• Aplo: Moving Crypto at Institutional Scale
    Jun 23 2022

    Aplo (previously known as SheeldMarket) is an EU-registered broker that offers financial institutions fast, direct, and secure access to a multitude of digital assets through a single trading platform: one market to rule them all. A Fall 2019 alumnus of Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, SheeldMarket is a story of friendship and constant hustle.

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    51 mins
  • Moon: Helping You Control Your Financial Destiny
    Jun 6 2022

    Moon is a crypto challenger bank and BaaS platform uniquely suited to enable Bitcoiners, crypto natives, and the un/underbanked to live on crypto. It seeks to serve the least fortunate among us — the billions of globally un/underbanked who are excluded from the modern financial system.

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    48 mins
  • Building a Decentralized Ecosystem at UC Berkeley
    Jun 5 2022

    Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator is a non-dilutive program that incubates top entrepreneurs and scientists from around the world. There are 65 alumni teams which have secured over $400 MM in follow-on funding.

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    48 mins
  • Metaengine: Holy Grail of GameFi and NFTs
    Jun 3 2022

    Metaengine is a game development engine native to Web3 and metaverse use cases. Built for massive multiplayer experiences and real time collaborative development, it is a new way for users to engage with game worlds and for developers to create for these worlds.

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    45 mins
  • Aplo: Moving Crypto at Institutional Scale
    Jun 3 2022

    Aplo (previously known as SheeldMarket) is an EU-registered broker that offers financial institutions fast, direct, and secure access to a multitude of digital assets through a single trading platform: one market to rule them all. A Fall 2019 alumnus of Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator, SheeldMarket is a story of friendship and constant hustle.

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    51 mins
  • From FireChat to Crypto: Empowering People Through Nodle
    Feb 14 2022

    Nodle enables anyone with a smartphone to earn through Nodle Cash, built on Polkadot Substrate. It began as a crowdsourced IoT network with 30 million devices and sensors. Micha Benoliel is not only the cofounder of Nodle, but also, the founder of FireChat which helped pro-democracy students around the world through a decentralized "giant smartphone infrastructure."

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    47 mins
  • Mooch: Helping You Help Yourself in Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
    Jan 13 2022

    Mooch is an automatic budgeting app for your bills, expenses, and savings. It provides you digital envelopes that earn interest on cryptocurrency and smart contract applications, wherein you earn interest through DeFi. Mooch is a recent alum of Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator. Hear from Richard Velasquez, the founder, about his personal journey.


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    38 mins
  • OPGames: Hustle and Humility Behind the Hype
    Jan 9 2022

    OPGames is a Cohort 3 alum: gaming platform, protocol, and community in Web 3.0 that pushes the boundary of token incentive mechanisms and non-fungible tokens (NFT). Hear from Chase Freo, CEO and cofounder, about doing his first startup in the blockchain space, raising a seed round of $8.5+ MM, and building a team of 30+ people.

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    43 mins