IPFS is a peer-to-peer network and protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS upgrades the web to work peer to peer, addressing data by what it is instead of where it’s located on the network, or who is hosting it. Filecoin - the world’s largest decentralized network, allows users to store, request, and transfer data via a verifiable marketplace. Filecoin is completely open-source, enabling people from all over the world to participate. The Filecoin protocol runs on an advanced and novel proof system — a combination of Proof of Spacetime (PoSt) and Proof of Replication (PoRep), to provide unmatched efficiency and reliability. Filecoin’s advanced technology provides a robust foundation to store the world’s most valuable data sets. An alternative to costly cloud storage, the Filecoin network offers efficiently priced and geographically decentralized storage, minimizing financial barriers, and allowing users to take advantage of its unmatched network capabilities.

Immutable X is the leading Layer 2 scaling solution for NFTs to enable gas-free minting and trading, while not compromising the security of the most used blockchain globally for NFTs, Ethereum. The solution, powered by StarkWare’s innovative technology, offers instant trade confirmation, massive scalability (up to 9,000 transactions per second), and fantastic developer and user experience. Immutable X has announced integrations with established brands such as GameStop, OpenSea and Mintable, and is powering some of the largest NFT plays across consumer apps (TikTok), DeFi (SuperFarm), and gaming (Highrise, ESL Gaming, Ember Sword, Planet Quest, Gods Unchained, Guild of Guardians, GreenPark Sports, Illuvium, MyCryptoHeroes+).

Valist brings web3-native software distribution to life: publish, fetch, auto-update, and monetize your software or games with an easy to use set of tools. All without intermediaries like Steam or Apple taking a 30% cut.

The smartest wallet for Web3. Sequence is a smart contract wallet built for a network of Ethereum chains. Already supporting Ethereum and Polygon, and with integrations for Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, BSC, Fantom, and other EVM-compliant networks coming soon – Sequence makes accessing Web3 easy for everyone while maintaining the purity of decentralized and non-custodial design. Integrate Sequence into your dapp to seamlessly onboard users who can create a secure smart contract wallet in two clicks. With Sequence’s awesome NFT support, simplified gas fees, fiat-to-crypto onramp, meta-transaction support (so users can pay gas in various ERC-20 tokens), simple batch transaction support, multi-key security, and smooth Layer2 support, you’ll grant your users the ability to do more on Ethereum + EVM than previously possible, all in a user-friendly format. Get started at https://sequence.build.

Pinata is the leading multimedia hub for NFT creators, builders, and artists in web3. Our vision to foster a sense of place for every creator on the internet that is uniquely theirs has been the company’s goal since 2018. Pinata gives users the ability to easily upload, manage, and share content with the world. Building the largest pinning service on IPFS with over 140,000 users and serving more than 1 billion requests monthly, Pinata currently powers the top projects, marketplaces, and apps for NFTs and beyond.

Tableland builds a protocol, network, and token to enable relational data in Web3. Use familiar SQL-based tables to read and write dynamic NFT metadata or application data–all orchestrated on token networks like Ethereum.

NFTPort is the Stripe for NFTs: one-stop, simple NFT Infrastructure and APIs for developers to bring NFT applications to market in hours instead of months. NFTPort takes care of the infrastructure so that developers can focus on building their application. NFTPort provides APIs for multi-chain NFT data and NFT minting, together with out-of-the-box NFT search, recommendations and detecting NFT counterfeits. NFTPort is used by 10,000+ devs, including leading projects such as POAP and Nifty Gateway. Built by a team of ex-NATO, Nvidia & Monese and backed by the Co-Founders of Polygon, Skype & Wise.

Moralis is the fastest way to build and deploy dApps on Polygon, Ethereum, BSC, Avalanche, Solana, and more. All Moralis dApps are cross-chain by default. Building on Moralis ensures that your dApp is future-proof. Even if new blockchains are invented, your dApp will instantly work on any chain.

Quixotic is the first and largest NFT marketplace on Optimism.

Polygon is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 3000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~100M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

Chainlink greatly expands the capabilities of smart contracts by enabling access to real-world data and off-chain computation while maintaining the security and reliability guarantees inherent to blockchain technology. With Price Feeds, Verifiable Randomness, Upkeeps, and making any kind of API call, you can empower your application to do virtually anything. There is an abundance of resources in the Chainlink documentation for any developer at any level to get started.

OP Games was founded in 2018, back during the early days of Web3, with a mission of using decentralized technologies to reclaim power back to independent game creators and open-source developers.

Years on and our focus has not changed. We now have an engaged community of more than 6000 members built around the Arcadians Pluriverse. We’ve gone on to successfully raise more than US$600,000 for open-source game engines and game developers. We are also expanding to game publishing with our publishing company, GM Frens.

We at Covalent believe that access to organized blockchain data can unlock a billion possibilities and so we provide the world's best single unified API to bring full transparency and visibility to assets across all blockchain networks. With the Covalent API, there is no need to invest developer resources in writing sub-graphs or SQL queries since granular, decoded, multi-chain data is immediately available for a dozen blockchain networks including Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Fantom and Avalanche. Covalent is fast becoming the go-to data provider, with the Covalent API powering over 500 industry-leading projects such as Zerion, ChainGuardians, 0x and Reef.

The Covalent Unified API is the fastest way to get blockchain data into your BuildQuest project. Use it and be immediately eligible for our prize pool!

Lighthouse is a permanent file storage protocol that allows the ability to pay once and store your files forever. This will be super important for metaverse and gaming assets which need to be stored permanently using Lighthouse without paying for them again. You can use networks like Polygon, Mumbai Testnet, Fantom, Fantom Testnet, etc. to interact with Lighthouse protocol.