
Why should organizations run on the blockchain?
As transaction costs go to near zero and coordination costs continue to increase, organizations that originate ten years from now will run on blockchains as their primary way of transferring value. There are two fundamental reasons why I believe this:1. Blockchains are the most efficient method of transferring value.Organizations that operate on the blockchain run faster and cheaper than traditional financial rails. This is because, unlike conventional financial operations, working off the bl...

Introducing Off Ramps
Welcome to a wider UtopiaUtopia has consistently prioritized streamlining payments and optimizing workflows for crypto organizations. However, our vision extends further as we recognize the potential of our tools to address the challenges faced by individual EOA wallet users in the broader market. We believe in enabling more people in the crypto space to seamlessly integrate with traditional payment systems, bringing the value of blockchain technology into their everyday work and life. At the...

Community Spotlight: PleasrDAO
For a DAO catalyzed by an artist who goes by pplpleasr; the Pleasr community is anything but a pack of people pleasers. Whether it’s their principled acquisitions or vocal community, anyone familiar with the group knows the Pleasr community is made up of mavericks who embody the power of collective action and have developed new ways in which crypto can be used as a medium for impact. They are a collective of defi leaders, early NFT collectors and digital artists with a reputation for acquirin...

Why should organizations run on the blockchain?
As transaction costs go to near zero and coordination costs continue to increase, organizations that originate ten years from now will run on blockchains as their primary way of transferring value. There are two fundamental reasons why I believe this:1. Blockchains are the most efficient method of transferring value.Organizations that operate on the blockchain run faster and cheaper than traditional financial rails. This is because, unlike conventional financial operations, working off the bl...

Introducing Off Ramps
Welcome to a wider UtopiaUtopia has consistently prioritized streamlining payments and optimizing workflows for crypto organizations. However, our vision extends further as we recognize the potential of our tools to address the challenges faced by individual EOA wallet users in the broader market. We believe in enabling more people in the crypto space to seamlessly integrate with traditional payment systems, bringing the value of blockchain technology into their everyday work and life. At the...

