Blockchain earns its place when there is no trusted intermediary to lean on — or when the one that exists is too slow, too expensive, or too easy to game. We get behind the teams laying the rails underneath that: ownership you can prove, provenance you can audit, settlement that clears without a clearing house.
Teams here start with the platform already built — Onyx for tokenisation, provenance, and real-world assets — and an operating partner who has shipped this exact problem before. Not a roadmap and a wire transfer: a working stack, an engineering bench, and the relationships that open the first cohort of customers.
The hard problems we co-found teams to solve — and the platform we trade for equity to solve them faster.
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Provenance and chain-of-custody for critical materials — a blockchain-anchored audit trail that follows each consignment from source to destination, across the borders and jurisdictions where paper records break down.
↳ Find out more about ProtolithCritical materials cross too many borders for paper to keep up. We anchor every step of the chain on-chain, so an auditor — or a customer — can verify origin and custody without taking anyone's word for it. IMS handed us the core technology and an operator who had shipped provenance before; that head start is what got us live in months, not years.
Protolith · Supply Chain ProvenanceLet's get behind it.
Come with the domain and the conviction. You leave with core technology in hand, an operator beside you from the board down, and the relationships that warm up your first customers — all for equity, not a passive cheque.
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