The Decentralized Cooperation Foundation exists to build mechanisms for human cooperation from tools of secure computing, cryptography, and distributed systems.

We believe decentralization isn’t just promising but necessary. The shift toward distributed coordination, whether through blockchain or secure isolation technologies, offers real improvements in security, privacy, and user control. These tools have the potential to reshape how individuals and organizations operate, and we’re committed to helping that transition happen responsibly.

Nascent ecosystems need support to survive and mature. We fund the development of public goods that expand what’s possible and help realize the promise of decentralized cooperation.

We started with a focus on Agoric’s proof-of-stake chain and the Cosmos IBC environment. That remains important work. But as stewards of the Endo runtime, we’re now expanding our scope to include technologies that bring secure isolation and capability-based security to any environment where software needs boundaries.

This includes blockchain systems, but it also includes the broader challenge of running untrusted code safely, which sits at the heart of AI safety.

The technological foundations we support, whether in decentralized networks or secure compartmentalization, share a common goal: giving humans the tools to cooperate and build without ceding control to opaque centralized systems.