About Us

Firewall was jumpstarted in late 2023 with a $3.7M pre-seed in investment to eliminate onchain theft.

Our technology is the evolution of smart contract networks, intelligently protecting users and assets with the creation of safe blockspace.

Our focus is to bring a required paradigm shift in the usability of smart contracts.
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Our Background

Sam and Devan began their professional careers by building the gateway to DeFi and fixed yield products @ Staked.us. Four years later Staked was acquired by Kraken for half a billion dollars. After this, as all builders do they moved onto what they saw as the next major problem; onchain theft.
CO-FOUNDER
Devan Purhar

Founding engineer & employee #1 @ Staked (acq. by Kraken). Ethereum engineer, AI & ML.

Inventor of the DeFi yield aggregator and MEV team @ Kraken. Optimistic cypherpunk.

CO-FOUNDER
Sam Mitchell

Early employee, product team and sales engineer @ Staked. Programmable contracts.

Product lead and rust engineer for MEV-capture @ Primitive on the AMM frontier.

Firewall buildsthe safety rails that enable the everyday person to use the next era of the Internet.

Today, billions of dollars are stolen from users, through irreversible transactions that are classifiable as theft.

It's time to update this broken system.

(we're backed by the best)