Standard Crypto was founded in 2019 by Adam Goldberg (then 24, from Lightspeed) and Alok Vasudev (then 34, from Benchmark), and the firm describes itself as an “entrepreneur follower” rather than one built around a fixed sector thesis, backing technically dense areas like cryptography-heavy infrastructure as well as contested spaces such as NFTs, DAOs, and gaming. It also runs its own founder-interview series, invests across both equity and tokens through a single fund, and publishes detailed, opinionated pieces—like its app tokens thesis and stablecoin analysis—rather than general market commentary.