Mission
We support bleeding edge Blockchain Founders from Stanford’s ecosystem, driving blockchain adoption
Blockchain Vision
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 autonomous agents, consortiums, cooperatives, or governments - including multi-agent AI, 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 Reality
Blockchain is finally here. The nexus of technological progress, positive regulation, and real demand driven by finance and AI are ushering a new era for trustless, decentralized digital infrastructure. There are still technological, UX, and GTM challenges, yet the pace of innovation continues to accelerate.
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.