decentralised AI with truly autonomous AI agents, confidentiality for fully on-chain games, MEV-resistant DEXs with more CEX-like capabilities, RWA trading and decentralised confidential compute.
TEN’s founding team, Cais Manai, Gavin Thomas and Tudor Malene met at R3 where they built Corda, the world’s most successful blockchain with over $10bn of assets now on-chain.
All 3 have a deep understanding of the blockchain industry and technology. Individually they have experience founding startups (1 successful exit), delivering complex award-winning trading software for global banks, deep cryptography knowledge for military applications and contributing to UK government think tanks on crypto regulations. Others in the core team have previously held lead roles across tradfi, ML research and encryption technology.
Key institutional backers and strategic advisors.
Republic Capital, R3, BigBrain Ventures, Builder Capital, Cogitent Ventures, Magnus Capital, One Block Capital, DWF Labs, Master Ventures, GTS Ventures, Jets Capital, Outlier Ventures, Legion x Nozomi