Axiom Zen is mostly known thanks to CryptoKitties, but the company does more than just game development. They quickly identified dApp games as a killer app for blockchain in Asia, and adjusted accordingly. They call themselves “an idea accelerator and builder” though. Their second most popular product is Zenhub, product management software used by NASA and companies like SONY or Google.

Market Segment Game Developer

Focused on Innovation Studio, Game development studio, Enterprise software builder

Gaming

#CryptoKitties

Located in Vancouver, Canada.

Raised funding 12.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Axiom Zen include Roham Gharegozlou.

Axiom Zen partnered with Fuel Games.

Cryptokitties / 谜恋猫 is a blockchain-based game that allows players to purchase, collect, breed and sell various types of virtual cats. In December 2017 a cryptokitty sold for 100k USD. It is still the most popular decentralized game with about 400 DAU in Sep 2018 and the game with largest ETH transaction volume.

Market Segment Decentralized Game

Focused on Virtual Pet

Gaming

#Blockchain-basedGame

#Ethereum

#Collectible

>> Similar to Etheremon, MyCryptoHeroes

Located in Axiom Zen: Vancouver, Canada.

Personalities involved in Cryptokitties (dApp Game) include Animoca, Benny Giang, Bryce Bladon, Dieter Shirley, Fabiano Soriani, Guile Gaspar, Mack Flavelle, Mik Naayem, Roham Gharegozlou.

Cryptokitties (dApp Game) partnered with Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz.

Studio that aims to rebuild the future of gaming with blockchain technology. Their vision goes that the invention of blockchain changed how value is defined and therefore it is needed to create new business models for relevant industries. In December 2018 raised 200 million yen through Gumi Group and are currently hiring for tech and non-tech positions.

Market Segment Game Developer

Focused on Game development studio

Gaming

#MyCryptoHeroes

Located in Tokyo, Japan.

Raised funding 1.85 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in double jump Tokyo include Koen Uno, Tadashi Miyazaki.

double jump Tokyo partnered with Gumi Group, DLE Group, EMONT Alliance.

Etheremon is a decentralized game on the ETH blockchain where players can own and train Ether Monsters (Mons) who can then explore game sites and gain tokens that can be further exchanged. Etheremon is the second most popular blockchain game by DAU after Cryptokitties. Etheremon is developing a module on Zilliqa blockchain making use of their blockchain grant (undisclosed amount).

Market Segment Decentralized Game

Focused on Ether Monsters

Gaming

#Collectible

#Ethereum

#Zilliqa

>> Similar to CryptoKitties, MyCryptoHeroes

Located in EMONT Alliance: Singapore.

Personalities involved in Etheremon (dApp Game) include Jake Tran.

Etheremon (dApp Game) partnered with EMONT Alliance, Kyber Network.

Australian game development studio founded in June 2018 and funded in seed round by Coinbase, Sora Ventures, Nirvana and Continue Capital. Fuel Games focus on blockchain gaming exclusively, having developed a platform for speedy integration of cryptoassets into existing games, no middleware-token needed.

Market Segment Game Developer

Focused on Game development studio, Deployment platform

Gaming

#ApolloPlatform

#GodsUnchained

#CryptoKitties

>> Similar to Axiom Zen, double jump, Platinum Egg

Located in Fuel Bros Pty. Ltd.: Sydney, Australia.

Raised funding 2.4 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Fuel Games include James Ferguson, Robbie Ferguson.

Fuel Games partnered with Axiom Zen (CryptoKitties), Coinbase, Nirvana Capital, Continue Capital.

Casual esports dApp game by Fuel Bros Digital Ventures, the creators of Etherbots. Players engage in battles and collect rare tokenized cards.

Market Segment Decentralized Game

Focused on Collectibles, eSports

Gaming

#Ethereum

#Gaming

>> Similar to Etheremon, MyCryptoHeroes

Located in Fuel Bros Pty. Ltd.: Sydney, Australia.

Personalities involved in GodsUnchained (dApp Game) include James Ferguson.

GodsUnchained (dApp Game) partnered with Coinbase, Continue Capital, Nirvana Capital, Sora Ventures.

MCH is a blockchain game where players purchase Heros and game extensions, then send Heroes to acquire territories. There are free Heroes available too and playing MCH does not cost gas as the game runs on the Loom Network ETH side chain. Developed Heroes can be sold on a marketplace, the game comes with a game money (GUM) and has ICO in Sep 2018.

