Capital,
accelerated toward
conviction.
Xcelerator DAO is a member-owned, on-chain fund. Backers pool their capital, decide together which projects to fund, and share in the returns — split automatically, in proportion to their stake. No committee, no pitch deck, no closed-door allocation.
One beamline. Five stages.
The beamline is how money gets from the pool to a project. Backers decide what’s worth funding; the contract handles the rest. Every step happens on-chain.
Stake
Deposit into the shared treasury and receive vXCL — a token that represents your share of the pool and your say in how it’s spent.
Back
Put your stake behind the projects you believe in. Backing isn’t a one-time vote: the longer you keep yours on a project, the more weight it carries — so patient capital counts for more than money chasing the trend.
Allocate
Funding follows the backing. A project with steady, committed support is funded ahead of one riding a brief spike of hype.
Fund
Money is released to projects in stages, each one unlocked by an on-chain milestone. If a project stalls, its funding pauses and the unused portion returns to the pool.
Return
When a project pays off, returns flow back to the pool and to backers in proportion to their stake — so the fund grows instead of draining.
Backing a project longer counts for more.
The longer you keep your stake on a single project, the more funding it can direct there — with diminishing returns at the extremes, so no one backer can dominate. Drag to see how holding time changes the effect.
A new stake starts at full value, with no bonus. Keep backing the same project and that weight begins to grow.
Where the beam points.
Xcelerator has no fixed sector mandate — backers decide what gets funded. In practice, the projects that earn support tend to cluster around a few areas.
Shared security & restaking
Primitives that let new chains and services borrow trust instead of bootstrapping it from zero.
Intent settlement
Solvers, routers, and the rails that turn a user’s intent into an executed outcome.
Verifiable compute
Coprocessing and proof systems that move heavy work off-chain without giving up trust.
Real-world assets
Tokenized cashflows and the on-chain servicing that keeps them honest.
On-chain coordination
Mechanisms and tooling that help capital and builders find each other in the open.
Your project here
Building something on-chain? Apply directly — no warm intro, no pitch deck. The backers decide.
Apply for funding →Run by its backers, not a committee.
vXCL holders don’t rubber-stamp a budget once a quarter. They back projects continuously, and the contract funds them accordingly — so there’s no grant committee to lobby.
How decisions happen
- BackFund with your stake, not a ballotFunding tracks where backers put their stake, recalculated each epoch — not a one-off vote.
- GateMilestones unlock fundingBackers approve each milestone on-chain before the next round of funding is released.
- RecallFunding can be pulledWithdraw your backing from a stalling project; its unused funding returns to the pool.
- TuneThe formula is governedThe funding formula’s settings are the one thing put to a formal vote — changed rarely, and only by supermajority.
What lives on-chain
- TreasuryEvery asset, every blockThe treasury is a public contract — anyone can verify its balances and flows.
- RulesThe rules are the codeFunding is calculated by the contract, not negotiated. The formula is open to audit and fixed between epochs.
- StreamsFunding as live streamsPayments stream continuously and can be inspected, paused, or recalled in real time.
- ReturnsSplit automaticallyReturns go to backers by vXCL share — no claim windows, no manual rounds.
Put your capital in motion.
Stake into the pool, or apply for funding from it. Either way, the backers decide.