New Crypto Startups Incubated By YC This Year
The well-known venture capital company Y Combinator launches two incubation programs each year, selecting promising companies from global applicants to form the Winter Batch and Summer Batch. Selected projects receive $500,000 in seed funding, entrepreneurial advice, and industry resources provided by YC. In the latest Winter 2023 Batch, 8 new YC crypto startups were selected, mainly in the infrastructure fields of wallets, payments, and privacy.
Wallbit Pay
Wallbit Pay is a payment platform tailored for remote workers, allowing users to receive USD salaries or cryptocurrencies directly, as well as converting USD to cryptocurrencies with a low 1% fee, without the need for multiple intermediary platforms, thus saving on transaction fees. Wallbit Pay aims to significantly improve the way remote workers receive funds from abroad.
Website: https://wallbit.io
Map 3
Map 3 connects cryptocurrency services to wallets, exchanges, and bridges to achieve cross-chain deposits, provide real-time gas, and directly connect users to over 250 wallets and exchanges through open protocols, greatly reducing the possibility of sending to the wrong chain or address. In addition, Map 3 also provides payment and deposit integration with cross-chain bridging, forming seamless payments without changing the backend.
Website: https://map3.xyz
Littio
Littio is a USDC digital dollar bank account tailored for Latin Americans, providing convenient access to USDC savings and Mastercard debit cards, allowing users to easily store, send, and receive dollars. Littio aims to help Latin American people protect their savings and avoid the impact of currency devaluation in their countries.
Website: https://www.littio.co/
Koywe
Koywe provides a simple, fully documented, and fully compliant payment API and SDK, so any developer can immediately start leveraging cryptocurrency technology to provide services such as remittances, USD wallets, and investments, making it easy for businesses and individuals to convert between local fiat currency and cryptocurrencies.
Website: https://koywe.com
Magik
Magik is a global aggregator for converting fiat to cryptocurrency, which helps web3 applications accept payments from around the world and eliminates the need for web3 applications to integrate with multiple upstream providers in different geographic regions. In addition, Magik's SDK aggregates entry providers to provide users with the best exchange rates and lowest fees.
Website: https://magiklabs.io
ZeroDev
ZeroDev is an SDK built on top of ERC-4337 for building Web3 applications supported by account abstraction (AA). Using ZeroDev, easy-to-use applications can be created, allowing users to recover their accounts through friends without mnemonic phrases, allowing third-party payments to completely skip GAS, merging transaction steps to improve user experience, save time and cost, and enhance security.
Website: https://zerodev.app/
Chataverse
Chataverse is an NFT community messaging application that allows NFT holders and creators to communicate, socialize, and govern in a transparent and encrypted manner. Chataverse includes community management tools that can airdrop rewards with one click, allowing users to vote directly on new proposals in the NFT community, create and participate in community events, and aggregate wallets from multiple chains into one identity to display a unique NFT personal profile page, etc. Chataverse positions itself as the crypto-native Discord for NFT communities.
Website: https://chataverse.io/
Blyss
Blyss SDK uses homomorphic encryption (a form of encryption that allows computations to be performed on encrypted data without first having to decrypt it) as a new technology for enhancing privacy, allowing users to create storage buckets, write data to them, and privately retrieve data from them, enabling users to check if they have been exposed to data breaches without revealing their password information, privately resolving DNS in the browser without seeing every website the user visits, and preventing software vulnerability scanners from seeing the customer's codebase or scan results. Blyss SDK aims to enable new privacy-protecting applications and bring this new privacy field to every developer.
Website: https://blyss.dev/
