M&A for blockchain ecosystems.
Pierbridge is an M&A advisory firm working with blockchain foundations, founders and operators. We merge, restructure and acquire projects so the technology, users and communities behind them keep building. Every project worth keeping deserves a next chapter.
Blockchain foundations back thousands of teams through community grants, matching funds and ecosystem investments. That is how networks grow. Over time, every portfolio reaches the same moment: some teams raise and scale, some want to move on, and some need a partner to reach sustainability.
What happens at that moment decides whether the users, TVL and community a team built stay in the network. Grant teams are busy reviewing the next round, and there is no established market for this kind of deal. That is the gap Pierbridge fills.
Three ways we work with foundations, founders and operators.
An ongoing partnership with your ecosystem or grants team. We review your portfolio and give every project a clear path forward.
- Portfolio review across grants and investments
- Mergers between complementary projects
- Operator transitions for teams moving on
- Orderly closures that protect user funds
For founders who have built something real and are ready for what comes next. We find the right buyer and run the process. Confidential, fast and founder-first.
When the right buyer does not exist yet, Pierbridge acquires the project itself, stabilises it and puts it in the hands of an operator who wants to build it.
Every engagement follows the same four steps, adapted to how your ecosystem builds and what your community cares about.
In traditional markets, M&A and private equity give businesses a path forward at every stage. Crypto VC bets early, and large M&A only moves at scale. The thousands of projects in between, with real technology and real users, have had no market of their own. Pierbridge builds that market, one ecosystem at a time.
Lorimer built in crypto before he started buying in it. He founded Othent, a Web3 authentication protocol adopted across the Arweave ecosystem, and co-founded LiquidOps, a DeFi lending protocol he wound down cleanly - returning user funds in full. He has sat on the founder's side of this exact conversation, which is why Pierbridge starts every deal with respect for what was built and for the community around it.
Aren't you just keeping failing projects alive?
No - and we will tell you when a project should close. We assess every project on users, TVL, technology and team. We only merge or transfer what is worth keeping. Everything else gets an orderly closure that protects user funds.
What happens to a project's users and TVL?
They stay on your network. We migrate users and liquidity into a stronger project in the same ecosystem, or combine complementary projects into one, so the commitment those users made to your chain is not lost.
Are you a token fund?
No. We advise on and acquire projects - the technology, teams, users and infrastructure. We do not speculate on tokens.
I'm a founder. Is this confidential?
Yes. Use our confidential founder form - it takes two minutes and every submission is read by us directly.
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