Julien Bouteloup

Welcome to my corner of the internet. I'm an entrepreneur, investor, and builder with an electrical engineering background and dual master's degrees from France and the US. I lead Stake Capital Group, a venture and technology platform blending capital, research, and incubation with hands-on execution across infrastructure, asset management, governance, and ecosystem design. My work lives at the frontier of deeptech, crypto, AI, and privacy, where broken systems are replaced by new primitives. I'm deeply focused on encrypted computation, open protocols, and returning power to users in an increasingly surveilled world. If it strengthens sovereignty, transparency, or truth, I'm probably building it.

⌁Advisory

I advise and sit on the boards of several projects, including Zama (val > $1b), Curve (val $3b), Backed Finance (acquired by Kraken, val $40b), and Morpho (val > $2b). I focus on teams building core infrastructure, privacy-preserving systems, open financial primitives, and deep tech. My advisory work centers on long-term alignment, protocol resilience, and navigating technical, economic, and governance challenges.

⌁Projects

I've founded several mainstream projects that have grown to significant scale, including Stake DAO (> $200m in assets, > $50m in incentives distributed) and Rekt News, a visionary blockchain and crypto media platform focused on transparency, security, and accountability across decentralized systems. These projects reflect my long-term commitment to building critical infrastructure, fostering trust, and advancing decentralized technologies beyond speculation.

⌁Currently focused on

• •Scaling infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystems
• •Architecting and contributing to open-source protocols
• •Publishing on cryptoeconomics, governance, and modular protocol design
• •Speaking at conferences and summits globally on the future of decentralized systems, privacy, and AI
• •Designing systems that prioritize decentralization, privacy, and confidentiality
• •Building and investing at the frontier of deep tech innovation

⌁Interests

Beyond work, I'm interested in mechanism design, game theory, and the intersection of economics and computer science. I enjoy reading, traveling, connecting with people, and sports (kitesurfing, surfing, Ironman, paddle, etc.). A bunch of vibe coding ideas: TubeGuru, Europoors (satire project), architecture, modular, timeless concepts, and a lot of DIY projects.