Impact and infrastructure
The older Dojo material makes the worldview visible: decentralization, advocacy, legal access, institutional partnership, and projects that have a credible public-interest edge. That does not replace the residency. It explains what kind of founder the Fund wants close.
Pillars
Decentralization initiative
The Dojo community has been involved in the decentralization and open source software movement since the early days. We believe in privacy, security and a free and safe internet. Decentralization is the process of distributing to the users or community of a platform or software.
Community initiatives
We strive to accomplish amazing things in all aspects. Community support, pro bono, advocacy and charitable initiatives are our driving mission.
Residency implication
The target company is already producing outcomes and can plausibly scale into much larger impact with the Fund's network, advice, and follow-on support.
Selected initiatives
Decentralization
Manifest Network sits alongside Akash and Quantstamp as part of the Dojo's long-running commitment to decentralized infrastructure.
Decentralization
Akash stands as proof that the Dojo does not just admire open systems in theory; it has worked close to category builders inside that movement.
Decentralization
Quantstamp reinforces the Fund's bias toward security, open internet infrastructure, and technically serious founders.
Policy
The community initiatives material describes the Dojo network as a founding force behind BAC's work on blockchain and decentralization policy in California, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C.
Public-interest scale
Open Door Legal appears as a long-running Dojo project and one of the clearest examples of impact-oriented work that still has operating rigor behind it.
Institutional partnership
The Dojo material ties the network to mentorship, program development, and broader community engagement with Lincoln University in Oakland.
In the field
Why this matters for founders
The Fund is not only looking for good startup mechanics. It is looking for founders whose work already matters and can matter much more with the right leverage around them.