We Take Proposals: How Blockhash Collaborates.
a meaningful share of what Blockhash ships started as someone reaching out. here's how the proposal model actually works, and what makes a good fit.
what Blockhash is, briefly
Blockhash is a boutique studio that builds onchain software. some of what gets built starts here: howdy, slurry. some of it starts with someone else reaching out with an idea that needs the chain part built. taking proposals is how a meaningful share of what Blockhash actually ships gets made.
regular punks is the clearest example. Sheipi had a concept: cryptopunks heads on pixel-art robot dog bodies, a play on beeple's regular animals. they didn't have the chain skills. they reached out. Blockhash built the chain part. the project blew up. the IP stayed with them. that's the model.
what kinds of proposals work
the project should need the chain part. broadly that means:
- custom smart contract development on any chain
- applications that interact with smart contracts (frontends, indexers, bots, integrations)
- usually some combination of both
shapes that have come up before: token-gated experiences (chats, drops, communities like howdy), onchain art collections with custom rendering pipelines (like regular punks), onchain games with real stakes, new primitives that don't fit any existing template, identity/naming/registry infrastructure, cross-chain mechanics. anything in the same neighborhood is fair game.
the project should also be the right kind of weird. the bandwidth is finite, so the calendar is mostly full of things i actually want to wake up and code. proposals get picked the same way: by whether the idea is interesting, not by whether it pays the most.
how it actually works
the model that's emerged across the projects so far:
- you reach out at [email protected] with a one-paragraph description of the project. no formal proposal doc, no deck, no ceremony. just the concept (in whatever form keeps you comfortable).
- i read everything. if it's the right kind of weird and i have bandwidth, we talk.
- we figure out the scope in a conversation. what does the chain part actually need to do? what's onchain, what's offchain? what's the timeline?
- i build it. vibe-coded. usually faster than a normal shop because there's no overhead, no PM, no design review chain.
- you own the brand and IP. Blockhash gets credit as the builder, and a relationship to the project that we work out.
- we ship.
what it costs
case-by-case. usually a mix of upfront budget plus a slice of the project's economics: a small mint allocation, a percentage of secondary, equity-like stake in the protocol, etc. it looks different for every project. the conversation happens before any commitment.
what to put in the email
- one paragraph on the concept
- what the chain part needs to do
- where you are with the project (just an idea? art done? team in place?)
- timeline if you have one
- anything you want to share about who you are
that's it. no deck or calendly link required, just a description of the thing you want built.