When Satoshi Nakamoto first articulated his vision for Bitcoin in 2008, there was no such thing as the crypto industry. Now, Nakamoto, whose identity still remains hidden, is just one of many personalities who have helped birth an entire new asset class. There are countless cryptocurrencies, thousands of digital asset companies, and an entire class of blockchain billionaires.
Suffice to say, crypto is bigger than just a handful of large companies and protocols. That’s why, supplementary to the Fortune Crypto 100, Fortune’s staff decided to separately recognize 30 companies and projects that are pushing the digital assets ecosystem forward. Fortune’s Lists team sorted through more than 150 nominations as well as pored through multiple databases of top companies to choose the winners.* Here they are below, unranked and in alphabetical order:
Amber Group
Category: Crypto Services
Six former Wall Streeters founded Amber Group, a Singapore-based institutional wealth management firm, in 2017 to serve institutions and high-net-worth individuals. The company is one of just a handful of Asia-based crypto finance firms that trade on a major U.S. exchange, following the listing of its subsidiary, Amber Premium, on the Nasdaq in 2025.
Cardano
Category: Blockchains & Protocols
After exiting the development team behind Ethereum in 2014, Charles Hoskinson began developing the proof-of-stake blockchain called Cardano. The network launched in 2017 and its native token, ADA, boasts a market capitalization of more than $8.3 billion as of June 2026.
Crypto.com
Category: CeFi
Gary Or, Bobby Bao, Rafael Melo, and CEO Kris Marszalek founded Crypto.com in 2016 as a crypto exchange and card issuer. The company is also a strategic crypto partner for Trump Media and Technology Group, in which President Donald Trump owns a majority stake.
DBS Bank
Category: TradFi
Singapore’s largest bank, DBS is one of the most active major financial institutions in the crypto industry. The company, which was founded in 1968, operates the DBS Digital Exchange and cofounded the Partior blockchain settlement network with JPMorgan Chase and Temasek.
Electric Capital
Category: VCs
The Palo Alto-based venture firm has been an early backer of several notable crypto firms and protocols, including Anchorage Digital, Bitwise, and EigenLayer. Founded in 2018 by Curtis Spencer and Avichal Garg, Electric Capital has also become well-known for its annual crypto developer report, which measures network activity across major blockchains.
Elliptic
Category: Crypto Services
Elliptic is one of the oldest blockchain analytics firms, helping exchanges and law enforcement agencies track and trace crypto-related crimes. Adam Joyce, James Smith, and Tom Robinson founded the London-based company in 2013.
Gate Global
Category: CeFi
Gate Global is a top-10 cryptocurrency exchange by volume. Registered in Panama, it was founded by its CEO, Dr. Lin Han, in 2013 and reports over 50 million users as of March 2026.
Glassnode
Category: Crypto Services
Glassnode tracks different metrics, including market volatility and active crypto addresses, and is widely cited among institutional research firms covering the industry. Yann Allemann, Rafael Schultze-Kraft, and Jan Happel founded the onchain analytics firm in 2018.
HashKey Group
Category: Crypto Services
HashKey Group operates Hong Kong’s largest licensed crypto exchange and became the first crypto firm to list via IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in December 2025. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Xiao Feng, the company has a market capitalization of $1.1 billion as of June 2026.
Kalshi
Category: CeFi
Kalshi has emerged as one of the largest prediction markets in the U.S. since Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara founded the company in 2018. The startup recently received approval to list perpetuals, a type of derivative popular among crypto traders, and plans to offer the contracts for multiple digital assets.
Keyrock
Category: Crypto Services
The Brussels-based crypto market maker reached a $1.1 billion valuation in March 2026 after Standard Chartered’s venture arm, SC Ventures, led a Series C round. Jeremy de Groodt, Juan David Mendieta, and Kevin de Patoul founded the firm in 2017.
Komainu
Category: Crypto Services
Komainu is a digital asset custodian founded in 2018 as a venture between Ledger, CoinShares, and Nomura. The firm custodies over $10 billion in client assets and raised $75 million in January 2025.
LMAX Group
Category: Crypto Services
Online betting giant Betfair spun out LMAX Group in 2010, with Goldman Sachs taking a minority stake. In 2018, the firm launched its crypto exchange LMAX Digital, which also provides key data to help settle CME crypto futures as well as major spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs.
LTP
Category: Crypto Services
Founded in 2021 by CEO Jack Yang, LiquidityTech Protocol is a crypto prime broker with offices in Hong Kong. The company serves more than 300 institutions and holds regulatory licenses in Australia, Hong Kong, Spain, and the British Virgin Islands.
