Organizations

Privacy & Scaling Explorations is one of several teams supported by the Ethereum foundation. We work to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research in Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), and application development on Ethereum.

Privacy & Scaling Explorations

MACI

Horizon makes blockchain-powered video games for dreamers, futurists, and digital citizens. We're pioneering a new dimension of gaming that belongs to its players.

We’re building a community-driven platform for decentralized games where players enjoy the freedom of true digital ownership, open economies, provable fairness, privacy, and the ability to earn real-world value through play.

It is driving Web3 adoption by making blockchain easy, fun and powerful for users and developers. The Sequence smart wallet and developer platform for Ethereum, NFTs, Web3, DeFi and Dapps allow users and developers to access and build the next generation of the Internet. Skyweaver is the free-to-play digital trading card game where players can win, own, trade and sell their NFT cards.

Horizon Blockchain Games

Deepyr, Blockchain Research & Development, Bleeding-edge tech R&D specialising in smart contract development and blockchain research.

* Use-case mapping and blockchain architecture.
* Security audits and testing for Smart Contracts.
* Solidity development and DApp intergrations.
* Casper / Sharding research for Ethereum PoS

Deepyr

OB1 was founded in 2015 after a year of development on OpenBazaar by a small team in their spare time. They saw the concept of decentralized trade gain enthusiatic support in the Bitcoin community, and decided to accept venture capital funding in order to build a company and hire a development team to build OpenBazaar into something that could revolutionize ecommerce.

Our company is fully distributed with 13 team members from around the world.

Team JUST was formed for the only reason anyone competent ever gets into cryptocurrency.

After successfully losing everything they had to a “decentralized” scam, Team JUST was founded as an ironic statement about the crushing reality of cryptocurrency investment in 2017. You simply couldn’t trust anyone.

Wondering what it would be like if you never had to. Team JUST collected members from hundreds of broken blockchain communities that had suffered similar fates, and made a promise with its first product.

Team JUST believes that the only person in charge of financially ruining yourself, should be yourself.
This comedic goal secretly captures the true spirit of blockchain. Team JUST pioneers technology that finally eliminates all third parties (even the developers themselves) from influencing how or what you do with your money.

To this end they have become a decentralization giant through irony, deleting their own influence from everything they can get their hands on.

Forget what you know about currency, It can all be rewritten. We invent the financial technology the future has no choice but to use. Discovering and capturing hidden values possible with blockchain is our specialty. Follow us as we chase ideas the world hasn’t quite thought of yet.

Team JUST

Smith + Crown is the world's leading blockchain research organization. Since 2013 we have been studying the breadth of the public blockchain space with a focus on global trends, industry intelligence, and cryptoeconomic systems.

We are a research group and as such we do not offer or engage in promotional or advertising services. The research we publish is at our discretion and direction, and we are not a subsidiary or owned by another organization. When we write analysis on a project that we have advised, we include a clear note of such relationship. We believe in constant development and feedback. Smith + Crown and its various components are research initiatives themselves and as such will involve experimentation and iteration as we work to improve, expand, and incorporate feedback. We welcome comments and ideas. We are looking forward to the adventures ahead and to building the next steps of this exciting future with the community.

Smith + Crown

Making open source accessible and sustainable. Conducting blockchain based research experiements ranging from SoKs to live journals to cryptographic protocol implementation to rethinking peer review processes and patents.

Mechanism Labs

BUIDL labs is a blockchain R&D portfolio company of The Vantage Project.

Over the course of building several internet businesses and realizing how hard the process of new value creation is, we admire the ambition and audacity of the daring pioneers building in the blockchain space, even though we both know on some level that the odds of success are slim.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor – Elon Musk

Hence we spend significant time and mindspace in helping the daring pioneers improve those odds by building ecosystems and infrastructure for web3.0 and unlocking wealth creation opportunities in this next tech paradigm.

BUIDL Labs

THE HEART PROJECT is a wildly popular community-run Web3 project founded by Aidan Cullen and Stefan Meier, which enables passionate lovers of creativity to shape the art we interact with. The Heart Project Creative Studio is designed to produce media with thousands of contributors on every project and grants ownership of their shared creations.

As a special collaboration, THE HEART PROJECT is inviting their community to design a one-off sneaker skin for the CULT&RAIN Genesis drop.

Aidan Cullen is a renowned photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles & NYC. His multi-disciplinary art navigates between music, fashion, documentary and narrative worlds.

Stefan Meier is a highly respected artist based in Los Angeles. He works in painting, drawing, collage, and textile design. His artistic expression often delves into humankind’s relationship with nature.

THE HEART PROJECT

TON Labs is a core infrastructure and ecosystem developer for TON (Telegram Open Network). Its secure and accessible TON.Dev and TON.Space environments will deliver a TON full node implementation, a versatile toolchain and a cutting-edge SDK, as well as novel ways users interact with fintech services. It will enable the developer community to create, deploy, distribute and manage TON chains for consumer and enterprise applications. The Telegram Open Network (TON) is a fast, secure and scalable blockchain and network platform offering smart contracts, upgradeable formal blockchain specifications, support for micropayment channels and off-chain payment networks. Telegram - TON integration will make blockchain technologies and distributed services finally available and accessible to millions of ordinary users.

Privacy & Scaling Explorations

One of several teams supported by the Ethereum foundation.