Urbit is a clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century
Location: Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam
Employees: 11-50
Investors 5
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Fisher Cap... | fishercapi... |
| - | Cluster Ca... | cluster.ca... |
| - | a16z | a16z.com/ |
| - | Sisyphus V... | sisyphus.v... |
| 30.12.2024 | Pantera | panteracap... |
Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.08.2024 | 'Wartime CEO': Urbit's Founder Returns in Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project | Urbit, an idiosyncratic and audacious project to rebuild the entire internet computing stack from scratch, brought back controversial founder Curtis Yarvin after a five-year hiatus. He holds no formal title but is taking the lead on strateg... |
| 12.06.2023 | Blockchain Staking Provider Chorus One Expands to Peer-to-Peer Network Urbit | Chorus One, a provider of staking services for more than 40 blockchains and protocols including Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos and Polkadot, is joining a growing field of hosting service providers on the Urbit peer-to-peer network. The new hostin... |
| 10.05.2023 | Urbit, a Network Older and Weirder Than Bitcoin, Finally Turns Toward Growth | Urbit isn’t a blockchain, but it was started seven years before bitcoin, with a similar idea of attempting to create a peer-to-peer network that is free from the influence of big companies or the government. That’s a key reason Urbit often ... |
| 24.09.2022 | Urbit Is Web3, Weird and Wonderful and I Don’t Care Who Made It | Sometime around the nadir of the coronavirus pandemic, a plumber tugged on the mask hanging under his nose and told me with a straight face that the billionaire George Soros was responsible for his having to wear it. If a friend said someth... |
| 14.01.2021 | Metapurse Announces B.20, a Public Digital Art Project and NFT Bundle | Making money with art is fairly simple and not very imaginative. What we want to do is to decentralize and democratize art - so token holders everywhere can share in a valuable piece of history CHICAGO (PRWEB) January 14, 2021 Metapurse, a ... |
| 09.01.2020 | Bitcoin Sign Guy Is Back, Bringing Sound Money to Urbit's 'Sound Computer' | If bitcoin is digital cash and ethereum is digital law, Urbit is digital land. The highly ambitious cloud computing project imagines nothing less than a rewiring of the internet, allowing users, not corporations, to own their online identit... |
| 10.12.2019 | Nic Carter on Quadriga, Libra and Other Suspect Projects | This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coin Metrics. It’s apt that ... |
| 29.06.2016 | This A16z Startup is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes | Some have said that bitcoin can be thought of as digital property, akin to a kind of virtual gold. If so, this description then raises the question – can technology be used to create entirely digital landscapes? The developers behind a proj... |