List of L1 companies in Web3 (2026)

Arc Blockchain is a stablecoin-native Layer 1 network that settles payments, foreign exchange, and tokenized asset transfers. It pairs a Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocol with an EVM-compatible execution layer, giving deterministic finality in under a second and transaction fees denominated in a dollar stablecoin. A permissioned validator set secures it, and opt-in privacy controls shield transaction detail while preserving auditability.

Noble Blockchain is a Cosmos SDK application-specific blockchain built for native asset issuance, focusing on stablecoins and real-world assets. The system uses IBC protocol for cross-chain interoperability and Proof of Authority consensus to provide specialized infrastructure for asset issuers across the Interchain ecosystem.

Dexalot L1 is the Avalanche L1 blockchain that runs Dexalot's central limit order book, where orders are matched and settled on chain. Staked ALOT helps secure the chain through proof of stake, and liquid stakers receive a staking receipt token. Host chains connect to it through cross-chain messaging rather than asset bridges.

NexDAX Chain is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain using Proof of Authority consensus. It supports smart contracts, fungible and non-fungible tokens, decentralized applications, and DeFi protocols, with NT as the native coin for transactions, staking, and block rewards. The chain works with common Ethereum wallets and developer tooling, enabling migration of existing Ethereum projects.

Somnia Blockchain is an EVM-compatible layer 1 network using MultiStream consensus, IceDB database technology, and accelerated sequential execution designed for high throughput and low latency transaction processing.

KiiChain is a layer 1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK with EVM compatibility, designed as a settlement layer for stablecoins and real-world assets in emerging markets. It combines Cosmos-based consensus with an EVM execution module so Ethereum smart contracts can deploy unchanged, while inter-blockchain communication and custom modules connect it to a wide range of other networks. The chain underpins onchain foreign-exchange orchestration, real-world-asset tokenization, and payment settlement used by other Kii products and third-party applications built on it.

Creditcoin is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain that records and verifies credit and loan transaction data on-chain. It uses a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and supports standard Ethereum tooling and smart contract languages, enabling developers to build decentralized applications including credit, DeFi, RWA, DePIN, and gaming use cases. The network includes a built-in cross-chain execution layer, Attestcoin, that lets smart contracts read and verify data from other blockchains without bridges or oracles. Native staking lets CTC holders delegate to validators to secure the network and earn rewards.

PointPay Blockchain is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 network that uses proof-of-stake consensus and PXP as its native currency. It supports smart contract deployment and decentralized application development and offers public RPC access.

Custom Layer 1 blockchain built on Avalanche for gaming infrastructure and development.

XPR Network is a layer-one proof-of-stake blockchain using WebAssembly smart contracts to deliver instant, fee-free transactions with 4,000 TPS capacity. The blockchain features human-readable @names, built-in identity verification, and communicates with traditional banking systems through XPR Signing Request protocol. The platform includes a comprehensive block explorer with transaction history, account management, smart contract details, and integrated staking functionality.

Provenance Blockchain provides a proof-of-stake Layer 1 network built with Cosmos SDK and CometBFT consensus, enabling financial institutions to tokenize and trade real-world assets through an integrated ledger, registry, and exchange architecture with sub-second settlement finality.

CP Chain is a modular EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain linked to the CoinUp.io ecosystem, with CP as its native gas currency. It targets high throughput, near-zero gas fees and fast finality, and supports existing EVM tools for contract deployment. Its ecosystem includes a block explorer, the CP Bridge, a swap, an oracle and a testnet faucet.

Theta Network is a layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for media, entertainment and AI compute workloads. It uses a proof-of-stake consensus model with Validator and Guardian nodes to secure the chain while supporting EVM-compatible smart contracts and decentralized applications. Developers deploy smart contracts using standard EVM tooling, and the network underpins a wider ecosystem of video, NFT and compute products.

ZetaChain Mainnet is a Layer 1 blockchain network utilizing Cosmos SDK and Tendermint consensus to enable cross-chain interoperability through omnichain smart contracts. The network employs a distributed architecture with validators for block production, observers for external chain monitoring, and signers using Threshold Signature Scheme cryptography to facilitate native asset management across connected blockchains. The mainnet supports Universal App deployment through its zEVM execution layer and ZRC-20 token standard, enabling smart contract functionality for non-smart contract chains including Bitcoin and Dogecoin.

