Kernel Community

Cultivate a greater web,

together

Kernel is a peer-to-peer learning environment.

We teach, we learn. We listen, create, support, and care. Together, we are planting the seeds required to grow connected systems we hope our descendants will enjoy.

Kernel Block X starts January 2025.

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2,211

Kernel Fellows

countries

150+

Active Projects

$40M+

Raised by Fellows

Meet the Kernel Fellows

Tao Fei

Cultural Worker, 221A

Jess Sun

Founder, Mouthpiece

Joan Bødker Pedersen

Independent, The Matrix

Shawn Dimantha

Product at Google / YouTube

M𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴

Co-founder, Grey Matter

Haitham Mengad

Co-founder, Stems

Ankit

Director of Product, OKX

Zain Bacchus

Product Manager, Optimism

Holly Grimm

Navajo Artist & Software Engineer

Michelle Huang

President, Akiya Collective

Mara Schmiedt

CEO, Alluvial Finance

Devin Walsh

Executive Director, Uniswap Foundation

Greg Bateman

Co-founder, Window Finance

Paul Gadi

Co-Founder, OP Games

Apurva Chitnis

Sidetrack (my own startup)

Mariale Montenegro

Co-Founder, Mentaport

Co-founder, Alexandria Labs

GP, Bankless Ventures

Projects by Kernel Fellows

Pods Finance

by Rafaella Baraldo

The fastest way to offer crypto backed loans.

Defi

Push

by Harsh Rajat & Richa Joshi

The communication protocol of web3.

Communications

Coinshift

by Tarun Gupta

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

Wallets

Sherlock

by Jack Sanford

The final exam audit before mainnet.

Security

Coinvise

by Jenil Thakker

Claim onchain rewards. A portal to the world of web3.

Tokens

Toucan

by Raphael Haupt, James Farrell

Digital rails for climate finance.

Climate Finance

Bonfire

by Melissa Zhang, Matt Alston

Bringing creators and brands closer to their biggest fans.

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