GLOBAL VENTURE STUDIO & DIGITAL ASSET DEVELOPMENT LAB
Build thecompany.Keep themajority.
Blockchain Lab turns research in programmable infrastructure into working demos, durable systems and founder-led ventures.
80% founders, team and future capital
20% Blockchain Lab while we build
0% token-sale work
Illustrative. Not an offer of equity.
I WANT TO
Choose a route.
Understand
Understand a system
The Canon. The paper, then what the network did.
Compare
Compare infrastructure
The Atlas. Layers, trade-offs, and what does not fit.
Build
Build a product
Forge. A blueprint and a synthetic demo. Not a pilot.
Develop
Open the Developer Stack
Tools, API and MCP. No account and no wallet.
Read
Read the Journal
Field notes. One click opens the whole piece.
Create
Create a company
The Studio. Founders keep the majority. Terms stay illustrative.
FROM PAPER TO VENTURE
From paper to venture.
The Canon explains the ideas. The Atlas maps the systems. Forge turns patterns into working demos. The Studio turns the strongest demos into companies.
DEVELOPER STACK
Research is useful when you can run it.
Blockchain Lab builds in the open. Tools, API and MCP are the public developer layer of the platform.
01
Tools
Browser-native utilities for inspecting chains, contracts, standards and data.
No account. No wallet connection.
blockchains.github.io/blockchainlab-tools/
02
API
Open, source-linked data for standards, protocols, decoding and infrastructure.
No key. Each dataset names its source.
blockchains.github.io/blockchainlab-api/
03
MCP
Bring Blockchain Lab’s research, tools and Forge patterns into an AI workflow.
Open source. For Cursor, Claude and other MCP clients.
github.com/Blockchains/blockchainlab-mcp
Open source by design. github.com/Blockchains
DEVLAB
Every service on the hub
75 tools, datasets, monitors and codebases on blockchains.github.io. Brief to product stays pinned. Scroll the rest.
Pinned · Start here
Brief to product
Paste a hackathon or grant brief. Get a working product repo: Foundry contract and tests, a live app, CI, and a submission pack.
AI
AI daily market brief
Daily structure brief of chains, DEXs, fees, stablecoins, L2s and security — written by Grok from live data.
AI
AI incident explainer
Recent hacks explained in plain English with a lesson for builders and the matching hands-on lab.
AI
AI hackathon idea generator
12 buildable hackathon ideas matched to upcoming events, grant programmes and category trends.
AI
AI chain-health & L2 digest
Chain liveness, gas, RPC reliability and L2 metrics summarised.
AI
AI protocol briefs
What the top 15 DeFi protocols do, how they earn, and their key risks.
AI
AI contract explainer
Plain-English explainers of 17 of the most-used mainnet contracts from their verified source.
AI
AI audit-checklist reports
Checklist reviews of popular contracts combining Slither output with a Grok security review.
AI
AI whitepaper summaries
Structured summaries of 12 foundational papers (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Uniswap, EIP-1559, EIP-4844…).
Monitors
Gas tracker & alerts
Base/priority fees on 21 chains, Ethereum blob fee and Bitcoin sat/vB, with browser alerts when gas drops below your threshold.
Monitors
Chain liveness monitor
Head-block age for 21 EVM chains, Bitcoin and Solana — spots halted or stalled chains.
Monitors
RPC latency leaderboard
64 public RPC endpoints ranked by median latency, success rate and block lag; test from your own browser too.
Monitors
Stablecoin depeg monitor
Every USD stablecoin over $50M, price deviation from $1 and alert status.
Monitors
Contract security quick-scan
Slither static analysis of popular verified contracts, refreshed weekly; on-demand scans via workflow dispatch.
Monitors
Chain incident feed
Latest 300 hacks and exploits with technique, chains and amounts.
Monitors
Website status monitor
Uptime, TLS, security headers and SEO checks for the Blockchain Lab sites.
Feeds
Incident RSS feed
Subscribe to new hacks/exploits in any RSS reader.
Feeds
Events calendar
Subscribe in Google/Apple/Outlook calendar: upcoming ETHGlobal hackathons and summits.
Finders
Wallet portfolio viewer
Read-only balances for any address or ENS across 10 EVM chains via public RPCs + Multicall3. Nothing leaves your browser.
Finders
Protocol comparison
Compare up to 4 DeFi protocols side by side: TVL, 7-day change, fees, chains, audits.
Finders
Events & hackathons calendar
Upcoming hackathons and summits with one-click calendar subscription.
Finders
Crypto job board
500+ open roles aggregated daily from public job boards (Greenhouse APIs, CryptoJobsList).
Finders
Grants finder
33 ecosystem grant programmes with official links checked daily.
Finders
Glossary search
Instant search over the Blockchain Lab glossary.
