Beacon Layer Team

September 12, 2026

Introducing the 17 startups in Cohort S26!

Kenzi Morikawa

March 1, 2026

Beacon Layer Team

February 19, 2026

We’re thrilled to welcome Smokey The Bera, Co-Founder of Berachain, as the newest member of our Beacon Layer mentor community.

Beacon Layer Team

January 23, 2026

We're excited to introduce you to the newest graduates of Beacon Layer, Cohort F26!

Beacon Layer Team

January 22, 2026

We are thrilled to welcome Mirza Uddin, Head of Business Development at Injective Labs and General Partner at Vessel Capital, to our Beacon Layer mentor community.

Beacon Layer Team

December 21, 2025

We have plenty of exciting happenings to catch up on! Let's dive into what we've been up to.‍

Beacon Layer Team

November 28, 2025

Today we are thrilled to announce the launch of our in-house podcast, Beacon Layer Podcast.

Beacon Layer Team

October 12, 2025

Learn the 'Sketch, Refine, Design, Deploy' process to deck building with Wiz, Co-Founder and General Partner at Spacecadet Ventures.

Beacon Layer Team

October 6, 2025

We're excited to announce Wiz, Co-Founder and General Partner at Spacecadet, as Beacon Layer's latest mentor!

Beacon Layer Team

October 2, 2025

We're excited to welcome Jack Platts, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Hypersphere, as the newest addition to Beacon Layer's mentor network!

Beacon Layer Team

September 12, 2025

We're thrilled to welcome Aniket Jindal, Co-Founder and COO at Biconomy, as Beacon Layer's newest mentor!

Beacon Layer Core Contribubtors

August 30, 2025

We're excited to welcome Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, as the newest member of Beacon Layer's mentor network!

Beacon Layer Team

August 24, 2025

In today's era of information overload, being timely can be a game-changer in the world of social media engagement. Today’s Masterclass Mentor understands this concept well. 

Beacon Layer Team

August 21, 2025

We are excited to formally welcome Dmitriy Berenzon, Research Partner at 1k(x), to our Beacon Layer Mentor community.

Beacon Layer Team

August 13, 2025

Having received and reviewed thousands of Beacon Layer applications to date, our team at Beacon Layer decided to put together some general tips aggregating what we see in the best applications. If you’ve been struggling to put together your app, read below to take your submission to the next level. 

Beacon Layer Team

August 10, 2025

Today, we are excited to introduce the Beacon Layer Web3 VC Database! The Beacon Layer Web3 VC Database is a new tool for web3 founders to gain unique insights on the web3 funding landscape.

Beacon Layer Team

August 9, 2025

We are thrilled to introduce you to Cohort S25! These 10 startups spent the last 3 months in the Beacon Layer program scaling their projects and are now ready to announce themselves to the world. In this post, we take you through an overview of each of these incredible projects.

Beacon Layer Team

August 3, 2025

We're thrilled to extend a warm welcome to Bradley Kam, Co-Founder of Unstoppable Domains, as he joins our growing community of Beacon Layer Mentors.

Beacon Layer Team

July 31, 2025

In today's Masterclass, we’ll dig into Sreeram's market-first approach with EigenLayer and unpack three key lessons that can help you get inside your customers' heads.

Beacon Layer Team

July 26, 2025

We are excited to have Beryl Li, Co-Founder of Yield Guild Games, join as a mentor for Beacon Layer. 

Beacon Layer Team

July 24, 2025

It's been a month filled with action and progress here at Beacon Layer. Let's dive into what we've been up to!

Beacon Layer Team

July 17, 2025

We are delighted to welcome Sreeram Kannan into our community of Beacon Layer Mentors.

Beacon Layer Team

July 11, 2025

In today’s Masterclass, we will examine the story of Sandeep Nailwal and how he leveraged a community-first approach to scale Polygon into one of the most successful companies in web3. 

Beacon Layer Team

July 5, 2025

We are thrilled to announce Ryan Kim as our newest Beacon Layer Mentor.

Beacon Layer Team

June 28, 2025

We're excited to formally welcome Anand Iyer to our growing community of Beacon Layer Mentors.

Beacon Layer Team

June 27, 2025

We're excited to formally welcome Jiho to our growing community of Beacon Layer Mentors.

Beacon Layer Team

June 21, 2025

Sota Watanabe, Founder of Astar Network, spoke to our cohort about the importance of finding focus. In this Web3 Masterclass, we’ll share how Sota found focus at Astar by making tough decisions to ensure he had the right alignment of culture and product vision.

Beacon Layer Team

June 19, 2025

Beacon Layer, an accelerator built by web3 founders for web3 founders, and Protocol Labs, the open source R&D lab building tools to radically improve the internet, have announced a partnership to back the next generation of web3 companies.

Beacon Layer Team

June 16, 2025

We're excited to formally welcome Edgy to our growing community of Beacon Layer Mentors.

Beacon Layer Team

June 12, 2025

Community is at the core of everything we do at Beacon Layer. We’ve distilled this ethos into one simple idea; at Beacon Layer, we’re creating the world’s first Web3 Founders Support Group.