Securitize is a security tokenization platform. The company is focused on compliance and regulatory issues, and their dashboard helps clients manage the entire life cycle of a token. Token issuers can manage all aspects of their tokens, including issues related to regulation, fractional ownership, and driving liquidity. To do this, Securitize has developed an innovative protocol for managing ownership of digital assets. Their Digital Securities (DS) protocol will support third party apps, and will help address all aspects of the digital security life cycle, as well as the interests of investors, exchanges, and other stakeholders.

NEO, formerly known as AntShares, is one of the leading smart contract enabled blockchain platforms that allows for the development of digital assets. Similar to Ethereum, NEO uses two different tokens: NEO and GAS, each of which have a specific purpose on the network. NEO tokens give holders a share in the ownership of the NEO blockchain, and when they are held in a compatible wallet, they are rewarded with GAS tokens. NEO has a Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT) consensus algorithm that has uses some features of PoS, and is designed to be more scalable than other consensus mechanisms.

DAEX is developing a decentralized cryptocurrency clearing ecosystem that will improve the underlying infrastructure of centralized exchanges. DAEX aims to solve many of the security and privacy issues related to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges by providing a secure digital asset storage service for developers and trading platforms. Their ecosystem is powered by the Ethereum-based DAX token.