KAIO is a protocol purpose-built for RWAs, ensuring seamless movement, compliance, and liquidity in DeFi through a sovereign AppChain. The platform acts as a backbone for issuing, redeeming and transferring tokenized funds, allowing accredited investors to subscribe in fiat or stablecoins and move their positions across blockchains.

Syrup is a decentralized protocol that extends Maple’s expertise in institutional digital asset lending to offer broad access to high quality, secure yields. Syrup enables users permissionless access to secured, institutional lending for the first time. By depositing USDC into the platform, users receive LP tokens (syrupUSDC) and begin earning yield immediately. All of the yield generated by Syrup is sourced from secured loans to the largest institutions in crypto, fully collateralized with digital assets.

Sentora is a DeFi asset management service platform that integrates IntoTheBlock's institutional-grade DeFi analysis data and Trident's structured liquidity solutions. It will develop a unified interface to solve the fragmentation problem of multi-chain protocol interactions. The platform aims to introduce institutional investors into the on-chain world.

Hashnote is a decentralized asset management platform that provides institutional-grade transparency, regulation, and simplified DeFi.

Maple Finance is an on-chain institutional capital marketplace that provides undercollateralized loans for institutional borrowers and fixed-income opportunities for lenders. The protocol is governed by the Maple Token (MPL), which enables token holders to participate in governance, share in fee revenues, and stake insurance in Lending Pools.

Secured Finance seeks to revolutionize decentralized finance by offering investment-bank-grade financial products and services for cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Utilizing decentralized ledger technology (DLT), it builds peer-to-peer derivative exchanges to cater for loans, forwards, swaps, and options.

Alluvial is a enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol that allows tokenholders to receive rewards from their staked digital assets, while ensuring that their digital assets are freely tradeable and usable in other DeFi applications. Alluvial's API-first integration makes it easy and efficient for digital asset exchanges, custodians, and other enterprises to integrate Liquid Collective's liquid staking capabilities into their existing product experiences.

Open Custody Protocol is a solution designed for modular custody that introduces an innovative relayer mechanism that seamlessly connects applications to a modular permissionless custody protocol. The Open Custody Protocol paves the way for traditional web3 businesses to effortlessly integrate with a multitude of key management technologies such as MPC, dMultisig, HSMs, and trusted custodians.

Gyld Finance is building institutional markets for staked digital assets, turning passive staking into actively managed, fixed income–style products. Backed by Lightshift and led by experienced founders from JP Morgan, R3, Nomura, and GSR, Gyld provides compliant, liquid, and scalable infrastructure for asset managers and digital asset treasuries.

PureFi is a compliance tool that enables traditional institutions to bridge the gap between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi).

Alkemi Network is an institution-grade liquidity network that enables professional DeFi for financial institutions and individuals to earn yields on their Ethereum-based digital assets.

Cicero is a contract-to-contract credit market for institutional borrowers. Its design will use a multiple pool approach to both mitigate risk and attract different lending appetites. Cicero’s core borrowers will be largely web3 market makers, selected hedge funds as well off-chain lending opportunities such a property bonds (RWAs).

TradeFinex is a decentralized trade finance platform on the XDC protocol, connecting financiers, suppliers, and beneficiaries for global contracts and payments.

Cicada is an on-chain credit risk management company facilitates the growth of institutional lending on public blockchains by enabling lenders to participate in risk-managed non-custodial lending products.

August (previously, Fractal) is building web3 infrastructure allowing all on-chain financial assets to interact with and collateralize against each other via a universal margin account – starting with existing crypto assets and expanding to real world assets.

Skolem is a full-stack DeFi platform that provides data and trade execution services for decentralized financial markets, enabling institutions to directly participate in DeFi markets. Its infrastructure and unique interface layer offer clients reliable execution, an easy-to-use web UI and API, and full trade lifecycle support.

Gamma Prime is an Institutional DeFi Platfrom that apply decades of TradFi MM strategies to Web3 space to generate real yield, drawing in institutional capital. Test trading strategies are operational and generating yield. Legal structures are in place for global regulatory compliance.

OpenTrade provides Web3 treasurers access to on-chain structured financial products backed by investment-grade, real-world financial assets. It sources short-term, investment-grade RWAs through a global network of financial institutions, asset managers, and B2B networks and structures them into yield-bearing, on-chain financial products.

Phlomis Finance is an institutional-grade on-chain investment platform that provides transparency and stability in any market through real-time financial data, impact metrics, and stablecoin-based payments. Its intuitive interface simplifies digital onboarding, investment tracking, and performance reporting.

Singularity is a compliant institutional DeFi access layer that provides access to popular protocols for institutional on-chain participants with commercial confidentiality. Users will have their wallet addresses obfuscated whilst leveraging existing DeFi liquidity. Singularity uses the state-of-the-art UltraPLONK proof system with zero-knowledge circuits based on Noir.

Fluidefi is a SaaS-based DeFi infrastructure provider that provides actionable analytics and risk ratings to institutional customers, enabling them to manage their DeFi portfolio and audit accounts.

dAMM is an uncollateralized lending platform for any token, with algorithmically determined interest rates. Market makers and investors can borrow on dAMM to provide liquidity and trade across all centralized and decentralized trading venues. Token suppliers and market makers can interact directly with the dAMM protocol to both supply and borrow token liquidity, without exorbitant fees, strenuous onboarding procedures, and bilateral deal negotiation.

Unido enables enterprises and institutional investors, such as hedge funds, asset managers, and digital banks, to seamlessly manage and invest in DeFi and crypto markets.

Arqos is the AI-powered execution layer for institutional DeFi.

Blockhouse is an institutional DeFi exchange for bond and credit derivatives, aims to bring the next generation of institutional users to the Cosmos with credit tokenization and hybrid AMM primitives. Institutions can leverage Blockhouse to trade bonds with pre-trade transparency, automatic execution, instant settlement, and minimal transaction costs.

With the Obligate platform, companies can issue on-chain bonds and commercial paper to obtain funding from a diverse range of investors. At the same time, investors get access to a wide range of regulated digital debt assets which can be secured with on-chain collateral. Utilizing smart contracts and tokenization instead of intermediaries such as paying and issuer agents, Obligate can reduce the costs associated with a bond issuance by 80% and reduce the time needed for an issuance from weeks to hours.

Umami is bridging the gap between the institutional market and DeFi by creating best-in-class DeFi Yield products and distributing them through its in-house digital asset custodian, Umami Advisors, and its expanding partnership network. It is launching its first suite of DeFi Yield Vaults, which will generate competitive yields on core crypto assets such as USDC, BTC, and ETH.

circle is a Hyperliquid-based earning application.

Casten is building a gateway for institutions of all sizes to invest and manage their DeFi-enabled structured finance products.

Spool is a composable and permissionless DeFi middleware that connects capital aggregators with DeFi yield generators to dynamically, automatically, and efficiently allocate funds and ensure optimized yields for custom strategies managed by DAO-curated risk models.