Community Spotlight: PleasrDAO
For a DAO catalyzed by an artist who goes by pplpleasr; the Pleasr community is anything but a pack of people pleasers. Whether it’s their principled acquisitions or vocal community, anyone familiar with the group knows the Pleasr community is made up of mavericks who embody the power of collective action and have developed new ways in which crypto can be used as a medium for impact. They are a collective of defi leaders, early NFT collectors and digital artists with a reputation for acquirin...
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As the name suggests, Utopia Labs embodies the pursuit of the ideal. We’re leveraging technology to achieve better collaboration in the Web3 economy, where DAOs hold the potential to break down geographic and digital barriers and usher in a new era of decentralized coordination.
Since we launched Utopia last year, we’ve partnered and built alongside leading crypto-native organizations including OlympusDAO, Lido, Friends with Benefits, Yield Guild Games, Badger DAO, Illuvium DAO, Fingerprints DAO, SushiSwap, Tracer DAO, Pleasr DAO, and more. We’re proud to have helped scale more than one hundred DAOs while facilitating millions in contributor payments and operational expenditure.
As we enter our next phase of growth, we’re excited to announce that we’ve closed a $23 million Series A funding round led by Paradigm with continued support from our earliest seed investor, Kindred Ventures, as well as participation from Circle Ventures, Gusto, Coinbase Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Distributed Global, and Fourth Revolution Capital.
When we say we build with DAO's – we mean it. We’re thrilled to also have support from DAOs like WOO DAO, Chain Forest, Yield Guild Gaming, Global Coin Research, IndiGG, Paragons DAO as well as founders, core contributors and operators from 1Inch, UMA Protocol, Zora, Opyn, Mirror, City DAO, Badger DAO, Llama, Goldfinch, VitaDAO, FIAT DAO, Mirror, Redacted Cartel, New Order, Nouns DAO, Party DAO, Friends with Benefits DAO, Krause House, Index Coop, Cabin DAO, SushiSwap, and Synthetix, involved in our Series A round.
From our first meeting with the Paradigm team, it was obvious we share the conviction that the future of crypto-enabled coordination requires thoughtful back-of-house infrastructure in order to advance, mature, and power a Web3 world. We’re excited to welcome them and all our other new partners into our Utopia.
This new funding helps us pursue two main goals:
Develop and grow our team of the builders and creators who are innovating for DAOs in impactful ways
Create new features, primitives, and initiatives that push the space forward and unlock the full potential of DAOs, including
Bookkeeping and Accounting
Financial Analytics
People Management
Treasury and Token Management
Fiat On & Off Ramps
Sub DAO’s
Token Vesting
Developer APIs
AND SO MUCH MORE
We’ll be expanding the very boundaries of what a DAO can do and be in every way imaginable.
Come join us!
Get started with Utopia Core:
Apply to our job openings:
Join our waitlist for tax-compliant DAO payroll, in partnership with Friends with Benefits DAO:
Stay in touch on Twitter
Paradigm
Kindred Ventures
Coinbase Ventures
Gusto
Circle Ventures
Infinity Ventures Crypto
Distributed Global
Fourth Revolution Capital
Spice Capital
Chain Forest
Cowa
Yield Guild Games
Global Coin Research
IndiGG
Paragons DAO
WOO DAO
John Palmer - PartyDAO
Hart Lambur - UMA
Anton Bukov - 1Inch
Tyson Battistella + Jacob Horne - Zora
Pattrick Rivera - Mirror
Lonis Hamaili - DeWork
Anjney Midha - Discord
Mario Lopes - Krause House
Sarah, Bhaumik, and Tasha from Crypto Culture & Society
Micheal and Jack - Redacted Cartel and New Order
Max Fiege - FIAT DAO
Jbeezy + Izzy - Lido
Patti Hauseman + Alex Zhang - FWB
As the name suggests, Utopia Labs embodies the pursuit of the ideal. We’re leveraging technology to achieve better collaboration in the Web3 economy, where DAOs hold the potential to break down geographic and digital barriers and usher in a new era of decentralized coordination.
Since we launched Utopia last year, we’ve partnered and built alongside leading crypto-native organizations including OlympusDAO, Lido, Friends with Benefits, Yield Guild Games, Badger DAO, Illuvium DAO, Fingerprints DAO, SushiSwap, Tracer DAO, Pleasr DAO, and more. We’re proud to have helped scale more than one hundred DAOs while facilitating millions in contributor payments and operational expenditure.
