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Securing the Foundations of Decentralized Cooperation

Decentralized systems are powerful tools for coordination. Secure execution, whether for a smart contract, a distributed protocol, or an autonomous AI agent, is what makes that power safe to use.

Our mission
is to unite people and entities alike in the spirit of cooperation, founded on blockchain, AI Safety, and decentralization

What was research a decade ago is shipping software today. We back the engineers building it and the organizations that will come to depend on it.

Advocacy

We exist to shepherd the future of software by championing technologies that make it more secure, safe, transparent, and under human control.

Evangelism

We back blockchain as a path to coordination without central control, and we believe AI safety rests on the same foundation: systems where authority is granted, not assumed, and humans stay in command of what their software can do.

Grant-Making

We fund developers building at the edges of decentralized systems and AI safety, where rigorous isolation has to become practical to matter.

Community Support

We connect builders, researchers, and organizations working on the hard problems of security, isolation, and coordination.

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Containing AI Agents: The Endo Familiar Demo

The moment you authorize an AI agent, you’re making a bet. A bet that the model won’t be fooled. That

Foresight Institute Grants DCF Funding to Advance Endo and Safe AI Code Execution

We are excited to share that the DCF has received a Foresight Institute Grant to support the next stage of

An Economic Perspective on Orchestration: Profiting From Incompleteness

Jason Potts Decentralized Cooperation FoundationProfessor of Economics, Alfaisal UniversityAffiliate Researcher, MIT How blockchain reduces costs of trust and unlocks multichain

Accelerating the Agoric Ecosystem

DCF currently emphasizes Agoric’s proof-of-stake chain and the Cosmos-focused IBC (Inter‐Blockchain Communication) environment. Acceleration of those ecosystems is our purpose. As time passes, we will expand our purview to provide support for bringing that technological foundation to other chains, and even expanding to non-blockchain ecosystems.

Discover how Agoric Orchestration enhances the Web3 experience with frictionless, one-click multi-chain interactions for users, and provides developers with powerful tools for building next-generation cross-chain applications.

Endo is building the foundation for a secure, decentralized computing future, where code can be trusted, collaboration is seamless, and innovation isn’t limited by borders or platforms.