Protocol Agency
The last human-in-the-loop problem in crypto. Solved.
Every protocol you’ve used secretly depended on a human to keep running. Fermah Kernel ends that dependency.
Backed by the Best
Claire Kart
CMO, Aztec
Balaji Srinivasan
Former Coinbase CTO and a16z General Partner
Mustafa Al-Bassam
CEO and Cofounder, Celestia
Sandeep Nailwal
Founder, Polygon
Nick White
COO, Celestia
Gregoire Le Jeune
Cofounder, Geometry
Sergey Gurbanov
Cofounder, Axelar
Jaynti Kanani
Cofounder, Polygon and Mozak
Daniel Lubarov
Cofounder, Polygon Zero
Zac Williamson
Founder and CEO, Aztec
The Origin
Software got agency. It stopped waiting to be told what to do.
The moment AI agents arrived: software that observes, decides, and acts without a human prompt. The entire surface area of what was possible expanded overnight. New business models. New categories. New ways to create value that simply didn’t exist when software was passive.
Crypto protocols haven’t gotten agency… yet.
Every smart contract ever written is still purely reactive, executing only when called, kept alive by a centralized server someone is paying for, a cron job someone forgot to monitor, a human with a private key.
Not because protocol teams are lazy. Because the infrastructure to give protocols agency has never existed.
The onchain world is still waiting for the upgrade that software got in 2024.
Software Today vs. Crypto Protocols
The Engine
Fermah Kernel.
The upgrade that brings protocols agency.
Define. Execute. Attest. Without asking a human.
Smart contracts built on Fermah Kernel observe onchain events, run conditional logic in trustless sandboxed containers, and deliver cryptographically verified results back onchain — without a human trigger, without a centralized server, without a keeper bot that may or may not show up.
What this unlocks
Block-level markets · Duration markets · Absence markets · Conditional chains
Markets that have never existed because no human committee could resolve them in time.
— Built on Kernel
Two markets. Zero humans in the loop.
Fermah Froben
The Universal Proof Market
The ZK proof marketplace for teams pushing the frontier of crypto infrastructure. Any proof system. Any chain. Any VM. Cheap, fast, credibly neutral — with SLAs for teams that can’t afford to guess.
- 2M+ proofs delivered
- 99.5% success rate (24h)
- 0 human interventions
Powered by Fermah Kernel. Built by Fermah.
Flashcast Social
Prediction Markets. Instant. Final.
A tweeted question becomes a live market in 3 seconds. Resolved on-chain the moment an event occurs. No committee. No dispute window. No 48-hour wait. Just markets that actually work.
- Instant market creation
- Instant market resolution
- 0 humans in the loop
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“I had the honor of advising Vanishree during her PhD in Cryptography. What really sets her apart is her depth of cryptographic knowledge, from the frontiers of mathematical research to its practical applications. I look forward to Fermah changing the landscape of the zero-knowledge space!”
Amit Sahai
Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, UCLA