We back conviction, not pitches.
WeCombinator is a DAO that funds early on-chain projects through the Conviction Curve — backers stake $WECO behind a project, conviction builds the longer it stays, and treasury capital streams in continuously as the curve climbs.
The old way funds a moment. The curve funds momentum.
One pitch, on one day, in front of one committee, decides years of runway. The Conviction Curve replaces that single bet with a continuous signal the whole community keeps writing — and can keep revising.
| Cohort funding | The Conviction Curve | |
|---|---|---|
| The decision | A partner vote on demo day | A live, time-weighted community signal |
| Timing | Fixed rounds and deadlines | Always open; capital moves per block |
| If belief fades | The cheque has already cleared | The stream slows as conviction decays |
| Transparency | Term sheets behind closed doors | Every stake and stream sits on-chain |
| Who allocates | A small committee | Anyone holding $WECO |
Funding that moves the moment conviction does.
No demo day, no application window, no partner vote. Capital is allocated by a curve that the community moves with its own stake — continuously, transparently, and reversibly.
Apply on-chain
Submit your project to the commons with a goal and milestones. Listings are permissionless — there are no deadlines to miss.
Enter the commons
Every listed project becomes stakeable by any $WECO holder. The full registry lives in one public contract.
Backers build conviction
Staked $WECO earns conviction the longer it stays behind a project. Unstake anytime — conviction then decays back down.
Capital streams
Once conviction crosses the curve's threshold, treasury capital streams to the project per block, scaling as the curve climbs.
The Conviction Curve's parameters — decay half-life, streaming threshold, and per-project cap — are owned and tuned by $WECO governance. That tuning is the protocol: change the curve, and you change which projects the DAO can afford to believe in.
Whether you build it or back it.
The same mechanism serves both sides: founders raise without giving up control, and backers move capital without waiting for anyone's permission.
Raise without giving up the company.
- List permissionlessly and keep your full cap table — no equity, no board seats, no countersignature.
- Receive streamed capital instead of a one-time cheque, so funding scales as you prove the work.
- Publish milestones once; hitting them is what compounds conviction and widens the stream.
Direct the treasury yourself.
- Stake $WECO behind work you believe in; conviction grows the longer your stake holds.
- Allocate without a committee — your stake is the vote and the funding in a single action.
- Unstake whenever you want. Conviction decays gradually rather than stranding a team overnight.
$WECO does three jobs.
One asset coordinates the whole protocol — it is how capital is directed, how the commons is kept honest, and how the curve itself gets tuned.
Stream capital
Stake behind a project to build its conviction and open a continuous stream from the treasury.
Curate the commons
Surface strong applicants, flag weak ones, and mentor the teams you back. Reputation travels with your stake.
Tune the curve
Propose and vote on the decay, threshold, and caps that shape every allocation the DAO makes.
$WECO holders own the curve.
The DAO doesn't pick winners by hand. It picks the shape of the curve — and the curve does the rest. Anyone holding $WECO can open a proposal to retune it.
The curve, in plain terms.
Is this equity or a grant?
Neither. Capital streams from the DAO treasury against milestones you publish, and you keep your full cap table. There is no equity, token allocation, or board seat attached.
What is "conviction," exactly?
Time-weighted stake. The same $WECO contributes more conviction the longer it stays behind a project, so steady belief counts for more than a burst of hype that leaves the next day.
What stops a project from draining the treasury?
Two governance-set limits: a streaming threshold a project must cross before any capital moves, and a per-project cap on how much can ever stream. Capital flows only while conviction holds, and slows automatically as it decays.
Can backers change their mind?
Anytime. Unstaking removes your conviction, and the affected project's stream adjusts at the next block. Nothing locks you in.
Who can apply?
Anyone, permissionlessly. Listing is open and there are no rounds or deadlines — a project simply enters the commons and becomes stakeable by $WECO holders.
If the contracts are public, what makes the curve proprietary?
The code is open and verifiable. What the DAO owns and defends is the tuned parameter set — the specific shape of the curve that governance maintains over time. The mechanism is public; the calibration is the edge.
Batch 14 is open. Get on the curve.
List your project, share your milestones, and let conviction find you. Backing starts the moment the curve crosses threshold.