Making trust instant, open and programmable

We founded 1kx in 2018 on a structural claim: trust was about to become contestable, and the largest outcomes in technology would accrue to the networks and companies that compressed its cost.

Eight years, three market cycles, and more than 160 investments later, that claim has held. Decentralized finance, stablecoin payments, and the protocols beneath them produced the outcomes our 2018 thesis predicted. The data has sharpened the framework: Cost of Trust 2.0 names the two mechanisms by which the prize is captured.

What hasn't changed is how we work. We underwrite on fundamentals. We commit across cycles. We partner with founders building configurations that compound: the ones that require a blockchain to exist.