Ante Labs
Backed byScale Venture Partners
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Entering and settling credible commitments is critical for global trade, but
it’s slow and complex. Ante Labs is building Ante, a protocol for onchain
commitments, and hiring talent excited to transform societal accountability.
Imagining how claims settlement evolves in a world without computers, and you
get something rooted in legacy courts. But the world has always-on, programmable
ledgers. So why not build open tools to create, verify, and settle commitments,
which accelerates trust formation and growth?
Why Ante?
The vast majority of things attempted in crypto don't make sense, but a few
things make a lot of sense. Ante works by enabling users to create verifiable
onchain commitments with autonomous settlement. At scale, Ante can help keep the
world honest, level the playing field for entering global commerce, and
explicitly digitize trust.
Concrete crypto products like Uniswap, Maker, Compound / Aave, etc., have become
"verbs" in crypto. That's because they actually are coherent with crypto's
differentiating properties. Consequently, they make so much sense now that it's
easy to forget that they weren't a part of crypto from day one.
The goal of Ante is to “verb-ify” a new primitive - an “Ante,” or a credible
commitment - that, in retrospect, seems obvious. (“Tokenizing” as a concept
seems obvious now, and swapping stems from tokens, but Uniswap didn’t become “a
thing” until tokens were ubiquitous.)
About Ante Labs
Ante Labs is a seed-stage remote org backed by angels & leading crypto investors
like Sequoia. Teammates have worked on global consumer apps, gaming, and crypto,
and built a quant trading firm from scratch.
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