Bain Capital Crypto backs renegades and pioneers building the next generation of open internet infrastructure.

We make concentrated investments and support teams from idea to scale.

Recent investments

M^0 is decentralized money middleware that allows institutions to issue cryptodollars.

World is building the world’s largest, most distributed privacy-preserving identity protocol.

Aera is a protocol enabling more risk-aware, autonomous treasury management for DAOs and other on-chain organizations.

Recent insights

Optimizing Montgomery Multiplication in WebAssembly

Operations on elliptic curves over large prime fields can be significantly sped up via optimisations to their underlying field multiplication…

Koh Wei Jie

Research

Chosen-Instance Attack

How succinct proofs leak information What happens when a succinct proof does not have the zero-knowledge property? There is a…

Nicolas Mohnblatt

Privacy,
Research

ZODA: Zero-Overhead Data Availability

We introduce ZODA, short for ‘zero-overhead data availability,’ which is a protocol for proving that symbols received from an encoding…

Alex Evans,
Nicolas Mohnblatt,
Guillermo Angeris

Research