About
A track record of regulated digital infrastructure at production scale.
Lemma Ventures AG is a Swiss company, based in Zug, commercializing applications, protocol, and standards under one constraint: the human stays at the center.
Capability
What experience we bring beyond the stack
Protocol & cryptography
- Directed blockchain protocol roadmaps across eight consecutive live-network upgrades without chain halts, on a network securing ~USD 20B in assets
- Zero-knowledge privacy protocols with selective disclosure for compliance-sensitive workflows
- Post-quantum-aware, privacy-first protocol design for regulated institutional use
- Proof-of-reserves and proof-of-financial-standing architectures for custodians and corporate treasury
- Settlement and interoperability: layer-2 channels, lightweight verification, partner chains, cross-chain bridges
Products institutions buy
- Stablecoin design: overcollateralized models, reserve ratios, peg mechanics with formal analysis
- Non-custodial wallets: hardware custody, fiat on-ramps with third-party KYC, multi-asset settlement
- Decentralized identity and verifiable credentials at national scale
- New-product process with explicit kill gates: concept → prototype → pilot → launch → kill/scale
- Commercialization: business cases and success metrics that turn regulated-industry prototypes into paying pilots and productized offerings
Agentic systems & reproducibility
- Open measurement harnesses for serving-stack reproducibility (the Agentic Determinism Index (ADI)), with byte-level divergence metrics and reproducible scoring from raw transcripts
- Expert-system and policy-engine heritage: deterministic rule execution, auditable decision traces, and the regression from replayable controls to unreplayable model serving
- Agent evaluation and CI patterns: flaky-test attribution, canonical-form vs byte identity, and probe design for production serving paths
- Regulatory mapping for AI traceability: EU AI Act logging obligations, financial-services algo reproducibility rules, and the evidentiary gap between "probably the same" and re-runnable
Regulation, risk & leadership
- Delivery under tier-one banking constraints: compliance, risk and security review built into the path to production, not bolted on at the end
- Governance institutions recognize: budget accountability, risk ownership and kill-gate discipline applied to research and product portfolios
- A counterparty that has operated at scale: engineering organizations of hundreds, protocol subsidiaries, and a full build-and-exit cycle as founder
- Team depth: Ph.D.s and senior engineers across blockchain, cryptography and formal methods, with advisors spanning academia, industrial research and successful Web3 ventures
Entity
Lemma Ventures AG, Zug, Switzerland. Commercial register number CHE-154.021.989. Commercial and R&D vehicle for the applications, Lemma protocol, and standards on this site.
Who · Why · How · What · When
- Who. Operators whose prior work shipped protocol, privacy, wallets, stablecoins, and national identity under real regulatory load.
- Why. Privacy, lawful compliance, distributed trust, interoperability, security, and custody that stays with the institution are design constraints, not optional slogans.
- How. One platform, three applications: policies compiled into proofs, on open primitives and standards. Commercial entry is programmable compliance; continuous standing is the credibility path; agentic compliance expands once evidence is routine.
- What. Programmable compliance for tokenized transactions, continuous proof of standing (OPSIS), agentic compliance (ADI first), Lemma protocol, cryptographic primitives, coverage and regime standards.
- When. Agentic Determinism Index (ADI): 1 September 2026 methodology, open harness, and bootstrap scores; a first analysis after about a month of continuous runs and open-source community contributions. Live index: lemma-ventures.github.io/agentic-determinism-index. Other applications ship on their own schedules.
Talk to us
Investors and design partners: one email starts diligence. We lead with limits, then the stack.
hello [at] lemma.ventures