About Tonk

What's the mission?

Like many others, Tonk’s mission is to tear down the internet and build a better one, liberated from platform overhead and ready for the AI revolution.

Currently, Tonk is an early-stage design lab that discovers, builds and propagates new social experiences and modes, uniquely enabled by cutting-edge cryptography.

What progress have you made?

Our flagship product so far is Speakeasy, which is already in private alpha with select design partners. You can apply to join the alpha here.

Speakeasy is the latest iteration in a multi-year design process that's seen us prototype novel social experiences & powerful communications tools. Some of the work we're responsible for includes the Gribi SDK, Dappicom, Tonk Attack, Snarky Monsters, the Privacy Playgrounds Wiki and much else besides. Some work is documented at our blog. Others cover it too.

Who's behind it?

We're a team of ambitious engineers, designers and schemers that straddle the dynamic space between advanced cryptography and effective product design.

The founding team was fortunate to be part of the first generation in history to grow up on the internet. This has blessed us with a powerful intuition on where internet culture is headed.

Between stints as dancers, poets and graphic novellists, members of the team have completed sidequests in crypto, finance, big internet companies and elite universities.

Who's supporting this?

Tonk Labs is backed by some of the world's best investors, cryptographers and entrepreneurs. Our latest financing was led by Electric Capital, with participation from Bankless Ventures, Entrepreneur First and a community of angels with representation from leaders at Eigen Labs, Axelar, Succinct, Aleo, Polygon, Magic Eden, Ledger, Gensyn, Voltz & many more amazing projects.

Are you hiring?

You can see open roles here.