The Balancer cryptocurrency is the reward token that fuels the Balancer market maker protocol. The Balancer protocol serves as a liquidity provider and a non-custodial portfolio manager. Unlike other automatic market maker protocols, such as Uniswap, Balancer is designed to provide a general solution that can be customized for a variety of trading pools with different distributions. It uses smart order routing to send trades to trading pools with the best rates available, and rewards traders by paying them a fee for increasing the liquidity of these pools.

AirSwap is a decentralized marketplace for trading Ethereum tokens. It is designed to enable wallet-to-wallet token trading through a browser on any website. AirSwap is a ConsenSys portfolio company.

Synthetix, previously known as Havven, is developing a decentralized exchange that will allow users to trade a variety of collateralized stablecoins and commodities. The Synthetix network is built on Ethereum, and is powered by the SNX token, which works together with the Synth token to provide traders with opportunities to buy and sell assets on the Ethereum blockchain, through a distributed collateral pool.