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Defiance Capital

Crypto-native investment firm backing DeFi, gaming and infrastructure projects around the world

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TrustList summary

Defiance Capital is an investment firm that focuses on crypto assets and Web3. Its team has followed the crypto market since 2017. It invests globally in DeFi, gaming and infrastructure projects, and says it applies fundamental analysis to digital assets.

What Defiance Capital offers

  • Crypto investing: Thesis-driven investments in digital assets.
  • Active partnership: Working with teams to build the network effects they need to scale.
  • Advice: Guidance on token economics, governance scaling and community building.
  • Institutional set-up: Trade execution, secure custody, risk management and due diligence.

Customers and markets

Crypto teams in DeFi, Web3 gaming and infrastructure. Projects it has backed include Aave, dYdX, Lido, Axie Infinity, Layer Zero and Offchain Labs.

Key facts

  • Investment tests: Better value than existing options, visible product-market fit and a strong team
  • Regulation: States that it is not licensed or regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Rankings

Defiance Capital is ranked on 2 TrustList rankings: #27 on 1 and #36 on 1.

Every ranking orders its listings by their reviews, how complete the profile is and the Trust Score. Defiance Capital has no reviews yet and 3 of the 10 profile details we look for. Where no listing on a page has been reviewed, the order follows the profiles alone.

Venture capital firm · 2 rankings

  • #27of 71
    Crypto investors

    It is the only one of the top 62 here listing bootstrap and retail.

    Of the top 62 here, 12 also cover blockchain and 10 also cover artificial intelligence; 7 also work in Silicon Valley and 6 also work in New York City.

    Behind DAIC Capital, ahead of Digital Strategies.

  • #36of 92
    Singapore

    It is the only one of the top 66 here listing monitoring and one of 3 here listing crypto and web3.

    Of the top 66 here, 11 also cover growth stage and 11 also cover partners; 16 also work in Hong Kong and 15 also work in London.

    Behind Decent Capital, ahead of Emerald Technology Ventures.

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