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
Supported by

Meet the NEXUS Top 50
50 early-stage startups shaping what’s next in crypto and Web3.


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


Agama
Onchain yield infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets.


Anafi
Direct Debit for Stablecoins


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


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


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


Belief Market
Tiktok for Opinion Battling


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


Zyfai
A personal agent for onchain yield


BlockScholes
Institutional-grade data and oracle infrastructure


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


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


HyprEarn
The AI trading desk for perps


Gyld Finance
Tokenised US corporate bonds


Helix
The Infrastructure for Institutional Asset Tokenization


Spout Finance
0% interest loans on equities powered by the options market


Holonym Foundation
The identity and control layer between people, institutions and AI.


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


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


Everything
One pool powers swap, lending and leverage trading


Surge Credit
The Credit Layer for Bitcoin


Cede Labs
Making trading a sport


Bermuda Bay
Compliant Privacy


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.


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


Sailo Technologies
KYR AI engine-driven transaction screening that prevents crypto threats before execution — and insures against breach if one occurs


Mosaic AI Solutions, Inc.
AI + blockchain infrastructure for private assets and tokenized funds, from diligence and onboarding through digital ownership and servicing.


Growi Finance
Allocation Layer


CRSHMARKET
Livestream prediction market with 60-second settlements


Crebit Pay, Inc.
24/7 FX hedging for the stablecoin economy.


Toyow
One marketplace for RWA Assets


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


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


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


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


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


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


KaleidoSwap
Trustless swap infrastructure for Bitcoin Layers


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.


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


Stormbit
Software that brings dealer pricing to any tokenized assets.


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


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


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


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


The Risk Protocol
We tokenize crypto risk and make it tradable


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


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


KriptoK
A self-custody trading platform combining perpetuals, swaps and yield with live competitions, verified trader rankings and community chat.


Sera.cx: Bringing FX Onchain
Onchain FX settlement for stablecoins.
