AB In Action
Our Portfolio
We invested in projects to add long-term value and support
Silencio
Noise data bank on peaq
Silencio addresses the growing issue of noise pollution, a critical yet often overlooked environmental challenge. By leveraging peaq infrastructure, Silencio has created the world’s largest noise level databank through community-driven data collection using over 300,000 smartphones, mapping the area of the size of Paris everyday. This data is valuable across multiple industries such as real estate, urban planning, and academia. The platform’s gamified reward mechanism incentivizes users to contribute data, climbing up the leaderboard to earn more rewards.
TLX
Protocols offering leveraged tokens
TLX is a decentralized finance platform specializing in leveraged staking solutions. It allows users to amplify their staking yields by utilizing leverage, maximizing returns from their digital assets while maintaining security. By offering flexible leverage options, TLX enhances earning potential, making it a powerful tool for users looking to optimize their staking strategies in the DeFi space.
Light Protocol
ZK Layer on Solana
Light Protocol is a privacy-focused blockchain protocol that utilizes zero-knowledge (ZK) technology to provide secure and scalable private transactions. Its core innovation is ZK compression, which drastically reduces the on-chain state cost by orders of magnitude while ensuring privacy. Light Protocol is one of the first ZK protocol built on Solana, indicating its high market potential.
Laconic Network
A robust web3 offshore hosting platform
Laconic is a blockchain platform that delivers context-rich, trustworthy data to decentralized applications (dApps). What sets Laconic apart is its focus on providing verifiable data that is not just sourced but also contextualized to help dApp developers build secure, efficient solutions. By leveraging Web3 principles, Laconic ensures that the data is transparent, auditable, and immutable, addressing core issues of data authenticity and trust in decentralized ecosystems.
Peaq
Layer-1 on Polkadot
Peaq is a Layer-1 blockchain powering the Economy of Things on Polkadot.
Quasar
Interchain Asset Management on IBC
Quasar is a decentralized app-chain bringing ease to investing in the multi-chain universe. Quasar makes digital asset management simple, accessible, and secure. The platform is designed to easily create and join Vaults – independent asset containers equipped with IBC technology enabling interchain value capture in the Cosmos ecosystem and beyond.
Composable Finance
Modular-first DeFi suite
Composable Finance is our flagship incubation. Their vision is to be at the center of the shift to a modular-first reality for DeFi. This includes developing dApps, providing developers with tools, and orchestrating cross-chain communication. Composable Finance recently raised over $32M in Series A funding.
Pendulum
Connecting DeFi to FOREX
Pendulum’s mission is to build AMMs to introduce scalable liquidity pools for fiat currencies, and create yield-earning opportunities for fiat token holders.
Alluo
A simple mobile app that allows users to save and invest
Alluo is also a cross-chain yield optimization and liquidity direction protocol that directs liquidity coming from mobile app users to different protocols such as Curve Finance, Convex Finance, and others. Alluo recently closed their IDO, where they successfully auctioned ALLUO tokens at a total token valuation of $50M.
Panoptic
Options trading on Uniswap v3
Panoptic enables DeFi users to trade options on any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem, in a permissionless and non-custodial protocol. As such, it brings TradFi options trading to DeFi, and takes advantage of the significant assets and liquidity already on Uniswap v3.
Contango
Expirable futures without order books
When a trader opens a position, the protocol borrows on the fixed-rate market, swaps on the spot market, and then lends back on the fixed-rate market. Contango offers physical delivery and minimal price change for large trades. Contango recently closed a $4m seed round.
Maverick
A decentralized leveraged trading platform
The Maverick AMM uses a distribution curve that shifts liquidity to follow the TWAP to enable seamless and immediate spot swaps. This sets them apart from other DeFi trading platforms within the swaps market, as they are able to offer derivatives for exotic token pairs that are otherwise unavailable.
