# Standard Crypto

> Standard Crypto is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 37%
- Fund size: $325M
- Last fund: May 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/standard-crypto/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/standardcrypto
- Website: https://standardcrypto.vc/

Standard Crypto is a venture capital firm that combines deep technical expertise, elite company-building experience, and a decade-long track record in crypto to partner early with decentralized protocols and blockchain-focused companies. Investments listed are not representative of all Standard Crypto investments and are not to be considered acomplete list of all investments made by Standard Crypto.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$200M |
| Series A | $10M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 17 | 45% |
| Cryptocurrency | 10 | 26% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 24% |
| Software | 7 | 18% |
| Ethereum | 6 | 16% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 34% |
| Series A | 8 | 21% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 37% |
| India | 3 | 8% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alok Vasudev | Co-Founder | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alok-vasudev |
| Adam Goldberg | Co-Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-goldberg-5 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Walrus | Walrus is a decentralized storage network that stores and delivers raw data and media files—like videos, images, and PDFs—without sacrificing performance or accessibility. | $140M |  | Mar 20, 2025 |  |
| Walrus | Walrus is a neobank (modern digital-only bank) for the youth in India. Walrus is also known as ClubWalrus/WalrusClub/WalrusPay, etc. Walrus is a Y Combinator-backed and Google accelerated team on a mission to evolve banking into something new. | $140M | Initial Coin Offering | Mar 20, 2025 |  |
| Slingshot DAO | SlingShot DAO is a dynamic and community-driven platform to empower creatives around the globe. SlingShot DAO is a community-driven gaming ecosystem platform that allows members to cooperate using the slingshot APP to turn ideas into game experiences. SlingShot DAO values "community first" and encourages an action-oriented approach. | $16M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 17, 2025 |  |
| DoubleZero | DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication. | $28M | Initial Coin Offering | Mar 05, 2025 |  |
| Taproot Wizards | Taproot Wizards is a Bitcoin Ordinals project dedicated to expanding Bitcoin's potential. | $30M | Series A | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| M0 | M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age. | $35M | Series A | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| M0 |  | $35M | Series A | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Farcaster | Farcaster is a social network that helps coders, fitness enthusiasts, and meme makers find people based on their interests. The company focuses on increasing daily active users and adding developer primitives to the protocol, such as channels and direct message delivery. It aims to create a decentralized social network that allows users tocommunicate directly without the need for intermediaries. | $150M | Series A | May 21, 2024 |  |
| Axiom | Axiom enables smart contracts to securely compute over Ethereum's whole history, including transactions and receipts. Developers can send on-chain queries to Axiom, which are automatically completed with ZK-verified responses delivered back to the developer's smart contract. | $20M | Series A | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| Blast | Blast is an Optimistic Rollup-based Layer 2 network. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 21, 2023 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Paradigm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paradigm-b23a) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [ParaFi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parafi-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [a16z crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-crypto) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Multicoin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/multicoin-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Standard Crypto invest in?

Standard Crypto invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Standard Crypto's check size?

Standard Crypto typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$200M at Seed and $10M–$150M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Standard Crypto participates in.

### How do I contact Standard Crypto?

Public channels for Standard Crypto include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Standard Crypto?

The team at Standard Crypto includes Alok Vasudev (Co-Founder) and Adam Goldberg (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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