About Us

Our mission is to make transacting with anyone on the internet as frictionless as sending a message — so that we make crypto safe, simple, and social for all.

We are building WeChat on crypto rails: a global messaging super-app where transactions are as easy to send as messages. Think of it as texting with a crypto wallet that natively supports onchain actions like token swaps, NFT mints, Polymarket bets, payments, and more.

We’re backed by several of the best investors in crypto: 1confirmation (early lead investor in OpenSea, PolyMarket), North Island Ventures, a16z Crypto Startup School, and more.

Our team previously:

• founded and exited 2 YC-backed consumer social startups
• designed and built key products at Coinbase (advanced trading) and Facebook (photo tagging) used by over a billion people
• grew early stage consumer apps to tens of millions of users
• made core contributions to React Native

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Digital wallets at scale don’t look like bank accounts, they look like messaging apps. (e.g. WeChat processes 2x more transactions than Venmo.)

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Frens is the fastest & safest way to chat and trade tokens with friends

Our Team

JP Ren

Co-Founder, CEO

YC founder with exit, designed tagging on Facebook Photos, grew consumer edtech app to 30m users

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Brian Li

Co-Founder, CTO

YC founder with exit, led venture investing at Orange DAO

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