Numbers Blockchain is an EVM-compatible blockchain built as an Avalanche Subnet, providing on-chain infrastructure for digital media provenance. Operating with Chain ID 10507 and NUM as its native currency, the network restricts deployments to media provenance-related smart contracts. It implements the ERC-7053 indexing standard, allowing applications to log verifiable media records accessible through a public block explorer.

Fogo Layer 1 implements multi-local consensus through pure Firedancer client, enabling sub-millisecond finality and real-time trading experiences. The system utilizes curated validator sets with dynamic colocation to achieve institutional-grade performance while maintaining SVM compatibility.

Vara Network is a Layer 1 blockchain built on the Gear Protocol for decentralized application development. It supports gasless and signless transactions, asynchronous program execution, and on-chain governance. The VARA token pays for fees, secures the network through staking, and is used for voting.

Oasis Sapphire is a confidential computing environment for blockchain developers. It helps users build privacy-preserving applications through encrypted smart contract execution that protects sensitive data.

Oasis Privacy Layer is a tool for adding privacy to existing apps. It helps users protect sensitive actions through confidential smart contracts on Sapphire.

Mavryk Network is a layer-1 blockchain for real-world asset tokenization, supporting smart contracts, staking, and decentralized applications for institutional and retail use.

Heima L1 Network is a Layer 1 blockchain built on Substrate that serves as the coordination and registry layer for the Heima chain abstraction protocol. It connects to Polkadot as a parachain, inheriting shared security, and provides the execution environment for cross-chain intent routing and agent management. The chain is EVM-compatible and targets 500ms block times to support real-time DeFi operations.

Tangle Network is a Substrate-based blockchain providing the economic coordination layer for decentralized service deployment. Developers publish Blueprints — Rust job specifications defining on-demand and background services — and operators instantiate them by bonding TNT. Per-execution fees settle on-chain through the x402 protocol in any supported asset, and operators failing service level agreements are slashed automatically. The network supports multi-asset restaking, accepting BTC, ETH, USDC, stETH, and other assets from external chains without wrapping. A Rust SDK (blueprint-sdk) with TypeScript bindings enables developers to author and deploy Blueprints for use cases including AI agents, oracles, bridges, threshold signature schemes, and distributed validator clusters.

Privado Identity Chain is a blockchain network serving as the primary chain for user identities in the Privado ID ecosystem. Operating with Chain ID 21000, it acts as the authoritative source of identity state, enabling other EVM-compatible chains to synchronize with it to prevent credential fragmentation across networks. DIDs created on the chain use the prefix did:iden3:privado:main:.

A layer-1 blockchain with a fixed 22KB size that implements recursive zero knowledge proofs through the Kimchi-Pickles proof system and Ouroboros Samasika consensus, enabling lightweight verification from any device.

Unit Network is a Layer 1 blockchain supporting token creation, decentralized exchange functionality, crowdfunding mechanisms, and banking services. The system enables tokenization of real-world assets while maintaining treasury-backed token value through reserve asset integration.

Swiss Ledger (previously 3AChain) is an enterprise blockchain solution for fintech and other industries, developed in Lugano. It offers institutional validators, full EVM compatibility, and Bitcoin anchoring, with tools for traceability, automation, and security of business systems.

A public permissioned L1 for regulated assets with protocol-level governance, identity, compliance, confidentiality, and settlement using nominated proof of stake and verified identities.

Amadeus Protocol is a Layer 1 blockchain for running autonomous AI agents, combining useful proof of work mining with Byzantine fault tolerant consensus for fast finality. Agents execute deterministically through smart contracts with on-chain memory, and sensitive logic can run inside trusted execution environments to keep strategies private while remaining attestable. Built-in payment rails let agents hold balances and settle payments with each other and with users on-chain.

Dogecoin is a proof-of-work Layer 1 blockchain that supports a peer-to-peer digital currency. It processes transactions through a decentralized network of nodes that validate and record transfers on a public ledger without requiring a central authority. The network's native asset is used for payments, tipping, and value transfer across a wide community of holders and merchants.

