D1 Ventures - Crypto Investment Agency
D1's key investments include Ether, Polkadot, Near and their ecological native scenario applications. Its representative investments are as follows: Polkadot: Polkadot, a new generation of public chain incorporating heterogeneous fractionation and cross-chain technology; DODO: Active Market Maker (PMM) algorithm driven...
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D1's key investments include Ether, Polka, Near and their ecological native scenario applications. Their representative investments are as follows.
- Polkadot: Polka, a new generation of public chains incorporating heterogeneous fractionation and cross-chain technologies.
- DODO: Active Market Maker (PMM) algorithm driven DEX.
- The Graph: a data indexing and querying layer for Web 3.0.
- Near Protocol: a fully fractionated, scalable PoS blockchain network.
- Octopus Network: an application chain network built on Near.
- Web3API: Web 3.0 Common Integration Standard.
- Litentry: a Web 3.0 decentralized identity management service.
- Efinity: a blockchain on Boca built specifically for NFT.
- Zenlink: a polka-based cross-chain DEX protocol.
- Handshake: decentralized domain name system.
- Whale: A project created by WhaleShark, the NFT giant whale.
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