Signals from Orbit | May 2025 - From Pre-Seed to First System Launch
Welcome to the first edition of Signals from Orbit the monthly report for SpaceComputer and its ecosystem 🛰️
Each month, we’ll share a brief recap of what’s happening across SpaceComputer: product releases, research milestones, and our broader effort to build trust-minimized systems beyond Earth.
This month, we moved from ideas to infrastructure. We shipped our first cosmic system (cTRNG), announced our first major funding milestone, and began opening SpaceComputer's architecture to the wider world through Ivy League research collaborations.
Let's get into it đź‘˝
Pre-Seed Fundraise Closed
In May, we announced the close of our pre-seed funding round, led by Primitive Ventures, with participation from Nascent, Symbolic Capital, Tangent, Merkle, Starshield, and angels Loi Luu, Sandeep Nailwal, and Meltem Demirors.
Read the announcement
First Cypherpunk System Launched âś… cTRNG Beta Now Live
We launched the public beta of cTRNG, our cosmic entropy API, purpose-built for developers building on-chain systems, secure wallets, randomness-critical dApps, and more.
Read the blog
The randomness is sourced from orbital particle events, processed in space, and streamed to Earth through a verifiable pipeline. No backdoors, no hidden seeds — just entropy from the cosmos.
Blue Paper, Now More Accessible
This month, we also released a simplified version of our Blue Paper, breaking down the architecture, motivations, and implementation of the SpaceComputer system in clear, accessible language.
Highlights:
- Trust assumptions and verification strategies
- Role of TEEs, attestation, and entropy in the stack
Hardware and orbit design considerations
Why Space?
We also published a piece laying out why satellites make sense — not just symbolically, but architecturally. Space offers physical isolation, deterministic conditions, and jurisdictional neutrality — qualities that help create more secure and trust-minimized systems.
This is part of our long-term effort to root cryptographic sovereignty in infrastructure that can’t be quietly rewritten or coerced.
Ongoing Research Engagement
At the end of April, we visited Yale, Princeton, and Cornell for lectures, panels, and research conversations. While technically a late-April activity, the momentum has carried into May — helping shape how we communicate with academic communities and plan future collaborations.
SpaceComputer is building cypherpunk crypto systems for the space frontier: The first tamper-proof computer that elevates tokenization to orbit, removing earth-based barriers to free market dynamics and enabling the advent of genuine human liberty.
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