Dan Hannum joined the GasHawk team at corpus.ventures today. We are excited to have him on board. His wealth of experience and skills which he demonstrated at ZenLedger will take GasHawk and corpus.ventures to the next level. We are aware of recent allegations and have had in-depth discussions with him. We believe in failing and learning. What matters is how one reacts to it: link. Experience is a hard but effective teacher and we have come to the conclusion that Dan has changed and has come out stronger.

Current stage Email is the first widespread use case of the Internet — digital communication using a standardized protocol. A treasure web1 gave us. Despite its age, for most people, email is still the primary digital communication tool. Currently, more than 300 billion emails are sent daily (source). Despite protocols such as…

We fail until we win! corpus.ventures is our new venture studio which will humbly contribute to shaping the web3. We are Ethereum veterans who have seen the cycles play out and have vowed to build out the missing products and services web3 is still lacking. We deeply believe that a…

Gummy creates the opportunity to represent physical objects through NFTs in web3. Thus giving artists, collectors, and many others in the meatspace access to this brave new world we are building. The opportunities are endless. NFTs have taken the world by storm. They create the opportunity for true ownership…

Today, after two years at Blockchains, Inc., I will be transitioning from my position as SVP of Technology into a technical advisor role. The last few years have been an incredible journey. Together with my brother Simon, as well as Stephan Tual, we launched slock.it in 2015. At Devcon 1…

When slock.it was first founded, the goal was to enable smart locks to be controlled through Ethereum-based smart contracts, hence the name slock.it. Slock stood for a secure, safe, or smart lock (your pick); “slock.it” …

A new era is starting for slock.it. Looking back at the history of slock.it, we have had a lot of ups and some downs. In spring 2015, my brother Simon and I began working on prototypes for smart locks connected to the Ethereum blockchain that would use smart contracts to…

Enabling the economy of things Exploring the field of technical devices means exploring new technologies and understanding the world around us. In recent years, we’ve learned that interaction with software is first and foremost screen-based. But that is changing now. As the machine to machine interaction as well as the machine to human interaction…

Motivation When speaking to enterprise clients about building blockchain applications, the discussion often turns towards what the current problems are, namely scalability and privacy. More often than not, the solution to these issues is: “let’s build a private blockchain”. …