Our mission is to grow the Centrifuge ecosystem by funding research, development and maintenance of the network.

About the Foundation

Centrifuge Network Foundation promotes the development, international growth and expansion of the Centrifuge network, and supports its user community. The Foundation promotes the research and development of economic models and principles, as well as technologies that can serve the Centrifuge network and its community as a decentralized, blockchain-based protocol.

Board members

The Centrifuge Network Foundation board of directors is the governing body of the Foundation which is responsible for ultimate control and oversight of Centrifuge Network Foundation.

Lucas Vogelsang

Lucas Vogelsang

Lucas is a co-founder of Centrifuge. With a background at the crossroads of technology and business, Lucas has led engineering at many startups including CTO & Co-Founder at DeinDeal, a Groupon competitor acquired in 2011 and Taulia, a supply chain finance fintech acquired by SAP in 2022.

Cassidy Daly

Martin Quensel

Martin is the co-founder of Centrifuge. He also founded Anemoy, a web3 native asset manager offering investors access to diverse superior assets. Previously, he co-founded Taulia and Ebydos. Martin’s expertise spans payments, supply chain, and blockchain’s transformative potential.

Markus Ament

Markus Ament

Markus is a serial Fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Centrifuge and has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders. Markus is currently the co-founder and GP of Crane Earth and advising a variety of startups in the web3, payment and fintech space.

Philipp Banhardt

Philipp Banhardt

Co-Founder and co-CEO of Violet, privacy preserving and reusable compliance rails for on-chain finance, and Mauve, a compliant DEX for RWAs. Built and led the Filecoin developer grant ecosystem, and worked across various product initiatives at Protocol Labs. He started his career working as an investor at BlueYard.

Centrifuge Network Foundation issues grants to grow and support the Centrifuge ecosystem and bootstrap the network.

Support

Support research and development of core infrastructure of the Centrifuge Chain & related parts

Encourage

Encourage community members to contribute in meaningful ways to the growth of the Centrifuge network

Grow

Grow the number of active developers and teams building on Centrifuge

If you’d like to learn more about the grant program, please reach out to grants@centrifuge.foundation