Market Segment Decentralized Game

Focused on Heroes

Gaming

#RPG

#Blockchain-basedGame

#Ethereum

#Collectible

>> Similar to Etheremon

Located in double jump.tokyo Co., Ltd.: Tokyo, Japan.

Raised funding 0.0 MM USD
via ICO

MyCryptoHeroes (dApp Game) partnered with EMONT Alliance, Go Wallet, Play dApp, WAX, OTAKU Coin, Token Pocket.

OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for tokenized digital goods. It is mostly used as an independent marketplace for crypto collectibles - unique collectible digital assets that gamers can gain when playing a blockchain game. These assets often come in small series and sometimes have properties that give their owner an edge in the game, which then enables the player to earn more of the in-game token which has a monetary value. Some collectibles have high value only because they are rare, though.

Hiring!

Market Segment Marketplace for Collectibles

Focused on Collectibles, Trading

Gaming

#Collectible

#Ethereum

#ERC-721

>> Similar to Looksrare

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 2.1 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Opensea include Alex Atallah, Devin Finzer.

Opensea partnered with Coinbase Ventures, Blockstack.

Development studio active since 2002 that has created more than 100 games, some of them on contract for bigger platforms. They recently added blockchain gaming to their portfolio, having focused on mobile games and PS2 before.

Market Segment Game Developer

Focused on Game development studio

Gaming

#ShiningForceNeo

#RiseofMana

Located in Tokyo, Japan.

Personalities involved in Platinum Egg include Nariya Takemura.

Platinum Egg partnered with BitMatrix.

Market Segment dApps

Focused on Messaging

Blockchain Technology

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Argentinian startup for dApp security audits.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

Located in Buenos Aires, Argentins.

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.

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.

Market Segment dApps

Focused on Messaging

Blockchain Technology

Located in London.

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.

Hiring!

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.

Hiring!

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.

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.

Hiring!

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.

Originally an infosec company founded in 2006, operating also in blockchain security since 2016.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Consulting

#dAppSecurity

#Audits

Located in New Delhi, India.

OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for tokenized digital goods. It is mostly used as an independent marketplace for crypto collectibles - unique collectible digital assets that gamers can gain when playing a blockchain game. These assets often come in small series and sometimes have properties that give their owner an edge in the game, which then enables the player to earn more of the in-game token which has a monetary value. Some collectibles have high value only because they are rare, though.

Hiring!

Market Segment Marketplace for Collectibles

Focused on Collectibles, Trading

Gaming

#Collectible

#Ethereum

#ERC-721

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 2.1 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Opensea include Alex Atallah, Devin Finzer.

Opensea partnered with Coinbase Ventures, Blockstack.

Bethereum is an innovative social betting solution built on the Ethereum blockchain. Primarily a sports book, users can wager on sports events or participate in airdrop games with the platform’s native Bether token.

Market Segment Native Crypto Sports Betting

Focused on Ethereum Casino, Ethereum Gambling

Gambling

#ETH

#Sportsbook

Located in Hong Kong.

Personalities involved in Bethereum include Peter Gal, Martin Herman, Giacomo Tognoni, Philip Staehelin, Alex Zelvin, Stanislav Sebest.

Bethereum partnered with IDEX, CoinTiger, AERUM.

Cloudbet is a bitcoin gambling site licensed by E-Gambling Montenegro. They run crypto betting on sports events and also a bitcoin casino with entertainment and the classic games that you know from any online casino. In 2019, Cloudbet has been running a bonus campaign every Thursday for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash deposits.

Market Segment Native Crypto Betting

Focused on Sportsbook

Gambling

#NativeCryptoBetting

>> Similar to Nitrogen Sports

Located in Montenegro.

The first bitcoin sports betting platform that is anonymous, but filters access based on IP address. If you are allowed access, you can bet in bitcoin anonymously & securely on #NFL #MLB #NHL #NCAA #UCL #eSports. Nitrogensports also has a bitcoin casino with Blackjack, Poker & Dice.

Market Segment Native Crypto Betting

Focused on Sportsbook, Casino

Gambling

#Casino

#Gambling

#Sportsbook

>> Similar to Cloudbet

Located in EU.

Primedice is the original Bitcoin dice site that has been operating since 2013.

Market Segment Native Crypto Gambling

Focused on Dice, Entertainment

Gambling

#Casino

#Gambling

#Gaming

Satoshi Dice is a decentralized application, or dApp, where players can instantly roll dice after sending in a Bitcoin Cash deposit.

Market Segment Native Crypto Gambling

Focused on Dice, Entertainment

Gambling

#BCH

#Casino

#Gambling

#Dice

Located in Decentralized.