Rebellion Ventures is a specialized pre-seed/seed venture capital firm in Silicon Valley partnering with entrepreneurs to build autonomous operations and AI agents. They seek to revolutionize business models with 10-100x productivity and create the era of artificial super capability (ASC). Rebellion brings an operating track record of building companies to multi-billion dollar IPO and M&A exits and an advisor network of over 70 unicorn founders, operators, and industry experts as limited partners.

They believe that decentralization is the key to achieving autonomous #aiagents capable of owning the means of their computation, storage, communication, and finance. Games, especially fully on-chain & autonomous worlds (FOCG/AW), are the perfect evolutionary laboratories for emergent AI. They have all the tools to create Autonomous Virtual Beings (AVBs) - a new form of digital life that own themselves. They are building the Inori Network to support emerging Autonomous AI Agents, beginning as a centralized service bridged to L1 & L2s through native tokens, with a roadmap for achieving full decentralization using new protocols and consensus mechanism designs.

Circle Ventures supports founders and teams who are dedicated to open access, financial inclusion and programmable commerce that can help fuel global economic prosperity. They back blockchain infrastructure, middleware and applications that catalyze the next wave of the Web3 economy, powered by digital currencies like USDC. Whether you’re building an innovative Layer 1, a scaling solution, financial markets infrastructure or a payments app, they'd love to hear about it.

Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Their customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue.

MoonPay is a financial technology company that builds payments infrastructure for crypto. Our on-and-off-ramp suite of products provides a seamless experience for converting between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies using all major payment methods including debit and credit card, local bank transfers, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay.

Alchemy Pay is a gateway payment provider for transacting between fiat and cryptocurrency. Alchemy Pay is a payment gateway that seamlessly connects crypto and global fiat currencies for businesses, developers, and users. Alchemy Pay’s on & off ramp solution and NFT checkout is integrated via plugin or API. It provides platforms and token issuers with an easy onboarding from fiat currency to crypto.

Link Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies solving the needs of corporations and consumers through the power of data science, machine learning, and AI. Built by a team of founder-operators with decades of data science expertise, Link's investment strategy is underpinned by an innate understanding of technology's ability to enhance enterprise efficiency and enhance consumers’ lives. Link partners for the long term, providing dedicated counsel and unmatched industry knowledge plus direct access to an extended community of talent and trusted industry leaders to help startups build and scale businesses that last. With deep roots in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, amidst the highest density of data science experts, Link manages over $500M in AUM targeting industries such as financial services, digital healthcare, e-commerce, payments, media, and cybersecurity.

CVP is a boutique investment group focused on early stage investments in high growth technology ventures. Their group has a combined 60 years in the technology space. Areas of interest include: Payment Platforms, Cryptocurrency, Emerging Markets, and Healthcare.

They encourage everyone to pursue growth as their main KPI.

Zebec Pay is a real-time streaming payment protocol based on the Solana platform. It is designed to enable real-time continuous money streams for different types of financial transactions, such as payments, payroll, and investments. The platform supports payroll payments in multiple stablecoins, including USD Coin (USDC). Furthermore, Zebec provides automated dollar-cost averaging (DCA), crypto IRA and 401(k) accounts, yield farming, multi-signature vault treasury management, and in-house fiat on- and off-ramp services.

Request Finance is the all-in-one finance solution for Web3 businesses. It helps crypto project teams, DAOs, and their accountants simplify their enterprise crypto payments and financial reporting.

CompoSecure (Nasdaq: CMPO) is a technology partner to market leaders, fintechs and consumers enabling trust for millions of people around the globe. The company combines elegance, simplicity and security to deliver exceptional experiences and peace of mind in the physical and digital world. CompoSecure’s innovative payment card technology and metal cards with Arculus security and authentication capabilities deliver unique, premium branded experiences, enable people to access and use their financial and digital assets, and ensure trust at the point of a transaction.

Swapped.com allows its customers to buy and sell cryptocurrency with their favorite payment methods.

Braza Bank Banco de Câmbio, formerly MS Bank Banco de Câmbio, was authorized in 2013 by the Central Bank of Brazil. It has a highly qualified team with extensive market experience to be with you on a daily basis, bringing you the best products and services safely and quickly. They offer foreign exchange operations and international payments to our clients, covering various demands (exports, imports, exchange rate protection, financial remittances, among others). Their focus is to bring complete solutions to your needs, from here to the world.

Infinite Ventures is a venture capital firm driving innovation through emerging technologies like Blockchain, DeFi, Web3, and Innovative Payment Solutions. They collaborate with startups, combining entrepreneurial agility with corporate resources to scale rapidly and launch disruptive businesses. Their approach focuses on taking risks together to reshape the economy for the future.

Founded in 2018, Grab Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm based in Singapore. The firm seeks to invest in the AI, payments, logistics, food tech, and drones sector.

ARYZE is a blockchain fintech company specializing in digital payments solutions. They offer Digital Cash, which are full-reserve stablecoins issued as eEUR, eGBP, and eUSD. These variants of Digital Cash are backed one-to-one with high-grade, government-issued assets.

