Mechanism Design

Paradigm

Check: Paradigm says it backs founders at every stage from first check through public markets, but it does not publish Alpin's personal check range or decision authority. A 2024 firm filing described vehicle investments from $1M to $100M or more; that historical firm range is not treated as his current personal range.

Alpin partners with crypto founders and researchers who have strong instincts about the future and the courage to follow them. His work centers on protocol, market, and mechanism design—especially systems that take explicit architectural tradeoffs to improve a core product or maximize performance. He is interested in how specialized new networks exploit incumbent dogma, how markets can improve collective decisions, and how open benchmarks can safely accelerate AI-assisted smart-contract security.

Paradigm

Check: No personal check range or decision authority is published. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Caitlin's current collaborator status and the firm's capital base do not establish an individual check size.

Caitlin is a Paradigm venture partner and Stripe zero-to-one strategist whose published investment perspective centers on crypto's ability to improve online coordination and create internet-native economies. Her current Paradigm work is best understood as a collaborator and ecosystem/talent lens, with stated interest in markets, incentive design, distributed systems, developer tooling, applications, and agentic commerce.

Ethereal Ventures

Academic turned crypto investor, bringing rigorous economic thinking to token design and mechanism design. Ethereal Ventures invests in crypto projects with strong economic foundations.

Electric Capital

Check: Electric Capital publicly advertises firm-level checks of $1M–$15M+ from pre-seed through Series A. No personal range or unilateral authority is disclosed for Geoff, so that firm range should be treated as routing context rather than his individual ticket.

Geoff brings mechanism design, computational finance and systems engineering to frontier-technology investing. His work on ad auctions, algorithmic trading, rates derivatives and the SCION internet architecture creates a lens for markets where incentives, network structure and technical reliability interact. His attributed stablecoin dashboard emphasizes actual usage—wallets, flows, chains and issuer competition—rather than supply headlines alone.

NGC Ventures

Check: NGC does not publish a Jack-specific check range on its official team page. Third-party investor directories estimate broad firm ranges, but those are not treated as verified personal authority. Founders should ask directly about stage, round and allocation fit.

Jack evaluates blockchain projects through their economic and social mechanisms. His official remit emphasizes whether decentralized consensus, incentive provision, industrial organization and smart-contract market structure create stable behavior under real strategic actors. His parallel builder record around decentralized auctions and Bitcoin finance reinforces a practical interest in turning mechanism design into functioning markets rather than treating tokens as narrative alone.

Pantera Capital

Applies rigorous economic theory and mechanism design to crypto investing. Focuses on projects where game theory and incentive alignment are core to the value proposition.