Chainalysis, Fireblox, and Gauntlet ranked among Forbes' 50 most innovative fintech companies | CoinDesk JAPAN

Chainalysis, Fireblocks, and Gauntlet were the only crypto companies to make it to Forbes' annual list of 50 innovative fintech companies. . The target of the evaluation was a privately held company based in the United States.

Chainalysis, based in New York, is a blockchain analytics company that specializes in investigating and tracking crypto-asset transactions. According to Forbes, the company raised $535 million (80.25 billion yen, at an exchange rate of 150 yen to the dollar) and was valued at $8.6 billion (1.29 trillion yen) in May 2022. The company cut its workforce by 15% in October 2022 and another 5% in February 2023. Notably, the company released a report on terrorist financing following the October 7 Hamas attack and hostage crisis in Israel. This contradicted the Wall Street Journal report.

Fireblocks is another New York-based company that specializes in crypto custody technologies such as multi-party computation (MPC) and serves major banking clients such as HSBC, BNY Mellon, and BNP Paribas. is provided. Fireblocks provides software for custody, treasury management and payment services, and expanded its product range last year with a $10 million investment in tokenization company Blockfold. According to Forbes, Fireblocks has raised $1 billion (approximately 150 billion yen) and is valued at $8 billion (approximately 1.2 trillion yen) as of January 2022.

Gauntlet is a financial risk modeling and simulation platform. Like the other two companies, it is based in New York and was named by Bank of America as one of the platforms driving the evolution of DeFi applications. According to Gauntlet's announcement, the company will protect $9 billion (1.35 trillion yen) in customer assets, and will protect assets such as decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap, lending platform Aave, and Web3 Games. Customers include platform Immutable. According to Forbes, Gauntlet raised $45 million (about 6.75 billion yen) and was valued at about $1 billion (about 150 billion yen) in March 2022.

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｜Original text: Chainalysis, Fireblocks, Gauntlet Make Forbes' Fintech List