Finders
Whitepaper library search
Search 600+ blockchain papers in the Blockchain Lab research corpus.
Finders
Phishing domain checker
Check a URL against MetaMask's open phishing blocklist before you connect a wallet (fuzzy look-alike match too).
Tools
Multi-chain gas & fee estimator
Live gas prices and transaction cost in USD across EVM chains, Bitcoin sat/vB and Solana priority fees, read directly from public RPCs.
Tools
Wei / Gwei / Ether, Sats / BTC, Lamports / SOL unit converter
Exact big-number conversion between wei, gwei, ether, satoshis, BTC, lamports and SOL — no floating point errors.
Tools
ABI encoder / decoder & function selector lookup
Encode Solidity function calls, decode calldata, compute 4-byte selectors and event topics, and look up unknown selectors in the openchain / 4byte signature databases.
Tools
Ethereum address checksum validator, ENS resolver & contract inspector
Validate EIP-55 checksums, resolve ENS names (forward and reverse), and inspect any address on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, OP, Polygon, BNB or Avalanche: balance, nonce, contract code, proxy implementation, EIP-7702 delegation and ERC-20 metadata.
Tools
Transaction decoder for Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, OP
Paste a transaction hash to decode the function call, arguments, event logs, status and fees on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, OP Mainnet, BNB Chain and Avalanche via public RPC.
Tools
Keccak-256, SHA-256 hasher & OpenZeppelin Merkle tree builder
Hash text or hex with keccak256, sha256 and ripemd160, and build OpenZeppelin-compatible Merkle trees (StandardMerkleTree / SimpleMerkleTree) with root and proofs for airdrops and allowlists.
Tools
Solidity storage slot calculator
Compute Solidity storage slots for mappings, nested mappings, dynamic arrays, ERC-7201 namespaces and EIP-1967 proxy slots — then read the live value from any EVM chain.
Tools
EIP / ERC / BIP quick reference
Search every Ethereum EIP and ERC and every Bitcoin BIP by number, title or status. Rebuilt nightly from ethereum/EIPs, ethereum/ERCs and bitcoin/bips.
Tools
Chainlist
Search 2,700+ EVM networks by name or chain ID, test public RPC latency live from your browser, and add a network to MetaMask/any EIP-3085 wallet.
Tools
Token list lookup
Search the Uniswap default token list by symbol, name or address across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, OP, Polygon, BNB and Avalanche, and verify any token's on-chain name, symbol, decimals and supply.
Tools
Safe (Gnosis Safe) multisig tx builder & decoder
Build a Safe transaction and compute its EIP-712 safeTxHash locally, cross-check against the Safe contract on-chain, read owners/threshold/nonce, and decode execTransaction or MultiSend batches.
Tools
EIP-712 typed data signer & verifier, EIP-191, ERC-1271
Hash EIP-712 typed data (digest, domain separator, struct hash), sign with a throwaway key or your wallet, recover the signer, verify personal_sign messages and check ERC-1271 smart-account signatures on-chain.
Tools
Calldata diff
Decode two calldata blobs (or two tx hashes) with openchain/4byte signatures and highlight every argument and 32-byte word that differs.
Tools
Contract verification lookup
Check whether a smart contract's source code is verified on Sourcify (full/partial match) and Blockscout, with compiler version, licence, proxy type and implementation addresses.
Tools
Gas price history charts
Chart base fee, median priority tip and block fullness over the last 1,024 blocks for Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, OP, Polygon, BNB Chain and Avalanche, with min/median/p75/max stats.
Tools
Bridge fee comparison
Compare live quotes for bridging USDC or ETH between Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, OP and Polygon: amount received, fees and estimated time from Across, LI.FI and Relay.
Tools
Token approval checker & revoke links
Check which popular spenders (Permit2, Uniswap, 1inch, 0x, CoW, Balancer, OpenSea, Aave…) can move an address's ERC-20 tokens, flag unlimited approvals, and get one-click revoke links and approve(spender, 0) calldata.
Tools
ENS bulk resolver
Resolve a list of ENS names to addresses (with avatar, url, Twitter, GitHub records) and reverse-resolve addresses to primary names, verifying forward/reverse match. Export as CSV.
Tools
Solana transaction decoder
Decode any Solana transaction signature: status, fee, compute units, parsed instructions and inner instructions with program names (Jupiter, Raydium, Orca, Meteora, SPL Token…), SOL and token balance changes, and logs.
Tools
Bitcoin PSBT & raw transaction decoder
Decode a Bitcoin PSBT (BIP-174, base64 or hex) or raw transaction: inputs, outputs, addresses, script types, fee and fee rate, signatures present, BIP-32 derivation paths. Runs offline in your browser.
