Mentorship
Hands-on guidance from operators who shipped products across infrastructure, consumer crypto, and protocol design.
JoinBlesk Incubator
Incubating the next wave of Web3 innovation.
Pre-seed and seed support for builders shipping in DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, infrastructure, and gaming. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with teams that move fast, validate with users, and build for long-term protocol value.
What we do
JoinBlesk is designed for teams that already build. We tighten feedback loops, unblock technical bottlenecks, and turn early traction into fundable momentum.
Funding readiness
Narrative, metrics, and data-room support to position your round with clarity and discipline.
Network access
Introductions to angels, specialized funds, liquidity partners, and ecosystem operators that can accelerate launch.
Go-to-market
Positioning, community strategy, and growth experiments with measurable acquisition and retention hypotheses.
Token strategy
Utility design, treasury planning, and launch sequencing aligned with long-term protocol health.
Security & audits readiness
Threat-model reviews, pre-audit checklists, and architecture hardening before external security engagements.
Programs
Three tracks, one principle: build real product outcomes and a funding-ready operating story.
Pre-seed Sprint
8 weeksFor technical teams at idea-to-MVP stage. You validate demand, define the core architecture, and ship a usable alpha.
- Best for founders with strong engineering execution
- Output: MVP, GTM thesis, investor brief
- Requirement: committed full-time founding team
Seed Launchpad
12 weeksFor teams with MVP and early users. We focus on retention loops, protocol economics, and scale readiness.
- Best for projects with active usage signals
- Output: growth dashboard, fundraising package
- Requirement: product metrics and shipping cadence
Founder Residency
6-16 weeksFlexible track for repeat founders or domain specialists building high-conviction protocol primitives.
- Best for deep technical or research-heavy teams
- Output: architecture memo, partner pilots
- Requirement: clear edge and long-term roadmap
How it works
Our intake is structured to reduce noise and give founders a fast, clear decision path.
Apply
Share your project, team context, and why this is the right cycle for acceleration.
Screening
We review technical depth, founder-market fit, and evidence of user or onchain demand.
Deep dive
Architecture, token model, GTM assumptions, and execution risks are pressure-tested in working sessions.
Offer
Aligned teams receive a cohort offer with scope, cadence, and support stack clearly outlined.
Build cycle
Weekly execution checkpoints, mentor office hours, and structured milestone reviews.
Demo / Network
Founders present progress to ecosystem partners, users, and aligned capital providers.
Who we back
We invest attention in founders who treat shipping like a discipline. If your team runs fast loops, documents decisions, and learns from production, you fit our model.
- Engineering-first team with clear ownership across product and protocol layers
- Evidence of traction: waitlist quality, active wallets, early retention, or pilot commitments
- Open-source contributions or transparent technical artifacts
- Meaningful onchain usage patterns or measurable integration intent
- Strong problem framing with a realistic path to sustainable distribution
Proof and outcomes
Representative demos from recent cycles. Project names are anonymized, but the operating patterns and metrics are real.
Infra indexing layer
Cross-chain data pipeline for protocol analytics
Reduced event lag from minutes to sub-20 seconds for key dashboards. Delivered production ingestion for 11 chains, enabling faster governance and risk decisions.
Growth: 4.3x query volume in 10 weeks.
DeFi risk engine
Real-time collateral stress testing for lending markets
Rebuilt simulation stack to support intraday policy updates and automated guardrail alerts for abnormal volatility.
Outcome: 2 audits passed and governance activation in 3 markets.
Gaming marketplace
Onchain asset exchange with creator royalty controls
Shipped wallet onboarding flow and liquidity seeding model that lowered first-trade friction for non-crypto native users.
DAU proxy: +138% in first 45 days post-launch.
72%
Teams reached planned milestone within one cycle
29+
Security reviews and audit preparations completed
3.1x
Median increase in active builder community interactions
42
Direct investor and partner introductions per cohort
Mentors and network
Operators and specialists who have seen both the technical and market side of scaling crypto products.
Protocol architecture and engineering systems
Helps teams make architecture decisions that survive growth, audits, and team expansion.
Acquisition loops and retention strategy
Guides channel mix, product messaging, and activation metrics for sustainable user growth.
Mechanism design and token dynamics
Reviews incentive models, attack surfaces, and governance assumptions before launch.
Structure, compliance, and launch preparedness
Supports founders on practical legal considerations for fundraising and token-related operations.
Latest insights
Practical notes from our operator desk. No hype, just patterns that help teams avoid expensive mistakes.
DeFi
Designing risk dashboards founders actually use
A tactical framework for prioritizing the three risk signals that matter most in early lending and derivatives products, plus examples of alert thresholds that reduce reaction time during volatile windows.
Read in ResourcesInfrastructure
When to build your own indexing stack
Tradeoffs between managed data providers and custom indexers, including reliability, cost profile, and how each path affects your roadmap when usage starts compounding.
Read in ResourcesSecurity
Audit-ready in 30 days: a realistic checklist
How teams can prepare code, docs, and test coverage before formal audits to save cycles and improve issue resolution speed.
Read in ResourcesFAQ
Short answers to common founder questions before applying.
Do you take equity?
Structure depends on program and stage. We discuss terms transparently after screening and only when the fit is clear.
Do you support token-based models?
Yes. We work on utility design, distribution sequencing, and governance assumptions with a long-term operating view.
Is the incubator remote?
Yes. We are remote-first with optional in-person sessions around key milestones and partner events.
Do you only back teams in the USA?
No. We back global teams. Strong async communication and execution discipline matter more than location.
How long does screening take?
Typical timeline is 7-14 days from submission to first decision, depending on application volume and complexity.
Can solo founders apply?
Yes, if there is clear evidence of shipping speed and a realistic hiring or cofounder plan.
Do you require open-source repositories?
Not always, but transparent technical artifacts improve review quality and accelerate mentor matching.
Is prior fundraising required?
No. We work with bootstrapped teams, grant-backed projects, and early funded startups.
What categories are you most focused on now?
DeFi infrastructure, developer tooling, consumer crypto experiences, and gaming rails with strong retention potential.
What happens after the program ends?
We continue support through partner introductions, occasional office hours, and strategic checkpoints when useful.
Application form
Keep it concise and concrete. Include links that show what you have already built.