrastructure to tokenise UK government bonds so institutions can use them as onchain collateral for 24/7 GBP liquidity.
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The Risk Protocol

We tokenize crypto risk and make it tradable
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Phlebas

The trust layer for agentic finance. Starting with short term credit for stablecoin payment companies
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GeoSafe

Two-factor authentication layer for self-custody wallets.
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KriptoK

A self-custody trading platform combining perpetuals, swaps and yield with live competitions, verified trader rankings and community chat.
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Sera.cx: Bringing FX Onchain

Onchain FX settlement for stablecoins.