Polkadot is built to connect private/consortium chains, public/permissionless networks, oracles, and future technological developments yet to be created in the Web3 ecosystem. It enables an internet where independent blockchains can exchange information and trust-free transactions via the Polkadot relay chain, with the key tenets of scalability, governance, and interoperability.

NEAR Protocol is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. It serves clients operating in the financial services industries as well as individuals. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Zug, Switzerland.

SKALE Labs is solving the blockchain scalability problem. The Skale network protocol is an open-source effort that combines best-in-class cryptography and decentralization with technology from the big data world. The Skale network is capable of running millions of smart contracts and transactions per second, facilitating an optimized interaction between dApps and blockchains.

Venly provides solutions that integrate with blockchain projects. Its offerings include a digital wallet (Venly Wallet), a marketplace for buying and selling NFTs (Venly Marketplace), and a platform to create, manage, distribute, and secure NFTs (Venly NFT Tools). Venly was founded in 2018 and is based in Willebroek, Belgium.

Boba is an L2 Ethereum scaling & augmenting solution. It was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Stellar is a nonprofit that provides a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies. This means users can, for example, send a transaction from their Yen balance and have it arrive in Euros, Yen, or even bitcoin. The company is expecting to support the usual categories of transactions: payments to a merchant, remittances back home, or rent splits with a roommate.