Moxy
Powering the play & earn revolution
Moxy is a decentralized gaming studio co-founded by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell that has debuted anovel Proof of Play mechanism and vault strategies. Moxy expands the gaming experience withblockchain technology and brings Play & Earn to the mainstream.
Round: Private sale 2
Myso Finance
Zero-liquidation loans
Myso Finance is building zero-liquidation loans that allow users to borrow USDC against their ETH holdings without having the risk.
Round: Seed
Polymer
Polymer is building IBC infrastructure.
Polymer is a multi-chain infrastructure DAO focused on building and operating Inter-BlockchainCommunication (IBC) infrastructure to enable cross-chain communication across all blockchain ecosystems.
NEAR
Securely store and stake your NEAR tokens and compatible assets with NEAR Wallet.
NEAR is a next-generation, highly scalable smart contract platform built for mass adoption through aparticular focus on best-in-class UX and DevXSecurely store and stake your NEAR tokens andcompatible assets with NEAR Wallet.
Celestia
A modular data availability network
Celestia is a modular data availability network designed to scale securely with the increasing number of users, allowing for the easy deployment of personalized blockchains. It facilitates the creation of scalable blockchain architectures, particularly modular blockchains, by separating execution from consensus and introducing a new element called data availability sampling.
Talisman
Multi-chain wallet
Talisman is a Web3 wallet that unlocks a universe of applications in Polkadot and Kusama. It allows users to take control of their crypto assets, leverage novel use cases and help shape the future of the project via a social layer
zCloak Network
Privacy and scalability for Web 3.0
zCloak Network provides Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Proof as a Service for the Polkadot Network. Their tools include a zk-STARK virtual machine (VM), ZK parachain services, and a Cloaking Service, all aimed at increasing privacy and allowing Polkadot to scale.
Manta Network
The first privacy-preserving protocol built for interoperability, scalability, and privacy
Limited scalability, speed, and security are common problems presently facing many of the mostprominent blockchain networks and projects that utilize them, like DEXes. Thus, the MantaNetwork provides a DEX that alleviates these issues via zk-SNARKS and other enhanced datasecurity solutions, reducing vulnerability to theft, fraud, and other malicious behavior.
AO
Decentralized Storage
Backed by Arweave, AO is a computation environment that coordinates different units to facilitate users' computational tasks. It allows processes to be executed and stored on Arweave while using local device memory. AO combines local memory usage with remote computation, and enabling node communication via AO’s transmission protocol. It decentralizes the architecture of the World Wide Web. Offering more memory for smart contracts than competitors like Internet Computer or Ethereum, AO enables new use Web3 cases, including simple AI models and entertainment services, enhancing development and user experiences.
Fractal
An Open-Source Protocol for Exchanging Data in a Fair and Open Way
The Fractal Protocol uses blockchain and cryptocurrency to enable advertising that maintains userprivacy while also promoting interaction with ads and products. This combats prevalent issues in theindustry including the lack of security, privacy, and guarantees that a user sees an ad - meaning bothadvertisers and users benefit from this protocol.
Round: Private sale
Arweave
Store Data, Permanently
Arweave enables the permanent storage of images, websites, and all other features of the internet,creating the “permaweb”. This is executed in a highly secured and fully decentralized manner, financiallyrewarding those providing storage space so that data is permanently stored across hundreds of devices,making it impervious to damages or loss. - Arweave has raised a total of $22M in funding from VC ́s like a16z and Coinbase
Energy Web Foundation
The grid’s new digital DNA
The Energy Web Foundation promotes value creation in the energy sector by building andpromoting an open, decentralized software infrastructure based on blockchain technology.
Element Finance
The Fixed Rate Protocol
Element Finance is an open source protocol which enables users to seek high fixed yield income in the DeFi market. - Element Finance has raised a $32 million Series A round at a $320 million valuation Oct/21- Total Value Locked $41.74m
Neon Labs
Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) on Solana
Neon Labs are building an Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) on Solana that will allowEthereum-based dApps to leverage the Solana ecosystem without having the need to know Rust, Solana’s programming language. This enables existing and future dApps to drasticallyshorten their deployment time. - Has recently raised $40 million in new funding via a private token sale.
