Kernel Community

Cultivate a greater web,

together

Kernel is about building, through repeated interactions with peers, the patterns required for a better web.

Kernel serves up to 150 Kernel fellows — technologists, artists, engineers, researchers, designers, linguists — who each are building or researching something novel.

Our next block, KB11, begins in September, but you can start anytime. Apply and hear back in two weeks.

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2,211

Kernel Fellows

countries

150+

Active Projects

$40M+

Raised by Fellows

Meet the Kernel Fellows

Liz Kukka

Co-founder & CEO, Lane3

Julia Wu

Co-founder, Spark AI

John Hoopes

Founder, Astral Protocol

Alanah Lam

Lead Designer, Future Primitive

Benny Giang

Co-founder, Future Primitive

Independent, The Matrix

Shawn Dimantha

Product at Google / YouTube

Yatú Peláez-Espinsoa

Founder, USB Club

Mark Redito

M𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

Co-founder, Grey Matter

Product Manager, Optimism

Holly Grimm

Navajo Artist & Software Engineer

Michelle Huang

Founder, Akiya Collective

Mara Schmiedt

CEO, Alluvial Finance

Devin Walsh

Executive Director, Uniswap Foundation

Greg Bateman

Partner, Inflection Point

Co-Founder, Mentaport

Nikhil Raghuveera

Co-founder, Predicate

Amelie Lasker

Co-founder, Alexandria Labs

GP, Bankless Ventures

Projects by Kernel Fellows

Commit

by Rev Miller

Programmable accountability.

social

Plastic Labs

by Vince Trost & Courtland Leer

A research-driven company building at the intersection of human and machine cognition.

Coinshift

by Tarun Gupta

Beyond a wallet: simpler, safer, and more rewarding.

Wallets

Sherlock

by Jack Sanford

The final exam audit before mainnet.

Security

Toucan

by Raphael Haupt, James Farrell

Digital rails for climate finance.

Climate Finance

LiFi

by Philipp Zentner

One API to swap, bridge, and zap across all major blockchains and protocols.

Interoperability

Exchanges

Jokerace

by David Phelps, Sean McCaffery

Contests for communities to run, grow, and monetize.

Contests

Chaos Labs

by Omer Goldberg

Transforms data on risk, security, and incentive strategies into powerful tools to evolve decentralized finance.

Net new human relationships by designing and building networks, objects, and narratives.

Token Primitives

dLogos

by Anonymous

Participate in the world's most valuable conversations.

Dialogues

Markets

Explore the Kernel Book

The Kernel Book is an open-source spring of fundamental ideas relating our web. Start anywhere that calls to you. The book guides each Kernel Block, one chapter per week.

🌠 Introduction to Kernel

Personal Inquiry

🌈 Play of Pattern

Web3 Inquiry

✍️ Trust

Extended Reading

🌍 Ethereum's History and State

Personal Inquiry

🤯 Meaning

Web3 Inquiry

💯 Value

Extended Reading