Open Source Software

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 investment authority is published for Storm. Paradigm invests from first check through public markets, but Storm's official remit is frontier data-science and data-engineering research, not a stated personal allocation range.

Storm evaluates decentralized systems through high-resolution data, reproducible measurement, and open tooling. His work spans Ethereum state and history growth, node performance, market-volume accounting, prediction-market visualization, optimization, and forensic analysis. The recurring principle is to replace imprecise narratives with correctly defined metrics, controlled benchmarks, and accessible datasets before deciding where a system's real bottleneck or opportunity lies.