Best Blockchain Technology Companies in Shanghai, China
The 55 best Blockchain Technology companies in Shanghai, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Distributed Credit Chain.
Our analysis of 247 Blockchain Technology companies
$15.7b in tracked funding; 95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Blockchain Technology companies in Shanghai
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alphacat AI-based decentralized robo advisor marketplace | — | — | Deadpooled | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 2 | APEX Network Blockchain services provider | — | — | Funding Raised | 2011 | Jimmy Hu Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 3 | ATMatrix Blockchain and AI services provider | — | — | Deadpooled | 2017 | Feller Gao CEO | — | — |
| 4 | Block72 Blockchain consultants | — | — | Unfunded | 2016 | Minhui Chen CEO | — | — |
| 5 | C2CX Cryptocurrency exchange platform | — | — | Unfunded | 2013 | Scott Freeman CEO | — | — |
| 6 | COT Public blockckchain based on IoT | — | — | Deadpooled | 2018 | Wang Wen Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 7 | DAEX Decentralized clearing and settlement system | — | — | Deadpooled | 2018 | Hua Zhang Co-Founder | — | — |
| 8 | Elephant Wallet Wallet solutions provider for cryptocurrencies | — | — | Deadpooled | 2019 | Rong Chen Founder & Chairman | — | — |
Top 12 Blockchain Technology companies in Shanghai
#1
Seed · Xuhui, Shanghai · founded 2018 · 5 employees$21Mraised▾
Provider of bitcoin adoption solutions, financial products, and digital asset services. It offers bitcoin and liquid wallet for stablecoin support. The company develops financial products for bitcoin investors and provides military-grade bitcoin storage solutions. It also offers a platform for digital patronage with bitcoin. Furthermore, it provides advisory services to nations for bitcoin adoption, covering infrastructure, exchange operations, wallet development, and mining.
- Jan 2025Seed$5M
- Apr 2022Seed$21M
#2
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2022 · 32 employees$37Mraised▾
Online platform for decentralized Zero knowledge rollup. The platform bridges token between Ethereum A1 and Taiko A1. ZK-Rollup scales computation by executing, aggregating, and providing off-chain, and validity-proof verification
- Mar 2024Series A$15M
- Jun 2023Seed$12M
- 2022Seed$10M
#3
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2020 · 14 employees$38Mraised▾
Decentralized trading platform for synthetic assets. It features an Ethereum-based futures market for multiple assets, including Ethereum native, cross-chain, and off-chain real-world assets. It provides trading pairs, automated liquidators, and more.
- Oct 2023Series B$22M
- Jun 2021Series A$14M
- Jan 2021Seed$1.4M
#4
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2019 · 8 employees$25Mraised▾
Provider of a online crypto wallet. It offers solutions such as Defi wallet for managing & tracking Defi portfolio, data & analytics for decentralized lending, stablecoins, comparison platform for decentralized changes, and more. It provides token swap for token exchange.
- Dec 2021Series B$25M
#5
Funding Raised · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017$49Mraised▾
Distributed Credit Chain (DCC) is the distributed banking public blockchain. Offers a decentralized ecosystem for financial service providers. Provides credits for financial transactions between lenders and borrowers, businesses and individuals. Services offered include loan registration service, consumption loans, consumption installment, blockchain credit card, token loan service, mortgage claim registration, and asset distribution.
- May 2018ICO$49M
#6
Funding Raised · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017$36.3Mraised▾
Loopring is a protocol blockchain designed to build decentralized exchanges. It can be deployed on top of any public blockchain that has smart contract support. Users don't need to send tokens to any party for custody. They can transfer tokens after orders have been submitted and the platform automatically adjusts order amounts during settlement. Loopring protects users from threats such as exchange bankruptcies and hacking.
- Aug 2017ICO$36.3M
#7
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2018$30Mraised▾
Easy Pay Chain aims to provide blockchain-based cross-border payment & asset transfer platform. The platform is an open & collaborative community of the providers of cloud computing resources; cross-border e-commerce platforms; digital asset exchanges of shopping websites; offline operators; miners and consumer groups.
- Aug 2018Series B$30M
#8
Deadpooled · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017$21.8Mraised▾
Hero Node is a decentralized platform for fog computing. It is a node network containing the public chain service, IPFS storage, off chain computing etc. Offers an API gateway providing network protocols. The network is powered by Hero Node utility token.
- May 2018ICO$21.8M
#9
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2021$2.5Mraised▾
NFT-based trading platform for horse racing games. It enables users to explore, race, breed NFT horses. It offers a free-to-play-and-earn horse racing metaverse where anyone can earn tokens through skilled gameplay.
- Apr 2022ICO$1M
- Mar 2022Seed$2.5M
#10
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017 · 20 employees$14.6Mraised▾
Hashgard provides a blockchain-based solution for asset management in digital finance for both individuals and institutional investors. Aims to develop an asset management ecosystem that provides identity authentication, prediction markets, asset lending, content distribution and data verification.
- Aug 2018Seed—
- Jun 2018ICO$14.6M
- May 2018Seed—
#11
Funding Raised · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2021$3.2Mraised▾
Developer of 3D MMORPG game based on blockchain technology. The game offers an NFT marketplace for trade, rent, and auction. Also, provide real-time online auctions of rare items.
- Dec 2021ICO$3.2M
#12
Funding Raised · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017 · 16 employees$11.8Mraised▾
DeepBrain Chain is a decentralized compute sharing platform. Aims to develop an artificial intelligence computing platform for AI products. The AI computing nodes in the network can take multiple forms, including full-function nodes composed of large GPU/FPGA server clusters; independent nodes composed of idle GPU servers and idle GPUs owned by individuals. Mining nodes earn their income via AI processing fees paid by AI companies in exchange for computing power and mining rewards from the system. The platform is powered DeepToken.
- Dec 2017ICO$11.8M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Blockchain Technology coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
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How research on Blockchain in Shanghai is moving
A read on the academic research around Blockchain in Shanghai — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 531 papers.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University and peers optimistically advance blockchain applications, IoT integration, and cryptography-driven privacy, with 91% of 531 papers published post-2020 and minimal concern.
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University154
- Shanghai Electric66
- Shanghai Maritime University54
- Shanghai University48
- Shanghai University of Electric Power19
- Smart contract1→20
- Distributed computing1→26
- Cloud computing1→7
- Transparency (behavior)1→5
- Corporate governance1→4
- Voting1→3
- Computer security20
- Supply chain11
- Traceability10
- Transparency (behavior)5
- Database transaction5
Common questions
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