Fuse helps global businesses to make payments like a local in and around the MENA region, without the need to localise their payment stack. We work with payment companies, platforms, and enterprises around the world to make adding the Middle East as simple as an API integration.

Centurion & Co. is a prominent management and investment firm headquartered in Dubai, recognized as a leading incubator and accelerator for companies undergoing technological transformation. With operations extending across Singapore, Cyprus, France, Tunisia, and Lebanon, Centurion & Co. actively engages in venture capital and serves as a technology enabler, driving disruption through strategic investments in software, cloud, telecom, payment, and blockchain sectors. Over the past four years, the firm has harnessed its expertise and high-tech capabilities to establish itself as a key player in the fintech and digital landscape, expanding its portfolio with a focus on digital banking, e-commerce acceleration, and payment service processing through its various platforms and incubations, including Centurion Network and SkyTelecom.

SHAFF invests in multiple financial technologies around the blockchain starting with block creation (mining) through B2B service (payments) to retail users (wallet & games).

Founded in 2008, Peak Global Investments is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The firm seeks to invest in the blockchain, artificial intelligence, online gaming, digital marketing, and online payment sectors. The firm also invests in real estate properties.

BitRock Capital is a leading investment firm with a focus on Fintech innovations disrupting the traditional financial services market. They invest in rapidly growing segments including supply chain finance, payment, wealth management, and Fintech infrastructure such as AI, blockchain, big data, and cloud technology.

Ava Protocol is an intent-based Eigenlayer AVS that seamlessly enables private autonomous transactions for numerous use cases, such as DeFi, NFTs, and games. We're enhancing decentralized applications with scheduled and recurring payments, stop-loss orders, streaming rewards, and more. Ava Protocol’s event-driven execution model triggers cross-chain transactions based on signals such as time, price changes, and smart contract updates. Developers can easily schedule and automate functions across different blockchains, including Ethereum, ensuring efficient and reliable execution without compromising privacy.

Avalanche Builder Kit is a comprehensive suite of developer tools, SDKs, APIs, and resources designed to empower developers to build scalable, high-performance decentralized applications on the Avalanche blockchain. As part of the Avalanche ecosystem maintained by Ava Labs, the Builder Kit serves as the essential foundation for creating everything from simple smart contracts to complex multi-chain applications leveraging Avalanche's unique Subnet architecture. The product offers an extensive collection of tools including AvalancheJS (JavaScript SDK), AvalancheGo (node implementation), Subnet-EVM for custom blockchain deployment, and Core SDK for wallet integration. Developers gain access to pre-built smart contract templates, testing frameworks, deployment scripts, and development environments that significantly accelerate the development lifecycle. The kit supports multiple programming languages including Solidity, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and Python, ensuring accessibility for developers from diverse backgrounds. The Builder Kit features intuitive UI/UX tools including visual Subnet deployment interfaces, blockchain explorers, wallet connectors, and debugging utilities. The integrated development environment provides real-time feedback, transaction simulation, and gas optimization recommendations. Developers can prototype, test, and deploy applications through streamlined workflows with minimal friction, supported by comprehensive integration guides covering wallet connections, cross-chain bridges, oracles, indexing services, and third-party protocol integrations. With a strong developer focus, the kit includes detailed API documentation, code examples, starter repositories, and best practices guides. The platform provides direct access to testnet faucets, network monitoring tools, and performance analytics dashboards. Community support through developer forums, office hours with core developers, and integration with Avalanche Academy's educational resources ensures developers have continuous support throughout their building journey. The Avalanche Builder Kit has been instrumental in onboarding thousands of developers to the ecosystem, enabling the creation of innovative DeFi protocols, NFT marketplaces, gaming platforms, and enterprise solutions. By lowering technical barriers and providing production-ready tools, the Builder Kit accelerates innovation and establishes Avalanche as a premier destination for Web3 development.

EtraPay is a Layer 1 blockchain designed for everyday payments. Based on the Avalanche blockchain architecture, every transaction made on the payment network is encrypted and protected through zkMorphic proofs.

Circle is building a new internet financial system … making money movement around the world as seamless as sending an email. They issue regulated stablecoins (USDC, EURC) via regulated affiliates; offer infrastructure, APIs, payments network, tokenization services.

DIBA Global builds decentralized application Infrastructure on Bitcoin and the Lightning network. As the first marketplace on Bitcoin using RGB Smart Contract Protocol and Lightning Network to exchange Unique Digital Assets (UDAs), commonly referred to as NFTs, DIBA Marketplace is focused on accelerating art & entertainment utility on Bitcoin. DIBA’s mission is to help millions of people own, use and exchange non-custodial digital assets that are censorship resistant while catalyzing access, equity, and fairness.