Obol Network
The trustless staking infrastructure for Ethereum 2.0
Obol is a staking infrastructure provider built for truly decentralized staking of the distributed web. This trustless staking mechanism enables the creation of the concept of the “internet bond”, otherwise known as the internet’s risk-free rate. - has raised $6.15 million in a seed funding round in Q4/21
Mero
Reactive Liquidity
Backd enables users' liquidity to be reactive allowing them to trigger actions to be performed on theirliquidity based on their own defined events. This could be saving a loan or even executing trades onAMMs once a predetermined amount has been acquired through yield in pools.
Polkadot
Decentralized web 3.0 blockchain interoperability platform
Polkadot is a blockchain network that is being built to enable Web 3.0, a decentralized and fair internet where users control their own data and markets benefit from the network's efficiency and security. Polkadot was founded in 2016 by Gavin Wood, the former co-founder and CTO of Ethereum.
Ithil
The Web3 Wizard
Ithil is revolutionizing the DeFi landscape by providing a comprehensive suite of financial tools and products that cater to both retail and institutional investors. Ithil’s core innovation lies in its dynamic yield optimization engine, which autonomously shifts capital across multiple chains and liquidity pools to maximize returns. By utilizing machine learning algorithms, Ithil ensures optimal risk-adjusted yields for users, positioning itself as a key player in the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Teneo
The DePIN Data Layer
Teneo is a decentralized data infrastructure layer that leverages community-operated nodes to deliver real-time social media data at a fraction of traditional costs, making valuable insights accessible for AI, finance, and market analysis. By utilizing a user-driven network, Teneo bypasses conventional API limitations, offering a scalable and cost-effective solution for high-volume data needs across both Web2 and Web3 platforms layer
Instrumental Finance
Cross-layer, cross-chain strategy hub
Instrumental is a strategy hub powered by and for a cross-layer, cross-chain future for DeFi’s continuous growth. Instrumental Finance enables the unlocking of untapped potential for accessing yield from any chain and layer.
Warp Finance
LP-token based stabelcoin loans
Warp Finance provides a new use case for unused yield-bearing receipt tokens: acting as collateral in stablecoin loans. This allows users to leverage their existing digital assets to enhance their yields, while simultaneously incentivizing the liquidity mining process.
Forest Park
A modern operating system for institutional lending organizations
Forest Park is an operating system for institutional lenders that drastically decreases the duration of loan distributions.
Fragnova
Empowering the open metaverse builders
Fragcolor is an interoperable gaming protocol being built on Polkadot that allows in-game assets to transfer between games as well as for players and designers alike to create new in-game assets that can be utilized and integrated into new games
Round: Private sale 2
SDG Exchange (SGDx)
The first global sustainability asset marketplace
SDGx is a blockchain-based protocol developing a global sustainability marketplace dedicated to reversing climate change and making carbon trading more transparent. The platform allows countries and companies to use blockchain technology to track carbon, facilitate trading, and verify compliance basedon the Paris Agreement with an aim to reduce global warming by 1.5°C before 2030. The first global sustainability asset marketplace that aims to reverse climate change one transaction at a time
Sentinel dVPN
An open-sourced, decentralized virtual private network application you can trust
Sentinel dVPN is An open-sourced, decentralized virtual private network application. Sentinel brings decentralization to VPNs, delivering military-grade encryption and absolute transparency through serversaross the globe. The Sentinel dVPN provides live transparency stats and ensures user session data is not being logged.
Apricot Finance
Self-stabilizing, community driven and game theory enhanced liquidity protocol
Apricot aims to improve the crypto lending space by delivering the best-in-class borrowing power, lowestliquidation penalties, and highest predictability. Further benefiting users, Apricot provides more advancedborrowing options and requires less collateral, standing out from other crypto lending protocols.
