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Best Smart Contracts Companies in United States

The 134 best Smart Contracts companies in United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AVA.

134companies tracked
$1.8Bdisclosed funding
3unicorns
62have raised

Smart Contracts companies across the United States now number 134 in this directory, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. Total disclosed funding hits $1.8B across those firms, with 3 unicorns in the mix. Space and Time leads the named cohort at $50M raised, followed by Mezo at $30M and Cube3 at $22M. The [global smart contracts market sat at $3.2B in 2023 and is forecast to reach $10.7B by 2030](https://www.maximizemarketresearch.com/market-report/smart-contracts-market/196268/), a 22.4% CAGR driven by adoption across supply chain, banking, insurance, and government. That's a long runway, and you can see it reflected in who's writing checks here: NGC Ventures, Coinbase, Digital Currency Group, Hack VC, and Plug and Play Tech Center are the most active backers in this cohort.

So what's the tension? Legal uncertainty still hangs over the sector. Regulators haven't settled on how self-executing code maps to existing contract law, which creates real friction for enterprise buyers. As shown in 2016 research, the foundational security properties of smart contracts were being stress-tested even at the protocol's earliest commercial stage, and that scrutiny hasn't let up. I'd watch the audit and security layer closely: Polylastic's recent move to bring in external contract review before a major protocol launch signals that verification is becoming table stakes, not an afterthought.

Sources & further reading
  • Smart Contracts Market – Growth, Trends, Industry Analysis and Forecas