Tools
Address labels
Look up public labels for an EVM address: Blockscout contract name and public tags, token info, ENS primary name, Uniswap token-list match, well-known spender names, and an OFAC SDN sanctions check.
Tools
Vanity address difficulty & time estimator + CREATE2 calculator
Estimate how many attempts and how long it takes to find an Ethereum vanity address prefix (case-insensitive or EIP-55 checksum), benchmarked live on your device, and compute CREATE2 deployment addresses.
Tools
Uniswap v3 price impact calculator
Quote a Uniswap v3 swap on-chain with QuoterV2 and see amount out, mid price, execution price, price impact, price after the trade, ticks crossed and gas estimate — Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, OP, Polygon.
Tools
MEV sandwich checker
Paste an Ethereum/Base/Arbitrum/OP/Polygon transaction hash to check whether it was sandwiched: finds a front-run swap on the same pool in the same direction and a back-run reversing it from the same EOA or bot contract.
Tools
Stablecoin peg & supply monitor
Live stablecoin table: price vs peg, circulating supply, 7-day supply change, peg mechanism and chain count for 400+ stablecoins from DefiLlama.
Tools
Public RPC health checker
Test free public RPC endpoints for Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, OP, Polygon, BNB Chain and Avalanche from your browser: reachability, latency, chain ID and how many blocks behind the best endpoint each is. Plus the nightly server-side probe.
Data API
API: bips
Bitcoin Improvement Proposals index parsed from bitcoin/bips.
Data API
API: bridges
Cross-chain and canonical bridges ranked by TVL (DefiLlama bridge categories).
Data API
API: chains
EVM chain registry: chain IDs, native currency, public RPC endpoints and explorers.
Data API
API: chains-tvl
DeFi TVL by chain (USD). Snapshot from DefiLlama.
Data API
API: dex-volumes
DEX trading volume by protocol (top 300 by 24h). Snapshot from DefiLlama.
Data API
API: eips
EIPS index (number, title, status, type, category) parsed from ethereum/EIPs.
Data API
API: ercs
ERCS index (number, title, status, type, category) parsed from ethereum/ERCs.
Data API
API: events
Upcoming blockchain events from the Blockchain Lab feeds.
Data API
API: fees
Protocol fees by protocol (top 300 by 24h). Snapshot from DefiLlama.
Data API
API: glossary
Plain-language blockchain glossary from blockchainlab.com (concepts, protocol profiles, failure classes, stack layers).
Data API
API: grants
Directory of blockchain ecosystem grant / funding programmes with official links. Curated by Blockchain Lab; link status re-checked nightly. No amounts are listed — read each programme's own page.
Data API
API: hackathons
Open and upcoming blockchain hackathons (Devpost, ETHGlobal).
Data API
API: l2-metrics
Ethereum L2/L3 scaling projects: stage, category, stack, risk summary and Total Value Secured breakdown. From L2BEAT.
Data API
API: protocols
Top 500 DeFi protocols by TVL (USD), excluding CEXs. Snapshot from DefiLlama; not investment advice.
Data API
API: rpc-health
Health of popular free public RPC endpoints (EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin): reachability, latency, block lag vs best endpoint, chain-ID check. Probed from a GitHub Actions runner (US) at build time.
Data API
API: sanctioned-addresses
Digital currency addresses on the US Treasury OFAC SDN list, per asset. Extracted daily from the official SDN XML by github.com/0xB10C. Compliance screening aid only — verify against the official list.
Data API
API: security-incidents
Public record of crypto hacks and exploits: date, protocol, technique, classification, amount lost/returned. From DefiLlama's hacks database.
Data API
API: stablecoins
Stablecoins by circulating supply with price, peg mechanism and 1d/7d/30d supply change. Snapshot from DefiLlama.
Data API
API: whitepapers
Blockchain Lab research corpus — whitepaper metadata (no paper text). Original sources linked.
Data API
API: yields
Top 500 DeFi yield pools by TVL (>= $10m) with APY, base/reward split, IL risk. Snapshot from DefiLlama; APYs change constantly and are not advice.
Developers
Blockchain Lab SDK
Typed clients for every API dataset. npm i github:Blockchains/blockchainlab-sdk
Developers
MCP server
Give Claude, Cursor or VS Code agents 43 blockchain tools. Docker image on GHCR.
Developers
54 hands-on labs
Solidity/Foundry, Noir ZK and Cairo labs with tests — security, DeFi, MEV, governance.
Developers
API docs & OpenAPI
OpenAPI 3 spec, JSON Schemas and usage examples for the data API.
BRIEFING
The developments shaping programmable infrastructure.
Crypto Pulse · 30 September 2026
Pi Network Says It Will Explore an Open USD Partnership. It Does Not Issue the Coin.
