PhD Founders Index

Why This Index?

1. PhD teams build infrastructure that lasts decades. Doctorate holders gravitate toward consensus algorithms and cryptographic primitives — the deepest layers of the stack.
2. Equal weighting across 8 PhD-founded tokens. The basket is heavy on L1 infrastructure because PhDs solve the hardest problems, which happen to live at the protocol layer.
3. PhDs may not produce the fastest returns. But the protocols they build tend to survive because the underlying mathematics is correct, not merely functional.

Investment Objective

Equally weights 8 tokens from PhD-holding founders, rebalanced monthly. Captures the durability premium of academically rigorous infrastructure, where protocols built by researchers with formal cryptographic training tend to survive longer.