Ranked: Best Smart Contracts companies in United States

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageEmployeesFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1AVA 🦄
Blockchain platform for smart contracts and custom subnets
$368M50 mo agoSeries B18Kevin Sekniqi
Co-Founder
WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+15159 patents
Scalable blockchain infrastructure: consensus, state replication, wallet extensions, NFC payments, P2P data dissemination.
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2Mysten Labs 🦄
Blockchain platform offering Web3 infrastructure solutions
$336M45 mo agoSeries B140Kostas Chalkias
Co-Founder & Chief Cryptographer
SentryApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+176 patents
Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation
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3CertiK 🦄
Provider of comprehensive blockchain security solutions, including smart contract audits, due diligence, and…
$290M49 mo agoSeries B—Zhong Shao
Co-Founder
ContentfulNode.jsSvelteKit+27—1 launch
4InfStones
Decentralized infrastructure network for finance
$156M48 mo agoSeries C40—Node.jsAnimate.cssAnt Design+11—2 job openings
5Lightning Labs
Blockchain-based sidechain network
$82M50 mo agoSeries B30Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Co-Founder & CTO
Google CloudReactGatsby+1419 patents
Detecting malicious online ad behavior, data leakage, and consent violations in digital advertising.
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6Space and Time
Provider of a data blockchain securing onchain finance and data
$50M21 mo agoSeries A49Nate Holiday
CEO & Co-founder
WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+17——
7Movement Labs
Provider of technology and experimental methods to build power for marginalized communities
$41M25 mo agoSeries A——ContentfulNode.jsTailwind CSS+14——
8Chainlink Labs
Open-source blockchain oracle solutions
$32M105 mo agoFunding Raised415—WebflowGSAPLenis+15——
9Symbiont
Provider of blockchain-based smart securities and financial contract platforms
$31M88 mo agoSeries B123——24 patents
Distributed ledger platforms for data management and smart contract execution
—
10Mezo
Bitcoin-native chain platform
$30M22 mo agoSeries A—Mike Travalini
Co-Founder & CEO
SentryNode.jsTypeScript+214 patents
AI-powered chatbot systems for automated maintenance diagnosis and troubleshooting
1 launch
11Vite
Provider of layer 1 blockchain network
$28M100 mo agoFunding Raised21—Proton MailNode.jsVarnish+8——
12Simbachain
Provider of blockchain platform for enterprise supply chain tracking and regulatory compliance
$28M58 mo agoSeries A33Joel Neidig
Co-Founder
WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+39——
13ZetaChain
Blockchain-based public network for omnichain interoperability
$27M28 mo agoSeries B32Richard Brown
Co-Founder
ContentfulApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+23—3 launchs
14Egretia
HTML5 Blockchain engine and platform
$24M96 mo agoFunding Raised—Peter Huang
Co-Founder
———
15CUBE3
Provider of real-time fraud prevention solutions for financial systems and platforms
69AI top 20%Funding top 24%Tech top 33%Growth top 35%
All 8 signals ▾
AItop 20%
Fundingtop 24%
Techtop 33%
Growthtop 35%
Talenttop 38%
Marketbottom 36%
Globalbottom 36%
Newsbottom 27%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $22.5M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100
$22M6 mo agoSeries A25Attila Marosi-Bauer
Founder and Chief Research Officer
WebflowAmazon Web ServicesGSAP+21——
16Factom
Blockchain as a service for protecting enterprise data
$22M94 mo agoAcqui-Hired16——67 patents
Blockchain-based data integrity, smart contracts, secure document authentication, and decentralized AI infrastructure.
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17Data Gumbo
Smart contracts-enabled blockchain-as-a-service platform
$19M46 mo agoSeries C8Andrew Bruce
Founder & CEO
———
18StealthTest
An end-to-end solution for web3 development platform
$15M55 mo agoAcquired24Jimmy McNelis
Founder & CEO
———
19GoChain
Platform for building smart-contract enabled dApps
$14M97 mo agoFunding Raised10Kelly Nichol
Chairman & CEO
FirebaseBootstraplit-html+12——
20SmlXL
Provider of a platform combining static and dynamic analysis, symbolic execution, instrumentation, and…
$13M31 mo agoSeed24Dor Levi
Founder & CEO
MediumApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18——
21Gear
Blockchain-based smart contract platform for developing dApps
$12M54 mo agoSeries B50—Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+118 patents
Advanced solar PV combiner box design enhancing safety, monitoring, and fault isolation
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22Switchboard