Maple Finance
Category: DeFi
Struck hard by the 2022 crypto crash, the crypto credit platform Maple Finance now manages over $4 billion in assets. The firm, founded in 2019 by CEO Sid Powell and Joe Flanagan, lets institutions borrow and issue debt on blockchain rails.
Monad
Category: Blockchains & Protocols
In 2024, Eunice Giarta as well as former Jump Trading engineers Keone Hon and James Hunsaker raised a $225 million funding round led by Paradigm to build a blockchain network capable of handling high-frequency trading. The Monad blockchain launched the following year in 2025.
Nansen
Category: Crypto Services
Nansen is an analytics platform that enables researchers and investors to examine how cryptocurrencies move between accounts, apps, and exchanges. Founded by CEO Alex Svanevik, Evgeny Medvedev, and Lars Bakke Krogvig in 2019, Nansen counts a16z and Coinbase Ventures as backers.
Nubank
Category: Fintechs
Nubank is a Brazilian neobank founded in 2013 by Edward Wible, Cristina Junqueira, and CEO David Vélez. Berkshire Hathaway was an early backer before exiting its investment, and Nubank launched crypto trading via the crypto infrastructure company Paxos in 2022.
OnePay
Category: Fintechs
OnePay is a digital banking app launched by Ribbit Capital and mega retailer Walmart in 2021, offering users discounts and rewards when shopping online or in-store. The company added Bitcoin and Ethereum trading in 2025.
Partior
Category: Crypto Services
Launched in 2021 as a 24/7 blockchain-based clearing and settlement tool for major banks, Partior was founded by DBS, Temasek, Standard Chartered, and JPMorgan Chase. In 2024, it raised more than $60 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV.
Pendle Finance
Category: DeFi
Pendle Finance is one of crypto’s largest fixed-income protocols, with more than $1.1 billion in total value locked. The network was founded in 2020 by CTO Vu Nguyen and CEO TN Lee, former Digix and Kyber Network employees.
Polymarket
Category: CeFi
Polymarket lets users bet on the outcome of sports matches, weather events, and what the U.S. President will say during his next speech. Since its founding in 2020, the company has grown into one of the largest blockchain-based prediction markets in the world—making its 27-year-old founder Shayne Coplan a billionaire.
SBI Holdings
Category: TradFi
SBI Holdings is a Japanese financial services firm founded in 1999 by CEO Yoshitaka Kitao. The company operates the SBI VC Trade exchange and is the largest external shareholder of the crypto company Ripple, with a roughly 9% stake.
State Street
Category: TradFi
The more than 230-year-old custodian bank State Street launched its crypto arm in 2021 and is expected to roll out tokenization services in 2026 as part of Wall Street’s wider push into the crypto industry. The Boston-based firm manages $5.6 trillion in assets as of March 2026.
Sygnum
Category: CeFi
Sygnum was one of the first regulated banks to offer crypto services. As of 2025, it managed roughly $6 billion in client assets across more than 80 countries. Manuel Krieger, Gerald Goh, Mathias Imbach, and Luka Müller founded the Swiss-Singaporean digital asset bank in 2017.
TeraWulf
Category: Miners
Although TeraWulf began as a low-carbon Bitcoin mining firm in 2021, the firm, like many others in the mining industry, pivoted to AI infrastructure in 2025 via a major hosting partnership with cloud provider Fluidstack. Paul Prager and Nazar Khan founded the Maryland-based company.
TRM Labs
Category: Crypto Services
Many private financial firms and public sector agencies use TRM Labs to trace crypto-related crimes. Founded in 2018 by Rahul Raina and Esteban Castaño, the company raised $70 million in February 2026 at a $1 billion valuation.
Vantage Markets
Category: TradFi
Vantage Markets is an Australian CFD broker founded in 2009 by Christian Dove. The firm offers crypto CFDs and more than 1,000 products to around 5 million reported global clients.
Yellow Card
Category: Crypto Services
Founded in 2016 by Auburn University students Chris Maurice and Justin Poiroux, Yellow Card started as a crypto exchange focused on Africa but has since invested heavily into stablecoin infrastructure. The startup counts the crypto investor Polychain as well as Jack Dorsey’s Block as backers.
Zerohash
Category: Crypto Services
Edward Woodford and Brian Liston founded Zerohash in 2017, and the firm has since helped traditional financial firms such as BlackRock and Stripe integrate crypto and stablecoin services. In 2025, Interactive Brokers led a $104 million fundraise for Zerohash, valuing the company at $1 billion.
*Inca Digital did not contribute data to this list.
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