COMPANY · FOUNDED 2024 · NEW YORK
By 2030 there will be more autonomous agents transacting on the internet than humans. Most of that volume will settle on a chain — and we think that chain is Solana. Axuon is the payments protocol for that world. Built quietly, deliberately, with the same care the original card rails were built with.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Most infra startups will tell you they're customer-obsessed. We are too — but we're also obsessed with being the kind of company that customers can audit in twenty years and still trust.
The Solana transaction is the source of truth, not a downstream sync. Every receipt is hash-anchored and counter-signed. No 'we'll figure out the dispute later.'
Money is not the place for novelty. We use proven cryptography (ed25519 — same as Solana), audited rails, and three layers of redundancy. The novelty is in the abstraction.
Specs, schemas, scope JWT format, and the MCP server are open source. The control plane stays proprietary because compliance is not a community project.
No platform fee, no exit penalty, no auto-renew. We earn the next month by being worth using next month.
Every full-time employee owns equity. We don't have a 'growth team.' We have engineers and they talk to design partners every week.
Solana will still be here in ten years. So will autonomous agents. We're building Axuon for the version of the internet where machines outnumber humans on the spend side.
HOW WE GOT HERE
From a Brooklyn whiteboard to a public mainnet sandbox in sixteen months. Slower than we'd like. Faster than money usually moves.
Three engineers in a Brooklyn co-working space, betting that agent commerce would settle on Solana before it settled on anything else.
Led by Multicoin Capital with Solana Ventures and a handful of payments operators from Stripe and Plaid.
60 design partners spun up sandbox agents in the first month. We blew through our Helius RPC quota in week two.
An autonomous procurement agent paid Jupiter $4.21 for a USDC→SOL swap. We screenshotted the Solana explorer link and printed it.
Production traffic. 12 design partners moved live; ~$80k in settled USDC in the first six weeks.
The audit took 8 months. We share the report under NDA on request.
Led by Founders Fund and Multicoin. We doubled the engineering team and opened a Lisbon office for EU coverage.
You are here. ✦
WHO
We're 18 people across Brooklyn and Lisbon, mostly engineers. Three founders, twelve engineers, two on ops, one in design.
Previously product lead at Stripe Treasury. Built her first Solana program in 2022. New Yorker.
Ex-Plaid principal engineer, distributed systems at MIT before that. Wrote the original Axuon scope-token spec on a napkin.
Co-author of the MCP payments extension proposal. Years on the Solana Token-2022 working group.
Built the first EMI passport for an EU fintech in 2019. Knows every regulator in Lisbon by first name.
Hardware security at Apple, then key management at Anchorage. Maintains our ed25519 signing path.
Designed early Linear dashboards. Believes that good monospace can fix most problems.
BACKED BY2024 — 2026
+ ANGELS: Patrick Collison · Anatoly Yakovenko · Mert Mumtaz · Henrique Dubugras · 14 more
CAREERS
Compensation is at the 75th percentile in cash and well above on equity. Equity refreshes annually. Three days a week in the Brooklyn or Lisbon office for tenured roles; full remote for distributed-team specialists.
PRESSSELECT COVERAGE