Since 2018, Blocky has been on the forefront of TEE technology innovation. We have been awarded multiple National Science Foundation SBIR grants and are supported by leading venture capital firms.

We are currently launching a suite of TEE based services to bring the world onchain:

  • Blocky Attestation Service (akwardly called Delphi Oracle above)
  • Blocky Compute Service (A WASM runtime in a TEE, more to come!)
  • Blockchain as a Service (Zipperchain - read the white paper, it's pretty sweet!)

Reach out to learn more!

The Team

Taylor Heinecke

Co-Founder & CEO

MS in Computer Science

#3 mug at the Griz - Bridger Bowl.

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Mike Wittie

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist

PhD in Computer Science

Real-world and blockchain jiu jitsu practitioner.

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David Millman

Co-Founder & CTO

PhD in Computer Science

Coltrane’s drummer, Elvin, gave me a hug. He was sweaty, it was awesome.

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Ian Hecker

Software Engineer

BS in Computer Science

Chief boxing coach taking us all the way to regionals this year!

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Taylor Hardin

Software Engineer

PhD in Computer Science

The correct number of bikes to own is n+1, where n is the number of bikes currently owned.

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Matteo Björnsson

Software Engineer

MS in Computer Science

Climber of mountains, distributor of systems, hunter of bugs.

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Milestones

2018

2018/01/31

Blocky McChainerson LLC founded

2018/05/01

NSF Phase I proposal submitted

2019

2019/01/31

NSF Phase I awarded learn more

2019/06/01

Ian Hecker joins the BLOCKY team

2019/10/08

Blocky McChainerson moves into new offices at the Bozeman Hotel

2020

2020/01/01

Blocky McChainerson incorporated as BLOCKY, Inc.

2020/09/03

NSF Phase II proposal submitted

2020/10/01

1st round of funding closed with Next Frontier Capital, Wisdom LLP, and Blackfoot Communications

2020/11/30

Montana State University Catalyst grant awarded

2021

2021/12/01

NSF SBIR Phase II awarded learn more

2021/12/23

Provisional patent for Zipperchain submitted

2022

2022/04/01

Received the Montana SBIR/STTR Matching Funds Grant

2022/07/01

Taylor Hardin joins the BLOCKY team

2022/08/13

Cofounders Mike Wittie and David Millman join BLOCKY full time

2022/09/06

Matteo Björnsson joins the BLOCKY team

2022/11/30

Non-provisional patent for Zipperchain submitted

2023

2023/9/1

Zipperchain demonstrates 18k TPS, 300ms finality