Founders, CTOs, investors and researchers hold open office hours — free, curated 1:1 sessions at our offices. Bring your hardest question: your architecture, your go-to-market, your raise, your first hire, your career.
Sessions are assigned, not first-come-first-served — we match limited slots to the people who'll get the most out of them.
Each host lists what they can actually help with and who should book. Apply to whoever fits your question — up to two hosts.
Who you are, what you want to discuss, and which 20-minute slot works for you. Your application goes to the host — the better the question, the better your odds.
Each host personally reviews the applications and chooses their sessions. You get a confirmation email with your exact time — 20 minutes, one-on-one, at Lilienblum 28.
Founders and operators who built companies you use, plus speakers from Monday's Mid-Chain Conference in town a day early. Each confirmed host has their own request form — pick a slot, say what you want to discuss, the host decides. More hosts announced as they confirm. One rule for every session: real answers, zero pitching.
Want to hold office hours yourself? You should be the kind of person people queue to ask. Apply to host (3 minutes) →
Office hours. Confirmed 1:1 sessions, 20 minutes each, in the hour blocks each host chose. Your exact time comes with your confirmation. Work from the space between sessions — it's an office, bring your laptop.
Doors open on the roof. First drinks, first hellos. RSVP required — 80 seats, by approval →
The panel — the top of the evening. One conversation, no slides, with people from tomorrow's Mid-Chain programme and the hosts who spent the day downstairs. Topic and panelists announced soon.
Rooftop cocktails. Meet the hosts, tomorrow's conference speakers, and the community on the roof of our new offices. Kept small on purpose: 80 seats, approval on request, hosts and their 1:1 guests first.
The Mid-Chain De-Fi Conference — a full day of research-grade talks on consensus, mechanism design, proofs of useful work and post-quantum migration, by the researchers themselves, at Ben-Gurion University, Senate Hall (Building 71), Be'er Sheva — Monday 26 October, 08:45–18:00. Registration is open, by approval — Standard, Student, Researcher, Industry and Sponsor/Partner tickets, all free. Full programme at mid-chain.com →
Travel from Tel Aviv: details with your confirmation. Invited to the VIP dinner? Your RSVP is here.
Developers, researchers, founders and students with a real question worth twenty minutes of an expert's time. If you're deciding between MPC approaches, stuck on a proof, weighing a research direction, or building something hard — this is for you.
By the hosts themselves. Each host reviews the applications to their own sessions — with our help — and picks the questions they most want to spend twenty minutes on. Speed of applying matters less than the quality of your question. Everyone gets an answer either way.
Yes, up to two. Tell each host what you'd ask them specifically — one pasted generic question to both hurts your odds twice.
Nothing. The community runs it — free, with love, zero shilling. Powered by Masterkey VC.
One question you actually care about, and enough context to reach it fast. Twenty minutes is a long time when the first fifteen aren't spent explaining background.
Startup Nation Central, Lilienblum 28, Tel Aviv — our home venue. Room and arrival instructions come with your confirmation email.
Yes — the panel and rooftop cocktails have their own RSVP (80 seats, approval on request). People with a confirmed 1:1 that day are approved first; the rest by fit. RSVP here →
Israel's clocks go back one hour on the night of 24→25 October. Your confirmation shows Israel time as it will be on the day — check your arrival time that morning.