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Espresso Systems

Espresso Systems develops and operates blockchain infrastructure for custom chains, rollups, and financial systems. Its Espresso Network provides fast finality, data availability, decentralized sequencing, and crosschain interoperability for applications requiring control, performance, and connectivity.

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Description

Espresso Systems builds and operates the Espresso Network, a decentralized base layer for rollups, custom chains, and applications. The network uses the HotShot BFT consensus protocol to provide fast transaction finality, data availability, and sequencing, enabling integrated chains and external applications to read finalized state across chains. Espresso also offers the Espresso Stack, a customizable framework for specialized chains and financial systems, including institutional use cases such as crosschain collateral management.

Grant Funding

VC Funding

None

2020

2022

2024

2025

$103M

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