Protocol Labs is an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more. We aim to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. We are a fully distributed company. Our team of more than 100 members works remotely and in the open to improve the internet — humanity's most important technology — as we explore new advances in computing and related fields.

0xEssential enables digital asset ownership through portability and offers tools and platforms that help create NFTs. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

3Box Labs creates software that returns control of the web to the hands of every user and builder through the power of open identity and data. We are core contributors to Ceramic Network and the creators of the IDX identity protocol.

Afterparty is a creator community platform. We give the most innovative creators and artists the tools for delivering world-class experiences to their biggest fans. And for the first time ever fans get to participate in the success of their favorite artists and creators.

Agoric is committed to making strong security easier to achieve. Creating secure smart contracts using today’s technology is inherently difficult. That difficulty has limited both the number of applications created, and the number of programmers qualified to create them. We are developing an open, JavaScript-based, object-capability (ocap) programming layer to address both issues. The Agoric ocap layer will include robust security properties beyond anything available today, and it will provide that security across substrates, from local machines to global blockchains.

Data-in-use is becoming a key attack-vector in recent security breaches. When an application is loading data into memory, that data has to be decrypted for the application to process it, and at that point the data is completely vulnerable. One of the major manifestations of that problem is managing the encryption keys that are loaded in memory when encrypting or decrypting data. Anjuna solves this problem by offering a solution that is as secure as HSM but provides the flexibility, scalability and cost of a software solution, allowing organizations to protect their keys throughout the key's lifecycle - both the top tier keys as as as all the derived keys.

Anytype is the Unified User Interface for a distributed, content-addressable web. Its unified approach to a graphical interface allows users to create services on top of decentralized protocols without any programming skills. Through this, we want to bootstrap the mass adoption of Web 3.0 and enable it to reach a critical mass

Protocol Labs build protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the Internet. The Application Research Group (ARG) is a team that aims to bolster the mission by focusing on shipping tools that provide daily utility on the Internet. A lot of our contributors are now part of a group called Outercore, we're part of the Engineering team. Hang out with us in the Filecoin Slack inside of #ecosystem-dev channel.

We're a community fund for human creativity. Each month, we award unrestricted grants to creators at the intersection of art, tech, science, and design.