Imagine if there was a single piece of technology where you could make digital payments, access and back up data, or use an encrypted chat app to communicate securely with friends, family, and coworkers. Instead of being controlled by far-off third parties who act as gatekeepers to your digital life, it is controlled by the people you already know and trust. That’s Fedi. Fedi creates a new way for communities and organisations to secure and use their money and data with a Federated OS. We connect the most fundamental human technology — community — with freedom technologies, like Bitcoin, to level up humanity. Instead of a small number of third-party gatekeepers, Fedi puts real communities in charge of the way they store and transact their money and their data. At a technical level, Fedi introduces a new concept and category–the Federated Operating System–that’s built on top of and scales the Lightning Network, solving questions of cost, custody, privacy, and security that have occupied builders for years. We want to help build a future where communities hold the power, where you can collaborate with the people you trust for the betterment of each other and the whole of humanity. This is the future we are building. Fedi gives us the tools. For more information about Fedi, feel free to visit our website: https://www.fedi.xyz/

Amboss makes tools to help organize the market on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. There is no central payment processor in this global network, so individuals and businesses need help finding and researching peers that could help build their local payment network. We provide a platform where each node on the Lightning Network has a page which displays their connections and payments capacity. Bitcoin is very scarce, so it's a difficult decision to find the best nodes to start payment agreements with, but we help make the process easier with intuitive data displays and an excellent user experience.

Blockstream is a blockchain technology company founded in 2014, focusing on developing new infrastructure for the financial system, particularly around Bitcoin sidechains and related applications. Key developments by Blockstream include their implementation of the Lightning Network protocol and the Elements Project, an open-source sidechain blockchain platform.

AIMAGINE is the hub for AI Agents, driving on-chain automation with its custom Data Layer. By aggregating data from news, social media, and custom providers, AIMAGINE equips AI Agents with essential datasets for machine learning and decision-making. Create AI Agents and deploy tokens in just a few clicks. Our AI agent frameworks provide a wide range of applications for DeFi, generative content, and data monetization. AIMAGINE's IP marketplace enables AI Agents to trade services, while AI developers can license their AI Agents, enabling a revenue stream that funds token buybacks, creating a circular AI economy.

They offer users the ability to tokenize and monetize their APIs on the XRPL using NFTs and Payment Channels. Dhali is a Web3 API gateway provider, enabling seamless API monetisation. To use APIs on Dhali, no registration or subscription is required. Authentication is replaced with a real-time micro-payment, which gets embedded into a request header:

MolochDAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization, deployed on Ethereum mainnet. Members contribute capital with the sole intention of giving it all away to fund Ethereum infrastructure as an essential digital public good.

Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that enables users to rent unused hard drive space to store data. It aims to create a more resilient and efficient foundation for humanity's information.

Encryptum is for all industries Encryptum is a next-generation decentralized storage solution built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling secure, trustless data handling across every industry. From AI and finance to healthcare and legal, Encryptum ensures your data remains private, verifiable, and always accessible.

A sufficiently decentralized social network

EXM is an application development platform for building trustless and permanent lambda functions (or serverless APIs) on the Arweave blockchain.

The AR.IO Network aims to democratize and enhance the Arweave Gateway, so you can own and operate a front door to the permaweb. Decentralized, open source protocol and service stack that you can run; Incentivizes data seeding, serving and indexing; Optimizes price discovery and quality of service choice; Customizable fiat / crypto payment integration; Supports fee sponsorship and subsidies.

Glacier is building a fully permissionless and scalable NoSQL database for Web3 Dapps. It will utilize the Arweave Log Data (ALD) based Storage-Consensus Paradigm (SCP) to securely store, share, and host user-siloed data sets at scale.

NoSQL Database as a Smart Contract on Arweave

Irys, previously Bundlr Network, is a network supporting infinite scale on Arweave and cross chain storage in any crypto. Currently handling ~70% of Arweave's network traffic.

A native software development company and venture studio focused on accelerating developer tools, use cases, and adoption of Arweave.

A data layer providing scalable, performant, and seamless solutions to empower builders | Processing over 90% of Arweave’s transactions | Stored permanently

0rbit is a decentralized, permissionless, censorship-resistant oracle network built on top of Arweave using ao.

Mr. Will Bunker is a Co-Founding Partner at GrowthX. He serves as Advisor at ResultMaps. He also serves as a Chief Financial Officer and Vice-Chairman at LightJump Acquisition Corporation. He served as a Partner at Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate. He serves as an Advisor at 2RedBeans and NextUser. He is a Board Member of Life Guides. He also Co-Founded vChatter in May, 2010. He founded One-and-Only.com with Dave Kennedy in late 1995 in Dallas. He served as Advisor at WorkHere. He is a Marketplace Development Advisor of Seed Sumo. He is also an Advisor of Hack Fund and Operations Advisor of Open Platform (Crypto Payment Protocol). He was an Advisor at Distribute. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Mississippi State University. He is also an Angel Investor.

Ping allows remote workers to collect their fees from anywhere in the world and transform them into cryptocurrencies and local currency. It also expands the hiring possibilities for companies in an era of decentralized economy and digital-first approach.

Visa is the largest payment processor in the world. In fiscal 2022, it processed over $14 trillion in total volume. Visa operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 160 currencies. Its systems are capable of processing over 65,000 transactions per second.

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics.