Introducing Imua Ignite
Imua Ignite is a $1 million accelerator program for building verifiable trust machines backed by shared security.
At a glance:
- 12 teams will be selected
- $1 million in rewards (both cash and tokens)
- Investor, marketing, product and developer support
- Application deadline: May 16th, 2025 (apply here)
- Dive into the docs here
Background
According to research, trust in institutions has hit historic lows— coincidentally at a time when powerful AI systems emerge that demand even high-levels of trust.
Blockchains offer a solution.
Blockchains are systems that reduce trust requirements by enabling independent verification of actions and claims through cryptographic proofs and economic incentives. Their decentralized, immutable, and censorship-resistant properties make them ideal for verifying trust off-chain.
But they are siloed from one another and largely disconnected from the off-chain world.
That’s why we built Imua, the universe protocol for shared security. A purpose-built L1, Imua aggregates economic security from multiple blockchains through re/staking and extends it to off-chain systems for trust verification.
We envision a future where trust is derived from the laws of math, not the flaws of man.
Imua Ignite Benefits
Imua Ignite is not a run-of-the-mill grant program. Imua Ignite is a cohesive accelerator program for founders, designed by founders, to help you fund, build, and grow your verifiable trust machine.
Participants of the Imua Ignite accelerator program will receive a range of benefits including:
Investment Support
Get warm introductions to top investors so you can fuel your verifiable trust machine with resources to grow and scale.
Developer Support
Get hands-on, white glove support from Imua contributors to integrate verifiable trust into your project.
Marketing Support
When you’re ready to launch, we’ll help advise on your go-to-market (GTM) strategy, and set accountable growth metrics to acquire your first one thousand users.
Mentorship and Advice
Imua’s founders have been designing, building and scaling blockchain infrastructure and cryptographic systems for over a decade. They will be active hands-on mentors to help guide you and your project from zero to one and beyond.
The application deadline is May 16th at 11:59pm PT.
12 winning projects will be announced the week of May 19th.
Why Build on Imua?
- Imua reduces the upfront cost of launching web3 trust networks.
During the web1 era, developers had to set up their own networks before TCP/IP came along and standardized the way information gets shared. In the web2 era, developers needed to configure server networks via data centers before cloud computing enabled the ability to deploy virtual servers with the click of a button. Now in the web3 era, developers must bootstrap entire token economies to build verifiable trust – all before achieving product-market fit for their core product use case.
- Imua offers a flexible, agnostic approach to building verifiable trust machines.
A developer can leverage Imua's modular design to define their own slashing logic, use any token as collateral, and isolate risk between services. Developers can choose which chains to inherit security from for maximum flexibility. There is no one-size-fits-all approach here—you decide how your service should be secured.
- Imua introduces the concept of decentralized Trust-as-a-Service (dTaaS).
Through dTaaS developers can instantly access the aggregated economic security of multiple blockchains, including Bitcoin, Solana, Ethereum, XRP, Doge, TON, and more without deploying their own network infrastructure. Builders can tap into security that isn’t siloed to a single chain, creating stronger guarantees and broader community alignment.
- Imua was built by crypto OGs to help other founders bootstrap, build and blitzscale.
We built Imua to solve problems we experienced firsthand as builders in the blockchain space for the past ten years. Existing solutions didn't fit our criteria, so we opted to build it ourselves, for our own usage. Imua is actually being used to bootstrap itself as a verifiable trust machine (read how), so we are dogfooding our own design.
What Can You Build On Imua?
Imua's modular design makes it flexible for developers to build a wide variety of verifiable trust systems using shared security from different blockchain networks.
AI: use Imua to decentralize AI by enabling deterministic, AI networks and systems that can prove task execution, verify outputs, and coordinate activity without relying on trusted intermediaries.
Stablecoins: use Imua to build and launch stablecoins with credible financial incentives backed by shared security.
ZK: use Imua to decentralize ZK verifiers, prover networks, and aggregation layers to ensure honest computation through re/staked collateral and slashing.
Bridges: use Imua to reduce single points of failure by adding verifiable trust through re/staked collateral from multiple chains.
Oracles: use Imua to exogenously increase your security budget and protect against coordinated attacks by verifying off-chain data feeds.
RPC infrastructure: use Imua to bring on-chain verifiability to your service level agreements (SLA) and get rewarded for performance and up-time.
DeFi protocols: use Imua to build off-chain order books with on-chain verifiability making them immutable and censorship resistant to MEV attacks.
GameFi: use Imua to verifiably reward user behavior and validate game-play without having to build your game on-chain.
Apply to Ignite
The world has trust issues. We can fix those issues by extending on-chain verifiability to the off-chain world. If this sounds interesting to you, then apply to Ignite and come build verifiable trust machines on Imua.
Trust, but verify.
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