# Tarrence Van As

> Tarrence Van As is the co-founder and CEO of Cartridge, a New York-based company building the infrastructure for fully onchain games. Cartridge leads development of Dojo, an open-source toolchain for provable games and autonomous worlds on Starknet, alongside Controller, a passkey-based smart contract wallet, and Slot, a rollup-as-a-service for game developers. A University of Michigan computer science engineer who bought his first Bitcoin in 2013 and shipped Ethereum smart contracts by 2015, Tarrence previously worked on mixed reality at Magic Leap before helping build the Dope Wars NFT ecosystem and founding Cartridge in 2022. In August 2024 the company raised a $7.5M Series A led by BITKRAFT Ventures.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Cartridge
- **Organizations:** Cartridge, Dojo, Headroom, Magic Leap, Box, Dope Wars
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Computer Science Engineering, University of Michigan
- **Known for:** Co-founded Cartridge, the leading developer of provable games infrastructure on Starknet., Leads development of Dojo, an open-source toolchain for fully onchain games compatible with Unity, Unreal, and Godot., Built Controller, a passkey/WebAuthn-based smart contract wallet that removes seed phrases from onchain gaming.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Bought his first Bitcoin and began building Bitcoin wallet applications.
- **2015** — Entered the Ethereum ecosystem, developing smart contract projects.
- **post-college** — Worked at Box, the enterprise software-as-a-service company.
- **circa 2018-2020** — Worked at Magic Leap on mixed reality and deep learning research reconstructing 3D worlds from egocentric cameras.
- **2021** — Contributed to the Dope Wars NFT ecosystem, launched shortly after Loot.
- **2022** — Co-founded Cartridge with Calvin Dunwoody to build developer tools for fully onchain games on Starknet.
- **2024** — Cartridge shipped Dojo 1.0 and raised a $7.5M Series A led by BITKRAFT Ventures.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Cartridge, the leading developer of provable games infrastructure on Starknet.
- Leads development of Dojo, an open-source toolchain for fully onchain games compatible with Unity, Unreal, and Godot.
- Built Controller, a passkey/WebAuthn-based smart contract wallet that removes seed phrases from onchain gaming.
- Shipped Slot, described as the first rollup-as-a-service purpose-built for onchain games.
- Raised a $7.5M Series A led by BITKRAFT Ventures (Aug 2024), bringing total funding to $10.5M.
- Early Bitcoin adopter (2013) and Ethereum smart contract developer (2015).

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Cartridge raised a $7.5M Series A led by BITKRAFT Ventures and released Dojo 1.0.

## Links

- Website: https://cartridge.gg
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tarrence-van-as-b1440a23
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tarrenceva
- GitHub: https://github.com/tarrence

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Last updated: 2026-07-08