Pi Network’s Open USD note is a distribution claim. The stablecoin, as reported, is issued by Bridge. Rewards are still described as something to explore.
Crypto Pulse · 13 September 2026
Forbes Estimates a Cabinet Official's Family Wealth and Ties the Jump to a Tether Stake
Forbes posted that Howard Lutnick's family net worth more than doubled, on Forbes' estimate, largely via an indirect stake in Tether through Cantor Fitzgerald. An estimate of wealth is not a reserve report.
Crypto Pulse · 1 October 2026
A World Bank Working Paper Estimates a Bitcoin Leak in Aid. The Range Is Not a Seizure.
NBER working paper 35655, the Crémieux post, and the replies that turned 2 to 6 cents into 2 to 6 percent. What the estimate does and does not show.
THE JOURNAL
Field notes
12 features. Scroll the issue. Open one and the full article is on the page.
Real-world assets
The fingerprint is the record.
A property token that cannot prove the bytes of the deed is a pointer. The useful object is a versioned evidence graph.
Payments
Stablecoins move value. They do not yet move money.
A global payment is a settlement leg plus conversion, compliance, refunds and a local payout. Speed is not the product.
Market structure
The agencies moved. The statute did not.
American regulators are building pathways for onchain markets without waiting for Congress. Pathways are not a market-structure settlement.
Agents
The market priced a coordination layer. It did not prove one.
September’s crypto and AI rally is a bet that blockchains might handle identity, permission and payment for software that spends. It is not evidence of AI revenue.
Finality
A ledger is final only while its operators agree.
Zano, Cronos and Cosmos each rewrote a recent history. Immutability is a governance property. The grown-up response is to publish who can intervene.
Credit
TradFi will move when the spread moves.
Open credit does not abolish the intermediary. It makes the intermediary contestable. That is the commercial argument.
Capital markets
Korea is not flipping a switch on $7 trillion.
Seoul is doing something slower and more serious: making a distributed ledger a legal securities record, then letting products on in phases.
Network risk
Count the entities. Then ask if they are separate.
A Nakamoto coefficient is one question about consensus. It is not a certificate that a network is safe, neutral or fit for a treasury.
Banking
Banks do not need protection from a ledger.
The choice is whether a bank operates the new rails or rents them. A chain does not underwrite, insure or take a complaint.
Network design
A token was minted. A market was not opened.
Circle’s Arc network uses USDC for fees and has minted ARC as a coordination asset that is explicitly not live. That inversion is the design.
Tokenised securities
A billion dollars onchain is distribution, not a legal form.
Reported tokenised stocks and ETFs have found holders. The unfinished work is permission, title and corporate actions.
Proof
Prove the fact. Keep the data room closed.
The next Ethereum is being described as a machine for proving claims, not for storing everyone’s files. Businesses need that more than they need another copy of the chain.
WHAT WE BUILD
Operating practices.
AssetOps
A registry, an eligibility rule, a transfer.
PayoutOps
Controlled payments, settlement and reconciliation.
TrustOps
KYB and evidence that stays off a public chain.
TreasuryOps
Wallet policy, approval and an audit trail.
AgentOps
A budget, a log, and a person who can stop it.
ProofOps
Provenance a counterparty can challenge.
FORGE
Turn a workflow problem into a working demo.
PROBLEM → ARCHITECTURE → DEMO → TEST → BUILD
PORTFOLIO
Platforms and venture theses.
The relationship is stated on each page. A public product is not a claim of ownership.
Portfolio platform
STRCX
Routing and analytics for Bitcoin-backed credit.
Read the thesisstrcx.com
Portfolio platform
Staking.io
Staking discovery and analytics.
Read the thesisstaking.io
Portfolio platform
Custody.io
Custody comparison and RFP orchestration.
Read the thesiscustody.io
Venture in formation
AltVaults
A vault operating system, not yet a live fund.
Read the thesisaltvaults.com
Portfolio platform
RCA Pad
Crypto regulation, briefed with sources.
Read the thesisrcapad.com
VENTURE LABS
Research prototypes before real products.
Market Structure Lab
Almach
Observation history and model conditions. Not an execution desk.
On-Chain Data Lab
Sixgate
A simulated ledger and public data. Not a signal service.
Research Model Lab
Regime
Review a window. A model condition is not a trade.
Research prototypes using public, delayed, simulated or incomplete data. No investment advice, execution, custody, personal recommendation or performance claim.
MARKET CONTEXT
Public reference signals. Not a trading desk.
Last trades, a third-party TVL estimate, and headlines from other publications. For research context. Not price predictions or execution.
Bring thethesis.We will tryto break it.
- Bring an idea
- Build an operating system
- Start a product demo
- Apply as a founder
- Partner with Blockchain Lab
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