Best Cryptocurrencies Companies in Chicago, United States
The 66 best Cryptocurrencies companies in Chicago, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Zero Hash.
Our analysis of 50 Cryptocurrencies companies
$7.1b in tracked funding; 100% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2026.
Ranked: Best Cryptocurrencies companies in Chicago
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zero Hash 🦄 Embedded crypto solutions for financial institutions 80Funding top 15%Growth top 21%Moat top 26%Tech top 28% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 15% Growthtop 21% Moattop 26% Techtop 28% Talenttop 38% Markettop 46% Globalbottom 43% Funding: Raised $168M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 8 yrs (0.9/yr) Growth: Headcount 14 → 35 (+150%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $168M | 11 mo ago | Series D | 35 | 2017 | Edward Woodford Co-Founder & Co-CEO | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 2 | Strike App-based trading and payment solutions for cryptocurrency | $90M | 44 mo ago | Series B | 1 | 2018 | Jack Mallers CEO | 71 patents Modular firearm components and integrated scale‑with‑bin weighing system technologies. | — |
| 3 | ErisX Cryptocurrency trading platform for individuals and institutions | $48M | 85 mo ago | Acquired | 51 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Bitnomial Online trading platform for bitcoin futures and options | $47M | 23 mo ago | Acquired | 15 15 → 25 (+67%) | 2014 | Luke Hoersten Founder & CEO | 2 patents Secure digital asset transfer protocols and blockchain transaction authentication systems. | — |
| 5 | Path Finance Platform for investing & managing the crypto portfolio | $40M | 54 mo ago | Series A | 51 | 2019 | Joel Birch Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 6 | Block Mining Provider of end to end support services for blockchain hardware | $32M | 59 mo ago | Acquired | 6 | 2019 | Michael Stoltzner Co-Founder | — | — |
| 7 | Tagomi Trade management solutions for cryptocurrency | $28M | 87 mo ago | Acquired | 21 | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Ostium Platform providing on-chain perpetual swaps for stocks, indices, commodities, and FX 69Funding top 28%Tech top 30%Talent top 38%Global bottom 48% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 28% Techtop 30% Talenttop 38% Globalbottom 48% Funding: Raised $24.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) Tech: 34 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $24M | 6 mo ago | Series A | — | 2022 | Marco Ribeiro Co-Founder & CTO | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 9 | Evertas Provider of Blockchain focused risk, investigation, and intelligence services | $23M | 42 mo ago | Series A | 13 | 2017 | J. Gdanski Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 10 | Fortunafi Decentralized platform for financial solutions | $15M | 24 mo ago | Series B | 8 | 2020 | Jason Smith Co-Founder | — | — |
| 11 | Pi Squared Provider of verified computing for remote computing, AI, and interoperable smart contracts | $12M | 14 mo ago | Seed | — | 2023 | Grigore Rosu CEO | 187 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 12 | DFlow Decentralized order flow marketplace | $8M | 38 mo ago | Acquired | 5 | 2021 | Nitesh Nath Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 13 | MetaVisa Blockchain-based middleware platform for on-chain identity and credit records | $5M | 54 mo ago | Seed | 3 | 2016 | Jassem Osseiran Founder | — | — |
| 14 | Coinflow Platform offering payment solutions to web3 companies | $4M | 8 mo ago | Series A | 3 | 2022 | Daniel Lev Co-Founder & CEO | — | 1 launch |
| 15 | FRST Portfolio management solutions for cryptocurrency | $3M | 92 mo ago | Seed | 5 | 2017 | Jonas Frost Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 16 | Domination Finance Trading signals and platform for cryptocurrencies | $3M | 57 mo ago | Seed | 5 | 2020 | Josh Bowden Co-Founder | — | — |
| 17 | Ceres Coin Developer of a SEC-registered, hybrid stablecoin and tokenized money market fund | $2M | 5 mo ago | Seed | 25 | 2017 | Charlie Uchill Co-Founder & COO | 11 patents Blockchain stablecoin transaction protocols enabling medium-of-exchange on distributed ledgers | — |
| 18 | Navier Cloud-based hardware mining platform for cryptocurrency | $2M | 42 mo ago | Seed | 15 | 2018 | — | 15 patents Adaptive network management, dynamic architecture, and energy-aware control for communication systems | — |
| 19 | Cove Markets Alternative trading system for cryptocurrencies | $2M | 80 mo ago | Acquired | 9 | 2018 | Scott Knudsen CEO | — | — |
| 20 | Rocketr Online payment processing and e-commerce solutions | $500K | 99 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | Alex Paden Co-Founder | — | — |
| 21 | Normal On-chain crypto ETF platform | $323K | 44 mo ago | Seed | 9 | 2022 | Justin Benjamin Co-Founder & COO | 2 patents Adaptive AI-driven control for dynamic structures and HVAC heating/cooling systems. | 2 launchs |
| 22 | Elmts Blockchain-based platform that enables the creation of a tokenized commodity ecosystem | $268K | 23 mo ago | Seed | — | 2024 | Erich Schmidt Co-Founder & COO | — | — |
Top 12 Cryptocurrencies companies in Chicago
#1
Series D · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017 · 35 employees$168Mraised▾
Embedded crypto solutions for financial institutions. It provides risk & settlement solutions. It offers tools and APIs to assist in managing post-trade, regulatory compliance, liquidity, and custody solutions for users. Also, provides asset management services for users.