Decentralized Oracle network for Solana
$11M24 mo agoSeries A8—Firebasestyled-componentsAnt Design+10——
23Clause
Contract management solutions
$11M83 mo agoAcqui-Hired21——262 patents
Develops hybrid vegetable and pepper seed varieties for improved agricultural traits.
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24Shadow
Provider of custom onchain data extraction services for indexing and analytics
$9M30 mo agoSeed—Alvin Hsia
Co-Founder & CEO
SentryNode.jsRadix UI+10——
25Sec3
Offering cyber risk and vulnerability assessment solutions
$8M48 mo agoSeries A13Jeff Huang
CEO
WebflowReactReact Router+18——
26Clique
Blockchain network that organizes various off-chain compute resources
$8M27 mo agoSeries A—Kevin Yu
Co-Founder & CEO
TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+16——
27xMentium
Platform offering contract creation software
29Moat top 38%Funding top 47%Innovation top 49%Patents top 49%
All 8 signals ▾
Moattop 38%
Fundingtop 47%
Innovationtop 49%
Patentstop 49%
Talentbottom 45%
Techbottom 44%
Globalbottom 31%
Marketbottom 29%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 6/10 · IP moat: 4 patents
Funding: Raised $7.2M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 6 yrs (1.0/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100
$7M7 mo agoSeries A30Paul Lippe
Founder
Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+84 patents
Personalized search result ranking and customization algorithms for internet search engines
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28Octane Security
Vulnerability management solution
$7M14 mo agoSeed—Giovanni Vignone
Founder & CEO
WebflowGSAPMicrosoft Clarity+19——
29TestMachine
AI-enabled platform for blockchain security
$6M6 mo agoSeries A5Andrew Kilbride
Co-Founder & CEO
——2 launchs
30Sherlock
Smart contract auditing platform
$6M45 mo agoSeed9Jack Sanford
Co-Founder
WebflowThree.jsGSAP+185 patents
Remote health monitoring systems that detect critical parameter changes and trigger emergency interventions
2 launchs
31OAK Network
Cross chain network for payments and DeFi
$6M52 mo agoSeed20Chris Li
Founder
———
32Crowd Machine
Blockchain development platform
$4M100 mo agoSeries A18Craig Sproule
Founder & CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+10——
33Firewall
Firewall software for PC protection
$4M27 mo agoSeed—Sam Mitchell
Co-Founder
WebflowjQueryHSTS+4——
34Fountain
Web3 operating system that streamlines trading workflows for enterprises
$4M21 mo agoSeed—Morgan Lai
Founder & CEO
———
35BlockCypher
Cloud-optimized full blockchain nodes
$4M137 mo agoSeed2—QuillLeafletMapbox.js+18——
36DLC.Link
Platform building cross-chain interoperability for Bitcoin
$3M27 mo agoSeed10———1 partnership
37FuzzLand
Smart contract automated analysis platform
$3M28 mo agoAcquired—Jeff Liu
Co-Founder & CEO
Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+15——
38Supra
Blockchain-based smart contract management platform
$3M31 mo agoFunding Raised—Victor Ermolaev
Co-Founder
Node.jsMathJaxMUI+23——
39Cookbook
Open-source smart contract registry platform
$2M37 mo agoSeed—Tyler Sehr
Co-Founder & CEO
———
40cookbook
Cookbook specializes in simplifying the cost for companies in building developers web3.
$2M37 mo agoSeed6—SentryNode.jsRadix UI+16——
41Esprezzo
Provider of decentralized application development platform
$2M62 mo agoSeed7Alan W
Co-Founder & CTO
———
42Tidal Finance
Decentralized insurance marketplace for smart contract hacks
$2M62 mo agoSeed5————
43Spydra
API driven Decentralization-as-a-Service platform
$2M16 mo agoSeed38
38 → 51 (+34%)
Manish Tiwari
Co-Founder
WebflowZohoZepto+20——
44XY Labs
Platform offering self-sovereign data gathering, storage, and processing solutions
$1M90 mo agoSeries B20Arie Trouw
Founder & CEO
Facebook LoginMUIReact Router+11——
45Bling Financial
Mobile game developer specializing in blockchain based casual games
$1M59 mo agoSeed13—WebflowApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+18——
46Ligero
Decentralized platform for enabling transactions & crypto exchanges
$1M15 mo agoSeed—Scott Catlin
Founder
Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+6——
47Adjoint
Smart contract-based solutions for the financial industry
$1M106 mo agoDeadpooled29————
48Almanax
AI-based smart contract management platform
$1M16 mo agoSeed—Maxwell Watson
Co-Founder & CTO
Webflow EcommerceWebflowAmazon Web Services+17——
49UTILITI
Web3 development platform for solo developers, project runners, and enterprises
$415K45 mo agoSeed19————
50Transient Labs
Online studio for launching NFT marketplace & customized smart contracts
$225K45 mo agoSeed8Ben Strauss
Co-Founder
Intercom ArticlesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+10——

