Bakkt, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, is building an open, seamless global network to enable you to buy, sell, store and spend digital assets simply, safely and efficiently.

Market Segment Fintech

Focused on Cryptoasset Custody, Regulations, Institutional Trading, Institutional Investors

Crypto Custody

#Trading

#Exchange

#Custody

#Bitcoin

Located in Atlanta, USA (as Intercontinental Exchange).

Personalities involved in Bakkt include Kelly Loeffler.

Bakkt partnered with ICE, Microsoft, Starbucks, Boston Consulting Group.

Market Segment Personal Cryptocurrency Storage

Focused on Payments, Donations, Crypto wallet

Crypto Custody

#Storage

#Wallet

#PaymentGateway

#Merchants

Located in Luxembourg.

Raised funding 70.0 MM USD
via ICO

Coinbase started as a simple bitcoin wallet web-app that got popular by offering 10USD worth of BTC to every nearly anonymous signup. The Coinbase exchange later split into basic trading (directly from wallet with high fees) and PRO trading platform that became widely popular among daytraders in the US. Coinbase Custody is a subservice offered by Coinbase to institutions that trade cryptocurrencies but do not have the in-house tech to store them. The information about pricing is not public but since Coinbase Custody was the first player in this part of the blockchain industry, it is understandable that professional traders reported the costs of custody to be “outrageous”. In spite of the popularity of the platform across multiple verticals, Coinbase keeps raising VC (Round F in December 2018). It is possible the funding is necessary for further acquisitions - Coinbase has acquired for instance the hybrid DEX Paradex or the platform Earn.com.

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Market Segment Trading, Custody, Cryptocurrency Exchange, Wallet

Focused on Trading, Custody, DEX

Crypto Custody

#Trading

#TradingPlatform

#OTC

>> Similar to Bakkt, Fidelity, Bitfinex, Bithumb

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 525.3 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Coinbase include Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam.

Coinbase partnered with Andreesen Horowitz, Polychain, Fundamental Labs.

Fidelity is a financial services giant that will start crypto asset storage in 2019 along with a trade execution engine.

Market Segment Trading

Focused on Cryptoasset Custody, Regulations, Institutional Trading, Institutional Investors

Crypto Custody

#Trading

#Arbitrage

#Custody

#Bitcoin

#Ethereum

>> Similar to Bakkt, Universal Protocol Platform

Located in Boston, USA.

Fidelity partnered with Coinbase.

SatoshiLabs is the company that created the very first ‘cold storage’ device - the Trezor Wallet.

Market Segment Personal Cryptocurrency Storage, Crypto Custody, Institutional Crypto Storage

Focused on Hardware, Cryptoasset Storage Devices, Custody

Crypto Custody

#Custody

#ColdStorage

#CryptoassetStorageDevice

#Hardwarewallet

>> Similar to Ledger Wallet, KeepKey

Located in Czechia.

Personalities involved in SatoshiLabs include Marek Palatinus (Slush), Pavol Rusnak (Stick), Formerly Alena Vranova.

SatoshiLabs partnered with The B Foundation.

Chainalysis is a blockchain analysis company that aims to set a standard for security evaluation, fraud detection and regulatory practices in the blockchain technology industry. They provide compliance and investigation services to legacy institutions like banks, corporations, or governments.

Market Segment Blockchain Analysis

Focused on Payments, Analytics, InfoSec

CryptoSec

#Security

#Blockchains

Located in New York, US / Germany, EU.

Raised funding 53.6 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Chainalysis include Michael Gronager (former COO of Kraken Bitcoin Exchange), Jonathan Levin.

Chainalysis partnered with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sozo, Accel, Benchmark.

CipherTrace is a security and forensics company that focuses on AML, compliance and monitoring for organizations. They also provide software for blockchain security researchers.

Market Segment Cryptocurrency Security

Focused on AML, Payments, Compliance, Forensics

CryptoSec

#Audits

#Compliance

#Monitoring

Located in San Francisco, US.

Raised funding 18.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in CipherTrace include David Jevans, Shannon Holland, Stephen Ryan.

Argentinian startup for dApp security audits.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

Located in Buenos Aires, Argentins.

Crystal is a software-as-a-service application for blockchain security and compliance that was developed by the Bitfury Group. It is a product-based solution that comes in various degrees, based on what kind of licence you get - either as a web app or as an API or installed on premises.

Market Segment Blockchain Security Software

Focused on AML, Monitoring, Compliance, Prevention

CryptoSec

#SaaS

#Product

>> Similar to TraceTo.io

Located in Amsterdam, NL.

Crystal Blockchain partnered with Bitfury.

Decenter is a research hub focused on developing on the Ethereum blockchain, but they have also had a success as sevice provider of smart contract auditing.

Market Segment dApp DEvelopment

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Research

#Consulting

#Audits

Located in Belgrade, Serbia.

Decenter partnered with BlockCollider, Bet Dex.

Recognized as one of the leading UK’s startups, Elliptic provides blockchain analytics to manage risk and meet regulatory compliance on a wide range of blockchains (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and more). They can also do criminal forensics for cryptocurrencies, having most expertise in money laundering flow investigations on Bitcoin blockchain.

Market Segment Cryptocurrency Security

Focused on AML, Payments, Compliance, Forensics

CryptoSec

#Audits

#Compliance

#Monitoring

Located in London, UK.

Raised funding 35.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Elliptic include Adam Joyce, James Smith, Tom Robinson.

Elliptic partnered with Santander, Digital Currency Group, SBI, 2017 GCHQ Cyber Accelerator.

Estonian tokenized cybersecurity company that specialized in smart contract auditing and network security services.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

Located in Kesklinna, Estonia.

OpenZeppelin provides blockchain security audits to verify that a distributed system works as intende. The audit includes review of the system’s architecture and codebase, plus a thorough report with actionable feedback. They got VC funded in 2017 with undisclosed amount.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

>> Similar to QuantStamp, Elliptic

Located in Distributed organization.

Personalities involved in OpenZeppelin include Demian Brener, Francisco Giordano.

OpenZeppelin partnered with brave, augur, coinbase, BitGo, ethereum foundation, cosmos.

QuantStamp is a full-stack blockchain tech consulting and development company. They help tokenized businesses to scale their operation and provide security audits and monitoring. They run their own security network on Ethereum and are tokenized themselves, having had an ICO in 2017.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits, BlockchainTech Security

CryptoSec

#SecurityAnalysis

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

Located in San Francisco, US.

Raised funding 3.2 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in QuantStamp include Richard Ma, Steven Stewart.

QuantStamp partnered with OmiseGo, Nomura, Y Combinator.

ScoreChain provides transaction monitoring and fraudulent pattern detection reporting.

Market Segment Blockchain Analysis

Focused on Payments, Analytics, InfoSec

CryptoSec

#Security

#Blockchains

Located in Luxembourg.

ScoreChain partnered with CEX.IO.

The full-stack infosec company SmartDec provides a line of services around blockchain consulting, auditing and bespoke security tool development for blockchain tech startups. They are based in Israel with regional office in NYC and a threat research lab in Moscow.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Blockchain Security Audits, Smart Contracts Audits, Analytics

CryptoSec

#ERC20TestSuite

#dApps

#Audits

Located in Rishon LeZion, Israel.

Personalities involved in SmartDec include Sergei Levin.

SmartDec partnered with kyber.network, Gladius, UTRUST.