Espresso Systems

About Espresso Systems

Espresso Systems builds digital asset infrastructure for enterprises that demand speed and customizability without sacrificing architectural control. We believe the future of finance is multichain, and build with that thesis in mind. We design, build, and operate production-grade applications on Espresso, a high-performance blockchain we created that provides real-time settlement, subsecond finality, and data throughput designed to scale to millions of transactions per second. Unlike legacy blockchains competing to become the sole execution environment for the onchain economy, Espresso is designed to enable a more realistic outcome: an onchain economy that spans thousands of independent systems and applications that will need to safely interoperate in real time. Founded in 2020 by a cohort of PhDs out of Stanford's cryptography program, Espresso Systems has pushed the state-of-the-art in blockchain design when it comes to achieving speed, security, and scale. The company is backed by over $50 million of capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Coinbase Ventures and more.