Top 12 Smart Contracts companies in United States

#1
Series A · Palo Alto, California · founded 2022 · 25 employees
$22.5Mraised
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Provider of real-time fraud prevention solutions for financial systems and platforms. The company offers tools to identify on-chain threats and provide risk scoring. It delivers transaction security, empowering applications to block exploits and risky transactions. The company provides alerts, reports, and automation to respond to cyber risks. It offers integration, documentation, and an API for developers.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 69how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Funding
top 24%
Tech
top 33%
Growth
top 35%
Talent
top 38%
Market
bottom 36%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $22.5M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) · Last round Series A (Dec 2025)
Tech: 35 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services · Security: Cloudflare Bot Management, Hsts
Audience (LinkedIn): 5k LinkedIn followers — 2.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches · 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Scam.org) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Series A$5.2M
  • Jun 2024Series A$14.3M
  • Aug 2023Seed$8.2M
  • 2023Seed$250K
Founders & team
Attila Marosi-BauerFounder and Chief Research OfficerEinaras GravrockCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Blockchange, Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, ICLUB, TA Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGoogle WorkspaceHstsHttp/3
#2
Series A · Concord, Massachusetts · founded 2019 · 30 employees
$7.2Mraised
▾

Platform offering contract creation software. The platform offers solutions from contract creation to esignature. It generates buy side and sell side contracts for businesses. It also provides contract templates that enable users to customize them.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 29how this company ranks against its industry peers
Moat
top 38%
Funding
top 47%
Innovation
top 49%
Patents
top 49%
Talent
bottom 45%
Tech
bottom 44%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 6/10 · IP moat: 4 patents
Funding: Raised $7.2M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 6 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Nov 2025)
Innovation: 4 patents (top 85% of patent-holders) · 4 filings since 2022 vs 0 in 2017-21
Audience (LinkedIn): 1k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2025Series A$2.5M
  • Nov 2023Series A$1.4M
  • Feb 2023Series A$2.4M
  • Mar 2022Seed$1.5M
Founders & team
Paul LippeFounder
Investors
Swing Ventures
#3
Series A · Ann Arbor, Michigan · founded 2022 · 5 employees
$6.5Mraised
▾

AI-enabled platform for blockchain security. It is a real-time testing and auditing platform that delivers smart contract audits with security.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Series A$6.5M
Founders & team
Andrew KilbrideCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Blockchange, Decasonic, Delphi Ventures, New Form Capital, Baboon, UDHC
#4
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2022 · 49 employees
$50Mraised
▾

Provider of a data blockchain securing onchain finance and data. It offers tools for indexing blockchain data and securing offchain data. The platform enables verifiable queries and supports smart contract development. It delivers data to applications without custom pipelines.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2024Series A$20M
  • Sep 2022Series A$20M
  • Jul 2022Seed$10M
Founders & team
Nate HolidayCEO & Co-founderScott DykstraCo-Founder & CTOJay WhiteCo-Founder
Investors
M12, Framework Ventures, SevenX Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Polygon, Blizzard Fund
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted Libraries
#5
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2022
$7Mraised
▾

Vulnerability management solution. It is developer-first platform providing offensive security for web3 with AI-powered stress testing for smart contracts, helping teams deploy code faster and more confidently on security.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2025Seed$6.8M
  • 2023Seed$250K
Founders & team
Giovanni VignoneFounder & CEO
Investors
Archetype, Winklevoss Capital, Circle, Gemini, Legion Capital, Druid
Tech stack
CalendlyCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGodaddyGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager
#6
Series A · Menlo Park, California · founded 2022
$30Mraised
▾

Bitcoin-native chain platform. It is a bitcoin economic layer that uses a neutral smart contract infrastructure to offer various applications. It allows users to get bitcoin into Ethereum’s decentralized-finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 797 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2024Series A$7.5M
  • Apr 2024Series A$21M
Founders & team
Mike TravaliniCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Ledger, ArkStream Capital, Flowdesk, GSR, Origin Protocol, Mantle Network
Tech stack
CannyChakra UiCloudflareCloudflare ZarazEmotionEthers
#7
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2023
$41.4Mraised
▾

Operator of the modular framework platform intended to build and deploy move-based blockchains, and applications. The company's platform offers a composable and horizontally scalable network, and provides unparalleled smart contract security and asset portability, enabling users to solve the cold start problem with unprecedented interoperability.

Investors
OKX, Polychain, Aptos, Hack VC, Placeholder, Bankless Ventures
#8
Series B · Palo Alto, California · founded 2021 · 140 employees
$336Mraised
▾

Blockchain platform offering Web3 infrastructure solutions. Its product portfolio includes an open-source wallet packed with features to help developers access, learn, and transact on the Sui network, Sui Explorer for digging into metrics, searching for transactions, Sui name service to register identity, and more. It also offers digital collectibles called SuiFrens.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 21k LinkedIn followers — 10.4% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: hackathon builder, bootcamp grad
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Sui) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Series B$300M
  • Dec 2021Series A$36M
Founders & team
Kostas ChalkiasCo-Founder & Chief CryptographerGeorge DanezisCo-FounderAdeniyi AbiodunCo-Founder & CPO
Investors
FTX, Andreessen Horowitz, Jump Crypto, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Circle Venture Capital, Franklin Templeton Investments
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDocusignFirebase
#9
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 38 employees
$1.9Mraised
▾

API driven Decentralization-as-a-Service platform. It enables developers, enterprises, and people worldwide to build next-generation applications, launches modern business infrastructure, and access the decentralized web.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 71k LinkedIn followers — 35.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2025Seed—
  • Nov 2022Seed$1.9M
Founders & team
Manish TiwariCo-FounderAshwath GovindanCo-Founder
Investors
Logx Venture Partners, Singularity AMC, Hitachi Payment Services, Graviton Web3 Accelerator
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted Libraries
#10
CertiK 🦄
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2017
$290Mraised
▾

