The trading firm affiliated with FTX, at the center of the 2022 collapse.

A federally chartered U.S. crypto bank and custodian.

A venture firm whose crypto funds back many Layer 1s, DeFi protocols, and consumer apps.

Cathie Wood's firm, partner on ARKB, a spot Bitcoin ETF.

The world's largest centralized crypto exchange by volume, with a spot book, derivatives, and a large listing machine.

A crypto exchange historically tied to Tether's early distribution and to large professional spot flow.

A digital asset infrastructure company offering wallet, custody, and related institutional services through different products and legal entities.

One of the oldest surviving euro-friendly centralized exchanges.

The world's largest asset manager and issuer of IBIT, a leading spot Bitcoin ETF.

Jack Dorsey's company behind Cash App, Square, and Bitcoin mining and protocol investments.

Bitcoin infrastructure company known for Liquid, mining, and satellite broadcast experiments.

A company-run venue that holds custody, matches orders, and lists pairs. Users deposit to the exchange wallet.

A blockchain analytics firm used by exchanges and governments for compliance and investigations.

The issuer of USDC, a regulated dollar stablecoin reserved in cash and short-term U.S. Treasuries.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which lists cash-settled Bitcoin and ether futures used by institutions.

A U.S.-listed centralized exchange and custodian, also a prime broker and the issuer path for coinbase-wrapped assets like cbETH.

A long-running crypto news site, historically linked to industry events like Consensus.

An Ethereum-focused company that builds MetaMask, Infura, and institutional Ethereum tooling.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the U.S. post-trade utility that clears and settles most American securities.

A crypto compliance and blockchain analytics company.

A major U.S. asset manager and crypto custodian, issuer of the FBTC spot Bitcoin ETF and related products.

A collapsed centralized exchange whose 2022 failure froze customer funds and reshaped U.S. enforcement.

A crypto merchant bank and asset manager founded by Mike Novogratz.

An exchange and custodian founded by the Winklevoss twins, with a New York trust charter.

The issuer of GBTC and other crypto trusts, later converted in part to spot ETFs.

An umbrella of open-source enterprise DLT projects hosted by the Linux Foundation.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, which writes the legal contracts behind most OTC derivatives.

BlackRock's ETF brand, including IBIT and other crypto-linked funds.

A long-running U.S. and global exchange known for spot markets, staking, and a relatively conservative listing culture.

A Linux Foundation umbrella organization for open-source distributed ledger, identity, and related trust technologies, incorporating the Hyperledger ecosystem.

A card network that partners with crypto issuers and on-ramps for card-linked spend.

The most widely used EVM browser wallet, built by Consensys.

A software company that became a leveraged public proxy for Bitcoin by holding a large BTC treasury.

A large global exchange for spot and derivatives, also active in Web3 wallets and on-chain products.

A crypto-native investment firm known for research and large protocol bets.

A regulated U.S. trust company that issues PYUSD and has issued other dollar tokens for partners.

A payments company that offers crypto buying and issued PYUSD, a dollar stablecoin with Paxos.

The company that builds RippleNet payment software and is closely associated with the XRP Ledger and XRP.

A U.S. retail brokerage that added crypto trading alongside stocks and options.

Builders of Starknet and STARK proving technology.

A payments company that has returned to crypto settlement and stablecoin payouts for merchants.

The issuer of USDT, the most used dollar stablecoin by volume, reserved in a mix of cash, Treasuries, and other assets.

The dominant charting platform for TA, alerts, and social ideas across crypto and traditional markets.

Candles, drawings, and Pine Script indicators that most crypto CT screenshots come from.

An asset manager with early crypto ETPs in Europe and later U.S. spot Bitcoin products.

A card network experimenting with stablecoin settlement while remaining the main retail-payments rail.

An issuer of crypto and tokenized-fund products in the U.S. and Europe.