A cryptocurrency venture capital firm, lab, and validator, that builds alongside the companies and technologies we invest in.
Our Mission
On the frontier of technology, we're building the future of finance. Strangelove exists to empower the global crypto community and give rise to technologies that are open, useful, and deliver the promise of DeFi.
Venture Capital Investing
Backing startups and early stage companies who are building the future of DeFi.
Strangelove Lab
Actively building alongside the companies and technologies we invest in.
Validation Services
Providing stable and secure validation for the technologies we partner with.
Latest News
The Blog
Horcrux v2.0 Has Been Released!
Horcrux is the premier high-availability key management infrastructure for Cosmos validator operations offering highly available key management infrastructure. It brings significant benefits: additional security and better uptime.
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Announcing Go Relayer v2.0
The v2 release of the go relayer is a milestone in the development of the Interchain and sets a new standard for IBC technology. Building upon Strangelove’s many years of experience building and deploying IBC, it brings a more scalable event based architecture which drastically reduces query load on RPC nodes and allows for integration of non-Cosmos chains into IBC. Join us as we walk through the major new abstractions and features.
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Building a Human Centered Wallet
We at Strangelove are excited about the growing web3 community, but one of the pitfalls with growth is the proliferation of tools and standards. One of the most common web3 tools is the user wallet. There are hundreds of wallets already out there but we wanted one that is human-centered in its design. This is the story of how we designed a more user-friendly wallet.
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Strangelove UX Principles
Now that Strangelove Ventures is growing past a small team of core individuals, we believe that it is important for us to share our beliefs on UX best practices.
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What We're Building
We're not here at the bleeding edge of DeFi to be bystanders. We believe in getting our hands dirty, and that means financing and developing our own projects for technologies we're currently invested in.
IBC Relayer
An IBC protocol-based relayer that allows 2 blockchains to transfer data and value between them. Think of this as TCP/IP (i.e. HTTP requests) for blockchains.
Horcrux
A threshold signer for Tendermint-based validators with a Harry Potter inspired name. This software separates validation keys into a number of pieces and allows the validator to make a signature from the sharded key for added security and greater reliability.
ibctest
ibctest orchestrates Go tests that utilize Docker containers for multiple IBC-compatible blockchains.
Lens
Lens provides a command line tool to interact with any cosmos chain supporting the core Cosmos-SDK modules.
Meet the Team
Who we are
Jack Zampolin
Founder
Jack Zampolin is a cofounder and Technical Lead at Strangelove. Jack came to into the crypto world via Blockstack and then moved to Tendermint as Director of Product. He is currently Co-Founder (Product) at Sommelier Network. As a proof-of-stake pioneer and dev evangelist, Jack brings a special blend of cloud infrastructure and blockchain experience to Strangelove.
Tyler Schmidt
Founder
Tyler Schmidt is a cofounder and Business Lead at Strangelove. Tyler first came into crypto space as an early Mt. Gox investor and a private miner. As a UX director with years spent building advertising for Fortune 500 clients and user infrastructure for AAA video games, Tyler adds veteran product and strategy experience to the Strangelove team.
Andrew Gouin
Lead SRE
Andrew Gouin is a lead infrastructure operations and software engineer at Strangelove. Andrew pursued blockchain tech prior to Strangelove as a side hobby with mining and open source code contributions. Andrew brings his background in distributed computing software design, cloud infrastructure, and hardware engineering to the Strangelove team.
Ryan Warner
Engineering Manager
Ryan is an engineering manager at Strangelove. Ryan is newer to the web3 and crypto world, but is excited about the interoperability and shared security of the Cosmos Network. Ryan is a web application generalist and brings a decade of startup experience to Strangelove.
Dan Kanefsky
Technical Product Manager
Dan is a Technical Project Manager at Strangelove. He came from an Online Learning company where as a Project Manager, he spent a majority of his time automating workflows and manipulating media to streamline video production. Dans appreciation for blockchain technology and open source software led him to Strangelove where he looks forward to contributing to the ever expanding blockchain space.
Lucy Lock
Director of Operations
Lucy is the Director of Operations at Strangelove, where she handles a variety of tasks including finances, tax, HR, payroll, and more. She previously spent 5+ years working in sell-side investment banking, helping founders and entrepreneurs to realize their goals. Lucy brings experience working with software and internet start-ups across a variety of verticals.
Kevin Denman
Head of Strategic Growth
Kevin is Head of Strategic Growth at Strangelove. Throughout his 13 years of experience in the technology sector, Kevin has led sales engineering, professional services, and product development initiatives across multiple industries at a variety of stages in the business growth lifecycle. Kevin believes blockchain technology will mature to become the new digital infrastructure layer of human civilization and is excited to continue developing meaningful partnerships in the space.
Griko Nibras
Frontend Developer
Griko Nibras is a Frontend Developer at Strangelove Ventures, creating delightful web experiences using frontend technologies. With a background both on design and computer science, Griko strives to craft high quality web based application landing pages and company profiles, to internal dashboards and information systems.
Jehnesa Herdsman
UX Designer
Jehnesa Herdsman is a UX Designer excited about creating meaningful experiences. With a degree in Psychology and Criminology, she has a passion for solving problems empathizing with users and creating long lasting designs. Jehnesa is fascinated with the endless possibilities of Web3 and design.
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