Your Gateway To Uncensorable Applications

Portal is a defi platform that blends the
best of Bitcoin and Layer 2

With Portal, Decentralized finance becomes uncensorable, peer to peer, and trust minimized. Just like the underlying properties of Bitcoin. Portal swaps move provable execution of cross chain contracts to layers 2 and 3, which allows the speed and liquidity of centralized alternatives, with the trust minimization guarantees of Bitcoin. Moreover, transactions are much faster and cheaper than Layer 1 transactions.

Fabric Layer 2

Portal DeFi Apps

Enter the uncensorable internet

We enable peer-to-peer, decentralized, censorship-resistant applications as layers on Bitcoin.

Using Fabric, we enable web scale, serverless infrastructure with strong privacy and security guarantees.

Our Mission is to deliver freedom, one application at a time

Data and Computation Markets

Portal’s layer 2 and layer 3 atomic swap technology can be used for a general purpose market for data and computation. Our goal is to replace the web server model which is prone to centralization by design and architecture with a free market for data and computation. Fabric, the underlying protocol Portal uses extends Bitcoin’s functionality today without needing any BIPs.

Information Markets
Tiny, layer 3 contracts for data stored in a decentralized fashion replace the web server model where the fees provide resistance against censorship of information. Computation Markets
Users are able to deploy complex programs for blinded execution by a network of peers. Portal swaps pay bonded Bitcoin when “requests for computation” are answered. Contracts assure proof of performance and payment for either party.

Team

Product, Growth & Deep Crypto Expertise

Eric Martindale

Co-founder, CEO

10 years in Bitcoin, Head of Open Source at Blockstream and Engineering at BitPay, advisor to Lemniscap, and is the inventor of Fabric.

Jack Mills

COO

Engineering Architect of Casper Labs / RChain, and previous Director of Enterprise Platforms at Intel. Engineering at Stanford.

Manoj Duggirala

Co-founder, Technology

2x startup founder. Led a 150-engineer teams, designed advanced anlytics platform. Previously @IBM Almaden, @Invensense. Engineering at Stanford.

Alexey Melnichenko

Engineering

5 years architecting token & exchange design, engineer at Phantom Cyber (acquired by Splunk), designed the exchange engine at Totle.

Dr.Chandra Duggirala

Co-founder, Product

Bitcoiner and M.D. turned entrepreneur, ran two 8-figure software businesses, and is the inventor of functional layer 2 cross-chain atomic swaps (he solved problems keeping Tier Nolan’s atomic swaps impractical until now).

George Burke

Co-founder, Community Builder

8 years in bitcoin, 3 exits in peer-to-peer/community startups incl. early bitcoin exchange Crypto Street, created the first Bitcoin debit card, and runs the world’s oldest bitcoin meetup.

Johnny Dilley

Business Development

VP of Strategy & Product at Blockstream. Conceptualized Liquid sidechains. Early VC at Pantera. 8 years in Bitcoin.

Farid Azizov

Wallet Architect

Expert in open source wallet architecture and mobile development.

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Andreas Antonopoulos - Custodians & Centralized Exchanges
Nic Carter - Privacy & Monetary Control
Blockstack CEO Muneeb Ali - Privacy & Security - Portal
Andreas Antonopoulos - Trustless bitcoin entry & exit using Atomic Swaps
Ripio CEO Sebastian Serrano - Venezuela & Bitcoin
Sebastian Serrano, Ripio CEO - Argentina's monetary problems
Wachsman PR CEO David Wachsman - Convenience has eroded privacy
"Godfather of Ethereum" on centralized exchanges - Yani Malahov
Republic.co CEO Kendrick Nguyen - STO exchanges halted by US regulation--What about peer-to-peer?
Dragonfly Capital Partners' Haseeb Qureshi - "Biggest threat to bitcoin privacy... Neighbors"
Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein - Privacy protects freedoms - SF Blockchain Week 2019
Casper Labs CEO Medha Parlikar - Atomic Swaps & Equalization through crypto - SF Blockchain Week