Timshel Ventures

Investments

Ongoing
timshel ventures

we invest in and advise founders buidling at the edge of worlds

recent investments include:

  • glif.ai — fun AI apps/workflows that anyone can build
  • websim.ai — multiplayer, generative platform to simulate and explore any conceivable website, and beyond
  • oyl — next-gen Bitcoin wallet
  • cartridge.gg — infra for provable onchain games & autonomous worlds
  • sup.xyz — frontier media company founded by dhof, cofounder of Vine, Loot, Nouns
  • jokerace — onchain platform for community-based decision-making
  • orangeDAO — decentralized fund led by Ben Huh
  • storyverse — collectible story platform
  • anomaly — AI-native game infra
  • syndicate.io — APIs to build exceptional onchain experiences
  • routable — payment automation
  • underdog — fantasy sports
  • gumroad — creator economy
  • mantle — venture advisor to the largest Ethereum L2

and moaaar

Sidequests

Experimental work at the intersection of generative media and collaborative art, mostly onchain.

2021

Loot is an internet-native, decentralized, open source, infinitely-expansive world of interconnected sci-fantasy stories, games, art & multimedia, released to the public domain by its original creator dhof.

here's a speedrun on Loot, the on-chain scaffolding for a massively-multiplayer collaborative world-building experiment

    2024

    a collection of dynamic onchain time capsules that contain recursively-rendered emergent art, words and more — preserved in a networked graph onchain for excavators of the future to find, inspect, and learn about our world.

    Learn more about Scrips onchain and on X

    Inspect a Scrip
    2023

    Chainspace is among the earliest generative art projects inscribed to Bitcoin in Feb 2023

    live demo, directly rendered from BTC transaction data into your browser*

    each "portal" is an infinite art machine that transforms the viewer into generative art

    in chainspace, you are the art

    *if you have a local Bitcoin node synced, you can even turn your internet off and this still works, because it's being directly rendered from Bitcoin transaction data — meaning Chainspace will live forever, with no dependence on Amazon/Google/web hosting/etc, or for at least as long as Bitcoin survives

    Step into Chainspace
    2022

    a collectible artifact that contains an infinite library of on-chain stories, an onchain canvas for sci-fantasy storytelling

    Open the Eye
    2021

    a worldbuilding primitive for the Lootverse, driven by a trustless, collaborative character-building game

    Summon a GA

    Thou Mayest

    2024
    the meaning of timshel

    tim•shel {tim•shel} — an ancient Hebrew word that means "thou mayest"

    thou mayest make your own choices

    thou mayest be whoever you want to be

    thou mayest build

    thou mayest lead

    thou mayest join

    thou mayest make

    thou mayest be

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