- Jun 2025Series D$104M
- Dec 2021Series D$105M
- Sep 2021Series C$35M
- Sep 2020Series C$4.8M
#2
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2022$24Mraised▾
Platform providing on-chain perpetual swaps for stocks, indices, commodities, and FX. It facilitates trading traditional and crypto assets with transparency. The platform offers leveraged trading directly from a user's wallet. It provides access to markets without brokers, hidden spreads, or frozen funds. The platform uses open, auditable code for tracking trades and transactions.
- Dec 2025Series A$20M
- 2023Seed$4M
#3
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017 · 25 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Developer of a SEC-registered, hybrid stablecoin and tokenized money market fund. This offers users a stable, regulated investment option with peer-to-peer transaction capabilities. The platform leverages blockchain technology for transparency and efficiency, adhering to strict compliance standards. It features a user-friendly interface and is designed to serve both public and private sectors. The underlying technology utilizes Hyperledger hosted on Kaleido, integrating with various financial service providers. The fund maintains a stable net asset value through rigorous quality, liquidity, and diversification measures.
- Jan 2026Seed$500K
- Jul 2025Seed$1.5M
- Mar 2018Seed$100K
#4
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2022 · 3 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Platform offering payment solutions to web3 companies. It allows businesses to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by going from cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account. Its primary use case is helping games, NFT projects, wallets, and similar web3 products onboard non-crypto native customers with familiar, more traditional payment flows while it handles all of the infrastructure behind the scenes.
- Oct 2025Series A$25M
- May 2024Seed$2.2M
- Apr 2023Seed$1.4M
#5
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2023$12.5Mraised▾
Provider of verified computing for remote computing, AI, and interoperable smart contracts. It is building Pi Squared, a universal proof system solution to verify the execution of any program in any programming or virtual machine (VM) language.
- Apr 2025Seed$3.9M
- Jul 2024Seed$12.5M
#6
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014 · 15 employees$46.9Mraised▾
Bitnomial provides an online trading platform for bitcoin futures and options. It offers bitcoin derivatives exchange solutions coupled with digital asset settlement systems. It creates a marketplace connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders.
- Jul 2024Series C$27.8M
- Oct 2020Series B$11.6M
- Dec 2018Series A$7.5M
- Sep 2016Conventional Debt$2M
#7
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2020 · 8 employees$14.9Mraised▾
Decentralized platform for financial solutions. It provides products for originators such as asset funding and customized capital, for investors such as institutional yield and treasury tokens, and more. It also replaces rent-seeking intermediaries by leveraging decentralized finance protocols, stablecoins, and security tokens.
- May 2024Series B$9.5M
- Sep 2021Series A$5.3M
#8
Series B · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2018 · 1 employees$90Mraised▾
App-based trading and payment solutions for cryptocurrency. It enables users to sell, buy, store, spend, remittance payment of bitcoins, and more. It allows users to use a debit card to earn rewards. The app is available for Android and iOS platforms.
- Sep 2022Series B$90M
- Dec 2021PE—
#9
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2017 · 13 employees$22.6Mraised▾
Provider of Blockchain focused risk, investigation, and intelligence services. Provides multiple products including insurance products, certifications, and risk management and mitigation solutions. The platform is for custodians, exchanges, crypto funds, traditional financial institutions, high net worth individuals, and more.
- Dec 2022Series A$14M
- May 2021Seed$5.8M
- Jul 2020Seed$2.8M
#10
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2019 · 51 employees$40Mraised▾
Platform for investing & managing the crypto portfolio. The platform allows to invest in crypto indices, access trading bots, and automated portfolio management as well as provide a custom backtesting engine that shows the most profitable index strategy historically, enabling customers to manage their long-term investments and diversify their portfolio into a series of digital assets.
- Dec 2021Series A$35M
- Sep 2020Seed$1M
#11
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2021 · 5 employees$7.5Mraised▾
Decentralized order flow marketplace. It is a novel payment-for-order-flow (PFOF) marketplace that provides market-driven price discovery for order flow. Using the platform the crypto-native brokerages sell order flow to professional market makers through fully decentralized and customizable auctions.
- Apr 2023Series A$5.5M
- 2022Seed$2M
#12
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2019 · 6 employees$32Mraised▾
Provider of end to end support services for blockchain hardware
- Jun 2021Series B$25M
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How research on Cryptocurrency in Chicago is moving
A read on the academic research around Cryptocurrency in Chicago — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 40 papers.
- University of Chicago29
- University of Illinois Chicago5
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago3
- Chicago State University2
- Chicago Kent College of Law1
- Econometrics2
- Computer security2
- Monetary economics2
- Inflation (cosmology)2
- Scale (ratio)1
- Computer security3
- Blockchain2
- Valuation (finance)1
- Audit1
- Security token1
- Digital currency1→3
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