Onchain Trading

Blockchain Capital

Check: No reliable personal check range or current Blockchain Capital authority is public. Third-party ranges are stale and were excluded. Historical work included consumer-crypto diligence and portfolio support; founders must contact a currently listed Blockchain Capital investor for live check size and sponsorship.

In his Blockchain Capital work, Sterling focused on the intersection of consumers and crypto. He saw gaming as a mass-onboarding path because persistent games, interoperable assets and player-owned economies can align users with the worlds they help create. For consumer brands, he looked for authentic cultural connection and utility across physical and digital experiences rather than an NFT bolted onto a legacy product. His later DeFi work favored high-performance, composable exchanges close to their native ecosystems, with real volume, adaptable teams and product expansion beyond a single wedge.

Colosseum

Check: Colosseum's published accelerator investment is $250K pre-seed for accepted teams; it is a program-level standard, not Michael's personal discretionary check. Current materials say hackathon winners are interviewed and considered, with accepted teams receiving capital, mentorship and network access. Earlier official content described 7% terms; founders must verify the current instrument, percentage and token/equity structure.

Michael's lens combines markets research with Colosseum's tournament-style venture funnel: use global hackathons and four-week build sprints to observe which founders ship, learn and attract users before investing. He is interested in Solana products that exploit crypto-native primitives rather than append tokens to conventional software—especially futarchy and market-protected capital formation, tokenized cash-flowing assets, sophisticated trading tools, privacy-enabled settlement and AI-enabled onchain agents. He treats tokens as useful when distribution, user alignment, liquidity and governance matter, but recognizes that early public prices can distract pre-product teams and that long-horizon capital-intensive companies fit equity better.