Harry Kingdon

My current project is Tonk, a seed-stage startup doing R&D towards a decentralised web. Our focus is frontier cryptography & peer-to-peer systems, including zero-knowledge proofs, local-first software, decentralised key management and blockchain. Tonk pushed the envelope across social, finance, gaming, developer tooling and more: Other progress includes raising $3.5m from best-in-class US investors, assembling a crack team from Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, Airbnb and leading peer-to-peer projects, and establishing advisory relationships with key figures at Anthropic, Google, Meta, the art-tech world and more. I tend to play the "producer" role in most teams - a generalist with communication, operational & commercial skills who's literate in most things (or can build basic literacy fast). I help get things started, assemble talent and capital, and keep things moving at a strong pace. I will always be a theatre kid, craving the rush of a captive audience. Thankfully I get to speak at con

My current project is Tonk, a seed-stage startup doing R&D towards a decentralised web. Our focus is frontier cryptography & peer-to-peer systems, including zero-knowledge proofs, local-first software, decentralised key management and blockchain. Tonk pushed the envelope across social, finance, gaming, developer tooling and more: Other progress includes raising $3.5m from best-in-class US investors, assembling a crack team from Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, Airbnb and leading peer-to-peer projects, and establishing advisory relationships with key figures at Anthropic, Google, Meta, the art-tech