Non-Fungible Token (NFT) startups
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User-generated content drove the second wave of the Web; will 'User-owned' content drive the third one? NFTs are betting on this. Nearly $5B in VC funding were invested in NFT startups in 2022, up 50x since 2020. 2023 saw a strong correction with 1/10 of the activity. NFT sales grew 100x from $20M in 2020 to a peak of
Art, media, music and gaming marketplaces
69 companies
OpenSea Rarible Rare Bits Nifty Gateway SuperRare Crypto.com V-Art KnownOrigin XLR8R OpenBazaar Renaissance crypto Mintable
Blockchain Infrastructure
20 companies
Ethereum WAX Flow Immutable StarkWare Industries Cardano ZeppelinOS Terra0 Algorand Enjin Polygon Charged particles
Gaming platforms & collectibles
88 companies
Cryptokitties Sorare Animoca Brands Gamee Mythical Games The Sandbox Cryptomotors Sky Mavis Axie Infinity Faraway My crypto heroes CryptoFighters
Token creators
14 companies
Dapper Labs ChiliZ Larva Labs EulerBeats Mokens Candy Digital Laguna Games Supertree Pixel Vault ART101.io Superplastic Yuga Labs
Platforms & protocols
27 companies
Forte Foundation Labs, Inc. Alchemy Zora Asynchronous Art Bondly finance Rally 0xcert Xooa Near Protocol Project GigLabs Nonce Finance
Others (certificates, registry, support tools)
19 companies
Arianee MetaMask Codex Protocol DappRadar Allora Labs BitCrystals NonFungible Polkamarkets Labs State of the DApps Roll CoinMarketCap CoinGecko
Payment infrastructure
2 companies
Circle MoonPay
Insurance
4 companies
YAS Digital Limited Tidal Finance Insured.finance Armor.fi
Crypto exchanges expanding into NFTs
5 companies
Binance Gemini FTX Coinbase ApeSwap
"Shopify" for NFTs
4 companies
Bitski NFTically nameless Metaplex
Storage services
1 companies
NFT Storage
NFT platform for user data privacy and security
1 companies
Snickerdoodle Labs
Showcasing platforms: virtual museums, Digital Frames
12 companies
Museum of Crypto Art Museum of Contemporary Digital Art Blackdove Tokenframe Qonos Flawn Showtime Infinite Objects NFT BAZL Hyype Cyber Spatial io
Entertainment giants launching NFTs initiatives
1 companies
Fox Networks
Marketplaces planning to add NFTs trading
5 companies
eBay Taobao Alibaba Alt Platform Shopify
Established brands experimenting with NFTs
13 companies
Real Madrid C.F. Liverpool FC Bayern Lamborghini William Grant & Sons Nike McDonald's The Economist Group Adidas Budweiser MGAE Vodafone
Virtual worlds
7 companies
Decentraland Somnium Space Upland Cryptovoxels munich nft Neonexus Everyrealm
Social media monetizing with NFT
4 companies
Instagram Meta X. Reddit
Social platform for NFT
4 companies
Niftys edenft Gallery Islands
Digital fashion
6 companies
Metafactory Aglet DIGITALAX DressX Rtfkt Futures Factory
Web 3.0 Domains
3 companies
Unstoppable Domains Ethereum name services Handshake
Finance
10 companies
NFTBank NIFTEX NFT20 NFTfi Drops Nexo Arcade Fusible Bliv.Club Metastreet
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)
5 companies
FWB Whale.me ArkGallery FlamingoDAO roboDAO
Decentralized music streaming
6 companies
Audius Rocki nft OPUS Siki Brots Tamago
NFT for nature conservation
14 companies
IUCN Green List Exchange NFTREE Beneath the waves Project Ark Nori Aerial Carb0n.fi Islands of Cool Carbonized.xyz Absurd Arboretum Cryptotrunks SavePlanetEarth
Intelligent NFTs for the Metaverse
1 companies
Alethea
Art giants getting into NFTs
1 companies
Sotheby’s
Verification services for NFTs
1 companies
Adobe Systems
NFT for Identity and KYC
1 companies
Goldfinch
Gaming companies entering NFT gaming
2 companies
Zynga Ubisoft Entertainment
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