As we enter our next phase of growth, we’re excited to announce that we’ve closed a $23 million Series A funding round led by Paradigm with continued support from our earliest seed investor, Kindred Ventures, as well as participation from Circle Ventures, Gusto, Coinbase Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Distributed Global, and Fourth Revolution Capital.
When we say we build with DAO's – we mean it. We’re thrilled to also have support from DAOs like WOO DAO, Chain Forest, Yield Guild Gaming, Global Coin Research, IndiGG, Paragons DAO as well as founders, core contributors and operators from 1Inch, UMA Protocol, Zora, Opyn, Mirror, City DAO, Badger DAO, Llama, Goldfinch, VitaDAO, FIAT DAO, Mirror, Redacted Cartel, New Order, Nouns DAO, Party DAO, Friends with Benefits DAO, Krause House, Index Coop, Cabin DAO, SushiSwap, and Synthetix, involved in our Series A round.
From our first meeting with the Paradigm team, it was obvious we share the conviction that the future of crypto-enabled coordination requires thoughtful back-of-house infrastructure in order to advance, mature, and power a Web3 world. We’re excited to welcome them and all our other new partners into our Utopia.
This new funding helps us pursue two main goals:
Develop and grow our team of the builders and creators who are innovating for DAOs in impactful ways
Create new features, primitives, and initiatives that push the space forward and unlock the full potential of DAOs, including
Bookkeeping and Accounting
Financial Analytics
People Management
Treasury and Token Management
Fiat On & Off Ramps
Sub DAO’s
Token Vesting
Developer APIs
AND SO MUCH MORE
We’ll be expanding the very boundaries of what a DAO can do and be in every way imaginable.
Come join us!
Get started with Utopia Core:
Apply to our job openings:
Join our waitlist for tax-compliant DAO payroll, in partnership with Friends with Benefits DAO:
Stay in touch on Twitter
Paradigm
Kindred Ventures
Coinbase Ventures
Gusto
Circle Ventures
Infinity Ventures Crypto
Distributed Global
Fourth Revolution Capital
Spice Capital
Chain Forest
Cowa
Yield Guild Games
Global Coin Research
IndiGG
Paragons DAO
WOO DAO
John Palmer - PartyDAO
Hart Lambur - UMA
Anton Bukov - 1Inch
Tyson Battistella + Jacob Horne - Zora
Pattrick Rivera - Mirror
Lonis Hamaili - DeWork
Anjney Midha - Discord
Mario Lopes - Krause House
Sarah, Bhaumik, and Tasha from Crypto Culture & Society
Micheal and Jack - Redacted Cartel and New Order
Max Fiege - FIAT DAO
Jbeezy + Izzy - Lido
Patti Hauseman + Alex Zhang - FWB
Manasi Vora - Skynet
Alec Taggart, Jon Allen - Mirana Ventures
Stefano and Hohmward Bound - Mont Virtua
Sarang - SushiSwap
Jordan - Synthetix
Neel Popat - Donut App
Andre Iguodala - Golden State Warriors and GP Mastery Ventures
David Faktoki - Golden State Warriors
Mason - BadgerDAO
Todd White - Vita DAO
Alexis Gauba - Opyn
Ani Pai - Praxis
Tyler Kraus - Fingerprints and SquiggleDAO
Jason Choi - BlockCrunch
Jason Kim + Nikita - Big Whale Labs
Cuy Sheffield - Visa
Steven Willinger - Coinbase
Derevk Hsue, Larry Sukernik - Reverie
Gaby Goldberg
Todd White - Vita DAO
Marc Bhargava - Tagomi / Coinbase
Shweta Kayal - Angel Investor
Wangarian - Angel Investor
Georgios Vlachos - Axelar
Hootie Rashidifard - Hash 3
Mike Zinaman - Angel
Dariya Khojasteh - Layer 3
Matz - Cryptex Finance
Scott Fitsimones - City DAO
Jon Hillis - CabinDAO
Big Sky - Index Coop
Austin Green and Shreyas Hariharan - Llama
Greg Egan - Goldfinch
Bernard Chan - Race Capital
Manasi Vora - Skynet
Alec Taggart, Jon Allen - Mirana Ventures
Stefano and Hohmward Bound - Mont Virtua
Sarang - SushiSwap
Jordan - Synthetix
Neel Popat - Donut App
Andre Iguodala - Golden State Warriors and GP Mastery Ventures
David Faktoki - Golden State Warriors
Mason - BadgerDAO
Todd White - Vita DAO
Alexis Gauba - Opyn
Ani Pai - Praxis
Tyler Kraus - Fingerprints and SquiggleDAO
Jason Choi - BlockCrunch
Jason Kim + Nikita - Big Whale Labs
Cuy Sheffield - Visa
Steven Willinger - Coinbase
Derevk Hsue, Larry Sukernik - Reverie
Gaby Goldberg
Todd White - Vita DAO
Marc Bhargava - Tagomi / Coinbase
Shweta Kayal - Angel Investor
Wangarian - Angel Investor
Georgios Vlachos - Axelar
Hootie Rashidifard - Hash 3
Mike Zinaman - Angel
Dariya Khojasteh - Layer 3
Matz - Cryptex Finance
Scott Fitsimones - City DAO
Jon Hillis - CabinDAO
Big Sky - Index Coop
Austin Green and Shreyas Hariharan - Llama
Greg Egan - Goldfinch
Bernard Chan - Race Capital
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