Provider of comprehensive blockchain security solutions, including smart contract audits, due diligence, and cyber threat monitoring. It provides comprehensive blockchain security solutions, leveraging AI technology to secure blockchain protocols and smart contracts through various tools and services. Its offerings include smart contract audits, KYC, on-chain monitoring, and more. The company is a leading provider of Web3 security services.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 28k LinkedIn followers — 14.3% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Series B$60M
  • Mar 2022Series B$88M
  • Dec 2021Series B$80M
  • Aug 2021Series B$24M
Founders & team
Zhong ShaoCo-FounderRonghui GuCo-Founder
Investors
Shunwei Capital, Tiger Global Management, Hillhouse, Coatue, GL Ventures, HSG
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAnt DesignCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#11
AVA 🦄
Series B · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2018 · 18 employees
$368Mraised
▾

Blockchain platform for smart contracts and custom subnets. It enables businesses to build and scale high-performance, cost-effective, expertly managed custom blockchains. It provides tools for swapping, trading, bridging, and transacting. The platform also offers educational resources about blockchain and Web3.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 31k LinkedIn followers — 15.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Series B$350M
  • May 2020Series A$12M
  • Feb 2019Seed$6M
Founders & team
Kevin SekniqiCo-FounderEmin SirerCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain, Abstract Ventures, Segma Investment, Collab+Currency, DFG
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareDocusignGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted Libraries
#12
Seed · Pittsford, New York · founded 2018
$1.1Mraised
▾

Decentralized platform for enabling transactions & crypto exchanges. It uses private & verifiable machine learning tools and smart contracts for enabling transactions. It also facilitates threshold cryptography.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 540 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2025Seed$4M
  • Mar 2019Seed$1.1M
Founders & team
Scott CatlinFounder
Investors
Consensys Labs, Galaxy, 1kx, Franklin Templeton Investments, Nascent, ANAGRAM

Funding & investor landscape

$1.8Btotal disclosed funding
59companies funded
118disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
NGC Ventures7 rounds
Coinbase6 rounds
Digital Currency Group5 rounds
Hack VC5 rounds
Plug and Play Tech Center5 rounds
Techstars5 rounds
DHVC4 rounds
Delphi Ventures4 rounds
Foundation Capital4 rounds
Galaxy4 rounds

Notable founders

Attila Marosi-Bauer
Founder and Chief Research Officer · CUBE3
Einaras Gravrock
Co-Founder & CEO · CUBE3
Paul Lippe
Founder · xMentium
Andrew Kilbride
Co-Founder & CEO · TestMachine
Nate Holiday
CEO & Co-founder · Space and Time
Scott Dykstra
Co-Founder & CTO · Space and Time
Giovanni Vignone
Founder & CEO · Octane Security
Mike Travalini
Co-Founder & CEO · Mezo
Kostas Chalkias
Co-Founder & Chief Cryptographer · Mysten Labs
George Danezis
Co-Founder · Mysten Labs
Manish Tiwari
Co-Founder · Spydra
Ashwath Govindan
Co-Founder · Spydra
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 11,506,965 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Smart Contracts coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States