Round: Seed
SigmaDex
Self-stabilizing, community driven and game theory enhanced liquidity protocol
SigmaDex is a self-stabilizing, community-driven and game theory enhanced liquidity protocol. SigmaDex uniquely offers a more equitable decentralized exchange, incentivizing fairness through game theory,community governance, and transparency. This platform’s most recent version also imparts the many added benefits of cross-chain interoperability
Tracebloc
Blockchain and machine learning based platform to reduce production line scrap
Tracebloc is a Blockchain and machine learning-based platform to reduce production line scrap.Tradebloc helps its customers by taking them on a data enablement journey, which ultimately savesproduction costs and generates additional revenue. The goal is to provide hands-on instruction tooptimize the production line and estimate the potential of data-driven production line optimization.
Stela Labs
Smart contract auditing firm
Advanced Blockchain's Stela Labs is a smart contract auditing firm that offers dual functionalities inauditing and developing smart contracts, particularly those related to the Web 3.0 vision and thedecentralized finance economy (DeFi). The Stela Labs team implements a comprehensive smart contractauditing and protocol building strategy that not only aims to make the projects it undertakes more securebut also more useful and impactful.
FinPro
Accessible asset investment for everyone
FINPRO is the excellence center for tokenization and NFT´s within Advanced Blockchain AG GroupTokenization of real-world assets, technical realization of innovative NFT projects as well as programming services in the field of tokenization position FINPRO as a leading full-service provider in emerging hypergrowth markets.
Nakamo.to
Web 3.0 Research
Founded in 2017, nakamo.to is a research company with a belief in unlocking more open, transparent,and participatory systems through the next wave of Web 3.0-based innovation and research.
Interoperable Infrastructure for DeFi
Profile
Composable aims to overcome the fragmented liquidity silos issue and the lack of cohesion between different blockchains in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.
Vision
Increasing accessibility, transparency, efficiency and security in decentralized finance (DeFi) across various ecosystems such as Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot, Polygon, Cosmos and NEAR, among others.
Recent Developments & Successes
- Planned launch of MANTIS token in the course of 2024.
- Raised €32m+ in Series A from GSR, Tendermint Ventures, Fundamental Labs, Coinbase Ventures, among others.
- +€85m USD volume achieved through Composables bridge solutions.
- Ethereum IBC testnet launched, enabling crypto transfers between various blockchain networks, paving the way for mainnet launch
- Launch of Picasso network and PICA token after one year of development.
Network for Economy of Things (EoT)
Profile
Through decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs), peaq aims to integrate machine owners' devices into the Web3 economy of things.
Vision
Enabling a new era of decentralized machine economy in which connected machines can autonomously provide services while humans earn through their DePINs.
Recent Developments & Successes
- Planned launch of the PEAQ token in the course of 2024.
- Raised €15m+ from Fundamental Labs, Hashkey Capital, GSR, Moonrock Capital, among others.
- Participated in the Fetch AI Foundation, a $100m foundation established by Fetch & Bosch to accelerate the development of the economy of things.
- Former CEO of Cisco Germany, Michael Ganser, joined recently the peaq Foundation as an executive.
Perpetual Options-Protokoll (ETH)
Profile
Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free options protocol developed on the Ethereum blockchain.
Vision
Overcoming the technically demanding task of implementing an options protocol on the Ethereum blockchain.
Recent Developments & Successes
- Raised €11m+ in Seed from Coinbase Ventures, Greenfield Capital, Hashkey Capital, among others.
- Launched the beta platform of the protocol on the Solana network.
- Received a grant from Alchemy's developer program and Arbitrum Foundation, confirming the central role of fostering innovation in the DeFi sector.
- Published the litepaper, a comprehensive and intuitive guide for the perpetual, oracle-free options protocol.