Crypto startup ecosystem
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AltFins
AltFins is a cloud-based platform for crypto traders to screen, analyze, and trade across multiple exchanges. It provides advanced charting, signals, and portfolio tools used by professional and institutional users. By 2026, AltFins has carved out a niche as a serious trading platform in the crypto analytics market.
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Bitstamp
Bitstamp is one of the oldest continuously operating cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, founded in 2011 in Ljubljana by Nejc Kodrič and Damijan Merlak as a European alternative to Mt. Gox, and the first crypto exchange to obtain an EU-wide payment-institution license via Luxembourg. The exchange became a workhorse for professional traders and corporate treasuries in the early bitcoin era because of its deep order books, straightforward fiat rails, and relatively boring, compliance-first posture compared to more speculative venues. Bitstamp has moved its headquarters structure across Luxembourg, London, and the US over the years but its Slovenian origin and engineering roots remain, and in 2024 Robinhood announced a USD 200 million acquisition to use Bitstamp as the backbone of its European and institutional crypto business — a validating exit that puts Slovenia on the map for globally significant crypto infrastructure. For the directory, Bitstamp is the canonical Slovenian fintech deep-tech story.
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Bitvavo
Bitvavo is an Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2018 that lets retail and institutional users buy, sell and store digital assets, and is one of the largest crypto trading platforms in the Benelux region by volume. It is registered with the Dutch central bank and has expanded across Europe under the EU's MiCA regulatory framework.
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Blockpit
Blockpit is a Linz-based crypto tax and portfolio compliance platform, founded in 2017 as one of Europe's earliest crypto tax regulation trailblazers. Its tools include a crypto tax calculator, portfolio tracker, tax optimizer, and source-of-funds reporting, generating more than 1 million tax reports for over 350,000 customers across Austria, Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and other markets. Legally Blockpit AG, the company made two acquisitions in 2020 and 2023 to expand its European crypto compliance footprint and is led by co-founders Florian Wimmer (CEO), Gerd Karlhuber (CFO), Magnus Berchtold (CPO), and Tom Buchsteiner (CTO).
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Coinify
Coinify is a Copenhagen-based crypto payments and trading company, legally Coinify ApS, whose management team has worked with virtual currencies since 2014. It helps merchants accept crypto payments with a financially compliant, easy-to-implement solution across 180 markets. Its products include trade and payment solutions, corporate trading, and an OTC broker service (Coinify+) for individuals, merchants, and corporate traders. The company has secured a MiCA licence under the EU's crypto-asset regulation framework.
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Digital Assets and the Future of Finance Summit 2026 (July 2026)
A full-day summit at City of Dreams Mediterranean on the convergence of crypto, blockchain and mainstream finance. Sessions cover MiCA and DORA regulation, the Digital Euro and CBDCs, stablecoins, tokenization of real-world assets and institutional digital-asset allocation, through keynotes, fireside chats and panels.
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Eric Larchevêque
Co-founder and former CEO of Ledger, the crypto hardware-wallet maker he co-founded in 2014 and grew into a global security leader. A serial entrepreneur, he is also a well-known figure in French startup media.
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EthCC 9 (Ethereum Community Conference) 2026
Europe's largest annual Ethereum conference, organized by the non-profit Ethereum France team and rotating between Paris and Brussels. The 9th edition draws 6,000+ developers, protocol researchers, DeFi founders, and L2 engineers for four days of deep-technical talks, core-dev working groups, and a packed satellite-event calendar of side meetups and hackathons. EthCC is the default summer checkpoint for the European crypto ecosystem — if you're building on Ethereum, this is where the conversations happen. Tickets EUR 600-1,500.
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EthCC[10] (Ethereum Community Conference) 2027
EthCC, the largest and longest-running annual European Ethereum event, returns to the Palais des Festivals in Cannes for its 10th edition, 12-15 April 2027. Organised by Ethereum France, the four-day event covers topics from core protocol and Layer 2s to DeFi, applied cryptography and regulation. Past speakers have included Vitalik Buterin and Stani Kulechov.
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ETHMilan 2026
Italy's largest Ethereum and Web3 conference, with 2,000+ attendees and 100+ speakers at the Leonardo da Vinci museum. A useful wedge event for web3 and crypto founders targeting the Italian and Southern-European builder community.
