When Satoshi Nakamoto first articulated his vision for Bitcoin in 2008, there was no such thing as the crypto industry. Now, Nakamoto, whose identity still remains hidden, is just one of many personalities who have helped birth an entire new asset class. There are countless cryptocurrencies, thousands of digital asset companies, and an entire class of blockchain billionaires.
Suffice to say, crypto is bigger than just a handful of large companies and protocols. That’s why, supplementary to the Fortune Crypto 100, Fortune’s staff decided to separately recognize 30 companies and projects that are pushing the digital assets ecosystem forward. Fortune’s Lists team sorted through more than 150 nominations as well as pored through multiple databases of top companies to choose the winners.* Here they are below, unranked and in alphabetical order:
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Amber Group
Category: Crypto ServicesSix former Wall Streeters founded Amber Group, a Singapore-based institutional wealth management firm, in 2017 to serve institutions and high-net-worth individuals. The company is one of just a handful of Asia-based crypto finance firms that trade on a major U.S. exchange, following the listing of its subsidiary, Amber Premium, on the Nasdaq in 2025.