Gravity Mainnet is a restaking-powered Proof-of-Stake Layer 1 blockchain featuring Reth as its EVM execution engine, Jolteon consensus algorithm, and native support for cross-chain transactions through omnichain intent protocols.

ONINO Mainnet is a Layer-1 blockchain that supports EVM-compatible smart contracts using Proof‑of‑Stake. It enables sub‑chain deployment for enterprise applications and uses ONI as the native gas token for fees and staking rewards.

Stablechain is a Layer 1 blockchain built for USDT payments, with USDT used to pay network gas and full EVM compatibility. The network provides sub-second finality and dedicated blockspace for payment flows.

Regen Ledger is a sovereign proof-of-stake blockchain built with Cosmos SDK, enabling verification of ecological claims and data through specialized modules for ecocredits and environmental data anchoring.

NerveNetwork Mainnet is a Layer 1 blockchain providing cross-chain infrastructure for transferring and settling digital assets across multiple, otherwise isolated blockchain networks. It runs a proof-of-credit Byzantine fault tolerant consensus with a three-tier node architecture, where virtual bank nodes manage cross-chain multi-signature custody and consensus nodes produce blocks. The network's native token, NVT, is required for transaction fees and node staking, and the chain underpins applications such as swaps, asset bridging and token issuance built on top of it.

Concordium is a Layer 1 blockchain that uses ConcordiumBFT, a Proof-of-Stake consensus based on HotStuff, to achieve near-instant finality with 2.5-second block times. The protocol integrates identity verification and zero-knowledge proofs at the base layer, enabling compliant stablecoin issuance, geofenced transactions, and privacy-preserving credential sharing.

Oasys Hub Layer is the Layer 1 base chain of the Oasys ecosystem, using a Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism and EVM compatibility. It functions as the settlement and data availability layer for Verse-Layer L2s, with 15-second block times. End users pay no gas fees for in-game transactions; Verse Builders pay rollup costs to the Hub Layer. The mainnet launched in October 2022 with 21 initial validators including SEGA, Ubisoft, and Bandai Namco Research.

Dymension is a Layer 1 blockchain built on Cosmos SDK with Tendermint consensus, functioning as a settlement layer for application-specific rollups called RollApps. The protocol embeds rollup-servicing logic directly into the settlement layer rather than through external smart contract bridges, providing RollApps with shared security, liquidity, and cross-chain connectivity via IBC. An embedded AMM handles token swaps and liquidity bootstrapping, an Initial RollApp Offerings (IRO) mechanism allows creators to launch tokens on customizable bonding curves before their rollup goes live, and eIBC enables fast cross-chain withdrawals by bypassing the standard dispute period. RollApps support EVM and CosmWasm execution environments and use on-demand block production to reduce operating costs.

Nolus Pirin is a Cosmos SDK-based Layer-1 blockchain utilizing Tendermint consensus and CosmWASM smart contracts. The network enables cross-chain lending markets through IBC and Interchain Accounts, supporting DeFi Lease operations with semi-permissioned PoS validation.

StakeCube is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange and multi-service crypto platform combining an order-book exchange, web-based wallet, staking pool, shared masternode hosting, and Proof-of-Work cloud mining under one account. Users deposit supported coins to trade across multiple base markets, earn daily rewards from staking and masternode pools, or subscribe to an interest-bearing savings feature with daily payouts. The platform hosts masternodes on users' behalf via shared collateral slots, and offers a developer API for real-time exchange data and account integration, plus crypto education content, community voting and faucets, plus browser-based retro games using the platform's native coin. Access is available through the web app and a companion mobile app tied to the same account.

Coreum Enterprise-grade Layer-1 is a blockchain platform built for decentralized applications. It offers scalability, security, and cross-chain interoperability, featuring Smart Tokens with built-in business logic and ISO 20022 compatibility for financial messaging. Designed for industries like decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenized assets, and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), Coreum supports high transaction throughput and low-cost operations

Suzaku Relayer Network (SuzakuRN) is an Avalanche L1 that adds censorship resistance, liveness, and message validity guarantees to the InterChain Messaging (ICM) protocol used for cross-chain communication between Avalanche networks. ICM relies on off-chain relayers to transfer messages between chains, and SuzakuRN prevents these relayers from censoring transactions or going offline. The network also provides a notary service and simplified incentive models for relayer operators.