How research on Blockchain is moving in the United States

A read on the academic research around Blockchain — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 5,117 United States-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201620212026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 42% → 57% across 2016–2026.
top research entities
  • Community Partners293
  • Northeastern University125
  • University of the Cumberlands81
  • Old Dominion University75
  • The University of Texas at San Antonio66
leading researchers
Crypto Education Research Lab · Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo · Sachin Shetty · Saraju P. Mohanty · Khaled Salah · Nir Kshetri · Raja Jayaraman · Dusit Niyato
▲ Breakthroughs1,970 · 38%
▲ 34%→38% share
▲1.1× share momentum2 median citations89% since 2021mostly methods-led
Smart contract and scalability research is surging — papers grew from single digits to 160+ and 216 respectively since tracking began.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security17→846
  • Scalability3→216
  • Smart contract2→160
  • Database transaction2→160
  • Distributed computing2→159
Newly emergingComputer network 0→152 · Internet of Things 0→113 · Authentication (law) 0→89
Landmark Decentralizing Privacy: Using Blockchain to Protect Personal Data · 2,482 cites
◆ Advancements1,558 · 30%
▲ 21%→31% share
▲1.5× share momentum1 median citations92% since 2021mostly methods-led
Supply chain transparency research is intensifying — supply chain papers jumped from 1 to 196 across U.S. blockchain advancements.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security7→633
  • Supply chain1→196
  • Transparency (behavior)2→158
  • Database transaction4→132
  • Cryptocurrency5→118
Newly emergingInternet of Things 0→91 · Key (lock) 0→90 · Health care 0→73
Landmark Blockchains and Smart Contracts for the Internet of Things · 4,344 cites
▼ Concerns1,039 · 20%
▼ 37%→19% share
▼0.5× share momentum2 median citations86% since 2021mostly position pieces
Concern-segment field-share collapsed from 37% to 19%, yet interoperability and supply chain risks newly emerged with 59 and 85 papers.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security18→380
  • Cryptocurrency12→133
  • Distributed ledger4→69
  • Data science1→59
  • Key (lock)3→52
Newly emergingTransparency (behavior) 0→92 · Supply chain 0→85 · Interoperability 0→59
Landmark Blockchain technology and its relationships to sustainable supply chain management · 3,616 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States

Where blockchain is researched across United States

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Boston215 · +0.51
Hot · Computer securityAdvancing · Enhanced Data Rates for GSM EvolutionOpportunity · Internet of ThingsConcern · Interoperability
New York133 · +0.41
Hot · Mathematical proofAdvancing · ScalabilityOpportunity · Supply chainConcern · Incentive
SF Bay Area68 · +0.51
Hot · Smart contractAdvancing · Knowledge managementOpportunity · Health careConcern · Data science
Philadelphia55 · +0.64
Hot · AnonymityAdvancing · Cloud computingOpportunity · Programming languageConcern · Computer security
Pittsburgh53 · +0.49
Hot · AdversaryAdvancing · Peer-to-peerOpportunity · Computer networkConcern · Cryptocurrency
Los Angeles50 · +0.51
Hot · Cloud computingAdvancing · ArchitectureOpportunity · Mechanism (biology)Concern · Cryptocurrency
Seattle42 · +0.55
Hot · Internet of ThingsAdvancing · Big dataOpportunity · TelemedicineConcern · Computer security
Chicago33 · +0.30
Hot · Supply chainAdvancing · Computer securityOpportunity · Adversarial systemConcern · Financial services
San Diego32 · +0.35
Hot · Data miningAdvancing · CorrectnessOpportunity · MarketingConcern · Data science
Atlanta29 · +0.56
Hot · LedgerAdvancing · Process managementOpportunity · Scale (ratio)Concern · Distributed ledger
PATENT SIGNAL · United States

Who's filing blockchain patents in the United States

United States blockchain patent filing is accelerating — 11,538 filings from 2,143 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Mastercard International, BANK Of America; annual filings 32→1298.

11,538 filings2,143 assigneespeak 1781/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • IBM1155
  • Mastercard International594
  • BANK Of America350
  • State FARM Mutual Automobile Ins228
  • Capital One Services216
  • Paypal200
  • Jpmorgan Chase BANK NA183
  • VISA INT Service ASS174

Common questions

How many Smart Contracts companies are there in United States?
Radar tracks 134 indexable Smart Contracts companies headquartered in United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Smart Contracts companies in United States?
The Smart Contracts companies in United States on this list have raised a combined $1.8B in disclosed equity funding across 59 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Smart Contracts company in United States?
AVA is the highest-funded Smart Contracts company in United States, with $368M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Smart Contracts companies in United States are funded?
59 of the 134 Smart Contracts companies in United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Smart Contracts unicorns are there in United States?
3 Smart Contracts companies in United States on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in United States Smart Contracts companies?
The most active investors in United States Smart Contracts companies on this list include NGC Ventures, Coinbase, Digital Currency Group, Hack VC, Plug and Play Tech Center.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories

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