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Finery Markets
Finery Markets is a Limassol-based institutional crypto trading infrastructure company, founded in 2019 by Konstantin Shulga and Ilia Drozdov. The platform operates as a non-custodial, over-the-counter ECN connecting crypto businesses to deep liquidity pools across 200+ crypto and fiat currency pairs. In Q2 2024, the platform processed over $5 billion in trading volume, serving clients in 35+ countries. The company raised $5.5 million in seed funding in 2022 from investors including G1Ventures, gumi Cryptos, and Shima Capital.
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Flowdesk
Flowdesk is a Paris-based digital-asset trading and technology firm founded in 2020 that provides market-making, liquidity, and trading infrastructure for crypto tokens and exchanges. Its platform helps token issuers and trading venues manage liquidity across fragmented crypto markets. Founded by Guilhem Chaumont, Paul Bugnot, François Cluzeau, and Balthazar Giraux, the company has expanded internationally. After a $50M Series B led by Cathay Innovation in 2023, Flowdesk raised a $102M financing announced in 2025, led by HV Capital with debt provided by BlackRock-managed funds, to scale its market-making services.
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FUTURUM Event Agency
An event agency running the FUTURUM series of fintech, payments and crypto conferences across the Caucasus and Central Asia, including FUTURUM Payments Georgia in Tbilisi. Its events bring together payment providers, banks, fintech startups, crypto firms, investors and regulators for stage talks and curated networking.
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FUTURUM Payments Georgia 2026 (June 2026)
A one-day industry gathering at the Paragraph Tabori (Autograph Collection) in Tbilisi focused on payment infrastructure, cross-border settlements, acquiring, banking integrations, stablecoin payments and compliance. The format includes a main stage, roundtable sessions, a networking lounge and a VIP dinner, drawing payment providers, banks, fintech startups, crypto businesses, investors and regulators.
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G GATE CONF 2026 (June 2026)
A large multi-vertical affiliate-marketing and business conference at Expo Georgia, expecting up to 7,000 attendees across four indoor halls plus an open-air area. Verticals include crypto and finance, iGaming, nutra, dating and mVAS, with 50+ speakers, 100+ booths, a startup pitch segment, awards and a networking afterparty.
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Ledger
Ledger is the global leader in hardware wallets for cryptocurrency, providing secure cold-storage devices that protect digital assets offline. The company's Nano S and Nano X devices have sold over 6 million units worldwide, and its enterprise solution, Ledger Enterprise, serves institutional clients including funds and exchanges. Ledger also develops Ledger Live, a companion software for managing crypto portfolios. The company is a cornerstone of Europe's Web3 infrastructure ecosystem.
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Leslie Motta
Web3 advocate and public speaker known for the 'Crypto at the Border' initiative, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Speaks internationally on crypto adoption, financial inclusion, and the social impact of blockchain.
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Midas
Midas (Midas Software GmbH) is a Berlin-based fintech building infrastructure for tokenised real-world assets and composable on-chain investment products. It lets strategy managers turn institutional investment strategies into compliant, blockchain-based tokens (mTokens) that aim to give investors transparency, instant redemptions, and composability across DeFi protocols. Its first product, mTBILL, tokenises US Treasury bills as an ERC-20 token so holders can earn yield on-chain. The company describes itself as a German, BaFin-regulated and MiCA-compliant entity.
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MiddleGame Ventures
MiddleGame Ventures is a Luxembourg-headquartered fintech-focused venture capital firm co-founded in 2016 by Michael Meyer and Patrick Pinschmidt, with Pascal Bouvier as Managing Partner. The firm has deployed over €300 million across 50+ companies and raised a €150 million third fund with an initial close, backed by the Luxembourg Future Fund successor (SNCI). It focuses on open finance, embedded fintech, blockchain/crypto infrastructure, and automated financial data across Europe and North America. Portfolio includes Bitpanda, Carta, Keyrock, and Minna Technologies, with four unicorns and one IPO among its exits.
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Nicolas Bacca
Co-founder and former CTO of Ledger, designing the secure-element architecture behind its hardware wallets. He is a long-standing expert in Bitcoin and embedded security.
