The rating of Forbes Fintech 50 includes projects that lead or become the most promising, according to the editorial Board, in the FINTECH industry. The list includes nine projects that develop their products based on blockchain technology, as well as two projects whose activities combine cryptographic industry and classical financial instruments. It is noteworthy that the founders of the three projects — the Bitfury Group, Coinbase and Ripple — also hit the Forbes list as "the richest people in the crypto industry."
The Bitfury Group is a blockchain company, the largest industrial miner outside China, developer of software and hardware for working with bitcoin blockchain.
Blockchain.info -bitcoin wallet service and block browser provides data on the latest transactions created by blocks in the blockchain, as well as economic tables, statistics and tools for developers.
Chain is a San Francisco-based technology company that develops blockchain solutions for financial companies.
New York city Chainalysis project, which is used to track bitcoin transactions by almost all U.S. agencies, as well as European organizations such as Europol. How Chainlysis works we wrote in one of our articles.
Coinbase-the largest company in the bitcoin industry, which became the first in the ecosystem "unicorn" with an investment estimate of more than one billion dollars. Coinbase is convenient cryptocurrency exchange and a system of wallets for storing Bitcoin, Cash Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin.
Ripple-blockchain project for cross-border payments. Transactions can be executed using the XRP token, but at this stage, no Bank has made a commitment to use the cryptocurrency of the project.
The project from Palo Alto Robinhood is a mobile application for stock trading on the stock market, as well as for bitcoin and ether trading without commissions. Also in the application, users will be able to track the price of some other cryptocurrencies, including ripple and litecoin.
ShapeShift is a decentralized exchange founded by Eric Voorhees, which allows users to make transactions with 70 cryptocurrencies.
Startup Symbiont, in which the head of Alibaba Group Jack MA invested. The company develops smart contracts that optimize business processes in the markets of public and private securities.
Veem — allows companies to send and receive payments worldwide with the use of technology is Swift, and with the help of blockchain developments.
Xapo is a bitcoin wallet with positioning of a reliable offline storage for large cryptocurrency investors.