Our Mission

We support Blockchain Founders from the Stanford ecosystem building transformational ventures driving blockchain adoption


We believe Blockchain technologies will underpin the future of digital infrastructure and create a paradigm shift affecting every aspect of our lives.

Blockchain technologies leverage cryptography, economics, and distributed computing to empower shared applications and data stores with full transparency and trust.

The ramifications of these digital public goods include:

      • Ledgers for digital ownership including payments, digital assets, and physical assets; providing financial and ownership infrastructure where central institutions are weak, and significantly increasing liquidity of all assets.

      • Coordination across multiple parties including consortiums, cooperatives, governments, or even autonomous applications - including energy trading, securities trading, tracking and internalizing externalities, or maintaining medical records. Burgeoning bots and autonomous applications will require a common digital infrastructure to interact and transact with one another.

      • Transparency and trust within our digital interactions; critical in a world rampant with AI and deep fakes - proof of human, proof of AI model, proof of training data, proof of source data, provenance of content generated and what manipulations its been subject to, etc

      • Privacy preserving data sharing leveraging ZK approaches to share personal information in a trusted and efficient manner for loans, medical records, job applications, and more

      • Permissioned customer engagement for brands and vendors

      • Metaverse infrastructure

Ultimately, Blockchain technologies empower shared standards for interoperability and reduce frictions across all of our interactions.

Blockchain Vision


Blockchain technology is still early and limited in its capabilities, though it's progressing quickly. Throughput, interoperability, user experience, and developer experience are significant bottlenecks to broad adoption.

Blockchain Builders Fund supports experienced founders tackling these challenges and enabling new use cases, as well as leveraging deep sector expertise to apply blockchain’s unique capabilities to current needs.

Blockchain Reality