● Fulgur × Ârc · Cohort 01 · Network School, Singapore
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Build on Bitcoin.
An accelerator for founders who want to build on global, permissionless freedom money: Bitcoin. Fully funded residency at the Network School. Real investors. Rolling monthly cohorts.
01 · Why Bitcoin
The revolution has been waiting for serious builders.
Bitcoin is freedom money. Global, permissionless, private. The only monetary network with no CEO, no foundation, no committee to capture. Its rules hold, whoever's in power. This makes bitcoin the ultimate store of value asset, and store of value is the largest addressable market on the planet, worth half of everything.
The infrastructure is maturing fast. A new generation of genuine bitcoin L2s (Lightning, Spark, Ark, e-cash) now makes functionality possible that wasn't viable two years ago, and the application layer has barely begun to explore it. Founders and venture firms have spent a decade chasing token speculation instead of bringing bitcoin to billions, and we are here to redress the balance.
That's the opening. We will help you seize it.
Freedom money
Global, permissionless, private. Money that can't be frozen, seized, or inflated away.
Half of everything
The market for a digital store of value is worth half of everything. The largest opportunity on the planet sits right here.
Underbuilt by default
A decade of token speculation starved the application layer. Bring bitcoin to billions and you own the primitives.
02 · What You Get
Three things, done properly.
ONE
Scholarships, earned
You arrive at the Network School paying your own way. Once you've shown us something (progress, a prototype, a plan we believe in), we put you on a scholarship: covered accommodation and workspace, rolling month by month, for as long as you keep delivering. Could be a month. Could be six.
TWO
Fundable ideas
Education, mentorship, and direct access to operators who've already built on Bitcoin and Lightning. We have a shortlist of fundable ideas ready for founders who want one, or bring your own and we'll help you sharpen it.
THREE
Investment
Cyphertank Demo Day. Investors compete to back the strongest teams. Fulgur, Plan B, Network School, Antler and others at the table. Win the room and you're on the plane to the Cyphertank Final in Lugano.
What acceptance actually means.
An offer from us is an invitation, not a free ride. Accepted founders come to the Network School at their own cost to start. That's how we filter for people who are serious.
Once you're here, we're watching. Ship something, make progress we can point to, and we'll put you on a rolling scholarship: a month at a time, extendable as long as you keep delivering. Some founders stay a month. Some stay six. The programme bends around progress, not the other way around.
03 · Ideas Ready to Build
Fulgur will fund these ideas today. Why not you?
The opportunity space has opened up. Legitimate L2s (Lightning, Spark, Ark, e-cash) now make products possible that weren't viable two years ago. Pick one of these off the shelf or bring your own. We'll help you sharpen it into something investors want to back.
01 · Savings
Bitcoin-only savings apps with stablecoin rails
Relai / Strike-style products for Asia. Simple UX, recurring buys, self-custody optionality. The challenge: can you get 100k users buying $100 of bitcoin a month?
02 · Markets
Trading infrastructure & prediction markets
Next-gen exchanges, derivatives, and BTC-denominated prediction venues. Compliance-aware venues built for the depth and sophistication bitcoin markets now demand.
03 · Finance
Bitcoin neobanks, primitives & lending
Mortgages, pensions, treasury management, BTC payroll. Retail and institutional credit markets, DeFi-style or CeFi-hybrid. Financial products built on a bitcoin balance sheet with conservative LTVs.
04 · Yield
Bitcoin yield from economically productive sources
Lightning routing, liquidity marketplaces, hash-rate-linked products. Yield that comes from actual economic activity on the bitcoin network, not from Ponzi mechanics or wrapped tokens.
05 · Payments
Universal bitcoin payments
B2C, B2B, and AI-agent payments across the L2 stack (Lightning, Spark, Ark, e-cash). The challenge: private, permissionless, seamless payments at every transaction size.
06 · Institutional
Institutional custody & security
Fireblocks / Anchorage-class infrastructure for the bitcoin era. MPC, key management, audit, insurance wrappers. The security layer of the bitcoin economy.
07 · Bitcoin × AI
Where bitcoin meets AI
Machine-to-machine payments over Lightning. AI agents that settle in bitcoin. Bitcoin firewalls as the anti-sybil primitive. Bitcoin as the native settlement and access-control layer of the agent economy.
Fulgur's live thesis, updated as the opportunity set evolves.
04 · The Network School
You're not just getting a programme. You're joining a community.
The Network School is a permanent society on an island near Singapore, founded by Balaji Srinivasan. You'll be living and building alongside technologists, founders, and serious people from every part of the frontier. Co-founder matches get made here. Teams get formed here. Conversations over dinner turn into companies.
Community
Live and work alongside the ambitious people already building at NS. The best network you'll plug into anywhere in Asia.
Co-founders
Arriving solo? Good. Week one includes co-founder matching. Most of the strongest teams from programmes like this start as strangers on day one.
Team building
Find your engineer, your designer, your commercial partner. The density of capable people here means teams come together fast.
05 · How It Works
Rolling monthly cohorts. You arrive on the 1st. You stay as long as you're building.
Step 01
Apply
Pick your cohort up to three months out. We review on a rolling basis.
Step 02
Arrive
Land on the 1st. Onboarding, co-founder matching, first-week education led by Plan B.
Step 03
Build
Ship something. Talk to users. Weekly check-ins with Fulgur, Ârc, and Plan B. Expert sessions and VC talks.
Step 04
Cyphertank
Quarterly Demo Days once the talent is ready. Pitch to the investors. Winner goes to Lugano.
06 · Partners
Built by the most active bitcoin investors on the planet.
Co-lead · Capital
Fulgur Asia
Part of the Fulgur group, the most prolific bitcoin venture investors in the world. Brings capital, network, and direct deal flow into the programme.
Co-lead · Operations
Ârc
Workspace, founder community, and the operational backbone of the accelerator. Host and frontier-builder.
Co-lead · Education
Plan B
A Tether & Fulgur joint venture. Leads the curriculum, runs Cyphertank, and hosts the Lugano final.
Venue & Community
Network School
Balaji Srinivasan's permanent society near Singapore. Home of the programme and its founder pipeline.
07 · Mentors & Investors
Deep bench. Full roster to be announced.
We're finalising the full mentor and investor roster: bitcoin operators, VCs, and founders drawn from Fulgur's portfolio and the Tether, Blockstream, and Lightning ecosystems. In the meantime, here's what's already locked in:
Fulgur Asia
Investor · Mentors
Plan B
Education · Investors
Network School
Community · Balaji
08 · Apply
Tell us what you want to build.
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis. We read every one. If you're the right fit, we'll be in touch within ten days.
Partner with us.
We're actively speaking with sponsors, investors, and ecosystem partners who want a seat at the table. If that's you, get in touch.
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