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Autonomous Chains. Connected Markets.

The future isn't on their chain. It's on yours.
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Control
Keep authority over the operating environment
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Configurability
Design around product, policy, and workflow needs
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Connectivity
Preserve access to broader onchain markets
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Performance
Support production-grade user and transaction flows
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A better way to move onchain.

Most blockchain deployments face a tradeoff. Public blockchains offer connectivity but not control. Private systems offer control but not connectivity. Espresso offers a third path: dedicated chain infrastructure with ownership preserved and market connectivity intact.

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Control

Operate in a dedicated environment built around your requirements

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Configurability

Design the system around the product instead of forcing the product into someone else’s default stack.

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Connectivity

Stay connected to broader onchain assets, applications, and markets

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Performance

Support faster, more responsive user and transaction experiences

Proven expertise

The team behind Espresso includes cryptographers out of Stanford's PhD program, CS professors at Yale and NYU, and operators from Goldman Sachs and Vanguard, backed by a16z and Sequoia. They built Espresso because they understood the problem from both sides: legacy financial systems bottlenecked by slow settlement, and blockchain infrastructure purpose-built to eliminate it.

Trusted by leading onchain applications and infrastructure teams

Espresso Systems is the only team with the expertise to build and deploy fully custom solutions on the Espresso Network, a base layer purpose-built for applications that demand speed, security, and high degrees of customization.

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Confirmations Delivered
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Avg Finality Time
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Data Throughput
20
Chains (testnet/pipeline)

Built for What's Next

All financial products demand the same underlying features: fast settlement, custom logic, and access to deep liquidity. Whether your customers are trading cryptocurrencies or commercial paper, sending stablecoins or Swiss francs, issuing NFTs or promissory notes, or making predictions or private equity investments, they will benefit from the programmability, performance, and connectivity that Espresso's infrastructure provides your products.

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Latest news

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Espresso Achieves 2-Second Finality on Devnet
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Introducing Presto: One-Click Crosschain Transactions Powered by Espresso
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Intro to Caff Nodes: How Espresso Unlocks Crosschain Composability

Espresso Community

Explore, engage, and grow with Espresso. From events to ecosystem updates—everything you need to stay in the loop and help shape what’s next.

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Pétanque | Espresso at EthCC
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Coffee On Us ☕ | Espresso at EthCC
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Cold Weather Cafe

Espresso Research

The Espresso Network is live, but Espresso Systems’ team continues to be at the forefront of research on high-performance consensus protocols and crosschain composability.

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Shared sequencing
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Next-gen consensus
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Cross-chain builder markets
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Faster, safer bridging
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Synchronous composability