Chaindrop is the only decentralized rollup-as-a-service provider.

Our mission is to power the world’s most valuable app rollups.

We believe that rollups will help Ethereum scale to the next billion users through cheap transaction fees, account abstraction, and chain customization. Chaindrop creates and supports these app rollups through our open and decentralized framework.

Our founders and other Y Combinator alumni formed a DAO called Orange. Orange DAO grew to over 1,300 founders, raised $80 million, and invested in over 130 crypto projects. They even created a Fellowship program to educate future web3 entrepreneurs. As Orange DAO grew, other DAO creators asked for advice. They need guidance, introductions, documents, and user-friendly software.

That’s why our founders created Origami. They realized that together they had all the skills needed to help other communities create and grow their DAOs. As Origami launched dozens of DAOs, including the largest on Optimism, they encountered a significant problem: the need for faster and cheaper chains with customizations like account abstraction and custom gas tokens. The existing solutions were either too slow, too expensive, or lacked the necessary flexibility.

This led to the birth of Chaindrop. Drawing from their experience with DAOs and the need for better infrastructure, the Origami team developed Chaindrop to provide the first ever decentralized rollup-as-a-service. Chaindrop provides a comprehensive rollup solution that is self-hosted and supports advanced configurations like alt-da and L3s.

Our founding team

Johnny Chin

CEO

YC S14, Orange DAO, Bannerman

He taught Elon Musk how to use Twitter

Matt Voska

COO

YC S14, Orange DAO, Bannerman

He flies planes, helicopters, and kites

Stephen Caudill

CTO

YC S16, Orange DAO, Suiteness

He produced albums by both Notorious BIG & Tupac

Ben Huh

FOUNDER

YC S17, Orange DAO, Crisis DAO, Cheezburger

In his web2 days, he controlled hundreds of meme sites.

Our partners and investors

Balaji Srinivasan

Dylan Field

Michael Witz

Bradley Milee

James Beshara

Alan Rutledge

Will Papper

Jordan Messina

Joe Stump

Eli Rubel

Jamie Wilkinson

Cyrus Karbassiyoon

Paz Eshel

Dermot O'Riordan

Nelson Ryan

Kearny Jackson

James Parillo

Gavin Birch

Thomas Pun

Clayton Menzel

Kenneth O'Friel

Michael Daugherty

Patrick Deem