A privacy-focused cryptocurrency platform implementing hybrid PoW/PoS consensus for enhanced security. The blockchain provides built-in privacy through ring signatures, stealth addresses, and hidden amounts, enabling completely confidential transactions where sender, receiver, amount, and asset type are all concealed. Its modular architecture supports confidential assets creation, private staking through Zarcanum technology, and trustless P2P agreements through escrow contracts.

Radix Network implements Cerberus consensus through linear sharding architecture, enabling unlimited scalability while maintaining atomic composability. The system provides native asset management and developer royalties through on-ledger execution environment.

Utopia P2P Blockchain is the serverless peer-to-peer network that runs the Utopia ecosystem and settles Crypton and Utopia USD transactions. Payments are instant and irreversible, and users who run a mining bot supply routing connections and storage in exchange for newly issued Crypton. The network's algorithms cannot be changed by its creators once launched.

Nockchain is a Layer 1 blockchain that uses Zero-Knowledge Proof of Work (ZKPoW) as its consensus mechanism. Miners produce blocks by generating zero-knowledge proofs in a competitive puzzle, targeting approximately ten-minute block intervals with difficulty adjusting every two block-weeks. Transactions follow a UTXO-based notes model with an intent-based execution approach: users and applications declare conditions under which notes may be spent, and off-chain solvers generate zero-knowledge proofs satisfying those conditions before submitting them on-chain. Native lockscript types include Schnorr signature locks, timelocks, hashlocks, ZK-proof locks, Merkle proof locks, and fraud proof locks, composable in Merklized script trees. Multiple intents from independent off-chain applications can be batched into aggregated proofs for atomic settlement through a shared sequencer model. An elastic block size allows the chain to accommodate increased proof volume without fixed throughput limits. $NOCK is the native a

REAL Blockchain is a specialized Layer 1 blockchain built on Cosmos Tendermint that provides institutional infrastructure for compliant tokenization and risk-managed capital flows. The system uses a dual-validator architecture with business validators including tokenizers, risk scorers, and insurers who participate in protocol consensus to ensure economic alignment and transparent enforcement throughout the asset lifecycle.

CESS Network is a Layer 1 blockchain providing decentralized cloud storage and content delivery network infrastructure for Web3 applications. The network utilizes R²S consensus, Proof of Idle Space, and Proof of Data Reduplication and Recovery mechanisms to enable secure storage and retrieval of high-frequency dynamic data with millisecond-level access performance.

Naoris Protocol is a Layer 1 blockchain that operates as a security infrastructure layer beneath existing blockchain stacks. Its dPoSec (Decentralized Proof of Security) consensus mechanism requires each participating device to continuously validate the integrity of other devices, producing real-time trust scores anchored on-chain with NIST-approved Dilithium-5 post-quantum cryptographic signatures. Built-in capabilities include real-time validator and node integrity monitoring, behavioral threat detection for smart contracts, hardware attestation for DePIN devices, a post-quantum signing framework, cross-chain trust propagation, and a distributed AI engine for network-wide anomaly detection. The network can integrate with existing L1s, L2s, bridges, DeFi protocols, and DePIN networks, or operate as a standalone sovereign blockchain for applications requiring quantum-resistant infrastructure.

GalaChain is a Layer 1 blockchain built on Hyperledger Fabric, using a Proof of Authority consensus mechanism with parallelized transaction processing. It achieves block finality under two seconds and scales transaction throughput horizontally across channels, targeting entertainment and gaming applications. The network provides a built-in token contract supporting transfer, mint, allowances, and swap operations, along with a built-in bridge and support for TypeScript-based chaincode development.

ValueChain is a Layer 1 blockchain built for high-throughput financial applications. Its host chain runs consensus and stores several guest chains, including an EVM-compatible system chain that manages account state for all of them and supports standard EVM applications. Application-specific chains, such as the spot and perpetual order book chains powering SoDEX, keep isolated execution environments and pass messages to each other without external bridges.