Trillions of dollars in stablecoins now flow onchain, where markets run 24/7 and adversarial MEV wars play out by the second. Protocols are created, forked, exploited, and iterated on in the open. With crypto, new financial systems and internet-native economies are being built and battle-tested live.

The frontier is evolving faster than ever – and we’re looking for the people who want to explore it up close.

We’re excited to announce our third annual Paradigm Fellowship: a program for students, recent grads, and dropouts who are curious techno-optimists – drawn to markets, incentive design, and shaping how money moves online. Fellows tend to thrive in fast feedback loops, high-stakes environments, and open-ended experimentation.

Over a two-day retreat on the beautiful Northern California coast, you’ll join 30 other obsessive, deeply technical builders – some already immersed in crypto, others coming from AI, math, economics, trading, or other related fields at the frontier. Together with the Paradigm team and other Fellows, you’ll explore whatever problem space feels most compelling: mechanism design, distributed systems, agentic commerce, applications, developer tooling, and more.

Past Fellows have met cofounders, collaborators, and lifelong friends through the program. Many have gone on to build companies (some funded by Paradigm), join high-growth startups, and pursue advanced research.

The 2025 Paradigm Fellowship runs from September 24th - 26th. Applications will be open until July 25th.

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